You don’t need $5.6 million to get attention for your brand during the Super Bowl. Well, you do if you insist that attention come in the form of an official Super Bowl commercial. But there are lots of brands who have successfully hijacked the online conversation and buzz around Super Bowl commercials in recent years […]
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Influencer marketing is growing up. If you don’t believe me, look at the latest numbers in AspireIQ’s The State of Influencer Marketing 2021 report. 96 percent of creators want to work with brands beyond social media posts 87 percent are willing to work with favorite brands in exchange for product, as long as the perceived
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If I were to describe a person to you who had built a large following for themselves online, parlayed that into a job at one of the biggest companies in the world in a given industry, fell ill with cancer, beat that cancer, then started his own agency which is winning national and international awards
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Rachel Clay of Matter of Form says Influence Marketing is essentially Social SEO — That is, making sure when someone looks for your brand or type of product on sites like Instagram, there’s plenty of great content there to surface you. It’s a smart way to translate influence marketing strategy to brands that perhaps think
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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