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Welcome to Negronis with Nord. Today’s episode is about how influencers can be more proactive with holiday sponsored post planning and key things to keep in mind. You can submit your questions for future episodes here.
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James: Welcome to Negronis with Nord episode number 28. You'll notice that I'm not in a suit. It is true once again. I've got the hard cast now, which does not fit through a suit jacket. So I am having to rethink my entire wardrobe. I am getting surgery next week, so I actually probably won't do an episode next week. I'm getting a screw in my wrist in a week. Ultimately I did get multiple opinions and everyone said, don't be an idiot. Go get surgery. So look, we could have a whole episode on taking control of your health.
Am I gonna get my cast signed? No, I don't think so. As I say, you don't put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari. Uh so no, I'm not gonna be getting my cast signed. Apparently. It will heal faster and will get me into a suit a month earlier than if I just left the cast on and hoped for the best, but I've worked out with the doctor that I can get a new cast once or twice a week, so I can continue to work out, but just go back once or twice a week and get new cast. So if I did get something signed, it would be very very temporary, but no, nobody will be signing my cast take control of your health. Do not ignore it. My goal in being old is that I have told all of my friends that I'm gonna outlive them. I actually just literally had this conversation with my CFO, even with my less healthy lifestyle that I was bound to determine, to win the final competition with my group of friends, which is being at their funeral and outliving them. So let's move on to the holiday season. Let's talk about holidays real quick. It is going to be quick because once again, my life is being ruined by HVAC and it is like 87 degrees in this office.
James: Holiday season is incredibly important for brands. A lot of brands have over half of their sales happen in the last two and a half months of the year. It is absolutely make or break brands are incredibly focused on holidays. It's something they've been planning already for months as an influencer. It is worth starting now to think about your holiday schedule. Think about what you want to do. And there's just a couple of things I want to lay out before you jump in one.
I think that you should kind of map out the rest of the year and think about the number of sponsored posts you want to do. Generally during the holidays, you're gonna be oversubscribed. There's going to be more opportunities than you are willing or able to support. It's good to pick a percentage or a number of sponsored posts that you want to do or what your max is. I think the biggest mistake we can make in the holidays when there's all these brand deals coming at us and when budgets are generally higher and when prices are higher to say yes, to say yes, to like get that bag to do one more deal.
The problem is often, especially in the holiday season, we forget our followers and we start to focus on optimizing for making the most money possible and not optimizing for delivering the best content possible for our audience. And if you go wild with sponsored posts, you know, you're doing four, five sponsored posts a week. It's a real place where you can lose trust with your audience and given where attention and viewership are right now on TikTok and Instagram, you do not want to risk starting to lose that audience and like flipping that algorithm off of you a little bit. And like having that viewership fall even further.
James: Good to think now about:
Understand that a lot of influencers do raise their prices during the holidays. I think that makes sense. There's increased demand, increased demand means restricted or similar supply means prices need to go up. I think everyone understands that. So your prices can be a little bit higher, but you wanna focus on maybe more posts for less brands so that you don't overload your feed with sponsored posts.
James: I think another thing to think about is like, look at, obviously look at the year, go back. Every, every client that you worked with that you enjoyed working with products that you love. That should be your first email. When you see this video, right. Go back. And if you haven't heard from them in two months, hit them up. Hey, what are you doing for holiday? I'm starting to lay out my schedule. I loved working with you all back in March. I would love to do something for the holiday, much better to retain a client much easier to retain a client much better for your audience to talk about a brand that you are already talked about and said that you love. So let's start by going with all the brands that you've worked with, who you're not currently talking to, or don't currently have a holiday deal booked with email, all of them that you wanna work with. Maybe some of them are toxic and you hate them, or the product sucked or your audience. Didn't like it don't work with them. So the ones you enjoyed, the products that you like, email all of them, try and set up calls, or just say, you know what if they have holiday plans and that you'd love to be involved, right? It's just super important to stay top of mind. Then you can go to your feed and, and maybe look at the brands that you haven't worked with, but you've talked about a lot and reach out to them.
James: There's actually a feature on Fohr. If you go to search content, you can search for any brand name or handle or word, and it will pull up every time that you have mentioned them. If you've got your business account connected, it'll pull your stories in. If you don't, it'll just pull your in feeds in and it can export into a shareable report.
If you talked about LaCroix 10 times throughout the year, you can go to search content on your four profile type in LaCroix. It'll say 10 posts for 1.5 million impressions at two point percent engagement rate and have all the posts there. It will give you a link. You can send that to LaCroix and say, Hey, a huge fan of the brand. I've talked about you a bunch this year. As you go into the holiday season, I just wanted to throw this out there and say that, you know, you'd be a dream brand to work with. And if you have plans to work with influencers, I'd love to be considered love to talk to you more. Let me know if you have time in the coming week, brands love that.
It shows that you're already invested. You're already a customer you're already talking about them. That should take at least 70% of your available sponsored content. Ideally would be brands that you have worked with this year already, or brands that you have organically talked about that you're trying to get sponsored posts to happen. Okay? Now you've got the 30%. You've got like brands that are gonna come in. First time brands that you haven't worked with, obviously you gotta leave room for that. If you're super conscious of that sponsored post percentage, you might want to leave to in November, to, in December open for sponsored posts and increase the price even more, right? So if you usually charged $2,000, you might say a brand is gonna come to me mid-November and want a post in early December. I just know it's going to happen in my head. I'm charging 3,500 for that because it's gonna be last minute. That's defensible. They're coming in late. You're already kind of almost topped out on your sponsored posts.
But all that to say, you should be more strategic. Don't just let the holidays happen to you. Don't just sit back and hope that brands reach out and that your calendar gets filled up. You have a whole year of work, a whole year of brands. You've talked about a whole year of partnerships that you've done, and now is the time to look back on that year and talk about your favorite products and work with the brands that you actually enjoy working with. And again, this is gonna be better for your audience.
Anyway, it is weird to be here, sweating profusely in my cast, talking to you about holiday, but I will tell you for brands, they're already months into planning. Get in front of it. Now, figure out what you want to do, Don intentional about it. Don't let it happen to you.
Feel free to drop us some more questions. If you have any, we can touch on this. Again. Holiday is super important. We are happy to talk about it again. We also have a holiday report coming out for brands in the next couple of weeks. So keep an eye out on our Instagram for that. That's gonna be data from influencers, from brands, trends, best practices that we're seeing across the industry. Again, like subscribe, send us questions and we'll see you next week. Cheers.
Cheers, and thanks for watching.
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