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5 Adımda Makyaj İnfluencer’i Olmanın Yolları

Güzellik konusunun sağlık ve sıhhat ile birlikte insanların listelerinde üst sıralarda olduğunu fark etmiş olmanız gerek. Sağlıklı olmanın yanı sıra genç ve güzel görünmek istememiz gizleyebileceğimiz bir şey değil. Güzellik alanındakı fenomenlerin sosyal medyayı şekillendirdiğini ve en son pazarlama trendlerine hızlı bir şekilde uyum sağladığını görmemek mümkün değil.

Kendinizi güzellik alanında görenlerden biriyseniz, daha spesifik olarak, diğer insanlar için ilham kaynağı olacak kişi olmak istiyorsanız, o zaman doğru yerdesiniz.Bu adımları izleyerek, bir güzellik influenceri kariyerine sıfırdan başlayabilirsiniz. Hadi o zaman, ne duruyoruz, işe koyulalım, işte ipuçlarınız.

Paylaşdığınız İçeriği “Kraliçe” Yapın

Hiç kimse ilk denemede bir makyaj dehası ya da cilt bakım gurusu olmanızı beklemiyor, ama sonunda bunu da yapmanız gerekecektir. Kitlenizin sizi ciddiye almasını istiyorsanız, cilt bakımının arkasındakı temel bilimi veya saç ve cildi etkileyen farklı bileşenleri bilmeniz gerekir.

Saçlarımın daha hızlı büyümesini nasıl sağlayabilirim? Makyaj fırçaları nasıl temizlenir? Rutin cilt bakımım ne olmalıdır? Göz çevresindeki kahverengi lekelerden nasıl kurtulabiliriz? Tırnaklarımı nasıl güçlendirebilirim?

Tüm cevaplar sizden bir tık uzakta. Zamanınızın çoğunu araştırmaya harcayın ve ardından takipçilerinize göz alıcı bir şekilde sunun. Bununla birlikte, sınırlarınızı  aşmak istiyorsanız, bu konuyla ilgili derslere, güzellik kongrelerine ve hatta seminerlere katılabilirsiniz, bunlar sizi en son trendlere güncel tutacaktır. Güzellik endüstrisinde de yeni araştırma ve teknolojiye her zaman dikkat edin.

Bir güzellik influencer’i olmak sadece her seferinde şık görünmekle ilgili değildir. Aynı zamanda mükemmel ürün ve endüstri bilgisine sahip olmak, lansmanlar, güzellik hackleri ve en son saç ve makyaj trendleri ile güncel kalmakla ilgilidir. Başarılı bir influencer olmak için, pazarlamanın püf noktalarını ve sosyal medya platformlarını anlamanız gerekir.

Nişinizi Doğru Seçin

Hepimiz güzelliğin çok kapsamlı  bir konu olduğu konusunda hemfikir olabiliriz ve sadece tek bir kişinin güzelliğin her yönünü bilmesi mümkün olmayabilir. Genel bilgiye sahip olmak en iyisidir, ancak çabalarınızı odak yönünüze koymak daha iyidir.

Ekstra para kazanmak için bazı güzellik ürünleri satmak isteyebilirsiniz, ancak enerjiniz cilt bakımı, saç bakımı veya daha dar konuları hedefleyebilir ki, kitleniz sizi bu konuda guru olarak görecektir.

Niş bir kitleye sahip güzellik influencerlerinin, kozmetik ve moda markalarının ürün tanıtımı için dikkat ettikleri kişiler olduğunu bilmeniz gerekir.

Sosyal Medya Hesaplarınızı Geliştirin

En önemli sorulardan biri, takipçilerinize nasıl ulaşacağınızdır? Bu soru için güçlü sosyal medya platformları geliştirmeniz gerekiyor.

Bu kısmı ciddiye almak çok önemlidir, çünkü para kazanmak istiyorsanız, bunu bir iş olarak yapmak zorundasınız. İlk olarak  kendinizi daha sonra ürün ve hizmeti satmak gerekecektir.

Asla İnstagram ile sınırlamayın. Kanatlarınızı açabildiğin kadar açın. Kendinizi görünür, yararlı, aktif, kalıcı, ulaşılabilir ve erişilebilir hale getirmeniz gerekir. İçeriğiniz takipçilerinizin isteklerini yansıtmalı ve onların istedikleri içeriği vermek için dinleme becerilerinizi kullanmanız gerekecektir.

Kendinizi bir marka haline getirmek oyun değiştiren bir eylemdir. Seçtiğiniz renk, stil, içerik vb. insanlara sizin özel biri olduğunuzu düşünmenizi sağlayacaktır.

İçeriğinizi ilgi çekici ve paylaşılabilir hale getirin. Takipçilerinizin yararlı ipuçlarınızı başkalarıyla paylaşmalarına teşvik edin. Ayrıca, hashtag’ler sizin için bulutları temizleyecek, içeriğinizi kategorize etmenize yardımcı olacak ve doğru hashtag’ler anında size daha fazla takipçi kazandırabilir. Birçok güzellik şirketi mikro influencer’lerle işbirliği yapmak istiyor ve çoğu zaman #discoverunder10k kullanıyor.  

Bir şey daha, bariz #güzellik, #makyaj hashtag’leri artık yararlı olmayabilir. Bunların yerine, #organic, #instamakeup, #ciltbakımı, #IGciltbakımı #bakımzamanı gibi hashtag’ler kitlenizin Instagramda paylaşımlarınızı atlayıp geçmesi yerine özel ilgi alanlarına göre bulmasına yardımcı olurlar.  

