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HOW TO USE
THINGLINK PROFESSIONALFEATURES
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1. Account Management - Slide 3
2. Image Creation - Slide 8
3. Accessing Analytics - Slide 19
4. Creating Image Channels - Slide 23
5. Plans and Pricing - Slide 29
6. Contact Us - Slide 31
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENTHOW TO
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Control Panel
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENTTOOLBAR AND MENU
Toolbar
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENTTOOLBAR AND MENU
*to access groups contact us at [email protected]
SettingsGroups*UpgradeHelpLog out
Menu
View account notifications in the upper right menu
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ACCOUNT MANAGEMENTEXPLORE TAB
Click to browse the Explore tab
Your Stream shows you the images
of those you follow
Featured houses images marked as notable by ThingLink staff
Top Today and This Week show the most popular
recent images
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ACCOUNT MANAGEMENTMY ACCOUNT TABYour account name
Images you’ve touched
Images you created
Videos you created
Your channels Users you follow
Users who follow you
Aggregate statistics for
all your images
Access your account through
the Me tab
IMAGE CREATIONHOW TO
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IMAGE CREATIONUPLOADING
Click CREATE to begin
Method #1 Upload image file via your hard drive
Method #2 Upload image via
URL where it is hosted
Method #3 Import image
from Facebook
Method #4 Import image
from Flickr
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IMAGE CREATIONTAGGING
Click anywhere on the image to add
a tag
Edit the title of your image
Click to remove touch, share, fullscreen and
branding
Use + and - to zoom in and out
This video explains additional tag types
IMAGE CREATIONTAG CUSTOMIZATION
Hide icon: Icon is invisible
Link
Click to choose icon
Select colors for bubble and text
Choose small, normal, large, or x-large
Choose between 16 font options
Upload a tag image from your hard drive
Enter a link for photo or click through
Hide bubble: Tag bubble is always invisible
Pinned icon: Icon is always visible
Select new tab, same tab or nothing
Select tag type
BoldItalic
Numbered ListBulleted ListAlignment
Enter caption
IMAGE CREATIONREMOVE THINGLINK BRANDING
1. Click “ThingLink”2. Select transparent icon or your custom branding
Click X to remove touch
Click X to remove share
Click X to remove full screen
IMAGE CREATIONFULLY CONTROL HOW YOUR IMAGE DISPLAYS WHILE EMBEDDED
Click “MY MEDIA SETTINGS” tab
Click Menu to reveal drop down, then
select “SETTINGS” to view your
account settings
As a business user, we recommend that you untick all of the
Professional boxes
IMAGE CREATIONIMAGE PRIVACY
Select “Settings” to manage image privacy
Public: everybody can see image on thinglink.com
Unlisted: image is hidden from public on thinglink.com
IMAGE CREATIONUPDATE YOUR IMAGE WITHOUT LOSING TAGS
Click “Replace image” and choose new file
IMAGE CREATIONUPLOAD AND USE YOUR OWN ICONS
Click on the menu to open the drop down
Click on “SETTINGS”
IMAGE CREATIONUPLOAD AND USE YOUR OWN ICONS
Click “UPLOAD ICON SET”
Click “TAG ICONS” tab
Click “SELECT” to upload the icons from you computer for each option
Lastly, click “UPLOAD SET”
ACCESSING ANALYTICSHOW TO
ACCESSING ANALYTICSDETAILED STATISTICS FOR YOUR WHOLE ACCOUNT AND FOR EACH IMAGE
Access individual image statistics
Access overall statistics from profile
ACCESSING ANALYTICSOVERVIEW
Select the time frame Select views, hovers, clicks, or time on image
Select ‘Total’ or ‘Unique’ users
ACCESSING ANALYTICSOVERVIEW
Total figures and ratio
Advanced metrics for each tag and embedded location
HOW TO
CREATE IMAGE CHANNELS
STEP 1: CLICK “POST”
Click “POST”
STEP 2: CREATE CHANNEL
Name your channel
Click “CREATE NEW
CHANNEL”
STEP 3: BUILD REST OF CHANNEL
Repeat Steps 1 and 2
Once the channel has been created, Step 2 will only necessitate choosing the new channel from the list
STEP 4: VIEW CHANNEL AS A SLIDESHOW
Click “VIEW AS SLIDESHOW”
STEP 5: SHARE INTERACTIVE IMAGE SLIDESHOW
Click the share icon
Use this code to embed the
channel to your website or blog
Moving Forward
ACCOUNT TYPES
ACCOUNT TYPESPLANS AND PRICING
CONTACT US
Technical support [email protected]
Sales [email protected]
Blog for news & inspirationhttp://blog.thinglink.com/marketing
