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Buzzstream is the eponymous SEO and influencer marketing platform from the Austin-based company of the same name.
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BuzzStream has proven to be an invaluable tool for link building and email campaigns, according to users. It assists in creating email templates and automating follow-ups, making outreach more efficient. Users praise BuzzStream for its ability to compile lists of potential outreach opportunities, track outreach progress and success, and monitor brand mentions all in one place, eliminating the need for multiple spreadsheets. With the feature to have multiple tasks under a project name, users find it easier to manage their link building and PR exercises.
As a CRM, BuzzStream helps users manage relationships with social influencers and contacts effectively. It allows them to check website domain authority and Moz rank, providing valuable insights when identifying reliable sources for partnerships or content promotion. Users appreciate how BuzzStream streamlines the prospect outreach process by ensuring no duplicate contacts are reached out to and enabling timely follow-up emails. Beyond link building, BuzzStream also aids in building online press lists and recording built links for clients. By automatically revisiting sites to check for lost or removed links, the software saves users time and effort in maintaining a healthy link profile. The software's integration with emails is highlighted as a strong point, although some users mention encountering issues when switching email accounts. Overall, BuzzStream is praised for its ease of use and responsiveness to user input, making it a valuable tool for managing outreach campaigns and link-building efforts efficiently.
Ease of Use and Versatility: Users have consistently praised BuzzStream for its versatility and ease of use when it comes to email templates. Many reviewers appreciate the convenience of being able to copy and paste old emails or create new ones from scratch, saving them time and effort. The ability to add images to templates and save them for future use has also been highly valued by users, allowing them to quickly build out a solid email chain in just a few minutes.
Seamless Chrome Extension Integration: The Chrome extension provided by BuzzStream has received high praise from users for its seamless integration with the browser. Reviewers find it perfect and addictive, as it allows them to easily save websites, search for contacts, and send emails with just a button press. This integration streamlines their workflow and saves valuable time, making it one of the standout features of BuzzStream.
Effective Link Monitoring: The link monitoring feature in BuzzStream is considered incredibly useful by users. It simplifies the process of logging earned links on websites to their own website, while also periodically scanning the websites to check if the links are still active. This feature saves users hours of work and provides easy reporting on their link building efforts, making it an essential tool for managing successful SEO campaigns.
Clunky User Interface: Some users have found the user interface of BuzzStream to be clunky and in need of improvement. They feel that navigating through the software can be difficult and could benefit from a more intuitive design.
Email Integration and Notification Issues: Several reviewers have experienced difficulties with the email integration feature in BuzzStream. They have reported that notifications do not always function properly, leading to missed messages or delays in receiving important updates.
Buzzmarker Reliability: A number of users have encountered issues with Buzzmarker, the Chrome extension provided by BuzzStream. They have stated that it frequently breaks down and has difficulty retrieving contact information from websites, requiring additional manual effort on their part.
Users highly recommend Buzzstream for its features and lack of competition. They suggest conducting test campaigns to understand the quirks of the software and spending time to fully grasp the user interface and user experience before launching campaigns. Buzzstream is recommended for PR and Link Marketing Outreach, as well as for Public Relation or Outreach Teams. It is also suggested for anyone engaged in blog outreach or SEO related tasks.
Another common recommendation is to utilize other social media sites in addition to Buzzstream. Users recommend sectioning contact lists and conducting research to build lists using Buzzstream. It is also suggested as a great addition for any team leader. Users highly recommend taking the time to learn the software, considering the bugs and customization needed in Buzzstream.
Users believe Buzzstream is worth the price and commend it for ease of use and helpful staff. Additionally, Buzzstream is recommended for creating audiences easily, outreach and link management, and its powerful CRM and integration with MOZ API.
However, users also mention that there are better alternatives to Buzzstream, especially if one is already using marketing automation solutions like Hubspot or Marketo. Users suggest implementing Buzzstream early on in a project for increased productivity and seriously considering it for that purpose.
