
Ryan Law
Recent articles

Strategy
Deep Cuts and Smash Hits: The Best of Animalz in 2020
There’s a lot to be learned from a year of content marketing. High traffic articles provide a blueprint for future content. Real-world feedback from readers shines a light on the articles that...
Ryan Law
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8 min read
12/14/20

Strategy
No, You Shouldn’t Always Focus on the Bottom of the Funnel
I’m a big believer that the difference between “writing” and “content marketing” is revenue. Content marketing is writing that serves a business objective. It exists to make sales easier.But that...
Ryan Law
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6 min read
11/30/20

Strategy
6 Low Effort, High Impact Content Ideas
We’ve written before that there is often little correlation between the time spent on a piece of content and the results it achieves. Great ideas, simply written, can generate thousands of views....
Ryan Law
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8 min read
11/18/20

Data
4 Realistic Traffic Goals for Small(ish) Blogs
Big, established blogs have multiple years of performance data. Smaller, newer blogs do not. It can feel like you’re operating in a vacuum. It’s hard to come up with reasonable answers to questions...
Ryan Law
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7 min read
11/09/20

Strategy
Write for the Lurkers
The 1% rule is the idea that only 1% of participants in an online community actively contribute content, while 99% quietly consume. The 1% create every new Reddit post, Twitter comment, and...
Ryan Law
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5 min read
10/27/20

Writing
The Idea Farm: How to Sow, Grow, and Harvest Great Blog Post...
Coming up with great blog post ideas is hard.The best articles are helpful, and thought-provoking, and original. You have to attract the right people. You have to motivate those people to action....
Ryan Law
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12 min read
10/13/20
Podcasts

Ecommerce Content Marketing: Hyper-Competition, Niches, and...
Few industries are more saturated with content marketing than ecommerce.From juggernauts like Shopify and Bigcommerce, to a growing multitude of scrappy startups, every ecommerce company is hungry...

Auditing the Animalz Blog: What Works and What Doesn’t |...
Content audit. Two words to strike fear into the heart of every content marketer.

The Animalz Principles of Quality | Episode 51
As a company whose entire reason for existence is creating the world’s best content marketing, we spend a lot of time thinking about quality.