
Jimmy Daly
Recent articles

Strategy
How to Run an Enterprise Content Marketing Operation...
Content marketing at small companies is like riding a bike — you jump on and start pedaling. If you pedal long and hard enough, you’ll eventually get where you need to be. Content at large...
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18 min read
05/03/24

Strategy
How to Create or Refine a Content Marketing Strategy
Content marketing has become very popular in the last decade. But for all that growth, there seems to be more noise and lower quality than ever. We’re seeing an influx of spending and a massive...
Jimmy Daly
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23 min read
04/05/24

Strategy
Your Blog Is Not a Publication (But It’s Not Just a...
A few years back, I mentioned to John Collins, then content director at Intercom, how much Animalz customers admired their blog. “We’d love to help our clients create something similar,” I told...
Jimmy Daly
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9 min read
03/21/24

Strategy
Content Refreshing: How to Win Traffic by Updating Old...
All content that grows via organic search experiences decay. This means that, over time and for various reasons, those posts lose traffic.Decay occurs slowly enough that no alarms go off. The...
Jimmy Daly
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14 min read
11/30/20

Strategy
Take Charge, Be a Voice of Reason and Keep Publishing
Should you continue publishing content during the COVID-19 crisis?The short answer is yes—you absolutely should.Marketing during a time like this can either be greedy and opportunistic, or genuine...
Jimmy Daly
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6 min read
03/23/20

Strategy
Hubs vs. Pillars: What’s the Difference?
There are a lot of words that get thrown around marketing meetings, Twitter threads, and client calls that lack clear meaning. This is the problem with marketing jargon—words find their way into...
Jimmy Daly
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6 min read
03/16/20
Podcasts

How to Wean Off Paid Traffic | Episode 41
This is among to the most things we common things we hear on sales calls: “Paid acquisition is getting too expensive and we haven’t made any investment in content. How soon can we get started?”It’s...

The Inputs Required to Create a Content Strategy | Episode...
Great content requires great context. In this episode, Jimmy and Jan talk about the inputs needed to paint that context. At the very least, you need a deep understanding of:The customerThe...

A Bottom of the Funnel Content Tactic | Episode 39
In this (very) quick episode, Jimmy talks about why so many blogs don’t generate leads and talks about how to address that problem. This advice won’t disrupt your entire strategy—instead, you might...