Lastly, users highly suggest trialing Buzzstream to see how it could assist with specific use cases. They believe it is better suited for SEO and PR compared to other CRMs like Sales Force and GoldMine. Buzzstream's link monitoring feature and SEO and PR orientation are also mentioned as reasons to consider using it.
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September 07, 2021
A great campaign management tool
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Buzzstream is a great tool for me in managing my campaigns. Over the years of using it, I've seen a huge improvement. What I like most is that they sometimes get their ideas for improvements from Client input or suggestions.
It's easy to use and integrate on emails, you may have issues when you switch the email and link it to a different Buzzstream account but I figured out that you just need to de-authorize it on your Google Account.
So far, the support is very helpful. They usually go back to you with a detailed list of instructions which is cool for me.
They also got training provided which is awesome for beginners.
It's easy to use and integrate on emails, you may have issues when you switch the email and link it to a different Buzzstream account but I figured out that you just need to de-authorize it on your Google Account.
So far, the support is very helpful. They usually go back to you with a detailed list of instructions which is cool for me.
They also got training provided which is awesome for beginners.
- Prospecting
- Contact Hunting
- Campaign Management
- Success Link Tracking
- Reporting is okay on Buzzstream but not when Exported to PDF
June 17, 2021
Fulfill your business fantasies
We use BuzzStream to compile lists for potential outreach opportunities, track our outreach progress and success, and to track brand mentions for clients. It eliminates the need for thousands of spreadsheets to track different clients and the success of our campaigns for them. It puts them in a easy to find space. We love the ability to have multiple tasks under a project name.
- Outreach
- Brand monitoring
- Sometimes hard to use
- Email integration can have problems
- Notifications sometimes don't come up
December 17, 2019
BuzzStream for Link Building Agency
We are a content marketing agency with a focus on SEO and link building. We create assets that we then pitch to bloggers or journalists via email to get links. We use BuzzStream as our primary emailing software to send, organize and track all of our email outreach. With Siege Media being large, it is very important that we have software capable of tracking all of our work.
- Integrates with Google Chrome, so there is one less tab you need to open.
- Tracks opens and clicks for emails you've sent.
- Once you've locked in a template, if you need to change it on previously scheduled drafts, you have to do it manually.
- It would be nice if it showed you/highlighted low Domain Authority or spammy sites.
November 07, 2019
Great for linkbuilding and influencer outreach
We use BuzzStream in the social and content department to find influencers to organically promote content and to see what influencers/thought leaders in a specific space are talking about. It helps us find these centers of influence for both outreach and production.
- List building.
- Outreach.
- Project organization.
- Great user interface and ease of use factor.
- Easier to find the people you want (more filters).
We use BuzzStream very frequently, as it is our main tool for SEO outreach campaigns and link-building. It is used mainly by our Marketing department, and certain individuals in other departments. It is our solution to the time-consuming process of outreach, content featuring, syndication opportunities, and so forth. It addresses the problem of outreach bandwidth.
- The email sequencing is awesome.
- The email templates work very well.
- Excellent contact organization and grouping.
- The contact finder tool does not work well.
- It is almost impossible to find verified email addresses using their email finder.
- It is somewhat clunky at times and hard to load certain pages.
January 17, 2019
Stuck in a linking building rut? BuzzStream will help you get your outreach efforts back on track!
Buzzstream is used exclusively by marketing and, in particular, it is used 100% by me! A few years ago, I ran into BuzzStream in an article and realized it was the missing piece I had been looking for when it comes to link building and email campaigns. Using BuzzStream, I was able to create many email templates to aid in link building (AKA SEO) for our website and then utilize the software to aid the marketing team in long term outreach campaigns. It is a fantastic way to save websites that you want to contact, track email sends, opens of said emails, and create an automated follow-up. It is a huge time saver and makes everything smooth from tracking down websites to contact all the way through to connecting with those websites!
- Email templates--easy to use! Copy and paste old emails, create a brand new one, add images if you want and save! In a few minutes, you can easily build out a solid email chain. Then with a one button press from their Chrome extension, you can send an email to a contact on the website.
