
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...
Jimmy Daly
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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...
Jimmy Daly
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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...
Jimmy Daly
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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...
Jimmy Daly
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14 min read
01/04/18
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...