Influencer marketing involves building a relationship between a brand, an online personality, and that person’s digital audience. The content created is Shared on social media and often nowhere else.
A typical influencer marketing campaign is built with these steps:
.Determine your campaign’s message: What kernel of your work as a trade association do you want to promote? You could focus on educational opportunities, networking, or lobbying. Pick just one theme to guide the work.
.Identify an ideal audience: Who should see your messages? Are you speaking to students hoping to enter your job sector? Or are you hoping to reach prominent, affluent people within your field?
Target an influencer. Search for someone who speaks to the audience you hope to reach. Finding the right audience fit is sometimes more important than finding someone with thousands or millions of followers.
.Share your vision: Your influencer creates all the content for your campaign. But you can offer advice or input on the script, the props, the setup, and more.
.Develop a payment schedule: Influencers are almost always paid for their time. They typically set their fees, but you may have room to negotiate if you can offer something important (like extended reach) in return.
.Amplify the message: Influencers share campaigns on their own social media channels. But you can find them and share them too.
Anything created by a user, not a member of your marketing team, can be defined as user generated content. That means social media comments, product reviews, and even likes on your social posts are technically part of the user-generated content (UGC) realm.
.Event reviews: People discuss why they went to an event held by your organization, and they explain what they got out of the experience.
.Membership benefits explanations: A person deeply involved with your organization describes why it’s beneficial and how it helps them succeed in a complex marketplace.
.Educational promotions. Teachers within your organization highlight the concepts they’ll cover in the classes they hold for you.