Building An Influencer Marketing Strategy – THE RIGHT WAY

Influencer marketing is here to stay. More than half of marketers within brands have had experience with Influencer Marketing and these figures are only going to keep rising. It’s not enough to just simply “do” Influencer Marketing, you need to have a strategy in place that’s going to deliver an ROI for your brand or business. Aimlessly partnering with Influencers and having a scattergun approach will not work, it’ll fail, and it won’t be an effective use of your marketing budget. However, do Influencer Marketing right and the stats back up the ROI “On average, businesses generate $6.50 in revenue for each $1 invested in influencer marketing”

We’re here today, to talk about the right way to do Influencer Marketing and how to implement a fool-proof strategy for your brand, moving forward.

Understand Your Objectives

First and foremost, before you do anything else, you need to understand what your objectives are, what are you looking to achieve and what will Influencer Marketing deliver? You need a measurable goal. Whether that’s awareness, engagements, sentiment, views on content or sales, figure out what you want to do. Once you have the goal, you’ll be in a better position to understand what types of influencers you want to work with, as certain influencers will deliver different returns.

Understand Your Audience

From here, you now look into understanding your audience. What are they interested in? What do they care about? What do they want from your brand? Who do they follow? What social platforms are they active on? Once you have figured this out, you’ll understand what influences your audience’s behaviour and you’ll know why they buy your product or at least have an interest!

Finding The Right Influencers

Now, here comes the key element to any successful influencer campaign. Finding the right influencers. To find the right influencers is tricky, especially if you don’t know where to look and the industry is completely alien to you. You can either do this yourself, or you can contact us (if you haven’t already for the previous stages) and we will add our special sauce into the mix, removing the arduous process and headaches of finding the right influencers for the campaign.

Understand The Influencers Audience And Brand

Once you’ve found the right influencers, then comes the due diligence of understanding their brand. Influencers have an individual style, some have strong opinions and they have built their following from 0, they know what’ll work, so respect their input. As a brand, you need to understand the type of content they produce, what their audience engage with best and what they can deliver for you in terms of ROI. The key is to keep the content authentic, don’t force it, then you’ll bring value to the influencer and their audience, resulting in a better campaign performance.

Look For Long-Term Relationships

You’ll see many influencers endorsing different products and categories every day. Those that do this, lose credibility and the influencer’s audience will start to call them out as they are constantly being fed mixed messages. A strong partnership is formed with an influencer when they really believe about the product and the brand. Brands should always look for long-term relationships over one-off posts or collaborations. With long-term partnership where you grow together, the campaigns are authentic, the audience feels the value of the brand and the brand fits with the influencers life.

Track The Success

From here, you can then start to pull together the campaign creative, the KPI’s and the content that’s going to work for the influencer, as well as your brand. Once the campaign goes live, track the content and performance relentlessly against your KPI’s, understand what works and quickly change things that aren’t. Once you’ve collected all the campaign data, see if it’s met your expectations and measure the ROI.

Remember, the best influencers are the ones who already consume, use and talk about your brand.

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