Amra and Elma Beganovich spotted many of these trends early on, and in 2012 they created a digital marketing agency to leverage the latest digital trends and technologies to optimize the branding strategies of mega-companies as well as start-ups.
The competitive advantage of Amra & Elma LLC stems from the unusual combination of talents of the two sisters. They boast an impressive set of academic and professional credentials: Amra has a B.A. in Economics and an MBA, and has consulted for major international financial institutions including the World Bank; Elma has a J.D. and a Masters of Law, to which she has added solid programming skills. Not the backgrounds you instinctively associate with major digital influencers. And yet…
MrBeast ‘cracked the code’ on social media influencing: Elma Beganovich
Amra & Elma LLC founder Elma Beganovich reacts to social media influencer MrBeast rejecting Elon’s Musk’s invitation to post on X.
Co-founders Amra Beganovich and Elma Beganovich join Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq’s #TradeTalks to discuss how start-ups can take advantage of booming social media activity and thrive amidst #COVID19.
Elma Beganovich, an influencer with 700,000 Instagram followers who has capitalized on her social know-how to set up a marketing company, told CNN that online stars must stick to a crucial rule: “You can’t be tone deaf.
“Springing champagne at the pool at some exotic resort … that’s just not going to be socially acceptable,” Beganovich told CNN. “It’s become distasteful to say, look how ostentatious I am, when you know so many people have lost jobs or they have their loved ones hospitalized.”
Beganovich’s company, Amra & Elma, works with a host of influencers who have had to adjust their output during the pandemic, urging them to ditch the “you don’t belong here, we’re too exclusive for you” attitude that has become a feature of Instagram pages in recent years.
Elma Beganovich, a co-founder of Amra & Elma, an influencer marketing agency, has seen X’s payout to creators come in around 7 cents per 10,000 views, which she called meager compared with the likes of YouTube and TikTok. At that rate, MrBeast’s monthly haul from one billion views would be only $7,000.
“With advertisers having pulled out or having paused their campaigns on X, I am not sure from what ad revenue X would compensate them,” Beganovich said.
It is an exciting time to be a business, the opportunity for expansion online is infinite. This is why I would like to introduce you to two trailblazers, Amra and Elma Beganovich, who started as influencers (amassing 2+ million followers) in 2012 and then set their own path ahead by forming their namesake digital agency Amra & Elma. Amra & Elma works with giants from Nestle to EssilorLuxottica, is highly ranked on Google (sits on tops of 100s of millions of indexed search results) with their spectacular content, and has been profiled by the likes of Financial Times, Bloomberg Television, NASDAQ, HuffPost, Business Insider, and Inc. Now, diving into this fascinating topic – during an economic downturn, why is it an absolutely terrible idea to go dark on social media?
In 2014, imagining two million followers on Instagram was a powerful goal. That was the year that Amra Beganovich, and her sister Elma began their social media, brand-building business, Amra & Elma Digital Agency. Their clients today include global brands like Nestlé, LVMH, Johnson & Johnson and Wells Fargo.
Amra and Elma Beganovich, an economist and a lawyer, quit their day jobs to pursue their passion for fashion. They discuss how they started their Instagram blog @clubfashionista, the setbacks they’ve faced, and how they ultimately profit off trying new styles and snapping photos.
Amra and Elma influencer marketing agency. Sisters Elma and Amra Beganovich were bloggers before influencers came on the scene.
Even if all their followers don’t convert, social media stars have a heavy hand in establishing which platforms are “cool” and which ones fall out of favor, according to Elma Beganovich, who co-leads the influencer marketing agency A&E.
In 2016, before Facebook launched Stories, content creators flooded Snapchat. Many of them placed ghost icons in their Instagram bios and urged fans to come over to the disappearing photo platform with them.
“Influencers are basically responsible for getting users on Snapchat,” Beganovich said.
Then, after Facebook launched its version of Stories, influencers came back for a wider audience.
