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Mar 15, 2016 Sarah Goodall

19 Employee Advocacy Tools Worth Checking Out

"Did I miss the whole "Employee Advocacy" thing?  It seems to have just...appeared"Last week I had 3 separate conversations about the sudden emergence of employee advocacy and how this new phenomenon is starting to blast its way onto the scene in 2016. With it comes questions and often confusion.

What employee advocacy tools are available?  

How are they different?  When is the right time to buy a tool?  Do I really need a tool?  Does it serve my specific requirements?

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What makes it especially tricky is that advocacy is often driven by different functions within different business e.g. Internal Communications, Marketing, Sales or even HR

If you’ve heard the concept of social selling you are already experiencing employee advocacy...just the sales focused version of it.

Employee advocacy is way bigger than Social Selling

I’ve always believed and championed that every employee has the potential to influence a sale no matter where they sit in the organisation.

The receptionist that greets your customer, the marketing executive that manages your customers event registration, the telephone operator who will direct your customers call - everyone influences the customer experience and has the ability to connect people.

A true social business will recognize the customer experience value that comes with enabling the entire workforce to build their professional brands online, provide content guidance and support them in creating content if they wish to do so.

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Look who's talking about Employee Advocacy Tools

Most of the folks out there leading the Employee Advocacy message are the companies that offer the tools to help the whole process run smoother.  They do this by making it easy for employees to share pre-approved content to their social networks.

This is great for the employer because they get to maintain some control through a centrally administered content distribution system as well as all the analytics behind it.

Great for employee because they can step into content sharing without any fear of sharing something that is potentially damaging for them or their employer.

But remember that starting the tool is just part of the solution - not the only solution!

19 Employee Advocacy Tools

This is my first post in a mini-series about employee advocacy tools and I'm starting with the basics and answering the first question at the start - what tools are available?

In this post I'll list the tools that are out there to help you understand the options available. The second post will explore the features I love about some of these tools. The final post will suggest some questions you should ask before buying.

So what's available?

Here’s a list of Employee Advocacy Tools I’ve collated so far in alphabetical order…

  1. Bambu by SproutSocial
  2. Dynamic Signal VoiceStorm
  3. Everyone Social
  4. Falcon
  5. GaggleAmp
  6. Grapevine6 Publish
  7. Hootsuite Amplify
  8. Influitive
  9. LinkedIn Elevate
  10. Peoplelinx
  11. PostBeyond
  12. SMARP
  13. SoAmpli
  14. Sociabble
  15. Socialook
  16. Social Chorus
  17. Sprinklr
  18. TrapIt
  19. Tremolo

Go check them out.  Most will offer a demo.  For in-depth analysis on these tools (and more) it's worth checking out this post (Buyer Guide:  Social Employee Advocacy Software) from Chris Boudreaux as he explores different insights that may impact the purchasing decision.

All have their merits - some are new to the market, others have been established for many years.  Some are more suitable to enterprise budgets and others more to SME budgets.

To my knowledge all operate in the cloud and/or via mobile apps so no hefty investments or programming skills needed.

Intuitive design and cloud technology make these purchases scalable, flexible and relatively quick and easy to implement.

The choice of tool will depend on your requirements, the stage you're at and of course the budget you have available.

If you're in the middle of a project or looking to start an employee advocacy project in 2016, let me know how you're getting on and if there's  a topic you'd like me to cover then feel free to suggest it in the comments below.

 

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Published by Sarah Goodall March 15, 2016
Sarah Goodall