Hesabınızı en son trendler, ürün fotoğrafları ve benzeri ile karıştırdığınız sürece hangi sosyal medya devini seçtiğiniz önemli değildir. Daha fazla platform, daha fazla insan demektir. unutmayın. Günlük mesajları paylaşmak, kendinizi aktif tutmak kendinizi bu nişe adadığınızı hissettirecek ve bu işi ciddiye aldığınız için takip edilmeyi hak eden kişi siz olacaksınız.

Karışmak Yerine Öne Çıkın

Bu sektörde vizyonulu bir güzellik influenceri olduğunu iddia eden milyonlarca insan var. O zaman seni bu insanlardan farklı kılan nedir? Neden özelsin? Tüm bunların yanısıra yaratıcı olmak için beyninizi kullanın, kendinizi rakiplerinizden ayırın. Denemek istediğiniz fikir daha önce kullanılmışsa, size Pablo Picasso’nun bir keresinde çaldığı bir cümleyi hatırlatmama izin verin: “Amatörler ödünç alır, profesyoneller çalar”.

Benzersizliğiniz, herkesin kendilerinden bir şeyleri bulabileceği paylaşımlarınız, ipuçları ve püf noktalarınız, güncel ve modaya uygun içeriğiniz, ilgi çekici ve çeşitlendirilmiş konularınız ve düzenli bilgi akışınız sizi diğerlerinden farklı kılan özelliklerdir.

Markanızı Tanıtın

“Aman Tanrım, markam yok” diyebilirsin, ama bizim sana cevabımız şudur ki “tatlım, sen bir markasın.” Kendini çılgınca tanıt.

Bir avuç takipçi için itibarınızı feda etmeyin, her zaman takipçilerinizle aranızı iyi tutun. Kitleniz sizi fark ediyorsa, yaptığınız her şeyi fark edecektir: iyi, kötü ve çirkin 

İşe koyulmak için şimdiden daha iyi bir zaman mı var? Artık güzellik influencer’i olmanın yollarını biliyorsun. O halde ne bekliyorsun? Kollarını sıva ve işe koyul.

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Rumiya Mammadova April 22, 2021
Influencer categoriesInfluencer communityInfluencer marketing

Turn Your Hobby Into a Career: Easy Steps to Start Your Career as an Influencer

Doing the work you have a passion for is not actual work, it’s a hobby. Earning your life from the hobby is one of the best things you can do with your life. If you are reading this you probably had an experience with “ the real job” and positively you are fed up with it and now time to turn your passion into a career.

First and foremost setback in this mighty process is what kind of hobby will possibly let you keep  having a quality of life when you are not working 9 to 5 business based work. Before making life changing decisions you need to have short and long term goals. Planning to monetize your passion is the most important part of the process.

There are millions of people out there who are pursuing their dreams and interests, eventually thriving them into a career. The hobby is something that you take pleasure doing in your spare time. This might be taking photos, cooking, gardening, performing, gaming, caring for animals, writing etc. the list can go on and on but the crucial point is how to spend less time working and more time enjoying your passion and earning your life.

What Does Your Heart Desire?

At this point of our blog we are going to talk about influencing. You may think, wait I was planning to do my hobby and earn money how come I need to know about influencing. The thing is the society we live in demands us to put something on the table if we want to make money . In your case it’s making people trust you.  Here is why random people rely on your personal decisions. 

You may not realize but being an influencer is quite a ruthless process. You can put all the effort but people may not be interested in, this time you either change your mind or give your everything to your audience.

Influencing is a vitally important leadership skill which you have a control over others choices, opinions and behaviours. In order to be in charge of others, you need to make them trust you. And believe it or not, the reward of your efforts will yield a profit after deepening the trust between you and the people who follow your steps. 

Find Your Niche

Once you get enough people to follow you, the number  doesn’t need to be immerse, because well-read brands are not essentially focusing on a huge audience, they are in the search of people who have an ability to encourage others and to act on their recommendations. 

If  you have a quick look on Instagram, you will see millions of fitness influencers, on Youtube gamers, travellers ruling over people’s interests. So how will you make yourself stand out from the crowd? You need to specialize your content. 

Let me give you a little personal example; there is a boy on Youtube called Milad Mirg. As a person who loves to watch food making videos I accidentally came across a video. I saw a person making subway sandwiches (seemed yummy), while sharing short stories. Now he answers the questions from the comment section while making appealing foods. Videos are either a few seconds or 1-2 minutes long. He has more than 1.21 Million subscribers. 

All I want to tell you is you don’t necessarily need to stand out to be a successful social media influencer. Just be authentic and engaging with your audience, inspire them while enjoying yourself. Only then will your niche be as plain as nose on your face.

Monetize Your Influence

After finding the best match to your interests, the thing which gives you tremendous satisfaction, another vital part arises from here which is to make money out of it. Nowadays the majority of people claim that influencing is not an actual career, yet the same mass of people want to be one of them. So when you determine about starting your career as an influencer, never let those people discourage you. Major part of the influencers getting paid for promoting brands’ products and services. Sponsorship is the great way to make a big chunk of money. 

In one of our previous blogs we explained why content is the king of influencer marketing. Thereof your content will decide your further partnership for you. The better content, the better partnership algorithm works most of the time. Your relevance as an influencer, reach and engagement rate highlights your distinguished features, but brands possibly will scroll down your social media accounts to make sure the quality of the content you created to make sure your influence is worth to pay.

No matter how detailed you have been taught, the only essential step to achievement comes from experience. Before getting solid results you might wait months or even years, patience and commitments will honour your satisfying outcome. Creating authentic, appealing content and putting consistent effort on your work will drive brands to collaborate with you undoubtedly.  One blog couldn’t be enough to explain the whole concept, so maybe we will meet the other one again.  

