An award-winning entrepreneur, speaker and investor, leading a company of 120+ like-minded individuals who are quickly disrupting the ever-changing social sphere.
This is Steven Bartlett, the 24 years old CEO and co-founder of Social Chain, one of the world top social first marketing agencies.
Among the 170+ speakers from iCEE.fest 2017, Steven’s presentation was full of great insights for both marketers, publishers, influencers and brands as well.
“#1 lesson about marketing: never fall into the dangerous trap of thinking that anybody cares about you, as much as you care about you” Steven Bartlett
The road to success
In his speech, Steven talked openly about his first attempts into entering in the digital industry.
Wallpark was his primary project but, in his own words, “I worked in a wrong direction, I just had to put the brands on social media, where the attention of the public is“.
The road from flyers and posters to what Social Chain represents today hasn’t been deprived of hard moments and thoughts of giving up.
Even so, in just 2 years, Steven has created a company which can create social media campaigns that can be reached by over 300 million people.
Working with micro-influencers
Micro-influencers are at the base of the Social Chain’s campaigns. And here’s why:
- Ability to hit small niches
- Authenticity/ Improved conversion
- More cost effective
- Make people feel something, either way
“Once you have their attention, you’re going to need to rely on that retained audiences’ engagement, to share the stream, bringing new audiences in” Steven Bartlett
The most important part: how does the money come? What Social Chain is doing so differently but also so well, even if their average age in the company is just 21 years old?
Well, for that answer you’ll just have to watch the full presentation, available in iCEE. academy: How to beak the internet, by Steven Bartlett.
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