How to get started with InfluencersKit

This guide takes a new account to its first sent email. It follows the five steps of the Setup Guide on your Overview page, in the same order, and tells you what each step depends on.

One thing to know first: we review every new account before its first email goes out. You can do all of the setup while you wait. Only sending is on hold.

Before you start

• An account. Sign up at influencerskit.com/signup with your email and a password, or with Continue with Google. You don't need a card. New accounts start with a Creator trial.
• A list of people who agreed to hear from you, if you have one. Don't import anyone who didn't. See consent and unsubscribes.

The five steps at a glance

Step 1: Verify your email

1. 1Open the verification email we sent when you signed up, and click the link. It works for 24 hours.
2. 2If it didn't arrive or has expired, check your spam folder, then click Resend verification in the Setup Guide or Resend email in the banner on Overview. Each one sends a new link.

Step 2: Choose your handle

Your handle names your public pages and the address your emails come from. A handle of your-name gives you pages at your-name.ikpages.com and a sending domain of the same name. The first send needs a handle, so don't skip this step.

1. 1Click Choose handle in the Setup Guide, or open Settings. You land on the General tab.
2. 2Under Public landing page URL, type a handle. It can use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, and must be 3 to 40 characters.
3. 3Wait for the green check. If you see This handle is already taken., try one of the suggestions.
4. 4Click Save handle.

Step 3: Import your subscribers

1. 1Click Import subscribers in the Setup Guide. It opens Subscribers.
2. 2Click Import. This takes you to the Imports tab of Integrations & Imports.
3. 3Upload your CSV and map the columns. Import subscribers covers the details.

Step 4: Create a landing page

A landing page collects signups from day one, and it's hosted for you. It's worth doing even if you imported a list, because those signups count as your own growth rather than as imports.

1. 1Click Build landing page. It opens Landing Pages & Forms.
2. 2Build your page and publish it. Create a landing page walks through it.
3. 3Share the link wherever your audience finds you.

Step 5: Send your first email

This is the one step that has to wait for us. It needs your account to be approved and your handle to be set.

1. 1Check the banner on Overview. If it says Your account is under review., keep building: your template and broadcast can wait until sending opens.
2. 2When sending opens, click Send broadcast, or open Broadcast from the Send menu.
3. 3Choose your template, write your subject line, choose your recipients, and send now or schedule. Send your first broadcast has the full steps.

What happens next

• Your review finishes. We email you once when sending is approved. If your handle is missing, the email and the Overview banner both ask for it. See account review.
• The Setup Guide finishes. When all five steps are ticked, it leaves your Overview page.
• Your Overview page changes. Once you have subscribers or sends, it shows your numbers instead of your plan's capacity, and a card suggests the next useful thing to do. See your Overview page.

How the Setup Guide behaves

• Steps tick themselves when the work is done, even if you did it somewhere else.
• Clicking Choose handle, Import subscribers, Build landing page or Send broadcast also ticks that step, even if you leave the page without finishing. A tick isn't proof that the work is done, so check the step itself.
• The X in the corner hides the guide and leaves a small Setup guide (2/5) chip with your count. Click the chip to bring it back.
• If you told us at signup that you're moving from Kit, Mailchimp, Substack, Beehiiv or Flodesk, the guide also shows a link to that migration guide and an Open import button.

What can go wrong

Where to go next

• Set up a welcome sequence so each new subscriber gets an introduction.
• Send from your own domain.
• Sell digital products or earn from email ads.
• Read your analytics after your first send.

Getting help in the app

• Click Help in the top bar, or press ?, to open guides beside the page you're on.
• Under each page title, How this works opens the guide for that page.
• To reach us, open a request from Help & Support. You'll find it in the profile menu, top right. Your Organisation ID on your Profile helps us find your account.