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Rumiya Mammadova April 12, 2021
Influencer categoriesInfluencer community

Top Travel Influencers Brands Need to Know About

Since today’s consumers trust social media influencers and their recommendations above anybody else, influencers have become an integral part of many brands’ marketing strategies. Influencer campaigns can drive main metrics like engagement, visibility, number of followers, and increased sales, etc.

Partnerships with travel influencers can help brands reach a wider audience and boost engagement in an authentic and organic way. Travel influencers can persuade others to take action, which depends on what brands want to achieve. By partnering with the right travel influencers, you can get your brand in front of a wide audience. Many hospitality and travel brands know that travelers trust peer recommendations, so  they add travel influencers into their marketing plan.

But how do you find the right person to grow your brand? In this stage, Keepface steps in. Keepface is an automated platform for brands to reach most relevant influencers, communicate with them, and manage campaigns using real-time analytics. 

Keepface influencer marketing software helps you identify, recruit, and negotiate with influencers in one platform. You can find influencers with any audience and engagement rates in the Keepface database with spending less time. Filter influencers by category, country, engagement rate, followers, gender, budget as well as analyze their key metrics to find the best-fitting influencers for your campaigns. You also get an in-depth analysis of influencers’ social profiles, performance data, and audience.  

Searching for a travel influencer on Instagram or elsewhere is time-consuming.  Here we created a list of top travel influencers that can boost brand awareness and reach. You can also find them or other influencers with any audience and engagement rate in the Keepface database if you want any further collaboration.  

Emilie Ristevski

Emilie Ristevski is an Australian photographer & travel influencer and the creative mind behind @helloemilie.  Emilie is a Freelance Travel and Lifestyle photographer for an extensive range of tourism boards, digital publications, and lifestyle clients and has partnered with some of the world’s leading brands, including Adobe, Lonely Planet, Mercedes Benz, and many more. 

Her distinctive style of dream-like imagery has led her to all corners of our planet, from remote villages in South America to Iceland, Namibia, and everywhere in-between. Emilie’s work aims to encourage her audience to seek a deeper connection with nature and themselves, in the hope to discover a new found love for our beautiful planet earth we call home. Helloemilie has 1.3M followers and a 2.3%Engagement Rate on Instagram.

Chelsea Yamase

From free diving over one hundred feet into the ocean’s depths to walking five hundred feet in the air, Chelsea Yamase, aka @chelseakauai, isn’t afraid to go the distance. She is a Hawaii-based influencer and deeply curious human here practicing courage. Known for her bravery in the outdoors, Chelsea has been hiking, diving, surfing, slacklining, and photographing way through 53 countries and counting. And with a million followers and a 5.01% engagement rate on Instagram, it seems that Yamase’s daredevil nature and athletic abilities are capturing the attention of the world. 

Thebucketlistfamily

Meet the Gee family!  They work from all around the world as Family Travel Journalists! Their story began in 2015 when they decided to sell everything and leave home for a journey around the world together. They also started a blog, and with over 2.5M Instagram followers and a 5.67% engagement rate, they now have enough income to support their travel. They say it is a difficult decision to reset our lives and sell everything but they’re grateful every day that we took that chance and were brave. 

Yana Leventseva

@yana_leventseva is an Instagram star and model who is known for also being a travel blogger, photographer, makeup artist. She is known for sharing a variety of her artistic endeavors as well as modeling content with her over 1.1 million Instagram followers, where engagement rate is 2.13%. She first began sharing fitness and modeling related content on her Instagram. She can be seen modeling and representing a variety of different companies on her Instagram including Guess, Vivasan, and Mille Rose Milano. 

Kyle Dempsey

Thanks to travel snapshots and other photography projects, Dempsey’s Instagram account, @KyleFinnDempsey, has more than 565K followers with a 3.48% engagement rate. He is known for whimsical shots featuring rustic cabins, cozy nooks, old vehicles, fall foliage, and campfires. Dempsey said that he tries to create content that transports the viewer into the scene, forgetting their stresses and flooding their minds with hope and happiness.

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Lamiya Babazada November 19, 2020
Influencer categoriesInfluencer marketingKeepstar

5 Steps To Start Your Career As Beauty Influencer

You may possibly have noticed that the beauty topic sits high on the list of people along with health and wellness. And this is not something we can hide that we want to stay looking young and beautiful as well as being healthy. 

We can say that beauty influencers shaped influencer marketing and quickly adapting to the latest influencer marketing trends.

If you are one of the people who saw themselves in the beauty field, more specifically if you want to be the one who will be the inspiration to the people, you are in the right place.

Following these steps, you can start a beauty influencer career from scratch and rock it. Let’s get to work, here are your tips.

Make Your “Content King”

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Nobody expects you to be the genius of makeup or skincare guru from the first time but eventually, you will feel the need of it. If you want your audience to take you seriously you need to know the basic science behind skincare or the different ingredients that affect hair and skin.

How can I make my hair grow faster? How to clean makeup brushes? What should my skincare routine be? How to get rid of undereye circles? How can I make my nails stronger?

All the answers are a click away from you. Spend most of your time on researching then present it to your followers in a glamorous way. However, if you want to take up the limit you may take lessons, beauty conventions and even seminars, they will keep you up to date with the latest trends.  Pay attention to new research and technology in the beauty industry as well.

Being a beauty influencer is not just about looking stylish every time. It’s also about having excellent product and industry knowledge and staying updated with launches, beauty hacks, and latest hair and makeup trends. To become a successful influencer, you need to understand the tricks of marketing and get a grasp of social media platforms.

Choose Your Niche

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We all may agree that beauty is a broad topic and it is merely possible that one person could know every aspect of it. Having an overall knowledge is perfect but it is better to put your efforts into the aspect you are focused on.

You may want to sell some beauty products to earn extra money but if you focus your energy on skincare, haircare, or even narrower topics your audience will see you as the guru in that particular topic.

