Employee Advocacy: 14x Your Brand Reach on Social Media

Updated on August 14, 2024

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Head of Marketing @ Vista Social

Published August 13, 2024

Employee Advocacy: 14x Your Brand Reach on Social Media
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Step right up to the future of social media marketing with employee advocacy: 14x your brand reach on social media!

Vista Social is buzzing with excitement on the launch of our newest feature: Employee Advocacy. This innovative tool is set to amplify your brand’s reach, crank up sales, supercharge your talent pipeline, and keep your brand out of hot water. 

Let’s dive deep into how this game-changing feature can 14x your company’s reach on social media at the click of a button!

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Employees to Advocates: The Future of Marketing

In the bustling world of social media, brand awareness is crucial. However, traditional marketing methods can be costly and time-consuming. 

*Enter Vista Social‘s Employee Advocacy feature* – a strategic tool that transforms employees into brand advocates. Imagine your entire workforce becoming a megaphone for your brand, amplifying your content organically across their networks. 

This isn’t just a trend; it’s the future of social media marketing!

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Amplify Your Brand Reach: Trust the Network

Employee advocacy is a powerful strategy to exponentially boost brand visibility!

By leveraging the personal networks of your employees, your content reaches a broader, more diverse audience. This organic reach not only builds trust but also enhances brand authenticity. 

With Vista Social’s Employee Advocacy feature, you can effortlessly curate shareable content and ensure it reaches the right audience at the right time.

Strike Gold: Boost Sales and Talent Acquisition

Your employees are your most valuable assets, and their networks are untapped goldmines! By empowering them to share content, you can drive sales and attract top talent. 

Vista Social‘s Employee Advocacy feature allows you to compile content into targeted newsletters or broadcasts, ensuring your message resonates with specific audiences within your organization. Plus there’s also a Slack integration option available! This targeted approach will not only help drive sales but will also strengthen your talent pipeline.

Also, here’s the real differentiation where our competition just cannot catch up with us!

Our employee advocacy feature not only empowers your team to share branded content with compliant, pre-approved copy, but also uniquely allows them to engage directly with the original post on your company page.

This dual action boosts engagement on the native post while giving advocates the freedom to craft and share their own custom brand messages with their networks.

Plus we also track brand Mentions and attribute them to advocates. As an example, if an employee mentions your company/ brand in a post that they directly posted on LinkedIn, for as long as their LinkedIn profile is connected to the Vista Social Employee Advocacy platform, we’ll track it and count it as advocacy activity!

Does our competition offer it? Not even in the slightest!

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Brand Safety First: Control the Narrative

 Brand risk is a significant concern for businesses. 

With the Employee Advocacy feature, you can maintain control over your brand’s messaging while empowering employees to share content. This ensures consistency and minimizes the risk of misinformation.

 Plus, Vista Social‘s robust analytics provide insights into web traffic, event registrations, and more; enabling you to measure and optimize your efforts effectively.

Key Employee Advocacy Features: The Nuts and Bolts

Our Employee Advocacy feature is designed to be user-friendly and highly effective. Here’s a high-level overview of what you can expect:

  • Advocacy Manager: Create posts and set timing for when advocates can share
  • Advocates: Separate from the main SMM team, advocates can connect their personal profiles to Vista Social
  • Customizable Posts: Advocates see available content to share and can customize posts before sharing
  • Leaderboard: Shows advocates ranked by shares and potential reach

Empowerment in Action: Give Employees a Voice

Empowerment is at the heart of Employee Advocacy. 

With Vista Social’s new tool, employees can explore and follow topics relevant to their roles, suggest content, and share posts with just a couple of clicks. This not only boosts engagement but also fosters a sense of ownership and pride among employees. Employees will also have the option to customize each suggested post to match their own personal tone of voice for authenticity.

When employees feel connected to the brand’s mission, they are more likely to advocate for it passionately.

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Data-Driven Success: Measure and Optimize

One of the standout benefits of Vista Social’s Employee Advocacy feature is the ability to measure and optimize your marketing efforts. 

