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Buzzstream is the eponymous SEO and influencer marketing platform from the Austin-based company of the same name.BuzzStreamGood For The Basics, Cost-Effective, but Clunky at Times2019-06-12T14:13:01.287ZWe 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.,8,Cost-effective.
Easy to use.
Powerful for the cost.,Hootsuite and HubSpot,Hootsuite, HubSpot, Salesforce App CloudNathan RichardsonStuck in a linking building rut? BuzzStream will help you get your outreach efforts back on track!2019-01-17T20:28:08.777ZBuzzstream 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)!,8,BuzzStream has helped me build 100's of links to the website I manage and easily allows me to track and report on which of those links are still active.
Helps with outreach on special projects--such as promote blog articles, surveys, etc...
Provides an easy way to save websites that would be good to build links for and/or contact to partner with.
BuzzStream also allows some great customization on the website list, so you are able to pull in the metrics that matter most to you (If you want to look at domain authority for all the sites you saved, you can. If you want to see social shares, choose that)!,SpyFu, Ninja Outreach and Pitchbox,Asana, UnbounceAaron TreguboffThe Only Outreach Tool You Would Need2018-12-18T16:40:42.222ZI 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.,Managing Emails.
Scheduling Emails.,Learning to use the tool takes time.
Filters can be confusing.
Contact discovery can be improved.,10,Email open and response rates have doubled.
We've generated a thousand more backlinks from influencers.,Mailshake and Ninja Outreach,Time Doctor, WunderlistCarlo BorjaGreat for Influencer Outreach Management2018-11-19T22:25:42.960ZWe 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,8,Saves us time and money by keeping us organized and making it easy for us to do backlinking,,Moz, SEMRush, BuzzsumoLaure HelemskiBuzzstream: Good for Small Teams Doing Link-Building2018-12-19T17:10:28.956ZCurrently 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.,6,Positive: Enhanced communication organization and tracking responses.
Positive: More avenues to contact people for the team to reach out on improving link-building efforts.
Negative: True ROI hasn't been seen yet.,Buzzsumo and Google Drive,SEMRush, Moz, BrightEdgeVerified UserBuzzStream is a link building life saver2018-11-26T21:20:17.850ZBuzzSteam 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.,8,It's had a positive impact in keeping our entire agency organized. Especially when employees leave, all of their communication is in one place, so it's pretty easy to have someone take over the process.
You can test different messaging for prospects and then determine the most successful.,Verified UserBuzzstream - Linkbuilding made EASY!2018-05-01T15:26:39.380ZWe 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.,10,Overall it has enabled me to meet my client's expectations consistently.
Since data of outreach prospects are housed on Buzzstream I can use it for future projects as well.,Wrike, LastPass, GlipDan RonatayThe Best!2018-03-16T00:53:09.536ZUsing 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!,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.,10,It helps to record the results of the campaigns in the first place.
It helped to measure the outcomes of the campaigns.
Helps to work on a bigger SEO projects and implements to many SEO strategies easily.,,Moz, Majestic SEO,Importing new websites to the project, by hand, or by a CSV
Bulk emails and personalisation
Reminders and reports of email performance,Team performance reporting is annoying when you have a lot of people using the software,10Justina RimkeviciuteBuzzStream is Essential for Large PR/Outreach Teams2018-04-25T15:31:32.366ZMy 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.,9,We rely heavily on successful outreach for our clients which means earning lots of links. BuzzStream has been essential in helping our team meet those goals, therefore, I'd say it has had a strong positive impact on the business in terms of ROI.,Streak,Asana, Buzzsumo, SlackVerified UserBuzzStream - The CRM for link builders2018-04-19T21:25:07.120ZBuzzStream 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,10,ROI with BuzzStream has been solid
BuzzStream helped clients achieve business goals,Cision PR Software and Meltwater Media Intelligence Platform,Moz, Google Analytics, IntercomVerified UserBuzzstream is a great outreach tool for link building2018-03-23T21:53:09.967ZWe 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.,10,Buzzstream helped us handle some complex link building projects.
By building outreach based links of high quality we got higher-priced clients.,Ninja Outreach and Pitchbox,Citation Labs Link Prospector, Moz, Majestic SEO, SEMRush, HunterVerified UserBuzzStream- Not What I Needed2017-09-19T14:57:07.224ZWe 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.,3,It serves as a platform for one employee to find prospective contacts for another employee to do outreach.,BuzzStream mailbox that I can BCC so email correspondences with contacts are automatically saved rather than needing to write a note about what I said in the email.
Assigning projects to team members.,Going between your list of contacts in the project and specific contacts. You have to hit "close" instead of just clicking out.,4Avery HarrisWhy BuzzStream Is Right For You2015-09-30T20:38:23.146ZAs 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.,9,It has definitely increased the efficiency of employees at our company. Time management has improved a lot.
Customer service to the sites we contact has improved because we are able to better keep track of our contacting efforts.
It hasn't produced as many fast conversions as desired. We are continually trying to figure out how to better contact websites and use the templates option.,BuzzsumoAdam MearsFulfill your business fantasies2015-09-18T22:22:38.160ZWe 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,9,Increased efficiency
Better organization,Eric SerdarBuzzstream Review for Linkbuilders2015-09-15T20:00:06.332ZWe 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,5,Has streamlined process of research, outreach and follow ups that can cause headaches
Leveraged tool to create internal reports of # of links built over a given time period for clients
We can continue to use the saved contacts/roladex for the future,Sungwan Jo
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25 Ratings
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