You need to know that beauty influencers with a niche audience are the ones cosmetic and fashion brands lookout for product promotion.

 

Develop Your Social Media Accounts

 

One of the most important questions is how will you reach your followers? For that question, you need to develop strong social media platforms.

Taking this part seriously is vital because if you want to make money out of it you have to work this as a business. First, sell yourself then sell your products and services.

Don’t limit yourself with Instagram. Spread your wings. You need to make yourself seen, useful, engaged, active, persistent, approachable and available. Your content should reflect your customer’s desires, and ease your conscience. Use your listening skills to give your buyers the content that they ask for.

Making yourself is a brand is a game-changing act. The color you choose, style, content etc. will make people think that you are special.

Make your content engaging and shareable. Encourage your followers to share your helpful tips. Additionally, hashtags will clear the clouds for you, they will help you categorize your posts and the right hashtags can instantly gain you more followers. A lot of beauty companies looking to collaborate with micro-influencers and most of the time they use #discoverunder10k. Imagine how this could help you. 

One more thing, using obvious #beauty,#makeup hashtags may not be helpful anymore. Instead of them, you can use hashtags such as #organic, #instamakeup, #skincarejunkie, #IGskincare. They will help your audience find you based on their specific interest rather than simply scrolling on Instagram.  

Which social media giant you choose doesn’t matter unless you mix up your post with facts, latest trends, product pics etc. Don’t forget the more platforms, the more people. Sharing daily posts, keeping yourself active will make you seem that you’ve committed yourself to this niche and because you take this job seriously, you are the person who deserves to be followed.

Stand Out Instead of Blending in

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There are millions of people out there who claim to be a beauty influencer who had a vision in this sector. Then what makes you different from these people? Why are you special? Then use your brain to get creative, set yourself apart from the competitors. If the idea you want to try is used before then let me remind you a phrase Pablo Picasso stole once “ Amateurs borrow, professionals steal”.

Your uniqueness, relatable and doable tips and tricks, topical and trendy content, engaging and diversified topics, and regular flow of information are the things which distinguish you from the others.

 

Promote Your Brand

 

You may say “Oh Gee, I don’t have a brand”, my dear, you are a brand. Promote yourself religiously.

Don’t sacrifice your dignity for a handful of followers, always stay on people’s good graces. If your audience recognizes you they will recognize everything you do; good, bad, and ugly.

 

Start to Influence Now

 

What time is better than now?  Now you know how to become a beauty influencer so what are you waiting for? Roll up your sleeves and get busy.

 

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Rumiya Mammadova September 22, 2020
Influencer categoriesInfluencer community

10 Different Niche Micro-influencers from MENA

Continuing our micro-influencer lists from different regions. Micro-influencers are an effective medium to set up in a new market and bring back your lost target audience. 

Working with micro-influencers, you can reach different audience groups with the same budget you offer to single macro-influencer. Also, micro-influencers have 22.2 times more conversion rates than celebrities or macro-influencers.

As we talked in our blog, MENA has a distinct marketing ecosystem and consumer behavior from the Western markets.  Entering into MENA as a sole agent may anticlimax your digital marketing strategy and result in loss of dollars. Mega influencers have worldwide recognition and contributions in the establishment of influencer marketing in MENA. With global trends shifting to more engaged and authentic social media users, micro-influencers are gaining power in MENA.
Although mega-influencers turned the long reigned traditional marketing into a world-known influencer market, MENA has 

 

  • Rising investment in influencer marketing,
  • Colorful influencer categories,
  • Influencers with different social media accounts.

So, here is nano list of a different tier of promising MENA micro-influencers to follow and work with:

#1 @layanfitness

 

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Layan is a fitness, food, and travel influencer from UAE with 30K followers. Wherever she goes from desert to beach, she shares her workout routine. Layan thinks that self-confidence comes from balanced mental and physical health, and it reflects in her content as well. Layan always instructs her followers with workout guidelines and inspires them to take a step further. Apart from fitness and nutrition brands, she also collaborated on beauty and care campaigns. 
#2 @nada.ahmed1919

 

Our next influencer is Egypt based actress Nada Ahmed. Her social media content includes lifestyle, entertainment, and parenting. Her Instagram profile is followed by 48K people. Nada also has a YouTube channel where she reached 504K subscribers just in a year. 

 

#3 @lulusaria

Can you imagine a MENA influencer list without a makeup category? No. So, the next influencer is Lulu Saria from Saudia Arabian. As a makeup artist, she posts tutorials from simple to aesthetic Arabic makeup looks. Lulu also shares her tips for skincare and beauty, including products that she uses. 

#4 @sana_mahjoub

 

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Sana is Tunisian based entertainment and fashion influencer with 55K audience. Classic, chic, casual, elegant her style appeals to everyone’s taste. With art, nature, history, food, she has the best example of a real Instagram account. Her colorful profile instantly gives positive vibes the moment you look at her feed. Check her account to understand my overdo.
#5  @alainaboujaoude

 

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Coming to foodies, Alain is a food influencer from Lebanon amassed by 47K Instagram followers. He is a master in eating and cooking. You can find a bit of travel with photography on his Instagram account. Alain is also active on TikTok with an entertaining concept reaching 32K followers. 

 

#6 @tiyatrolist

 

Our next influencer is a stylist from Turkey with 13K followers. Gurkan creates a different range of content on lifestyle, fashion, travel, food categories. As a personal stylist, he tries every style from casual to classic. 

#7 @ahmadadelzoubi

 

The next micro-influencer in our list is Ahmad from Jordan. He creates lifestyle, fashion, travel, music content. Ahmad’s Instagram feed where he reached 31K audience is decorated with his covers for different Western and Arabic songs. 

