It was back in 2010 at SXSWi that I was in the blogger lounge networking with other social media savvy content creators and thought leaders like Brian Solis, Chris Heuer, Amber Naslund, Chris Brogan and Rohit Bhargava, when I met a fellow marketer who shared a metal bottle opener as his business card. What a brilliant idea! Package your identity around something useful to trigger conversations.
When it comes to building out your brand’s social media marketing strategy , one of your primary objectives is crafting a multi-channel amplification plan for sharing content that raises awareness, fosters engagement, and ultimately helps drive new leads. For many, this means mapping tactics and time to specific brand-owned social channels. But there may be one tactic and channel that’s missing from your mix: your employees and their respective social networks.
Social media has evolved significantly in the past six years. At the beginning, businesses focused solely on just having a presence on social media. Then, brands beginning honing in on social listening and figuring out the “science” of a good social media campaign.
What if I told you that you could increase the reach of your social content by a factor of ten by utilizing a resource that you already have ? What resource is this, you ask? Your employees.