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How to Deliver Business Results through Employee Advocacy

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Julio Viskovich, V.P. of Marketing at rFactr, has worked with many brands to develop employee advocacy programs that deliver tangible business results. A Forbes Top 30 Social Media Influencer, Julio is passionate about helping organizations empower employees to have human-to-human engagement while delivering the right message at the right time.

On this episode, Julio and I discuss the profitability of employee advocacy and overview the highlights from rFactr’s strategic e-guide on implementing and scaling an employee advocacy program. Employee advocacy is one of the five pillars of a social business. Are you ready to accelerate your social business journey this year?

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On This Episode You’ll Discover:

  • rFactr is an employee advocacy platform for monetizing marketing content.
  • How Edelman’s Trust Barometer gauges consumer trust and why consumers are looking more to third-party individuals than to brands.
  • How employee advocacy has grown in importance because of consumers’ wariness of brands.
  • How messages from real people are seven times more likely to receive engagement.
  • What the four major considerations are when launching an employee advocacy program.
  • Why the first step to launching an employee advocacy program is about program adoption and getting the right people on board.
  • Why Julio says ongoing employee social media training and progress measurement is necessary.
  • Why Julio recommends a mixed training method to effectively teach your employees about social media.
  • Why Julio says not to forget about proving ROI to show business value and why that requires social technologies.
  • How employee advocacy creates a greater brand awareness and sentiment than sponsored ads and why you should measure CPM and reach.
  • Why brands need to incorporate what the employee will get out of participating in an employee advocacy program in the communication.
  • Why Julio suggests crowdsourcing to create a fun name for your employee advocacy program.
  • How to maximize the adoption of an employee advocacy program by first targeting employees who are active social media users.
  • Why Julio says content is the absolute bullseye of a successful employee advocacy program.

“Content is the absolute bullseye of a successful employee advocacy program.” @juliovisko

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  • Why brands need to have a steady flow of targeted content that stands out.
  • How to find 3rd party content and use the 4-1-1 formula when sharing content.
    • 4 third party articles.
    • 1 piece of content from the brand.
    • 1 post that shows your personality.
  • Why brands should consider partnering with someone for third party content.
  • How cost justification is the first phase of implementing an employee advocacy program.
  • How to track the success of your training program to make needed adjustments.
  • Why the third phase of implementation is related to ROI and revenue attribution.
  • How Julio’s one thing is to find a way to tap into your employee base, they are a brand’s biggest asset.

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