 

#8 @mymoroccanfood 

 

Continuing on the food category with Moroccan influencer. Nargiz is a chef and author of her cookbook Casablanca. She successfully introduces Moroccan cuisine to the world. With her delicious meal and cookie recipes, she is amassed by 44k Instagram followers. Follow her to find your fav Moroccan food.

#9 @shabnam_rakim

 

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Our next lifestyle influencer is a Bahrain based model, Shabnam. She posts different makeup and outfit looks by adding taste with her captions. Shabnam works with local and global food chains, clothing, accessory brands like Rolex, Rolls Roys, Verge Girl. She also shares her covers of different songs and reached 60K followers.
#10 @daniellaifrach

 

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Now, let’s calm our souls down with yoga. Daniela is an Israel based yoga influencer with 42K followers. You can’t find a single post without an inspirational caption.  Her yoga poses melting into nature will make you start yoga now.  

 

Find It Useful?

 

These were the drops in the rain. If you are thinking about finding the micro-influencers you are in the right place. With more than 20K MENA based micro-influencers, you will reach your target audience while saving your time and money at Keepface.

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Natella Mammadzade August 31, 2020
Influencer categories

6 Types of Influencers are Effective in Pandemic

How would you engage with your community in the middle of crises? Almost every industry is affected by the global pandemic. There is a certain category of influencers who will help you to reach your customers and bring your sales up during the crisis. 

 

With all the cuts in ad spend, the global pandemic turns influencer marketing into a more meaningful form of digital marketing. Influencer marketing is adjusting itself to changes requiring more improvement based content. Followed by the spike in consumer demand for social media content, influencers massively increase their posts. Live streaming gets more popular as it generates more social interaction. They also try new content styles and new platforms. 

 

Let’s see some influencers categories who are shining during the crises and will help your brand to reflect it.

#1 Foodies are busy at the kitchen

 

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Raise your hands if you have cooked something you have never done before the quarantine. We all did. And the biggest inspiration for us was food influencers who are busy with sharing posts about trying something new. 

Also, affected by the closure of restaurants, now people have more time to try homemade recipes. Live streaming is the most popular and rising content type among food influences to educate and enjoy time with their followers. 

Besides, this is a godsent time for food brands to communicate with their consumers and nail their influencer campaigns. There are so many creative ways brands can work with food influencers during the lockdown crisis.

#2 Lockdown is going well for fitness bunnies

There is not a better time to stay healthy and physically active than ever. While the demand for a home workout is increasing digital fitness industry has boomed. Today, fitness videos are one of the most viewed videos on YouTube. Home exercise videos have increased by more than 200 percent in the UK. 

 

Since gym studios were forced to close fitness influencers make home exercise tutorials. They encourage social interaction among followers and help to reduce stress and anxiety during the quarantine. 

#3 Home has the best background 

Although there is no place to try fashion trends of 2020, fashion influencers do not stop creating content with work-from-home outfits. The quarantine also forces fashion gurus to create more creative and purposeful content at home.  They offer a healthy distraction in this nervous situation for those who want to work on their personal styles. Video content is also popular among fashion influencers as they prepare videos while taking ongoing social media challenges.

 

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#4 Tech wizards are upgrading influencer marketing

Tech influencers are taking advantage of crises by actively posting about the latest digital news and innovations. Influencers often share their user experience and recommendations. Usually, these people are industry bloggers, experts who are a genuine source of information and tent to have authenticity and engagements. This is also an opportunity for people to add new skills while getting digitally connected. 

With the rapid digital transformation, the role of tech influencers is becoming more important as consumers value third party advice before making purchase decisions. Considering that many brands continue to digitalize their operations the role of tech wizards will be vital for B2C and B2B business as well.

 

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#5 Lifestyle influencers reshape their content strategies

Lifestyle influencers are tailoring their content to “home edition”. The range of lifestyle content is increasing with lifehacks to combat the crisis, to #workfromhome, house cleaning, the lists of books, must-watch movies, and of course Netflix recommendations. In addition, influencers try and advise different time management tools and apps to manage time at home efficiently. 

 

Along with influencers, many brands increase their social media posts and adjust timings to drive more engagement. A good example was done by P&G’s brand Always. The brand let popular social media influencers take over their Instagram stories for a day and post IGTV videos on the brand’s page. Such activities contribute to better brand-influencers also brand-audience relations.

#6 Hustlers beat crises

Entrepreneurs are another rising influencers category during crises. By posting about their taken steps and future expectations of the business these people are getting more social interaction. Profound knowledge and solid backgrounds allow them to be accepted as a valid source of information. From marketing perspectives, entrepreneurs have more significance in B2B business being the right players for endorsing related products.

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These are influencer groups who pivoted their content and expected to be in favor of brands in crisis. Influencer marketing has never been this important to connect your audience and spread your message. To find more influencers go to Keepface’s Influencer Discovery and get access to one of the largest influencer database. Here’s our step-by-step guide on how to find the right influencers for your brand in seconds. 

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Natella Mammadzade July 10, 2020
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7 Benefits of Working with Micro-influencers

In this day and age, as people are becoming more and more skeptical regarding traditional advertising methods, famous companies or smaller businesses need to reinvent their strategies and find ways to make their self-promotion more authentic. This is where so-called micro-influencers come into play.

A lot of brand names used to prefer working with famous celebrities with a large number of followers, through methods such as product placement, but over time people have become more apprehensive towards this promotion strategy. It seems like the tide is turning, and more and more companies seek for the increasingly numerous benefits of working with smaller influencers.

Difference between micro-influencers and celebrities

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Being an “influencer” has become the newest trend this century. It is a lifestyle many people turn to, and as an Awin study states, “social media influencer” is the second most popular career option for people aged 11 to 16. Anyone can be a social media influencer these days, although people tend to call people with less than 10,000 followers micro-influencers. 

