Copywriting and Content Marketing for Technology Companies
How to Write a Kick-Butt Product Datasheet
Product datasheets are a checklist item in the technology industry; your buyers expect you to have them (or, at the very least, your sales team does). But does anyone really read them? And, more importantly, what can we do to make them more consumable and not just a...
Kick off Your 2021 Content Marketing Plan with Two High ROI Content Ideas
With 2021 just around the corner, it’s time to start planning your content strategy for Q1. But you’re likely overwhelmed with this year’s tasks such as generating leads, driving thought leadership, and managing a myriad of other marketing activities. Who has...
The Value of Original Research to Your Content Marketing
It’s true: it’s difficult to grab your prospects’ attention. They’re crazy busy. They’re flooded with content, most of which is dull and boring. They’re tired of reading the same stuff from every vendor in your industry. Every vendor in the tech industry is...
Are You Wasting Your Trialware Leads?
Totango, a customer engagement company, conducted an informal study where they signed up for 10 software companies’ trial offers and sat back to see how well each company followed up with them. (See the entire article: “Software...
Top Mistakes Tech Marketers Make with Content
Source: https://createyournextcustomer.com/
How to Pull Goodies out of your Content Treasure Chest
Keeping up with content creation is tough and time-consuming, so here are some specific ideas on how you can re-use common types of content you may already have. Think of it as going through a treasure chest, dusting off the goodies, and giving them new life (without...
How to Use Custom Research to Create Thought-Provoking Content
Create a Compelling and Interesting Research Report Conducting custom research is a popular method for technology companies to create interesting content that's useful to a variety of audience including customers, prospects, and media. It's often viewed as flagship...
11-Point Checklist for Hiring a B2B High-Tech Copywriter
How to Find the Right Copywriter with a Minimum of Headaches Back in my corporate days, I hired copywriters. And I quickly learned that it wasn't that easy to find the right one. Some were great writers but didn't understand technology. Others were tech wizards but...
Why Your Copywriter Needs to be a Great Interviewer
How to Unlock Brilliant Insights from Subject Matter Experts During my time in high-tech corporate marketing, I often needed to interview product managers or engineers in order to create messaging documents, white papers, and more. What I quickly realized was...
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6 Steps to Building a Successful Email Nurture Campaign [Case Study]
Are you using email campaigns to nurture your prospects until they're ready to buy? Campaigns that are created with thoughtful care can have great results. Here are the six steps a client and I used to devise a very successful email campaign that resulted in open...
How Technology Marketers can Tame the Content Beast (Part 1)
This post is the first of a three-part series describing five steps to help you tame the content beast with consistency and purpose. I’ll begin with steps 1 and 2 by focusing on your buyer’s perspective and your organization’s existing content arsenal. Step 1: Find...
Taming the Content Beast and Avoiding Content Overwhelm (Part 2)
This month, I shift my focus to the topic of thoughtful planning with Steps 3 and 4. By building an editorial calendar and maximizing the scalability of new or existing content, you will save time and optimize buyer impact with steady precision. Step 3: Create an...
Getting a Handle on Content Overwhelm (Part 3)
To meet deadlines and creativity challenges, it’s imperative to leverage existing expertise and to work back from sales and buying cycles. In Step 5, I discuss content ideas to save time and maximize customer impact. Step 5: Borrow/Ask/Steal for Content Ideas The...
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6 Steps to Creating “Snackable” Content [Case Study]
Many of my clients ask me to take long papers and research reports and turn them into something more “bite-size” for demand generation purposes. The challenge with longer reports is that, although they’re filled with loads of interesting information and data points,...
Banning “Frankenspeak” from Technology Marketing
Our industry’s marketing is littered with squishy terms like “robust”, “revolutionary”, “next generation”... I’m sure you can add to this list, and perhaps you’re shifting uncomfortably because you (along with me) are guilty of using these stilted and...
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How to Implement Effective Global Content Marketing [Book Review]
With good processes in place, everyone has appropriate expectations and understands who’s doing what by when. This is critical when you’re working across multiple time zones with different countries. But creating these processes can be a challenge, especially if...
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5 Steps to Preventing Content Creation Overwhelm [Free Quick Reference Guide]
It’s necessary, to a large degree, in order to explain their complex solutions and what they can do for their customers. But for marketers, it can be overwhelming to create loads of high-quality content. Especially when it’s piled on top of an already very long to-do...
5 Things the Best Technology Marketers Do Differently with Content
There aren’t a lot of resources out there specifically aimed at technology marketing. If you browse content marketing websites you’ll probably find a lot of helpful advice – but it’s often for other industries. So I’m always excited to come across a meaty resource...
3 Content Blunders that Technology Marketers Often Make
Mistake #1: You don’t really know your audience. It doesn’t matter how great the writing, flashy the images, or clever the headline if the content you’re creating doesn’t resonate with your audience. Case in point: I often get calls from technology companies with...
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How to Write a Kick-Butt Product Datasheet
Product datasheets are a checklist item in the technology industry; your buyers expect you to have them (or, at the very least, your sales team does). But does anyone really read them? And, more importantly, what can we do to make them more consumable and not just a...
Kick off Your 2021 Content Marketing Plan with Two High ROI Content Ideas
With 2021 just around the corner, it’s time to start planning your content strategy for Q1. But you’re likely overwhelmed with this year’s tasks such as generating leads, driving thought leadership, and managing a myriad of other marketing activities. Who has...