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The Employee Advocacy Playbook

The Employee Advocacy Playbook

Corporate accounts feel fake - here’s how your employees can keep it real.

Tom Snyder
June 12, 2025

Howdy, marketer!

Every brand wants to be “authentic” on social media. But you can’t manufacture authenticity in a boardroom.

You already have it—your employees. Real people. Real opinions. And smart brands are turning that into marketing gold.

Remember LinkedIn’s old Employee Advocacy tool? That’s evolving:

So what does employee advocacy look like in 2025?

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What Employee Advocacy Actually Is

It’s when your team shares company content on their personal socials—not because they have to, but because they want to.

It’s the difference between:

“Our amazing team delivered incredible results! #blessed #teamwork”
and
“Stayed up until 2am fixing a bug and stoked we cracked it.”

Real always beats polished.

Most brand accounts sound like they were written by legal.
Three-week approval cycles. No personality. Zero engagement.

Meanwhile, your designer posts a behind-the-scenes shot and lands actual leads.

Why?
People trust people, not logos.
Employee-shared content gets 8x more engagement than brand posts. They can be real. Funny. Honest. Imperfect. Human.

How to Build Your Employee Army (Without Being Weird)

Start small. Find the people who already post about work.

Make it easy:
• Share a content library (no pressure)
• Offer suggested copy – but encourage edits
• Avoid copy-paste spam posts
• Teach the basics (captions, timing, what works)
• Share content worth sharing: insights, wins, behind-the-scenes

And please, don’t track every metric or send guilt-trip reports. That’s how you kill enthusiasm.

Common Mistakes That Kill Programs

• Making it feel like work (mandatory quotas = death)
• Boring, corporate content (if you wouldn’t post it, don’t expect others to)
• Over-policing (trust your people. No one’s asking for chaos)
• Leaving advocates hanging (support them if things go sideways)

Getting Started Tomorrow

• Find 5–10 active, willing employees
• Share 2–3 great pieces of content per week
• Use Slack or Teams to coordinate
• Focus on engagement quality, not vanity metrics
• Commit to a 3-month test window

Employee advocacy isn’t viral – it’s a slow, trust-building burn.

Wrap-Up

Here’s the truth:
Employee advocacy only works if your company is worth advocating for.

If your culture sucks or your product’s just okay, no amount of strategy will save you.

But if your team believes in what you're building, they’ll want to share it.

That’s the stuff you can’t fake.
And in a world of algorithm-chasing and AI-generated everything, authenticity is your biggest advantage.

Start there.
The rest is just tactics.

✌️,

Tom from Marketer Gems