Best Blogger Outreach Tools For Bloggers

The definition of the word "tools" has changed over the centuries, and it is still ambiguous in this day and age. A new tool might not pique the interest of a construction worker, but it would certainly pique the interest of a Blogger.

If you're a blogger, you're probably sending and receiving a lot of emails every day. It can be time consuming and tedious to respond to inquiries or send out your own outreach emails to build relationships and pursue potential guest post opportunities. Fortunately, there are numerous tools available to make your life easier, whether you're looking for contact information or setting up reminders to follow up on an email.

We scoured the internet and compiled a list of these time-saving email outreach tools that every blogger should use to save time and increase productivity.

1. Boomerang

Boomerang for Gmail is a Firefox and Chrome plugin that is jam-packed with fantastic features that will leave you wondering why Google didn't implement them in the first place.

Scheduling Email

One of Boomerang's most important features is the ability to schedule emails to be sent at a later time, whether that time is in a day, week, or month. This is useful for a variety of reasons. For example, you may be sending an email to someone in another time zone who is currently sleeping, but you want the email to arrive in their inbox at 9 a.m. when they arrive at work. Or, if you need to send the same person another email but don't want to flood their inbox, you can use Boomerang to give them a chance to digest the first by scheduling the second to send later in the day.

Reminders for Follow-up

Boomerang also lets you, believe it or not, boomerang emails back to your inbox at a predetermined time. Assume you approach a blog about a guest post opportunity, but they ask you to contact them again in a couple of weeks because they are extremely busy. Simply schedule a two-week follow-up reminder, and Boomerang will archive the email and bring it back to the top of your inbox when you need it.

You can also use this feature to remind yourself to follow up with people if you haven't heard back from them by a certain deadline. Simply check the appropriate box, and your message will be returned to your inbox if they do not respond.

2. Buzz Stream Email Research Tool

Buzz Stream's email research tool is excellent for locating a person's or website's contact information. When performing email outreach, it is common to struggle to find a blogger's contact information; however, with Buzz Stream, all you need to know is the website address, name, or company.

Fill out any of these fields and click 'Generate Searches,' and you'll be presented with a list of Google search operators that will scour the site for email links and contact forms. It's small and simple to use, making it ideal for finding contact information for a single website.

3. Gmail Canned Responses

Canned Responses is a Google Labs add-on that allows you to create simple templates for sending common outreach emails. Typing out similar emails can become very tedious, and with this simple tool, you will save valuable time and eliminate the monotony of daily tasks.

4. Rapportive

Rapportive is another Gmail addon that works well with Boomerang. It gathers all available information about the person you're emailing from their various social media accounts, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. This permits you to have interaction with them on a greater non-public degree and presents valuable data when achieving out to fellow bloggers.  The information is displayed in an unobtrusive box on the side of your screen, and you can even take notes on a specific person.

5. Gmail Undo Send

Undo Send is a Google Labs add-on that allows you to cancel the sending of an email within 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds. It's a lifesaver when you send an email too early, to the wrong person, or forget to attach a document.

6. Follower wonk

Twitter should be an active part of every blogger's life; it allows you to connect with your readers on a more personal level and is an excellent way to alert them to new posts. It's also a goldmine for finding guest posting opportunities and networking with other bloggers. Follower Wonk is a new tool that uses Twitter to find bloggers in a specific niche.

If you run a design blog and want to connect with other bloggers in your niche, enter 'design blogger' and Follower Wonk will sift through thousands of like-minded Tweeters and rank them based on their influence, number of followers, and time on Twitter.

You can also examine a Twitter account's followers to find bloggers who already follow you, making it simple to expand on any existing relationships.

7. Citation labs contact finder

Citation Labs has a contact finder that allows you to enter up to 1,000 URLs if you need to find contact information for more than one blog at a time. It will crawl the web and compile a list of email addresses that you can then export in.csv format after several minutes, depending on how many websites you enter. This allows you to open them in Excel and sort them according to your needs, such as removing duplicates or categorizing them into specific niches.

Conclusion

This brings us to the end of our list of the best email outreach tools for bloggers. Using these tools in your daily activities will save you hours of time and make your life easier. Reaching out to other bloggers in similar niches can help you get noticed and find guest posting opportunities, which will help you build your readership and establish relationships with like-minded people.