She’s got an interesting perspective on the space, both as a participant and as a coach. With her sister Amra Beganovich (an economist) she’s launched a digital agency, Amra & Elma, that boasts clients like Uber, Olay, Wells Fargo, Netflix, P&G, and L’Occitane. Trained as a lawyer and now a startup founder, Elma has over 700,000 Instagram followers, and Amra isn’t far behind.
As interesting as livestream shopping is from a consumer perspective, Beganovich says, it’s just as valuable from a brand perspective. And not just for the sales.
It’s also branding. Time. Attention.
Asked what she thinks of when she thinks of Microsoft, Elma Beganovich, influencer and co-founder of social media marketing agency Amra & Elma said, “Old.”
“It’s just a certain type of crowd. More office, serious, the opposite of fun and exciting and new and cool,” said Beganovich. “I think of Bill Gates, whom I very much respect, but I wouldn’t want him to throw me a party or anything.”
But it’s still something to work from. Elma Beganovich, a 31-year-old “superstar influencer” who has over 735,000 followers on Instagram, told Business Insider that things could ramp up pretty quickly once you’ve applied yourself.
Beganovich and her sister quit their corporate jobs in 2013 to become social-media personalities — something that barely existed at the time.
Amra & Elma (Amra and Elma Beganovich, sisters best known by their first names) is a digital agency with a powerful portfolio of Fortune 500 companies as clients, including Netflix, Wells Fargo, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson. As influencers, Amra and Elma say they have over 2.2 million social followers.
Below, the two sisters share their thoughts on everything from how to stimulate eCommerce spending to strictures on messaging during COVID-19 to what you should do if you’re tempted to try being an influencer yourself (and whether that makes sense).
Those relative newcomers were also “very vocal about their outrage about Trump’s action towards TikTok as a platform,” says Elma Beganovich of digital marketing agency Amra & Elma. “It definitely mobilized the influencers to be very vocally anti-Trump because you know somebody is jeopardizing your livelihood.”
Beganovich sisters are good at what they do and brands struggling with social media are turning to them for help. They are also famous and good-looking and get paid to be at fashion events. The basis of their appeal, they explained, is understanding their audience (70 per cent in the US, 30 per cent in Europe; 90 per cent is female and most are aged 16 to 35). Authenticity is crucial — they cultivate an image as regular young women.
El marketing de influencia ha recibido una mayor atención a medida que los especialistas en marketing se esfuerzan por hacer que sus mensajes se destaquen en un entorno publicitario desordenado. En blogs y sitios de redes sociales como Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok y Youtube, algunos influyentes tienen muchos seguidores, con frecuencia en cientos de miles o incluso millones. Un estudio de investigación (De Veirman, Cauberghe y Hudders, 2017) encontró que tener una gran audiencia de seguidores fomenta la creencia de que un influencer es agradable y popular, creando así una oportunidad para la promoción efectiva de las marcas. Pero, ¿qué impacto tendrá la pandemia COVID en el marketing de influencers? El resto de este artículo revisará brevemente algunos pros y contras y luego discutirá los hallazgos clave de una encuesta perspicaz sobre el impacto de COVID en el marketing de influencers realizado por la destacada firma de marketing digital Amra & Elma.
But what impact will the COVID pandemic have on influencer marketing? The rest of this article will briefly review some pros and cons and then discuss key findings of an insightful survey on COVID’s impact on influencer marketing conducted by prominent digital marketing firm Amra & Elma (not affiliated with the television network).
While she trained as a lawyer, Ms Beganovich started the New York based digital marketing firm Amra & Elma along with her sister (who has a degree in economics) after the pair grew a huge social media following on Facebook and Instagram. They’ve seen first-hand the emerging power of social media, particularly in the pandemic.
“I think this is definitely a very interesting time, having these influential online figures basically steering politics in certain direction,” she told Yahoo News Australia.
