
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

Content Marketing Reporting | Episode 11
Reporting on content marketing is harder than it sounds. You have to share the numbers, but you also need to craft a narrative around your work. Reporting is your chance to show what you’ve done,...

How to Think Like a Content Marketer | Episode 10
On our last episode, we discussed the lack of correlation between the time you put into a piece of content and the quality of that piece of content. On this episode, we discuss how great content...

Episode 9: Input vs. Quality
Is there a correlation between time invested in content and the performance of that content?Often, the answer is “no.” Depending on how you look at it, this is either the best thing or the most...