Adding Marketing to Your Writing Toolkit For STC Silicon Valley September 2017
Who’s Speaking? Floyd Smith Director, Content Marketing Formerly: Sr. Technical Writer, Apple Group Channel Manager, Altavista Author of best-selling technology books
Marketing Writing vs. Technical Writing Lighter Some humor Scannable Always written for Web Link to technical detail
Key Things to Know B2B key: Content marketing B2C key: Experiential marketing Finer point: Always a ratio, depending on your audiences Key civilizational metric, from ~2001 to the robot apocalypse: pageviews Key tools: Salesforce, Marketo/HubSpot Key business metrics: Revenues (Limiting factor on profits) Customer satisfaction (Influences renewals) (Influences recommendations)
The Sales Funnel - Typical
The Sales Funnel - Terminology
The Sales Funnel - Enhanced
Key Skill: SEO
Questions?