How active social media fans impact brands

According to Wildfire active social media fans - those who share and advocate for their favorite brands - generate about 14 earn media impressions, each. That means for each active social media fan, 14 additional consumers may learn about a campaign, brand or product. Brand advocates, in particular, are becoming more important for brands. The Wildfire metrics indicate Brand Advocates bring in 1.3 new people to the brand.

The underlying theme of the report is that brands need to do more to get engaged fans to social media campaigns so that those campaigns will be shared - again and again.

"This data clearly shows that brands need to be focused on nurturing their most active fans, particularly their brand advocates," said Victoria Ransom, Wildfire CEO and Founder. "Brands should give users a variety of ways to engage with them - and several options for what to do when they get there - to increase time spent on the page as well as return activity."

In other words, Ransom suggests, brands need to ask for what they want. If Brand A wants to increase the number of 'likes' on a bran page - ask visitors to like the page. If, on the other hand, Brand A wants to increase the number of video views, ask visitors to watch the clip.

Wildfire will host a webinar on the subject Wednesday, August 8 beginning at 1pm ET.

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