Table of Contents

• New platform features and updates for brands
  • Hire confidently with our new Recommended Bloggers feature
  • Introducing The Stream
  • Invite bloggers to pitch on your campaigns
  • Tightly manage your budget with a clearer pricing display
  • Communicate easily with Chat
  • Call upon support whenever you need us
  • Negotiate costs with ease
  • Make data-driven decisions
  • Never lose track of the detail
  • Track your campaign progress
  • Easily manage campaign deadlines
• It’s time to start your next blogger outreach campaign

New platform features and updates for brands

Are you looking to maximise your blogger marketing efforts? Check out the new and improved features on our state-of-the-art blogger outreach platform – perfect for helping brands make an impact today!

Hire confidently with our new Recommended Bloggers feature

We want to give you the best chance at success when hiring a blogger for your campaign, that’s why we’ve created badges of distinction so it’ll be easy-peasy to spot someone who is truly top-notch! We are proud to help ensure that only experts get hired and equip you with all the tools and insight needed.

Meet recommended Bloggers here.

Introducing The Stream

Let The Stream make your life easier! It brings together the creator’s blog and social content into an organised, comprehensive feed – so you can spend less time researching if they are a fit with your brand. This functionality is also available on brand profiles, so you can give the best impression of your brand to our creators.

Invite bloggers to pitch on your campaigns

Say goodbye to waiting around for blogger pitches, and make partnerships happen faster! Take the initiative and invite those who have unique skills that fit your campaign needs. Hear their exclusive ideas, get inspired and make a difference together.

Tightly manage your budget with a clearer pricing display

With our new and improved price display, you’ll be more in the know about how much it will cost to collaborate with bloggers on Get Blogged. By clicking on the little [i] next to each pricing option, we make sure that everything is crystal-clear for your budgeting needs. We’ve always been open with fees and VAT added to total campaign costs – but now there’s no confusion with our handy breakdowns! You can easily plan ahead knowing exactly what you need to pay when hiring creators through the Get Blogged platform.

Communicate easily with Chat

Looking to reach influential bloggers fast? We’ve got you covered! Our integrated messaging system makes it easier than ever before, plus we’ve squashed all the pesky bugs that previously caused messages to go missing. Now it’s hassle-free and convenient – start connecting with ease today!

Call upon support whenever you need us

If you have a pressing enquiry whilst talking to a blogger or working on your campaign, our ‘contact support’ widget is available to provide speedy answers directly from us!

Negotiate costs with ease

Now, you can use our negotiate feature to request a price that works for everyone. Here we help you strike up mutually-beneficial partnerships and collaborate productively on great content.

Make data-driven decisions

We’ve been hard at work, and now bloggers can join the party with our brand-new and updated social API, and blog traffic solutions. It’s time for seamless integration of Google Analytics, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube!

With our brand-new insights, you can also track your creator’s reach across social media networks and determine their engagement rate. Stay up to date on posts created in a 30-day timeframe – it’s that easy!

Never lose track of the detail

Keeping track of your campaigns has just become a whole lot simpler! You now have access to an easy-to-view activity log that provides valuable insights into each and every collaboration. No more guesswork – let the logs do their magic!

Track your campaign progress

Banish campaign ambiguity with our brand-new task tracker! Now, monitoring every collaboration will be a breeze. Leave the guesswork aside and let this handy bit of functionality keep track of where you are – create a campaign today and see it in action!

Easily manage campaign deadlines

Having trouble meeting your campaign timelines? We’ve got you covered! You can now change timelines and accept or reject deadline extension requests. Keep up with the pace of your campaigns – keep them organised and running smoothly!

It’s time to start your next blogger outreach campaign

For brands looking for the ultimate efficiency, check out the latest and greatest platform features that are sure to give your business an edge! With these exciting capabilities at your fingertips, it’s never been easier or more enjoyable to reach new audiences with Get Blogged.

