
Jimmy Daly
Recent articles

Strategy
Here’s How to Handle a Wildly Successful Article That Makes...
SaaS blogs that derive significant traffic from a single post are at high risk for several frustrating problems. We call these outlier posts “whales.” A whale is a single post that is performing...
Jimmy Daly
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8 min read
09/16/19

Strategy
2019 Content Trends Gleaned from 160+ Sales Calls
There’s a common challenge in the content marketing world that creates some friction between content creators and their managers. The creators are heads-down working on new content while the...
Jimmy Daly
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11 min read
07/22/19

the-blog
Announcing Revive: A Free Tool to Find and Prevent Content...
We are thrilled to announce Revive—our first product. It’s a free tool that finds content decay. You can try it out here. Traffic growth can be measured just like a SaaS company’s MRR:New blog...
Jimmy Daly
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5 min read
07/08/19

Strategy
How to Diagnose and Maintain the Health of a SaaS Blog
All content marketers seem to believe that their site is underperforming. There’s an underlying sense of anxiety about never having enough traffic. At the same time, no one seems to know how much...
Jimmy Daly
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9 min read
07/01/19

Strategy
Use These 8 Content Creation Lanes to Flesh Out Your...
Your business strategy informs your content strategy and your content strategy informs how, when, why and what you write.The lanes below are ways that you can flesh out a content strategy, but make...
Jimmy Daly
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13 min read
05/28/19

Writing
How to Level Up Your Content Marketing Career: Work at...
The best way to accelerate your career is to seek out an environment that facilitates rapid growth. That means surrounding yourself with great people and challenging problems. Animalz is that place...
Jimmy Daly
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5 min read
05/21/19
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...