Back in 2012, Elma Beganovich and her sister Amra were working in two of the most traditional careers imaginable. And then, everything changed over the course of one evening. Today, the sisters run two blogging brands — Club Fashionista and Amra and Elma. They have also expanded their business, entering the realm of online marketing and operating a network of 800,000 influencers that serve about 50 clients a month. Here’s how a lawyer and an economist founded their own fashion-blog-turned-marketing-business and gained over 2.3 million followers in the process.
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I checked in with Amra and her sister, Elma – an economist and lawyer (respectively) turned Instagram stars – who are not only influencers themselves but who are also trying to change the game of digital marketing by teaching brands new customer outreach rules. They have over 2.3 million followers on social media, and their own database of 100,000 influencers. Their business is actually a digital agency that focuses on influencer marketing, social media management, and social media photo and video production, so they know a lot about influencers.
Of course, if you’re already familiar with these jet-setting, stylish bloggers, who happen to be the creators of @ClubFashionista (they left their corporate J-O-B-S to embark on the road of social media, NBD) and have long studied their enviable Instagram accounts, this phenomenon is nothing new.
Not long before, New York-based influencer marketing agency Amra & Elma had developed a platform that ingested data from Instagram, and allowed its client to use AI image classifiers to find very specific influencers. For instance, they could find an influencer with, say, between 10,000 and 50,000 followers who had posted photos of themselves in a Jeep. Facebook’s move killed this capability in a keystroke. Another day in the digital duel between the AIs deployed by digital marketers, and those deployed by the social media platforms.
Amra, 32, was working as an economist for different bank projects and Elma, 31, was on the path to becoming a super successful lawyer. But while they both call New York City home, they have lived all over the world: from Paris, London, and Madrid, to Washington D.C., Miami, and even Heidelberg. That, coupled with their love of fashion and photos, got them started as bloggers—and it all seemed to snowball from there. Now, the two run their own business—with 10 employees to boot.
In order to better understand how e-commerce meets influencers/hosts via live commerce, I reached out to expert influencers and online marketers, Amra and Elma Beganovich. They got their start as fashion bloggers several years ago and now have more than two million followers and manage a large network of influencers. Amra & Elma (Amra & Elma LLC) a is a cutting edge New York digital agency www.amraandelma.com they founded offering services to help clients navigate the emerging landscape of social media, celebrities, influencers and e-commerce. The following interview was with Elma Beganovich via video chat.
The social media space is perfect for female entrepreneurs to use innovation in marketplace change. Amra and Elma Beganovich and their a & e digital marketing agency in New York, for example, have leveraged millions of followers in the beauty and travel social media area. Founder Elma Beganovich and her sister mastered Google, Instagram and YouTube by identifying targeted Millennial audiences and offering quality content. ‘So, yeah, we are sort of matchmakers’ between brands and social media influencers, Beganovich agrees.
Beganovich is a world traveler who shares her adventures on her Instagram page. She is also the founder and chief operating officer of social media agency Amra & Elma, and co-founder and chief technology officer of Club Fashionista LLC. Whether you’re seeking a beach trip or a luxurious stay in a castle, Beganovich’s picks offer a variety of under-the-radar European cities worth visiting.
Beganovich and her sister Amra Beganovich — a former economist — are superstar digital influencers who have amassed an audience of over 2.3 million followers on social media and are the founders of Amra & Elma, an influencer-led digital marketing agency. And they got there in a very short span of time. In 2013, the sisters quit their jobs to build their company, which focuses on influencer marketing, photo production and social media growth for brands ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Even those ‘vanity metrics’… you can essentially monetize,” Beganovich says. Brands also evaluate an influencer’s “healthy engagement” through comments and likes. Lifestyle influencers may target clothing as one way to attract brand interest. A ‘really clever’ influencer develops an “online persona” to attract a target demographic, Beganovich says.
