10 Biggest Mistakes in Influencer marketing
                     10 Biggest 
Mistakes in 
Influencer 
marketing
By, Online Reputation 
manage 
Treating Influencer Marketing as a 
sales marketing
➢ If you expect your influencer’s engagement to directly convert into sales, you are wrong. 
Influencers help you with marketing and working with them should be a part of your strategy 
making. 
➢ To accomplish revenue, one of your advertising division’s destinations is to accomplish social 
media engagement with potential clients. 
➢ When you’ve done that for a considerable length of time that you’ve fabricated trust with your 
devotees, they’re bound to take an interest in spreading positivity about your brand, hence 
while going for influencer marketing always look at it from a strategic perspective.
2. Hiring an Influencer for a 
single engagement
➢ Brands often feel that a single engagement with an influencer via a post will do wonders for 
them. But if this happens, it will feel like an ad and won’t have a lot of credibilities. 
➢ Their recommendations won’t come across as authentic which defeats the purpose of hiring 
them for influencer marketing. Brands should always focus on a 360 days engagement 
technique to emerge out as a better player tomorrow.
3. Thinking about the number of 
followers of an Influencer
➢ It doesn’t really matter whether the influencer has a huge number of followers as that does not 
define influence. 
➢ Instead, what matters is the power influencers have to introduce something new to their 
communities and to engage them around that new thing. 
➢ Look way, way beyond the follower count! Influencers also tend to purchase followers by using 
automated systems and so such fraudulent influencers are of no use to your business.
4. Hiring a generic Influencer
➢ It is generally seen that influencers around a niche have better engagement  than a generic 
influencer.
➢  Influencers who have a specific topic, industry, or focus are considered niche influencers. 
➢ They’re the ones your business should concentrate on working with. For example, if your 
business is an E-learning platform, it’s better to hire influencers who promote tech-based 
products so that they cater to your specific audience.
5. Laying Restrictions on the 
Influencer for content
➢ Influencers are generally aware of what type of content their followers are crazy about. 
➢ Encouraging them to create content will always yield better results for you. Forcing and laying 
restrictions on them in terms of content creation may hamper your business reputation and 
won’t engage the audience. 
➢ If you push them to pursue what you feel is right, then you might just end up making an 
advertisement for your brand.
6. Influencers Hired as a 
Contract
➢ Influencers should always be treated as professionals because they take your brand seriously 
and have the task to engage as many people as possible with your brand. 
➢ Influencers are students, small businesses, stay-at-home parents and entrepreneurs. They put 
their invaluable time in bringing engagement, building a community and also create posts for 
your brand’s image. 
➢ And so, just like you hire a graphic designer or a software developer, hire your influencers. 
Hence, all the process should be addressed in a formal manner.
 
7. Waiting long to implement an 
Influencer marketing strategy
➢ It is beneficial for brands to start with their influencer marketing services early, even before 
they have a product. 
➢ It might help your brand in giving the right push as well as help in figuring out the common set 
of problems your audience might face using your product. 
➢ Through influencer marketing, brands can lay their focus on finding pain points and spreading 
the right kind of awareness before a product launch.
8. Signing up very fast on an 
Influencer
➢ Even if you feel interested in the influencer, wait and perform your due diligence. Follow the 
influencer’s account for some weeks. 
➢ Keep a track of their postings and ensure that the writings and the visuals seem appealing. 
Ensure that his/her followers are commenting and engaging in the right manner. 
➢ There are a lot of influencers that produce a lot of content but have a large number of bots for 
followers. A large, but fake audience, isn’t going to help your business. 
➢ Once you feel that the influencer’s style matches your business, try to make negotiations and 
then sign up.
 
9. Not reusing or repurposing 
the content created
➢ If you really hire an authentic influencer, one thing you’ll gain from working with them will be 
very interesting, original, and super engaging content from a unique point of view. 
➢ While working with an influencer, it is important to include a clause in your contract that gives 
you permission to reuse, re-purpose and re-boost the content created by the influencer.
➢  This can be effective in your blog posts, advertising, and even on your own website. But 
remember, you need to include a clause in your contract with the influencer that you are the 
owner of the content that they create for you.
10. Running after a High-End 
authentic Influencer
➢ A high-end influencer who is authentic is great, but the influence is not related. What matters is 
that an influencer’s followers listen to them, and can become invested in what you do. 
➢ It also may be possible that the high-end influencer might not cater to a niche segment and 
hence your audience is not the same as his/her. 
➢ Getting an influencer whose followers are lesser but at least engage in the activities is always 
beneficial for your brand.
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