{"id":55378,"date":"2023-10-20T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/friends-with-benefits-or-the-untapped-long-tail-of-social-influence-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:30:59","slug":"friends-with-benefits-or-the-untapped-long-tail-of-social-influence-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/friends-with-benefits-or-the-untapped-long-tail-of-social-influence-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends with benefits or the untapped long tail of social influence – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On many occasions I have continued to prompt, push and advocate that social media influence is not really \u201clikes\u201d, nor is it cute marketing campaigns to drive Facebook traffic.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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The true commercial benefit of social media is the power of the recommendation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


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This week a report on social media from McKinsey Europe confirms this and adds weight to previous research on this matter.<\/p>\n

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The main outcome of this research points to the long tail of social influence, which is largely untapped, and of which 50% relies on offline recommendation not online social media. This suggests that for all the social data being collected, it is not necessarily being used very effectively to find the nuances of influence.<\/p>\n

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In marketing we see \u2018influencer programs\u2019 that are not actually influencer programs. They outreach to bloggers in a bland way and do not reach the peer-to-peer influence of the social net. It does not rely on bloggers, but on \u2018friends of friends\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Key insights in building social media recommendations to consider are:<\/p>\n