
Jimmy Daly
Recent articles

Strategy
Great Writing Isn’t Enough. Here Are Two SEO...
The benchmark for a great SaaS blog is 100,000 views per month. To get there, you need great writing. But that will never be enough. Above all else, you need a sound strategy.There are basically...
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8 min read
02/12/18

Strategy
We Need a Slower, More Thoughtful Approach to Content...
Waste is evil.At least, that’s how it’s observed in the lean manufacturing world.Toyota, in particular, has revolutionized manufacturing by distilling complex manufacturing concepts into single...
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5 min read
02/05/18

Strategy
5 Content Marketing Power Laws
If you double the side of a square, you increase the area by a factor of four. If you double the side of a cube, you increase the volume by a factor of eight. Small change, big impact. That’s a...
Jimmy Daly
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8 min read
01/19/18

Strategy
Most Blogs Fail. Why?
Plenty of entreprenuers point to Clay Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma as a guiding light, one of their go-to sources for insight on disruption. If you aren’t familiar with the book or the...
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6 min read
01/09/18

Writing
Content Marketing Personas: How to Reach Your Target...
Writing for personas doesn’t work very well.And that’s not because it’s a bad idea, it’s simply because it’s rarely executed in a way that generates a useful outcome. Most personas follow a similar...
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14 min read
01/04/18
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...