
Jimmy Daly
Recent articles

Strategy
Planning to Hire an Agency? Here’s How to Be a Great...
There is plenty of great advice out there on hiring and building great teams, but you won’t find much on vendor selection and management. In either case, the goal is to leverage the talents of...
Jimmy Daly
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7 min read
02/24/20

Strategy
Forget About Traffic and Start Using Content to Drive Leads...
Using Google autocomplete to source content ideas is a useful hack, but a trivial one. In fact, nearly all keyword research tools and tips are the same—an impersonal, seductive way to flesh out a...
Jimmy Daly
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10 min read
01/27/20

Strategy
Unlocking Internal Knowledge Is Actually a Great Content...
It’s 2 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. You’ve spent all week in meetings. You helped sort out an issue with an important customer and even jumped in to help another team wrap up a project. Now, just...
Jimmy Daly
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7 min read
01/13/20

Strategy
How We Quadrupled Monthly Traffic With a “Shot in the Arm”
We’ve written before that top of funnel content can be a great loss leader. We’ve also talked about how to handle outlier articles that make the rest of your content look bad. Today, we have a...
Jimmy Daly
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4 min read
12/30/19

Strategy
Looking for a Job in Content Marketing? Ask Your...
We speak with a lot of companies who are looking to hire content marketers. We also talk with a lot of content marketers who are looking for new opportunities. These two parties don’t match up...
Jimmy Daly
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7 min read
12/02/19

Strategy
Your Content and Sales Teams Don’t Communicate—and It’s...
Nearly all SaaS companies use content to generate leads, but that’s usually where the collaboration between content and sales ends. The content team has a job to do, the sales team has a job to...
Jimmy Daly
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10 min read
11/18/19
Podcasts

Is That a Content Strategy or a Content Plan? | Episode 38
Is that a content strategy? A plan? Or is it a vision?We’ve realized that a lot of the terminology in our space is actually really confusing. Let’s make sure that when we say the word “strategy”...

Top, Middle and Bottom of the Funnel Content—What Does It...
Terms like top, middle and bottom of the funnel content are thrown around all the time—but are we all speaking the same language?Ryan and Jimmy recently realized they had very different ideas of...

Why Community Is the Most Important Trend in Marketing |...
Community is decentralized, hard to measure and difficult for marketing teams to execute on. So why is it so important?In this episode, Devin and Jimmy talk community. Jimmy show his bias for...