WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.420 So my name is Jason Haluso. I'm here from Brilliant Directories. 2 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:09.200 And also, of course, we have with us the, amazing Patrick, Bernal with us today as well. 3 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:14.634 - Hi, everybody. Great to be here as always. Really, looking forward to this webinar Wednesday. - Yeah. 4 00:00:14.634 --> 00:00:19.035 Something a little exciting. We are also streaming on Facebook live today. 5 00:00:19.035 --> 00:00:22.335 So those of us who can who can join into the the GoToWebinar, 6 00:00:22.715 --> 00:00:23.215 amazing. 7 00:00:23.755 --> 00:00:25.615 You can interact with us and 8 00:00:26.410 --> 00:00:29.150 ask questions, and those on Facebook live can 9 00:00:29.530 --> 00:00:33.230 check out the presentation and listen to everything that we're talking about today. 10 00:00:33.370 --> 00:00:38.489 So just to introduce ourselves again, we have a lot of people who are joining us for the first time. 11 00:00:38.489 --> 00:00:41.630 My name is Jason, the co founder here at Brilliant Directories, 12 00:00:42.305 --> 00:00:45.824 and Patrick Burnell is we're very very lucky to have Patrick. 13 00:00:45.824 --> 00:00:48.164 He's our brand manager here at Brilliant Directories, 14 00:00:48.704 --> 00:00:53.925 and responsible for a lot of the the features that we see, recommended by by our customers. 15 00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:58.160 - Right. Thank you Jason. It's an honor to be here and be a part of this team. 16 00:00:58.160 --> 00:01:04.180 I definitely love what I do and get to work with everybody that's in this webinar and all our customers around the world. 17 00:01:05.440 --> 00:01:09.300 - Again, for those of you joining, if you haven't yet joined our LinkedIn group, 18 00:01:09.685 --> 00:01:13.385 I highly recommend joining Brilliant Directories LinkedIn group. 19 00:01:13.845 --> 00:01:14.505 You can 20 00:01:15.525 --> 00:01:23.465 network and meet like minded directory website owners, membership website owners, and what we like to do in that group is talk strategy. 21 00:01:24.210 --> 00:01:29.110 It's a little bit more than designing your site, it's more about how to turn your site into 22 00:01:30.850 --> 00:01:35.090 a better conversion tool for whatever your goals are with your directory website. 23 00:01:35.090 --> 00:01:38.705 So you can go to brilliantdirectories.com/linkedin 24 00:01:38.765 --> 00:01:41.585 to join our marketing strategy network there. 25 00:01:43.165 --> 00:01:43.805 And just 26 00:01:44.685 --> 00:01:49.665 not many ground rules, just one. The goal of this webinar is we like to answer as many questions 27 00:01:50.125 --> 00:01:50.945 as possible, 28 00:01:51.870 --> 00:01:59.570 and the goal is to show off the software for new and existing customers, so you can better learn how the platform works 29 00:02:00.110 --> 00:02:01.170 and its capabilities. 30 00:02:03.070 --> 00:02:11.145 And the type of questions you can ask, we want to be fair to everyone, so we're gonna try to focus and limit questions to one per person 31 00:02:11.445 --> 00:02:17.065 until we've had, we've let everyone have an opportunity to at least ask one question. 32 00:02:17.205 --> 00:02:20.425 And we're gonna do our best to get to as many questions 33 00:02:21.045 --> 00:02:21.785 as possible. 34 00:02:23.650 --> 00:02:26.150 And we had a contest winner last week. 35 00:02:26.770 --> 00:02:28.150 So Kevin submitted 36 00:02:28.530 --> 00:02:30.069 a video review 37 00:02:30.530 --> 00:02:31.430 of his experience 38 00:02:31.730 --> 00:02:33.270 with Brilliant Directories. 39 00:02:34.209 --> 00:02:38.724 So Kevin, all you need to do is email support@brilliantdirectories.com, 40 00:02:38.864 --> 00:02:41.525 and you've won a $400 41 00:02:41.665 --> 00:02:43.045 free website audit, 42 00:02:43.424 --> 00:02:44.165 with Patrick. 43 00:02:44.385 --> 00:02:50.325 And Patrick, do you want to let everyone know a little bit about what the website audit includes and what it's for? 44 00:02:51.110 --> 00:02:54.810 - Yes. I would love to, Jason. So Kevin, we'll be discussing 45 00:02:55.190 --> 00:02:58.330 some different strategies that you can use for your website 46 00:02:58.790 --> 00:03:03.210 to help drive traffic to the site, to get more people to submit leads, 47 00:03:03.675 --> 00:03:09.135 which are which is one of the primary ways that you get members to go from free members to paid members. 48 00:03:09.675 --> 00:03:14.815 I'll show you how to possibly do some social media campaigns that are working well with other customers. 49 00:03:15.275 --> 00:03:17.970 I'll give you some insider tips, maybe even discuss 50 00:03:18.370 --> 00:03:19.910 some effective landing pages, 51 00:03:20.450 --> 00:03:22.210 and help get those things set up as well. 52 00:03:22.210 --> 00:03:27.350 So we cover a lot of interesting topics that you don't get to really go over in a regular, 53 00:03:28.290 --> 00:03:28.790 website, 54 00:03:29.410 --> 00:03:31.270 website edits call or 55 00:03:31.715 --> 00:03:34.295 a member management call. So it's higher level strategy, 56 00:03:35.155 --> 00:03:37.635 to help make your site a successful one. 57 00:03:37.635 --> 00:03:42.135 So definitely looking forward to connecting with you and showing you, what we can do with your site. 58 00:03:42.435 --> 00:03:46.534 - I have a question for you, Pat. At what stage would someone want 59 00:03:47.099 --> 00:03:49.900 would this website audit review be helpful for someone? 60 00:03:49.900 --> 00:03:54.319 Is it someone who's just starting out, or they've had their site online for a long time? 61 00:03:55.019 --> 00:03:57.120 Who is this really beneficial for? 62 00:03:57.980 --> 00:03:59.680 - There's two primary stages. 63 00:04:00.245 --> 00:04:04.425 To me, the most beneficial of all is before somebody even gets started. 64 00:04:04.725 --> 00:04:08.425 So kind of the first thing you book is this audit session, 65 00:04:09.445 --> 00:04:14.005 so that we can really point you in the right direction on how to set up your website. 66 00:04:14.005 --> 00:04:15.545 So it's amazing how often 67 00:04:15.980 --> 00:04:23.979 people go six months, a year, two years, and they say, well, it's not really performing the way I want, and then they book an audit. 68 00:04:23.979 --> 00:04:29.360 And then we tell them, well, if you do it this way, this way, this way, they they immediately see better results. 69 00:04:29.419 --> 00:04:35.324 And the comment I always hear is, I wish I had done this from the beginning rather than wait a year. 70 00:04:35.384 --> 00:04:41.085 Just invest a little bit in my business and and get that advice, get that consultation. Of course, 71 00:04:41.625 --> 00:04:43.565 the second the the second 72 00:04:44.190 --> 00:04:56.690 example of this being very useful is when you have an existing website, you're not quite getting the results that you want, and you'd like somebody to go in there and see how you've set it up, see the strategies you're implementing, the pricing, 73 00:04:58.235 --> 00:05:04.255 see all this the the features you've activated, and see if there's some strategies you can implement to help improve those numbers. 74 00:05:05.035 --> 00:05:08.795 But the most common time that people book this is right before launch. 75 00:05:08.795 --> 00:05:11.535 So a lot of our customers do the setup themselves, 76 00:05:12.940 --> 00:05:24.860 and then right before they go live to the public, right before they launch their marketing campaign, they would just like somebody on our team to go over everything with them and make sure everything's set up properly before they go live. 77 00:05:24.860 --> 00:05:27.840 So those are the the three scenarios where something like that is useful. 78 00:05:28.265 --> 00:05:31.885 - Awesome. Well Kevin Gold was the contest winner this week. Congratulations. 79 00:05:32.905 --> 00:05:38.345 Next week's prize, we're not gonna reveal what the prize is, but it is going to be huge. 80 00:05:38.345 --> 00:05:47.220 So, yeah, if you're watching the webinar right now and you want to enter the contest of the week, we we will announce a random winner next week, and reveal the prize. 81 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:55.600 All you need to do is share this message on your Facebook page, and we will drop this message into the chat box. 82 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:03.375 So, you can just copy and paste it, And we'll send a reminder after the webinar as well, but next week's prize is going to be huge. 83 00:06:03.755 --> 00:06:06.794 And all you need to do to enter is post this message. 84 00:06:06.794 --> 00:06:10.014 I'm using Brilliant Directories as my directory software and love it. 85 00:06:10.555 --> 00:06:12.175 Launch your own membership website. 86 00:06:12.349 --> 00:06:14.830 Check them out here with the link to the brilliantdirectories.com 87 00:06:14.830 --> 00:06:15.330 website. 88 00:06:15.949 --> 00:06:18.530 That'll automatically enter you into the contest, 89 00:06:19.310 --> 00:06:24.449 and all you need to do is join us next week, and we'll announce the winner of the contest just like we announced 90 00:06:24.845 --> 00:06:25.345 Kevin 91 00:06:25.805 --> 00:06:26.305 Groll 92 00:06:26.685 --> 00:06:27.505 here. So, 93 00:06:27.965 --> 00:06:32.945 make sure you do this, promise you whoever the winner is you are going to love the prize. 94 00:06:34.365 --> 00:06:37.264 And as always we have a deal of the week, 95 00:06:37.860 --> 00:06:41.300 and we're actually bringing a deal back that we did two weeks ago. 96 00:06:41.300 --> 00:06:46.920 It was so popular, and people continue emailing in that they want the special price. 97 00:06:47.620 --> 00:06:53.925 You know we have a lot of people around the world who weren't able to make it to the webinars, and then later found out about the deal of the week. 98 00:06:54.865 --> 00:06:55.925 So, this week, 99 00:06:56.544 --> 00:07:01.044 back by popular demand, we are going to do the Google search assist. 