Social media plays a huge role in generating Buzz, otherwise known as some good ol’-fashioned word-of-mouth. With more than 3 billion people using social media, marketers have realized the worth of time and effort invested in running a successful social media campaign. Most have now made it an essential part of their marketing strategy. The brand in turn is bound to get its due by the increased online reach that social media provides.
Disengaged Employees? 9 Tips to Engage Them
Employees are a company’s greatest asset, and you’ve probably heard that a million times already. Of course what you don’t know is that not many companies take advantage of that. In fact, today’s work environments leave a lot to be desired.
What Does Twitter’s New Privacy Policy Mean for You?
Twitter created quite the stir this month when it released a series of new privacy updates. Once a firm supporter of the website privacy policy Do Not Track (DNT), Twitter seems to have chosen the other side this time around with their automatic location tracker that lets advertisers know where you’ve been on the web.
6 Tips on Marketing to Millennials
Millennials, Digital Natives, Echo Boomers – call them what you want; they are the generation of today. Even if they aren’t your target audience now, they soon will be. If you’re in the marketing space, the term is impossible to avoid.
Contrary to popular belief, millennials aren’t only those who are still in, or fresh off the university boat, or even those in their mid-twenties. They are all who were born in the early 80’s onwards – 1982 to be precise.
What is Employee Advocacy and Why Is It so Important?
When making a purchase decision, an increasing number of people today rely on the opinion of their peers over most modes of advertising. In fact, studies show that the ‘social media generation’ is less trusting of the traditional marketing methods. In times like this, advocacy marketing – especially, employee advocacy – stands out as one of the best ways to promote and market your business.
The Evolution of Twitter Tools – Gaining a Large Following
Ah, Twitter! It’s the one social media platform that created digital lions. Doesn’t matter if you’re quieter than a church mouse in reality, you can make quite an impact as part of the Twitterati. Besides, the satisfaction you receive from venting voicing your opinion in a public forum is unreal!
Twitter has amassed quite a ‘following’; I mean you could literally have 70 followers on the first day of joining! Not bad for a day’s turnover, no? It takes way longer to achieve this on say, Instagram or LinkedIn.
Make Your Brand Stand Out – Let the Employees Talk
With the magnitude at which social media is growing, businesses cannot be built on a simple buy-and-sell ideology anymore. Going way beyond the basic aesthetics of a business and consumer relationship, your employees; the workers who run your businesses, are just as important.
To keep pace with the ever-changing marketplace, you’ve probably created the ‘check-in-the-box’ social media pages of your company. You’ve probably also tried to keep it interesting by posting an achievement in growth stats, motivational quotes, business and product related updates, to keep your employees and potential leads “engaged”. Yes?
What NOT to Do With Your Staff Advocacy Program
Although Employee Advocacy is a marketing technique that encourages authenticity, sometimes your program may just not see the results you foresaw from a highly regarded employee advocacy strategy. Even though your employees may love the company culture, and you may have everything in place to drive staff advocacy, there are still something’s that don’t add up.
Just like when driving, accelerating is great; but braking is equally important. In order to get the most of your staff advocacy tool, sometimes it’s best to take a step back and analyze what’s going wrong. You never know, the answer may be blatantly obvious.
Here are a few things that you’re probably doing wrong on your staff advocacy tool –
Mind-blowing Stats about Indians on Instagram in 2017
Instagram has over 500 million active users worldwide. With over 95 million photos shared and 4.2 billion “Likes” every day, Instagram has tremendous potential to increase your brand’s social reach.
They say – the proof is in the pudding and performance statistics show that 75% of Instagram users take action, such as visiting a website after looking at an Instagram advertising post. Of course, nearly 70% of all brands have copped on and have joined the social media platform to market their product.
India has one of the largest consumer markets in the world. This infographic focuses on an in-depth understanding of the types and interests of Instagram users in India.
How to Create Engaging Content for Your Employee Advocacy Platform
According to TNW News, 38% of digital marketers say content marketing is one of their most effective tactics—but 42% call it one of the most difficult.
This doesn’t have to be the case.
With a few simple tips on how to create engaging content, you can increase usage of your employee advocacy platform and master employee advocacy like these companies did.
Here are our top 10 rules to create engaging content for your employee advocacy program.
