
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...
Jimmy Daly
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9 min read
12/17/18
Podcasts

We launched a free tool! | Episode 20
We are really excited to announce that we’ve launched our first-ever software tool, Revive. It’s a free content refresh tool that looks at your Google Analytics and finds content decay. Andrew and...

Using Content Lanes to Flesh Out Your Strategy | Episode 19
Jimmy and Jan discuss different types of content lanes—tracks that you can use to produce regular content for your blog—and what makes each one, from teardown to use-case content, effective and...

The Secret to Content Promotion | Episode 18
Ryan Law joins us to talk about his recent post on the blog and the idea of distribution-first content marketing. We walk through three distinct examples of successful blog posts, from three...