Navigating Influencing: Platform Walkthrough
🔷 Homepage Stream 🔷
That is what your homepage looks like:
When you log in for the first time, you will have suggested streams, however, you can personalise that by clicking 'Explore more beats' and selecting the beats you are interested in. Then, double click on the beat to see all the media related to that topic.
You pin, remove and favourite beats, as well as journalists, by clicking on the yellow star next to their photo.
🔷 Search Bar 🔷
As most of our users search Influencers on a daily basis, we have our search bar fixed on the top of every page. With that, you can do 5 different types of searches:
- Media
This is the default search option. You can use this option to search for people, outlets & publications, media that cover a certain topic and even people with specific job titles (like editors, for example). Note: press enter to see all search results.
- Lists
This search lets you quickly find any contacts list that you have created on the system.
- Call-outs
This option lets you check on editorial opportunities — articles to be published and information requests posted directly to the site by journalists, for example.
- Coverage
A coverage search will search across the last 90 days of our online media coverage database, which contains many thousands of stories written on online news sites and blogs across Australia and New Zealand. Just type anything and press 'enter' to find results.
- Stories
You can also search across Influencing's archive of stories our reporters have filed on the media and marketing communications industries. That includes our Media News, Marcoms News and Epitome columns. (You can also find all our news under 'Community' > 'News').
🔷 Menu Bar 🔷
- Inbox
Our integrated Inbox feature allows journalists to connect with PR professionals and interview spokespeople in real-time, rather than shooting e-mails back and forth or playing phone tag.
Journalists always stay in control of the conversations. Chat conversations can only be initiated by journalists, unless the journalist chooses to leave the channel open for their trusted sources.
- Contacts Tab
In the contacts tab, you can:
â–ª Search for all contacts from our database
â–ª Check the contact lists you have created
â–ª See new recommendations for your lists
â–ª Request a new contact to be added to our database
â–ª Create contacts or import your own contact lists
- My News
The Newsrooms tab is where you can find your company and your clients. Under Newsrooms, you can:
â–ª Create new announcements (click here to learn how to create a press release)
â–ª See all the announcements you have published and scheduled (you can also edit them)
â–ª Check out all editorial opportunities within Influencing (call-outs from journalists)
â–ª Check all your current newsrooms (companies) and add new ones too
â–ª See all the announcements published on PRWire
- Monitor
Besides counting with a vast media database, Influencing also includes a complex online media monitoring facility. That allows you to track how your company or clients are being covered online.
For more info on our media monitoring features, click here.
- Community
In the community tab, you can check out:
â–ª Influencing's own archive of news stories on the media, marketing and communications movements (Media News, Marcoms News and Epitome News.)
â–ª Recruitment opportunities within PR companies
â–ª All PR companies registered with Influencing
â–ª All freelance journalists in our database
â–ª Our popular Influencing Insider webinar episodes presented by Elliott Richardson, where you can learn how real journalists like to work with PR professionals
🔷 Settings 🔷
Here you can:
â–ª Edit your personal details and settings
â–ª Find all the private contacts you've added to your account
â–ª Set up your email preferences
â–ª Edit your company's details
â–ª Manage your team and invite new team members
â–ª Logout
Click on 'PR Directory Settings' to add specific details about your company and help to promote that on our platform. You can also edit other key information, such as company title and logo, clicking on 'Edit Company Details'
To invite new team members to your company’s account, click on Team > Invite new user
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If you have any questions, click on the blue icon on the bottom right-hand corner of your page to have a real-time chat to our friendly team. Or email us at support@mediaconnect.com
Related Articles
How to import your own contacts and lists to Influencing
You can import your own spreadsheets containing contact details. This guide will provide instructions for importing personal lists into your account. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Before you ...Target emails - How big should I go?
When you have what you believe is a ‘good’ story, the temptation is to share it everywhere, immediately. But remember: you’re not after an audience of ‘a lot of journalists.’ You don't want ‘journalists’. You want their audience. And you get MUCH ...[video] How to create a media list + Press Release distribution
The video below will teach you in detail how to create media lists using Influencing, as well as how to send a press release using our announcements toolHow to invite new users and manage your team
Did you know you can invite a new user from your team to join Influencing? Here is how you can easily manage your team and assign their role. First, they must be invited to join Influencing. Follow the steps below: 1) Click on the Admin menu by ...How to subscribe to our Newsletters
With our Daily Brief and Tech Newsletters, you can choose to keep up with media movements and trends sent to your email! Our Influencing Daily Brief newsletter allows you to: - Keep up with media movements of the day (exits and new hires) - Get to ...