Jimmy Daly
Recent articles
Strategy
5 Mental Models for Content Marketers
Mental models are frameworks and principles that help you make decisions. They don’t provide answers, but they do provide new ways to approach old problems. Try running a few problems through the...
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7 min read
11/27/18
Strategy
The Marketing Executive’s Guide to Content Strategy
Marketing executives make important decisions about high-level content strategy, budget, and personnel, but aren’t always content experts themselves.To avoid creating unnecessary constraints for...
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9 min read
11/14/18
Strategy
The Animalz Podcast
We couldn’t find a content marketing podcast that we really enjoyed, so we made our own. The Animalz content marketing podcast is a weekly show that focuses on real content marketing strategy—no...
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1 min read
10/24/18
Strategy
Your Blog Is Not a Publication
Editor’s note: We’ve published a 2024 update of this classic post based on a recent Q&A with Jimmy Daly. In it, Jimmy shares his evolved insights on the library vs. publication framework and...
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8 min read
10/23/18
Strategy
Why Venture-Backed Companies Struggle with Content Marketing
SaaS businesses that are venture-backed from the beginning typically struggle with content marketing. Content is a growth engine that takes years to mature. But venture-backed SaaS companies don’t...
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8 min read
10/09/18
Strategy
What Is Bottom of the Funnel Content?
“One of the myths of SaaS is that the products are so good, so easy to use, so quick to deploy … that the product sells itself. But as many startups discover to their horror … this is far from the...
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8 min read
09/26/18
Podcasts
Is That a Content Strategy or a Content Plan? | Episode 38
Is that a content strategy? A plan? Or is it a vision?We’ve realized that a lot of the terminology in our space is actually really confusing. Let’s make sure that when we say the word “strategy”...
Top, Middle and Bottom of the Funnel Content—What Does It...
Terms like top, middle and bottom of the funnel content are thrown around all the time—but are we all speaking the same language?Ryan and Jimmy recently realized they had very different ideas of...
Why Community Is the Most Important Trend in Marketing |...
Community is decentralized, hard to measure and difficult for marketing teams to execute on. So why is it so important?In this episode, Devin and Jimmy talk community. Jimmy show his bias for...