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What is a Brand Ambassador and How Can They Improve Your Bottom Line?

Brand recognition helps companies connect with customers and boost revenue. Increasing brand awareness, such as by hiring brand ambassadors, attracts more customers. However, the role of a brand ambassador is often unclear. Here’s what they do and how they can enhance your company’s success.

Amanda Kolinksky

Published On:

July 23, 2024
August 29, 2024

Updated On:

November 11, 2024
August 29, 2024

Table of Content

  • What is a brand ambassador?
  • What they do
  • The bottom line
  • The key to success: An ambassador strategy
  • Further Reading on the Attack Marketing Blog

Brand recognition is a big part of how your company connects with customers and generates revenue. As you increase the range and level of your company’s brand recognition, your company will also attract more customers.

Raising your brand awareness can be done in several ways, including hiring brand ambassadors. However, many people are confused about what a brand ambassador actually is.


Here is a look at what brand ambassadors do and how they can make your company more successful.

What is a brand ambassador?

A brand ambassador (or influencer) is someone that represents your brand to the public. For example, have you ever seen individuals in company-branded clothes giving out samples or talking about a company’s products?

Those people are brand ambassadors. Their jobs are to make consumers more aware of a company’s products so that they will be more likely to interact with that company and buy products. In most cases, brand ambassadors work either for the company they represent or for the marketing firm hired to improve the company’s brand awareness.

What they do

Brand ambassadors have several specific jobs. The most prominent one is to raise brand awareness through interactions with the public. This is done by going out to places with company products and getting people on the street to engage with the company; the more engagement they can generate, the better.

However, their second job is to create a positive presence in an area——the more customers see a product or company branding, the more they will connect with it and remember it when they go to make a purchase.

The bottom line

Brand ambassadors are a part of your company’s marketing and sales strategies. Your company needs a way of interacting directly with customers. It is often the best way to generate sales.

However, many people do not want to be sold to, so the brand ambassadors work to be seen as the representatives of your company without hard selling. They humanize the company by connecting people with other people instead of passive advertising with people.

When brand ambassadors create positive experiences for potential customers, it raises their perception of the company and its products. People are more likely to buy from a company with whom they have a strong relationship. This often translates into higher sales numbers and customer loyalty.

The key to success: An ambassador strategy

If you want to maximize the value of your brand ambassadors, then your company needs to have an effective strategy that defines how you will work with ambassadors to grow brand awareness.

You should begin by building a team of ambassadors that work for the company as well as recruit high-value customers that are willing to promote your products. Then, try to position them in places where you can see the most returns. Do this by defining your target audience and finding the places that they spend the most free time.

Finally, find ways of helping the ambassadors provide more value. This can be done by providing special offers that customers can only get through the ambassadors, as well as a variety of other methods. This will ensure the brand ambassadors have the tools they need to cultivate brand awareness in nearly every interaction they have.

Working with brand ambassadors can be an effective way to improve your company’s brand awareness. Finding the right team can be challenging, which is why you should work with a skilled experiential marketing firm that also recruits the best staff for marketing events. That way, you’ll have a full team of experts to help you spread your company’s brand wherever you need to.

Meta - Brand awareness is crucial to maintaining or growing sales. Here’s how brand ambassadors can help you improve your bottom line.

Further reading on the Attack Marketing blog:

Amanda Kolinksky

10+ years
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About the author

Amanda has worked in Experiential for the last 10+ years. At Attack!, she oversees national accounts and client services. Her attention to detail, personalized approach, and analytical skills, complemented by her degrees in Journalism, Public Relations, and Law, have been crucial in driving success for clients and Attack!

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Amanda Kolinksky

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