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Developer marketing frameworks and templates you can steal

Developer marketing frameworks and templates you can steal

Practical frameworks and templates for developer marketing. Positioning documents, launch plans, content strategies, and more, all ready to adapt for your products.

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What exactly is the product?

What exactly is the product?

As PMMs, our job is not to sell features. Our job is to sell the complete experience. Every touchpoint. Every workflow. Every moment of friction. If any piece of the customer journey sucks, the whole product sucks.

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How I use Claude to automate developer marketing (and how you can too)

How I use Claude to automate developer marketing (and how you can too)

I built a system that turns the marketing frameworks I wrote about in my book into Claude-powered tools. Now I generate in minutes what used to take hours. The output follows the same frameworks I've refined over years of practice. And I can focus on strategy instead of execution.

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Your CEO Will Hate Your Keynote (And Here's How to Survive It)

Your CEO Will Hate Your Keynote (And Here's How to Survive It)

Writing keynotes for executives isn't just about crafting compelling narratives. It's about translating strategic positioning into a story that resonates with thousands of people who didn't choose to be there.

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My AI Flow State: How I use AI to transform my marketing workflow

My AI Flow State: How I use AI to transform my marketing workflow

I've developed what I call my "AI flow state." It's a specific workflow that uses multiple AI tools in sequence to create marketing strategies and tactics that actually work.

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Positioning and the rule of "three"

Positioning and the rule of "three"

Marketing people always think in threes. It's not a hard and fast rule, of course, but there is some science and a lot of history behind it.

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Crisis management

Crisis management

Outages, viruses, billing errors, and more. Be prepared today for things to go wrong with your product tomorrow. Sunny days are always the best days to buy an umbrella.

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Aligning Developer Marketing with Product

Aligning Developer Marketing with Product

Developer marketing and product teams must work in lockstep to ensure seamless messaging, adoption, and growth. Unlike traditional marketing, developer marketing must be deeply embedded in the product lifecycle to support bottom-up adoption.

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The art of the product demo

The art of the product demo

I'm going to teach you the secrets of a great product demo and how to tell the story of your customer through your product.

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How to identify your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), and why that's not good enough

How to identify your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), and why that's not good enough

Many of the Founders I work with spend day and night obsessing over their Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). The ICP is a deep understanding of who your best current customers are, and, as the logic goes, ...

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What is solution marketing and why should you care?

What is solution marketing and why should you care?

Plus, seven tactics to implement solution marketing on your team.

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Seven steps to get great customer feedback

Seven steps to get great customer feedback

Staying close to your customers and routinely obtaining quality, actionable feedback is essential oxygen for your business. Everyone in the organization is responsible for constantly listening to cust...

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How to build an effective sales enablement strategy for early-stage startups

How to build an effective sales enablement strategy for early-stage startups

Sales Enablement is the goals/metrics, content, and accountability measures put in place to ensure that your sales team is armed with everything they need to most effectively do their jobs. In this po...

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How to write a go-to-market plan

How to write a go-to-market plan

You've built your market requirements document and your growth plan. Now you need to build your go-to-market plan. What elements go into a solid go-to-market plan? I am a big fan of the "write it down...

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How to write a Market Requirements Document (MRD)

How to write a Market Requirements Document (MRD)

The MRD is the principle product strategy document. It is primarily accompanied by the Product Requirements Document (PRD). Sometimes, companies skip the MRD and PRD and go straight to listing out fea...

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What does Product Marketing do?

What does Product Marketing do?

The ringleaders of the circus

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Three steps to a perfect product name

Three steps to a perfect product name

Product naming can be one of the most infuriating and most creative exercises one can go through in a company. As a Developer Product Marketing Manager, you are the ringleader of the circus, but you a...

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