Our product experts walk you through the benefits of employee advocacy and how LinkedIn’s platform, Elevate, works. You’ll see LinkedIn Elevate in action and learn how you can use it to increase reach and engagement with your content.
Explore:
-- The benefits of employee advocacy
-- The LinkedIn Elevate platform and how it works
-- Company success stories
Double Your Content Engagement via Employee Advocacy
1. Double Your Content Engagement
via LinkedIn Elevate
Jeff Weiner
Chief Executive Officer
Katie Levinson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
LinkedIn Elevate
Chris Carollo
Senior Enterprise Director
LinkedIn Elevate
2. We’ll cover…
1. Definition of Employee
Advocacy
2. The LinkedIn Elevate Platform
3. LinkedIn Elevate Success
Stories
4. Q&A with Product Experts
3. What is employee advocacy?
Empowering your employees to share content
with their own social networks
Employees build thought leadership and their
professional reputations
Companies extend their reach and engagement, and
connect more authentically with their audiences
4. 90% of brands are already pursuing or have
plans to pursue employee advocacy
Early pilots, testing 38
%
Leadership support for broad-based employee advocacy 26
%
Employee advocacy is strategic, with strategic impact 16
%
Trained employees in just a few departments 11%
No plans 7%
Employees not allowed to advocate 3%
“What best represents the state of employee advocacy at your company?”
5. Companies with a formal program grow faster
than those without one
Firms with formal
employee advocacy
programs grow faster
Other firms
> 20% revenue growth
6. Employee advocacy extends your reach
Your employees have
10x more connections
than your company
has followers
7. Employee advocacy drives higher click through rates
Employees drive 2x higher
click-through rates compared
to company shares of
the same content
8. Employee advocacy also increases engagement with
company content
While on average only 3% of employees share
company-related content, they drive a 30%
increase in the engagement with that company
content
Employee
engagement
Total engagement
Like, click, comment, re-share
14. “
“The support staff at Elevate was another deciding factor.
The account team that we have is fabulous. The level of
personal attention really started us off on the right foot, and
their continued support is a major factor in our success with
the program.”
Elizabeth Jurewicz
Social Enablement Strategist, Rackspace
RESULTS
Employees are sharing 6x
more frequently
Over $1M in annualized earned
media value
6x more views of employees’
profiles
5x more Company Page followers
than before6x
6x 1M
5x
15. “
“We see many social tools that deliver on strategy or tactics –
but not both. Elevate is one of the only platforms we’ve
seen that can blend these roles, giving us the strategic
approach that also changes tactics.”
Katie Barmantje
Senior Specialist, Global Interactive Marketing, Aon
RESULTS
Employees are sharing 2x
more frequently
4x more Company Page views
than before
2x faster network growth on
LinkedIn than before
4x more engagement with content
than before2x
2x 2x
4x
16. “
When employees share content, their network is reminded
that they’re a Visa employee. We’ve seen it really spark
interest in Visa as a brand and potential employer, with
more awareness for Visa on social networks.
Lucas Mast
VP Corporate Social Media, Visa
RESULTS
Employees are sharing 5x
more frequently
Over 1% engagement rate on
employee-shared content
3x more Company Page Views than
before
4x more Company Page followers
than before5x
3x 1%
4x
17. Q&A
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Employee advocacy is quite simple: it’s all about tapping into the vast and highly relevant networks of your employees by making it easy for employees to share content with their social networks
Your employees’ networks are huge -- and full of the prospects and customers you are trying to influence
Even in today’s social media saavy society, not everyone is comfortable sharing
What an employee advocacy program does it make it super easy/turnkey
Employee advocacy has dual benefits
For employees, it positions them as thought leaders and builds their professional reputations
Companies are able to expand the reach and engagement with their content by tapping into their employees’ networks
And not only that, the content lands in a more authentic way, since it’s coming from a trusted source in an audience’s network - someone they are personally connected to
The secret of empowering employees to share content is out - an Altimeter survey from the first quarter of 2016 found that about 90% of brands are already pursuing or are have plans to pursue a formal employee advocacy program
And there are many reasons why that’s so
1st, companies with formal programs are twice as likely to be high growth firms - meaning greater than 20% revenue growth year over year - than those who don’t have a formal program in place
Part of that 20% revenue growth stems from the fact that employee advocacy naturally extends the reach of your content - and thus awareness for your company, brand and products
On average, employees have about 10x the connections than a company has followers
And these connections have personal, trusted relationships with your employees who are sharing content
Which brings us to engagement - your audience is generally more interested in reading what their friends and colleagues have to say more than they’re interested in what your brand has to say
Our LinkedIn data has found that employees drive double the click-through-rate with content they share versus that exact same content when it’s shared by a company
This makes intuitive sense -- you're much more likely to click on something your friend or colleague posts than something a company posts
We know from our analysis of the LI network that only about 3% of employees share company-related content today
That can be because it’s difficult for them to find relevant company content to share, or because they just don’t know what is and isn’t okay to post to their networks
Whatever the reasons, there are huge benefits to activating more employees on social media
Those 3% of employees drive a 30% increase in engagement with that company content
Just imagine the impact of getting 6% or 9% of employees sharing - you could see a 90% lift in engagement!