SOCIAL MEDIAThe Power Of Employee Advocacy & Engagement

THE WHAT?

• Employee advocacy enables companies and brands to amplify the marketing messages by encouraging its employees to share approved branded content on their personal social media channels.

• Employee advocacy programs have seen to increase brand visibility, improved brand recognition and better brand loyalty.

• The key benefits include: increased organic web traffic, inbound leads, employee engagement and so on.

THE WHY?

People only trust friends, family and peers more than any other information source84% of consumers’ value recommendations from friends and family above all forms of advertising – and additionally, 77% of consumers are likely to make a purchase after hearing about it from someone they trust. Hence trust is essential for business and it has also become a new marketing currency in today’s digital world.

Digital-Savvy Employees are the biggest marketing assets & trusted brand advocatesEngaged and digital-savvy employees are the best word-of-mouth marketing resource. It’s one of the most cost-effective way of marketing that brings enormous benefits in the long run.

Employees have a wider social reach than brand channelsContent shared by employees receives 8X more engagement than content shared by brand channels.

Employees become the thought leadersBy empowering employees with valuable content to share across their personal social media channels, it creates an online identity for the engaged employees in broader communities. This in turn will position them as an ‘Industry Thought Leader’ and also continuously encourage them to build their personal brand online.

THE HOW?

Sharing: Liking:

Share posts from the Wetpaint social platforms Like and react to the posts on our platforms

Commenting: Tag & Mention:

Comment your thoughts about the post Tag a friend or mention other people and other brands in the post

Monthly Task:Each month a new social task will be sent out for the team to do. This needs to be done before the end of that given month.

Weekly Task:This will be rolled out to the team who will all have a chance per week to do something awesome for our pages.

Daily Task:To visit our platforms daily to engage with the content posted from that day.

NEED TRAINING?

For anyone not social savvy or not on social media, there will be a short half an hour social media workshop on Wednesday the 25th of January 2017.

This workshop will cover:

1. Setting up accounts

2. Learning to engage

THE WHEN?

Weekly Roll-Out

Schedule:

Please note social media engagement counts towards your reviews. Constantly be active on a daily basis and do your tasks which will be placed into your calendars. Reports are done monthly to see who engages and red cards will be issued if you miss your task.

WEEK: TEAM MEMBER:

23-27 January 2017 Keshav

30 Jan – 03 Feb 2017 Petra

06-10 February 2017 Kerry

13-17 February 2017 Einstein

20-24 February 2017 Walter

27 Feb – 03 March 2017 Minesh

06-10 March 2017 Asuya

13-17 March 2017 Shane

20-24 March 2017 Simba

27-31 March 2017 Thari

03-07 April 2017 Rudolph

10-14 April 2017 Lucile

THE TASK

Month Task:

January 2017

What do you predict 2017 in marketing and advertising will look like?

This can be in line with your department, the industry, etc.

Can be a shared article with your take on it or an original article, An image of how it could look, A cool video, Whatever!

Just Make it AWESOME!

Please share from your personal profiles to the Wetpaint pages by mentioning or tagging WP in your post:

Twitter - @WetpaintAds

Facebook - @Wetpaint

Instgram - @wetpaint_tlba

LinkedIn - @Wetpaint (Pty) Ltd

Please note this task needs to be completed before the end of the month.

THE FUN

Social Events:

January 2017 + February 2017

27 January 2017: 2nd Annual Beer Pong Championships (info to come)

24 February 2017: Kick Ball Blow Out