 

These micro-influencers make up the majority of influencers on most digital platforms, and while their number of followers is small, their influence is quite big. In fact, because they have fewer follower bases, these small-time influencers have the tendency to be more engaged with their audience on a daily basis. This cannot happen with people with huge follower bases, as they cannot interact with all of them constantly. 

 

Another thing that sets apart smaller influences and social media celebrities is that the first category tends to be more relevant to a more specific industry. Micro-influencers tend to be experts in niche categories, and their audience is also made up of people interested in that niche. Bigger celebrities will not have followers that are as invested in specific aspects of their brand. 

Why do companies prefer smaller influencers?

1. Cost-effective

micro-influencers-are-cost-effectiveFirst and foremost, many brands nowadays turn to micro-influencers as opposed to celebrities because they are highly cost-effective. Celebrities tend to charge a lot higher fees for their collaborations, which is a lot of the times not worth it for the value of the work they can deliver.

 

Any brand should include micro-influencers in their business strategy, as it will give long term benefits for their budget. The same amount of money they put into a top-tier influencer to promote their products through a single post could be used to pay a larger number of smaller influencers. By doing this, brands have a higher chance to reach a wider audience, a more engaged audience, and thus allowing them to build a genuine fan base. 

2. Scepticism of the public over celebrity promotions

Not so long ago, promotions made by celebrities used to be highly effective. However, in recent years, the culture around celebrities seems to have diminished, as people became more and more skeptical. People nowadays seem to have become aware of the fake aspect of sponsored promotion, and instead prefer promotions based on actual preference. It is proven that once a smaller influencer crosses the line of 1 million followers on social media, most people will brush off their posts as sponsored deals rather than genuine passion.

3. They seem more genuine

authenticity-micro-influencersPeople with only a few thousand followers generally give the impression of being genuine, trustworthy people, as they provide more authentic and relatable content to their audiences. Fans tend to engage more with an influencer if they have a certain aesthetic to their content, if they connect to a more personal level and if their tone is authentic, friendly, and engaging. They can also spread the message a company intends to send in a cleaner, more genuine way. 

 

As they are sharing their personal content, micro-influencers show their appreciation towards their growing community more, and they are highly likely to attend certain events and interact with their followers by replying to their comments or messages. For someone whose posts get around 300 comments every day, it becomes increasingly harder to engage every single person on a personal level.

4. Smaller influencers have more specific content

Micro-influencers tend to have a niche audience, meaning a smaller number of followers, that is more connected to the specific topics the influencers represent. These follower bases will tend to have a lot of people usually engaging in similar content, and part of a similar demographic profile, assets which are really useful for companies looking to promote specific products. 

 

“Smaller influencers often allow companies to target audiences interested in that niche. Not only that, but since the influencers themselves are familiar with that particular niche, they can provide detailed descriptions and recommendations for the products themselves. This makes for a better, more genuine promotion, which really helps in the long, as the relevance of the promoter to the brand is key in any marketing scheme,” explains Adam Kirrian, a social media writer at Assignment Writers and UKWritings.

5. It is easier to find genuine brand fans

micro-influencers-fan-baseWhen a smaller influencer is involved with a niche topic, chances are they may already be fans of the brand a company is trying to promote. This is particularly good for any business because it doesn’t take any time to convince them to help you promote your products. In fact, a lot of the times smaller influencers do promotions by themselves without the companies’ knowledge, so it is worthwhile to find someone who is already promoting the desired product. 

6. They are better to work with

Typically, micro-influencers tend to be more engaging on a personal level, which makes it easier for businesses to establish personal connections to them.  

“A lot of the times, businesses claim that smaller influencers go above and beyond to satisfy the needs of their client, as they show their gratefulness towards the people that notice them and value their work. They also claim that it is easier to contact them and that they tend to be more open to explore the tasks they are given and provide out-of-the-box content,” says Hillary Ian, a blogger at State Of Writing and Oxessays.

7. Great for small businesses and startups

startups-influencer-marketingUnlike big companies, which have bigger budgets and can afford to hire anyone to promote their content, smaller companies have to find cheaper options in order to compete with the big leagues in the market. This is not a problem since small business owners or startups can rely on micro-influencers who closely relate to their brand to work with, on a smaller budget. 

 

This is great for anybody who is just starting up in the business, as it no longer means that only big brands and names compete in the market. In fact, starting with smaller fan bases can be a good thing, as you establish your relevance to the market while building up a reputation among the consumers, without having to spend a lot of money on promotion. 

 

As it seems, there are many benefits to working with smaller influencers rather than people with large follower bases. Nowadays, people are becoming less and less interested in the traditional advertisements, resorting to Adblock software most of the time, so using micro-influencers can become the new, more creative method to reach your target audience, without seeming forced. 

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Beatrix Potter May 18, 2020
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The Rise of Influencer Entrepreneurs and Their Impact on Brands

The increasing number of social media influencers is leading to the emergence of influencers entrepreneurs. Representing different industries, entrepreneurs use social media to boost their business and online presence. Startup founders small business owners use social media to raise brand awareness, grow their customer base, add market value to their brands and personal brands, as well.

 

Instead of using celebrities, or niche related influencers, young entrepreneurs choose to promote their products via their own social media accounts. They act like influencers in the business world. These influencers do not need to create content as usual influencers. Contents they share are generally about business news, updates of their works, entrepreneurs the future of hot topics of business and many more. These people often participate in main events, take the stage in major forums, sometimes, promote and support the other industry brands. You can come across with success and fail stories of the intrepreneur influencers on their profiles, their public speeches. 

 

Let’s look at a few of influencer entrepreneurs that are well-known for their promoting their business.