100 00:07:02.384 --> 00:07:04.805 The regular price is a $3.51 time payment. 101 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:09.700 If you don't know what the Google search assist does, I'm going to show you an example right here. 102 00:07:10.640 --> 00:07:13.060 Basically you have your directory website, 103 00:07:13.760 --> 00:07:17.680 and if you do a search, I'm just gonna use holistichealthfinder.com 104 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.065 who has the add on there. I'm just gonna search for yoga, 105 00:07:21.765 --> 00:07:22.265 and 106 00:07:22.725 --> 00:07:28.265 on this site there are members who have joined as yoga experts, so we're getting member 107 00:07:28.645 --> 00:07:29.145 results. 108 00:07:30.165 --> 00:07:37.630 What the Google search assist does is when there are no member results, so I know there's no members who do yoga in Seattle, 109 00:07:38.090 --> 00:07:41.070 so I'll just go ahead and do a search for yoga in Seattle. 110 00:07:41.449 --> 00:07:43.550 What the Google search assist does 111 00:07:44.090 --> 00:07:45.949 is it will provide results 112 00:07:46.250 --> 00:07:47.150 from Google 113 00:07:47.845 --> 00:07:53.625 that match the keyword of what was searched. So we can see results from Google Seattle yoga, 114 00:07:54.405 --> 00:08:00.425 Seattle yoga arts, you get a slew of results that are exactly related to what the visitor 115 00:08:00.880 --> 00:08:01.700 was searching. 116 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:06.580 So instead of getting a no results message, let me show you what that looks like. 117 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:08.980 So we'll just type in a 118 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:12.260 I'll just put a gibberish name in here, and 119 00:08:13.045 --> 00:08:17.305 instead of just getting a boring message like this, sorry we didn't find any results, 120 00:08:18.005 --> 00:08:26.585 what you'll get are the best recommended results from Google, and why this is beneficial is if someone is searching your site for the first time, 121 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:33.780 and they get results like this, they'll probably leave your website and never come back because it wasn't a helpful resource. 122 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:36.340 When visitors 123 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:44.285 actually get results, even though they're not members on your website, at least your website is serving as a valuable resource of information. 124 00:08:44.985 --> 00:08:47.085 So people will stay on your site longer, 125 00:08:47.945 --> 00:08:52.525 you'll be able to display more banner ads, so if you have banner ads around your site, 126 00:08:52.905 --> 00:08:54.445 you'll get more page impressions. 127 00:08:55.600 --> 00:09:06.980 Another good thing about this is when someone clicks on a link it does open in a new tab, so people will stay on your website, so if they don't like what they're seeing they can always come back to your website, 128 00:09:07.645 --> 00:09:15.425 And more and more Google is giving better search, the search results rankings to websites that have good user experiences. 129 00:09:16.045 --> 00:09:20.225 So if someone is staying on your site longer and actually interacting with it, 130 00:09:20.610 --> 00:09:24.470 Google may increase your rankings in their search results, 131 00:09:25.650 --> 00:09:29.170 and this is good for you because that's gonna help bring more traffic. 132 00:09:29.170 --> 00:09:37.045 So if you want more traffic to your site, if you want more people to stay on your site, and you don't necessarily have members in every single combination, 133 00:09:37.985 --> 00:09:40.324 in based on location and categories, 134 00:09:40.785 --> 00:09:43.125 this is a great way to populate your site. 135 00:09:43.665 --> 00:09:47.204 And again, it's my favorite add on that we've added so far to Brilliant Directories. 136 00:09:47.460 --> 00:09:50.040 So we're doing it again. It's the Google search assist. 137 00:09:50.260 --> 00:09:53.720 It's a $90 one time payment to get it added to one of your websites, 138 00:09:54.180 --> 00:09:56.500 and you can go to brilliantdirectories.com 139 00:09:56.500 --> 00:09:57.960 forward /promo. 140 00:09:58.260 --> 00:10:02.280 After the webinar, we'll also provide a link to that page, and that will be valid 141 00:10:02.675 --> 00:10:08.375 through this this week till next week's webinar. So if you don't have it yet, I highly recommend 142 00:10:08.755 --> 00:10:11.334 jumping on that add on. 143 00:10:12.355 --> 00:10:12.855 Okay. 144 00:10:13.394 --> 00:10:14.855 Now it is for 145 00:10:15.180 --> 00:10:16.560 the best part of the presentation. 146 00:10:17.180 --> 00:10:19.120 It's where you can ask questions, 147 00:10:19.500 --> 00:10:22.800 and we're gonna start with you Donna today. Donna, are you there? 148 00:10:23.180 --> 00:10:26.320 - Hi. I'm here. Thanks. - Awesome. Donna, where are you calling in from? 149 00:10:26.860 --> 00:10:30.960 - New York, Long Island. - Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Good. What's your question for us today? 150 00:10:31.274 --> 00:10:40.095 - My question is, can you provide like a demo so I could see if I can navigate it correctly to see if, you know, it wouldn't be too difficult for me to, you know, to use? 151 00:10:40.634 --> 00:10:43.355 - Absolutely. If you go to brilliantdirectories.com 152 00:10:43.355 --> 00:10:44.894 forward slash free trial, 153 00:10:46.089 --> 00:10:51.310 you can try a free seven day trial. We'll give you your own website starting from scratch, 154 00:10:52.009 --> 00:10:54.970 and then you can build out that site however you like. 155 00:10:54.970 --> 00:10:59.629 So you can test out all the features, see if the software has what you need functionality 156 00:10:59.930 --> 00:11:00.430 wise. 157 00:11:00.825 --> 00:11:05.805 And then if you want at the end of the seven day trial, you can actually convert the site you've been working on 158 00:11:06.105 --> 00:11:12.525 to your live website that you're gonna continue working on, or we can just give you a new fresh site now that you're more familiar with the platform. 159 00:11:13.970 --> 00:11:15.329 - Right. Right. Right. And then, 160 00:11:16.209 --> 00:11:18.629 as far as like getting help, is there a fee 161 00:11:19.649 --> 00:11:25.250 - for getting help, to, you know, to to do this if you need help? - No. And you - You probably do. 162 00:11:25.250 --> 00:11:30.365 - But - you actually segued into something I forgot to mention at the at the beginning of the call, 163 00:11:31.005 --> 00:11:35.824 at the beginning of the webinar. We we do have a lot of support resources. 164 00:11:37.084 --> 00:11:38.384 So we do these webinars, 165 00:11:38.925 --> 00:11:41.480 like here. We also have documentation 166 00:11:42.019 --> 00:11:44.360 that's that includes a lot of video training. 167 00:11:45.140 --> 00:11:46.760 Let me just go there right now. 168 00:11:47.459 --> 00:11:50.019 So you can go to bootstrap.brilliantdirectories.com, 169 00:11:50.019 --> 00:11:51.560 and that'll take you to 170 00:11:52.019 --> 00:11:52.839 our documentation. 171 00:11:53.459 --> 00:11:53.959 And 172 00:11:54.345 --> 00:11:57.644 it's pretty comprehensive, and we're updating it daily actually. 173 00:11:58.264 --> 00:12:01.165 We're adding new things all the time, you know, updating things. 174 00:12:01.384 --> 00:12:03.805 So you can come here, and then you can always email 175 00:12:04.185 --> 00:12:06.360 support@brilliantdirectories.com. 176 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:13.740 And you can that's great if you have how to questions, if something should be working, but it's not working for some reason. 177 00:12:13.959 --> 00:12:17.399 Those are great things to email support@brilliantdirectories.com 178 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.100 for. And you can usually 179 00:12:19.615 --> 00:12:22.595 expect a response within one business day or sooner. 180 00:12:23.215 --> 00:12:27.235 - Thank you. Okay. Appreciate it. - Great question. Thanks for joining us. 181 00:12:28.655 --> 00:12:29.795 Kevin, are you there? 182 00:12:31.055 --> 00:12:34.515 - Hello. This is Kevin. - Hey Kevin. Congratulations on winning the contest. 183 00:12:35.510 --> 00:12:38.810 - Thank you Jason and Patrick. Great webinar today. 184 00:12:39.190 --> 00:12:42.310 - Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. We're just getting started a lot of things in the beginning. 185 00:12:42.870 --> 00:12:44.970 Yeah. What kind of questions do you have for us today? 186 00:12:46.150 --> 00:12:49.454 - Mine's a little bit of a specific question in terms of, 187 00:12:50.014 --> 00:12:52.334 I wrote it in the the chat there, but, 188 00:12:53.055 --> 00:12:54.754 my nonmembers are inactive 189 00:12:55.295 --> 00:12:57.074 when they verify their email, 190 00:12:58.014 --> 00:13:02.435 and then they instantly become a fully active member on my site without paying. 191 00:13:02.709 --> 00:13:05.529 - I'm wondering if there's any way I can change that. - Absolutely. 192 00:13:06.070 --> 00:13:08.890 Do you mind if we check out your site? I'll help you out with that right now. 193 00:13:09.670 --> 00:13:11.209 - Edreferral.com. 194 00:13:11.670 --> 00:13:15.769 - Okay. So what Kevin is asking is he has a free member sign up, 195 00:13:16.390 --> 00:13:18.855 and when a member signs up for free, 196 00:13:19.555 --> 00:13:24.995 they get an email that says please verify your email address, and just like you join any site. 197 00:13:24.995 --> 00:13:26.695 And then if you click that email, 198 00:13:27.315 --> 00:13:28.855 it makes their listing 199 00:13:29.330 --> 00:13:32.630 public. And you want to avoid that, right Kevin? 200 00:13:33.890 --> 00:13:38.150 - Right. I want them to pay first before they become a public on the site. - Perfect. 201 00:13:38.210 --> 00:13:42.150 So all you need to do is, is this. We're gonna go to your email templates, 202 00:13:45.915 --> 00:13:50.315 and we're gonna look for the the basic email template. Welcome basic is what it's called. 