
Jimmy Daly
Recent articles

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...
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5 min read
05/20/19

Strategy
Why You Shouldn’t Try to Be the First Round Review: 3...
The First Round Review, the content arm of First Round Capital, has earned a reputation as one of the best publishers of startup and tech content on the web. That’s thanks largely to its first...
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8 min read
03/25/19

Strategy
How to Use Templated Content and Cross-Cutting to Grow Your...
Teardowns, list posts, case studies, experiments—some of the best blog content originates from handy, well-worn templates.Templated content can be one of the easiest and fastest ways to grow...
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7 min read
02/05/19

Strategy
Why the Best Content Happens Fast
There is no correlation between the time invested in content and the performance of that content. This is either the best thing about content marketing or the most frustrating. It just depends on...
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4 min read
01/07/19

Strategy
3 Challenges to Producing Great Content
For all the advice out there on “growing an audience” and “leveling up your content,” there's precious little about the real-world hurdles of writing content that someone might actually want...
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9 min read
12/18/18

Strategy
3 Challenges to Producing Great Content
For all the advice out there on “growing an audience” and “leveling up your content,” there’s precious little about the real-world hurdles of writing content that someone might actually want to...
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9 min read
12/17/18
Podcasts

Episode 5: The Content Growth Cycle
As Tom Tunguz points out, content is one of the few forms of marketing that can show compounding growth. For this simple reason, content marketing has the potential to exceed simply bringing in...

Bottom of Funnel Content | Episode 4
In this episode, Jimmy and Jan dive into an overlooked content strategy, bottom of the funnel content.You can listen right here, or on iTunes, Overcast, or Spotify.

The Shape of Successful Content | Episode 3
In this episode, we sit down with Animalz GM and data lead Andrew Tate to talk about his recent post, The Science Behind 100,000-View Blog Posts.You can listen right here, or on iTunes, Overcast,...