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So for those of you joining us for the first time today, this is webinar Wednesday.

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We have a lot of new people who just joined up with Brilliant Directories, some people who have been with us for years,

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and a lot of people who are just considering Brilliant Directories

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for

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their website project.

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So I'm Jason, one of the cofounders here of Brilliant Directories.

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We started Brilliant Directories back in, around 02/2009.

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And, we've been growing ever since and making things better each and every day thanks to webinars like this and feedback

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from, our users. So we have a really active community, and we're really thankful for that.

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So thank you guys for being part of the Brilliant Directories family.

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If you're not a part of our Brilliant Directories LinkedIn group, I highly recommend joining.

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You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/linkedin,

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and you can ask questions to carry the webinar conversation over there on tips and strategies on how to maximize,

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the benefits of your membership directory website.

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And again, for those of you joining us for the first time here today,

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the goal of the webinar is to help answer questions about how the platform works

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and help resolve some how to questions that might come up while you're trying to set up and configure

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your Brilliant Directories website.

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But along with that, you don't just have to ask questions about how to set up your site.

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I love chatting about SEO strategies,

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generating leads, how to make money,

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how to market your website,

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and really just the whole three sixty of how to manage your website and help it grow and thrive.

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We do have a special guest with us today. Normally Patrick Burnell

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joins me, but we have Gabriel from our customer service department here who will be assisting me in answering the questions

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as you guys type them in. So Gabriel, thank you very much for joining us today in the webinar.

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Hey there guys. This is Gabe.

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It's a honor to be here with you guys, and hope the webinar is a success for everybody.

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Thanks Gabe.

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Right.

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So last week we did not have a contest of the week, and we had a lot of people emailing in that they wish there was a contest of the week.

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So we do have a contest of the week for this week and it's a pretty simple contest.

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And all you need to do is comment

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on a video. And, let me explain to you

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where you can comment on the videos.

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So what you can do is you can go on over to the Brilliant Directories website

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and under the support tab, click on free workshop videos.

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A lot of people in, email in about where the replays are for the webinar Wednesdays.

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They're right here under the support tab, free workshop videos.

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And we actually have the most recent one here from last week already ready to go.

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So all you have to do is come on over to the free workshop videos

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and click on watch now on the most recent one.

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And when you come down here,

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under the video,

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you'll see you can add Facebook comments here. If you can just leave a comment,

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you know, about know, what you like about the webinars or about Brilliant Directories or, you know, what you're doing with your website,

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we'll randomly select somebody

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who leaves a comment here

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and we will announce the winner next week with an awesome random prize.

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And so far the prizes have been super.

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So if you want to participate, all you have to do is go to brilliantdirectories.com/videos.

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Go to webinar Wednesday video

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eight, week eight, and just leave a comment, a Facebook comment here,

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about something that you that you gained from the previous webinars or something you're excited to learn from Brilliant Directories.

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You can ask questions. You can leave comments. All All you have to do is leave a comment here,

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in the comments section of under the video.

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So good luck to the contest winner for next

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week. And the deal of the week.

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Last week's deal of the week was awesome. It was for daily website backups.

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And a lot of people got a good, peace of mind knowing that their site will be backed up for fourteen

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consecutive days.

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This one is for automatic lead matching.

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And I just want to talk about lead matching because it really is an important part of the Brilliant Directories software and basically

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websites.

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You may or may not know it, but your website does generate

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leads, and these leads

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can be sold

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back to the members in your network or distributed for free. It's really up to you.

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The question is, what is a lead?

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You'll notice on your Brilliant Directories website,

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you'll notice all these send message forms and you can change the verbiage here to say, send a message, book an appointment, request more information,

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whatever is applicable for your industry and your audience.

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Every time a form is filled out here or somebody contacts your member,

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this is a lead and that is a consumer

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trying to connect with a member for one of their services.

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your professional members will will pay a fair price

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for a lead or a referral or an opportunity, whatever makes sense to call them for your industry.

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And you can actually sell these to members, not just one but multiple members.

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And as you can see this site as an example has generated it's a new site. It's generated about 206

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leads.

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Now with with all Brilliant Directories websites, you can manually match a lead,

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with a member. You can go to the admin area and go to

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match leads here, and you can manually match leads as they come in, which is a little tedious process, but it does work and the members can purchase the leads.

