WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:03.699 Alright. Looks like we have a full house today. 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:08.340 So, let's jump right into it. We have some things before the Q and A session. 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:15.644 So I'm Jason, one of the co founders here at Brilliant Directories, and we're doing webinar Wednesdays, every week on Wednesday, 4 00:00:15.945 --> 00:00:17.725 depending on what part of the world you're 5 00:00:18.105 --> 00:00:21.385 in. And, it's been really, really good answering questions. 6 00:00:21.385 --> 00:00:28.265 We're learning a lot from the questions asked, getting a lot of feedback on how to improve the platform, and I actually have some updates today. 7 00:00:28.265 --> 00:00:30.044 Pat and I have some updates today 8 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:35.000 based on previous webinars of requested features. And, yeah, Pat is joining us today. 9 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.740 He's the brand manager here at Brilliant Directories. 10 00:00:38.680 --> 00:00:41.580 Hi, everybody. Great to be here. I have to say I'm particularly 11 00:00:42.215 --> 00:00:45.734 excited about some of the things we have to share with you in this week's webinar. 12 00:00:45.734 --> 00:00:47.434 It's gonna be a great one. 13 00:00:48.214 --> 00:00:48.714 Absolutely. 14 00:00:50.214 --> 00:00:54.854 So just a brief synopsis of what the goal is here. We're here to answer your questions. 15 00:00:54.854 --> 00:00:58.470 The webinar is all about you and helping you with your website, 16 00:00:59.090 --> 00:01:03.110 and helping you take your website idea to the next level with Brilliant Directories. 17 00:01:03.890 --> 00:01:07.970 Bill Miller, thank you for joining us today. I know you're in Hawaii. I just see that you logged in. 18 00:01:07.970 --> 00:01:08.470 Welcome. 19 00:01:08.770 --> 00:01:10.390 Been with us for a while now. 20 00:01:10.895 --> 00:01:15.395 And just to set a few ground rules about what type of questions you can ask, 21 00:01:15.935 --> 00:01:26.195 we just want to make sure to be fair to everyone, so we're going to limit questions, one per person, until we've had an opportunity to go go through everyone's questions at least one 22 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:33.900 time. Contest winner of the week for last week was Brent Crawley in Australia. 23 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.860 Brent, I hope you're joining us today. If not, 24 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.740 you can catch us in a webinar replay. 25 00:01:40.275 --> 00:01:42.915 Brent has won a $960 26 00:01:42.915 --> 00:01:44.775 value for the SuperBundle 27 00:01:45.235 --> 00:01:50.055 add ons that we have at Brilliant Directories. Just email support@brilliantdirectories.com, 28 00:01:50.274 --> 00:01:53.415 and let me show you guys what the SuperBundle add on is. 29 00:01:54.990 --> 00:02:00.049 We do have a promotion that we're running for about a month or so now, where 30 00:02:00.430 --> 00:02:02.770 all the add ons you can get to your website, 31 00:02:04.909 --> 00:02:07.810 you can get all these add ons here, lead matching, claim listing, 32 00:02:08.745 --> 00:02:11.865 and the yearly price on that is $960 33 00:02:11.865 --> 00:02:20.025 per year, and Brent you'll get that free for one year, and if you did want to keep that the following year, it would just be $50 per month. 34 00:02:20.025 --> 00:02:28.160 So if you like the add ons you can keep them at a highly discounted rate, and if you don't want them then you can also get rid of them at that point. 35 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:31.940 But you have won them free for a year, and congratulations. 36 00:02:33.225 --> 00:02:36.125 That's a great prize, almost a thousand dollar value there. 37 00:02:37.305 --> 00:02:39.785 And we do have a new contest of the week. 38 00:02:39.785 --> 00:02:44.605 Again the contest of the week, just take a second for you to, you know, enter the contest, 39 00:02:44.905 --> 00:02:49.310 and all you have to do this week is to go to our Twitter page which 40 00:02:50.329 --> 00:02:51.150 is brilliantdirect, 41 00:02:51.450 --> 00:02:54.909 and I'll go there with you, and all you have to do is retweet 42 00:02:55.290 --> 00:02:56.489 our most latest, 43 00:02:56.810 --> 00:02:58.030 most recent post, 44 00:02:58.569 --> 00:03:05.995 and it says I started my money, my own money making membership website with Brilliant Directories, and all you have to do is click the retweet button, 45 00:03:07.095 --> 00:03:09.595 and that will automatically enter you into 46 00:03:10.055 --> 00:03:14.135 next week's contest, which is going to be another super awesome prize. 47 00:03:14.135 --> 00:03:19.890 So if you have a moment after the webinar, just go ahead and retweet that message and you'll be entered into 48 00:03:20.510 --> 00:03:22.370 next week's or this week's contest. 49 00:03:23.470 --> 00:03:25.489 My favorite part of webinar Wednesdays, 50 00:03:26.110 --> 00:03:29.625 this is a chance for us to introduce new products that are coming out soon, 51 00:03:30.265 --> 00:03:36.125 and existing things that we have, and give you guys an opportunity to snag them at super discounted prices. 52 00:03:37.305 --> 00:03:45.165 If you've noticed this week with Brilliant Directories, we've been running some promo codes on the website, and we were testing it on Brilliant Directories first, 53 00:03:45.570 --> 00:03:49.430 and we're expected to launch this in March 2017. 54 00:03:49.970 --> 00:03:54.070 And the deal of the week is to pre order the promo code add on. 55 00:03:55.570 --> 00:03:59.270 Basically what this is gonna allow you to do on your directory website 56 00:04:00.575 --> 00:04:06.675 is to have a promo code that can be applied to membership levels on your checkout pages. 57 00:04:07.375 --> 00:04:12.995 Promo codes are awesome because you can list them on coupon websites, which is going to help advertise 58 00:04:13.620 --> 00:04:14.360 your directory. 59 00:04:15.140 --> 00:04:16.520 You can give them to affiliates, 60 00:04:17.060 --> 00:04:20.839 and they, you know, give them special promo codes and things like that. 61 00:04:21.459 --> 00:04:27.405 It's a great way to incentivize members to join your site, and make them feel like they're getting an extra special deal. 62 00:04:27.885 --> 00:04:31.745 So if you're thinking about generating revenue, or you are generating revenue 63 00:04:32.285 --> 00:04:33.985 with your directory website, 64 00:04:34.764 --> 00:04:39.105 having the promo code add on is going to be essential to not only 65 00:04:39.725 --> 00:04:42.945 converting more potential members of your website into paying 66 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:45.259 customers, but also marketing 67 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:47.819 your website, and really aggregating 68 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.220 those coupon codes around the Internet, 69 00:04:51.080 --> 00:04:53.000 in as many places as you can. 70 00:04:53.159 --> 00:04:57.294 All the coupon websites that you can think of, imagine you had a code there. 71 00:04:57.294 --> 00:04:59.634 You know maybe it's 10 or 15 off, 72 00:05:00.254 --> 00:05:03.055 and that's gonna help get a lot of members signed up. 73 00:05:03.055 --> 00:05:06.034 Let me show you what that's gonna look like in your admin area. 74 00:05:06.094 --> 00:05:08.514 So when the promo codes add on is available, 75 00:05:09.460 --> 00:05:13.080 under your finance tab you'll have a section that says promo codes, 76 00:05:13.540 --> 00:05:15.080 and you'll be able to add 77 00:05:15.460 --> 00:05:17.160 new promo codes right here, 78 00:05:17.620 --> 00:05:20.840 and you can see how many times a promo code has been used, 79 00:05:22.115 --> 00:05:26.455 and you can set what the promo code is, and if it's a percentage discount, 80 00:05:26.915 --> 00:05:27.415 or 81 00:05:28.355 --> 00:05:33.075 a flat rate discount. So maybe it's $10 off, or maybe it's 10% off. 82 00:05:33.075 --> 00:05:36.215 So promo codes are a super way to 83 00:05:36.569 --> 00:05:42.250 advertise your site, as well as get new members, and we're expected to launch this within this month of March. 