{"id":399,"date":"2012-01-31T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.write-angle.com\/thewritestuff\/?p=399"},"modified":"2012-01-31T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T17:23:24","slug":"what-sumo-logics-splashy-debut-reminds-us-about-creating-great-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.write-angle.com\/thewritestuff\/what-sumo-logics-splashy-debut-reminds-us-about-creating-great-content\/","title":{"rendered":"What Sumo Logic&#8217;s splashy debut reminds us about creating great content"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Big Black Microphone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/the-big-black-microphone-thumb13156814.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Black Microphone\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerry Della Femina, legendary ad executive from the &#8220;Mad Men&#8221; era,<\/strong> insisted his copywriters gather<em> seven times<\/em> the amount of source information needed on any subject prior to penning one word of marketing material.\u00a0 A half-century later, we can&#8217;t argue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The time-honored approach paid off again this week <\/strong>in the splashy debut of our client <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sumologic.com\">Sumo Logic<\/a>, a next-generation log management and analytics service competing in the red hot Big Data revolution.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/write-angle.com\">What we generated<\/a> on their behalf, starting from scratch, amounted to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sumologic.com\/resources\/\">full menu <\/a>of short- and long-form content, from web copy to FAQs, datasheets, use cases, case studies and whitepapers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sumo Logic made its directive crystal clear:<\/strong> develop compelling content that drives web traffic and craft a story that positions the company as highly differentiated, innovative and above all else, relevant and believable.\u00a0 \u00a0To the client&#8217;s credit, they demanded high-value content that stands up to the pushing, shoving and \u201cprove it\u201d probes from devil&#8217;s advocates: customers, media and analysts alike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what\u2019s the key lesson learned? <\/strong>It begins with gathering as much relevant secondary and background material as possible.\u00a0 Then comes a layer of deep sourcing sessions or interviews with all the key people. Kudos to our client for their enthusiastic collaboration providing direct and extensive access to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sumologic.com\/company\/management\/\">CEO, CTO, co-founder and director of biz dev, and the executive sales liaison.<\/a> It\u2019s here where we extract the primary material.\u00a0 In these sessions we want to come away with the &#8220;ore&#8221; that can be processed into high-grade ingots:\u00a0 the specific, real-world examples of customer struggles and challenges.\u00a0 We probe for as many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sumologic.com\/customers\/\">viable use-cases<\/a> as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What we&#8217;ve learned over the years<\/strong> is that the stronger the reader identification with these use cases, the deeper the impression and the more compelling the read. Only when we&#8217;ve extracted all relevant details do we prepare a tight outline as the storyboard or blueprint of the final product. 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