[vc_row enable_container=”st3″ section_back_opt=”light-bg-2″ row_padding_top=”top-padding-30″ row_padding_bottom=”no-padding-bottom”][vc_column][xen_text text_style=”p-style-medium”]Influencer marketing should become the cornerstone of your digital campaigns in 2019. Using the most suitable influencers to help promote your brand, advertise your products, and increase sales is easier than ever, and companies that fail to adopt that strategy will struggle to achieve the optimum results from their marketing investments.
Building strong, long-term relationships with influencers is the key to success, and this article will help to draw attention towards some of the reasons for that.[/xen_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][xen_text text_style=”p-style-medium”]
The benefits of long-term influencer relationships
- Improving customer retention
As a brand owner, you need to build strong relationships with customers and clients as this keeps them coming back for more. Long-term influencer strategies can assist your company in achieving that goal.
A single mention from an influencer on YouTube or Facebook will have an impact, but it is unlikely to make a lasting effect that will encourage repeat sales for many years to come. However, consistent messages from influencers within engaging content could push new and existing customers in the direction of your brand time and time again.
- Making more connections
One of the best things about online influencers is that they aim to increase the size of their own audiences every single day. That means their power over those who view their content expands and develops all the time.
Working with influencers on a long-term basis will mean their message about your brand or product reaches more and more people from within your target market all the time. Your investment helps the influencer to fund more content, and their content assists your company in reaching more customers.
- Building brand awareness and trust
By their nature, influencers are trusted content creators who appeal to a niche or mainstream audience. The people viewing their content, videos, blog posts, photographs, or anything else, trust the individual and what they have to say.
Those who follow the influencers are likely to accept their recommendations more readily than they would believe the claims of a standard traditional advert. And let’s face it, they encounter thousands of them online every day.
- Reaching better customers
When using influencers as part of your digital marketing strategy, it is sensible to select relevant people who appeal to a similar demographic. Let’s presume your company deals with audiobooks for the sake of this example.
You would ideally target influential authors, writers, and lifestyle icons who have a strong social media and online presence for the best results. Their target audience is your target audience, and so the message should reach the right people at the right time.
Gone are the days when brands can target people at random online. It’s too expensive, it’s too time-consuming, and you’ll never achieve the desired results.[/xen_text][vc_empty_space height=”45px”][xen_text text_style=”p-style-medium”]
Summary
As you can see from the information in this post, long-term relationships with online influencers can put your brand or products in front of the people who matter most with a recommendation from a trusted individual.
Used as part of a wider digital strategy, influencer marketing can bring an element of authenticity and authority to your campaign, and that should lead to increased sales and conversions.
So, what are you waiting for?[/xen_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