84 00:05:42.250 --> 00:05:47.310 So what you can do is you can go to brilliantdirectories.com/promo. 85 00:05:47.449 --> 00:05:50.250 The regular price for this is going to be $2.51 86 00:05:50.250 --> 00:05:52.155 time to add it to your site. 87 00:05:52.615 --> 00:05:55.115 It's listed for 50% off 88 00:05:55.495 --> 00:05:58.155 on the promos page right now for $1.25, 89 00:05:58.375 --> 00:06:01.595 but what you can do is you can enter VIP 25, 90 00:06:01.975 --> 00:06:05.175 and that's going to take an additional 25% 91 00:06:05.175 --> 00:06:05.675 off 92 00:06:06.419 --> 00:06:08.199 the discounted price already. 93 00:06:08.259 --> 00:06:11.800 And all you have to do is put your credit card information and complete your order. 94 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:15.720 And we will put you on the list for the pre orders 95 00:06:16.180 --> 00:06:20.360 for the promo code add on. So this is one that I think is 96 00:06:21.104 --> 00:06:24.565 great for generating more revenue and advertising your site overall. 97 00:06:25.985 --> 00:06:26.485 Okay. 98 00:06:27.104 --> 00:06:28.965 Definitely want to take advantage of that. 99 00:06:29.985 --> 00:06:34.405 And I think at this point, Pat do you have anything to add before we get into the Q and A's here? 100 00:06:35.650 --> 00:06:35.810 Yeah. 101 00:06:35.810 --> 00:06:42.950 I I would love to go over some of the new updates, that we have, free for everyone on the software that they could take advantage of, right now. 102 00:06:43.250 --> 00:06:45.090 We've, some of these were in high demand. 103 00:06:45.090 --> 00:06:55.735 People have been asking for these for quite a while, starting with the ability to easily embed the get match form or the lead generate the lead generating form on the homepage. 104 00:06:55.735 --> 00:06:58.875 Maybe we can start and and show that one and where they can find that? 105 00:06:59.495 --> 00:07:00.555 Absolutely. So 106 00:07:01.260 --> 00:07:06.160 as you know on your homepage it's very common to have like a search form to start searching for members, 107 00:07:06.620 --> 00:07:08.080 but more and more and more, 108 00:07:08.780 --> 00:07:13.919 you know people have been asking to wanna create sites similar to Angie's List, or Thumbtack, 109 00:07:14.495 --> 00:07:15.155 or HomeAdvisor, 110 00:07:16.335 --> 00:07:21.555 and basically those sites generate leads, and Brilliant Directories is great at generating leads. 111 00:07:21.775 --> 00:07:27.690 But until now you have not been able to put the lead capture form on the home page. 112 00:07:27.690 --> 00:07:32.910 So instead of and you can control, you know, what shows on the form or, you know, how big it is. 113 00:07:33.690 --> 00:07:36.190 You can now go to your design settings, 114 00:07:38.170 --> 00:07:39.470 and we'll go there together, 115 00:07:40.655 --> 00:07:44.675 And we actually have two things to show you in the design settings that are available now. 116 00:07:44.735 --> 00:07:48.435 If you go to your home page layout and the home page search settings, 117 00:07:49.455 --> 00:07:50.755 under search type 118 00:07:52.415 --> 00:07:54.015 there's all the search options here. 119 00:07:54.015 --> 00:08:00.600 This is the search that you're gonna choose on your home page, but you can come down here and you can choose show lead form. 120 00:08:01.300 --> 00:08:07.620 And then you can align that left, right, or center, so it could correspond to the type of image, the background image you have. 121 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:10.200 Maybe it's a smiley person or some text, 122 00:08:10.574 --> 00:08:13.074 but you can now have the lead form on your homepage, 123 00:08:13.375 --> 00:08:18.035 and really put a stronger focus on your website generating leads from website visitors 124 00:08:18.495 --> 00:08:21.715 to connect with the business professionals that are on your website. 125 00:08:24.210 --> 00:08:26.870 Did I cover that well Pat? That was perfect. 126 00:08:27.570 --> 00:08:28.850 A lot of people have been asking that. 127 00:08:28.850 --> 00:08:34.690 A lot of people when I'm doing website audits, it's one of the things that they're asking for is how can I embed that on my homepage? 128 00:08:34.690 --> 00:08:37.544 So that should that should help people out a lot. Alright. 129 00:08:37.924 --> 00:08:41.225 The next thing comes down to the homepage hero divider, 130 00:08:41.684 --> 00:08:46.985 and a lot of people are using the hero divider on their homepage, and it works great. 131 00:08:47.125 --> 00:08:51.810 But there's one thing here that we wanna show you. You can now put link buttons here. 132 00:08:52.210 --> 00:08:56.230 So this is a way to add at least three call to actions 133 00:08:56.770 --> 00:09:00.630 right on your home page, and let me show you where you can add that. 134 00:09:00.930 --> 00:09:03.830 You don't have to put the links, you can just leave them as text, 135 00:09:04.205 --> 00:09:08.065 but again in your homepage layout in the design settings, 136 00:09:08.765 --> 00:09:09.905 you have the homepage 137 00:09:10.765 --> 00:09:13.265 divider settings, and you can choose the icon, 138 00:09:13.885 --> 00:09:14.625 the title, 139 00:09:15.405 --> 00:09:16.625 a caption text, 140 00:09:16.970 --> 00:09:19.310 and then you can put the link name 141 00:09:19.770 --> 00:09:22.270 as well as a URL. So the link name 142 00:09:22.650 --> 00:09:25.790 might be like view doctors, if maybe you're a doctor directory. 143 00:09:27.130 --> 00:09:30.830 And then the link name too, you can do doctor reviews, 144 00:09:32.435 --> 00:09:38.055 and that can go to the page where you have reviews of doctors, and then this one could say get matched 145 00:09:38.835 --> 00:09:39.655 with doctors, 146 00:09:40.115 --> 00:09:40.615 and 147 00:09:41.075 --> 00:09:44.695 you can put the URL that corresponds to the link on your website, 148 00:09:45.315 --> 00:09:46.615 and then you'll see 149 00:09:47.829 --> 00:09:48.870 the buttons here. 150 00:09:48.870 --> 00:09:55.209 Now you don't have to have a button, so if you don't put any link name text here, and you just put a URL, 151 00:09:55.910 --> 00:10:03.775 if you just put, you know, HTTP, whatever it might be, it's not going to show the button but it will make the icon and the text here clickable. 152 00:10:04.315 --> 00:10:06.815 So you can choose to have it with the button, 153 00:10:07.595 --> 00:10:08.975 or without the button. 154 00:10:09.035 --> 00:10:14.495 And also this stuff looks great on mobile, so when it's on mobile you'll be able to see the buttons, 155 00:10:15.920 --> 00:10:19.680 and then and then more. So you're good to go there. 156 00:10:19.680 --> 00:10:23.779 And that was such a critical update exactly for the the point you just raised. 157 00:10:23.839 --> 00:10:34.365 When you're on a mobile phone, that home page dividers is such a critical part of the of the home page design because you see those immediately after going through the main image and main search. 158 00:10:34.365 --> 00:10:35.505 So having 159 00:10:35.885 --> 00:10:40.625 quick links to the different sections you want to drive people to on your website whether it be deals, 160 00:10:40.925 --> 00:10:48.100 whether it be reviews, whether it be the sign up, I've seen people using it in different ways, but it's definitely helping increase the traffic 161 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:51.860 to those particular areas of their website, especially on mobile phones. 162 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:52.960 Absolutely. 163 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:59.060 So again, three more ways to add calls to action right on your homepage, and you don't have to do any coding. 164 00:10:59.535 --> 00:11:03.555 You can just put the information you need in the home page divider settings. 