What is Email Outreach?
An email outreach program is when you create an email and solicit people or other bloggers to review your product, site, service, etc. and hopefully gain links among other things.
The definition of email outreach is not limited. It’s expandable. The secret looming behind its success is understandable and actionable.
Purposes:
- Growing website traffic
- Generating leads
- Building links
- Promoting services
- Getting product reviews
- Getting influencers
- Finding investors
- Guest posting
- Sales
Boost Your Email Outreach with the Help of these 5 Tools
1. Ahrefs.com
The world’s largest backlink index
Ahrefs is the newest entry into the link research tool space. They use their own bot and their own index (Which they state is based on information from a trillion website connections).
It’s a well-known tool primarily used for checking backlinks, but what most SEOs forget to take into consideration is that it is capable of so much more. With their massive data index, Ahrefs is definitely one of the most sought-after SaaS tools on the market.
You can use Ahref to gather your prospects, track your competitors’ links, reclaim links (citations) and for keyword research.
2. Buzzstream
Organize your Outreach by Projects
Buzzstream is a software designed for marketers to help them conduct outreach activities, using a personalized relationship-building approach. With buzzstream, marketers can find influencers to have content shared and linked by the right audience.
Send your emails with a sequence of follow ups, manually tracking which sites have contacted or not.
This tool is wonderful, if you really need to work on outreach or link building. There is no better option out there. Buzzstream has a powerful CRM, complete integration with the MOZ API, is user friendly and very intuitive. If you regularly manage your links prospects with excel or google sheet, your productivity will increase 4 or 5 times with Buzzstream.
3. Moz
Filter their Domain Authority
Moz is a leading SEO tool provider that uses both basic and advanced research tools to improve your search engine optimization. In short, Moz offers keyword research tools, a SEO keyword generator, and link analysis that gives detailed data on your inbound links and link quality.
It’s a google extension that provides DA (Domain authority) and PA (Page authority). You can view it with just one click.
4. ContactOut
Email Address Hunter
ContactOut is a simple browser extension that helps you find email addresses and phone numbers of anyone on LinkedIn.
They’ve been around for just over three years and already have thousands of users from a third of the Fortune 500 (like Microsoft, PwC, and Symantec). ContactOut finds emails from 75% of Linkedin users (2x better than the next closest competitor) at a 97% accuracy rate. It’s earned multiple mentions on the ahrefs blog as one of the best freemium email outreach tools available.
They offer a free trial for new users.
5. Grammarly
Grammar checker
Grammarly is an online grammar checking, spell checking, and plagiarism detection platform developed by Grammarly, Inc. The software was first released in July 2009. Grammarly’s proofreading resources check against more than 250 grammar rules and can help avoid embarrassing typos and grammatical errors.
Grammarly works wherever you are. They provide desktop apps along with a Grammarly extension for your web browser. It’s even available on mobile devices.
Build your email template with this extension.
Final thought
I’ve been an outreach specialist for a year and there are a lot of email outreach tools, but these tools are the best I’ve found. Visit me here Actionable content.
