How to Run an Effective Social Media Employee Advocacy Program
How to Run an Effective Social Media Employee Advocacy Program Here are the 10 steps I've used to implement and run an employee-driven, post-boosting program, which you can start doing today. 1. Announced that you are looking for all team members to promote posts on their personal social media accounts - Facebook, LinkedIn, beBee, Twitter and Instagram -- on a regular basis. 2. There should be an email sent to All@YourCompany.com with an explanation of what employee advocacy is, why it is done and what will be accomplished for the company. 3. Ask everyone to follow and like all of your YourCompany pages on Facebook, LinkedIn, beBee, Twitter and Instagram from their personal social media pages. 4.There needs to be a social leader in the company. It works best if it’s the owner, president or stakeholder. He or she will lead the charge on the personal posting side. 5. All participating members need to connect with the social leader. It's ok if someone is not on every social platform. Let them participate where they can. 6. The social leader then creates a post on their personal social media accounts. Use all the social networks if it makes sense for the post’s content. The post needs to be interesting and engaging and include no direct selling. 7. Send an email to All@YourCompany.com with all of the links to the leader’s posts asking everyone to share on their accounts with a personal comment added that relates to their friends, fans or followers. 8. When you start this advocacy program, do one post per week until your staff gets use to it. Then do up to three per week, but that is the maximum you should do. 9. To jump start the program, give everyone who follows No. 2, No. 3, No. 5 and No. 7 a $20 giftcard or something similar. 10. Create contests, and publicly hand out prizes. The top employees with the most engagement, receives a money prize, day off or something intriguing.