165 00:11:04.495 --> 00:11:11.875 Last thing we want to show you guys, and this has come up in previous webinars, I'm gonna go to our demo site real quick and then we'll get into the Q and A. 166 00:11:13.535 --> 00:11:14.915 So as you know, 167 00:11:15.880 --> 00:11:19.500 and we'll just edit our main guy here, John Smith. 168 00:11:19.880 --> 00:11:21.660 Let's go to his member dashboard. 169 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:25.339 Okay great. So 170 00:11:26.040 --> 00:11:32.265 all the member dashboards with the Brilliant Directories sites look very similar, and as long as it's a searchable public listing, 171 00:11:32.885 --> 00:11:36.745 you know there's a way you guys have seen this free QR code image, 172 00:11:37.204 --> 00:11:39.204 which the member can use in their marketing. 173 00:11:39.204 --> 00:11:47.110 It's it's your way of giving your members something a little extra, and this obviously, if used in marketing will link back to their profile on your website. 174 00:11:48.050 --> 00:11:49.910 Also this member badge here, 175 00:11:50.610 --> 00:11:57.165 you know they can put this link on their website, so maybe they're, you know, it says registered member of, you know, whatever your website is, 176 00:11:57.644 --> 00:12:03.985 and then they they embed this code on their website with, and it'll show this badge, and also link back to their profile page. 177 00:12:04.365 --> 00:12:15.770 But it's been very common that some people don't want this in their member dashboard, and up until now you've had to customize this entire dashboard area and remove it based on membership levels. 178 00:12:16.390 --> 00:12:17.930 We've actually made it 179 00:12:18.310 --> 00:12:21.610 an option now. Let me show you. And under your products, 180 00:12:22.070 --> 00:12:27.514 if you go to manage products, just like you can hide or show the phone number on a specific 181 00:12:27.815 --> 00:12:29.514 membership members page, 182 00:12:30.055 --> 00:12:31.834 you can now do the same thing 183 00:12:32.535 --> 00:12:35.194 here, and let me just load this right now. 184 00:12:35.975 --> 00:12:39.194 Let me show you where you can do that. Okay. We're back in business here. 185 00:12:39.654 --> 00:12:41.435 So you go to your manage products, 186 00:12:42.590 --> 00:12:47.170 and you can edit any any of the membership levels, the products that you have here. 187 00:12:49.150 --> 00:12:51.090 And under the additional settings 188 00:12:51.950 --> 00:12:55.810 there are now two options to show the QR code and dashboard, 189 00:12:56.235 --> 00:12:58.654 as well as show the member badge in dashboard. 190 00:12:58.714 --> 00:13:02.095 So you can set these to yes or no, and it'll automatically 191 00:13:02.555 --> 00:13:03.855 hide or show 192 00:13:04.555 --> 00:13:06.895 this badge here in the member dashboard. 193 00:13:06.955 --> 00:13:10.335 So when you guys don't need it you don't need to do any coding, 194 00:13:10.660 --> 00:13:13.960 It's just an option here in the membership level. 195 00:13:14.260 --> 00:13:18.920 So, yeah, those are just a few updates that we've done this week that we wanted to share with you. 196 00:13:19.860 --> 00:13:23.800 And I think now is the appropriate time to open it up to Q and A. 197 00:13:24.395 --> 00:13:24.895 Alright. 198 00:13:25.595 --> 00:13:27.135 Steven? Are you there, Steven? 199 00:13:28.475 --> 00:13:30.895 I am here. Hey, Steven. How are you doing today? 200 00:13:31.515 --> 00:13:34.415 I'm great. How are you? Good. Good. Where are you calling in from? 201 00:13:35.195 --> 00:13:38.415 Greenwich, Connecticut. Okay. Great. Do you have a site with brilliant directories? 202 00:13:39.329 --> 00:13:43.589 I have several, but the one site that I'm looking at is boardcertified.com. 203 00:13:43.889 --> 00:13:46.870 Alright. Do you mind if we swing on over there before you ask your question? 204 00:13:47.970 --> 00:13:50.470 Go ahead. Boardcertified.com? 205 00:13:51.225 --> 00:13:54.204 Yes. Okay. And I'm assuming it's board like 206 00:13:54.505 --> 00:13:56.204 not onboard. It's pretty word. 207 00:13:56.825 --> 00:13:59.084 Yeah. B 0 a r d. Gotcha. Alright. 208 00:13:59.545 --> 00:14:01.084 So what's your question for today? 209 00:14:02.105 --> 00:14:05.565 Okay. So I had an existing site previously with 210 00:14:06.590 --> 00:14:08.990 eDirectory, which didn't work out real well for me. 211 00:14:08.990 --> 00:14:12.190 So, we switched over to BD, which I'm very happy with. Okay. 212 00:14:13.630 --> 00:14:16.530 We have a tremendous amount of membership already. 213 00:14:17.470 --> 00:14:20.930 But in the BD site, I understand how to enter 214 00:14:21.415 --> 00:14:22.475 credit card transactions, 215 00:14:22.855 --> 00:14:27.435 but I can't enter the transact I can't seem to find the transaction entry screen 216 00:14:28.215 --> 00:14:32.235 for entering checks. So each week, we receive checks in the mail as well. 217 00:14:32.855 --> 00:14:35.675 We wanna update the profile on the BD directory. 218 00:14:36.230 --> 00:14:37.930 Well, I can't figure out how to do that. 219 00:14:39.190 --> 00:14:41.290 Let me think about that one for a second. 220 00:14:41.750 --> 00:14:42.970 What you can do, 221 00:14:43.750 --> 00:14:44.410 I think, 222 00:14:47.910 --> 00:14:50.330 would be this. And so what he's asking is, 223 00:14:50.645 --> 00:14:54.585 you know, Brilliant Directories keeps track of Have you connected your gateway here? 224 00:14:55.765 --> 00:15:00.425 I have. We've connected the gateway, but not for a system like Sage, etcetera. 225 00:15:01.285 --> 00:15:03.625 Gotcha. We've only connected the PayPal 226 00:15:04.005 --> 00:15:04.505 gateway. 227 00:15:04.890 --> 00:15:05.390 Okay. 228 00:15:06.570 --> 00:15:09.550 So he receives checks, so these would be manual inputs. 229 00:15:09.850 --> 00:15:15.310 I think we do have a billing update that's coming, I don't want to say this month, but within the next sixty days, 230 00:15:15.690 --> 00:15:19.790 that is going to allow you to add manual payments to the system. 231 00:15:20.015 --> 00:15:23.475 So let's just check out this member right here and go to his payment history. 232 00:15:24.575 --> 00:15:25.075 And 233 00:15:26.575 --> 00:15:29.154 what you can do I think is under new orders 234 00:15:30.175 --> 00:15:31.235 there may be 235 00:15:32.095 --> 00:15:35.235 we're going to be adding a field here where you can add notes. 236 00:15:36.149 --> 00:15:36.649 So 237 00:15:38.949 --> 00:15:49.050 I'm gonna say that right now we don't have it, Steven, to add a manual payment in, but I know what exactly what you're talking about, and it I've seen it on some beta testing sites. 238 00:15:49.845 --> 00:15:56.584 So I know that it will be released probably, I don't want to give an exact date, but let's say within sixty days in our next billing update. 239 00:15:57.925 --> 00:16:00.964 So I think at that time it would be helpful. 240 00:16:00.964 --> 00:16:04.889 I think, and I hate to say it, but probably how many checks do you get from your members? 241 00:16:04.889 --> 00:16:06.430 Are majority of them checks? 242 00:16:08.089 --> 00:16:10.990 Yeah. Well, right now we're getting about a hundred a week. 243 00:16:11.370 --> 00:16:13.550 Okay. So quite a few. 244 00:16:14.089 --> 00:16:20.735 And even the credit cards before we figure this out, we we run our credit cards manually through another system 245 00:16:21.035 --> 00:16:23.615 Gotcha. Until we can make sure that our accounting 246 00:16:24.475 --> 00:16:31.170 module here is effective. What you may want to do, just temporarily, is start start an Excel sheet, 247 00:16:32.209 --> 00:16:34.310 and just note the person's ID, 248 00:16:35.170 --> 00:16:37.190 and the amount in another column. 