Influencer Partnerships

While at Hotel G I worked with a lot of talented travel bloggers/influencers. I arranged partnerships with a wide range of influencers- everyone from up-and-comers (<10k followers) to the big fish (more than 2 million). I became an expert at:

Setting up Instagram “takeovers”
Negotiating deliverables (# of pictures/# of mentions on social media, etc)
Communicating our brand style to guide content creation

Since these kinds of tactics were fairly new to us, I made sure to communicate some best practices to everyone to make sure that we got the most out of these partnerships. I sent out a lot of emails with screenshots like this:

Aspyn Ovard (@aspynovard)

One of my favorite success stories was when we hosted a video blogger named Aspyn Ovard (1.3 million followers). I recognized that this was a great opportunity for us- both because of her sizable follower base as well as her sky-high engagement rate (over 10%), so I made sure to specifically request that she include a call to action for her followers to check out our Instagram account with her post. I made sure to re-post her picture on our account so that her followers would see a familiar face when they clicked over. Not only was it our most liked post ever, but we also gained over 300 followers during the next two days.