Jimmy Daly
Recent articles
Strategy
3 Challenges to Producing Great Content
For all the advice out there on “growing an audience” and “leveling up your content,” there's precious little about the real-world hurdles of writing content that someone might actually want...
Jimmy Daly
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9 min read
12/18/18
Strategy
3 Challenges to Producing Great Content
For all the advice out there on “growing an audience” and “leveling up your content,” there’s precious little about the real-world hurdles of writing content that someone might actually want to...
Jimmy Daly
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9 min read
12/17/18
Strategy
5 Mental Models for Content Marketers
Mental models are frameworks and principles that help you make decisions. They don’t provide answers, but they do provide new ways to approach old problems. Try running a few problems through the...
Jimmy Daly
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7 min read
11/27/18
Strategy
The Marketing Executive’s Guide to Content Strategy
Marketing executives make important decisions about high-level content strategy, budget, and personnel, but aren’t always content experts themselves.To avoid creating unnecessary constraints for...
Jimmy Daly
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9 min read
11/14/18
Strategy
The Animalz Podcast
We couldn’t find a content marketing podcast that we really enjoyed, so we made our own. The Animalz content marketing podcast is a weekly show that focuses on real content marketing strategy—no...
Jimmy Daly
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1 min read
10/24/18
Strategy
Why Venture-Backed Companies Struggle with Content Marketing
SaaS businesses that are venture-backed from the beginning typically struggle with content marketing. Content is a growth engine that takes years to mature. But venture-backed SaaS companies don’t...
Jimmy Daly
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8 min read
10/09/18
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...