249 00:16:37.970 --> 00:16:38.470 And 250 00:16:39.089 --> 00:16:44.230 for right now I would recommend keeping track of them in that way when the checks come in, 251 00:16:44.825 --> 00:16:48.445 and just correspond to their member ID on your site. And 252 00:16:49.545 --> 00:16:50.045 until 253 00:16:50.585 --> 00:16:52.585 that update is ready that's probably a good way. 254 00:16:52.585 --> 00:16:58.605 And then if they're sending checks monthly, then you just put another entry in for their for their user ID here. 255 00:16:59.199 --> 00:17:00.560 Yeah. That's a good idea. I have, 256 00:17:01.199 --> 00:17:06.419 I deal with Lewis, who's an excellent programmer that I got through your Absolutely. Yes. 257 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:11.859 Online system, and I can just have him do that very quickly. That's great. I just wanted to verify 258 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:16.654 that that was the situation, because I spent a lot of hours looking through here trying to figure it out. 259 00:17:16.654 --> 00:17:17.154 But 260 00:17:17.454 --> 00:17:21.794 billings, of course, very important to us with the magnitude of membership that we have. 261 00:17:22.255 --> 00:17:25.375 Absolutely. So, yeah, it is on our radar to add it soon. 262 00:17:25.375 --> 00:17:30.230 But in the meantime, I think just a good work around is to make an entry in an Excel sheet. 263 00:17:31.010 --> 00:17:32.929 Great. Thank you. You're very welcome. 264 00:17:32.929 --> 00:17:37.270 Thank you for the question, and reaffirming that that is an important update to to work on. 265 00:17:37.970 --> 00:17:40.929 We have, we have a couple people that that don't have a mic. 266 00:17:40.929 --> 00:17:45.195 They've been emailing in as well their questions. I'd like to get to a few of those, Jason. 267 00:17:45.195 --> 00:17:45.695 Absolutely. 268 00:17:46.715 --> 00:17:48.015 We have, Chris 269 00:17:48.715 --> 00:17:53.215 that's asking, how can I change the categories to my coupon feature? 270 00:17:54.794 --> 00:17:57.695 Okay. That's a great question. How can I change 271 00:17:57.995 --> 00:18:04.950 the categories to my coupon feature? I think a good place to start is go to our our coupons theme, 272 00:18:05.250 --> 00:18:07.570 and show people exactly what he's talking about. 273 00:18:07.570 --> 00:18:12.210 So, you know, Brilliant Directories has lots of different publishing tools, coupons, events. 274 00:18:12.210 --> 00:18:14.070 Some people put them all on one website. 275 00:18:14.404 --> 00:18:19.304 Some people make dedicated websites, for example, like this one, just to show coupons. 276 00:18:20.085 --> 00:18:23.144 And with a lot of the different publishing tools that we have, 277 00:18:23.445 --> 00:18:25.205 you can add categories to them. 278 00:18:25.205 --> 00:18:30.170 So here we can see that the categories for coupons are apparel, automotive, electronics, 279 00:18:31.030 --> 00:18:31.930 etc, etc. 280 00:18:32.790 --> 00:18:35.050 So let's actually go into the 281 00:18:35.910 --> 00:18:38.970 admin panel of the demo site. Give me one moment. 282 00:18:39.990 --> 00:18:42.330 A board certified site looked great, by the way. 283 00:18:44.585 --> 00:18:48.845 Okay. So we're in the admin now, and the question is how can I 284 00:18:49.304 --> 00:18:51.405 control the categories for my coupons? 285 00:18:51.784 --> 00:18:52.924 That's a great question. 286 00:18:53.145 --> 00:19:01.190 The way to change categories for any of the publishing tools, the different types of posts, the post content that you can have, you want to head on over to your toolbox, 287 00:19:01.490 --> 00:19:05.990 and I actually get this question quite often. Head on over to the form manager. 288 00:19:07.649 --> 00:19:11.175 And once you're in the form manager, we have an update we can run here. 289 00:19:11.175 --> 00:19:15.735 Something I love about Brilliant Directories, if there's an update, it won't affect your entire site. 290 00:19:15.735 --> 00:19:19.175 You just up click it right there when it's needed to be updated. 291 00:19:19.175 --> 00:19:22.295 So there was an update on our demo site that needed to be updated. 292 00:19:22.295 --> 00:19:25.195 So I'm going to look for the form that's related to coupons, 293 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:29.019 and this is the form people fill out when creating a coupon. 294 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:32.860 So you'll see things here. It says enter details below. 295 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:35.820 The publish status is yes or no. 296 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:39.340 The title of the coupon, and then the category. 297 00:19:40.165 --> 00:19:45.865 And you'll notice the category for all the publishing tools, whether it be classifieds or products. 298 00:19:46.565 --> 00:19:48.665 The field type is a select drop down, 299 00:19:49.205 --> 00:19:50.665 and to create your options, 300 00:19:51.125 --> 00:19:53.305 you can just put your options in this 301 00:19:53.670 --> 00:19:56.010 pop up here, and just separate them with commas. 302 00:19:56.310 --> 00:20:00.730 So this is what we saw on the homepage drop down, which is apparel, automotive, electronics, 303 00:20:01.510 --> 00:20:06.650 etcetera, etcetera. Let's actually change one of these, and put one category called Patrick. 304 00:20:07.675 --> 00:20:10.175 That's a great category. And I'll save the changes. 305 00:20:11.035 --> 00:20:12.575 Let's go to the front of the website, 306 00:20:13.115 --> 00:20:15.215 and let's actually log in as 307 00:20:15.675 --> 00:20:16.975 one of the sample members. 308 00:20:17.675 --> 00:20:21.845 Yeah. Because Jason there's two things I'd like to to show here as well. There's one more. 309 00:20:22.123 --> 00:20:32.415 While you're showing that, we can also show them, how you just add a comma if you want it to be blank, rather than have the the category auto selected as being apparel's first one. 310 00:20:32.895 --> 00:20:34.835 That's actually a good strategy too. 311 00:20:35.295 --> 00:20:39.715 So let's all go to the coupon feature, and let's add a new coupon. 312 00:20:41.615 --> 00:20:43.235 And if we go to the categories, 313 00:20:43.775 --> 00:20:45.155 we'll now see Patrick 314 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:47.340 down here at the bottom. 315 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.780 And the first one is apparel, it's automatically selected for you, 316 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:56.700 but Patrick said, well how can we make that one empty? 317 00:20:57.080 --> 00:20:59.980 So all we would have to do is just add a comma at the beginning, 318 00:21:00.725 --> 00:21:05.545 and the first one will be empty, and then if you wanted them to actually select a value 319 00:21:06.085 --> 00:21:10.025 make it required, and that will force them to have to choose something 320 00:21:10.405 --> 00:21:14.745 from the drop down. It wouldn't let you just not have an empty value there. 321 00:21:15.929 --> 00:21:18.270 And let's also go to the home page 322 00:21:18.650 --> 00:21:20.110 and notice that automatically 323 00:21:21.130 --> 00:21:27.610 Patrick should be added here at the bottom, there he is right there, as one of the categories that you can search. 324 00:21:27.610 --> 00:21:31.015 So you just need to do it in one place based on the 325 00:21:31.315 --> 00:21:34.695 publishing tool you're working on, the type of post, in this case coupon. 326 00:21:35.315 --> 00:21:42.169 And you can add a blank one in the front, and you can add you can put them in any order that you want in the drop down. 327 00:21:42.389 --> 00:21:44.570 Preferred is usually in alphabetical order. 328 00:21:45.190 --> 00:21:55.850 And the nice thing about the post category variable, all of the different features of the categories when you add it to the form as Jason showed, it's going to automatically display for your members when they're creating that type of content. 329 00:21:56.075 --> 00:21:59.855 It's also automatically going to display in all the different search modules 330 00:22:00.235 --> 00:22:02.495 for that specific content type. 331 00:22:02.635 --> 00:22:08.095 So there's no coding needed outside of just going to the form manager and adding the categories you want there. 332 00:22:08.690 --> 00:22:09.429 That's right. 333 00:22:09.730 --> 00:22:13.910 And that's right. Super simple. And just a note about coupons and other features. 334 00:22:14.210 --> 00:22:20.655 What I really like is, and this is really good if you're publishing, you know, third party content, you can always add an external link 335 00:22:21.055 --> 00:22:21.935 for your posts. 