As Admin, you can create and manage a Company Blog that not only can be displayed on your Brokerage website, but for the agent's to be able to utilize on their Agent Websites as well.
Creating a Company Blog
To create a new blog, Select the Settings icon in the upper right hand corner of ClientBAY.
Select Company-wide Blogs under the Marketing section. This will open up your Company Blog Dashboard where you will see all of the Company Blogs that have been created.
Select the +Create Blog button in the upper right hand corner. A right hand slide out will appear where you can indicate all of the settings of your New Blog.
- Blog Title: Give the Blog a title
- Admin Email: If there is a person who will be monitoring and managing the Blog, their email can go here. The will be notified every time a Blog Entry is created or a comment is made on a Blog Entry.
- Status: Is the blog active or inactive
- Comments: Check the allowed box if you want to allow comment to be made on the Blog Entries made in this blog. If you select this on, you can also designate if there is a certain time frame that you want allow comments for.
- Include Entries from Company Blogs: if you have multiple Company Blogs, you can make it so that the posts from the other Blogs appear on this Blog as well.
- Rights: Select another user or users who you want to be able to create Blog Entries for this Blog.
- Lastly select if you want the blog owner to be notified of any new Blog Entries made for this Blog, any new comments made on the Blog Entries, or if you want to require users to create a login to your Blog in order to make comments.
Once you have all of these settings entered, press the blue Save button.
Your Company Blog has now been created and can be found on the Company Blog Dashboard.
On the Company Blog Dashboard, you can utilize the three-dot Action button associated with a Company Blog to Edit that Blog Details, Manage Subscribers, Create Blog Entries, or Delete the Blog.
Adding Entries/Posts to Your Company Blog
Once your blog has been created, you are able to add posts/entries to it.
Find the Blog you want to add an entry to from your Company Blog Dashboard.
Select the three dot action button associated with that Blog and select Entries.
A right hand slide out will appear where you will see all of the entries/posts that you have made for this blog.
To create a new entry/post, select the blue +Entry button in the bottom right hand corner
Now you can enter in your new Blog Entry!
- First give this Blog Entry a Title
- Fill in a Subtitle as well if needed. This could be a quick summary of what the blog is about and gives you another field to enter in keywords about the post.
- Next, you will see a text box where you can put your blog post. This text box has all of the formatting tools that you will need as well as Table, Hyperlink and Image Upload abilities. You are also able to copy and paste into this box as well.
- Below that, you can add a Featured Image. This image will be added to your blog post
- Select if this Blog Entry is active or inactive in the Status Drop Down Menu
- The Auto Status Drop Down Menu is where you can notate if you want this entry to become inactive after a certain period of time
- Under Additional Information select the date that you want this entry to go live and you can also select categories/tags for your entry making it easy for your subscribers to search for entries on the information they are looking for.
- Lastly, select the Comments box if you want to allow people to comment on the Blog Entry.
When done, press the Blue Save button, If you scheduled your entry/post for a later date, you can rest assured that that entry/post will go out on that date. If you selected the current day (or past date) as the post date, your post will now be available for viewing.
You will now see that blog entry/post on the entries page of that blog.
You are able to utilize the three dot Action button to edit or delete and blog entries/posts
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