User Generated content can be created by the brand or anyone outside it due to its creative nature. UGC primarily focuses on services, products, biggest fans, events and even employees.
UGC helps create an authentic picture or view of your brand and drives the conversation about your products or services. It’s a tried and tested campaign strategy that has helped improve brand recommendations and sales in general.
This is to level up your approach to improve your trust score and instil hope in consumers and partners. Also, help your brand to be the most-talked-about brand in a specific industry or field.
However, it’s a cost-effective way to scale up your marketing strategy and grow amidst solid competition from other industry players. This drives awareness, increases conversation and expands the reach, and it’s also cost-effective to grow your business.
Forward, you don’t need influencers to do this, the reason it’s cost-effective. The brand can engage its customers to write reviews and tell their stories about a product or service. This will give a clear view of how your customers have accepted your products and services.
Post the reviews, whether in writing, high-quality pictures or videos on your brand socials and don’t forget to give them credit. Let them feel their efforts have been recognised and well appreciated.
In the future, we will encourage brands to engage the services of UGC content creators to build a well-strategised marketing and content creation plan that will help project their brands on and off social media.
Don’t forget no one tells your story better than yourself and those you work closely with.
- Adjei Boakye
GCBM Contributor