
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

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...