What is Around.io?
Around.io is a fully automated social media marketing tool. It allows you to schedule your product posting on your social media accounts all within few seconds.
Additionally, it gives you the freedom to use your time productively by dividing your to-do list without having to employ any social media marketing specialist. Invariably this saves you time and money all at the same time.
Around.io also has the ability to increase your traffic through social media by 100%. This is done by keeping you active on social media on a 24/7 basis with relevant updates like quotes, engaging content, GIF’s, your product photos, collages etc.
Finally, it saves you from the stress of repetition of doing the same thing over and over again. And while you’re busy doing other things your social media accounts keeps producing result through constant interaction.
Around.io Features
Around.io FeaturesThe Ultimate Social Day and Week Planner
I've seen lots of social planners, whether they be as WordPress plugins, Shopify add-ons or third party programs such as Hootsuite. Heck, some sites like Facebook even have scheduling built in now. However, not all of the planning tools are the greatest. That's not the case with Around.io, since it provides a way to create posts, pins and tweets, all scheduled for a day or week. It's useful because all of your posts are seen on a single page, and you can jump from one social media site to another, then view the entire calendar for your entire strategy.
Personally, I would like to see some sort of scheduling tool with an option to drag and drop your scheduled posts, but maybe we'll see this in the future from Around.io.
GIF and Content Searching and Sharing
GIFs, articles, links and images are known to perform well on places like Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook. Unfortunately, you have to bring up multiple news sources, search one Google images or follow other blogs through email to see what can be shared on your own social pages.
Around.io has a solid solution, seeing as how all of the content and GIF discover modules are managed right from the Around.io dashboard. Searching around the website isn't that difficult, and you can quickly see things like the number of shares for each item.
Around.io Supports Numerous Marketplaces
Seeing as how this is a tool made for ecommerce stores, it's good to see that the integration options are plentiful. Take a look at the list below to see if your current platform is supported through Around.io. Connecting literally only takes about a minute through the Around.io dashboard.
- Etsy
- Ebay
- StoreEnvy
- Shopify (They have a rather popular, and well-reviewed, Shopify app)
- Big Cartel
- Magento
- Ecwid
The following integrations are coming soon:
- Woo-Commerce (coming soon)
- Big Commerce (cominbg soon)
- Amazon (coming soon)
- Wix (coming soon)
- Weebly (coming soon)
Collage Creator
Collages are rather popular with online store social strategies, since you need to showcase several products in individual postings. However, most collage apps are a pain to work with, and you rarely have all the right product images in one place. Therefore, Around.io has a page with all your product images, where you can combine them together to make sleek collages.
Promoting Products on Multiple Social Platforms
This is the main functionality for Around.io. As you have seen above, the products from your online store are pulled into the Around.io interface. You then have the option to share details about a product to any social media outlet of your choice. So, if you want to post about a shirt through Pinterest and Facebook, it only takes one click to do so.
How Around.io works
First thing first, you need to connect your store with Around.io before you can start using it. The good part is Around.io supports more than one platform, so whichever one you are using you can still easily integrate it with around.io.
Presently, Around.io supports the following platforms:
- WooCommerce
- Shopify
- Etsy
- eBay
- Big Cartel
- Ecwid
- Lightspeed
- Storenvy
- Zepo
- Easy Digital Downloads
You can easily integrate Around.io with any of the above platforms.
Once you’ve integrated Around.io to your eCommerce store, the next thing is to connect your social media accounts. With Around.io you can connect up to 5 social media network all in one dashboard.
After that, everything is setup and you can start promoting your e-commerce store through the social media channel with Around.io.
With the help of the planner, you can enjoy promoting your products automatically by scheduling it through the Around.io Planner. All you have to do is select the Day or Week Planner for any of your social media channel you’ve connected earlier.
Around.io will then automatically post your schedule posts at the right time. By this, your e-commerce store will be constantly promoted on the social media.
Additionally, Around.io comes with a built-in analytics that you can use to find out the amount of traffic you’re getting from the social media on a daily basis.
Around.io Pricing
- Basic Social Plan – For $9.99 per month you can post on all social media from one place, choose any image from your product images to share, schedule posts in one click, find and share relevant content, monitor and share favorite sites and locate awesome GIFs to share.
- Advanced Social Plan – For $19.99 per month you get everything talked about in the Basic Social plan, along with a weekly planner which lets you setup a whole week within 30 seconds.
- Image Plus Plan – (currently in private beta) For $49.99 per month you receive everything from the previous plans, and the ability to add, edit and save your images in one place. In addition, you can upload images from places like Facebook, Instagram Dropbox, Google Drive and more.
Each of the plans offers a 7-day risk free trial to get a feel for what comes along with the Around.io system.