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With the automatic lead matching which is the deal of the week, let's go to the Brilliant Directories website here

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and let's just look at some of the benefits of the automatic lead matching.

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So you can definitely sell leads to members with both the free one that comes with all your sites or with this add on,

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manually match leads with multiple members. You can you can sell a lead multiple times to members.

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When I had Interior Design Pro, we were generating leads for interior design projects, and we would sell a lead for $25

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and we would sell that lead up to four times.

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So we knew when we were doing, you know, Google Ads or, you know, however we brought traffic to the site, each lead could yield a hundred dollars in net revenue,

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if we sold it four times.

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So leads are a great way to maximize revenue on your website, and that's usually what directory websites are doing.

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So with the automatic lead matching, leads will automatically be sent to your members.

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You don't have to come in and manually match a lead with multiple members.

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You can also control which members receive leads. You can customize the lead form.

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And let me talk about customizing the lead form a little bit.

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So this is our demo site, demobootstrap.com,

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and this is the get match page.

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And you have a basic lead form here with your name and email and phone number.

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You can even choose a main category such as automotive

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and a subcategory

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like auto detailing.

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And with basic lead matching, you can manually match the lead with any members who match this criteria.

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I'll even put Los Angeles in here.

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And with the automatic lead matching, you can actually customize the form a little bit more.

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And let me show you an example of that.

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So this is a site. It's for connecting with wedding professionals.

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And in their lead form, they've added things like maximum wedding budget,

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do you need a wedding cake,

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Does the groom need a suit?

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Does the bride need a wedding dress? And you can continue adding more relevant

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in the in the lead in the lead form when you have the automatic lead matching add on.

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And that will add a higher value lead for the potential members that are going to purchase it.

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Because when you could provide them your members with more information,

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they're more likely to purchase the leads. And when you combine that with the system automatically

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sending leads

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to your members,

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you're gonna start generating revenue while you're sleeping basically because these leads are being matched behind the scenes and members can go ahead and purchase them

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on their own.

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Let's just go down this list a little quicker. Another thing is you can send SMS

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using a third party tool TextMagic

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to automatically send your members text messages when a valid lead comes through the system.

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So, you know, most people check their text messages instantly and their email only a few times per day.

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So this adds tremendous value when used with the automatic

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Now, what is the deal of the week? So the automatic lead matching

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is normally a yearly price of $1,200

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per year. It's a high price,

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but considering that it's going to be doing a lot of the heavy lifting for you and it's going to be working like a in house employee matching the leads for you, it's definitely worth its its weight in gold there.

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So that's $1,200

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With the deal of the week, we're going to make this

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a really special deal.

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It's gonna be a one time payment of $450.

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When you get to the checkout page though, you need to enter the promo code

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get four 50. So if we go to the deal of the week here,

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automatic lead matching,

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one time pay.

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When you get here, you want to make sure to type in the code get four fifty, and that'll drop the listed price of $6.50

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down to $4.50.

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So it's an incredible savings and if your site whether you're starting out and planning to get more members and more traction, this is a super opportunity

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to get an awesome deal

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on the automatic

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And if you want to learn more about it, you can come to our add ons page and there's a short video here about it.

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And you can compare it here

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against basic lead matching

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and compare it to the automatic lead matching

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add on.

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So I think that's one of the best deals we've offered so far given the the total value and savings of that, and I hope you guys can definitely

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take advantage of that.

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And now for the fun part, let's close down some of these windows.

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We're going to dive into

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some of the questions here. Steve, I've unmuted your microphone. Steve, are you with us?

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Hey, Jason. Yes. I am. Alright, Steve. Where are you calling in from?

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Corpus Christi, Texas. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. Directory c c dot com?

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That's right. Okay. K.

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Yeah. What's your question for us today?

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Well, I always have a question for you every week, and today That's fine. On the events

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I've added a bunch of events that we're trying to, market to our,

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local audience.

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And I'd like to it shows the address

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for each event,

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in the search results.

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I'd like it for it to actually also add the venue name

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as an input to the event field I love that question. On that search result. Alright.

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You mind if I head on over to your site?

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Absolutely. That's fine. Thank you. Alright. This is a super question.

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So I'll explain to everyone what he's referring to in just a moment.