Elma and Amra Beganovich started with simple DIY social media posts in 2012. Since then the sisters have turned their side hustle into a digital marketing agency for food, fashion, travel and lifestyle brands that have earned them a client base of Fortune 500 companies. As the co-founders of A & E, (that stands for Amra & Elma) Elma, 32, says their more than 2.3 million followers on social media qualify them as influencers to help clients including Avon, Uber, Johnson & Johnson, Smart Water and W Hotels, to optimize their content and messaging.
Amra and Elma Beganovich, the digital influencers behind the two major blogging brands Amra & Elma and Club Fashionista, seem to have figured social media all figured out. The two sisters made the leap to pursue their passion for fashion while Amra was working as an economist and Elma was studying to become a lawyer. They teamed up to start a fashion blog to document and share their unique sense of style with the online community. The blog quickly attracted traffic and established them as premier names in the world of digital influencers.
Defining a “paid” partnership can also be challenging. “Brands do a lot of gifting as well, mind you, so being paid can be defined very widely,” says Elma Beganovich, the cofounder of the digital marketing agency Amra & Elma. “Some clients will say ‘supplied by Dior’ if something is gifted with Dior.” If a political group compensates influencers not with cash but with access or campaign swag, Beganovich says there isn’t yet a standard term to signify a relationship. “So then how do you disclose that? What’s the correct hashtag to use? It’s a very new space.”
COO/Founder, Elma Beganovich of Amra & Elma has one of the most beautifully curated visual brands and sets a high editorial standard for being an influencer. She has expanded her business to be one of New York City’s top social media agency working with many different influencers and with that broader view, provided a great definition of an influencer.
A few years ago, sisters Amra and Elma Beganovich had good, albeit self-described “unexciting,” careers. My, how times have changed.
Today the sisters:
► Have well more than 2 million total social media followers on various accounts.
► Run a top digital marketing agency that helps other influencers “make their brand explode.”
► Are a trending online brand themselves — actually, two brands, Club Fashionista and Amra and Elma …
Amra and Elma Beganovich left their 9-to-5 jobs (Amra as an economist, Elma an attorney) to build Club Fashionista, an invite-only platform for influencers generating high-quality content, and Amra & Elma, an influencer-led digital marketing agency.
They started from scratch, going from helping struggling startups to working for major brands like Avon, Uber, HTC, W Hotels, and Johnson & Johnson… and along the way collected over 2.3 million social followers. The two ventures function as a flywheel; their extensive social media presence help grow their business, which helps grow their social following and influence, which helps grow their business…
31-year-old Elma, a former lawyer, and 34-year-old Amra, a former economist, quit their corporate jobs in 2013 to become social media personalities, something which barely existed at the time — and their story is pretty impressive. Between them they have 2.3 million followers on social media, have built a digital marketing firm called Amra & Elma, and have an “influencer marketplace platform” in the works.
Try registering on the influencer outreach tool, Buzzsumo, and start following a hundred new influencers each week through the platform. You’ll soon notice similarities among them all: the same subjects, captions, locations, and even outfits. When so many influencers are influenced by each other, their brands can become diluted.
That’s why it’s so refreshing to stumble upon a well-constructed and totally unique online persona, such as Amra Beganovich’s profile. She and I recently discussed personal brands and the ins and outs of making yours unique and sustainable.
Today, the sisters run two blogging brands — Club Fashionista and Amra and Elma. They have also expanded their business, entering the realm of online marketing and operating a network of 800,000 influencers that serve about 50 clients a month.
Here’s how a lawyer and an economist founded their own fashion-blog-turned-marketing-business and gained over 2.3 million followers in the process.
Amra & Elma Beganovich of Amra & Elma are two successful women in the influencer marketing world that have taken New York City by storm. Together they have built Amra & Elma, a digital agency with the largest client portfolio of Fortune 500 companies such as Wells Fargo, J&J, P&G, and Netflix. Not to mention Amra and Elma, are mega influencers with over 2.2 million social followers!
