Activate Your Local Heroes

Expand Your Brand Message Locally to Boost Your Reach

Activate and unburden your local heroes to post on social media for local engagement, visibility, and driving sales. With Apostle’s advocacy software, centralize your social media strategy to deliver a consistent brand message tailored to cultural differences across all stores, locations and labels.

Start with Apostle's software solutions or choose a more intensive implementation program with a dedicated partner.

Join 1408 top brands worldwide in activating brand ambassadors and managing (local) business pages on social media.

Designed For Brands with Local Stores

Apostle empowers marketing teams with ready-to-share social media posts for local stores, enabling quick (auto-)publishing to boost visibility, credibility, and community bonds. Empower your retailers, dealers, and partners to engage  on social media and drive local success.

For Social Media and Content Marketers

Marketers ensure consistent messaging across all local stores by activating their local heroes as brand ambassadors providing them with ready-to-post content.

For Marketing Managers and Executives

Expand your social media strategy globally from a centralized dashboard. Monitor insights, ROI, and industry benchmarks, and store performance of your advocacy efforts.

This Is Why Brands Include Local Heroes in Their Social Media Strategy

Expand Your Local Reach to Enhance Overall Presence

Broaden your social media presence by activating your local heroes—retailers, dealers, franchisees, and other business partners as brand ambassadors. Unburden your local partners to represent your brand in their regional markets to grow your visibility.

Grow Mutual Revenue

Drive mutual revenue growth by offering comprehensive marketing support to local partners, thereby enhancing two-way sales and fostering stronger business relationships.

Spread Consistent and Credible Brand Messages

Leverage the familiarity and trust your regular partners have with your company. Collaborate with them to boost your brand’s credibility, as they understand their local stores better and are committed to helping your brand succeed.

The Power of Local Searches and the ROPO Effect

According to the ROPO effect (Research Online, Purchase Offline), 46% of all searches are local: enough reason to optimize your online local reach.

Brand Advocacy Made Easy

This is why marketers choose Apostle

Management and Structure
  • Manage the social media activities of multiple brands, locations, and countries in one dashboard.
  • Bulk edit profile and cover photos of your connected business pages.
Unlimited Users
  • Involve as many local heroes as possible.
  • Maximize social media reach and visibility.
Scalable Onboarding
  • Bulk onboarding through WhatsApp and sign up landing page.
  • Science-driven onboarding designed for your local heroes.
  • Coach sessions with a dedicated SRO Professional.
Activity Optimization Tools
  • Auto-publish social media posts to keep store timelines updated.
  • Leaderboard & gamification to maintain a healthy competition.
  • Re-engagement tools to boost ongoing participation.

Apostle Matches Your
Marketing Strategy

  • Optimize your regional social reach without extra advertising costs.
  • Integrate local advertising with organic social media efforts to engage both local store networks and targeted new audiences, ensuring broader exposure and maximizing outreach potential.
  • Strengthen bonds with local partners by providing marketing support to expand your marketing channels for effectively distributing and amplifying your brand’s message.

“Thanks to Apostle, we now reach millions of consumers in Europe each year through regional social media accounts

Mickael Timmermans - Service Center Coordinator Europe at Shimano

“Within the hour, I schedule posts for dealers in 3 or 4 languages. It would be more work if they had to do that all individually”

Sjors Leek - Digital Marketing Specialist at Trek Benelux.

“Apostle allows us to schedule posts at head office and all our franchise entrepreneurs have to do is approve and share them.”

Lotte Gerritsen - Content Manager at The Hypotheker

Train Your Team to Include Local Heroes in Your Social Media Strategy

Enhance your team's capabilities with our comprehensive local hero onboarding and activation program. Alternatively, you can outsource this process to one of our qualified partners to expand your local presence and strengthen relationships with your local heroes.

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Witness the Power of Our All-in-One Software

Discover firsthand the efficiency and impact of having all your social media activities in one place, tailored to your business maturity and social media strategy. Don't just take our word for it—try it out and experience the difference for yourself!

Trek Benelux

"We support dealers with content, saving them time while regularly promoting our brand and products to a broader audience."

Marijke van Dijk
Crowe Foederer

''Great tool that takes us to the next level. Apostle helps us to increase our local brand awareness, by getting more colleagues involved in sharing.''

Roxanne Daris
Coöperatie DELA

"Nice app that makes it easy to post LinkedIn messages and increase reach. Apostle helps to boost visibility. Very user-friendly!"

Milou Kutscha