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Five Influence Marketing Trends to Watch in 2021
Jan 4, 2021
If 2020 were a guy at a bar, he’d be the sleaze bag groping any woman that passed by and then growling, “You gotta problem?” to anyone giving him the stink-eye for doing so. He’s drunk too much, smells too bad and is a general nuisance worthy of what the folks back home call, “an …
Early Influencer C.C. Chapman on Influence, TikTok and Being a Creator
Dec 23, 2020
C.C. Chapman knows a thing or two about influence and influence marketing. He was a pioneer of podcasting back in its first wave in the early to mid-2000s with a show called Managing the Grey. He had the advantage of being in the middle of the social media and tech boom in Boston then, and became …
The Not-So Technical Guide to Switcher Studio
Dec 21, 2020
In case you missed my live stream presentation of the Not-So Technical Guide to Switcher Studio on December 17, I’ve embedded the recording here. This collaboration with Switcher Studio came from the notion that while I may have some technical knowledge on video and audio production — I do have a college degree in it …
How a B2B Company Became an Influencer
Dec 18, 2020
Several of our recent episodes have focused on business to business, or B2B influence marketing. The last couple of conversations we’ve had — one with Carter Hostelley and another with Mel Carson — talked about the concept of creating influencers from a company’s executives. In this episode of Winfluence, we focus on building influence for …
The Essence of Tamar – The Fragrance and Long-Time Influencer
Dec 16, 2020
Online influencers have evolved in the short 15-20 years that social media sites have been around. When I got into the industry in the mid-2000s, the notable people online were people who had authority and followers as bloggers, or were vote-jockeys on content promotion sites like Reddit and Digg. One of the first influential people …
The Ultimate Personalization Strategy for Influencer Outreach & Audience Building
Dec 11, 2020
There’s really no question that the more personal the relationship, the more powerful it is. In the business world, the big trend for everything from email marketing to e-commerce websites is personalization. In the influence marketing world agencies and brands hope to break through the inbox clutter and get influencers or media members to respond …
Advice for Influencers & Brands from an Original Influencer
Dec 9, 2020
The world of influencer marketing in the context we typically think of it today dates back about 15 years or so to the emergence of blogs. Jeremy Wright co-founded and was the first CEO of b5media, one of the original blog networks that eventually sold for millions of dollars. He sees parallels and has advice …
Evolving Influence Software Beyond Social Influencers
Dec 4, 2020
AspireIQ is about to unleash a new version of its software that is an evolution with the market. The enterprise level software has been one of the great campaign management solutions out there that enables and agency or brand to discover, engage, manage and measure influencer partnerships. Its new version shifts the mindset from online …
The Sophistication of B2B Influence Marketing
Dec 2, 2020
There’s been an evolution in business-to-business (B2B) influence marketing lately. Both software companies and agencies are pushing the idea of brands creating influencers out of company executives. Mel Carson was an early company-based influencer, long before we were talking about all this. He was a digital evangelist at Microsoft in the mid-2000s whose whole job …
Advertising Doesn’t Work, But Advertising Does Work
Nov 30, 2020
Freakonomics’s two-part radio and podcast episodes called “Does Advertising Actually Work” (Part 1, Part 2)has raised a few eyebrows from agencies and clients alike. It’s one thing for a research scientist to present at an academic conference saying ads are a waste of money. It’s another when real experiments with real brand advertising budgets are …
Breaking Down Trend, a Curated Influencer Marketing Platform
Nov 27, 2020
The landscape of influencer marketing tools is wide and varied. We’ve talked to some of the software company executives here on the show. The IZEAs, Onalyticas and Mavrcks of the worlds are large databases with a high-touch managed services that sit on top of them. I’ve used several of them and they’re great. There are …
One Influencer’s Superior Success Method
Nov 25, 2020
Aaron Anastasi has one of those faces you think is very familiar, but you can’t quite place it. Until you do. He’s a working actor who has played parts on shows like Bosch, 9-1-1 on Fox and others. But if you have ever searched YouTube for singing lessons, you definitely know him. Aaron is the …
Advice for Influencers from Brands and Agencies
Nov 23, 2020
Connecting brands to influencers has become a big part of my job. But part and parcel to that is working the other way and connecting influencers with brands. My preference is always to build relationships and that means I get to know the influencer I work with — where and when I can — and …
The Brain Science Behind Influence and Influencer Marketing
Nov 20, 2020
Influencing people isn’t just creativity and content mixed together. It’s the by-product of the way our brains function. As we experience that content or creativity, hormones release into our system that make us feel safe, happy, sad, angry or any of the other range of emotions. People are subject to their own brain chemistry and …