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Alright. So let's take a visit to your site real quick.

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what he's asking everyone is,

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he has a local business directory for the, Corpus Christi area in Texas. And,

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by the way, your your image on your homepage takes a while to load.

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You might want to optimize that by, kind of minimizing the,

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the size of the image, the overall size.

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Sure. I'll put that thing. That'll help your homepage load a little quicker.

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Let's go back to your site here. So let's look at all your events.

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And so, you know, they have a lot of events

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coming up in the Corpus Christi area. And we can see here there's an address,

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there's a title,

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and there's a description, and the price. These are all

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variables of the event.

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And this is why I really love Brilliant Directories when a lot of people compare it to WordPress themes and things like that.

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You'd have to go into the PHP files

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and and really find out where to edit only the events and things like that.

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So let me show you exactly how you can add the venue name, and let me show everyone what you're talking to about the venue name.

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So here's the event for aquarium spring break, and we can see that the venue is called Texas State Aquarium.

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So you would like this to also show on the search results page. Right?

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basically what you want to do is, that's a type of content. It's a type of post.

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So you want to edit your post settings and that's an event post.

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So you guys have different types of posts. You have events, coupons, properties,

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and you can manage all those different types of posts

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right from the admin area.

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So what we're gonna do is we're gonna look for events,

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which are right here,

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and we're gonna edit the event.

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And you can do this with pretty much all the different post types.

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So there's obviously general settings like what you're calling the event.

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A lot of people who create real estate sites, they change event to open houses.

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I'm not going to do it on your site, but and because an open house is basically an event.

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So you don't really need to, you know, reinvent

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the wheel.

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You can kind of repurpose some of the existing features like coupons and jobs and find purposes for your different goals and needs, which is super awesome.

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So what we want to do is edit the search results design.

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And we're gonna see some crazy code here, but this is what developers love. Here is the loop.

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So this is what's being repeated on the search results page to get it looking like this.

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And what I'm gonna do is just backtrack a little bit and I'm gonna go to the detail page.

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The detail page is the individual page for a post like this one.

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And I'm gonna find out where it says the venue and I'm gonna grab the code for that.

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So lots of crazy code. We're gonna scroll down

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here and we can see that it's called post venue. So I'm just gonna take this

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PHP Echo post venue and we're gonna go back to your search results design.

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And do you want me to just put it right above the address?

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Yeah. That'd be fine for now. Alright.

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So, here's the the map marker with the location, and I'll go ahead and put that,

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right here with a line break so it's on a separate line.

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And if we come back to the search results, we'll see that here's the address and we should see

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the venue. And actually, I could put the venue hyphen

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there for you so people know that that's the venue. Let's do that as well. Yeah.

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venue and we'll put a nice dash there.

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And let me make that in bold so it's just a little bit different than the, address.

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Now we see venue, Texas State Aquarium, Vino Mio social club.

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So Alright. You're good to go there.

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directory member search results as well because I'd rather have the address show up than,

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hopefully, it's the same thing because it just shows the city and state

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and I'd like it to show the address to be more information on the search results. Yeah. Absolutely.

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So there, you know, that's if you see, like, the data somewhere,

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normally it's in the search results design or the detail page. Yeah.

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It's only gonna be in like one or one of three places. It's gonna be in the widget,

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in the search results design or detail page, and

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I can't think of off the top of my head, but that's pretty simple to find where the data is coming from.

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Great. Great. Thanks. Appreciate it. Alright. My pleasure. Thanks for that great question, Steve.

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Have a great day. Alright. Super question from Steve there.

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And that's a great rule of thumb for figuring out how to get data from one part of your site and getting it to show on the search results or a detail page or a sidebar

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and vice versa.

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Alright. Emily. Emily, are you with us here?

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Yes. Can you hear me? Yeah. Thanks for joining us today.

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Thank you for taking my question. Absolutely. I have, an existing directory,

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and I'm doing a seven day trial for one of my clients.

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is part of a 65 member study club,

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and they want a new directory.

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One of the functions they would like,

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they wanna have their events.

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They I'm wondering if you could think of a way

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they can RSVP.

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who who for each event, I could make,

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Absolute absolutely.

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That's there's a way to do that, kind of. Okay. I can hear what you think. Okay.

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So let's go to the our demo site here.

