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How technical does your messaging need to be when marketing to developers?

Lauren Buchman
GitHub Senior Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Cloudflare, Google Cloud, Google Developers, Observable, Orb5y
It depends! A common pitfall in developer marketing messaging is that the marketers spend a bunch of time trying to put things into terms they can understand as a non-dev...
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Justine Davis
ServiceNow VP Dev marketing, Community, Dev rel3y
I would say long form content messaging needs to be very technical towards developers and that is where developer evangelists are powerful at building brand trust and com...
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Pranav Deshpande
OpenAI Product Marketing | Formerly Twilio3y
Extremely. If you don't speak their language you will never be able to build credibility with them. Your messaging should also focus on education and explaining what your...
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Vishal Naik
Box Head of Product Marketing, AI & Platform | Formerly Google Gemini3y
Developers want to know what something does and how it works. They want to jump in and try it out themselves. They want to see something new and get their hands on it. I’...
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Indy Sen
Canva GTM Advisor/Fractional Leader/Author | Formerly Google, Salesforce, Box, Mulesoft, WeWork, Matterport, Canva3y
Good question. You should definitely have the technical stuff at the ready, and usually docs will be your best friend for that, as would "Getting Started" guides, video w...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing4y
Your documentation needs to be extremely thorough (technical), and your resources need to leave no uncertainty in how or why to use new products and features, but your to...
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Rinita Datta
Splunk Director, Product Marketing | Formerly Morgan Stanley1y
The golden rule here is to make your messaging clear and actionable. A good template would be: Achieve  by using our ,...
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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
Agnostic of audience, a good product marketer will speak the common language of the audience they are serving. So when listening to the developer target audience via gong...
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