203 00:13:50.315 --> 00:13:52.255 So for you can choose what email 204 00:13:52.555 --> 00:13:58.300 members get when they sign up, and generally the the free members are getting welcome basic. 205 00:13:58.300 --> 00:14:00.959 That includes that verification link. 206 00:14:02.220 --> 00:14:05.520 So it looks like you've customized this one. Let's edit this. 207 00:14:08.725 --> 00:14:12.805 And so you can see this is the email a free member gets when they sign up. 208 00:14:12.805 --> 00:14:16.425 So it says action required. Please verify your email address. 209 00:14:16.725 --> 00:14:20.245 And then it says, you know, to get started, you know, click verify your email address. 210 00:14:20.245 --> 00:14:24.265 And if they click on these links, it will set their account to public. 211 00:14:24.700 --> 00:14:25.839 So I'm not gonna 212 00:14:26.140 --> 00:14:29.820 totally mess with this Kevin, but all you need to do is a few things. 213 00:14:29.820 --> 00:14:31.519 First of all, get rid of these links. 214 00:14:32.940 --> 00:14:38.365 Alright. So thank you for joining, and then you know these variables are your website name. 215 00:14:38.365 --> 00:14:41.025 - So you can Right. - I can type that in. Yeah. - Type that in. 216 00:14:42.285 --> 00:14:44.705 So you can say like, we are 217 00:14:46.525 --> 00:14:47.025 currently 218 00:14:48.605 --> 00:14:49.825 reviewing your 219 00:14:50.445 --> 00:14:50.945 account, 220 00:14:51.250 --> 00:14:52.550 and then you can say, 221 00:14:56.370 --> 00:14:57.030 in order 222 00:14:58.610 --> 00:15:00.150 to turn your 223 00:15:00.690 --> 00:15:01.590 free listing 224 00:15:02.130 --> 00:15:03.510 into a searchable 225 00:15:04.455 --> 00:15:06.155 listing on our website. 226 00:15:07.495 --> 00:15:09.755 And then you can say, please upgrade 227 00:15:10.615 --> 00:15:11.595 to a 228 00:15:12.375 --> 00:15:12.875 paid 229 00:15:13.415 --> 00:15:18.875 - Paid 1%. - Account. And then you can provide a link for them to at least log into their account. 230 00:15:19.170 --> 00:15:23.430 So even someone who might, who's isn't active can still log into their account, 231 00:15:23.810 --> 00:15:27.430 and you can basically in this email let them know what the steps are 232 00:15:29.089 --> 00:15:29.589 for 233 00:15:30.370 --> 00:15:31.350 for getting activated. 234 00:15:31.730 --> 00:15:34.149 So instead of please verify your your 235 00:15:34.765 --> 00:15:37.105 email address you could say your listing 236 00:15:38.445 --> 00:15:39.425 is under 237 00:15:40.205 --> 00:15:41.825 review or something like that. 238 00:15:42.205 --> 00:15:44.524 - So now we've - That helps. Yeah. - Yeah. 239 00:15:44.524 --> 00:15:51.080 We've eliminated the ability for them to click that verify email link, which then does activate their listing. 240 00:15:51.540 --> 00:15:51.860 So, 241 00:15:52.420 --> 00:16:00.660 - Jason, if I might, there's another strategy that's very popular as well because some customers want to know if it's a real email or not. 242 00:16:00.660 --> 00:16:03.960 So they don't want to remove that functionality of the email template. 243 00:16:04.305 --> 00:16:08.565 So another thing that's very popular is could you go to the products page, please, Jason? 244 00:16:08.705 --> 00:16:12.145 - Do you - want me to save this for you, Kevin, or do you wanna come back? Yeah. - Perfect. Yes. 245 00:16:12.145 --> 00:16:13.525 Please save it. Okay. 246 00:16:14.545 --> 00:16:18.885 - Alright. Where where is that at? - The the products page under finance. - Alright. 247 00:16:20.459 --> 00:16:20.699 - Alright. 248 00:16:20.699 --> 00:16:26.540 So another thing, Kevin, that you can do is which is the free level here, that that people are signing up? 249 00:16:26.540 --> 00:16:31.760 Non members. So one thing you could do with that level is you could call it non members unverified, 250 00:16:32.300 --> 00:16:34.399 and you can make that level unsearchable. 251 00:16:34.935 --> 00:16:37.595 And in the email template, you can let them know currently 252 00:16:38.135 --> 00:16:39.995 your your account is inactive 253 00:16:40.935 --> 00:16:42.795 and in order for it to become active, 254 00:16:43.255 --> 00:16:47.095 you need to upgrade to this other level. However you wanna do it. 255 00:16:47.095 --> 00:16:49.595 So you don't necessarily need to remove the functionality 256 00:16:50.640 --> 00:16:54.980 of them being able to verify an email because it is helpful for you to know if it's a real email or not, 257 00:16:55.920 --> 00:16:59.540 but but you would just make them non searchable. So that's another easy option. 258 00:16:59.680 --> 00:17:03.760 - But I would use the 300 people I have currently listed as non numbers on the website. 259 00:17:03.760 --> 00:17:04.579 Is that correct? 260 00:17:05.085 --> 00:17:08.924 - You would probably well, in this case, do you want them to be active for free? 261 00:17:08.924 --> 00:17:11.345 Do you want them to be searchable if they haven't paid anything? 262 00:17:13.645 --> 00:17:13.885 - Yeah. 263 00:17:13.885 --> 00:17:18.865 I gotta figure that out because some of the non numbers, I do want them to be able to see the their listings. 264 00:17:19.260 --> 00:17:22.320 It's just somehow people were getting full profiles filled out and, 265 00:17:22.940 --> 00:17:24.160 activating their their 266 00:17:24.619 --> 00:17:25.119 entire 267 00:17:25.660 --> 00:17:28.480 site. This is a very limited version of the membership 268 00:17:29.420 --> 00:17:30.560 on this level. 269 00:17:31.100 --> 00:17:31.515 - Okay. Okay. 270 00:17:31.515 --> 00:17:35.915 So that's one that's one option and the other option, Jason, if you can go to the generals, 271 00:17:36.315 --> 00:17:38.255 tab that you're in right there. 272 00:17:39.835 --> 00:17:41.675 Alright. So this is pretty powerful. 273 00:17:41.675 --> 00:17:44.975 We're gonna show you here and it's not utilized by a lot of our members. 274 00:17:45.500 --> 00:17:56.160 If if this in the email template, if you were to send them instructions that in order for their website to appear active on the profile they need to upgrade, you can make the redirect page after login. 275 00:17:56.700 --> 00:17:59.180 You can make it it'll go straight to the upgrade page. 276 00:17:59.180 --> 00:18:06.405 So when they go and they log in to their account, they're always gonna be taken to the page for them to upgrade their account to activate it. 277 00:18:06.405 --> 00:18:16.179 So you can also utilize that strategy to really drive people to upgrade their account and make it easy to find where they need to go to upgrade their account without needing a lot of instructions. 278 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:18.419 - Yeah. I like that. Thank you. That looks good. 279 00:18:19.280 --> 00:18:20.340 - Super, actually, 280 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:23.059 super super suggestions, Pat. Yeah. So, 281 00:18:23.760 --> 00:18:24.000 yeah. 282 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:29.145 But you can do I'm not gonna save anything here Kevin, but you could make the listings searchable on website to know. 283 00:18:29.625 --> 00:18:33.545 So that way they they'll still be active on your site, but no one they don't have a public profile. 284 00:18:33.545 --> 00:18:37.645 So same same effect. And then just to push more people towards upgrading, 285 00:18:38.105 --> 00:18:41.065 yeah, redirect page after login, set it to upgrade. 286 00:18:41.065 --> 00:18:45.810 They can still go to other areas once they log in as a member, but this will be the first place they're sent to. 287 00:18:48.030 --> 00:18:50.430 - Yeah. We've we have a lot of customers that utilize this. 288 00:18:50.430 --> 00:18:56.850 Also they want them to go to a landing page after they sign up where they promote additional services to their members. 289 00:18:57.085 --> 00:18:57.825 They update 290 00:18:58.685 --> 00:18:59.485 that page often. 291 00:18:59.485 --> 00:19:07.105 So that box where you can control what where somebody goes to after they log in is a very powerful tool for directory owners to use. 292 00:19:07.645 --> 00:19:08.605 - Thank you very much. 293 00:19:08.605 --> 00:19:11.745 And when you get around to me again, I wanna find out more about the new billing platform. 294 00:19:12.220 --> 00:19:14.960 - Okay. Great, Kevin. For sure. Thank you for your great question. 295 00:19:15.580 --> 00:19:16.080 - Thanks. 296 00:19:17.260 --> 00:19:23.920 Alright, Jason. I have a a question from Cindy who says she does not have a mic and she's asking, 297 00:19:24.460 --> 00:19:24.960 what's 298 00:19:25.445 --> 00:19:32.985 how does she she has United States in the member profile pages, and she's asking is there any way to remove United States from the URL? 299 00:19:33.925 --> 00:19:39.385 - Alright. Yeah. We do have a setting for that, and, let's, let's look at an example right now. 300 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.940 We'll just we'll just continue using Kevin's here. 301 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.140 So if you go to a member's profile page, 302 00:19:48.520 --> 00:19:55.815 usually for search engine optimization purposes or if you have a site that's you know, has members in lots of different countries, 303 00:19:56.195 --> 00:20:02.934 it's going to this is a member's profile page here. It's going to have United States in the 304 00:20:03.235 --> 00:20:04.135 in the URL. 305 00:20:04.835 --> 00:20:09.640 Let me go to another site where we can show you how to remove the country, so it will just, 306 00:20:10.760 --> 00:20:17.900 it won't include the country, because it could be redundant if it's, you know, if we know that this the country is Australia, there's no need to repeat it there. 307 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:19.020 So let's 308 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:21.820 let's go a site that I can actually 309 00:20:22.755 --> 00:20:24.455 test that on. 310 00:20:25.395 --> 00:20:25.715 - Yeah. 311 00:20:25.715 --> 00:20:32.455 So oftentimes, if it's a local directory, so let's say it's a city directory or it's a state or province directory, 312 00:20:33.315 --> 00:20:37.095 people wanna have as local of a feel to the directory as they can. 313 00:20:37.300 --> 00:20:39.400 So utilizing this advanced setting, 314 00:20:40.100 --> 00:20:43.300 and removing the country from the member URL is very helpful. 