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Table of Contents

• New platform features and updates for content creators
  • Be recognised for your hard work with our new Recommended Bloggers feature
  • Introducing The Stream
  • Get ready to receive personal campaign invites from brands
  • Edit your proposals with ease
  • Communicate to brands easily with Chat
  • Negotiate your costs with ease
  • Showcase your hard work by connecting with social and blog APIs
  • Never lose track of your campaign details
  • Track your campaign progress
  • Request or accept deadline extensions or changes
• It’s time to land your next blogger outreach campaign

New platform features and updates for content creators

Check out the new and improved features on our easy-to-use blogger outreach platform – perfect for helping content creators make an impact with brands!

Be recognised for your hard work with our new Recommended Bloggers feature

We want to give you the best chance of success when applying to work with brands on their campaigns, that’s why we’ve created badges of distinction so it’ll be easy-peasy to spot that your work is truly second to none! Watch this space for more details on how to obtain your badge!

Introducing The Stream

Let The Stream make your life easier! The Stream brings together your blog and social content into an organised, comprehensive feed all accessed in one area of your Get Blogged profile. It’s perfect for giving brands an impression of your dedication and creativity all in one feed.

Get ready to receive personal campaign invites from brands

Say hello to personalised invites from brands who want to work with you! Get an edge on your competition and pitch your exclusive ideas. Watch out for your emails!

Edit your proposals with ease

Streamline your proposal process and make updating details and prices a cinch with our efficient, user-friendly functionality! Get the job done quicker than ever before.

Communicate to brands easily with Chat

Looking to communicate your ideas clearly? We’ve got you covered! Our integrated messaging system makes it easier than ever before, plus we’ve squashed all the pesky bugs that previously caused messages to go missing. Now it’s hassle-free and convenient – start chatting with brands with ease today!

Negotiate your costs with ease

Now, you can easily negotiate to settle upon a price that works for everyone. Get the best rates and collaborate productively on great content.

Showcase your hard work by connecting with social and blog APIs

Now content creators can really showcase what they’ve got with our new social and blog API solutions. Say goodbye to flakey connections – it’s time for seamless integration of Google Analytics, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube!

With your new profile insights, you can not only showcase your reach across social media which also determines your social engagement rate. Connect your socials now.

Never lose track of your campaign details

Keeping track of your campaigns has just become a whole lot simpler! You now have access to an easy-to-use activity log that provides valuable insights into each and every collaboration. No more guesswork – let the logs work their magic!

Track your campaign progress

Banish campaign ambiguity with our brand-new task tracker! Now, monitoring every collaboration will be a breeze. Leave the guesswork aside and let this handy bit of functionality keep track of where you are – apply for campaigns today!

Request or accept deadline extensions or changes

Having trouble meeting the proposed campaign deadlines? We’ve got you covered! You can now change timelines and send deadline extension requests. Keep up with the pace of your campaigns – keep them organised and running smoothly.

It’s time to land your next blogger outreach campaign

For bloggers looking for the ultimate campaign efficiency, check out the latest and greatest platform features that are sure to give your service an edge! With these exciting capabilities at your fingertips, it’s never been easier or more enjoyable to work with brands on Get Blogged.

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What is ‘Fund Account?’

Historically, all payments into brand accounts were tied to hires. So, just like any other e-commerce shop, you added 5 bloggers to your basket and you would check out to hire them, paying for their services through PayPal.

Historically, it was not possible to fund a brand account outside of the hiring process. For instance, if you have £1000 to allocate to your blogger marketing campaign this month, you wouldn’t have easily been able to add that to your account to use as you hire bloggers throughout the month.

But after this new update, that’s all in the past because you can now fund your account for any amount you like! Hooray.

What are the features and benefits of ‘Fund Account?’

Following feedback from a number of users of our blogger outreach platform, we understood the need for you to be able to fund your account for your whole campaign amount so that the funds are available as and when you want to hire.