336 00:22:21.935 --> 00:22:30.095 So you might be publishing the information on your website, and you or your members, whoever's publishing it, can always add an external link. 337 00:22:30.095 --> 00:22:34.835 In this case, this is obviously a sample for American Eagle. And if we click more details, 338 00:22:35.419 --> 00:22:44.240 it's taking you to the American Eagle website, but this could go to the page where you would actually purchase this product or where you can apply this promo code. 339 00:22:44.620 --> 00:22:47.260 Again, this is just a sample, but we get the idea here. 340 00:22:47.260 --> 00:22:50.000 That's a great question, and actually that comes up very often. 341 00:22:51.715 --> 00:22:53.654 Alright. Well, we have Samantha 342 00:22:54.034 --> 00:22:54.934 asking us, 343 00:22:56.034 --> 00:22:58.534 somebody wants to advertise on my website. 344 00:22:58.835 --> 00:23:00.375 How can I accept the payment? 345 00:23:02.034 --> 00:23:04.695 Somebody wants to advert a banner advertisement. 346 00:23:06.299 --> 00:23:09.580 She doesn't have a mic. I'm assuming that's what she's referring to. 347 00:23:09.580 --> 00:23:16.000 Perhaps somebody want maybe she sold a banner to somebody, and she wants to be able to collect the payment through the platform. 348 00:23:16.380 --> 00:23:17.200 Okay. Gotcha. 349 00:23:17.580 --> 00:23:20.159 Okay. I have a good way to explain that. So 350 00:23:21.735 --> 00:23:24.315 let's take Bold Business Daily for example. 351 00:23:25.895 --> 00:23:30.055 The question is how, let's say someone wants to place a banner ad on your website. 352 00:23:30.055 --> 00:23:33.835 So we see this banner ad up here, these sidebar banner ads. 353 00:23:35.420 --> 00:23:39.920 These are different than if a member wants to join your site to pay. 354 00:23:41.100 --> 00:23:41.600 So 355 00:23:41.980 --> 00:23:52.345 what I want to explain is we recently moved membership levels, which was under members, into the finance tab, and we called it manage products because this is a little bit more 356 00:23:52.645 --> 00:23:53.145 appropriate. 357 00:23:54.005 --> 00:23:57.785 And if you have someone that wants to advertise and they want to pay you, 358 00:23:58.245 --> 00:23:59.785 first of all I always recommend 359 00:24:00.565 --> 00:24:04.345 moderating banner ads. Don't just let people have access to 360 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:05.600 post banner ads. 361 00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:13.840 I've seen inappropriate things being posted, and then it shows that your website is supporting those things because they're they're, you know, banner ads on your site. 362 00:24:13.840 --> 00:24:20.274 So all you want to do is collect the payment, and then you can get you can approve the image and where the image is going to link 363 00:24:20.575 --> 00:24:25.154 to on your website. You don't want people to have other strangers to have the power over this. 364 00:24:25.375 --> 00:24:27.554 So what you can do very simply is 365 00:24:27.934 --> 00:24:29.475 you can create a new product, 366 00:24:31.060 --> 00:24:32.440 and we'll call this 367 00:24:33.300 --> 00:24:34.200 thirty day 368 00:24:35.300 --> 00:24:35.800 sidebar 369 00:24:37.460 --> 00:24:37.960 banner. 370 00:24:40.340 --> 00:24:42.600 And there's a couple things that 371 00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:45.960 this person wants to do. What was her name? Samantha you said, Pat? 372 00:24:46.575 --> 00:24:50.735 So you can set the pricing, maybe it's a one time price of $250 373 00:24:50.735 --> 00:24:52.355 for a banner ad, and 374 00:24:52.815 --> 00:24:57.475 we don't want this person to be searchable on the website like your regular business members. 375 00:24:57.534 --> 00:25:02.034 So what you're gonna want to do is set the listing searchable on website to no. 376 00:25:02.630 --> 00:25:05.450 This allows you to create lots of different products, 377 00:25:06.549 --> 00:25:10.649 without them actually joining your site as a professional business member. 378 00:25:11.269 --> 00:25:16.570 There are some other options that you can turn off, such as the type of information you want them to enter, 379 00:25:17.255 --> 00:25:21.195 But basically as long as you set the price, it could be monthly or one time, 380 00:25:22.375 --> 00:25:25.115 and also the search visibility set to no, 381 00:25:25.575 --> 00:25:27.595 you've pretty much done all you need 382 00:25:28.055 --> 00:25:29.995 to create a new product that somebody 383 00:25:30.409 --> 00:25:31.070 could pay 384 00:25:31.610 --> 00:25:31.850 for. 385 00:25:31.850 --> 00:25:36.169 There's a couple other things I like to do in that scenario because it does come up quite a bit. 386 00:25:36.409 --> 00:25:38.750 If you can go back to those membership settings. 387 00:25:39.289 --> 00:25:41.309 One of them is to 388 00:25:41.850 --> 00:25:42.350 customize 389 00:25:42.650 --> 00:25:45.950 the email template that goes out to your advertisers. So they receive 390 00:25:46.384 --> 00:25:50.245 an email that says thank you for purchasing the advertisement banner. 391 00:25:50.304 --> 00:25:57.524 So it would be good for you to take a few moments so that they don't get an email as though they signed up as a member because these are advertisers for your website. 392 00:25:57.985 --> 00:26:00.039 Absolutely. The other thing I would pardon? 393 00:26:00.419 --> 00:26:03.860 Absolutely. Can I just show them real quick where they would create a new email? 394 00:26:03.860 --> 00:26:07.940 Because you brought up a really good point. So, yeah, Pat brings up a great point. 395 00:26:07.940 --> 00:26:10.520 Change the sign up email they get after payment. 396 00:26:10.740 --> 00:26:14.600 And where you could do that is under emails and email templates, 397 00:26:15.855 --> 00:26:16.835 you can easily 398 00:26:17.375 --> 00:26:19.315 create a new email template yourself 399 00:26:20.015 --> 00:26:22.195 under email templates, and we'll call this 400 00:26:22.495 --> 00:26:23.555 welcome advertiser. 401 00:26:26.095 --> 00:26:29.960 And what you can do is write an email that lets them 402 00:26:30.340 --> 00:26:32.360 know their order has been received. 403 00:26:36.100 --> 00:26:36.600 Received. 404 00:26:37.460 --> 00:26:40.419 And then you can say what's gonna happen, like thank you for your order. 405 00:26:40.419 --> 00:26:43.160 Someone from our team will reach out to you soon. 406 00:26:43.545 --> 00:26:45.245 If you have any questions in the meantime, 407 00:26:45.625 --> 00:26:49.565 you can reply to this email. So now you're engaging with a potential advertiser. 408 00:26:50.185 --> 00:26:52.905 They know that, you know, what the next steps are gonna be. 409 00:26:53.065 --> 00:26:55.785 Maybe you can write something a little longer than just a sentence. 410 00:26:55.945 --> 00:26:59.570 But now you've created a good communication with potential advertiser. 411 00:27:00.190 --> 00:27:07.330 You could even have the templates say, please send over the copy for the banner, the link that you want it to go to, and any images you'd like to have included. 412 00:27:07.549 --> 00:27:10.350 Right. The instructions for the next steps. Thank you for your payment. 413 00:27:10.350 --> 00:27:15.845 The next steps are email us, the potential image that you want to use and the link. Exactly, Pat. 414 00:27:15.845 --> 00:27:16.825 Very very good. 415 00:27:17.365 --> 00:27:22.265 And the other thing I was gonna say that's a possibility if you don't want them to go to the member dashboard 416 00:27:22.645 --> 00:27:26.505 is you can redirect them to a thank you page that you created for your advertisers. 