Getting Started With Social Genie

Once you get used to Social Genie, the process of managing your social media becomes so much easier.

Here is a quick Getting Started guide. Of course, if you have any questions or need any help, you can use this widget to chat with us directly :).

If you'd prefer to watch a video over text and screenshots, here is a video walkthrough of Social Genie:

First -- You'll want to connect one or more social media accounts. You can also submit your website URL to our Support team to request a connection between Social Genie and your website for automated blogging. The Support Team will reach out with the next steps once your request is received.

Next -- You can upload a .png logo file to your account & select your logo settings. You can also add your website URL to your account by going to your account settings via the menu button. Your website URL & logo can now be included with all social media posts that will be published.

Once Connected -- You need to create a campaign. You can choose to utilize a pre-created Brighter Vision campaign or you can create one of your own. A campaign is a collection of social media posts around a specific topic. The Brighter Vision's pre-created campaigns are already populated with a bunch of relevant posts, so they're ready to start publishing right away.

Now, Let's Customize Your Campaign -- After adding a campaign, you'll be directed to the posts page. On your campaign's posts page, you can do a few things:

  • Re-organize the order of your posts -- They publish in the order you currently see them. Just click and drag the post to a new location to re-organize the order.
  • Edit a post -- You can edit the text and the image by clicking the Pencil icon.
  • Delete a post -- If you don't like a post, you can delete it from your campaign by clicking the Trash Can icon.

Campaign Settings -- Here you can choose your camping settings, such as what social media platforms it will publish to, whether you want your logo or website's URL included with the posts, applying mass hashtags, and more. Don't worry though; all of these settings can easily be changed later. If you wish to connect more social media accounts, upload your logo, or add your website's URL, you can do so at any point in time on your account settings page.

Schedule a Campaign --  To schedule, click the schedule tab in the submenu. From here, click the "schedule campaign" button to add your new campaign to your publishing schedule. 

Choose a date for it to start on (we recommend starting it 1-2 days in the future so you have time to customize your campaign) and the posting frequency for it. To get started, we recommend choosing for it to repeat every 1 day and end once all posts are finished. 

Blogging -- You will be notified once the Support team has connected Social Genie to your website and you can begin scheduling blogs to publish to your website and social media.

Click on the blog tab to view the blog library. Once you have found a blog you would like to publish, click the heart icon to save the blog to your personal library to enable editing. Once a blog is saved, a pencil icon will appear. Click this icon to begin editing the blog content & image.

Once you are done editing, click 'schedule this blog" to choose the day and time you would like the blog to appear on the website. You can also enable social media sharing to have a link of the blog on your website shared to your social media pages.

What Else You Can Do -- From here, we recommend doing one of four things:

  1. Creating more campaigns -- Either create your own campaign or use more Brighter Vision pre-created campaigns.
  2. Creating custom posts - create your own social media posts to share with your audience
  3. Browsing the Public Library and finding posts to Favorite (by clicking the heart in the top left) or adding to a campaign.
  4. Add multiple timeslots for a campaign -- It can be helpful to publish the same post at multiple times so that you can be sure that all of your followers see it. To do this, you can easily copy a campaign by navigating to the campaigns page, clicking the options arrow for the campaign you'd like to copy, and then selecting "duplicate campaign." From there, you can schedule another timeslot for the campaign's new copy.

Of course, we are here to help you every step of the way! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us through the Support Widget :)