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Influencer Marketing
Learn how to find and onboard nano influencers for authentic promotion to a highly engaged audience.
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When brands start with influencer marketing, they naturally fall into the trap of wanting bigger and more popular social media influencers like macro influencers, mega influencers, and celebrity influencers to promote their products.
We all want clout and popularity, it’s natural. But it won’t get to sales and it will be massively unprofitable when you’re starting out. It’s wiser to smart way small and build from there. This is where nano influencers come in.
The definition of Nano influencers is that they are influencers with small, highly engaged, and niche audiences. A nano-influencer follower count might be up for debate but we consider any influencer with a following of 3k-20k in the nano-influencer category.
With nano-influencers, it’s just not about the follower count as a nano influencer has a highly engaged audience and this audience is super niche, hence likely to be early adopters of your product. Even big brands know their importance and are partnering with more nano influencers each passing month.
Have you ever reached out to someone with a following of 75k and up? Even if you manage to get a response, it would be from their agency sharing a 15-page-long Media kit that highlights their statistics and the last page would mention their 4-figure rates.
You try to negotiate with the influencer and get a response like, “Sorry, these rates are non-negotiable. We wish you all the best”.
I know that feeling!
What I like most about nano influencers is the simplicity and ease. You send them an email, get a response, strike up a partnership with the nano influencer and it’s done. They engage with your brand and promote your products authentically. If you see some of their posts, they elicit emotions. A nano influencer genuinely use the products and rave about them with their audience, and in turn creating authentic UGC which a celebrity influencer can never do.
Nano influencers have a personal connection with most of their followers. They engage in comments, and messages and know their audience more intimately. This gives the nano-influencer more INFLUENCE over them. Remember, it’s influence marketing, not influencer marketing that you want to do.
Brand partnerships are not a primary source of a nano-influencer's income and they are more likely to accept affiliate-only collaborations. You can even get usage rights for the content for just a small fee. This content can be used as ad creatives for amazing FB and TikTok ads for your paid media efforts. That’s two birds, one stone.
Coming to the fee, it’s another great thing about nano influencer marketing. The nano-influencers are most likely okay with working on affiliate commissions if they like your product and think it’s a fit for their audience (which it should be by default since you’re vetting them for fit before reaching out)
Even if the nano-influencers do charge money, it would be a nominal $50-$100 in addition to a sample (i.e. your COGS). You can also ask them for usage rights to repurpose the influencer content for this amount to improve your influencer marketing ROI.
The best part about a nano influencer is that they grow over time, sometimes fast. So if you get in early, they’ll love and recommend you for life, even when they become huge influencers, creating a strong long-term relationship.
It’s just not about partnering with nano-influencers but about partnering with the right ones. How do you figure that out?
There are some rules of thumb that we follow here at SARAL.
Here are some best practices to be mindful of when engaging with nano influencers.
The right product in front of the right audience is the key to any form of marketing. Teaming up with dozens of nano influencers month by month can drive a tremendous amount of sales for your brand. Most brands frown upon working with influencers with a smaller audience. They see a 5k, 7k audience and think they are not big enough to make any impact.
But they are WRONG, it’s literally five thousand people, that’s an auditorium full of potential buyers! Imagine getting your product in front of all these prospects. This is why nano influencers are important. Don’t wait, capitalize!
But, if you are spending hours and hours scrolling social media platforms to find the right nano influencers, manually reaching out to them one-by-one, and managing them all on time-consuming spreadsheets - that's where SARAL can help you.
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