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Get set up
Start here. Sign up, set up your first brand from its website and teach it from your own files, then connect the accounts you post to and advertise on, and approve the strategy Blackbox drafts, then add teammates or a second brand. Each one takes a few minutes, and each guide says what Blackbox can read and what it will never do.
17 guides About 76 minutes in all After this: Your brand is in Studio, your accounts are connected and its strategy is approved.
The guides, in order
- 1.1
1.1How to get started with Blackbox
Sign up, start Starter, turn your website into a brand, check your competitors and connect your first channel: AI marketing for small business in one sitting.
About 10 minutes 12 steps
- 1.2
1.2Set up your brand kit in Blackbox
Paste your website and Studio reads your colours, fonts, logo and what you sell. Check what it found, add how you talk, and every post starts on brand.
About 5 minutes 10 steps
- 1.3
1.3How to teach AI your brand guidelines and voice
Hand Blackbox your brand guidelines, decks and pages, then confirm what is true in the brand profile. Briefs and posts are written from what you confirm.
About 10 minutes 12 steps
- 1.4
1.4Connect your Instagram account to Blackbox
See how your Instagram posts perform and publish to Instagram from Blackbox. You sign in through Facebook and choose exactly which accounts to share.
About 2 minutes 5 steps
- 1.5
1.5Connect your TikTok account to Blackbox
Track followers, views and engagement on the videos you post, and publish from Blackbox when you want to. One login covers one account.
About 2 minutes 4 steps
- 1.6
1.6Connect your Meta ad account to Blackbox
Bring Facebook and Instagram campaign spend and results into your reporting, and approve budget or status changes from one place.
About 3 minutes 4 steps
- 1.7
1.7Connect Google Search Console to Blackbox
See the queries, clicks and positions your site earns in Google next to your paid and social numbers. This connection can only read.
About 2 minutes 3 steps
- 1.8
1.8Connect your Google Ads account to Blackbox
Pull Search, Display and YouTube campaign performance into your reporting, with budget and status changes still routed through your approval.
About 3 minutes 4 steps
- 1.9
1.9Connect your TikTok Ads account to Blackbox
Bring advertiser spend and campaign results into your reporting. The one step people miss is ticking an advertiser on the TikTok screen.
About 3 minutes 5 steps
- 1.10
1.10Connect your LinkedIn Ads account to Blackbox
Report on Campaign Manager spend and results alongside your other channels. Campaigns Blackbox creates arrive as drafts for you to finish.
About 3 minutes 4 steps
- 1.11
1.11Connect your Snapchat Ads account to Blackbox
Bring Snap ad spend and results into your reporting. Snapchat groups accounts under organizations, and Blackbox looks across all of yours.
About 3 minutes 4 steps
- 1.12
1.12How to define your target audience and what a customer is worth
Answer what only you know — a typical sale, your ad budget, who you sell to, what you can handle — on the Strategy tab and the question cards in Plan.
About 5 minutes 7 steps
- 1.13
1.13Get a marketing strategy for your small business
A one-page marketing plan, written by Blackbox: what you sell, why you, where you show up, three moves and day-90 targets. Answer what you know, then approve.
About 6 minutes 7 steps
- 1.14
1.14How to reconnect, sync or disconnect a Facebook ad account
Sign a channel back in when Meta logs it out, pull fresh numbers, change the accounts it tracks, or remove it. Works the same for Instagram and TikTok.
About 3 minutes 8 steps
- 1.15
1.15How to add team members and invite your team
Invite teammates by email from Settings as a Member or an Admin, see who hasn’t joined yet, resend or revoke an invite, and remove someone who left.
About 3 minutes 8 steps
- 1.16
1.16How to change or cancel your Blackbox subscription
See your plan and renewal date, then change your card, download invoices or cancel on Stripe. What Starter includes, and what to do at a limit.
About 3 minutes 8 steps
- 1.17
1.17How to add a second brand and manage multiple brands
Make the brand in Studio, give it its own ad account, calendar and Instagram, and choose which teammates work on it. Multi-brand marketing in one place.
About 10 minutes 10 steps
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