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16 Employee Advocacy Statistics to Guide Your 2016 Marketing Strategy

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Download the ebook here: www.bit.ly/EmployeeAdvocacyGuide As marketers develop their game plans for 2016, we’re looking back on some of the statistics that reveal the most about the current state of sales, marketing, and consumer behavior.

These stats indicate that organizations will increasingly invest in their employees’ personal brands and employee advocacy programs as a cost-effective way to reach more people, generate more leads, and close more sales.
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16 Employee Advocacy Statistics to Guide Your 2016 Marketing Strategy

  1. 1. TO G U I D E Y O U R 2 0 1 6 M A R K E T I N G S T R A T E G Y EMPLOYEE ADVOCACY STATISTICS 16
  2. 2. of decision makers have eliminated a vendor from consideration based on information they did or did not find about an employee online. 53 % K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Kredible Research
  3. 3. K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Kredible Research Employee posts on social media receive 4.4 X more profile views than clicks, likes, or comments.
  4. 4. Employee advocacy programs involving 1,000 in advertising value. active participants can generate $1,900,0000 K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Kredible Employee Advocacy Study
  5. 5. of buyers trust messages from a brand, while 33 % 90 % of customers trust product or service recommendations from connections. K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Nielsen
  6. 6. of business decision makers say they use online sources to learn about professional service providers. 76 % K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Kredible Research
  7. 7. Business buyers spend 56 % of the sales cycle searching for and engaging with content. K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Kredible Research
  8. 8. of decision makers say they prefer to work with professional service providers who also know their colleagues, friends, or acquaintances. 74 % K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Kredible Research
  9. 9. of people have used a mobile device to learn about an individual before a meeting, after a conference, or during a presentation. 81 % K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Kredible Research
  10. 10. more followers than their corporate social media accounts. 10 X Employees have K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Cisco
  11. 11. engagement than content shared by brand channels. 8 X Content shared by employees receives more K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Social Media Today
  12. 12. K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: MSLGroup more frequently when distributed by your employees, versus your brand. Brand messages are re-shared 24 X
  13. 13. of consumers are more likely to buy from a company when they hear about it from someone they trust. 77 % K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Nielsen
  14. 14. 7 X Leads developed through employee social marketing initiatives convert more frequently than other leads. K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: IBM
  15. 15. Sales reps that use social media as part of their sales technique outsell of their peers. 78 % K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Forbes
  16. 16. of customer brand perception is determined by our experiences with people. 70 % K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: Customer Think
  17. 17. Only of employee social networks overlap with brand networks. 2-8 % K R E D I B L E . C O M Source: WeRsm
  18. 18. LEARN HOW TO LAUNCH AND SCALE A SUCCESSFUL EMPLOYEE ADVOCACY PROGRAM GET THE EBOOK CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE DESCRIPTION BELOW

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