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Aspire.io

Score2.3 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

What is Aspire.io?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Responsive Design for Web Access

    Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.

    Category average: 1

  • Mobile Application

    A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.

    Category average: 1

  • Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

    In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.

    Category average: 1

Areas for Improvement

  • Influencer tracking

    Tracks influencer activities including posts, stories, and publications.

    Category average: 1.5

  • Report generation

    Generation of reports on influencer performance.

    Category average: 1

  • Campaign planning

    Enables content strategy planning with influencers across the web and social media.

    Category average: 1

In my opinion, Run from Aspire.io

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Buyer Beware! We signed up with Aspire.io with high hopes. In my opinion, they have high-powered sales reps that are very good at selling you their service. However, in my experience, Aspire.io turned out to be a what I think is a scam. For us their platform does not perform and after spending hundreds of hours contacting influencers, the only ones that did respond ended up taking our free product and, in my opinion, running. I would run as fast as possible away from Aspire.io and I hope that my words of warning can help other companies not to fall into what I think is their trap. We lost thousands of dollars as well as hundreds of hours. We never made a single dime. In our experience, when we brought up our concerns, they simply said you have a contract and we intend to collect our money even if our platform doesn't make you a dime. I think this is the worst company we have ever worked with. In my opinion, run away and never look back!

Pros

  • In my opinion, a scam
  • In my experience, sells you a service that does not perform
  • In my experience, loosing their customers money hand over fist

Cons

  • In my opinion, Bad Customer Service
  • I think they Don't Care if you succeed on their platform
  • In my opinion, their influencers seem fake

Return on Investment

  • We have received zero return on investment
  • We invested thousands of dollars and never received a single order
  • We've tried to get our money back and, in my experience, they don't stand behind their product at all.
  • We'd simply like a refund since, in my opinion, they have not upheld their part of the partnership.

Usability

Know what you are getting into before paying money to Aspire

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I was the brand trying to acquire influencers for my business.

Pros

  • Aspire is a platform to find influencers

Cons

  • Many influencers on Aspire take product and don't fulfill their terms of contract, and Aspire doesn't have a way to enforce the terms
  • Aspire doesn't vet the influencers well so you end up getting ones that are scams

Return on Investment

  • they had zero impact on my business so it was a waste of money

Best Influencer Platform on the Market!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a company, we use AspireIQ to help us market our product in the social media community. We rely on AspireIQ to help us with getting our product out to the public while also using it to help build our content database.

Pros

  • Account Reps are personable and easy to work with!
  • Wide-range of database of influencers
  • Easy navigate in platform

Cons

  • Filtering Messages - things seem to get cluttered easily
  • "Deleting" people in campaigns you don't want to work with instead of dismissing

Return on Investment

  • Making our brand more fun!
  • 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

Other Software Used

Sprout

AspireIQ helped scale our strategy!

Pros

  • Conversation management through using automated messaging.
  • Collaboration organization by putting influencers in the correct stage/status they currently are at.

Cons

  • Search filters.

Return on Investment

  • Our ROI has been very positive, as we can handle all payment via AspireIQ.

Alternatives Considered

TapInfluence