
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

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...