It’s time to do more with your marketing efforts. Mobile devices and social networks have opened up the door to a new type of marketing that successful marketers won’t be able to ignore.
Advocate marketing allows you to take your most passionate fans and give them the means to share your brand message. Let’s face it; customers trust their peers more than they trust you, and advocate marketing gives you the ability to fuel and sustain that power.
In this webinar presentation, learn:
- How to get more out of existing loyalty programs
- Who in your organization should own your advocate program
- What you need to get started with advocate marketing
- How brands in different industries can create brand advocates
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to identify and reward their most influential customers.
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What IS Advocate Marketing?
Advocate marketing takes loyalty to the
next level by incentivizing your
passionate fans and rewarding them for
their love of and affinity for your brand.
Your fans do the marketing for you.
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Why Should Marketers Care?
3 words:
Word of Mouth
“I strongly believe that
Advocacy Marketing should be
at the top of the priority list in
terms of marketing investment.”
- Hank Barnes
Research Vice President, Gartner
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Why Should Marketers Care?
Brand Advocates spend
2x more than average
customers, and
recommend or share 2
to 4 times more than an
average customer.
(Source: Deloitte)
Brand Advocates are
83% more likely to share
information than the
average internet user.
(Source: Bzz Agent)
83%
92% of consumers trust
brand recommendations
from people they know.
(Source: Lithium Technologies)
92%2x
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Loyalty Programs Falling Short
84% of businesses don’t feel
their loyalty programs are
meeting their priorities.
(Source: International Institute for Analytics)
84%Loyalty programs may
seem like they’d do the
job, but so many
marketers are unhappy
with them
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Advocate Marketing Does More
Advocate marketing is not
designed solely to retain
current customers
It creates a constantly
growing audience through
existing advocates
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Advocate Marketing Does More
Advocate marketing does not
require the advocate to have a
large readership
Only have to have a network of
friends whom they influence
through social and email
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Advocate Marketing Does More
• 100 Advocates have influence over 68,700 individuals
• 1000 Advocates have influence over 687,000
• 5,000 Advocates have influence over 3,435,000
The Average Fan across all our clients has
411 Facebook fans 276 Twitter followers
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Use Social The Way It Was Meant To Be
Almost half of all marketers can’t identify any impact
social media spending has delivered for their brands.
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Who Manages Advocate Marketing?
The person in charge of promotional
activities, digital marketing, online
marketing, mobile, or loyalty programs.
Generally this will be within the
Marketing Department.
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What Do You Need?
1. Customers who LOVE your product or service
2. Well defined messaging that your fans believe in
3. An advocate strategy to implement into your existing
marketing plans
4. A compelling incentive
5. Organizational willingness to accept that marketing is
not fully in our control anymore
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Use Case: Human Resources
Incentivize employees to share job
openings, sales, and opportunities with
their friends and family.