StoryChief

I’ve been playing with this for a few weeks now and I’m completely in love with it. You don't have to worry about shelfware with this one. This is a very polished app that you can start using right away. It’s already saved me a ton of time in the content creation/distribution process and I’m just getting started with it. I’ve begun rolling this out with one company I work with that has a 10 person content team where all writers are responsible for different campaigns and blog content. They currently use a common process of Dropbox Paper to write everything together, then copy/paste to WordPress and do the SEO and then separately post to Medium. They also post to all the social media channels from a separate schedule and also add to a MailChimp newsletter. This app literally fit almost perfectly into their process already and replaced a big chunk of it while making it 20 times easier. It also provides more insight into which campaigns are getting the most traction. I’m glad SC rolled out the sideloading of images into WP this week, so far it's working great.

My favorite parts of StoryChief are:
- How easy it is to post to Medium. I was previously using MissingLettr for this, but StoryChief allows you to have a lot more control. Ex. We have a Medium publication and want to post to that publication as the specific author of the article, you can do that with SC very easily. It’s great.
- Getting the views and analytics on an article or campaign level is great. It’s the first time I’m seeing views/reads across all platforms including social media.
- The team I rolled it out to so far absolutely loves the content calendar and being able to sync it with their Google Calendar
- ACF integration

Some things I’d love to see added are:
- Adding comments for the Article Title (I’ve been told they’re working on this)
- Some sort of basic task or to-do lists functionality. So you can assign tasks outside of content to individuals. For things like assigning the featured image to your design team, it would be nice to ping thing.
- It would be nice if the scheduled time indicated less than a day in advance. I had a post scheduled for a few hours from now and it still said will be posted “a day from now”
- It would be nice if you could add an author that doesn’t have a StoryChief account. If the post was ghost written to be published on a site as an author, but they won’t actually be involved in the writing or editing or posting. (Ex. CEO)

I definitely stacked a few of these, can’t wait to see how SC grows in the future.