
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

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...