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
Content Marketing Reporting | Episode 11
Reporting on content marketing is harder than it sounds. You have to share the numbers, but you also need to craft a narrative around your work. Reporting is your chance to show what you’ve done,...
How to Think Like a Content Marketer | Episode 10
On our last episode, we discussed the lack of correlation between the time you put into a piece of content and the quality of that piece of content. On this episode, we discuss how great content...
Episode 9: Input vs. Quality
Is there a correlation between time invested in content and the performance of that content?Often, the answer is “no.” Depending on how you look at it, this is either the best thing or the most...