- The Chrome extension! It is perfect--you open it up, save the website, use it to search for contacts and email them as needed. Once you use this once, you will be hooked!
- Link Monitoring. Using the Chrome extension you can log links earned on websites to your website. The software then scans the website occasionally to let you know if the links are still active. Saves hours of work and provides you easy reporting on your link building efforts!
- Contact info! It is nice that BuzzStream provides a list of contacts you to email, but it is a pretty basic list. I personally use Hunter and import the contacts into BuzzStream
- UI can be a bit clunky in the software. It feels like it could use a new coat of paint. Functional, but not great at this moment!
- Project folders. They make sense, but I feel like it took me a while to really get used to them and understand how to use it.
- If you are building outreach campaigns for multiple brands with different emails addresses, there is no built-in system to stop you from sending an email from a wrong email address. Adding a feature that allows you to set a primary email for projects would be nice (If it exists already--I hope someone will show me how to do this)!
December 19, 2018
Buzzstream: Good for Small Teams Doing Link-Building
Currently BuzzStream is being used by our PR team and SEO team. It has really helped to streamline link-building efforts and keeping track of outreach/conversations. Both teams have visibility into initiatives going on so we do not duplicate efforts.
- Communication Organization: It provides a simple communication format for even the most novice of users to understand. All messages are kept in nice order, even placed in folders if needed, to alleviate the pain of losing messages in normal email.
- Locating Contact Information: I love that BuzzStream aids in finding additional contact information for people. From social accounts to other emails, we can make sure we reach out to people via the correct channels.
- Building a Consistent Voice: BuzzStream allows you to save templates that have worked or failed when conducting outreach. These templates can have autofill parameters added to them and are accessible to all users.
- Reporting could be better: I feel like the reporting templates and visuals are almost too high-level. I do like that it can break it down based on subject line performance and template performance, but I want to have more analysis into why the numbers are what they are.
- Researching aspect can be off: While I love that it can find other forms of contact for my contacts, sometimes is can be off and give me emails for either an entire company or [emails that are] completely wrong all together.
- Autofill/Personalization parameters don't work all the time: I've had a number of autofill parameters just not work when sending so the contact will see [FIRSTNAME] instead of their actual first name. This isn't all the time, but it does occur.
December 18, 2018
The Only Outreach Tool You Would Need
I manage a content marketing team. Outreach is one of the primary things we do. BuzzStream helps us manage our relationships with influencers and contacts efficiently.
That means even if multiple people are working on reaching out and sending emails, there will be no duplicates, follow-up emails are sent on time, and email performance is evaluated accordingly.
That means even if multiple people are working on reaching out and sending emails, there will be no duplicates, follow-up emails are sent on time, and email performance is evaluated accordingly.
- Managing Emails.
- Scheduling Emails.
- Learning to use the tool takes time.
- Filters can be confusing.
- Contact discovery can be improved.
November 26, 2018
BuzzStream is a link building life saver
BuzzSteam was used by our entire agency to keep track of client and link building communications. The search engine optimization team used it the most to keep track of link building outreach and communications. It's very logical to use, and you can have different "profiles" for each client to keep things organized. There's also a feature you can set up to alert you when it's time to reach back out. Makes link building just a little easier.
- Link Building - It's a fantastic tool to use for link building in SEO. Link building is traditionally a convoluted process and BuzzSteam makes it easy to keep track of your communications / successes.
- Client / prospect outreach - Similar to link building, it's a great tool to use to keep track of outreach, whether it's for existing or prospective clients.
- I wish BuzzSteam had a social media integration.
- I wish it was clearer how to integrate your work email, including the calendar, with BuzzSteam to be that much more efficient.
November 19, 2018
Great for Influencer Outreach Management
We are using BuzzStream to manage our linking building initiatives for each client. This allows us to know the progress we have made on building a 3rd party link for a site, keep notes and keep everyone organized, including the client.
- The tool is extremely easy to use - self explanatory, you really don't need any kind of technical training.
- They are always evolving and growing - adding new functionalities based on client requests such as the discovery tool which was a tool added in 2016 to help find influencers writing about a certain topic.
