In my previous post, I covered what influencer marketing is, how to develop an influencer marketing strategy and how to find the right influencers using the free methods already at your disposal. However, the free methods do take more time to research and organize, which is why this post will help non-profits find the affordable and easy-to-use influencer identification tools that will help them save time on their influencer marketing campaigns.
You can sign up for Trendspottr Alerts as a freemium service to get alerts. Each alert is organized by content, the level (whether it’s elevated, high or extreme) along with accompanying analytics and the overall positive, neutral or negative sentiment on each alert. Once you set up a search query, TrendSpottr will detect any exceptional trending activity for your search query, which can include influencers who have been sharing content about your cause. TrendSpottr Alerts will also send you real-time email alerts that contain trending content that has high potential to go viral.
Not only will it enable you to find influencers who are speaking about your cause, you can also monitor news on your organization and stay on top of emerging news & trends.
In order to create & manage more than one custom alert, you’d have to look at one of Trendspottr’s subscription plans, which start at $49/month with a free 7-day trial.
Awario refers to itself as a social media and web monitoring tool but the great thing is that you can apply the monitoring directly to influencer research. If you’re looking for people who have mentioned your brand, you can sort it by reach to find the most influential people who are posting about your brand.
You can set up ongoing monitoring alerts for specific keywords and you can view them as influencer reports that will allow you to see the most influential accounts for that topic over time. So you can find influencers in real time and consider to stay on top on who is influential over time. You can also track mentions for keywords in any language, any given location and all across the web. The powerful analytics engine allows you to track the growth in the number of mentions and their collective reach, sort mentions by positive, negative and neutral with sentiment analysis and analyze progress.
You can sign up for a free 2-week trial and the most popular starter plan at $24/month allows you to monitor 1 project with 30,000 new mentions/month with 5,000 stored mentions per alert and you’re allowed to create 3 mention alerts.
Klear is currently one of the most sophisticated influencer search engines on the market. You can search for influencers on all major networks such as Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & blogs, with detailed audience demographics such as interests, geography and level of influence. You can analyze 5 years of historical data for any influencer on their influence & engagement levels on each platform, what their true reach is on a given topic and what the top demographics are among their engaged audiences.
Using the top demographics, you’ll be able to dig through each influencer’s network to find other like-minded influencers and manage all of them through Klear’s user-friendly CRM system. You can contact influencers through the system and monitor each campaign. Metrics for each campaign can be monitored via performance reports that contain real time tracking for mentions, engagements and true reach.
The free plan will give you limited access to search for influencers through a finite number of social media platforms. To gain full access, you’ll have to schedule a product demo through Klear.
On Buzzweb, you can search for influencers based on different demographics such as age, gender, location and interests. The tool will allow you to reach out to influencers separately or through an influencer list. Top-rated micro and medium influencers with 5k-400k followers are verified and handpicked by Buzzweb and filtered based on location, demographic and average engagement rates with their audiences.
You can use the dashboards to check on campaign progress including overall engagement levels (likes, shares, comments) as well as how many bloggers are currently working on content for you and which ones have yet to be approved. You don’t have to pay the influencers until you approve of the content.
Through comprehensive campaign analytics, you’ll be able to obtain thorough audience insights such as demographics, language and brand awareness. You can also monitor your key account indicators such as engagement, followers, rate of unfollows and prohibit fake accounts from following your account. Blocking fake accounts will allow you to raise the price of your sponsored posts and monitoring post popularity will give you a better understanding of the type of content your audience responds to.
The most popular package for $19/month allows you to search 100K influencers, create 10 influencers lists with 100 contacts/platform and do group outreach. You’ll also be able to monitor follower & engagement growth, obtain audience insight reports and receive growth recommendations and comprehensive campaign reports.
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