Jimmy Daly
Recent articles
Strategy
Take Charge, Be a Voice of Reason and Keep Publishing
Should you continue publishing content during the COVID-19 crisis?The short answer is yes—you absolutely should.Marketing during a time like this can either be greedy and opportunistic, or genuine...
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6 min read
03/23/20
Strategy
Hubs vs. Pillars: What’s the Difference?
There are a lot of words that get thrown around marketing meetings, Twitter threads, and client calls that lack clear meaning. This is the problem with marketing jargon—words find their way into...
Jimmy Daly
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6 min read
03/16/20
Strategy
Planning to Hire an Agency? Here’s How to Be a Great...
There is plenty of great advice out there on hiring and building great teams, but you won’t find much on vendor selection and management. In either case, the goal is to leverage the talents of...
Jimmy Daly
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7 min read
02/24/20
Strategy
Forget About Traffic and Start Using Content to Drive Leads...
Using Google autocomplete to source content ideas is a useful hack, but a trivial one. In fact, nearly all keyword research tools and tips are the same—an impersonal, seductive way to flesh out a...
Jimmy Daly
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10 min read
01/27/20
Strategy
Unlocking Internal Knowledge Is Actually a Great Content...
It’s 2 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. You’ve spent all week in meetings. You helped sort out an issue with an important customer and even jumped in to help another team wrap up a project. Now, just...
Jimmy Daly
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7 min read
01/13/20
Strategy
How We Quadrupled Monthly Traffic With a “Shot in the Arm”
We’ve written before that top of funnel content can be a great loss leader. We’ve also talked about how to handle outlier articles that make the rest of your content look bad. Today, we have a...
Jimmy Daly
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4 min read
12/30/19
Podcasts
Library vs. Publication | Episode 7
In our humble opinion, your blog is not a publication.Most SaaS blogs should emphasize quality, attack each topic they cover in-depth, and avoid chasing trends or timely news stories. On this...
Devin Bramhall on Earning a Senior Content Marketing Role |...
Learning to be a great content marketer is one thing. Earning yourself a senior role is another. On this episode of the Animalz podcast, Animalz director of marketing Devin Bramhall (follow her on...
Taking Your Content Upmarket | Episode 6
A lot about your company is going to change when you make the decision to go upmarket and start closing enterprise deals. Your content marketing is no exception.On this episode, we discuss what...