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
Ask “Why?” | Episode 17
Nicole Kohler joins us on the podcast to talk about her recent post on the Animalz blog, about doing content for a wall coverings manufacturer and later, for Automattic, and more.You can listen...
Blake Thorne | Episode 16
We chat with Atlassian marketing manager Blake Thorne about how he went from working as a journalist to working in content marketing, how that’s informed his work today, and self-serve sales (and...
John Bonini | Episode 15
Jimmy and Jan sit down with John Bonini, the Director of Marketing at Databox, to talk about product, career, and podcasting. We talk about how John made his way from working as a sportswriter to...