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We've talked in depth about PPC ads and other internet advertising mediums on the forum, but the information on using social influencers seems to be minimal or low level and I would personally would like to know more about it.
What compelled me to start a new thread was a negative low-ROI experience that I had with an influencer.
My product is in women's sportswear.
The influencer has about 30k+ in followers on IG and matches our target demo damn near perfectly. Her audience is about 53% women. I expected 50% of them to be in my target demo. This influencer gets 800-1000 likes per post and around 30 comments.
The deal was she would post a picture of the product talking about how she has been looking for a solution to a certain problem when working out and finally found one (our product).
She posted it to her IG account and her story with references to our account and a link to our site.
After she posted it, she immediately got around 250 likes and I had 5 people convert to make product reservations on my website. After that it was crickets. Completely nothing. One or two comments, no likes to our IG account. The cost to convert her audience to my customers was about 15x higher than basically the same ad I posted on FB/ IG ads...
The kicker is that I thought an influencer would give me way better conversions because of the targeting and reach. I'm wondering if maybe her followers are bogus accounts (seems unlikely), if maybe we would have done better if there was a picture of her using the product, or if this was just some kind of fluke. Maybe I don't have enough data to justify my impressions.
Has anyone experience something similar to this?
Has anyone ran positive ROI campaigns using influencers?
People use influencers all of the time and they can't all be running negative ROI ads.
Either way, let's use this thread to share similar experiences to see if we can learn anything.
@Scot may be interested in this topic.
What compelled me to start a new thread was a negative low-ROI experience that I had with an influencer.
My product is in women's sportswear.
The influencer has about 30k+ in followers on IG and matches our target demo damn near perfectly. Her audience is about 53% women. I expected 50% of them to be in my target demo. This influencer gets 800-1000 likes per post and around 30 comments.
The deal was she would post a picture of the product talking about how she has been looking for a solution to a certain problem when working out and finally found one (our product).
She posted it to her IG account and her story with references to our account and a link to our site.
After she posted it, she immediately got around 250 likes and I had 5 people convert to make product reservations on my website. After that it was crickets. Completely nothing. One or two comments, no likes to our IG account. The cost to convert her audience to my customers was about 15x higher than basically the same ad I posted on FB/ IG ads...
The kicker is that I thought an influencer would give me way better conversions because of the targeting and reach. I'm wondering if maybe her followers are bogus accounts (seems unlikely), if maybe we would have done better if there was a picture of her using the product, or if this was just some kind of fluke. Maybe I don't have enough data to justify my impressions.
Has anyone experience something similar to this?
Has anyone ran positive ROI campaigns using influencers?
People use influencers all of the time and they can't all be running negative ROI ads.
Either way, let's use this thread to share similar experiences to see if we can learn anything.
@Scot may be interested in this topic.
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