A lot of brands look at social media as an additional form of advertising, sharing their latest and greatest with followers who are already fans of the brand.  There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this and it’s necessary to keep an increasingly distracted audience focused on what the company is doing. Yet most brands, even with their significant following, lack a voice that makes these followers act on command.

Hence why people like Chiara can ask for $20,000 to write three sentences.

I watched a client try and fail at creating in-house influencers for his company. For however deep his pockets ran to provide his staff with the state-of-the-art everything to build a mini digital fiefdom, his vision never factored human behavior.

“If I build it, they will come” has never been an effective strategy. 

You need to give people reason to come. And when it comes to social media influencers, it’s all about personality. Those social stars have kept a pulse on what they’re followers want and kept giving them more of it, going straight to the bank with their innate understanding of human motivation.

I’d love to see a brand for one week turn over their Instagram accounts to a random employee and allow that employee to show followers both the inner workings of their company and a bit of their lives outside the company.

Humanize your company by showing the reality of the people who love to work for you.

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