
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...
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

We launched a free tool! | Episode 20
We are really excited to announce that we’ve launched our first-ever software tool, Revive. It’s a free content refresh tool that looks at your Google Analytics and finds content decay. Andrew and...

Using Content Lanes to Flesh Out Your Strategy | Episode 19
Jimmy and Jan discuss different types of content lanes—tracks that you can use to produce regular content for your blog—and what makes each one, from teardown to use-case content, effective and...

The Secret to Content Promotion | Episode 18
Ryan Law joins us to talk about his recent post on the blog and the idea of distribution-first content marketing. We walk through three distinct examples of successful blog posts, from three...