Hey Everyone,
Hope you're having a great week. Here are a few things I've been reading, writing and pondering lately. Enjoy!
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1. We Turned an Idea Into a SaaS Product for Content Marketers—Here’s the Whole Story
My colleague Andrew Tate was a neuroscientist for 15 years, then became a content marketer, then learned to code. He is the developer who created our first SaaS product—how cool is that??
In this post, he tells the story of his career and the development of our first product.
2. How to Prove That Content Marketing Works for SaaS
Georgiana Laudi and Claire Suellentrop were kind enough to invite me to be part of Forget the Funnel, their excellent workshop series. On August 21, we’ll be talking about how to prove that content really works.
Get all the details about their awesome lineup of speakers and signup here.
3. Here are few cool job openings:
- Sr. Manager, Content Marketing @ Zapier (remote)
- Director of Content Marketing @ Single Grain (LA)
- Content Marketing Manager @ Remitly (Seattle)
You can check out more job listings in my Slack channel and even chat with the people hiring.
5. Random Links
- Very interesting: Are You Rich? This Income-Rank Quiz Might Change How You See Yourself
- Wistia’s new Brandwagon series is really cool.
- Here are 50 companies on their way to becoming unicorns.
- A hack for reading more books (get them from the library so you have a deadline!)
Have a great weekend!
Jimmy
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