Welcome to the Influencer Podcast.

Each week Julie Solomon, a marketing strategist and New York Times best-selling publicist,

takes you behind the scenes with successful influencers, bloggers and industry elites in conversation to share how they engage,

persuade and grow their unique influence.

Her mission is to share exclusive insider tips, wisdom, and action-based tools to help you strengthen, monetize, and

build your own industry-leading influence.

Welcome to episode 3 of Influencer Insights.

If you've missed our first couple of episodes, first of all, welcome.

For a quick refresh, as a way to compliment the regular Influencer podcast, I wanted to create something

for those of you seeking a way to easily consume a tidbit of value, even if you've only got five minutes in your day.

Enter the Influencer Insights in this very episode you're listening to.

Now, Influencer Insights is very conversational. very barking in the background. That is okay. I promise you the quality that you're

getting and the information that you're getting is still top-notch, but I want to

just for this to be more of a real conversation between you and I. So if you hear

those little quips, thank you for

understanding and thank you for listening. So far we've covered the

evolving relationship between brands and influencers and the campaigns that

follow or at least last week we took on the fake

follower epidemic head on. Both really really insightful shows so make sure to go

back and listen to episode one and two if you miss them. Now I don't know

about you but there are a few influencers that I've kept my eye on over the

years and I got to be honest I have like major girl crushes on. Whether the way they've built a business from

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