417 00:27:28.840 --> 00:27:32.780 Exactly. So you can create a page called something like thank you, 418 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:35.900 you know, ads or whatever you want to call it. 419 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:40.460 And this way after their payment they're going to be redirected to 420 00:27:40.965 --> 00:27:44.105 this page, thank you ads. So all you need to do 421 00:27:44.565 --> 00:27:48.424 is create the page, it has to exist, so you would do that under content, 422 00:27:48.804 --> 00:27:50.825 and you can create a new web page, 423 00:27:53.365 --> 00:27:53.865 and 424 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:59.340 you can call it whatever you want. Thank you ads, and then you can say 425 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:00.380 thank you. 426 00:28:00.760 --> 00:28:03.559 And you can put the instructions there too on what the next steps are. 427 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:06.059 So you can send them the instructions in an email, 428 00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:07.720 and the next steps are 429 00:28:11.155 --> 00:28:14.375 And then you would have this page, and once this page exists, 430 00:28:14.755 --> 00:28:16.135 absolutely you can 431 00:28:16.595 --> 00:28:20.055 add it as the redirect page after they sign up. 432 00:28:23.410 --> 00:28:25.350 This is also the sort of stuff, Jason. 433 00:28:25.570 --> 00:28:35.190 What we've just covered here, if it seems a little daunting for for some some of the people on this webinar, this is exactly the sort of stuff that you could do on a website edits training call. 434 00:28:35.265 --> 00:28:42.865 All of this could easily be set up in a thirty minute call if you have the copy ready for the page and the copy ready for the email. 435 00:28:42.865 --> 00:28:44.405 So if you ever do want assistance 436 00:28:44.945 --> 00:28:47.520 in setting all of this up, that's what we're here for. 437 00:28:48.080 --> 00:28:52.800 That's right. So actually Pat brings up a good point. You know these things are relatively simple. 438 00:28:52.800 --> 00:28:56.980 You just kind of need to know what to do. You know, setting up an email, making a page. 439 00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:01.140 There is a website audit review, and these have been highly successful. 440 00:29:01.305 --> 00:29:08.685 So if you think you've set up your website maybe 90%, and you just maybe want a little strategic help getting you to that 10%, 441 00:29:09.225 --> 00:29:13.325 a website audit review might be helpful. And we mentioned these in previous webinars. 442 00:29:14.170 --> 00:29:23.450 We spend about an hour on the phone with you, and we can just make sure all the all the nooks and crannies of your website are set up properly, and it's basically setting you up for success with your site. 443 00:29:23.450 --> 00:29:28.030 So, yep. That's, you can go under add ons, and those are one time services. 444 00:29:30.775 --> 00:29:36.615 Jason, we had two we had two people ask pretty much the same questions, if you don't mind passing the controls over to me. 445 00:29:36.615 --> 00:29:39.675 We have Bruce and Cindy. Thank you for sending in your questions. 446 00:29:40.055 --> 00:29:41.495 Basically, both asking 447 00:29:41.975 --> 00:29:43.035 Cindy's asking 448 00:29:43.450 --> 00:29:44.270 how do I 449 00:29:44.650 --> 00:29:49.950 get a how do I export all of my members that are currently on my website and the CSV file? 450 00:29:51.130 --> 00:29:55.790 And Bruce is asking is there a way that I can get a list of all of the emails 451 00:29:56.090 --> 00:29:58.510 of my members so I can send out an email campaign? 452 00:29:58.995 --> 00:30:03.495 So we're gonna go ahead and and show them how to do this, but at the same time, 453 00:30:03.795 --> 00:30:10.515 I would like to take a moment and show this new update that's probably getting rolled out next week, that's gonna make this very easy for everyone. 454 00:30:10.515 --> 00:30:14.055 I know Jason presented this, I think it was two weeks ago. 455 00:30:14.520 --> 00:30:18.520 But as you can see, I have a little bit of a different layout than everybody else. 456 00:30:18.840 --> 00:30:19.720 Jason does as well. 457 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:25.740 That's because the staff is beta testing this and we've run into no issues, which is why I'm saying we're about to release it. 458 00:30:25.800 --> 00:30:32.445 But the purpose of this modified search area is that we're going to make it easy for you to export all of your members. 459 00:30:32.825 --> 00:30:33.325 So, 460 00:30:33.945 --> 00:30:37.145 Cindy, you wanna export all of your members with this new update. 461 00:30:37.145 --> 00:30:40.365 All you would need to do is click export here 462 00:30:40.665 --> 00:30:45.165 and it would export all of the members in your database as they are right now. 463 00:30:45.809 --> 00:30:48.789 Bruce, you would also be able to just use this button 464 00:30:49.090 --> 00:30:51.669 and export all your members and you'll have the emails. 465 00:30:52.130 --> 00:31:01.175 Or perhaps when you're doing email marketing, the reason this is so powerful and and that's my background, that's why I love this update, is you can have an email campaign 466 00:31:01.715 --> 00:31:05.015 for all of your members that are in Canada, for example. 467 00:31:05.315 --> 00:31:11.175 And then this is gonna search your database and it's gonna show you all of the different members that are in that specific country. 468 00:31:11.235 --> 00:31:13.095 So if I wanna do an email campaign 469 00:31:13.630 --> 00:31:18.929 just for Canada schools in this one instance, then I would go ahead and I would export those search results. 470 00:31:19.230 --> 00:31:22.690 It's gonna go into the database and it's gonna feed it to me in a CSV 471 00:31:23.549 --> 00:31:24.049 file 472 00:31:24.429 --> 00:31:28.929 using the the same variable names that we're seeing a little bit earlier on this call. 473 00:31:29.815 --> 00:31:35.515 So then when I open up this file, I'm gonna have a clean parsed file that's only going to have 474 00:31:35.815 --> 00:31:39.115 Canada schools appearing in my CSV file. 475 00:31:39.335 --> 00:31:42.955 So that's gonna make it very easy for you starting next week. 476 00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:51.059 But in the meantime, if it's urgent that you need to do this, what you're able to do is you're able to go into your developers tab and select the 477 00:31:51.679 --> 00:31:52.179 MySQL 478 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:52.980 database. 479 00:31:53.840 --> 00:32:01.295 And my recommendation is to wait till till next week when we release this, but again, if if it's urgent, then you just go to your 480 00:32:02.715 --> 00:32:03.215 directory, 481 00:32:03.515 --> 00:32:06.155 database table, and we're gonna go to the user's data. 482 00:32:06.155 --> 00:32:10.415 And a lot of people wanna know where is my member's information saved. 483 00:32:10.795 --> 00:32:16.080 It's saved here in your user's data. So you can go ahead and click on browse 484 00:32:16.940 --> 00:32:18.240 and once you're there, 485 00:32:18.860 --> 00:32:22.000 you have all of your members. You can export it from here 486 00:32:22.540 --> 00:32:28.655 if you like and then you can choose the file format that you want which can be a CSV format. 487 00:32:28.955 --> 00:32:32.174 And one of the columns is going to be the email address. 488 00:32:32.395 --> 00:32:38.015 So you can have your email list or in Cindy's case, you can have a backup of all of your member data 489 00:32:38.650 --> 00:32:39.710 on on hand. 490 00:32:40.410 --> 00:32:40.910 Beautiful. 491 00:32:41.370 --> 00:32:45.070 Yeah. So that's another good question. So the previous question with Ken is, 492 00:32:45.370 --> 00:32:49.130 at the end of the day you do have access to your your front end source code. 493 00:32:49.130 --> 00:32:52.030 And then also if you're a higher level level developer, 494 00:32:52.815 --> 00:32:57.235 you do have access to the MySQL database. So you can kind of better, 495 00:32:57.934 --> 00:32:58.434 identify 496 00:32:58.895 --> 00:33:04.274 your data, and you could make your own custom search queries if you wanted to on the front end of your website. 497 00:33:04.335 --> 00:33:05.395 So super helpful 498 00:33:05.840 --> 00:33:09.620 and really accessible all from the admin dashboard of Brilliant Directories. 