- The BuzzMarker plugin is available to easily add a site of interest your list.
- I don't like the the email finding tool which allows you to enter a person's name and company, and BuzzStream will create searches to help you find their email address - this has not been very successful for me
May 01, 2018
Buzzstream - Linkbuilding made EASY!
We use Buzzstream to reach out to website owners to market content. We either pitch existing content on our website that owners can link to or we propose a possible guest post spot on the website we are reaching out to. Buzzstream allows us to manage our prospects effectively and keep track of our conversations with them. It aids us in building a list of prospects and automates our communication with them.
- Get access to data of prospects such as domain authority that can guide you on whether to pursue the website or not.
- Create templates for outreach communication.
- Automates your email communication with prospects through sequences.
- Schedule outreach and email responses to maximize interaction with prospects.
- The search function needs to be more accurate in returning results when searching for existing prospects the platform only display exact match results - www.websitename.com vs websitename.com. In reality, the two websites are the same prospects.
- Customer service assistance needs to be more instantaneous when seeking out help a response can take up to 24 hours.
- Importing large CSV files of websites takes time as well.
April 25, 2018
BuzzStream is Essential for Large PR/Outreach Teams
My entire PR team (20+ people) use BuzzStream day in, day out to list build and maintain relationships with writers/journalists that we regularly reach out to for possible link building opportunities. It's allowed us to build a database of over 30,000 contacts that we can easily keep track off, edit, or update when need be. BuzzStream is highly customizable and makes it easy for my team to keep track of projects and to see how other team members are using it to prevent any overlap with contacts. You can pull reports or do a deep dive analysis to uncover trends or see how junior members are performing. It also allows you to see emails between your employees and journalists which is great for transparency. We used to use Streak to handle our communications for our link building campaigns, but BuzzStream has allowed us to streamline this process and is much more efficient. We really heavily on this tool every day and wouldn't be as organized without it. The BuzzStream team has also been fast at getting back to us if we ever experience any issues with the software. Like any type of software, you'll come across glitches, but overall, BuzzStream is the best out there, particularly for PR professionals and marketers whose main goal is link building.
- BuzzStream is the key to keeping our PR team organized! You can assign specific people to manage projects or allow for your whole team to have access.
- It's highly customizable and can be tailored to the type of work your company does. You can create email templates with customizable fields and sales sequences so that you don't have to remember to follow up. Overall, this software can really enhance your email outreach and save you a ton of time.
- Transparency and reporting! BuzzStream gives you a deeper understanding of your outreach campaigns, team performance, and link placements through fully customizable reports. You can look at things like open rates, template efficiency, etc.
- Sometimes BuzzStream can have glitches but the BuzzStream team is super responsive and receptive to helping you resolve any issues.
- There are a lot of clicks and stages you have to get through to save a contact or change a status. It would be nice if BuzzStream developed an autosave option whereby you didn't have to click 'save'every time you change something or update a contact.
April 19, 2018
BuzzStream - The CRM for link builders
BuzzStream is like a CRM on steroids for SEOs. You can find opportunities, evaluate them, outreach, and monitor. If your company is doing link building BuzzStream will help users stay organized and be more efficient, which is crucial at scale. Primary users are SEO folks, outreachers, content promoters, and link builders.
- Track link building prospects
- Monitor new and lost links
- Report on link building efforts
- Be efficent a scale
- The BuzzMarker can be buggy
March 23, 2018
Buzzstream is a great outreach tool for link building
We use Buzzstream in our agency for link building outreach. We are an SEO and link building agency so building links is our core business. Modern link building is centered around outreach. Reaching out to other websites in order to get them to link to our content is the main way that we build links and this is where Buzzstream helps us. It helps us keep our link building prospects organized and it streamlines our outreach.
- Buzzstream is great for keeping records of your link building prospects.
- Filtering prospects database is great with a ton of good filters.
- Pulling Domain Authority and some other data automatically really speeds up work.
- Contacts discovery is very good option. It's not perfect, but it really helps.
- They were late to give an option of bulk sending but they allow this now.
