Location: San Francisco (SF Bay Area)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: developer documentation, technical writing, Marketo, Marketo API, marketing automation

Résumé/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/murtzam

Email: hi@murtza.org

I am looking for contract work around writing developer documentation or developer blog posts. I am also available for Marketo and marketing automation consulting projects.

As other people in this thread mentioned, I would recommend testing different messaging to see what resonates with your target group (devs and devops at startups). I would also recommend testing different online and offline channels to find this specific group.

Here's a post I wrote that lists the developer marketing channels to try: http://murtza.org/driving-the-api-adoption-funnel/

Thanks. Great post

Check out this app launch guide on GitHub: https://github.com/adamwulf/app-launch-guide

If you are doing this verification on the client-side, you can restrict form submissions when a user enters a free email address like Gmail or Yahoo.

Here's a post I wrote with an implementation of this approach (specific to Marketo forms, but can be made generic for any form): http://developers.marketo.com/blog/restrict-free-email-domai...

I would also recommend labeling the email address field on the form, "Work Email."

I am working on a project to define phrases in English like "close, but no cigar".

Here's the page for this phrase: http://jargonism.com/words/437

I would be interested to hear feedback from HN on what would be useful on the word page, in addition to a definition and an example?

That's cool. If you could add this, I always like to know the origin of the phrase.

Allegedly, according to Wiktionary:

> From the practice of giving cigars as prizes at carnivals in the US in the 19th century; this phrase would be said to those who failed to win a prize.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll start adding phrase origins to the site.

Why do I need to sign up and confirm a newsletter to view the site?

You are right. It is not a good user experience. I just took off the newsletter sign up.

Company: Marketo

Locations: San Mateo, Portland, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Dublin, Tokyo, New York, REMOTE

Background: Marketo provides easy-to-use marketing software that turns marketing from a cost center into a revenue driver.

Roles: Software Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Account Executive, Sales Development Representative, Technical Consultant, Product Manager

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Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3IzZMgwN

Any questions? Please email me at mmanzur@marketo.com

Marketo (http://www.marketo.com/)

Locations: San Mateo, Portland, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Dublin, Tokyo, New York, REMOTE

Background: Marketo provides easy-to-use marketing software that turns marketing from a cost center into a revenue driver.

Roles: Software Engineer, Front End Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Account Executive, Sales Development Representative, Technical Consultant

Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3IzZMgwN

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Any questions? Please email me at mmanzur@marketo.com

Jonathan LeBlanc of PayPal, Rob Spectre of Twilio, and Neil Mansilla of Mashery are examples of great developer evangelists.

Here is a list of interview questions to ask a developer evangelist candidate:

https://github.com/MurtzaM/Developer-Evangelist-Interview-Qu...

Great reference. Thanks for the link!

Marketo (http://www.marketo.com/)

Locations: San Mateo, Portland, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Dublin

Background: Marketo provides easy-to-use marketing software that turns marketing from a cost center into a revenue driver.

Roles: Software Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Product Manager, Account Executive

Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3HryEgw5

=========================================

Any questions? Please email me at mmanzur@marketo.com