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Feature Friday: How to Manage Your Content Folders

Do you like to keep your content organized?

This week’s feature showcases how you can easily delete and rename your content folders. Additionally, Curtis demonstrates how you can drag content from one folder into another.

This is a great feature for content marketers with high volume of content, and for e-tailers who like to keep their product descriptions organized.

If you have any questions about this feature, do not hesitate to contact your account manager.

Feature Friday: How to Make an Offer

Happy New Year! Today, Scott explains how you can make an offer to your writer.

This feature enables you to make an offer for a lower price to your writer. It is typically used when you have worked with a writer in the past and would like to place another, very large, order with them.

Once you make an offer, it is up to your writer to decide if they accept or decline your offer.

Check out the video for more details!

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Feature Friday: How to Streamline Your Social Media Content

Feature Friday this week demonstrates how you can quickly and easily have content created for, and distributed to, your social media channels.

From within your Stellar account, you can easily have your writers create Facebook and Twitter posts for your company.

Once the social media content is completed by your writer, you can distribute across any social media platform you have in your Hootsuite account.

Insider tip: if you feel that your tweets can also serve as Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media updates, you can schedule it all at once.

Feature Friday: How to Change Your Account Settings

Today, Scott explains how easy it is to set a low funds notification, and change other areas of your profile and account information.

If you have changed your address, you can easily update your account information under the Edit Account Info tab.

Are you one of those people who likes to change their passwords every couple of months? If so, it is easy to do in the Change Password tab.

Should you wish to attach a picture to your profile, you can do so under the Change Picture tab. Here, you can upload your headshot, company logo, or use an avatar we provide for you.

Finally, we have a Low Funds Notification option where you can set a customized threshold for when you would like a reminder to add funds to your account. This feature is handy if you are running content campaigns and have content scheduled to place months in advance. This feature will ensure you are notified when your account hits a certain balance so that you have enough credit for your scheduled orders to place.

For more information on features available within your Stellar account, check out the Feature Friday library!

Feature Friday: How to Create and Manage Writer Teams

It’s that time of year where we’re all organizing our 2015 content strategies. With that in mind, Curtis gives us a quick demonstration of how you can create a team of writers who specializes in writing about your industry.

If you are new to Stellar, you can cruise through writer profiles and choose a writer who looks like a good match for your brand’s voice. Writer profiles include real time client ratings, topics where the writers excel, and many other stats what come in handy when you are vetting writers.

If you have placed previous content orders, you can easily go back and choose any of the writers who have written for you previously.

Writer teams make it easy for you to organize which writers you want on specific projects. If you would like a hand setting up a team of writers, don’t hesitate to contact your client account manager at any time!

Feature Friday: Mark Your Content as Published

Today on Feature Friday, Matt, shows off the latest feature available to Stellar clients- the mark as published option.

Once your content has been written and is completed by your writer(s), the next step is to export and publish your content to your site.

At that point, your content is published. If you custom exported the content, you can mark it as published. If you used the Stellar WordPress connector, it will automatically be marked as published.

All completed and published content will appear in the published folder. If, at any time, you would like to unpublish your content, you can do so by clicking ‘mark as unpublished’.

Feel free to leave any questions below, or, contact your account manager for more details.

Feature Friday: How to Message Your Writer

Today on Feature Friday, Jovita demonstrates how you are able to communicate with your writer.

The first step is to click on the order your writer is working on.

In the bottom right hand corner of your screen, you will see a box that says ‘Message Your Writer’, click on that.

You are now in the chat window with your writer. Both you and your writer have the ability to send a message.

If your writer is not online, they will get an email with your message.

This is a handy feature for your writer if they are looking for more information or specification on your order.

Most of our high volume users like to use the chat feature to open up the lines of communication and build a relationship with their writers.

Feature Friday: How to Connect WordPress to Your Account

Today, Steve, demonstrates how you can hook up your WordPress account with your Stellar account.

Once you are in the app directory in your Stellar account, scroll down to WordPress and click Install App.

From there, you will be prompted to fill in your WordPress information. Once you have filled out this information, click Add WordPress.

You're now ready to export you fresh blog post to your WordPress account!

Simply open the blog post (in your Stellar account) that you would like to export to WordPress, click Tools and Apps at the top of the screen.

From there, scroll down to WordPress and click Publish to WordPress.

Now, if you go into your WordPress account, you will see the blog post ready to be published.

That's how to use the Stellar WordPress integration!

Happy Friday.

Feature Friday: Getting SEO Metadata with Your Content

Happy Halloween and happy Friday!

Today, Matt demonstrates how to order SEO metadata with your content.

We’ve made it easy for you and your writer to work together to get the metadata you need for your SEO strategy.

From within the advanced order option area in the content order form, you will want to click ‘yes’ when it asks you if you would like metadata.

You can specify keywords, or leave it up to the writer to decide.

When your writer picks up your order, they will be presented with 3 fields.

Metadata Title- This section defaults to the h1 title of your order. It can also be customized based on your strategy.

Metadata Description- A best practice for metadata descriptions is anywhere between 150 and 160 characters. We’ve set the character limit to 156 to ensure there is no overage.

Metadata Keywords- As previously mentioned, you can decide whether you’d like to provide these for your writer, or, you can leave it up to the writer to decide what best fits.

Once the writer has returned the SEO metadata and content back to you, you can export the content in HTML or as a CSV file.

If you have questions about this feature, feel free to leave a question in the comment box on this post, or contact your client account manager at any time.