
Jimmy Daly
Recent articles

Strategy
How to Run an Enterprise Content Marketing Operation...
Content marketing at small companies is like riding a bike — you jump on and start pedaling. If you pedal long and hard enough, you’ll eventually get where you need to be. Content at large...
Jimmy Daly
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18 min read
05/03/24

Strategy
How to Create or Refine a Content Marketing Strategy
Content marketing has become very popular in the last decade. But for all that growth, there seems to be more noise and lower quality than ever. We’re seeing an influx of spending and a massive...
Jimmy Daly
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23 min read
04/05/24

Strategy
Your Blog Is Not a Publication (But It’s Not Just a...
A few years back, I mentioned to John Collins, then content director at Intercom, how much Animalz customers admired their blog. “We’d love to help our clients create something similar,” I told...
Jimmy Daly
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9 min read
03/21/24

Strategy
Content Refreshing: How to Win Traffic by Updating Old...
All content that grows via organic search experiences decay. This means that, over time and for various reasons, those posts lose traffic.Decay occurs slowly enough that no alarms go off. The...
Jimmy Daly
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14 min read
11/30/20

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...
Jimmy Daly
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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
Podcasts

How One Viral Blog Post Catapulted Our Monthly Traffic |...
Our teammate Jan-Erik Asplund recently wrote a piece for the Animalz blog that blew up. The piece—BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful—trended on Hacker News and...

Content Distribution Channels Explained, with Liz Gottbrecht...
Paid, earned, owned and shared. Our VP of Marketing Devin Bramhall chats with Liz Gottbrecht, VP of Marketing at the influencer marketing platform Mavrck. They explain the nuances of distribution,...

How to Give and Receive Creative Feedback | Episode 21
Devin and Jimmy talk about feedback: how to give it, how to receive and the role it plays in growing a company. At Animalz, we’ve built feedback into our workflow so that every member knows what to...