What does the phrase ‘word of mouth’ mean?
You tell a tale to your colleague, your colleague passes it on to his neighbor. She in turn tells her mother and her mother passes it to her husband. The husband casually brings it up in between a coffee break with his colleagues.
You’ve heard about it, worked out the math, and reached a conclusion – employee advocacy is definitely for you.
Yes, the concept of increasing your brand’s social reach with your existing workforce seems like a brilliant and simple enough idea. But before you dive head first into the program, you should read our white paper on the 6 mistakes to avoid when launching an employee advocacy program. Seriously. You won’t regret it.
Advocacy marketing has done the rounds, and truth be told, few others have shown more promise than employee advocacy. The sheer genius of mobilizing your workforce to build an army of brand advocates can’t be disputed.
But is it really as simple as it sounds?
What are the chances your employees actually want to promote your brand?
By now, every marketeer worth his salt realizes the value of employee advocacy. Using your employees as marketing agents may seem like a fairly easy concept, but there are several ways your plan could fall flat.
Given its nascence, one of the best ways to succeed at an advocacy program is by following great examples.
Here, we list out some employee advocacy case studies of companies in different sectors that have gotten it down to a tee.
In today’s world with internet access, possibilities are endless. Brands in their different fields are competing with one another to gain a lot of eyeballs and sales. Whether its offline marketing or online channels, brands want their presence to be known far and wide. Typically, brands would tweet or post about their products, work out stunning visuals and go ahead with posting them on various channels, be it Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat.
Employees are often regarded as the best assets of a company. But as an employer or marketer, have you ever imagined how influential are your employees in their social media circle? Are they being tapped as social advocates for the company? Are you making optimum use of your resources by making your employees, brand advocates on social media?
With online marketing gaining more and more attention; it is quintessential for brand marketers to know, how their brands are being perceived on the web space. Every marketer today needs to be well versed with the tools that help monitor the performance of their brands in the digital space. Currently, there is an abundance of tools online that analyse the performance and engagement of the audience with any particular brand online. That being said, we have put together a list of 10 crème de la crème tools that every brand manager must be familiar with:
Modern leaders are not just the ones who create amazing products, but also the ones who develop new generations of leaders, empower their employees and utilize organic advocacy. In these social times, advocacy is quintessential for any company or brand. Sometime back, the CEO was known to be the strongest advocate for a brand. However, things have changed and the CEO is no longer the most trusted source of a brand’s communication. So, what (or who) is the most trustworthy source of brand communication now?
Employee advocacy is no longer a secret kept by a handful of brands anymore. Many smart brands have done their research and realized the potential of employee advocacy, and have jumped the bandwagon already.
For the uninitiated, Employee Advocacy is getting your employees to spread the brand’s official communication with their personal social media networks, in turn helping the brand achieve its goals. It has proved to be extremely beneficial to brands in terms of ROI. No matter what the goals are (sales, branding, recruitment), empowering the employees to spread the word has shown tremendous results.
In the past couple of years, there has been a major overhaul in how brands need to manage their online presence. What changed? People started trusting less in traditional media and more in social media. Additionally, people started showing more trust in employees of a company rather than the official communication. Brands have realized that empowering employees to advocate the brand results in sales. But does the onus lie only with the sales team? Read on to know.