Better control of your marketing investment

So, we’ve added the funding functionality that takes you through our checkout process separately. This is particularly useful if the hiring manager utilising the Get Blogged platform doesn’t have easy or regular access to campaign funds. If you want to hire bloggers on an ad hoc basis, you will only need to access a payment card once to top up your account.

Easier to stick to your blogger marketing budget

Having a total campaign amount in your Get Blogged account is very useful when you have an exact budget to stick to. You can now easily keep track of what you’ve spent and how much budget you’ve got left.

Introducing invoicing and bank account transfers

Not only can you instantly fund your account with our quick and easy PayPal and credit / debit card process, we also added the functionality to create an invoice on the platform that you can settle with a bank account transfer.

This option is particularly useful for those who have no access to company cards or PayPal accounts.

How to use ‘Fund Account?’

There are now four ways to hire bloggers for your paid blogging campaigns:

1. Hire bloggers one by one with PayPal

Some users of the Get Blogged blogger outreach platform like to hire bloggers one by one, checking out via PayPal each time. This method is still a valid way to hire bloggers, so you do you!

2. Hire multiple bloggers in one go with PayPal

This is currently the quickest way to hire bloggers. You can add as many bloggers to your campaign basket across multiple live or closed jobs as you like and then checkout via PayPal in one go.

3. Bank account funding via invoicing

This funding method is good for those who would like to fund their account via a bank account transfer. Simply press the ‘Fund Account’ button within your ‘Manage Account‘ area and follow the steps to create an invoice on the platform. Once your invoice is settled, we get an alert and we manually update your account to reflect the funding amount. You can then hire bloggers using your funds in your account without having to go through the checkout process every time.

4. Fund your account with PayPal

This funding method is fast becoming a favourite. Simply press the ‘Fund Account’ button within your ‘Manage Account‘ area and use PayPal to checkout. This is the quickest way to fund your account because this will automatically add your blogger marketing budget which you can instantly use for hiring bloggers.

We hope you find our platform update useful but if you have any further questions on how it works please contact us, we’re always happy to help!

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We pride ourselves on prioritising features that help make our valued community’s jobs easier and quicker, so I hope these features help make even lighter work of your blogger outreach campaigns!

1. Checkout now handles VAT by user country

For our valued VAT-free users, Luke has developed a very clever system that will auto-detect whether you need to pay VAT or not, and consequently update your checkout to reflect that.

Try it out.

2. You can now duplicate jobs

Previously, every time you want to create a new campaign, you’d had to post a job from scratch. Now, you can navigate to past (or indeed, live) jobs and clone them! You will have the opportunity to edit any of the details as you navigate through the job builder. Simple.

Duplicate a job now.

3. Reopening jobs is a breeze

If you’d like to restart the recruitment of a past campaign that ended or was completed, you can now do it simply by navigating to the job and choosing the ‘reopen job’ option. As above, you will be taken through the job builder steps, given the opportunity to update the deadline and any other details that may have changed since.

Reopen your jobs now.

4. Negotiating fees just got easier

When using the message system to negotiate fees with bloggers, previously, bloggers had to withdraw their proposal and then reapply for the job with their new fee. OR, we updated their fee on our end.

Now bloggers can update their proposal fee easily and quickly on their original proposal, without any hassle!

Get Blogged is built upon your feedback!

Please do comment below if there is anything that you’d love to see the platform handle or any issues you’ve been experiencing. You’re always welcome to reach out to us to discuss anything that’s missing from your experience on our blogger outreach platform. As I mentioned before, the Get Blogged platform is built to make light work of blogger outreach, so without your feedback, it wouldn’t be what it is today.

Sign up and post a job for free now.

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In order to start on that journey, we have a plan to consistently make improvements to The Marketplace that enhance both a brand’s and blogger’s experience. This week you may have noticed that we updated the platform, so I am here to highlight what’s new!

