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
Movement-First Content | Episode 2
In our second episode, Jan and I talk about movement-first content. It’s a strategy for earning credibility when you’re just getting started, and it’s a way to humanize large brands.You can listen...
Content Pruning | Episode 1
Welcome to the first ever Animalz podcast!In this episode, Jan-Erik Asplund and I chat about our interview with the QuickBooks SEO team. They deleted 2,000 blog posts and nearly doubled traffic to...