The Crowdfire App is becoming very popular in the blogging world as a way of automating their social media presence. I have been using this App for several months and figured it was time I reviewed it so you could decide for yourself whether it might help you in your online business as I don’t believe it is just for bloggers.
Name: Crowdfire App
Website: www.crowdfireapp.com
Price: Free with 3 price points starting at $5.99 dependent on your needs
Overall Rank: 95 out of 100
Crowdfire App, Product Overview
The Crowdfire app started life in 2010 as an automated tool for twitter but now includes Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube and LinkedIn. It is an app that allows you to connect any online business to its platform and then it draws information from your site for you to promote your business on all of the social media platforms at the best time.
You can add any website, but has a specialised set up for Shopify, WordPress.com ( the popular, free blogging platform that I don’t actually recommend ) and Etsy. It also covers Vimeo, Twitch and 500px. I have no idea what the last two are if I’m honest but there are opportunities for all sorts of online businesses with this app.
As a scheduling tool it allows me to have a constant stream of new content added to my social media accounts. This could be my own website posts or even posts from others as it also provides me with content from others that is related to my niche. If you don’t already know having regular and useful activity on all of your social media accounts will increase your followers and engagement. An account with no activity will soon lose followers and then eventually sales.
Once you have signed up on their site, you can download the app which is where you will operate your social media campaigns from. However, their website is also useful for training and support which I cover below.
As it started out as a twitter tool it does give you lots of opportunities to make the most of your account by giving you the opportunity to see and follow your new followers. It shows who unfollowed you too but I don’t play the follow unfollow game and will not be encouraging it. You can enter your own specific keywords and it will show you accounts that also use these and then you can follow and engage with them in order to hopefully attract more followers yourself. You can even add in your competitors so you can get advice on how they are doing and how.
There are so many things you can do with this app that you cannot fail to gain followers and more engagement. I personally do not really make the most of these tools which is more of a time issue for me. I like to go in once a week and schedule for the week ahead, secure then in the knowledge that I am putting useful information out on all of my social media accounts. You may find the tools available for managing your accounts to enable more followers more useful than me but we all have different businesses and different goals.
With the upgraded plans you also get access to analytics so you can see how your social media accounts are doing and where you might want to put some more focus. With this, it essentially gives you a one stop shop for all of your social media needs.
What’s Good and What’s Not
The Good:
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Adaptable to all sorts of businesses
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Total control by you, as to what gets posted on your social media accounts
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The perfect resource for spying on your competitors
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An inexpensive app and resource for your business
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A total time saver
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A one stop shop for all of your social media needs
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#hashtag recommendations – I always need this feature!
The Bad:
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You no longer have the option to follow all and have to follow each separately. It’s only a click though !
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Getting used to the platform and it’s benefits can take a while (unless you watch the videos – see below)
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Limited support on the free account.