
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...
Jimmy Daly
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8 min read
09/26/18
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...