Neil Patel

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Global marketing expert and entrepreneur Neil Patel. He is the founder of marketing platforms Crazy Egg, Kissmetrics, Hello Bar, Neil Patel Digital which serve as fast decision making, project management, website analytics, SEO, and social media tools for businesses. He also ranked as a top entrepreneur by the Wall Street Journal, Top 10 Marketer by Forbes, Top 100 Entrepreneur under 35 by Obama, and New York bestselling author. Neil uses his social media accounts to share his experience and knowledge about the essentials of digital marketing and to boost his businesses, as well. 

Saygin Yalchin

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German entrepreneur of Turkish descent Saygin Yalchin is the founder of SellAnyCar.com. He is referred to as the online business guru of the Middle East region. His YouTube channel and Instagram account is the balance of entrepreneur and real social media influencer. Saygin uses social media in a smart way which he shares his daily life, entertainments, travels while not avoiding his work life, events he attends, charity works, etc. In one of his interviews, Saygin mentioned that people do not follow brands, they follow people that lead those brands. To him, people shape the face of companies. Business people have to focus on influencer marketing rather than traditional PR campaigns. Social platforms like Instagram is applicable for fast-growing and YouTube is better for real audience and more engagement.

Mari Smith

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Also known as “Queen of Facebook” is Forbes #4 Social Media Influencer, deliver social media and thought-leadership consulting, training on using Facebook as a marketing technique.  She usually makes video tutorials about Facebook updates, optimizing Facebook for small business and Messenger for Business. Mari involved with Facebook from its beta test times. She recommends small business organic traction before paid ads, prioritizing audience engagement.  

Mark Zuckerberg

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Facebook’s founder and CEO often Mark Zuckerberg is always on stages about informing the latest updates of Facebook, changing algorithms. What makes him cool on social media is that he also points out the moral benefits of Facebook, its role in society. Apart from sharing news about Facebook, Zuckerberg often attends different events about his path to success and gives advises to young entrepreneurs.

Satya Nadella

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Satya Nadella has been working for Microsoft for more than twenty years in different positions. He was the first person who saw the acquisition of Nokia, LinkedIn, Web site. His LinkedIn profile allows us to call him the human face of Microsoft on social media. Together with Microsoft news, he discusses different topics including the new application areas of technologies, the impact of Microsoft partnerships such as their recent with a strategic alliance with KPMG on cloud technology, AI, SAP on cloud technology, Humana. Also, Satya pays special attention to empowering women entrepreneurs and creative innovators in parts of the world.

Impact on brands

Influencer marketing starts with brand storytelling. It is important to set values that your brand lays, its goals, and convey them to the relevant audience. Either by business influencers or directly by their founder’s brands need to be spoken online and offline.

Influencer entrepreneurs are the best fit for the B2B environment. Feedback of impressive people in the corporate world means larger-scale sales in comparison to the B2C. A clever way of promoting your brand in influencer marketing is by using your customers as an influencer. Leveraging your existing customers can generate more conversion and sales. A different range of customers also opens doors to a variety of markets.

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Natella Mammadzade January 10, 2020
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Gen Z influencers: Who inspires todays Gen Z

Born between 1995 and 2010, Generation Z is changing the habits of social media usage. Born up to the digital era, Gen Z also called Digital Natives, Net Gen, GenWii, Tech Gen. Tech generation gets information mainly from social platforms, makes friends without seeing each other in real life, open to sharing their life on social media spend most of their time online. They are characterized by their unique style. Their purchasing decision heavily depends on celebrities or social media influencers which make brands shift their marketing strategies. They do not prefer traditional educational systems, instead, they choose to invest in their skills, take relevant courses. According to IBM statistics, 26% of Gen Z work online, while 16% work for themselves. Making money online is more attractive than nine-to-five jobs. 

 

Although statistics show Gen Z spends most of their time online, they do not only surf on social networks but make a difference where they go. Instead of blending in society, Gen Z is enthusiastic about standing up for their beliefs. This generation is political activists, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, and peacemakers. Despite their age, they take big steps to fight for human rights, equality, avoid plastics, are in support of the environment, are earth savers. These kids do not clearly identify their categories instead enjoy the diversities of their world.

Want to know an inspirational Gen Z?

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Azerbaijani student Reyhan Jamalova invented the “rain energy” which designed to harvest rainwater as a source of energy in her 15. Forbes 30 under 30 was the youngest attendee at the 8th Global Entrepreneurship Summit in 2017 and got an estimable mention in Ivanka Trump’s speech. 

 

You probably heard about 16 years old Swedish Greta Thunberg. Environmental activist skipped school for her unbroken beliefs. Starting in 2018, she demanded the Swedish government to decrease emissions by 15%. Thunberg was awarded as Time’s Person of the Year 2019.

 

Former Disney princess Zendeya continues her stage carrier as a singer, dancer, and actress. She also made clothing collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger, is a global ambassador for Lancome. The popularity of the rising star is not only for her talents but also for her activism in different social issues such as gender equality, body positivity, or bullying.

Gen Z reshapes Influencer Marketing

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The consumption power of this group changes brands’ marketing and communication channels. They require brands to be creative, credible and authentic. It is difficult to influence Gen Z with chic promotions. As their older generation, Gen Z is also less likely to be influenced by traditional advertising, what they do in turn, they get information by the people they trust. What works for this group is a blend of traditional and modern marketing technics. 

 

Brands need to set a sophisticated approach. Focus on leveraging influencers for delivering messages instead of selling products. Brand story-telling is via different channels creates more authentic and engaging backlinks rather than stating fancy missions on your website. Cooler way of self-promotion is endorsing Gen Z influencers over your brand story-telling. Tech natives use Instagram for brand discovery, search for product features on YouTube.