315 00:20:43.300 --> 00:20:48.280 Just one important note that's very important to know if anybody does this, 316 00:20:48.740 --> 00:20:50.120 after watching this webinar, 317 00:20:50.875 --> 00:20:54.815 you need to resave the contact details form of your members, 318 00:20:55.835 --> 00:21:02.255 in order for the URL to update. So by turning this setting on, it's not going to magically 319 00:21:02.794 --> 00:21:04.575 change all of your member URLs. 320 00:21:04.830 --> 00:21:12.929 But the next time your member logs in or when new members sign up on your site, their member profile page will no longer have that 321 00:21:13.309 --> 00:21:14.850 country in the URL. 322 00:21:15.950 --> 00:21:16.450 Exactly. 323 00:21:18.425 --> 00:21:19.165 - So let's 324 00:21:20.185 --> 00:21:21.245 let's see here. 325 00:21:22.105 --> 00:21:23.645 You can revert this afterwards. 326 00:21:24.265 --> 00:21:26.125 So I just saved this member here. 327 00:21:27.145 --> 00:21:31.325 Oh, it looks like this one's already doing it. So let me show you guys the setting, but 328 00:21:31.740 --> 00:21:34.560 you can see that it doesn't say United States here, 329 00:21:35.100 --> 00:21:35.840 in the 330 00:21:36.140 --> 00:21:37.120 in the URL. 331 00:21:37.740 --> 00:21:39.760 And the advanced setting for that 332 00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:43.260 Pat, do you remember off the top of your head what the advanced setting for that was? 333 00:21:43.260 --> 00:21:45.920 - I think it's, I think you could put in localized. 334 00:21:48.315 --> 00:21:49.135 And that 335 00:21:50.315 --> 00:21:50.815 may 336 00:21:52.315 --> 00:21:54.975 no. If you could put in, country, perhaps. 337 00:21:55.675 --> 00:21:56.175 - Yeah. 338 00:21:56.795 --> 00:21:57.615 - My apologies. 339 00:21:57.915 --> 00:22:00.175 Limit. Okay. Keep scrolling down. 340 00:22:02.220 --> 00:22:05.840 - Here we go. - Replace country. There it is. - That's what it is. Okay. 341 00:22:05.900 --> 00:22:09.340 So if if there's a country so this is an advanced setting. 342 00:22:09.340 --> 00:22:11.440 So you can go to settings, advanced settings. 343 00:22:11.900 --> 00:22:14.715 And a good thing to do is you can change this one, 344 00:22:15.115 --> 00:22:17.835 replace country name variable with state name variable. 345 00:22:17.835 --> 00:22:20.654 So it won't attempt to put the country name in the URL. 346 00:22:21.034 --> 00:22:22.735 You could just set this to one. 347 00:22:23.115 --> 00:22:23.595 And, 348 00:22:24.154 --> 00:22:32.780 if there's a country saved for the person in the URL of their profile page, it'll remove the country and it'll replace it with a state if a state is available. 349 00:22:32.780 --> 00:22:36.320 If there's no state available, it'll it'll default to the city. 350 00:22:36.460 --> 00:22:39.900 And if not, then it it won't show anything for the location of that person. 351 00:22:39.900 --> 00:22:50.345 - So, - And and the one and the one below that, Jason, enable local member URLs, the one they have to set to one, so that future members will continue to have the state in their URL. 352 00:22:50.565 --> 00:22:51.684 - Okay. So that's a good thing. 353 00:22:51.684 --> 00:22:55.705 So if you don't want the country name in the URL of the member profiles, 354 00:22:56.404 --> 00:22:58.164 set both of these to one. 355 00:22:58.164 --> 00:23:02.530 Replace country name with state name, and enable local member URL structure. 356 00:23:02.830 --> 00:23:04.290 So you can set these both 357 00:23:04.590 --> 00:23:08.290 to one, and it will remove the country from the, 358 00:23:09.070 --> 00:23:11.150 the URL. Okay. That's a good question. 359 00:23:11.150 --> 00:23:17.455 And a lot of advanced features that we have here, advanced settings, so it's good that we can get this granular with the with the software. 360 00:23:19.434 --> 00:23:20.414 Okay. Hayes. 361 00:23:20.875 --> 00:23:22.495 Hayes, is your microphone working? 362 00:23:23.995 --> 00:23:27.835 - Yeah. Can you hear me okay? - Yes. Yes. Thank you. Where are you calling in from? Yep. Yep. 363 00:23:27.835 --> 00:23:29.910 - We can hear you perfectly. - I am 364 00:23:30.370 --> 00:23:32.950 oh, great. I'm in Saint Louis, Missouri. 365 00:23:33.250 --> 00:23:35.190 - Okay. Great. Thanks for joining us today. 366 00:23:36.290 --> 00:23:37.010 - Yeah. Thanks. 367 00:23:37.730 --> 00:23:41.510 I have a question. Let let's say I wanna build out a a directory, 368 00:23:41.955 --> 00:23:43.174 you know, a property, 369 00:23:43.875 --> 00:23:47.335 and I wanna grow it, and I wanna scale it, and I wanna sell it. 370 00:23:47.875 --> 00:23:53.095 You know, I don't own the IP. I don't own, really, you know, the directory. 371 00:23:53.475 --> 00:23:54.775 How how does that work? 372 00:23:54.835 --> 00:23:59.090 - How I mean, if it does work at all, is it something that's something I'd be able to do? - Yep. 373 00:23:59.410 --> 00:24:01.650 So with Brilliant Directories, if you wanted to 374 00:24:02.770 --> 00:24:04.790 you know, we are a software as a service. 375 00:24:05.170 --> 00:24:10.210 But we do have a one time pay option where you can at least keep the site online with us for life. 376 00:24:10.210 --> 00:24:16.525 So if you ever developed a site with Brilliant Directories and then wanted to sell it to another party or individual, 377 00:24:17.065 --> 00:24:21.085 I would just recommend that you have the one time pay option connected to the site. 378 00:24:21.385 --> 00:24:24.205 So the new owner of the site will also have, 379 00:24:25.410 --> 00:24:27.270 will have this with Brilliant Directories. 380 00:24:27.330 --> 00:24:33.670 And I would disclose with the person that you're selling it to that the site is powered and hosted by Brilliant Directories. 381 00:24:33.810 --> 00:24:43.725 And if they wanted if they wanted to keep it operating in its in its current form, which they obviously bought it because they love what they saw, that they should maintain the site with brilliant directories. 382 00:24:44.425 --> 00:24:48.845 - Got it. Got it. - Alright. Great question about selling a site that you've developed. 383 00:24:50.025 --> 00:24:50.525 Frank, 384 00:24:51.465 --> 00:24:53.085 mister Frank, how are you today? 385 00:24:53.910 --> 00:24:57.130 - Big Frank. Big Frank. How are you doing, my man? - Hey. 386 00:24:57.990 --> 00:25:01.690 - Hey. - I don't really have a question. I just checked in to see how everybody was doing. 387 00:25:02.070 --> 00:25:06.650 - Thank you. - Doing great, Frank. Great to hear from you. - It's it's always What's going over there? 388 00:25:07.225 --> 00:25:11.885 - Great. And, you know, in the past, you have been, giving people my number to give me a call to 389 00:25:12.264 --> 00:25:16.585 - ask questions, and feel free to be able to do that anytime you like. - Hey, Frank. 390 00:25:16.585 --> 00:25:20.790 - We really appreciate it. - My pleasure. I appreciate everything you've done for me. 391 00:25:20.870 --> 00:25:23.210 And, like I always, told you, I I 392 00:25:23.670 --> 00:25:28.470 tried to do this for a couple years, and you were the guys that made my directory dream come true. 393 00:25:28.470 --> 00:25:30.650 So you always have a friend here. 394 00:25:31.350 --> 00:25:31.990 - Alright, Frank. 395 00:25:31.990 --> 00:25:37.644 Well, it's always a pleasure to work with you, and, definitely look forward to to hop on the phone and seeing what you've been up to recently. 396 00:25:37.644 --> 00:25:41.644 - I know you always, you always have a lot going on. - Yeah. We'll get together soon. 397 00:25:41.644 --> 00:25:42.784 I'll send you an email. 398 00:25:43.085 --> 00:25:46.044 - Alright. Thanks, Frank. Thanks so much. - Thanks. You're welcome. Thanks, Frank. 399 00:25:46.044 --> 00:25:47.424 Thanks for joining us today. 400 00:25:47.790 --> 00:25:51.950 That's big Frank. He's been with us, for quite a while, has several directory sites with us. 401 00:25:51.950 --> 00:25:55.330 And, yeah. It's great that he was able to to join us, today. 402 00:25:56.350 --> 00:26:00.770 - John, I've unmuted your microphone there. - Hello? - Hey, John. How are you today? 403 00:26:01.375 --> 00:26:02.515 - I cannot complain. 404 00:26:02.975 --> 00:26:04.355 - I wanted to - verify 405 00:26:04.895 --> 00:26:05.395 if 406 00:26:05.775 --> 00:26:07.235 - there if - there was an option, 407 00:26:08.495 --> 00:26:13.554 to do a ninety day or thirty day trial that automatically converts over to a paid account 408 00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:16.540 or if that was something that may be on the road map for the future? 409 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:18.280 - That's a great question. 410 00:26:18.280 --> 00:26:26.540 So what John is asking is when his members join his directory, he wants to offer them a free trial period, you know, fourteen days, thirty days. 411 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:30.925 And then after that free trial period, if they don't cancel their account, 412 00:26:31.625 --> 00:26:37.005 their account will automatically be charged the normal membership rate of whatever he's decided on his site. 413 00:26:37.145 --> 00:26:40.525 John, there's two things that are in the roadmap related to that. 414 00:26:40.825 --> 00:26:42.845 One of them is free trial periods. 415 00:26:43.290 --> 00:26:43.790 And 416 00:26:44.410 --> 00:26:46.670 I think Kevin asked about the billing updates. 417 00:26:47.050 --> 00:26:49.310 That is going to be one of the billing updates 418 00:26:49.610 --> 00:26:51.390 that's going to be rolled out soon. 419 00:26:52.250 --> 00:26:54.590 So look forward to that this year, definitely. 420 00:26:55.144 --> 00:26:59.085 And then the other thing that we're going to be rolling out, John, are coupon codes. 