An influencer is a third-party individual who significantly shapes the customer's purchasing decision, but may not ever be accountable for it.
Influencers are people, not companies or associations. Individuals make decisions, and they use other people - influencers - to inform and steer them. Because influencers are third parties
they don't buy from you. In fact, there is one major attribute of influencers that all marketers need to be acutely aware of.
Influencers don't care about you, your products, or (least of all) your marketing messages.
Influencers are not your customers. Influencers have no budget. They are not your market. They influence your customers, influence their budget, and therefore your market.
If you pitch standard marketing messages to influencers you will either annoy the influencer, or be ignored.
Again, influencers don't really care about you. Unfortunate but true.