Quick start
On this page
Five steps take a new account to its first Finds.
1. Tell PitchGhost about your business
Sign up and enter your business’s domain name. PitchGhost will then scan your website to understand more about your business. Most of these details you can change these details later in Settings then Business info, so don’t worry if they’re not perfect the first time.
2. Select your plan
All plans include unlimited Finds, unlimited Ghosts, and a free trial. See Pricing for details. Because every plan has a free trial, we recommend starting with the highest plan you think you’ll need. You can always downgrade later.
3. Create your first Ghost
- Go to Ghosts and choose Create new Ghost.
- Choose Create on the Ghost type you want. A finder type searches a platform by keyword and is the simplest place to start. See Ghost types to choose.
- In Ghost creation method?, choose Automatically.
- Describe what you want this Ghost to find in a few sentences, or choose Try example goals and edit a template.
- Choose Generate Ghost. PitchGhost fills in the settings from your goal and your business info.
- Check the search queries, then choose Create + scan.
Monitor types skip the creation method and open the settings form, because you supply the list of people or company pages yourself.
A good goal says what a perfect Find looks like, what not to show, and why you want to engage. For a payroll company, that could be “Small business owners complaining that their payroll provider made a mistake, charged a surprise fee or has slow support. Don’t show me payroll companies advertising. I want to engage because we can offer a simpler alternative.” See Ghost goals.
4. Review your first Finds
Create + scan starts a scan, which usually takes a few minutes. When it finishes, open Finds in the left menu.
From then on your Ghost scans every 1 day unless you change its Scan frequency.
Your Ghost finds posts without a linked social account. To reply or react from PitchGhost, connect the account you want to act as. See Taking action.
5. Make it a daily habit
Our most successful customers make it a daily habit to look over their Finds for 10-20 minutes daily. If your team doesn’t have the bandwidth for that, many of our integrations can help pipe your Finds into your existing workflow. See Integrations.
Last updated
Was this helpful?
Related articles
Choose a Ghost type and create a Ghost
Pick the Ghost type that fits what you want to find, then create the Ghost from a short goal or by hand.Write your Ghost's goal
The goal tells your Ghost which posts become Finds. A good one answers three questions and says what to leave out.Review your Finds
Search and filter your Finds, save a default view that shows only your own, work on many at once, and move fast with keyboard shortcuts.
Still need help? Open the app and choose Help, then Chat now.