In this week's episode Blogist's Co-Founder Julian sits down with listeners in our second ever social media insights episode to talk about building authentic relationships with brands in order to develop new revenue streams. In the second-to-last episode of the first season of the Blogist podcast you'll learn best practices and tried and true ways our clients have been successful in building real brand relationships and making money from these relationships. We talk about how influencers with both small and large audiences can be less dependent on businesses reaching out to them and giving tips on how to be more proactive about making yourself money as well as making relationships that last.

If you are creator and want help in any phase growing and monetizing your online channels enter your email at blogist.co/influencer.html

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Pinterest is a social media channel that many people have, but don't necessarily know how to use strategically. If you're an influencer or a social media manager, this podcast episode is for you. In this week's episode, we sit down with Alexa Webb, the Founder of the blog https://www.alexawebb.com/. With over 127,000 followers on Pinterest and 16M monthly views on her pins, Alexa Webb has built a very successful business on Pinterest using affiliate links. In this episode Alexa shares her tips for making the perfect pin, how to even begin your Pinterest account whether you are a brand or influencer, and the best affiliate marketing services to use if you want to monetize your blog and Pinterest accounts.

To learn more about Alexa, follow her on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/alexandrawebb/

If you are creator and want help in any phase growing and monetizing your online channels enter your email at blogist.co/influencer.html

If you are a social media/digital marketer and want to learn more about how we can help your social media and influencer strategy visit blogist.co/brand.html

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How do you measure the success of an influencer campaign? Should I pitch brands if I'm an influencer, coach or entrepreneur? These are all topics that we dig into during our conversation with Beth Teague, the Head of Social Media at Hotel Tonight. In this episode, we discuss some of the notable digital influencer campaigns that Hotel Tonight has lead, why influencers should always pitch brands, and why you should start organically adding more travel content into your content strategy if you want to build partnerships with hotel and travel companies. We'll talk about a campaign that Hotel Tonight did with Lydia Hudgens, and why Beth thinks it's so important that brands and influencers build long term relationships.

To learn more about Hotel Tonight, follow them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoteltonight/

If you are creator and want help in any phase growing and monetizing your online channels enter your email at blogist.co/influencer.html

If you are a social media/digital marketer and want to learn more about how we can help your social media and influencer strategy visit blogist.co/brand.html

Follow Blogist on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blogist.co/

In our first ever social media insights episode, we sit down to talk about some of the most asked questions that we hear from brands and influencers when it comes to growing your online community, how to find more value in influencer partnerships from both the brand and influencer side and so much more. We'll review what to do if your engagement rate goes down, why you should focus on direct messaging your followers and at the end of the episode we'll talk about the free social media audit we will do for one listener during our next episode.

If you are creator and want help in any phase growing and monetizing your online channels enter your email at blogist.co/influencer.html

If you are a social media/digital marketer and want to learn more about how we can help your social media and influencer strategy visit blogist.co/brand.html

Follow Blogist on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blogist.co/

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Stylist and Blogger Liz Teich of @TheNewYorkStylist to talk about developing authentic storylines that your community will feel drawn to, how to find your niche online and why one off sponsored posts feel extremely inauthentic. We’ll talk about how Liz’s content changed once she became a mom, and why consistently talking about specific storylines has enabled her to connect with her community in a meaningful way. At the end of the episode Liz highlights why focusing on building a brand first is the most important thing that you can do, and we’ll talk about some of the most successful brand collaborations she has done to date and how she got them.

Liz’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenewyorkstylist

Liz's Blog: https://thenewyorkstylist.com

Brand partnerships we mention: Rent the Runway, & Other Stories and Youth Corridor

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In this week’s episode, Blogist Co-Founder Julian connects with beauty and lifestyle blogger @GlamByRuna to chat about how social media has helped her spread a message of self love and body positivity while also giving her a platform to share engaging and innovative beauty content. The two also share tips on building authentic and symbiotic brand partnerships.

Runa’s Instagram: glambyruna

Runa's YouTube Channel: GLAMBYRUNA

In this week's episode, Blogist's Co-Founder Julian sits down with lifestyle blogger, content creator and model @CaralynMirand. You’ll hear Caralyn talk about being an entrepreneur, collaborating with like minded people and get some insider tips on growing your online community in an effective way. She talks about how valuable it is to just be yourself online, finding your space on the internet and why building trust is the most important thing you can do with your followers. She mentions @KCYouThere, using Instagram presets, RewardStyle, UnUm and Adobe Lightroom.

In this week's episode, Blogist's Co-Founder Julian sits down with model and influencer Maxey Greene to talk about quitting the 9-5, chasing your dreams, the realities of being a freelancer and acknowledging your successes. You'll learn how Maxey used Instagram to push her career even further when she realized that she was living out her dream career, and when you should ask for help from those around you. She mentions @NicoleLebris & @Danielkrieger

In this week's episode Blogist's Co-Founder Julian sits down with listeners to talk about Blogist and where we think influencer marketing is going as we enter 2019. You'll get to learn more about how Blogist can support both brands and influencers, and at the end of the episode Julian shares a special promotional offer for all influencers who are interested in signing up for Blogist. We talk about the rise of influencer marketing with beauty vloggers like @DesiPerkins and we talk about our next episode with model and digital influencer @MaxeyGreene.