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