Table of Contents

• What’s new in our latest Marketplace update?
  • 1. You can now access blogger feedback to help you make better choices
  • 2. We’ve connected with the Google analytics API to show you better traffic data
  • 3. It’s now easier to list better jobs
  • 4. You can now choose different job types in our new job builder
  • 5. You can now define your deliverables up front for smoother collaborations
  • 7. We’re now encouraging every blogger to verify their sites
  • 8. You’ll receive more helpful email notifications
  • 9. We’re now faster at appraising your jobs
• 3 new Marketplace hacks to make your life easier
  • Hack 1: Now you have access to your draft jobs
  • Hack 2: You can fund your account via invoice instead of PayPal
  • Hack 3: Link history is now available!
• Stay tuned for our next Marketplace update

What’s new in our latest Marketplace update?

Settle down with a cuppa and take notes, because it’s a big one!

1. You can now access blogger feedback to help you make better choices

It’s important to us to give you the tools to make informed choices on who you hire and work with. It’s also important to us that our blogger and influencer community can make informed choices when working with brands. That’s why we have introduced a new two-way feedback system.

Do I have to give a blogger or influencer feedback?

No… but it’s helping improve other’s experiences if you do take a moment to rate the person you collaborated with.

When and how do I give feedback?

Once you have approved a blogger or influencer’s work on the platform, you will be given the chance to rate them. They will also be able to rate you as a brand too.

Where does the feedback show?

Currently, as we build meaningful data, you will be able to visit feedback on profiles only. It’s our aim to bring a special scoring system into proposals and on jobs in the near future.

2. We’ve connected with the Google analytics API to show you better traffic data

Site traffic in proposals has been a bit hit and miss in the past, provided to us by a third party traffic estimation service. So that we can provide a much better overview of site traffic, we have integrated with a Google Analytics API. This couldn’t get more accurate, and bloggers are also excited by this one as it means they can show their actual traffic levels.

Where will I see Google Analytics traffic data?

Though it will take a while to filter through (whilst we encourage bloggers to connect their accounts,) the new traffic data can be seen in proposals.

Will every proposal show Google Analytics data?

Not yet. It’s our mission to have the vast majority of active bloggers on the platform connect their profile through the Google Analytics API.

3. It’s now easier to list better jobs

We have created a more intuitive job builder which although takes you through a few extra steps, will result in creating better jobs for bloggers and influencers to apply for.

Why is it important for me to post a good blogging job?

If you’re looking for the very best bloggers and influencers for your jobs, then it’s important that you post a well-crafted job. This includes being upfront about exactly how you’d like to collaborate, your budget, any links that you expect to be included and the types of blog category you are interested in.

How do I post a job?

You can do that here (click/press the ‘post a job’ button.) If you need any help, reach out to us at any time.

4. You can now choose different job types in our new job builder

For those of you who have been postingjobs in The Marketplace, you will know that we had a ‘one-size-fits-all’ type approach to building jobs. We’ve now added some new job types to the job builder, so brands can be more specific about the type of job they’d like to work with bloggers/influencers on.

What types of jobs can I post?

Under the Blogging category you can create jobs around Sponsored Posts, Link Insertions and Guest Posts. Under the social Media category you can request Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, and TikTok. If none of the above options suit you, you can choose the Something Else option.

What if I want to post a different job to those you suggest?

Please reach out to us. We’ve made it super-easy to create different job types, so if there is one you think we have missed, let us know and we will see if we can fit it into the workflow for you.

5. You can now define your deliverables up front for smoother collaborations

Do you have a certain link you’d like a blogger to include in their blog post? Or perhaps you need the blogger to adhere to a specific word count? You can of course add deliverables like that in the free text job description, but we have now added a step to the job builder that collects this information, then checks with the blogger or influencer to make sure the deliverables are all completed during the submission stage. Not only does this process help you complete more accurate collaborations, it cuts down the back and forth with bloggers about specific instructions.

How do I specify a deliverable?

Each new job type includes the ability to define related deliverables such as URL, number of links, anchor text and link type.

Where does a deliverable show on my job?

