Crowdfire

Crowdfire strongly focuses on its core social management function, with a strong emphasis on scheduling content across your social channels at the most suitable times. It adds social listening and competitor analysis at its higher subscription levels.

One of its greatest strengths is the easy way you can use it to post a wide range of content across all of your social channels. It also claims to be the first social media management app that supports posting to TikTok, which could be particularly useful to brands targeting a youthful audience.

You can use Crowdfire to post to virtually every social major social network, as well as sharing your material from a surprisingly large selection of blogging platforms, online shops, and video sites (YouTube and Twitch). It does this using a clean interface, making it straightforward to send a single post to all your selected social networks, yet customize your message for each account.

Crowdfire puts content curation at its fore (indeed, that is the first item in the top menu). You can select content to share from a series of articles, images, posts (yours, including YouTube videos), and RSS feeds. It recommends articles to you, and you can easily customize and refine the topics on which Crowdfire offers you content.

Crowdfire相当有限的免费版本,布鲁里溃疡t it does give you a chance to test Crowdfire’s core capabilities. If you wish to use it in any real regular capacity, you will have to buy a paid plan, although the plans are reasonably priced compared to much of the competition.

Although you don’t get to see more advanced features like social listening and competitor analysis with the free or Plus plans, you do get offered a 14-day free trial of them, so you can decide whether you will have enough use to warrant the extra cost.

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Pricing

As a SaSS platform, access to Crowdfire is sold on a monthly or annual basis. There are discounts for annual payments. Crowdfire offers a limited free plan and three paid plans.

• Free- 4个社交帐户（Twitter，Facebook，LinkedIn和Instagram的1个），每个社交帐户的10个计划帖子，文章策划，图像策划，多个图像帖子，社交和高级分析（1天的数据），AD支持
• Plus, $9.99/mo– 10 social accounts, 100 scheduled posts per social account, connect 5 RSS feeds, custom posting schedule, multiple image posts, video posts, social and advanced analytics (30 days data), and post analytics
• Premium, $49.99/mo– 25 social accounts, 100 scheduled posts per social account, connect 15 RSS feeds, custom posting schedule, multiple image posts, video posts, basic, advanced, and post analytics, competitor analysis (2 competitors per social account), monitor and reply to mentions, schedule with calendar view, bulk schedule, can add & manage one profile and team member
• VIP，$ 99.99/mo– 250 social accounts, 800 scheduled posts per social account, connect 25 RSS feeds, custom posting schedule, multiple image posts, video posts, basic, advanced, and post analytics, competitor analysis (20 competitors per social account), monitor and reply to mentions, schedule with calendar view, bulk schedule, can add & manage two profiles and team members (and add further at $25/ additional profile or team member)

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The Details

Crowdfire从一种名为Justunfollow的产品中演变出来。在那个阶段，主要目的是协助您跟随和取消关注Twitter的关注者轻松批量。当时，还有其他一些类似的产品，例如ManageFlitter。在2018年，Twitter镇压了该行业，删除了大多数这些应用程序的API访问权限。

这意味着JustUnfollow竞争对手一样,to change direction or die. They chose to become Crowdfollow and expand on their product’s social media management capabilities. They also widened their coverage from just Twitter. The result is that although the product doesn’t pretend to have such a wide-ranging set of features as some of the competition (that have always had their focus on being social sales and marketing platforms), it does its core features well.

与大多数社交媒体营销应用程序一样，您首先签署。您可以使用社交帐户来帮助简化此过程。

我确实发现Crowdfire有一个烦人的怪癖，很快就会变得令人沮丧。它在一段时间后登录您，并要求您再次登录。这本身没问题。据推测，所有这些社交媒体营销经理最终都这样做。但是在Crowdfire中，即使您的帐户名称仍然清晰可见，您也会看到这些登录提醒。但是，主要问题是登录的提醒无法单击。几次，我一直在应用程序中盘旋，试图找到一种登录的方法。最后，我不得不使用URL来尝试回到登录屏幕。他们当然需要使该系统更加用户友好和访问。

Once you are logged in, you begin by setting up your social apps. In Crowfire’s case, you have a second group of connections to make as well – your blogs, online shops, YouTube, and Twitch channels. These are the places where you have content that you will want to share.

The most notable thing about this is the full range of accounts you can connect. Crowdfire has moved a long way from just working with Twitter. Their inclusion of TikTok is particularly notable, with the rapid increase in popularity of that platform.

Note that the WordPress blog option is for someone who operates a WordPress.com site. If you want to connect to a WordPress.org site (essentially a website hosted by anybody other than WordPress themselves), you should simply select the Blog option.