- The export capability could be better. When I tried to export a list to enrich the prospect data with some other tools, I could only export 4 contacts from a prospect. The problem is, sometimes there are more than 4 contacts for a specific prospect so this creates exporting problems.
- I can't find how to configure how many prospects per page to show and I would love to have a longer list of prospects per page.
March 16, 2018
The Best!
Using BuzzStream for link building has made link building a very easy job!
It was only used for link building and PR exercises by digital team.
All we had to do is to find the websites and buzzstream would do the rest. You can send emails to your contacts, keep track of conversations, prices, projects and campaigns. It is an amazing management system for links and PR!
It was only used for link building and PR exercises by digital team.
All we had to do is to find the websites and buzzstream would do the rest. You can send emails to your contacts, keep track of conversations, prices, projects and campaigns. It is an amazing management system for links and PR!
- Keep track of websites and your pipeline. It keeps track of all of the items in a pipeline, where they are at, what stage, what level, how well they are performing online and so on.
- Send emails, and emails in bulk with automatic personalisation.
- Manage your campaigns through projects. Send later-reminders, reply reminders, send reminders and so on.
- Email performance reports, so you can do A-B testing for your campaigns
- Contact info discovery, so you only need to put a website in and it brings up all of its information for you.
- Link Monitoring.
- Buzzmarker is their chrome extension that very often breaks down.
- Some contact info wouldn't come up, so you need to look through yourself (obviously).
- Sometimes email tracking can go a bit south, but if you keep an eye on it is fine.
September 19, 2017
BuzzStream- Not What I Needed
We are using BuzzStream as a CRM to manage our social influencers, as well as a tool to check websites domain authority and Moz rank.
- Mailbox: I can BCC every email correspondence with my contacts and it is saved in their profile to refer back to later.
- Multiple Projects: I can create multiple projects and then only have those visible to certain team members.
- Buzzmarker Chrome Extension: This extension makes it incredibly easy to add a new contact into our account. It's particularly helpful for contacts that we want to reach out to.
- I do not love the interface for each contact.
- I can't save individual Instagram accounts as websites. I suppose I could create a contact for those social influencers that don't have a blog, but working with the contacts Account/Blog name is far easier than their names. Particularly when there are multiple people per website.
September 30, 2015
Why BuzzStream Is Right For You
As far as I know, it is being used by a department. It helps us to build online press lists and to keep track of reliable sources that we find on the web. We then access those lists and contact them at later times. Organization is key for us as we strive to find and attract partnerships.
- Keeps track of online finding efforts and contact information so it is easy to contact them at a later time.
- BuzzMarker allows you to save web page information in the middle of your online finding efforts so you do not have to switch back and forth between sites.
- BuzzStream tells you what the contacting progress is for each website that you contact. You can set reminders to contact them back if you do not hear from them within a certain period of time.
- BuzzMarker does not always scrape contact information that is accessible on a website. It could do a better job with pulling all of the information needed to contact a website so that people do not have to waste time and dig deeper on their own.
- BuzzMarker does not allow you to create a new page for the same website in another project for the same client. This would help as there are more than one ways to approach a website about a partnership of some kind.
- BuzzStream does not do very well with listing the press list in alphabetical order. If it could do this automatically that would help.
September 15, 2015
Buzzstream Review for Linkbuilders
We used BuzzStream to record the links that were built for certain clients. During our link building process, we have an extensive prospect/outreach process that needs to be organized, from finding contacts, to setting up templated messages, to outreach and then follow up. It helps us keep track of who we've contacted, whether we got the link and also automatically revisits the sites to check if the link is lost or removed. It also has helpful categorization features so that your rolodex of bloggers is never lost, and can be reused/repurposed.
- Allows for tracking of outreach messages
- Great for templated message, using custom fields that you can insert via csv upload
- Great for follow ups and other notes that may be hard to keep track of
- Can be bulky, the Buzzlink extension can be inaccurate and has a learning curve in order to get full benefits
- Reports can be inaccurate
- Load times and other UX errors can be very frustrating