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Our platform provides comprehensive data on leads, web traffic, event registrations, and more, all generated through employee advocacy. This data-driven approach allows you to see the ROI and cost savings compared to paid advertising. 

Calculating earned media value is crucial in showcasing the success of your marketing initiatives and justifying your strategies to stakeholders.

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Save Big: Cost-Effective Marketing

In today’s competitive market, finding cost-effective marketing strategies is essential. Vista Social’s Employee Advocacy feature offers an excellent solution. 

By turning employees into brand advocates, companies can attract new business at no extra cost. This organic promotion saves money and time while ensuring the brand stands out. 

And with the help of our AI Assistant, crafting and sharing compelling content for employees to share has never been easier!

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How to Get Started with Employee Advocacy on Vista Social

There are two areas where you can create an Advocacy post: 

Step #1: Log in to your Vista Social account

Create a Vista Social account if you’re not already a user.

Step #2: To get started, go to Advocacy

Employee Advocacy: 14x Your Company’s Reach on Social Media

Step #3: Now, onto how we create an advocacy post

Employee Advocacy: 14x Your Company’s Reach on Social Media

Step #4: You may now create your post!

Employee Advocacy: 14x Your Company’s Reach on Social Media

Step #5: Once you’re done, hit Create advocacy post!

The Advocacy toggle button is turned on by default when you create it from the Advocacy area. You may schedule a time for when it is made available to your advocates, or save it as draft in the meantime.

Employee Advocacy: 14x Your Company’s Reach on Social Media
Employee Advocacy: 14x Your Company’s Reach on Social Media

Content Publisher

1. When scheduling a post to your social profiles, you may also turn them into an Advocacy post.

Employee Advocacy: 14x Your Company’s Reach on Social Media

2. Simply turn on the Advocacy toggle switch and choose the delay time for when it’s added to your Advocacy content or save it as a draft.

Employee Advocacy: 14x Your Company’s Reach on Social Media

And that’s it!

If you have questions or run into any trouble, don’t hesitate to reach out to our awesome support team. For additional details on best managing your advocacy program, checkout our Employee Advocacy dedicated Help Center resources! 🎉 

Vista Social: Leading the Charge in Social Media Management

Vista Social has always been at the forefront of social media innovation. 

Our Employee Advocacy feature is just the latest example of our commitment to providing value to our customers. As a relative newcomer making waves in the SMM industry, we pride ourselves on offering simply better solutions for social media management. Our platform is designed to help businesses grow, now helping you leverage the power of employee advocacy in a meaningful and exponential way.

Vista Social‘s Employee Advocacy feature is not just a new tool; it’s a revolutionary approach to social media marketing, allowing brands to measure and optimize their social media marketing efforts, and see tangible results while significantly saving cost.

Join us in this new era of social media marketing. Leverage the power of employee advocacy with Vista Social and watch your business grow like never before. Don’t just take our word for it – try it out for yourself and see the difference Vista Social can make. After all, in the world of social media, it’s not just about staying in the game; it’s about leading it. 

Welcome to the future. Welcome to Vista Social.

Create your Vista Social account now to see what all the buzz is about!

P.S. If you’re new around here, Vista Social is a feature-packed all-in-one social media management platform built to deliver unparalleled value to marketing agencies, freelancers and social media managers. We are the most advanced, user-first platform that sets a new benchmark for collaboration, efficiency, and effectiveness in social media marketing.

About the Author

Head of Marketing @ Vista Social

Sabreen Haziq is a creative marketing leader with a demand generation bent of mind, and loves finding electric and unapologetic ways to connect brands with audiences though education that entertains. With 6 solid years in social media marketing, and with a specialized masters in Social Media Culture and Society from the University of Westminster, London; Sabreen has helped double unicorns scale their social into the millions! Outside of her current role as Head of Marketing at Vista Social, Sabreen is a podcast host of the premier self-improvement podcast called, The Lavender Fix.

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