421 00:26:59.384 --> 00:27:03.644 So you can create promotional coupon codes that will give your members discounts 422 00:27:04.184 --> 00:27:05.565 during the sign up process, 423 00:27:06.745 --> 00:27:08.559 when they when they sign up to your website. 424 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:13.519 So we're really looking forward to coupon codes or promotional codes that you can create and distribute. 425 00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:14.899 And that's great for marketing. 426 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:20.340 As well as free trial periods. So you can give your members, you know, a no risk opportunity 427 00:27:21.145 --> 00:27:24.845 to try your directory website, and then convert them to a paid member, 428 00:27:25.385 --> 00:27:29.485 in the future. So they are on the roadmap. I don't have an exact date yet, but 429 00:27:29.785 --> 00:27:31.405 but it has been highly requested. 430 00:27:31.465 --> 00:27:36.600 So we're doing our best to push that up the the totem pole of features that we're launching. 431 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:39.340 - Perfect. I really appreciate that. 432 00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:42.760 - Alright, John. Do you have any other questions? That was a pretty simple one. 433 00:27:42.760 --> 00:27:47.100 I know it's one per person, but, any any questions related to your site or anything? 434 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:51.260 - I I need to schedule my review. 435 00:27:52.035 --> 00:27:55.575 I have that in set up already. I just haven't done it yet. So, okay. 436 00:27:56.195 --> 00:27:59.555 - Everything looks good so far. - Alright. Alright. Well, thanks for joining us today, John. 437 00:27:59.555 --> 00:28:00.535 Thanks for the question. 438 00:28:01.075 --> 00:28:01.735 - You're welcome. 439 00:28:02.835 --> 00:28:07.335 - Okay. Yeah. Great question. Yeah. We do have a feature roadmap. If you go to our 440 00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:12.300 community forum, you do need to be logged in to access it, 441 00:28:12.600 --> 00:28:16.060 but we do have an area where you can suggest 442 00:28:16.680 --> 00:28:17.180 features, 443 00:28:18.760 --> 00:28:19.260 and 444 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:23.684 and things like that. And then we can vote for features that will actually 445 00:28:24.225 --> 00:28:26.245 get into development. So, 446 00:28:26.784 --> 00:28:29.585 yeah you can go to bootstrap.brilliantdirectories.com, 447 00:28:29.585 --> 00:28:31.044 go to the community forum, 448 00:28:31.345 --> 00:28:37.284 and yeah, suggest features, and and the ones that get the most votes sometimes, you know, we'll consider those. 449 00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:41.019 - Tom's asking, he's saying that he created a static page, 450 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:44.779 but he wants this new page that he created to be members only. 451 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.299 And he wants to know if that's possible with our software. 452 00:28:48.679 --> 00:28:49.980 - Okay. Okay. Good. Good. 453 00:28:50.360 --> 00:28:51.980 So just so everyone knows 454 00:28:52.475 --> 00:28:54.175 what he's referring to. So, 455 00:28:54.795 --> 00:28:59.675 in this example like Holistic Health Finder, this is a search results page. This is a dynamic page. 456 00:28:59.675 --> 00:29:01.055 The the system 457 00:29:01.595 --> 00:29:05.455 automatically creates the search results pages. It automatically creates 458 00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:10.620 the members profile pages. You don't need to manually make these pages 1 x 1. But 459 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:20.120 a lot of times people want to make resource pages, or you know pages about, you know, like this is how it works, this is what's considered a static page. 460 00:29:20.120 --> 00:29:23.035 You you kind of design it and develop it yourself. 461 00:29:23.575 --> 00:29:28.155 And sometimes you want to create these pages, but you want them to be for members only. 462 00:29:28.695 --> 00:29:32.055 So let me show you exactly how you could turn a static page. 463 00:29:32.375 --> 00:29:39.010 It could be your how it works page, or a private page with awesome links and resources that you only want your members to have access to. 464 00:29:40.110 --> 00:29:43.890 So let me log. I'm currently logged in as this member. Let me log out, 465 00:29:45.549 --> 00:29:50.535 and let me refresh the page here. So now I'm logged out, and I see all the get listed links here. 466 00:29:50.995 --> 00:29:55.155 So what we can do is I'm logged into the admin of Holistic Health Finder, so I have this, 467 00:29:55.715 --> 00:29:58.435 nifty admin bar here, which is amazing. 468 00:29:58.435 --> 00:30:04.830 We have other videos that explain this bar a little better, but I'm going to edit this static page, the how it works page. 469 00:30:06.810 --> 00:30:09.230 And when you edit a how it works page 470 00:30:10.250 --> 00:30:16.350 there is an option, display options here. You can set a page to members only. 471 00:30:17.205 --> 00:30:19.445 So this is like your regular text editor. 472 00:30:19.445 --> 00:30:22.804 You can also view the source code, just while we're in here as a side note. 473 00:30:22.804 --> 00:30:29.460 So if you're more comfortable editing the source code you can definitely do that, or you can just use the the WYSIWYG here. 474 00:30:29.940 --> 00:30:38.360 So if you want to set a custom static page, this is the about page, to members only, just go ahead and click this box here, and I'm going to save the changes. 475 00:30:40.820 --> 00:30:41.320 And 476 00:30:41.635 --> 00:30:46.455 if I go back to the site, I'm not logged in as a member. If I refresh the page, 477 00:30:47.475 --> 00:30:52.215 I'm it says you must log in to view this page. So I'm automatically redirected 478 00:30:52.835 --> 00:30:56.375 to a login page. So this is a really easy way, 479 00:30:56.770 --> 00:30:59.910 a very simple way, to protect some of your, 480 00:31:00.290 --> 00:31:05.350 you know, premium content, and require people to join your site or 481 00:31:05.809 --> 00:31:09.570 log in before viewing it. So let's set this back to, you know, public. 482 00:31:09.570 --> 00:31:12.070 We'll remove the members only page option. 483 00:31:15.465 --> 00:31:20.684 And if I attempt to go back to the how it works page I should be able to, and, 484 00:31:20.985 --> 00:31:22.745 yep, we can go to the how it works page. 485 00:31:22.745 --> 00:31:27.299 While we're here let me show you some of these other neat option display options here. 486 00:31:27.600 --> 00:31:30.100 So you can do a lot of fun stuff with these. 487 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:32.419 One of them is hiding the header, 488 00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:33.860 hiding the footer. 489 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:39.985 If you're familiar with SEO you can make the page no index nofollow if you wanted to. 490 00:31:40.125 --> 00:31:42.365 You can also hide the main menu if you wanted to. 491 00:31:42.365 --> 00:31:45.345 So this is really great if you wanted to create a landing page. 492 00:31:46.045 --> 00:31:46.865 Let me actually 493 00:31:47.165 --> 00:31:48.305 hide all these things, 494 00:31:48.685 --> 00:31:51.105 and let's see what the page looks like afterwards. 495 00:31:53.130 --> 00:32:06.670 So you know usually with the landing page you want full control of what the person is is looking at, especially if you're running ads to a landing page, and you don't necessarily want the main menu, and the logo, and everything, because you want to hyperfocus 496 00:32:06.970 --> 00:32:12.654 someone on funneling them to doing one certain action. So I hid the menu and all that stuff. 497 00:32:12.654 --> 00:32:16.014 Let's refresh the page. So now you can see we have more of a white page. 498 00:32:16.014 --> 00:32:20.355 Just the content that's here, even the footer is gone. I can't even scroll or do anything. 499 00:32:20.860 --> 00:32:29.200 So if you really wanted to, you could create a landing page that doesn't include your logo, or your header, or your footer, or anything like that. 500 00:32:29.419 --> 00:32:32.320 - Let's just add the main - Jason? Yep. Jason, 501 00:32:32.735 --> 00:32:37.155 could you explain because you you obviously you have a background in marketing. Could you explain 502 00:32:37.695 --> 00:32:43.055 why? Why would I create a landing page and hide my menu, hide my footer, hide my header? 503 00:32:43.055 --> 00:32:47.155 Why is it good to have a landing page where the person cannot leave that page? 504 00:32:49.049 --> 00:32:51.549 - When you're when you're investing ad dollars 505 00:32:52.169 --> 00:32:54.190 to bring someone to your website, 506 00:32:54.490 --> 00:32:57.549 and your goal is to get them to register for a newsletter, 507 00:32:58.250 --> 00:33:04.029 or to sign up for an ebook download, and the goal is to capture an email address, 508 00:33:04.905 --> 00:33:10.445 you want to, and not in all cases, but generally speaking, you want to limit 509 00:33:11.625 --> 00:33:12.125 the 510 00:33:12.585 --> 00:33:14.905 options of what someone can do on a page. 511 00:33:14.905 --> 00:33:18.525 You want the focus to be on the action you want them to perform. 