
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

Lane Genee | Episode 14
Jimmy and Jan chat with Lane Genee, who runs marketing at Teampay. They chat about Lane’s early job helping her mother win a political election, the marketing lessons learned there, and how they...

Why Don’t More People Refresh Their Content? | Episode...
When you have strong content review and reporting processes in place, refreshing an old piece of content is one of the best ways to get a great ROI on your effort. Refreshing a post can take it...

3 Challenges to Producing Great Content | Episode 12
Jimmy and Jan break down three of the biggest obstacles that content marketing teams face when trying to create great content — and how to overcome each category.You can listen right here, or...