My take …
1. It’s all about the situation, the context, and the bloggers/influencers.
2. It’s most often, although not always, more about the content than the “influence.”
3. Everyone influences someone, so empower your customers, potential customers, and especially employees personal influence.
Related: Take Back Branded Content Outsourcing and Dependency
4. Most of what the marketing community refers to as “influence” is simply media. You are buying media impressions (hopefully contextual and/or interesting ones) so measure and invest in them that way.
#FollowThePath #RonR … #NoLetUp !
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