The top menu is very clear, and its sequence possibly emphasizes Crowdfire’s priorities: Content Curation, Scheduling, Analytics, Mentions, and Accounts.

内容策划是众民批准的优势之一。左菜单中显示了四个选项：文章，图像，我的帖子和RSS。本质上是第五个选项，因为您可以下载CrowdFire的Chrome扩展名，从而使您几乎可以共享遇到的任何网页。

You can use these to create social posts, both from others’ content (Articles, Images, RSS) and your own (My Posts).

The My Posts section goes to your connected blog, YouTube / Twitch channel, or online shop, and searches for any recent content. Crowdfire then creates potential social posts for each of your connected social accounts.

CrowdFire使用文章和图像部分来建议您可以共享的合适内容（在图像的情况下为Pinterest和Instagram）。这里特别可爱的是，它们为您提供了很多机会来完善您的文章/图像建议。您可以在相当详细的层面上选择主题，甚至可以将来不希望将其作为建议的内容网站。

当您选择要共享的内容项目时，CrowdFire将提出建议的社交帖子，您可以为每个社交帐户修改和自定义。

Crowdfire专注于确保您在最佳的观众中发表帖子，因此通常不会考虑发布预定帖子的精确发布时间。您只需在队列中添加帖子即可。

However, if you know your social audience well, you may want to set the best times for each social network yourself. Crowdfire gives you the option to set your best times manually, network by network, and day by day. If you have previously discovered that your social audience engages well with tweets made at 4 pm on a Friday, you can easily set up your queue to ensure that you always have tweets made at that specified time.

您有一个队列仪表，指示您接下来七天尚未发表的其他帖子数量。您可以在每个社交渠道上选择自己喜欢的每日帖子。如果您的队列仪表显示一个正数，您知道您仍然需要制作/查找其他内容以共享。

One of the more unusual “features” of Crowdfire is that you can only see a unified calendar of your upcoming posts if you have opted for one fo the two higher pricing tiers. The lack of this would be a real reason to avoid the free and Plus plans. The unified calendar is useful, although it is perhaps not as detailed as some of the competing apps. It doesn't feel as flexible, and if there is a way to show more than two posts a day without clicking on the day, it isn't immediately apparent. However, it does at least make clear if you haven't created content for particular days.

I never tested the bulk scheduling feature, but that has the potential to be of great use to power users who make many posts that aren’t just links to existing content.

Crowdfire提供了一系列分析，可以清楚地表明您的社会成功。这始于您所有社交帐户的概述，显示每个帐户的关键统计数据。您可以选择显示昨天，最后7天或前30天的统计数据，尽管并非全部可用于较低的计划。但是，此概述非常基本。例如，这里唯一的Instagram Stats Crowdfire显示的是关注者，帖子，喜欢和评论的数量。

高级分析部分的范围更为高级。您还有更多选择日期和更广泛的统计数据。它还显示了一些关键统计信息的图。

The higher plans also allow for both competitor analysis and custom report building. The custom reports looked like they could be of much use to firms trying to understand the performance of their posts.

提及的另一节是限制更高计划的部分。这实际上是一种社交听力工具，可以让您跟踪人们在社交帖子中提到您的业务或帐户的时代。尽管不像我们看过的一些专业工具那样深入，但它可能对想要一般关注事物的品牌有用，并希望避免公共关系灾难。

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Conclusion

Crowdfire干净，易于使用的界面给我留下了深刻的印象。除了一个值得注意的例外，一切似乎都是直观和清晰的，而且肯定很容易使用。一旦您超时并必须重新登录，就会引起关注的一个领域。它们当然可以清楚地提醒他们，但对于如何重新登录并不明显。

Crowdfire handles content particularly well. I very much liked the way you can connect virtually all of your content channels – websites, blogs, online stores, YouTube channels, Twitch streams, and more. Crowdfire continually looks for new content on these content channels and tries to draft posts, adapted to be suitable for each of your social channels.

我可以想象，对于有组织的社会营销商来说，这将特别方便。您可以为每个社交网络设置最佳的发布时间，然后继续添加内容，准备众群火在所选时间分发帖子。然后，当然，您可以将组织的内容以及其他精心策划的内容（包括帖子和图像）交织在一起。

Crowdfire also handles the newer social networks well. It may have grown out of a Twitter app, but it has widened to cater to new platforms such as TikTok. It also recognizes the inherent importance of images nowadays, with Instagram and Pinterest clearly provided for – far more than just an after-thoughts as they appear in some other apps.

尽管Crowdfirs缺乏较大应用程序的一些细节，例如Sprout Social或Agora Pulse，但它涵盖了一个较窄的功能集，并且表现良好。