CHAPTER 3

Messaging

After focusing on technical communication and marketing principles in the previous two chapters, this chapter brings the two together. Specifically, this chapter describes:

Framing messages in technical marketing

Developing tests and creative briefs

Framing Messages in Technical Marketing

As with every other aspect of marketing, message frames must be implemented strategically. In terms of messaging, frames “orient a reader or listener to examine a message with a certain disposition or inclination.”1 Marketing messages can be framed in a variety of ways, including customer-centered versus product-centered, focal and emotional integration, and agent-agency ratios. Technical marketers may also want to consider shifting to ...

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