512 00:33:19.030 --> 00:33:21.290 So again, whether that's purchasing something, 513 00:33:21.910 --> 00:33:28.090 or entering their email address for something, you've all been to landing pages where there's really nothing on the page except, 514 00:33:28.790 --> 00:33:32.775 you know, just some some a little bit of content, and then a form to fill out. 515 00:33:33.255 --> 00:33:40.215 So by hyper focusing a page, you're gonna increase conversion rates, and your ad dollars are gonna work better for you. 516 00:33:40.215 --> 00:33:43.515 Now again it depends on what your goals are, and and you know 517 00:33:44.055 --> 00:33:46.315 what you're trying to do, but generally speaking, 518 00:33:46.669 --> 00:33:51.090 when you're directing people to a landing page the goal is to convert that visitor 519 00:33:51.390 --> 00:33:52.210 to do something, 520 00:33:52.510 --> 00:33:54.289 and it's always best to limit 521 00:33:54.909 --> 00:33:56.669 where that visitor can go. 522 00:33:56.669 --> 00:34:01.730 So you know if they came to this page and it was a landing page, and then you know now they're on the home page, 523 00:34:02.350 --> 00:34:08.804 you know know maybe that's a good thing or a bad thing, but you you lost an opportunity to collect their email address on the landing page. 524 00:34:08.804 --> 00:34:09.304 So, 525 00:34:10.324 --> 00:34:14.984 yeah. That's So the options there with Brilliant Directories to just easily hide these things, 526 00:34:15.500 --> 00:34:18.480 and create awesome landing pages if you if you wanted to. 527 00:34:20.139 --> 00:34:24.239 - And and Jason, while we're thank you. That's a great explanation. While we're on the members only, 528 00:34:24.619 --> 00:34:25.839 we had another question, 529 00:34:26.699 --> 00:34:28.319 asked from Ramon, Ramon, 530 00:34:28.935 --> 00:34:31.094 asking, can you make the blog members only? 531 00:34:31.094 --> 00:34:36.715 So instead of a just a static page, he wants everything to be open, but he would like his blog 532 00:34:37.175 --> 00:34:38.555 to be members only. 533 00:34:39.975 --> 00:34:45.580 - Gotcha. So let me just switch on over to our our demo site, which has all the features activated. 534 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:49.020 The publishing content, the type of content you can publish. So 535 00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:53.980 what's really cool about Brilliant Directories is, so all of these things, coupons, events, jobs, 536 00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:57.580 just think of them as different types of content that you can publish. 537 00:34:58.185 --> 00:35:03.325 You know we have themes that focus on on them like coupons and events, 538 00:35:03.705 --> 00:35:07.245 but really they're just focusing on one type of content you can publish. 539 00:35:07.465 --> 00:35:10.045 So one one type of content is the blog, 540 00:35:12.530 --> 00:35:17.030 and as you can see here I was able to go to the the blog article section, 541 00:35:17.650 --> 00:35:21.170 but there is a way to make this for members only as well. 542 00:35:21.170 --> 00:35:25.590 So only members can read the blog articles, or only members can view the coupons. 543 00:35:26.085 --> 00:35:28.665 So let me log out of this account John Smith, and 544 00:35:32.165 --> 00:35:34.984 let me this is our demo, so I can kind of just 545 00:35:35.525 --> 00:35:36.744 log in to the 546 00:35:37.445 --> 00:35:40.185 the admin panel here. Give me one moment. 547 00:35:44.620 --> 00:35:47.360 And I will show you how you can make the blog 548 00:35:47.740 --> 00:35:53.600 members only, as well as the other publishing the types of content you can publish members only as well. 549 00:35:54.465 --> 00:35:58.885 Alright. So now I'm in the admin area, and I'll close down some of these windows here. 550 00:36:01.025 --> 00:36:01.525 Okay. 551 00:36:01.905 --> 00:36:05.285 And I'm not logged in as a member. Let me refresh the page. 552 00:36:05.345 --> 00:36:08.730 So you can see I'm not logged in as that that member again. 553 00:36:09.030 --> 00:36:14.810 So let's go into the admin area. If you want to make a specific type of content members only, 554 00:36:15.190 --> 00:36:19.130 just head on over to the content section, go to edit post settings, 555 00:36:22.135 --> 00:36:25.194 and in this case we're going to edit the blog, 556 00:36:26.375 --> 00:36:27.914 blog articles. So 557 00:36:28.295 --> 00:36:29.674 let me just find that. 558 00:36:32.375 --> 00:36:34.875 Let's do a search here. Here we go. 559 00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:36.539 Whoops. 560 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:37.900 Sorry guys. 561 00:36:38.279 --> 00:36:41.660 Alright. This is articles. Okay. So let's look for the articles. 562 00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:43.980 I think they were right here. 563 00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:46.059 So I'm gonna edit the articles 564 00:36:48.375 --> 00:36:48.875 content. 565 00:36:49.575 --> 00:36:53.095 And under the general settings there's a lot of settings for each, 566 00:36:53.575 --> 00:36:55.175 again you get a lot of control. 567 00:36:55.175 --> 00:37:03.435 If you're not a developer or anything you don't really need to worry about this, but at the bottom of the general settings tab for the, you know, for the articles or the blog articles, 568 00:37:04.070 --> 00:37:05.530 and this is for all your 569 00:37:05.990 --> 00:37:10.490 different types of content. There's an option here can can anyone view these posts? 570 00:37:11.270 --> 00:37:15.290 And by default it's set to yes, but if you set that to no, 571 00:37:15.590 --> 00:37:20.925 it's going to be members only, and on top of that you need you can specify which members 572 00:37:21.385 --> 00:37:22.685 can view that content. 573 00:37:23.065 --> 00:37:27.005 So maybe you have premium coupons, or premium blog articles. 574 00:37:27.305 --> 00:37:29.964 You can assign which specific members 575 00:37:30.425 --> 00:37:31.244 have access 576 00:37:31.830 --> 00:37:33.690 to this type of content. 577 00:37:34.230 --> 00:37:36.730 So I just set the articles to no, 578 00:37:37.430 --> 00:37:39.450 and if we refresh this page 579 00:37:41.350 --> 00:37:45.050 we should get a message, this content is for members only. 580 00:37:45.485 --> 00:37:48.385 For access please log in or become a member. 581 00:37:48.685 --> 00:37:50.545 So again this is really good to 582 00:37:50.845 --> 00:37:52.865 make your premium content private, 583 00:37:53.325 --> 00:37:57.345 to encourage lower membership levels, to upgrade to higher membership levels, 584 00:37:57.910 --> 00:38:02.330 and all you need to do is just a few clicks of the mouse to protect the content. 585 00:38:03.510 --> 00:38:08.170 And this will and then now that it's now that not everyone can view this content, 586 00:38:08.950 --> 00:38:10.490 under your manage products, 587 00:38:12.395 --> 00:38:16.335 and I'll just go to edit one of the products, the basic membership level. 588 00:38:17.115 --> 00:38:18.335 Under post publishing 589 00:38:19.275 --> 00:38:22.655 you'll notice there's can post and can view. 590 00:38:23.194 --> 00:38:23.694 So 591 00:38:24.234 --> 00:38:30.760 when when a type of content is not public you need to choose which membership levels can view it. 592 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:37.340 So you get a lot of control over which members can post content, as well as view private content. 593 00:38:37.720 --> 00:38:39.820 And that's how you get a really good members, 594 00:38:41.115 --> 00:38:43.455 members only website with protected content. 595 00:38:43.595 --> 00:38:54.415 So if you got a lot of juicy content that people want, instead of giving it away for free, force them to join as a paid member, and then they can view that special content. 596 00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:02.220 Good question. Yeah. The works Brilliant directors is awesome for protecting content, 597 00:39:02.680 --> 00:39:07.080 for creating, you know, a members only website, or a premium content type of website. 598 00:39:07.080 --> 00:39:08.620 So really good question, Pat. 599 00:39:09.115 --> 00:39:09.915 - Alright, Jason. 600 00:39:10.235 --> 00:39:12.335 So I actually have a question here from Benjamin, 601 00:39:13.035 --> 00:39:14.415 and he's asking, 602 00:39:15.195 --> 00:39:17.375 how how do the lead stages 603 00:39:17.915 --> 00:39:18.415 work? 604 00:39:18.955 --> 00:39:22.895 So I think I know what he's referring to. So maybe you can, send the 605 00:39:23.450 --> 00:39:26.430 the presentation over to me, and I'll go ahead and share my screen 606 00:39:26.730 --> 00:39:28.269 - after this one. - Absolutely. 607 00:39:28.730 --> 00:39:32.269 - So I think what Benjamin's talking about is when somebody 608 00:39:32.809 --> 00:39:34.990 tries to contact one of his members. 609 00:39:35.495 --> 00:39:36.955 So if he has somebody, 610 00:39:37.495 --> 00:39:41.515 so there's a website visitor, contacts a member, that's what we call a lead. 611 00:39:41.975 --> 00:39:43.675 So there's a lead management 612 00:39:45.095 --> 00:39:47.335 engine that comes with the Brilliant Directories platform. 613 00:39:47.335 --> 00:39:56.800 It's personally my favorite piece of the software, and that allows a directory owner to make sure that when somebody submits a lead, when somebody tries to contact the members, 614 00:39:57.340 --> 00:39:59.920 to make sure those website visitors are getting answers. 615 00:39:59.980 --> 00:40:02.800 So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go to the 616 00:40:03.865 --> 00:40:04.765 match leads. 617 00:40:05.305 --> 00:40:07.145 - Can you show us just very quickly, 618 00:40:07.865 --> 00:40:10.765 where on a site would would a website visitor 619 00:40:11.465 --> 00:40:13.485 submit a quote unquote lead? 620 00:40:15.785 --> 00:40:19.740 - Sure thing. Let's go to the demo site while I do that. Perfect. 621 00:40:20.200 --> 00:40:24.300 So there's a couple of places that people would go to submit a lead. 622 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:26.380 Every directory website 623 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:28.780 comes with a get match page. 624 00:40:29.080 --> 00:40:33.900 It's it's not automatically shown on the main menu, but a lot of our 625 00:40:34.375 --> 00:40:37.835 users use the get match form for ask a quote, 626 00:40:38.215 --> 00:40:39.275 ask a question, 627 00:40:39.975 --> 00:40:44.155 get matched, and basically the public fills out a single form 628 00:40:44.535 --> 00:40:47.035 and then you, the directory owner, can match 629 00:40:47.335 --> 00:40:52.020 that inquiry to the members that fit the criteria. So you can have a category, 630 00:40:52.640 --> 00:40:57.140 filter in here. You can go by location so that if somebody is looking for a mechanic 631 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:02.305 in San Francisco, that you would send that inquiry to the mechanics in San Francisco. 