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Fohr is a membership network that connects brands with influencers.<\/a> And It's free for influencers and bloggers to join. All you need to do is go to fohr.co and create an account. It really is that simple.<\/p>\n Wait, aren't there already a million networks that connect brands with influencers and bloggers???<\/em><\/p>\n Technically, yes. Except Fohr wants\u00a0to bring transparency into the world of influencer marketing, while also connecting YOU with brands for potential collaborations.<\/p>\n Curious? We'll get into everything all fashion bloggers and social influencers need to know about Fohr below.<\/p>\n Fohr is the network for the honest blogger or influencer.<\/p>\n If you're frustrated that you (and your smaller, authentic following) are being passed up for brand deals,<\/a>\u00a0you will 100% appreciate being a Fohr member. Why? Because Fohr provides its users (and partnered brands) with an\u00a0in-depth look into audience demographics and the overall “health” (i.e. authenticity) of an influencer's\/blogger's audience.<\/p>\n This means that bloggers and influencers who are signed to Fohr are not<\/strong> able to sneakily “alter” their following by using inauthentic tactics (i.e. buying followers, etc.) because it will show up on the platform.<\/em><\/p>\n Founders James Nord and Rich Tong launched the platform in 2012 when influencer marketing was starting to take off. Both were convinced there must some way of measuring an influencer's level of collective influence across all<\/em> social media platforms. They wanted to stop the speculation surrounding which bloggers had fudged their follower count on Instagram – and which bloggers were honest and authentic.<\/a><\/p>\n While other free tools like Social Blade<\/a> and Instagram Analytics will show an influencer's follower growth (and give some insight into their audiences) the data isn't nearly as detailed as the metrics Fohr provides its users.<\/p>\n Fohr members are provided with an Instagram Follower Health Score when the sign up. And it's this coveted score that truly provides value to those influencers and bloggers that join the network.<\/p>\n The score breaks down everything from the average income of their followers to their martial status. Users can also find out who their audience also followers (i.e. celebrities, etc.) along with the personal interest, line of work, religion, and much more of their audience.<\/p>\n Any blogger or influencer can sign up, and it's 100% free to join.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n James Nord and Rich Tong created the platform with one goal in mind: they wanted to bring transparency to influencer marketing.<\/p>\n In the past, marketers replied heavily on speculation, when it came to selecting which influencers to work with on a campaign. Brands would choose who they wanted to collaborate with based on the follower count they saw on a blogger or influencer's social media accounts.<\/p>\n In 2018 many brands are aware that rates of engagement and interaction are more important than the follower count an influencer may boast. But with corner-cutting techniques in years past like joining Instagram Pods,<\/a> signing up for Instagram growth services<\/a> and hiring cheap off-shore Virtual Assistants, figuring out who actually has an authentic following is still tricky.<\/p>\n (Psst! Wonder why you should sign up for an Instagram growth service? We've go the low down here…)<\/a><\/p>\n After analyzing 20 million Instagram accounts with their technology, Fohr found that approximately 7.8% of these accounts were ‘bots and not actually real people. In order to help digital marketers and brand representatives figure out who was legit and who was faking it, Nord and Tong decided to provide its partners and<\/em> its members with some much needed transparency. They developed the\u00a0Influencer Follower Health score and the rest is history.<\/p>\n “These . . . metrics will undoubtedly provide more peace of mind to brands who want to be 100% sure about what they are paying for when they work with an influencer on a campaign,” said\u00a0James Nord, Fohr CEO to Marketwired. “Shedding light on fake followers could curb fraudulent activity, help trigger preventative measures and keep influencer marketing a valued channel for brands.”<\/a><\/p>\n Once an influencer has created an account, they agree to give Fohr authorization access to all of their social media accounts, Google analytics, etc. You know, all of the really unsexy stuff that is necessary to measure influencer but something most creatives hate analyzing. Fohr then takes all of the data and provides detailed insight report on an influencer's audience – right down to the kinds of music their followers enjoy.<\/p>\n For influencers on Instagram Fohr has created an audience score (known as the Follower Health Score) that ranges in ranking from -8 (the worst) to 8 (100% real and engaged).<\/p>\n “Active” followers are users that are engaged and interact with an influencers content. “Lurkers” are users that passively follow an influencers, and rare interact\/view their content. ‘Bots are robotic files that can be categorized as fake followers (although legitimate can accidentally amass them without knowing it).<\/p>\n The platform is then able to provide an overarching score of 0 to 100%. It's this score that reflects the overall quality of an influencer's social media accounts and their entire collective followers.<\/p>\n The data can also be exported, so bloggers and marketers can keep a copy on hand. This makes it easier for influencers, who can share their up-to-date stats with marketers and potential brand sponsors. It also allows them to avoid constantly updating their media kits.<\/p>\n Fohr was created to encourage transparency in an industry where so many influencers falsify the influence they have over their audience. Between buying fake followers to Instagram Pods, many “influencers” boast more influence than they actually have.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s similar to taking steroids in sports,\u201d James Nord said, in an interview with Julie Solomon on\u00a0The Influencer Podcast.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re not only stealing and defrauding the advertisers that are sponsoring you . . .\u00a0 you have taken that [proverbial] gold medal away from somebody else, which is worse in some ways.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n The crackdown on fake followers has been going on for some time now, but Fohr has made huge strides in bringing transparency into the influencer marketing industry.<\/p>\n “I think it makes you look professional and intelligent about your work and following. It shows you understand that this is a business,” Blogger, writer and influencer Amanda Kusek said. Kusek runs cheapcourage.com, a blog “dedicated to doing what scares you with confidence.”<\/a><\/p>\nIntroducing Fohr: Everything Fashion Bloggers Need To Know<\/h2>\n
Intrigued?<\/h3>\n
Enter Fohr's infamous Follower Health Score.<\/h3>\n
Why Was Fohr Created?<\/h2>\n
How Does Fohr Work?<\/h2>\n
It's this score allows Fohr to assess the “Follower Health” of an account. It categorizing followers into one of three categories: Active, Lurkers and Bots.<\/h3>\n
Follower Fraud: It's A Problem<\/h2>\n
What Bloggers Think About Fohr<\/h2>\n