Jimmy Daly
Recent articles
Strategy
Looking for a Job in Content Marketing? Ask Your...
We speak with a lot of companies who are looking to hire content marketers. We also talk with a lot of content marketers who are looking for new opportunities. These two parties don’t match up...
Jimmy Daly
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7 min read
12/02/19
Strategy
Your Content and Sales Teams Don’t Communicate—and It’s...
Nearly all SaaS companies use content to generate leads, but that’s usually where the collaboration between content and sales ends. The content team has a job to do, the sales team has a job to...
Jimmy Daly
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10 min read
11/18/19
Strategy
Here’s How to Handle a Wildly Successful Article That Makes...
SaaS blogs that derive significant traffic from a single post are at high risk for several frustrating problems. We call these outlier posts “whales.” A whale is a single post that is performing...
Jimmy Daly
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8 min read
09/16/19
Strategy
2019 Content Trends Gleaned from 160+ Sales Calls
There’s a common challenge in the content marketing world that creates some friction between content creators and their managers. The creators are heads-down working on new content while the...
Jimmy Daly
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11 min read
07/22/19
the-blog
Announcing Revive: A Free Tool to Find and Prevent Content...
We are thrilled to announce Revive—our first product. It’s a free tool that finds content decay. You can try it out here. Traffic growth can be measured just like a SaaS company’s MRR:New blog...
Jimmy Daly
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5 min read
07/08/19
Strategy
How to Diagnose and Maintain the Health of a SaaS Blog
All content marketers seem to believe that their site is underperforming. There’s an underlying sense of anxiety about never having enough traffic. At the same time, no one seems to know how much...
Jimmy Daly
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9 min read
07/01/19
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...