The following video walks you through:
- Creating your account
- Installing the extension
- Connecting your LinkedIn profile
In less than 2 minutes, you'll be up and running with AuthoredUp!
Anyone can create an AuthoredUp trial account. To get started, please follow these steps.
1. Pick your free 14-day trial plan
Go to our pricing page and pick one of our plans.
Individual plan is intended for solo creators, users who only want to write for themselves.
Business plan is intended for teams, ghostwriters and organizations who want to facilitate their employees writing on LinkedIn.
Whichever plan you pick, you will be able to easily switch back and forth, as you determine what works the best for you.
2. Fill in the sign up form
Enter your email, name, and password. Here, you'll also be able to review our Terms and Conditions.
If you're creating a business plan account, you'll also be asked for your organization name.
Once you're done, click Agree and Sign Up.
3. Verify your email
We'll immediately send you an email with a confirmation code.
Copy the code from the email, paste it into the text field, and click Submit.
If you typed the wrong email address, you can change it right away by clicking the Change email button. You can also ask us to resend the code if it got lost or has expired.
4. One final step - Install the extension
You'll be prompted to install our Chrome extension.
The extension is a crucial part of the AuthoredUp workflow, it's what allows you to post your content to LinkedIn and gather your post data. You can dismiss this screen by clicking the I'll do this later link, but we recommend proceeding with the extension onboarding so you can get the full benefit of AuthoredUp.
To install the extension, please click the Add extension from Chrome Web Store button.
On the Chrome web store, click the Add to Chrome button.
Note that after you install the extension, it will open a welcome page in a new tab, which will explain a few bits about how the extension works.
5. Bonus step - Connect your profile
A profile is nothing more than your LinkedIn account. Once a LinkedIn profile is connected to your AuthoredUp account, we know you're the owner of that profile and can show you its posts and analytics.
To proceed, please go to www.linkedin.com (reload the page if you were already on LinkedIn). You should see the AuthoredUp badge appear in the top right corner:
Click the AuthoredUp badge, and... that should be it.
You should see your profile connected, like this:
6. What if...
You already had a profile connected before?
You might see a screen like this:
Click Connect profile to proceed.