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Influencer Programs: Everything a brand needs to know [with 5 affordable examples]
Influencer programs use content creators to market and sell a brand’s products in exchange for affiliate commissions or other incentives.
Target Affiliate Program: How It Works
The Target Affiliate Program offers creators commissions for selling products and their own personal shoppable storefront
Amazon Influencer Program: Everything you need to know
The Amazon Influencer Program offers content creators commissionable links and their personal creator storefront.
Walmart Creator Program: What is it and why it is so important?
In October 2022, Walmart announced its direct challenge to the Amazon Influencer Program, Walmart Creator.
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Authentic Influencer Marketing: 5 Tips for Running an Effective Campaign
Picking the right influencers for the job is not easy. The choices you make represent a golden opportunity to communicate a fresh and trustworthy voice to your ideal target audience.
Creator Commerce: Everything a brand needs to know
Creator Commerce is the subset of eCommerce where influencers, bloggers, and other content creators market and sell a brand’s products
LoudCrowd Named Best Affiliate Marketing Software in 2023
LoudCrowd was proudly named in Tekpon’s Top 10 Affiliate Marketing Software of Q4 2023 list
3 Holiday Gift Guide Examples From Top Ecommerce Brands
Learn how the Walmart Creator, Target Affiliate, and Amazon Influencer programs give creators personal storefronts for holiday gift guides
5 Ways to Reactivate Brand Ambassadors
Learn about the 5 things you can do to reinvigorate your brand ambassadors so that they continue posting and tagging your brand
Affiliate Fraud: How to Prevent Leaked Affiliate & Referral Codes
Put an end to Honey, RetailMeNot, and Rakuten leaking affiliate codes and encouraging affiliate fraud.
Affiliate Referral Codes Boost Creator UGC and Revenue
Creator commerce refers to the emerging faction within e-commerce where content creators, influencers, and bloggers promote and sell products directly to their audiences.
Creator Commerce Offers Embattled Brands the Solution they Need
Creator commerce refers to the emerging faction within e-commerce where content creators, influencers, and bloggers promote and sell products directly to their audiences.
6 Best Performing Brand Ambassador Program Examples
See three of the most successful brand ambassador program examples and how they generate massive results with a small team of marketers
LoudCrowd Releases White Label Influencer Experience Portal for Brands’ Sites
Brand Ambassadors can now login to a portal that houses all of their commission stats and earned rewards, natively on the brand site. No longer will Ambassadors need to use a dreaded 3rd party app or website portal to see all of their program communications.
LoudCrowd Releases Native eComm Product Bundling for Influencer Picks, on all Influencer Storefronts
LoudCrowd’s Shoppable Ambassador Storefronts now allow all of your ambassadors to create featured product bundles / influencer picks.
3 Ways to Increase your Affiliate Marketing Conversion Rates
Your affiliate marketing conversion rate is the percentage of your leads that convert. In most eCommerce affiliate marketing cases, that means a lead turned into a sale.
Creator Storefronts: Top 5 Use Cases Beyond Affiliate Marketing
LoudCrowd’s Creator Storefronts can be applied to your business beyond the traditional affiliate marketing use cases.
Performance Marketing in your 2023 Brand Strategy
Discover how performance marketing can help social media marketers measure success and allocate budget more effectively. Learn about LoudCrowd’s scalable ambassador and affiliate programs.
How AI will Revolutionize eCommerce: Near-term and Long-term Changes to How Brands Sell Online
AI has already arrived in eCommerce. Here’s what’s already happened, and what’s coming next
Raising eCommerce Conversions with Influencer Storefronts
Stop wasting creator traffic with low-converting links. Creator storefronts creates a personalized shopping experience on your eComm.
Customer-led Marketing is the Future of Brand Marketing
Customer-led Marketing is the most important growth channel in the digital age. Use your customers as creators, and sell more.
Manage Customer UGC: How to Track Instagram Story Metrics
Instagram Stories are the most important type of social content right now. Manage them with efficiency.
Instagram as a Customer Engagement Platform: Using Social CRM tools to Build Relationships
Engagements in-between purchases are vital to building customer loyalty. These touchpoints are usually fed outside the purchase; rarely at the point of …
Brand Ambassador vs Influencer: A Helpful Guide for Brands
Brand ambassadors deliver authenticate long-term value, but influencers can provide a quick surge.
How to Shift your Influencer Marketing Strategy to a Customer-based UGC program
Consumer shopping behaviors are changing and it’s time to adjust your UGC social media strategy. Turning your active customers into real brand …
Revolutionizing Marketing: The Rise of Decentralized Marketing Strategies
Decentralized marketing may sound new and fancy. While the new technology behind it is leading its rise to the forefront of brands’ …
4 Unique Customer and Brand Advocate Reward Ideas
A brand advocacy program can elevate your holiday performance and provide value to your customers that will pay off in the new year.
The Importance of Social Rewards Programs
In the last couple of years, social rewards programs have changed the way brands do business. But how do you create a really good program?
