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Why Allstate Is Ditching the Viral Unicorn and Embracing the Trusty Workhorse

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Melissa Hodai, Digital Content Team Manager for Allstate, joins the Content Pros Podcast to discuss how a content strategy that focuses on long-term cultivation instead of immediate viral success has lead to conversions and industry awards.

search is always going to considerationThe Successfully Drab Workhorse

With all the talk around and instructional how-to’s of achieving viral status, it’s easy to become focused on how to be the next big talking point on Buzzfeed. Don’t we all want to be positive click-bait in somebody’s Facebook feed?
Melissa’s experience at Allstate has shown her that while these unicorn posts garner loads of clicks and impressions, they do very little for conversions in the long term. It’s the hard working, everyday content that will ultimately push your brand beyond all your viral counterparts.
Understanding and embracing the content that regularly converts over the content that collects clicks can mean turning your back on the latest trends. We all want to use the newest tips and tricks and stay current. However, if those tools only serve to distract from the content that works, is it really that helpful? Or is it pushing away purchasers in favor of content rubberneckers?
In the end, the content that converts is king.

In This Episode

  • Why cultivating a good content strategy means looking to Google and data first
  • How chasing unicorn viral content leads to uninspiring and failing content over the long term
  • Why reviewing metrics successfully means understanding that not all metrics are equally important
  • How understanding and embracing your workhorse content leads to a focused strategy with strong conversion points

Quotes From This Episode

“Everything that we do, we make sure that it’s done with the consumer in mind, not necessarily just because it’s something we want to talk about.” —@melissahodai
We realized over time that you cannot catch that lightning in a bottle, twice. Click To Tweet
“Finding the perfect mix that makes great content is very overwhelming because when you look at all the different metrics, each one has a different answer.” —@melissahodai
“What are the things that we really want to accomplish with our content marketing? We need to look at those and make our strategy based on those things.” —@melissahodai
“The blog post or the article has always been, and I think it should continue to be, one of the hardest working types of content for us.” —@melissahodai

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