Welcome to the world of “digitization” where your emotions, feelings, and preferences, everything has become digitized. You might ask how? Well, let us tell you. “Micro-Influencers: Transforming Digital Marketing”
Engagement Rate
A few years back, people used to get influenced by the jaw-dropping and fascinating advertisements that marketers used to make to portray their brand image. But gradually people started to connect more to social media, and the reason behind this connection was visibility and credibility. People used to relate what was being shown on social platforms, and how they are engaged at a personal level. This further gave birth to a concept called “follower engagement”. An engagement rate is a metric that measures the level of engagement that a piece of created content is receiving from an audience. It shows how much people interact with the content. Factors that influence engagement include users’ comments, shares, likes, and more.
Social Influencers
The more people used to relate, the more they got engaged with those who shared the post, videos, etc., and this brought the concept of “social influencers”. Now influences are of numerous types, they can be celebrities, famous authors, athletes, singers, etc. but then there are micro-influencers. These are the people who have hundreds of followers but are not celebrities. These people share their daily lives on social media. We relate to them and engage ourselves on a daily basis by either scrolling down our feed or watching IGTV on Instagram.
Marketers have started to exploit this possibility of marketing their products to micro-influencers. Studies show that people do not relate to themselves as much to celebrities as they do to micro-influencers. This opportunity not only prove to be a game-changer as one of the most powerful tools to attract customers. It is also pretty much affordable apparently micro-influencers do not charge as much as celebrities do. Another advantage to the market is that by choosing these micro-influencers as their brand ambassadors. The companies are making representatives of the local people, unlike it was with the celebrities, as they were not the representatives of people but the company.
Micro-Influencers
Last but not least, micro-influencers are considered to be living a life of an average person normally. Therefore their emotions and feelings reflect those of common people. They’re true to what they are sharing on the internet. Therefore without even demanding loyalty, they become loyal to the companies they work for. And ultimately, so will be their followers.
Micro-influencing has become a large opportunity that is yet untapped for the marketing world. This will majorly contribute to businesses in the coming years if it is embraced for all of its power and capability.
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