Online Marketing for Developers

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Briefly introducing some marketing channels and techniques that can be used to market to developers, where traditional marketing techniques might not work as well as expected.

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Bringing Continuous Deployment to everyone.

ONLINE MARKETING FOR DEVELOPERS

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CONTINUOUS INTEGRATIONAND DEPLOYMENT AS

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE

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THE TEAM

Ben

Tech

Clemens Alex

Tech Tech

Mo Manny

CEOFounder

UX/MarketingFounder

Flo

CTOFounder

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LET’S TALK ABOUT MARKETINGFOR DEVELOPERS

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TRADITIONAL STUFF MIGHT NOT WORK THAT WELL

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EVERYTHING YOU THINK IS ANASSUMPTION

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THE AWESOME THING ABOUT SAAS BUSINESSES ARE NUMBERS

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NUMBERS ARE PEOPLE AFTER ALL(dude... that’s deep!)

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VERIFY ASSUMPTIONS WITHEXPERIMENTS

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You should read this:http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/sales-funnel/

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PAID ONLINE MARKETING

Traditional display banners

Google Adwords

LinkedIn

Banner placements in specific

message boards

Ads in Newsletters

Remarketing banners in the

Google Network

Remarketing banners on

Facebook via Perfect Audience

Remarketing banners (Adroll

Network)

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CONTENT MARKETING

Providing value through content is a long game

Show your expertise, not your product

Frequency * High Quality content is key

It‘s about helping and relationships, interact with your audience

Testing Tuesday series: Educational video tutorials

Educational blog posts on our Codeship Blog

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REMARKETING BANNERS

Don‘t forget your utm tags!

Set up audiences smartly

Target specific demographics

experiment with frequency cap – remind, don‘t spam!

go for conversion optimization

First conversion: sign-up

Second conversion: paying customer

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Be careful not to be too spammy

coordinate with your other automated messages

check frequently which auto-messages can be killed

structured spreadsheets help to organize messages

Be a helping hand, not a needy sales person

Give time

AUTO-EMAIL-CYCLES

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SOCIAL MEDIA

Buffer is your friend

use followerwonk smartly

don‘t just link to your content

use smart hashtags (max. 2, keep your tweets below 100 chars)

always mention original source

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PLEASE DON’T SPAM

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@codeship

@manualwise

blog.codeship.io

codeship.io

manuel@codeship.io

LET’S HAVE A CHAT

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