Request Bids from Contributors

Accelerator360 gives users the ability to open assignments up for multiple contributors to submit bids. You will be able to review each bid and award the assignment to the winning proposal. 

Requesting Bids from Contributors

1. From the Assignments page, click Review Briefs OR, from the Content Library, click Review & Recruit (make sure that the Draft status is selected in your filters). 
2. On the Assignment Briefs page, click Request Bids from Contributors. 
3. Hit Generate Search Keywords on the Recruit Contributors page to create an AI generated list of contributors based on the topics within your assignment briefs. You will be able add or remove keywords from an AI generated list before selecting contributors. 
   • NOTE: contributors who have been vetted by Skyword will show this badge: . This indicates that they are a verified contributor.
4. Click Open Profile to review a contributor’s bio, read their content samples and view their content tags. 
5. Hit Add to include a contributor in your request for proposals. 
6. Use Add Manually to enter in a contributor’s email address and include them in a request for proposal. Emails must belong to contributors that already exist in Accelerator. To add new users to Accelerator, please contact support or your customer success representative.
7. Click Add from List to open a request for proposals to one of your channels curated Contributor Lists. 
8. To see which contributors you have chosen to issue your RFP to, click Selected. From here, you can give the list of contributors a name and click Save List, thus adding it as a new Contributor List. You can also Remove a contributor or further review their bio, samples and tags by clicking Read Bio.  
9. Before issuing your RFP, you can also hit Configure Due Dates which will allow you to adjust the date for Proposals Due and Assignments Due.
10. Click Issue RFPs to open this assignment up for contributor proposals. You will be asked to confirm the Proposals Due date – hit Issue RFP(s) once more to proceed.