4 Ambassador Activation Strategies to Engage Your Brand Community
Brand Ambassadors are one of the best word-of-mouth marketing resources. Focusing on engagement during in-between purchases is essential to growing your community. …
Social Rewards in One Click: The Ultimate Gift for your Brand Ambassadors
Expand your UGC strategy with these new social gifting rewards. More customer rewards lead equals more organic posts leading to brand awareness and revenue.
The Ultimate Guide to Measuring Marketing ROI – with Formula and Examples
The single greatest advantage of digital marketing is the potential to measure every piece of the marketing funnel and then strategically optimize for performance.
Key Takeaways from Social Media Week Europe 2022
It’s been about two weeks since we got back from Social Media Week in London. The conference was so rich with information, …
The Pareto Principle and the Exponential Impact of Brand Ambassador Programs
The law of the mighty few…and vital few. If you’re familiar with the Pareto Principle, your wheels are likely already spinning and …
The Power of Social Media Shopping: Innovations Shaping the Future of Commerce
Many brands are looking for new ways to create earned media value and increase brand awareness through participating and building customer communities. …
LoudCrowd Raises $5M Series A to Automate Brand Ambassador Programs
LoudCrowd is positioned to reinvent the $16B influencer market by giving brands the ability to leverage customers as brand ambassadors to generate …
Why You Should Treat Your Customers as Co-Producers and 5 Examples to Get Inspired
Treat them like part of your brand (because they are) Your brand exists because people want and need what you’ve created. These …
Best Uses of SMS Marketing Platforms to Build Customer Retention
With our connectivity at an all-time high, marketers need to take advantage of SMS marketing to build lasting relationships with your customers. …
Building a Successful UGC Marketing Strategy with Instagram Reels
Why try to hack the Instagram algorithm when playing by their rules can help in your favor for growth and engagement? The …
Tiktok vs Instagram: 5 Reasons Brands Should Treat TikTok Differently
When you’re at the beginning stage of TikTok, there are still plenty of opportunities to make waves and go viral — but only if you take action now.
From Community Manager to CMO: How Marketing Roles Build UGC Strategy with LoudCrowd
Cameri quickly realized that the affiliate program she had been asked to reengage had been neglected for some time. The information she …
Top 5 SMW 2022 Takeaways
The LoudCrowd team came, saw and conquered the cringe— just one of many excellent takeaways from three action-and-insight packed days at Social Media Week 2022.
Beyond Influencers, Prioritizing UGC in Social Media Strategy
The Three R’s of UGC: Reach, Reward, Retain
Customer Engagement Best Practices to Increase Loyalty
The most crucial indication of brand loyalty is the time between sales, and UGC is the best opportunity to engage with customers with a one-to-many marketing strategy.
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UGC Contest: 6 Tips for Instagram & TikTok [Updated for 2024]
Learn how to produce an effective UGC contest on Instagram and TikTok.
Instagram Target Audience for Brand Community Building: 6 Key Segments
Here are the top 6 Instagram target audiences that you should be managing as part of your Instagram Segment Strategy to create a strong community
Get More UGC with TikTok for Brand Ambassador Programs
TikTok is expected to reach nearly 1.5 billion users in 2022, making it one of the fastest-growing social media platforms of the century! More importantly, TikTok houses Gen Z, the generation most successful at and most willing to create UGC for the brands they love and trust. Brands that embrace the creative and collaborative nature of TikTok will further immerse themselves with the next powerful generation of consumers.
From Micro-Influencers to Customer Loyalty, Leverage UGC as a Top Content Library
Imagine, seeing a perfectly placed and beautifully photographed Micheal Kors watch sitting among macarons… The caption read “Pampered in Paris…”. The illusion that wearing Micheal Kors could transport you to this quaint Parisian cafe. This was the first Instagram ad.
How to Find Top Brand Ambassadors with UGC Software
Brand tags are a gold mine of creative, authentic content that can be reused in social platforms, on brand websites, or even in digital ads. As the top Social CRM, LoudCrowd allows you to organize, track, and analyze your UGC and ambassador programs the same way you do sales.
Brand Ambassador Programs as a Way to Engage with Gen Z
Generation Z is paving the way when it comes to how we use social media and the trends that follow. This generation is a crucial asset to the success of your ambassador and reward programs.
LoudCrowd Builds Leading Marketing Social CRM, Adds Robust Notes Functionality
Starting today, LoudCrowd clients will see two big new changes. The ‘Customers’ tab will be relabeled based on its intended use, Marketing …
Benchmarking Brand Success with UGC
We analyzed hundreds of accounts, thousands of posts covering millions of impressions to bring you this UGC Benchmark report. We dive into several industries to help you understand how your brand compares in gaining UGC traction.
When Earned Media Becomes Performance Marketing
The ‘no such thing as a free lunch’ mantra is learned early and repeated often – as what worked yesterday will never work the same way tomorrow.
Building a Winning Culture – Lessons from TrendKite
I was meeting with a former TrendKite colleague recently and we started reminiscing about what made working at TrendKite so special. Of …