By encouraging influential people—bloggers, customers, thought leaders, journalists, consultants, experts—to talk about your products and to recommend them, you quickly score a unique advantage over your competitors.
So how can marketers make sure that their message is the one to get heard and absorbed?
Marketers have realized that there is a better chance that their message will be picked up and acted on if it has more credibility than conventional advertisements. They have understood that cynicism among customers can be overcome when, for example, family and friends recommend a product for use.
This knowledge, and the might of social media, can be used to market products indirectly to potential consumers. By encouraging influential people to talk about products and recommend them, marketers quickly score a unique advantage over their competitors....
Dave Schneider shares smart influencer marketing tips.