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title: Showell Admin 101
description: Showell Admin is your central content management tool where you can store, organize and manage and analyze your sales material, users, and groups all in one place.
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# [Showell Admin 101](https://www.showell.com/academy/showell-admin-101)

 Written by [Showell Academy](https://www.showell.com/academy/author/showell-academy) | Jul 26, 2021 1:05:35 PM

## What is Showell Admin?

#### Showell Admin is your central content management tool where you can store, organize and manage and analyze your sales material, users, and groups all in one place.

### **The Basics **

**The top of the Admin site holds the most important menus that you will need. **

1. **Menus ** 
     1. Files - content management
     2. Analytics - see what content is used by who
     3. CRM - basic CRM features (if enabled)
     4. Admin - user/group management and notifications
2. [**Search **](https://help.showell.com/admin-search)- lookup files or users
3. **Settings** 
     1. Account settings - basic branding and account information
     2. My Settings - privileges and user information

### **Content Management **

1. [How to create and edit your content structure ](https://help.showell.com/content-structure)
2. [How to add material](https://help.showell.com/upload-content)
3. [How to restrict access to material](https://help.showell.com/group-permissions) 
4. Other Content settings

### **User Management**

1. [How to create and manage users](https://help.showell.com/add-users)
2. [User privileges](https://help.showell.com/user-permissions)
3. [How to create and manage groups](https://help.showell.com/add-groups)
4. [Group privileges](https://help.showell.com/group-permissions)

### **Brand Management**

1. [How to set up your logo and brand color](https://help.showell.com/logo-and-colors)
2. How to change [background images](https://help.showell.com/background-images) and [thumbnails](https://help.showell.com/thumbnail-images)
3. [How to customize your user interface](https://help.showell.com/showell-themes)

### **Communication and Analytics**

1. [How to send and track notifications](https://help.showell.com/send-notifications)
2. [How to interpret content-, user-, group-, and share analytics](https://help.showell.com/analytics)

 

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