499 00:33:11.280 --> 00:33:15.440 Alright, Pat. I'm just gonna take over again here. Thank you for sharing that by the way. 500 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:16.260 That was great. 501 00:33:17.360 --> 00:33:19.700 Martin. Martin, I've unmuted your microphone. 502 00:33:21.385 --> 00:33:25.485 Yeah. So I have a question. Say for example, you, set up a new 503 00:33:25.785 --> 00:33:26.285 directory 504 00:33:26.745 --> 00:33:27.485 from scratch. 505 00:33:27.865 --> 00:33:30.505 How do you populate the, directory with members? 506 00:33:30.505 --> 00:33:36.220 Do do you have some type of spider that goes over the Internet, or you have some source, or or how do you get what's the proper way to do that? 507 00:33:36.220 --> 00:33:41.679 So the best way to populate your member with like 10,000 members is first let's hope it's your birthday, 508 00:33:41.980 --> 00:33:46.880 close your eyes, make a wish, and blow out the candles, and just hope that members are in your directory. 509 00:33:47.260 --> 00:33:51.775 I kid, I kid, I kid. So the question always is what came first the chicken or the egg? 510 00:33:51.775 --> 00:33:56.515 And you know, do you start marketing your site even though there are no members in the directory? 511 00:33:56.655 --> 00:34:01.315 Or do you try to get members behind the scenes and then start marketing your website? 512 00:34:01.855 --> 00:34:02.355 And 513 00:34:02.670 --> 00:34:06.370 a good answer to that is you should do a little bit of both in the beginning. 514 00:34:07.230 --> 00:34:16.690 And you can you can tell your members that you can tell potential members wherever you advertise to them on Facebook, or LinkedIn, or email marketing, or maybe you're doing 515 00:34:17.045 --> 00:34:20.665 something else to at least get the attention of potential members. 516 00:34:20.965 --> 00:34:25.545 And let them know that you're new, and that you're doing something amazing for that industry. 517 00:34:26.245 --> 00:34:28.665 And make them an offer they can't refuse 518 00:34:29.139 --> 00:34:31.000 to join your directory website. 519 00:34:32.260 --> 00:34:34.040 And offer a free option, 520 00:34:34.340 --> 00:34:34.840 Martin. 521 00:34:35.859 --> 00:34:40.040 Make make make the barrier to entry as low as possible 522 00:34:40.500 --> 00:34:44.359 to get people to join your website. Don't have complicated membership levels. 523 00:34:44.685 --> 00:34:48.385 Maybe have two or three, you know, a free option and a paid option. 524 00:34:49.085 --> 00:34:56.945 Always remember that your free members who join first are eventually going to turn into the evangelists of your site, and probably give you the best feedback 525 00:34:57.540 --> 00:34:59.860 on how to how to market your site. 526 00:34:59.860 --> 00:35:03.240 They're gonna tell you what they want, what they like, and what they don't like. 527 00:35:03.460 --> 00:35:07.800 And even if they're giving you negative feedback, take that as constructive criticism. 528 00:35:09.300 --> 00:35:13.005 And I also recommend, actually, now that we mentioned that, 529 00:35:14.285 --> 00:35:17.184 I did do a webinar with David Rocklin. 530 00:35:17.964 --> 00:35:19.984 Let me show you where you can watch 531 00:35:20.924 --> 00:35:23.984 previous webinars that actually address this exact topic. 532 00:35:24.525 --> 00:35:28.065 If you go to the Brilliant Directories website and go to the support 533 00:35:28.809 --> 00:35:29.630 tab here, 534 00:35:30.170 --> 00:35:33.309 we've actually updated our support resources area. 535 00:35:33.530 --> 00:35:40.910 And first of all all the webinars that you're watching can be replayed here under free group workshops, is what we're calling it. 536 00:35:42.185 --> 00:35:44.505 And we have all the previous webinar Wednesdays. 537 00:35:44.505 --> 00:35:48.925 We have two more to add from previous weeks, but we're adding them all here under free group workshops. 538 00:35:49.385 --> 00:35:51.565 And I do have one here. 539 00:35:52.345 --> 00:35:58.619 If you watch a few of these webinars here, not the webinar Wednesdays, these were on specific topics that we presented on, 540 00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:03.500 check out the seven strategies for money making membership sites, 541 00:36:04.279 --> 00:36:10.204 and also the eight easy ways to increase website traffic and revenue. These two webinars 542 00:36:10.825 --> 00:36:13.244 specifically address how to start getting members 543 00:36:13.545 --> 00:36:14.684 to join your site. 544 00:36:15.385 --> 00:36:19.964 So I would recommend watching all the webinars, but specifically those two, 545 00:36:21.750 --> 00:36:26.870 which talk more about how to get members to start joining your site. Thank you for the question. 546 00:36:26.870 --> 00:36:28.970 That's that's a good question there. Thanks. 547 00:36:30.310 --> 00:36:31.530 Alright. That's Martin. 548 00:36:32.150 --> 00:36:33.450 This is from Angel. 549 00:36:34.095 --> 00:36:34.994 She's asking, 550 00:36:36.815 --> 00:36:40.035 how do I get my featured members to appear on the homepage? 551 00:36:40.975 --> 00:36:43.775 How do I get featured members to appear on the homepage? 552 00:36:43.775 --> 00:36:48.275 This is different than just showing recent members on the homepage. Right? 553 00:36:49.080 --> 00:36:49.320 Correct. 554 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:53.960 So I I would imagine, yeah, these are probably people that are paying more or or something like that. 555 00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:58.780 She probably wants to have them show on the home page in the special section. I would 556 00:36:59.400 --> 00:36:59.900 Perfect. 557 00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:04.785 So let's do this. Let's use our demo site, demo bootstrap, as the example here. 558 00:37:05.345 --> 00:37:07.605 And let's just head on over to the home page. 559 00:37:08.385 --> 00:37:11.125 So a really awesome tool with Brilliant Directories 560 00:37:11.585 --> 00:37:14.164 is you can actually, instead of just showing 561 00:37:14.704 --> 00:37:17.850 your newest members in in the order they've signed up, 562 00:37:18.730 --> 00:37:20.750 we do have a streaming widget 563 00:37:21.210 --> 00:37:22.830 where you can hand select 564 00:37:23.130 --> 00:37:26.590 members to show up in a featured member section. 565 00:37:26.810 --> 00:37:30.190 So let me just show you step by step how you can do that. 566 00:37:30.845 --> 00:37:33.744 First of all, what you want to do is head on over to your settings, 567 00:37:34.045 --> 00:37:35.505 and your design settings, 568 00:37:37.325 --> 00:37:39.184 and you want to actually select 569 00:37:39.805 --> 00:37:41.505 one of the homepage, 570 00:37:42.125 --> 00:37:43.984 the section orders to be 571 00:37:44.470 --> 00:37:48.570 the featured members. So you can see right now we have a hero divider, 572 00:37:49.030 --> 00:37:51.210 and then right now it's showing recent members. 573 00:37:51.910 --> 00:37:55.610 Let's do this. Let's get rid of the hero divider. You don't need to have it always. 574 00:37:55.910 --> 00:38:00.685 And we do have an option here to show featured members right here, 575 00:38:02.105 --> 00:38:04.845 but the thing with this is you actually need to 576 00:38:05.225 --> 00:38:07.225 select the members that are going to show here. 577 00:38:07.225 --> 00:38:10.845 So we're going to choose section one to be the the featured members. 578 00:38:11.270 --> 00:38:15.130 And another fun thing is you do have streaming widget options down here 579 00:38:15.430 --> 00:38:18.089 where you can kind of control a few different things. 580 00:38:18.869 --> 00:38:22.550 And we're going to add the title we want for the featured members. 581 00:38:22.550 --> 00:38:26.730 Right now for the the newest members, the recent members, it's just newest members. 582 00:38:27.035 --> 00:38:28.415 Let's do checkout 583 00:38:29.515 --> 00:38:30.015 featured 584 00:38:30.315 --> 00:38:32.175 lawyers. They're obviously not lawyers. 585 00:38:35.115 --> 00:38:39.135 We'll just say checkout featured lawyers now, and then obviously you can choose how many, 586 00:38:40.160 --> 00:38:42.980 you know, results you want to show. Let's just do four, 587 00:38:43.600 --> 00:38:45.060 and I'll save the changes. 