632 00:41:02.305 --> 00:41:04.305 - So so that's a that's a sorry to interrupt you. 633 00:41:04.305 --> 00:41:10.245 So that's a lead for the the members, for the professional members, potential lead for the professional members. 634 00:41:10.705 --> 00:41:13.105 - That is a potential lead for the professional members. 635 00:41:13.105 --> 00:41:19.190 And then the other area that's most common for leads is on the profile pages themselves. 636 00:41:19.650 --> 00:41:22.150 When somebody goes to contact a member 637 00:41:22.610 --> 00:41:27.510 and they fill out the form to contact them, that also goes into the same lead engine. 638 00:41:28.185 --> 00:41:32.185 - So so Go ahead Jason. - Yeah. And I think it's important to note here. 639 00:41:32.185 --> 00:41:37.405 So when a consumer or website visitor wants to contact one of your professional members, 640 00:41:37.865 --> 00:41:38.845 you can decide. 641 00:41:38.905 --> 00:41:43.800 Do you want this message to go directly to the member without any moderation for free? 642 00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:49.020 Or similar to an Angie's List, or a Thumbtack, or HomeAdvisor site, 643 00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:53.420 somebody can fill out this, we call it a lead form, and you can actually 644 00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:54.780 sell the lead 645 00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:56.220 to the member 646 00:41:56.675 --> 00:42:00.435 for a nominal price, whatever makes sense, $5, $500. 647 00:42:00.435 --> 00:42:01.955 It just depends on the industry. 648 00:42:01.955 --> 00:42:10.055 So your site, when visitors come to your site, is going to be generating what we call leads from the consumers who want to contact your members. 649 00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:14.340 And one of the great business models with Brilliant Directories and revenue sources 650 00:42:14.640 --> 00:42:16.180 are selling these leads 651 00:42:16.640 --> 00:42:17.540 from the consumers 652 00:42:18.240 --> 00:42:19.220 back to 653 00:42:19.520 --> 00:42:20.160 your members. 654 00:42:20.160 --> 00:42:26.705 And if the leads are good quality leads, your members are gonna love your site, and they're gonna keep buying leads every single 655 00:42:27.325 --> 00:42:27.825 month. 656 00:42:28.445 --> 00:42:29.565 - Alright. Thank you, Jason. 657 00:42:29.565 --> 00:42:37.585 So one of the things that Brilliant Directories does to help manage these leads, all of these inquiries coming in, and I think that was Benjamin's question, 658 00:42:38.045 --> 00:42:40.225 is using the different stages. 659 00:42:40.285 --> 00:42:47.760 So where again, I went to leads and the match leads area and you can see that there's different tabs that are open. 660 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:49.140 This allows you to 661 00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:53.540 basically manage your leads. When I click on the accepted tab, 662 00:42:53.994 --> 00:42:59.215 this means that somebody on the one of the members, one of the professionals, one of the businesses 663 00:42:59.994 --> 00:43:01.215 accepted the lead. 664 00:43:01.355 --> 00:43:06.175 The the way that the system's notified of this is the email that gets sent to your members 665 00:43:06.869 --> 00:43:09.269 has a link that takes your member to their dashboard. 666 00:43:09.269 --> 00:43:14.309 Maybe we'll we'll do a full overview of this in a future webinar where they're then asked to accept the lead. 667 00:43:14.309 --> 00:43:18.150 There's a button they click and that's what notifies the system that they accepted it. 668 00:43:18.150 --> 00:43:20.410 So in this case, I can see that 669 00:43:20.765 --> 00:43:22.625 one person accepted the lead 670 00:43:23.085 --> 00:43:25.105 and I matched it to five people. 671 00:43:25.405 --> 00:43:31.825 So if if I wanna go ahead and see who accepted this lead, I would click on the match icon. 672 00:43:32.205 --> 00:43:34.065 This would then allow me to identify 673 00:43:34.520 --> 00:43:36.359 which member accepted this lead. 674 00:43:36.359 --> 00:43:41.660 So you can see all the leads that were sent, the ones that accepted and the one that, that declined. 675 00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:45.339 So here scrolling down, these are the matched 676 00:43:45.720 --> 00:43:49.900 leads, the matched members. I could see that this member has it pending. 677 00:43:50.565 --> 00:43:55.385 This member has it pending. But if we scroll down, we should see who accepted it. And here we go. 678 00:43:55.525 --> 00:43:56.345 This member 679 00:43:56.645 --> 00:43:58.665 took the time to accept this lead. 680 00:43:58.885 --> 00:44:02.105 For me, the directory owner, this is extremely valuable information 681 00:44:02.619 --> 00:44:10.720 because I'm gonna call if this is a free member, I may wanna call them and try to upsell them or just see how things are going and see if I could build a relationship 682 00:44:11.020 --> 00:44:15.520 because this person has interacted with my website. They've logged into their dashboard. 683 00:44:15.660 --> 00:44:16.960 They know who 684 00:44:17.265 --> 00:44:21.424 this who I am, who the business is. So it's a great time to reach out to them. 685 00:44:21.424 --> 00:44:25.125 Also, I'm able to see how many leads people received in total. 686 00:44:25.345 --> 00:44:27.924 I'm gonna go ahead and show you another sales stage 687 00:44:28.305 --> 00:44:31.920 and that is the sold out sales stage. This is my favorite one 688 00:44:32.319 --> 00:44:34.660 because what this means is it means that 689 00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:38.740 the maximum limit because you can send this to a 100 members 690 00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:45.940 and you can tell the software when three people accept the lead, I don't want anyone else to be able to accept the lead. 691 00:44:46.295 --> 00:44:50.955 This gives you maximum exposure to the members so more people find out about your website, 692 00:44:51.255 --> 00:44:57.275 but it also protects the users, the person that submitted the form from getting spam, getting a spam experience. 693 00:44:57.495 --> 00:45:04.730 If they fill out the form and they get 20 emails from 20 different providers, they may not come to your website again to ask for services. 694 00:45:04.730 --> 00:45:06.110 So this caps, 695 00:45:06.890 --> 00:45:12.270 three people can accept it, and that means that one person when something is flagged as sold out, 696 00:45:12.570 --> 00:45:18.845 it means that one person tried to accept the lead and were told, we're sorry this lead is now sold out. 697 00:45:18.845 --> 00:45:19.984 So if I wanna identify 698 00:45:20.685 --> 00:45:24.865 who that member was, all I need to do is to click on the match icon, 699 00:45:26.285 --> 00:45:27.185 scroll down, 700 00:45:27.645 --> 00:45:30.305 and again, I'm going to be looking at the lead statuses. 701 00:45:31.244 --> 00:45:35.680 And we're gonna whoops. My apologies. We're gonna keep scrolling. Here we go. So, Jorge, 702 00:45:36.220 --> 00:45:41.200 tried to accept the lead and had it sold out. I think this is also a great opportunity to call Jorge 703 00:45:41.500 --> 00:45:46.060 when it happens and say, hey, Jorge. I see you tried to accept the lead. It's sold out. 704 00:45:46.060 --> 00:45:50.905 Here's why it's sold out, And give him some good customer support. So it's a lot of good insight, 705 00:45:51.765 --> 00:45:54.985 with regards to that. And as you can see in the far column, 706 00:45:55.365 --> 00:45:59.365 you can also see a quick history of all of the leads that your members are getting. 707 00:45:59.365 --> 00:46:02.745 So it gives you some good insight on, Oh, wow, I see that Moises 708 00:46:03.240 --> 00:46:07.660 accepted two leads. Maybe I should give him a call. Maybe he's a good person to call next. 709 00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:12.300 So so those are two very useful lead stages. In all, we have pending, 710 00:46:12.600 --> 00:46:13.100 accepted, 711 00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:14.620 requires a callback. 712 00:46:15.285 --> 00:46:16.585 So this is a good, 713 00:46:17.444 --> 00:46:22.665 lead stage if you you wanna set a reminder for yourself. You want something to stand out. 714 00:46:22.805 --> 00:46:26.505 So I like to choose this lead setting, which you can manually 715 00:46:28.109 --> 00:46:30.430 customize here because I want a reminder. 716 00:46:30.430 --> 00:46:34.430 I want to tell myself, Patrick, you need to click on match again. 717 00:46:34.430 --> 00:46:38.609 There's somebody in there that you wanna tell yourself you need to call. 718 00:46:39.245 --> 00:46:43.005 So so these are the different lead settings. When you're done with a lead, you move it to closed. 719 00:46:43.005 --> 00:46:50.685 And of course, there's a there's you can also label something as a bad lead if it's a spam lead that came in so that they're not mixed in with your other leads. 720 00:46:50.685 --> 00:46:54.000 And those are essentially the different lead stages that are available to 721 00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:57.220 - you. That's great. Yeah. It's pretty it's pretty comprehensive, 722 00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:01.620 but once you get the hang of it it's pretty simple to wrap your head around it. Basically, 723 00:47:02.080 --> 00:47:03.460 you're making sure that, 724 00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:09.705 you know, when usually you're gonna sell leads in most cases, and you want to make sure you've maximized the the sale of a lead. 725 00:47:09.705 --> 00:47:12.665 So you can match a lead with three members or four members. 726 00:47:12.665 --> 00:47:16.365 You can choose how many members get to purchase that lead, and 727 00:47:17.385 --> 00:47:20.505 that way you can make sure you're maximizing revenue from the leads. 