When the opportunity to have an interview with Elma Beganovich of Amra & Elma arose, I knew I had to have a virtual sit down with her to pick her brain. Amra and Elma are capable of not only giving insight into building a brand from the bottom up but also an insight into what influencer marketing agencies look for when selecting influencers for campaigns.
While both in their early 30s, Bosnian-born Amra and Elma ditched their uninspiring jobs as an economist and a lawyer, respectively, to build two major blogging brands — first Club Fashionista, followed by the eponymous Amra & Elma. With over 1.1 million followers on Instagram and partnerships with brands like Nicole Miller, Make Up For Ever, Burt’s Bees and Esprit under their belts, the brand ambassadors/digital influencers/creative directors have inarguably conquered the social media game.
We caught up with Amra Beganovich, a Bosnian-American lifestyle influencer, founder and CEO of digital marketing firm Amra and Elma (Amra & Elma), as well as the co-founder and CEO of Club Fashionista, an e-commerce and blogging platform.
With an Instagram following of more than 700,000 people, Elma Beganovich has found a way to make a living out of social media marketing. Despite starting out her career as an attorney in New York, she now runs a digital marketing agency – Amra & Elma – with her sister.
To help all us laypeople garner that engagement, we enlisted our own Insta-gurus, sisters Amra and Elma Beganovich, to share their secrets to taking great grams. Theirs is a story that will inspire all who’ve tired of the traditional career path. While both in their early 30s, Bosnian-born Amra and Elma ditched their uninspiring jobs as an economist and a lawyer, respectively, to build two major blogging brands — first Club Fashionista, followed by the eponymous Amra & Elma. With over 1.1 million followers on Instagram and partnerships with brands like Nicole Miller, Make Up For Ever, Burt’s Bees and Esprit under their belts, the brand ambassadors/digital influencers/creative directors have inarguably conquered the social media game. Above, their tips on how you can, too.
We asked sisters Elma and Amra Beganovich, both digital influencers themselves with a following of more than 2.3 million online and founders of digital marketing agency Amra & Elma, to offer their insights into navigating business promotions online in the aftermath of Covid-19
Elma Beganovich is the co-founder of Amra and Elma (Amra & Elma), a digital agency that specializes in a business niche growth industry that didn’t exist just 10 years ago. She is one of New York City’s top lifestyle influencers with over 1 million followers across her social channels.
Amra & Elma has a large client portfolio of Fortune 500 companies such as Wells Fargo, J&J, P&G, and Netflix. The founders, Amra and Elma, are mega influencers with over 2.2 million social followers.
Amra and Elma Beganovich started their journeys on a very traditional trajectory path — one was an economist working on World Bank projects and the other was an attorney studying to obtain her LLM in Securities and Financial Regulations at Georgetown Law. At that time (in late 2012), the social media landscape was just beginning to unravel, with Facebook planning the launch of its Pages.
The changing influencer landscape has made the Hill model virtually impossible to replicate. “We are seeing a shift toward micro-influencers playing a bigger role rather than the macro-influencers, and this is due to saturation in the beauty space,” says Amra Beganovich, co-founder of digital marketing agency Amra & Elma and an influencer with the handle clubfashionista. “Big influencers had become so staged and overproduced that they lost touch with their audience.”
A&E is a digital agency that has the largest client portfolio of Fortune 500 companies such as Wells Fargo, J&J, P&G, and Netflix. The agency was founded by sisters and mega influencers Amra Beganovich and Elma Beganovitch.
Both women are experts in their craft, Amra has achieved a BA in Economics and an MBA. Elma holds a BA in Government and French and a Juris Doctor in Law. Amra has been named a leading influencer marketing expert and Elma named a top digital marketing expert by Forbes, Business Insider, Financial Times, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, WSJ, ELLE Magazine and many more. When talking about learning more regarding the current marketing trends, Have you see the new article Does your IDX measure up? Find out which tools rank highest.
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