 

Value creation is among the core issues Gen Z pays attention to. With 2.6 million followers on Instagram and  6.9 million YouTube subscribers, Orkun Ishitmak is one of the biggest influencers in Turkey. He creates a different range of creative content such as travel vlogs, testing, reaction, informative videos on his social media accounts. Plus to his successful influencer background, every New Year year Orkun organizes charity projects where he buys gifts to homeless and needy people. It is not surprising that global and local brands keen on collaborating with him for their commerce and charity works.

 

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Partnering with real people creates credible feedback for this group. This is why nano and micro-influencers are an alternative way of marketing. They are the best medium for raising awareness of small brands or campaigns. Micro and nano influencers generate greater engagements thus have a high ROI. Long-term partnerships also create authentic and high-selling projects, making Gen Z loyal to brands. When working with Gen Z influencers allow them to create User Generated Content, to present their style, freedom.

 

It is better to collaborate with influencers for online and offline partnerships. Creativity is one of the key ways of reaching out to this group. Go beyond social media platforms. Take Levi’s and Google’s partnership. Brands together launched new lines of “smart denim jackets” which warns wearers if they forget to take their mobile phones. 

 

Although Gen Z has unlike social media habits the rest of the population, however, have different preferences about social media platforms, different interests, say, platforms like TikTok, Twitch, Live.ly are mainly popular among teens, while the older Gen Z favors Instagram and Twitter. 

 

Whether brands have successful Gen Z experience or not, It is important to keep track of the latest trends, improve the quality of their products and promotions, as well. 

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Natella Mammadzade December 29, 2019
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Top 5 Fashion Influencers in the USA you should follow

 

In an ever-growing and competitive fashion industry of the USA, as an influencer, it is hard to set yourself apart and grow your loyal followers. The following list of Top 5 Fashion Influencers in the USA covers those who managed to make a huge impact on dictating the entire direction of the industry.  

Exposure is the name of the game and the power of influencers stands in how deep they go with their followings and the relationship they’ve developed with them. Obviously some of the people we’re going cover in this article have already accumulated a huge audience. So, we sorted out 5 inspirational fashion influencers that we believe will grow a lot in the following years. Our goal is to find up-and-coming bloggers with 10K to 50K followers that blog in the USA. Also, you can see the complete list of fashion influencers by logging in Keepface Influencer Marketing Platform and filtering by country.

 

@ivajorg

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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As a lifelong desert dweller, Ivana Jorgensen is sharing her fashionable life in scenic surrounds of Las Vegas, which is far from huge buildings and neon lights. 

She is sharing her passion for desert-inspired style, fashion, and photography through her blog and a well-curated Instagram account with 35.1K followers. She is a wonderful inspiration for her followers who is fun of colorful outfits. Also one can find the stunning goldish presets she uses in her photos from her blog. We genuinely like everything she does. Her style is dynamic with all of her photos full of colorful, positive vibes. 

@dandyinthebronx

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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IT’S SHOWTIME! ? This Halloween… I’m the ghost with the most, babe. Beetlejuice! I wore this at 34th Annual Bronx Halloween Parade this past weekend. I always try to find an excuse to wear a suit, no matter the occasion ? Huge shoutout to Bronx’s @lissettelissette for providing the make up for this. I’ll have some more detailed shots in the stories. Book her for your next cosplay or special event! / ??? ??? ????? ?? ?? ??? ?? ????!⁣ ????, ???? ??? ?? ????? ????? ?? ? ???⁣ ???? ??? ???’? ??????? ??? ??? ?’?? ?? ? ⁣ —⁣ Makeup by @lissettelissette ⁣ Stripe suit by @spirithalloween ⁣ Shirt by @highbarshirtco ⁣ Boots by @drschollsshoes

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Dandyinthebronx is a menswear blogger with 42.9K followers on Instagram. His devotions to menswear started when he worked as a preschool teacher, continued with diving into various blogs, as well as, social networks learning more about menswear. He is someone more rough around the edge in various styles of suit. He’s got a Hispanic kind of vibes in his tailored outfits that make him look so unique and artistic. 

@hannahdonker

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Coming in the 3rd number, another micro-influencer is a 27-year-old Canadian model Hannah Donker moved and currently lives in New York City.  She has modeled extensively since then, becoming the face of a number of campaigns. She’s got 32.3K followers on her Instagram channel. You’ve probably met her in The Weeknd’s “Secrets” video. You’ll get a lot of cool inspiration from her simplistic and unique look. 

@leonegoddess

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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I’m a firm believer that happiness makes people prettier. It’s a noticeable glow ? PS if you don’t have cleavage, you always have clavicle darling ❤️

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Another US-based micro-influencer on our list is Betty A. Kanu. As of 2019, she has attracted  45.7K followers on her Instagram feed. Betty focuses on fashion and hairstyle tutorials in terms of its fashion sense. She is one of the top Instagram fashion influencers and has worked with many fashion, and styling brands. She stands out with her African style. Bursting with energy, this influencer knows how to get her message across “blossoming is free”.

 

@shedoeshim

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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It’s a vibe ?: @dj.freesmeier || #shedoeshim #mensstyle #lesbianstyle #lesbianfashion #tomboylookbook #tomboystyle #lesbianthattravel #tomboyish #tomboylookbook #womeninmenswear #nonbinary

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Allison Graham as she stated in her blog “found her niche with menswear” and she wants us “to see menswear in a different world”. 

She is as big as the people on this list. She has about 30K followers. She showcases a unique take on classic Brooklyn style on her fast-growing Instagram channel. He has a very focused niche and very-down-to earth style. Allison’s a keen eye for details and creating not just an outfit but a full “head to toe” versatile ensemble. 

 

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Gulnar Ismayil October 29, 2019