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We’re always interested to hear feedback about Prezly, to share thoughts with people about the product itself and about our approach. Yesterday we presented Prezly and our way of working to a big crowd of technology enthousiasts and entrepreneurs at the Betagroup event in Brussels. We were given 10 minutes, Q&A included, and Jesse did an excellent job. Thank you Betagroup for the warm welcome and for the advice and beers we received afterwards.
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Prezly is out of beta, pro plans are available
We are happy to announce that Prezly has fully launched. It has been over a year since we launched our beta testing and in that time we have radically improved the service in terms of speed, stability and possibilities. Thanks to the cooperation of our beta testers we now are ready to remove the beta flag and to present our professional subscriber plans with extra possibilities.
The core functionality of Prezly remains free. There will always be a free plan that allows you to create and track your press releases. Users that want to seize all the benefits of social media press releases can sign up for pro plans with extra functionality:
- Autoposting: automatically publish your press releases on your Twitter, Facebook or blogs.
- Campaigns: distribute and track your press releases via email.
- Multilanguage support: create your pressrelease in different languages. Translations only count as one press release.
- Domain mapping: incorporate Prezly in your own website. For example use http://press.yourcompany.com
- Templates: have your press room in your own branding. If you decide to switch to a pro plan now, we’ll do the styling for you, free of charge. This promotion is valid until the end of February. Contact us for more info about a custom template.
You can read all the details about the subscription plans on our pricing page:
http://www.prezly.com/pricing
In the below screencast Jesse guides you through the process of signing up for a professional plan.
Prezly now supports multiple languages
Many of our clients publish press releases in multiple languages. After a while now their press rooms got very large having many releases in two or three languages. That’s why we’re introducing multiple language functionality. Users can now enable this feature and neatly group their press releases per language in their press rooms.
How to go about it:
- Enable multilanguage in your account settings
You can find it under the ‘language settings’ tab.
Choose the default language that you’d like your press room to be in.
- Choose a language
When you are creating a press release you can choose the language of the release.
- Translate a press release
On your dashboard and press release overview you can press the ‘translate’ button to translate an existing press release. For your convenience all texts and media assets of the original press release will be copied to the translated press release.
In your press room you’ll now have tabs on the top right to display press releases in the available languages. On press releases that have translations you’ll now also have a link to the translations of that press release.
For now there are three languages available in the system: English, French and Dutch. If you’d like us to add languages feel free to contact us via the support section.
These new features bring us one step closer to a mature version of Prezly without the beta tag. In a few weeks we’ll release the pricing options and turn on the payment gateway. Stay tuned.
New WYSIWYG editor
We just updated the WYSISWYG editor in the Prezly backend. It’s still a simple editor with basic functionalities, but now you’ll be able to:
- Paste content in directly from Microsoft Word (the editor will automatically clean up the HTML code)
- Undo and Redo edits.
- View and edit the source as clean HTML code.
As always if you experience problems or have feedback: mail us at support@prezly.com
PS: for those who are interested, we switched from TinyMCE to the open source version of CKEditor.
Please allow me to introduce ourselves
Those aren’t good manners. We’ve been publishing here for a while now without thoroughly introducing ourselves.
Prezly is a team of three young and healthy men hailing from Leuven and Brussels in Belgium.
Jesse and I, Frederik, are longtime friends and partners in crime. We studied Communication & Multimedia Design together. Gijs we found recently via Google. Really. We were in need of a kickass coder and system admin. Adding Gijs to the team has pushed the code of Prezly to a whole new level.
This service is a side project of ours. We all have very rewarding daytime jobs. Jesse and I in an ad agency, and Gijs with his own webdesign and development firm. We love what we do there but we also want to do more: learn new skills and try out different approaches. So we spend many of our evenings and weekends building and refining Prezly.
So, who are we?
Frederik Vincx, that’s me
I designed this blog. And all of the other pages on the site. I create the general flow, make the wireframes and push all the pixels around in Photoshop. I also do most of the frontend development.
I started working in advertising after graduating as a Master in Audiovisual Arts in 2006. Have been a frontend developer briefly before moving over to design and art direction. Currently I work as interaction designer at advertising agency ContentCowboys.com.
Gijs Nelissen
Gijs is the left brainer of the team. Our logic. After graduating as a computer engineer in 2002 he has spent the last decade honing his development skills creating web applications on open-source platforms.
Gijs is a natural entrepreneur running his own development firm DigitalBase and is co-founder of a start-up named TrackMyPeople. He is a code perfectionist that takes great pleasure in mocking the rest of the team that our code is so 2008.
Recently Gijs has also become the proud dad of Robbert, a little burping critter that luckily takes more after his mother.
Jesse Wynants
Jesse is the one who came up with the actual idea for Prezly (it came to him in Zanzibar, no shit). He is the product man, the one who’s awake at night pondering about which would be the best route to take for Prezly. Because ideas aren’t worth much without being executed Jesse is also an avid programmer that brings to life new features in record tempo.
During the day he is a strategist at Boondoggle and participates in Boondoggle LifeLabs, where he dreams up other digital products.
You can find out a bit more on our new about page on the site. There’s an overview of our blogs, sites and social media profiles.
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