Effekter av influencer marketing : ur ett företagsperspektiv

Sammanfattning: Developments in the digital world have created a significant increase in the use of social media platforms. Being connected to social media is a part of most individuals lives. This is allowing companies to use social media platforms for their marketing purposes. One very common thing is to use influencers as a marketing tool to reach out to a wider audience of customers. This strategy is called influencer marketing. The questions answered in this study shows how companies can work to achieve their goals by using influencer marketing. The study has been based on a qualitative method to be able to analyze patterns, connections, and similarities between obtained empirics and theory. Empirics has been collected through written conversations and consists of three respondents, all with different experiences of influencer marketing. Above all, the results show that transparent and active work is essential to have positive effects on influencer marketing. It is also evident that some marketing literature does not match the collected empirics. Based on this, the study contributes to an enlarged understanding of the importance of the company's working method in influencer marketing while explaining how a company can work to accomplish positive effects of influencer marketing.