PART THREE

HOW TO WORK WITH INFLUENCERS TO GENERATE MASSIVE RESULTS

At this point, the compelling potential value that influencer marketing brings is clear. The shift in the marketing environment has changed how brands and consumers interact, making scope and sheer scale of influencer marketing beneficial for nearly any business to tap into.

Whether you’re working with traditional marketing, digital or social media marketing strategies, or influencer marketing methods, your goal is to increase your own influence within a specific target audience. Let’s look now at the specifics of how businesses can leverage influencer marketing to spread their message to millions of people.

Many businesses simply reach out to influencers with no game plan or spend their budget on influencers after being convinced to do so by their agency. There’s much more to influencer marketing than just outreach. The democratized social media space calls for different rules of engagement. Influencer marketing, in all its guises, is ultimately about human connection, relationships, and partnerships. It’s about beginning a dialogue and finding how to work with an influencer beyond ad spend. When executed with care and development, influencer marketing can reach far beyond the scope of traditional marketing.

This section covers the information you need to be able to create, execute, and maximize the return of your influencer marketing program, showing you how to invest not just money in marketing but energy into relationships that will return more than you’d expect from ad spend. If done right, the efforts you put into your influencer marketing program should provide you benefits for years to come.