The deliverables you specify on your job are shown to bloggers and influencers in the description of the job. They help to paint a picture of what is expected of them if they are suitable for your campaign. A mentioned above, we also reiterate the deliverables in the submission stage so that the blogger or influencer manually ticks them off before they submit work.

7. We’re now encouraging every blogger to verify their sites

It’s so important to us that we only work with privately owned blogs; absolutely no blogging networks allowed on Get Blogged. We are currently actively encouraging every blogger we work with to verify they own the site/s they have listed in their profile by using a piece of code, or with a new WordPress plugin we recently developed.

Why is site verification important?

We are developing the tools to enable you to make better choices on who you work with. This is one of them. It’s important that you are armed with different data points so that you can rest assured you are spending your budget wisely and making an informed decision. We encourage you to work with those who own their own blog, not with blogging networks.

8. You’ll receive more helpful email notifications

Our site notifications used to be lacking in information and were generally unhelpful. We have redesigned and rewritten a large proportion of our email notifications so that they are more useful, enabling you to do more, quickly.

9. We’re now faster at appraising your jobs

When you submit a job, we check it over to make sure everything is present and correct before we start promoting it to our blogging community. We have developed a more intelligent system that allows us to appraise your jobs faster, or provide helpful feedback if your job needs a little tweak.

Why do you disapprove some jobs?

It’s important that all jobs on our platform meet certain standards. Jobs that get disapproved are usually lacking in description (i.e. just a few words), or it’s not fully clear what is expected of bloggers. We will always guide you through the process of creating great blogging jobs.

How do I edit a disapproved job?

It’s easy to edit any job. There is a simple ‘edit job’ button on all jobs which allows you to edit any of the details. When you save your job it gets resubmitted for us to check over.

Can I get support to list a job that will attract lots of great proposals?

We’ve approved thousands of jobs this year already, and we also run campaigns for other brands, so we have a lot of experience in creating proposal-grabbing jobs. Just let us know if we can help you at any time. We’re always happy to help you vraft the perfect job that bloggers and influencers can’t resist!

Post a job in The Marketplace for free now.

3 new Marketplace hacks to make your life easier

So you’ve read through the 9 amazing updates to The Get Blogged Marketplace, but that’s not all. Here are three super-helpful Get Blogged Marketplace hacks we’ve developed to make your blogger outreach journey easier!

Hack 1: Now you have access to your draft jobs

Any jobs you didn’t submit for any reason in the past are accessible in the new ‘draft’ filter (on the left-hand filters menu in The Marketplace.) Jobs that haven’t been approved yet also sit here until they go live.

Hack 2: You can fund your account via invoice instead of PayPal

We realise that not every business has access to, or wants to use a PayPal account to fund their account in order to make hires in The Marketplace. So if you need to fund your account via invoice at any time, let us know the amount and we will send you an invoice. As soon as payment has been received our end, we will manually fund your account with the dosh so that it’s accessible to use on your hires.

Hack 3: Link history is now available!

In practical terms, this feature means that we’ve made it super easy for any brands who need to steer clear of sites that they have worked with before.

Why is link history important?

To some link builders, it’s important that they only place a link once per site. We’ve made it easy to see which blogs a brand has worked with before.

Can I access link history on my old jobs?

If you’ve been using The Marketplace for a while now, and link history is important to you, just let us know and we will be happy to retrospectively add the data so that link history applies to your entire job history.

How can I view the link history on a proposal?

When viewing proposals, you will see a little link icon if you have worked with that site before.

Stay tuned for our next Marketplace update

That’s all for now, folks. I outlined the 9 latest platform updates empowering you to create better jobs, collaborate faster and get more bang for your buck.

As I mentioned at the start of this update, in our quest to become the world’s best blogger outreach solution we will continue to share what we are planning, but we also ask you to let us know what you would love to see on the platform! We love feedback; it helps us grow, and gives us a warm feeling inside knowing we’ve helped you reach your goals.

Feel free to post a comment below, or email us your thoughts.

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