What is influencer marketing?<\/strong><\/p>\nIn the olden days, neighbors swapped advice over their fences and at church socials. Fast forward to the present day and social media can be like WOM marketing on steroids, as people share their experiences, links, photos, write reviews, and more.<\/p>\n
The premise is a simple one. People value the opinions of people they like and trust. They feel they \u201cknow\u201d people in their social circle and are willing to trust their recommendations. In fact, studies have shown that they trust information from a peer on social media far more than any marketing material that comes from a brand or business.<\/p>\n
Influencer marketing takes social media WOM even further. Social media has created prominent thought leaders, celebrities, experts, and \u2018movers and shakers\u2019. They develop a strong, loyal following, and those followers tend to take their advice about issues related to their particular niche.<\/p>\n
Harnessing influencer marketing<\/strong><\/p>\nYour starting point is to research the top influencers in your niche on the main social networks you already participate in. Follow them and observe the kinds of things they post. Do NOT try to rush in to join the conversation at this point. Just gather information and see how their other followers interact with them. If they have their own closed group, see if you can join it.<\/p>\n
Put your best foot forward<\/strong><\/p>\nBut before starting to fully engage with influencers or groups, check your own Facebook or other social media page and profile. Is it up to date? Does it tell a compelling story about who you are and why anyone should pay attention to your brand or business?<\/p>\n
If not, take the time to update it so you can create a good impression as you start to become more visible at the influencers\u2019 accounts as you start to like, comment, share and so on. At each social network, your name will be a clickable link to your profile. Any activities you engage in will have your name and link, so it is important to realize how visible you really are and not do anything foolish that will harm your reputation before you\u2019ve ever even got your influencer marketing initiatives off the ground.<\/p>\n
Start to become an influencer yourself<\/strong><\/p>\nAs you become more active at influencer accounts and more and more people start to pay attention to you, you also have the chance to start exerting influence within your niche, expanding your circle of followers. Also note that the more likes, shares and comments your content gets, the more, for example, Facebook will reward you when it comes to showing your content to your followers.<\/p>\n
Media outreach can thus become a \u2018virtuous circle\u2019 of people helping people, including telling them about great products, services, bargains and solutions that really work.<\/p>\n
Create great original content, offer guest blog posts and other free content to help influencers and bloggers grow their brand. A simple link back to your site start to drive tons of traffic, and traffic can mean more subscribers and sales.<\/p>\n
Call us today to speak to one of our PR specialists: 1-800-713-7278<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Influencer marketing is one of the most important new marketing trends. It is an extension of social media marketing, which …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14,936],"tags":[937,585,760],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach","category-online-visibility","category-social-media","tag-benefit-from-influencer-marketing","tag-content-marketing-that-works","tag-effective-press-release-marketing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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