Pay per post: influencer marketing’s answer to the one-night stand

If your influencer strategy consists of one-time posts with unvetted accounts, then it’s inevitably going to fail, writes Social Soup’s Sharyn Smith.

The federal government’s recent ‘influencergate’, where some unfortunate choices of influencers blew up in the mainstream media again highlights the need again for clients to think longer term with their influencer work.

Put simply, ‘pay-per-post’ models are influencer marketing’s answer to a one-night stand: gratifying in the short term, but if you are not selecting your partners carefully and thinking long term you could be jumping into bed with the wrong people and damaging your reputation.

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