Social Media: How to turn customers into brand advocates
For many marketers, user-generated content is the upcycling opportunity of a lifetime. It’s free content created by customers turned brand advocates with a margin of credibility money can’t buy.
Sadly, this content often goes to waste in marketing, or worse, unnoticed altogether.
The challenge, however, for savvy marketers like Evin Catlett, Digital Marketing Manager, Amer Sports, often rests in finding strategic ways to repurpose content effectively.
In a recent MarketingSherpa webinar, Evin explained how Amer Sports was launching its first U.S. Instagram campaign in support of a new product. According to Evin, the launch would also focus on the overall goal of increasing social media engagement with U.S. consumers.
“We didn’t have a ton of reach,” Evin explained, “And while we did have really strong engagement, it was with a very small community.”
Before Evin began, she realized one important element to the campaign was the need to inspire social media interaction with customers.
To help accomplish this, the team brought in key brand athletes to have a fairly robust part in interacting on social media with the product, and invited the social media community to do the same.
