Wondering how to drive huge ROI while making a meaningful difference on your next campaign? The key is coupling cause marketing with Influencer Marketing. Raising awareness of social causes through authentic influencers’ voices benefits all involved by building trust, increasing reach, driving calls to action, and strengthening reputation. So, how can you ensure your campaign…

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As we are all well aware, Influencer Marketing is the go-to strategy when it comes to selling products and services. Rather than thinking that Influencer Marketing is simply likes and shares on social media platforms, brands must think of it as a way for a single customer to recommend products and services to thousands—even millions—…

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In a New York Times article entitled “The Follower Factory,” it stated: “Celebrities, athletes, pundits and politicians have millions of fake followers.” Since that time, popular news outlets like Elle, Forbes, Mashable, Newsweek, The Atlantic, as well as influencer marketing powerhouses like CLEVER and Sway Group, have jumped on the “fake” followers hot topic in…

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As Influencer Marketing has grown to claim up to 20 percent of advertisers’ budgets, so has communication among influencers about their pay. The result? An awareness that not all brand partners get paid the same, even if they’re doing the same kind and amount of work. However, along with the influencer pay gap came organizations…

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pairing affiliate marketing with influencer marketing

Looking for ways to move your target consumers beyond awareness, consideration, and activation and down the marketing funnel to conversion? Pairing affiliate marketing with Influencer Marketing is your golden ticket. At its simplest, affiliate marketing can help turn your brand partners—social media gurus, bloggers, and Pinterest proficients—into brand evangelists. The question is, though, did you…

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Pinterest may not be your brands’ go-to platform for Influencer Marketing or even any other kind of marketing. I mean, it’s really more of a huge idea search engine than a social media platform. Maybe it doesn’t have the same up-to-the minute gratification that other platforms provide. But it can be one of the most…

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As mentioned in my discussion of 2022’s top five social media trends and their implications for Influencer Marketing, omniplatform or omnichannel integration  is a necessity for next year’s marketing strategies. By definition, it poses both multi-faceted and far-reaching opportunities and multi-faceted, horizontal challenges, both for brands and the various agencies that put their activations into…

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