588 00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:55.220 And now that we've established we want to show featured members on the site, we need to hand select who those members are, and 589 00:38:55.595 --> 00:38:58.734 we'll do that right now. Just let me refresh the homepage, 590 00:38:59.515 --> 00:39:05.515 and we'll see that there's nothing here because we haven't selected any members, and the hero divider is gone. 591 00:39:05.515 --> 00:39:07.694 So let's go and select a few members 592 00:39:08.075 --> 00:39:09.375 to feature on the homepage. 593 00:39:10.290 --> 00:39:13.430 What you want to do is go to members and search members, 594 00:39:17.170 --> 00:39:17.670 and 595 00:39:19.170 --> 00:39:22.050 let's just choose a couple of the people we have here. 596 00:39:22.050 --> 00:39:24.210 Actually let's choose some different people that aren't there. 597 00:39:24.210 --> 00:39:26.825 So let's say we wanted to choose this person. 598 00:39:27.445 --> 00:39:29.625 What you want to do is click on the actions, 599 00:39:30.005 --> 00:39:31.385 and then click edit, 600 00:39:33.605 --> 00:39:35.865 and then what you can do is you see this 601 00:39:36.245 --> 00:39:38.505 option here featured listing order. 602 00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:42.420 So you need to put a number that at least starts with one, and 603 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:47.359 this will be the first person in the featured member. 604 00:39:47.359 --> 00:39:51.460 So if you have three members you could choose who's going to be one, two, or three. 605 00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:53.220 Let's put this one as three, 606 00:39:53.525 --> 00:39:54.745 and save the changes. 607 00:39:56.405 --> 00:40:00.745 Now because they're the only one, they should just be the only person there, 608 00:40:01.285 --> 00:40:06.505 and they are right here, and here's our title that we custom wrote, check out featured lawyers now. 609 00:40:07.220 --> 00:40:10.440 And now let's add someone to be the number one spot. 610 00:40:10.819 --> 00:40:12.440 So let's close this tab, 611 00:40:12.980 --> 00:40:14.119 and let's choose, 612 00:40:14.500 --> 00:40:18.760 the sample member Samantha Scott. We're gonna do the same thing, quick edit. 613 00:40:20.165 --> 00:40:23.545 And because you have control over these who's featured, 614 00:40:23.845 --> 00:40:25.525 you know, you can charge these people. 615 00:40:25.525 --> 00:40:32.585 Maybe you made an arrangement with them to feature them on the home page in exchange for services, or you know who knows what. 616 00:40:32.780 --> 00:40:40.320 But now you can see we're adding more and more people on the featured section, which is different than just showing your most recent members. 617 00:40:40.700 --> 00:40:41.599 And let's stick 618 00:40:41.980 --> 00:40:47.359 this guy, Henry Barnes, right in between those two. We're gonna put featured listing order two, 619 00:40:48.915 --> 00:40:53.415 and he's gonna be number two position, so she's number one. 620 00:40:54.515 --> 00:40:55.015 And 621 00:40:55.715 --> 00:40:57.415 let me refresh one more time. 622 00:40:59.795 --> 00:41:01.620 Alright let's give that another shot. 623 00:41:02.180 --> 00:41:06.920 Alright. There he is in the number two position. And again, you can choose if you want, 624 00:41:07.300 --> 00:41:09.700 you know, one person or or 20 people. 625 00:41:09.700 --> 00:41:14.920 Obviously you don't want to have too many, but you can now feature specific members on your site. 626 00:41:14.980 --> 00:41:17.080 Just remember step one is 627 00:41:17.744 --> 00:41:20.005 selecting that you want to feature members, 628 00:41:20.385 --> 00:41:24.005 the featured members module to show in your design settings. 629 00:41:25.904 --> 00:41:27.285 That was a great question. 630 00:41:27.664 --> 00:41:31.045 What what I've seen a lot of people do as well 631 00:41:31.380 --> 00:41:36.200 is invest in a little bit just a little insider tip is invest in a little bit of customization, 632 00:41:36.980 --> 00:41:37.619 you know, couple 633 00:41:38.260 --> 00:41:41.299 about a couple hundred dollars to get something like this done. 634 00:41:41.299 --> 00:41:47.935 And what you can do is you can have it show featured members in the location that somebody is browsing their the website. 635 00:41:47.935 --> 00:41:51.155 So if you have a national directory or a UK directory 636 00:41:51.535 --> 00:41:58.675 or a US directory, you can have the members it could say check out members near you or featured members near you. 637 00:41:58.869 --> 00:42:02.250 And if you're if you're browsing in San Francisco, I would be seeing 638 00:42:02.869 --> 00:42:05.050 all of the lawyers in San Francisco. 639 00:42:05.589 --> 00:42:08.890 If you have a national directory, that's a lot easier to sell. 640 00:42:08.950 --> 00:42:15.475 It's difficult to sell a featured listing on the homepage if it's national because they have difficulty understanding 641 00:42:15.935 --> 00:42:23.555 what the chances are that somebody's gonna contact them, unless it's a national company like, like McDonald's or something that's nationwide. 642 00:42:23.935 --> 00:42:26.115 But if you are promoting professionals, 643 00:42:26.640 --> 00:42:28.339 investing a little bit in that customization, 644 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:35.779 then you're able to go to the lawyers in New York and say people who are looking for lawyers in New York, you'll appear on our homepage. 645 00:42:36.240 --> 00:42:38.180 So it's a great way to get more customers. 646 00:42:38.675 --> 00:42:43.555 So that's something people is that an add on, Pat, or what do you mean by customization exactly? 647 00:42:43.555 --> 00:42:46.295 I just want I always want you to explain a little better for everyone. 648 00:42:46.435 --> 00:42:49.795 Actually, that's something that people can email in. We do that quite a bit. 649 00:42:49.795 --> 00:42:52.410 That's something that our internal team can help people with, 650 00:42:53.289 --> 00:42:55.869 and that's one because I know we send people to the marketplace, 651 00:42:56.410 --> 00:43:00.329 quite a bit, but that's one job that our internal team can take care of. 652 00:43:00.329 --> 00:43:03.869 So you just email to you could just go to the marketplace 653 00:43:04.490 --> 00:43:07.150 and and and submit that request to us directly, 654 00:43:07.815 --> 00:43:14.155 Or you can email support and say, I'd like to get an internal quote on getting that set up on my website. 655 00:43:14.375 --> 00:43:18.775 I heard it in the webinar, and our team will happily get that set up on your site. So it's, 656 00:43:19.095 --> 00:43:19.994 geo based, 657 00:43:20.319 --> 00:43:22.819 Based on the browser's physical location, 658 00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:25.380 as long as they allow the browser to, 659 00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:34.660 to locate them, to geocode them, then at that point, they would be able to see only lawyers in their locality, which really increases the the value of your site. 660 00:43:35.275 --> 00:43:39.215 Awesome. Yeah. That's a nice touch for the featured members, and adds a little personalization 661 00:43:39.915 --> 00:43:41.775 for the person who's visiting the website. 662 00:43:42.315 --> 00:43:45.355 Yeah. I think we'll we'll wrap it up there. This was a great webinar. 663 00:43:45.355 --> 00:43:49.440 It was great being with everyone here. Great questions all around. I think we got 664 00:43:49.839 --> 00:43:52.099 all sorts of varieties of different questions, 665 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:53.859 this week, which was fantastic. 666 00:43:55.520 --> 00:44:00.339 Yeah, and we'll see you in in the next webinar. Thank you everyone for joining us today. 667 00:44:00.976 --> 00:44:04.736 It was an awesome webinar indeed, and I can't wait to see everybody next week. 668 00:44:04.736 --> 00:44:08.116 Thanks so much, Jason. Thanks everyone. Thank you, Pat. Take care, guys.