
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

How to Wean Off Paid Traffic | Episode 41
This is among to the most things we common things we hear on sales calls: “Paid acquisition is getting too expensive and we haven’t made any investment in content. How soon can we get started?”It’s...

The Inputs Required to Create a Content Strategy | Episode...
Great content requires great context. In this episode, Jimmy and Jan talk about the inputs needed to paint that context. At the very least, you need a deep understanding of:The customerThe...

A Bottom of the Funnel Content Tactic | Episode 39
In this (very) quick episode, Jimmy talks about why so many blogs don’t generate leads and talks about how to address that problem. This advice won’t disrupt your entire strategy—instead, you might...