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One of the core social media marketing tactics businesses rely on is influencer marketing. By creating authentic relationships with individuals who hold sway over a large group of consumers on social media, brands can harness their target audiences in a way they’ll trust.

While email and influencer marketing have distinct differences, combining them offers your brand a unique opportunity to garner brand awareness and interest in your products on social media. In this article, you would learn why it is useful and how to accurately integrate both tactics.

Benefits of Using Influencers for Email Marketing

Businesses can reach a diverse group of consumers through their connections with influencers. This is effective for improving conversion rates, while also extending your brand’s virtual community and building a strong relationship with a professional in your industry’s social sphere. Influencers use their platforms to persuade their followers to buy the products or subscribe and promote the products as well. On the other hand, brands can repurpose the content influencers create to fit into their email marketing campaigns. These include content like unboxing videos, product reviews, affiliate discount codes, tutorial videos, and simple posts from the influencer interacting with your product. Generally, adding influencer content improves brand credibility via social proof. When a customer is reading your brand’s newsletter or sales email, spotting an influencer they already know will increase the chance they find your business more credible.

Strategies to Integrate Influencer Marketing & Email Marketing! 

The following are some strategies to align email and influencer marketing components together and gain unified benefits.

1. Use Existing Influencer Content in Emails

Most influencer relationships are established via social media, but that doesn’t mean content needs to stay there. This method demonstrates authenticity in your brand-influencer relationship as well due to dual-sided publicity.

2. Make Your Email Campaigns Mutually Beneficial

Most influencers build their following via social media platforms. By promoting influencer content in your emails, you’re giving them a new avenue to reach engaged customers – who may become followers as well. By highlighting an influencer’s content and providing some additional credit to their owned channels, you can create a mutually beneficial program that builds your email community through value-added content.

3. Let Influencers Own the Email Campaign

Brands tend to over-index on brand safety when it comes to influencer marketing. But by giving influencers more creative and strategic input on a campaign, you can create truly exciting and, oftentimes, vastly original campaigns.  This is a great way to scale email personalization; influencers can create personalized content keeping the taste and preferences of their followers in mind. 

4. Don’t Stop at Product Images: Product Reviews and Unboxing Videos

Product reviews and unboxing videos are commonly used formats for influencer marketing. In your emails, add helpful product reviews coupled with influencer testimonials and unboxing videos to seal the deal.

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