sales-influencity

What this skill does

# Influencity Platform Help

Helps the user set up and optimize Influencity for influencer discovery, relationship management, campaign tracking, social media management, and brand monitoring.

## Step 1 — Gather context


If `references/learnings.md` exists, read it first for accumulated knowledge.

Ask the user:

1. **What do you need help with?**
   - A) Finding and discovering influencers (Discover)
   - B) Managing influencer relationships and data (IRM)
   - C) Setting up or running a campaign (Campaigns)
   - D) Tracking post performance and reporting (Reports)
   - E) Social media content planning and publishing (Social Hub)
   - F) Brand monitoring and competitor analysis (Monitoring)
   - G) Influencer payments
   - H) Shopify integration or product gifting
   - I) Choosing the right Influencity plan
   - J) Something else — describe it

2. **Which Influencity plan are you on?**
   - A) Professional
   - B) Business
   - C) Enterprise
   - D) Free trial
   - E) Not sure / haven't signed up yet

3. **What platforms do you need to cover?**
   - A) Instagram
   - B) TikTok
   - C) YouTube
   - D) Multiple — which ones?

**If the user's request already provides most of this context, skip directly to the relevant step.** Lead with your best-effort answer using reasonable assumptions (stated explicitly), then ask only the most critical 1-2 clarifying questions at the end.

## Step 2 — Route or answer directly

If the request maps to a different skill, route:
- Influencer strategy across platforms → `/sales-influencer-marketing`
- Modash, influData, Creator.co, Hypefy, or LTK specifics → `/sales-modash`, `/sales-infludata`, `/sales-creatorco`, `/sales-hypefy`, `/sales-ltk`
- Ad campaign strategy → `/sales-retargeting` or `/sales-b2b-advertising`
- Email marketing to subscribers → `/sales-email-marketing`
- Affiliate program design (not influencer-specific) → `/sales-affiliate-program`
- UGC galleries / shoppable content → `/sales-tagshop`

Otherwise, answer directly from the platform reference below.

## Step 3 — Influencity platform reference

**Read `references/platform-guide.md`** for detailed module documentation, pricing, integrations, and data model.

*You no longer need the platform guide details — focus on the user's specific situation.*

## Step 4 — Actionable guidance

Based on the user's specific question:

1. **Discovery playbook** — search strategy, filter combinations, credit-efficient workflows
2. **IRM setup** — list organization, tagging strategy, audience overlap analysis
3. **Campaign plan** — workflow setup, gifting config, outreach templates, tracking setup
4. **Reporting setup** — which URLs to track, metrics to focus on, export formats
5. **Social Hub config** — content calendar setup, approval workflows, team collaboration
6. **Monitoring setup** — brand keywords, competitor tracking, alert configuration
7. **Plan recommendation** — which tier fits their volume and feature needs

**Credit optimization tips:**
- Use Discover filters aggressively before browsing results to minimize wasted Monthly Results
- Save promising creators to IRM lists immediately — re-searching wastes credits
- Batch your IRM analyses — analyze all shortlisted creators in one session rather than checking back repeatedly
- Use Reports selectively — prioritize analyzing top-performing publications, not every post

## Gotchas

*Best-effort from research — review these, especially items about plan-gated features and integration gotchas that may be outdated.*

- **Credits run out faster than expected.** Users frequently report running out of Monthly Analyses before they finish vetting creators. Plan your discovery → analysis workflow carefully. Use Discover filters to narrow before spending analysis credits.
- **Post tracking is manual.** You must input post URLs yourself to track performance — Influencity does not auto-detect influencer publications. This creates administrative overhead for large campaigns. Establish a process for creators to submit their post URLs.
- **No Instagram Stories or YouTube Shorts auto-tracking.** Ephemeral content (Stories) and short-form content (Shorts) cannot be tracked automatically. Creators must share their own analytics for these formats.
- **Shopify only for ecommerce.** No native integration with WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or Magento. If you're not on Shopify, you'll need to manage gifting and tracking manually or via workarounds.
- **Social listening is Business+ only.** Monitoring module (brand tracking, competitor analysis, sentiment) is not available on the Professional plan.
- **API is not publicly documented.** Even on Business/Enterprise plans, API access requires contacting support. Don't assume you can build integrations quickly.
- **Maintenance windows reported.** Some users report occasional extended maintenance periods that interrupt workflow. If running time-sensitive campaigns, build in buffer time.
- **Pricing varies across sources.** Published pricing differs between review sites. Always verify current pricing directly at influencity.com/pricing.

- **Self-improving**: If you discover something not covered here, append it to `references/learnings.md` with today's date.

## Related skills

- `/sales-influencer-marketing` — Influencer marketing strategy across platforms — platform comparison, discovery workflow, vetting, outreach, ROI tracking
- `/sales-modash` — Modash platform help — Shopify-first influencer marketing
- `/sales-infludata` — influData platform help — deep audience analytics and social listening
- `/sales-creatorco` — Creator.co platform help — AI-automated creator matching and UGC rights
- `/sales-hypefy` — Hypefy platform help — zero-subscription, pay-per-campaign influencer marketing
- `/sales-ltk` — LTK platform help — creator commerce and commission-based influencer marketing
- `/sales-tagshop` — UGC video ads and shoppable galleries
- `/sales-affiliate-program` — Affiliate and referral program design
- `/sales-do` — Not sure which skill to use? The router matches any sales objective to the right skill. Install: `npx skills add sales-skills/sales --skill sales-do`

## Examples

### Example 1: Set up a micro-influencer gifting campaign
**User says**: "I want to send free products from my Shopify store to 30 micro-influencers on Instagram and track who posts"
**Skill does**:
1. Walks through Discover search: filter by Instagram, 10K-100K followers, relevant niche, target geography
2. Explains credit usage: ~150 Monthly Results to find 30 good candidates, ~30 Monthly Analyses to vet them
3. Shows Shopify integration setup: connect store, select products, set up gifting links
4. Sets up tracking: create unique coupon codes per creator, use Reports to track post URLs
5. Recommends the Professional plan as sufficient for this scale (10K results, 150 analyses)
**Result**: Complete gifting campaign setup with credit budget and tracking plan

### Example 2: Monitor brand mentions and competitor activity
**User says**: "I want to track what people are saying about my brand and my competitors on social media"
**Skill does**:
1. Confirms Business plan is required for Monitoring module
2. Walks through keyword setup: brand name, product names, competitor names, relevant hashtags
3. Configures sentiment tracking and alerts
4. Sets up competitor share-of-voice comparison
5. Shows how to connect findings to influencer discovery — identify organic brand advocates in Monitoring, then recruit them via Discover
**Result**: Monitoring dashboard with brand tracking, competitor analysis, and influencer recruitment pipeline

### Example 3: Choose the right Influencity plan
**User says**: "I'm an agency managing influencer campaigns for 5 clients — which Influencity plan do I need?"
**Skill does**:
1. Assesses volume: 5 clients × estimated discovery/analysis needs per client
2. Compares Professional vs Business: user seats (5 vs unlimited), credits (10K/150 vs 25K/500), social listening (no vs yes)
3. Reco