Certainly, a perceived mismatch between a brand and an influencer can happen, but there are strategies to turn things around and make the campaign work:

1. Clear Communication: Ensuring both parties have a comprehensive understanding of the campaign goals, methods, and expected outcomes. This might mean more meetings, brainstorming sessions, or training, but it can result in a stronger alignment with the influencer.

2. Re-evaluate content strategy: Review the type of content being produced, it should resonate with both the influencer’s audience and the brand values. This might mean experimenting with different content types – like videos, images, blog posts etc., or adjusting the tone, language, or style used.

3. Monitoring and Refinement: Use audience analytics tools to track the performance of influencer posts. This can provide insight and feedback, which can be used to refine the influencer’s content and strategy based on what’s working and what’s not.

4. Influencer Education: If the influencer doesn’t understand or represent your brand values fully, invest time in educating them about your brand message. This can help align the influencer’s content and messaging with your brand.

Platforms like Flinque can provide useful tools in these processes, with features for creator discovery, audience analytics, and campaign planning, while others might focus exclusively on one or two areas. It’s not a matter of which platform is better or worse, but about which platform better suits your specific needs. Proper use of these tools can significantly help in handling brand-influencer alignment challenges.

Remember not all brand-influencer partnerships will be perfect right off the bat, sometimes they require fine-tuning and it’s an iterative process. If the influencer partnership isn’t a fit after making necessary adjustments, it may be time to part ways and find a better-suited influencer. It’s crucial to use real-time data and insights to guide your decisions in influencer marketing.