728 00:47:20.505 --> 00:47:23.900 And you get some great stats here, so you know, Pat brought up a great point. 729 00:47:23.900 --> 00:47:28.480 You can follow-up with people based on different stages. Maybe they need need a little nudge, 730 00:47:28.859 --> 00:47:31.440 but it creates really good customer service opportunities, 731 00:47:31.819 --> 00:47:35.440 and a lot of people wonder, you know, how do I start my site? I don't have any members. 732 00:47:35.579 --> 00:47:39.665 When you start getting your first members, don't be afraid to call them and create 733 00:47:39.965 --> 00:47:44.545 a good relationship with them, because you're trying to foster long term relationships. 734 00:47:45.165 --> 00:47:50.225 And if you can identify activity in leads, or when they're signing up to your site, 735 00:47:50.970 --> 00:47:52.190 you can use this information 736 00:47:52.730 --> 00:48:04.350 as a stepping stone, and as an olive branch to establish a nice relationship with someone who might be a little unsure about your website, or your program, or what, you know, what you're offering exactly. 737 00:48:04.410 --> 00:48:04.910 So, 738 00:48:05.265 --> 00:48:05.505 yeah. 739 00:48:05.505 --> 00:48:10.885 This is great data, and it can be used to both maximize revenue and foster better relationships 740 00:48:11.505 --> 00:48:12.404 with your members. 741 00:48:13.184 --> 00:48:17.184 - Great question there. - We did have Greg that asked a question. I promise we get it in. 742 00:48:17.184 --> 00:48:19.900 Maybe we'll just make that the last quick question here. 743 00:48:20.120 --> 00:48:22.700 And he's saying that he he has a video directory 744 00:48:23.160 --> 00:48:29.340 and he wants on the member profile pages, he wants the videos to display before the overview tab. 745 00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:34.035 So he doesn't right now when you go to the overview tab, you see the map and the directions and so forth. 746 00:48:34.115 --> 00:48:36.454 So I thought that might be a good question to go over. 747 00:48:36.835 --> 00:48:41.734 - That's an awesome question. So this is our demo site, and that's actually a super question. 748 00:48:42.035 --> 00:48:46.055 So you'll notice there's different tabs here. This guy obviously has everything. 749 00:48:46.595 --> 00:48:51.090 Specialties, reviews. But let's say you wanted the videos to be the first one. 750 00:48:51.950 --> 00:48:56.450 You do have control over the order of these tabs, and let me show you exactly 751 00:48:56.830 --> 00:49:01.010 how to do that. And we're gonna, in this example, we'll move the video 752 00:49:01.765 --> 00:49:03.865 to the first slot there. So 753 00:49:04.565 --> 00:49:06.185 let me go back to that page. 754 00:49:08.325 --> 00:49:09.225 John Smith. 755 00:49:10.005 --> 00:49:14.565 This is a good question to end on as well. And again we tried our best to get to all the questions. 756 00:49:14.565 --> 00:49:16.665 We're just a little short on time here today. 757 00:49:16.680 --> 00:49:20.059 So let's go to John Smith, and let's see how we do this exactly. 758 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:23.880 So he's got a lot of tabs here. He's got every feature in the book here. 759 00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:28.700 I mean post type of content you can post. So let's move the videos to the first slot. 760 00:49:28.965 --> 00:49:33.945 So where you want to go is into the content section, and go to edit post settings. 761 00:49:34.485 --> 00:49:42.425 So the different types of posts are the different types of content your members can publish, such as properties, products, job openings, so on and so forth. 762 00:49:43.110 --> 00:49:47.750 So right now the overview tab is the first one, and that's actually the listing one. 763 00:49:47.750 --> 00:49:48.970 Let's open the listing, 764 00:49:51.190 --> 00:49:54.650 and what you want to look at is the profile page design. 765 00:49:55.395 --> 00:50:00.295 And we can see the tab order is set to one. So that's going to be the first thing. 766 00:50:01.475 --> 00:50:02.835 It goes based on number. 767 00:50:02.835 --> 00:50:10.560 So if this is number one and something else is number two, whatever is number two, which is specialties, is going to be next, and then so on and so forth. 768 00:50:11.040 --> 00:50:15.840 You can also enter zero, so that'll be the lowest number, and that's what we'll enter for the video. 769 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:17.620 So let's edit the video feature. 770 00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:26.100 Go to profile page design, and right now the tab order is set to 13. So it's one of the last ones. 771 00:50:26.295 --> 00:50:29.115 Let's just set that to zero. That'll be before one, 772 00:50:29.415 --> 00:50:30.535 and I'll save the changes. 773 00:50:30.535 --> 00:50:36.615 By the way, you can use ctrl s on these pages, so if you're scrolling down you don't have to go and click the save changes buttons. 774 00:50:36.615 --> 00:50:37.755 Control s works. 775 00:50:38.680 --> 00:50:43.900 And if we refresh his page here we should see this video go to the number one spot. 776 00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:53.500 Perfect. And now we see videos is the first tab that's opened on his profile. 777 00:50:53.855 --> 00:50:55.474 It's in the number one spot, 778 00:50:56.494 --> 00:50:59.875 and you can do the same thing with all the different features 779 00:51:00.734 --> 00:51:04.015 for a member pro for for, for the member profile pages. 780 00:51:04.015 --> 00:51:06.815 So you get a lot of good control over what you want first. 781 00:51:06.815 --> 00:51:12.700 So if you're a real estate site, you may not need the the this information here about their business. 782 00:51:12.700 --> 00:51:14.720 Maybe you want to show the property listings, 783 00:51:15.740 --> 00:51:21.660 because it's very visual, and you know a lot of the contact information is up here anyways at the top. 784 00:51:21.660 --> 00:51:26.315 So you can choose what you want the order of your tabs to be. That's a super question. 785 00:51:26.695 --> 00:51:29.815 - That's correct. Because we have events websites. They focus on events. 786 00:51:29.815 --> 00:51:31.735 The events tab, of course, should be the first. 787 00:51:31.735 --> 00:51:35.655 If it's a job site, of course, the job tab should be the first. 788 00:51:35.655 --> 00:51:37.675 You gotta decide what is the most relevant 789 00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:41.300 content. Another thing I love, even if you have a generic 790 00:51:41.680 --> 00:51:44.260 directory and it doesn't have a specific 791 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.940 type of content that you're focused on, like coupons or events, 792 00:51:48.319 --> 00:51:52.900 I personally like to not use the overview tab because I find it's not very colorful. 793 00:51:53.565 --> 00:51:59.085 As well as many of us know, the Google map is the only thing that needs to load, so it might take a half second to load. 794 00:51:59.085 --> 00:52:02.385 So I like to start with something more colorful like the photo gallery, 795 00:52:03.005 --> 00:52:03.505 videos, 796 00:52:03.964 --> 00:52:09.185 events, coupons, and so forth. And I actually like to have my overview tab as one of the last ones 797 00:52:09.540 --> 00:52:10.520 to give people, 798 00:52:11.220 --> 00:52:15.960 quick access to more useful information for the general public, more interactive. 799 00:52:17.220 --> 00:52:21.720 - Yep. High quality images keep people on the site. They make the site look more credible. 800 00:52:21.780 --> 00:52:28.025 So any opportunity you have a time to, a chance to present higher quality images over plain text, 801 00:52:28.645 --> 00:52:33.685 obviously there's a there's a place and a time and place for each one of those on your site, to showcase those. 802 00:52:33.685 --> 00:52:34.185 But 803 00:52:34.485 --> 00:52:39.625 definitely people respond to images, and it kind of makes your site a little easier to use, 804 00:52:40.310 --> 00:52:42.970 because people, you know, feel comfortable looking at images 805 00:52:43.830 --> 00:52:47.690 related to the content that they're searching for. So that was a great 806 00:52:48.150 --> 00:52:49.369 great final question. 807 00:52:50.310 --> 00:52:53.290 We are running out of time here. I do want to 808 00:52:54.065 --> 00:52:57.605 mention the contest of the week again. Just share this message on Facebook. 809 00:52:57.825 --> 00:53:00.965 I'm using Brilliant Directories as my directory software and love it. 810 00:53:01.345 --> 00:53:05.365 Launch your own membership site. Check them out. And also the 811 00:53:06.450 --> 00:53:07.430 deal of the week, 812 00:53:07.810 --> 00:53:12.690 we brought it back due to popular demand. Google search assist it's $90. 813 00:53:12.690 --> 00:53:17.510 You can get Google search results on your website in the event there are no member results 814 00:53:17.970 --> 00:53:21.190 to display. So you'll always have something showing 815 00:53:21.845 --> 00:53:22.984 on your website. 816 00:53:23.605 --> 00:53:24.984 Don't forget to register 817 00:53:25.365 --> 00:53:27.545 for next week's next week's webinar. 818 00:53:28.005 --> 00:53:34.265 Next week will be at our normal time at four p. M. Pacific time, seven p. M. Eastern time. 819 00:53:34.660 --> 00:53:38.200 You can register right after the webinar. I will provide a link to everyone. 820 00:53:38.340 --> 00:53:45.480 The spaces are filling up faster and faster, so whether you think you can make it or not based on that time, it's always good to save your seat. 821 00:53:46.100 --> 00:53:50.120 And, yeah. It was great great being with everyone here today. 822 00:53:50.925 --> 00:53:51.085 - Yeah. 823 00:53:51.085 --> 00:53:57.485 This is definitely one of my favorite ones yet and I can't wait to be here next week and get to answer some more of your questions. 824 00:53:57.485 --> 00:54:02.385 - Thank you so much everyone. Have a great week. - Thanks everyone. Have a great super week. Bye bye.