Aspire.io (formerly AspireIQ) is an influencer marketing platform empowering ecommerce brands to build and cultivate influential communities of influencers, ambassadors, affiliates, and customers. Brands using Aspire can discover authentic partners, streamline relationships, scale their programs, and measure business impact.
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TapInfluence
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TapInfluence from the company of the same name in Boulder, Colorado is an influencer marketing platform used for locating influencers and initiating dialogue and content co-creation, with search tools, calendaring, and tasking features.
Founded in 2009, TapInfluence (formerly BlogFrog) has received about $8.2 million in venture capital since its inception, most recently $5 million in Series B funding in late 2013.
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We used to use TapInfluence but we found the selection of influencers to choose from to be limited - we could not manage conversations in the platform.
I used Aspire to find influencers for my fashion business and most of the influencers who signed up for my project were unreliable and did not fulfill their contract terms. For example, of 5 influencers I sent products to, only one completed the work that was agreed upon under the Terms. The others received a $195 product and disappeared, even though we signed a contract called Terms that is monitored by Aspire. The main downfall with Aspire is that it doesn't have a system in place to control this. For instance, they don't have a way for brands to leave a review for influencers and they don't block bad influencers (many just want free product) from applying for future projects. Aspire doesn't take responsibility for anything. What is the point of paying money to Aspire if they don't vet their influencers and control the quality of influencers who use their platform?
TapInfluence is a great influencer marketing tool that has made lives so much easier and therefore I would recommend it to everyone to use it because of its great database search function which makes it an optimal option for users. It should work towards their customer service support so that all users do not have to go through any problem. If you are ready to get hands-on the functions then the only condition is that you have to be willing to pay the hefty price too which I feel is a little outrageous.
I love the automation in this influencer connection service. TapInfluence has an automated process in which it recommends influencers who can do very good publicity for my business sector. This feature is very important to me since in this way the advertising will reach people who will really take that information into account because it is of interest to them.
The main panel of TapInfluence has divisions where I can see all the influencers who are working for me, in addition, in this individual panel I can know all the advertising that each of the influencers has done and see what traffic that advertising has generated, I can know the views that advertising has had and the clicks it has obtained. It is very important to be able to consult all this data from the main panel, so I can know what performance each influencer is giving me.
TapInfluence offers me a very stable communication service, where I can constantly converse with each of the influencers who work for me and with the influencers that appear in my "recommended" window.
It is also crucial to understand the cons associated with TapInfluence so that the overall software can be improved in a much better way. In my opinion, TapInfluence should give a considerable amount of attention to their customer support service as it needs to get a lot better.
Software like TapInfluence should be very easy to use due to its intuitive interface but I feel that here it is difficult to use especially for beginners.
We've done countless trainings with them and have done every step as outlined. In my experience, the site does not perform at all and there are no results that ever come. I think Aspire.io seems to have no ideas on how to get a response from their influencers and to get them to do what they are suppose to do.
While our account is "small" we believe investing in influencers has broadened our brand and gotten in front of people we didn't have the capability of
Our company has managed to be more recognized nationally, we have been recognized by a totally reliable company and with very efficient real estate services, thanks to the publicity that the influencers have achieved in TapInfluence.
We have obtained more clients in our company. Thanks to the extensive publicity that influencers have made, more clients come to our company every day to ask questions and to access our real estate services.
We have improved the display of the influencers' advertising reach. This has helped us to know which influencer has been more profitable and how much audience has obtained the publicity.