I've spent over 4 years in social media and influencer marketing at my agency and now my current startup. Over this time I've come to use a variety of tools to build our influencer programs and I wanted to personally share some of my favorite free apps for anyone who's looking to expand their influencer marketing initiatives. 💡

Customer sentiment is a key brand health metric for any company. Here are 10 sentiment analysis tools that will help you understand how your customers feel about your brand via social listening.

Despite the number of companies conducting link building, PR, or brand awareness outreach campaigns, there's still a distinct lack of benchmark data and data-driven insights into what actually gets results. This data piece attempts to answer some of the most common questions about outreach by digging into over 12,000 campaigns across companies of all sizes and industries. Such as: What level of response rates should we expect? How much variation should we expect from campaign to campaign? Do we need to personalize our outreach in order to get results? If so, how do we do this and still conduct outreach at a scale that moves the needle for the business? What can we do to improve our response rates? Read on to learn more in this new data analysis from BuzzStream.