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And so this is just a small club, and they're gonna have events. And who should receive the RSVPs?

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Every member. Oh, one one member.

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Yeah. That's an easy one.

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all that needs to happen

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is that member needs to be the one,

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publishing the event.

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Okay? Okay.

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And instead of contact this member, this is a so the you know when you're posting any kind of content on the site, there's the the form here contact this member.

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You can just change this to say

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for this event,

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And you can you can simplify this form.

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You could just do name and email, and and get rid of everything else. And then

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the person who posted this event will get a notification,

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for this.

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It'll say the it'll show them the URL that the page was submitted on,

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the name and the address of the person.

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So just change contact this member, and you can do that in the text labels here under settings.

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Text labels. And just search for contact this member and change it to RSVP for event.

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Okay. Perfect.

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K. That was that was it today. Alright. Thanks, Emily. Thanks for joining us.

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And you've been with us for a while, so, you know, we really appreciate you being with us.

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Likewise. Thanks. Alright.

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Alright. So Emily

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seems to be a developer of some sorts, and she has a client and she's building out a site for her client.

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We do have a lot of developers using the platform.

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And always remember that the front end of your Brilliant Directories website is always white labeled.

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It won't say powered by Brilliant Directories anywhere,

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and you don't have to pay extra for that, which, with some solutions you do.

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Alright.

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Robert. Robert, are you with us?

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Yes. Hey, Robert. How's it going today?

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Very good. How are you? Good. Good. How have you enjoyed the presentation

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so far?

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Very good.

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I think, each one of these webinars I pick up little bits of information that's extremely helpful with my site.

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Awesome. And, what's your question for us today?

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My biggest question is,

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the site I have utilizes or is dependent on, the

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articles

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from the members

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Okay. As well as the the the blog, as well as blog articles.

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And I know in blog articles, we can, customize the meta tag.

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And I was wondering, is there a way to customize the,

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members' articles?

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And I even looked in the articles directory to see if it was done differently, but I it's done the same way.

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Yeah. Do you mind if we check out your site? I can help set that up for you actually.

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Sure. It's, industryarchive.org.

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Okay. Give me one second here.

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Basically, in a nutshell, and, I'll explain

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to everyone who's watching what you're trying to achieve as well.

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Okay.

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So with your Brilliant Directories website and let's just check out your site here.

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So you as the owner of the directory can manage your own company blog.

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You can post things as you like that represent your company for your readers.

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And also the members of your directory can contribute their own articles, but they are separate from your company blog.

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So you can keep those two independent.

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And with the company blog,

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do you mind if I

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log in to someone who can post a company blog

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on behalf of the website?

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A company blog? I don't have anybody that can post company blogs. Or do you have a you have a admin.

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You can. You have an admin.

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Alright. What admin? Yeah. Let me log in here.

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So the admin is the one who contributes to the to the company blog.

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By the way, it looks like there's a issue with the images here.

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We might want to take a look at that a little later.

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So here are the blog articles

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and when you want to add a blog article,

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this was

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requested in the past, so I just wanted to show everyone what you're referring to.

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So when you write a blog article, you can actually

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add custom SEO data to optimize the meta title, meta description, and meta keywords.

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The member articles by default

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don't have this.

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Member members don't normally wouldn't need the ability to do this,

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for but if your members are a little bit more savvy, you might want to extend this to them.

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Now do you have member articles here yet?

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Yeah. You do. Okay.

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What I'm gonna do is the best way to achieve that is to simply clone

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your blog article form.

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So here's your, feature blog article and we're going to edit this.

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So I went to Form Manager. I searched for your blog article form.

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This is the form that is filled in when people,

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publish a blog. So we see the publish

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author,

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and if we scroll down to the bottom, we'll see meta title, meta description, and meta keywords.

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So what we wanna do is actually clone this

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and we're just gonna give it a new name here, blog featured blog articles. We'll call this feature,

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member articles, and I'll call it new.

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And then we will use,

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blog article we'll call this

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member article fields new. I'll just give it a name. So now we've cloned the form.

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We've given it a new name.

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And before I do anything else, let's log in as a regular member so we can show everyone that they currently don't have

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in their form that they fill out the option to put additional,

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SEO details. So I'll just log in as a standard member here.

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And can they publish a regular article?

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Let's find someone who can.

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A publisher Oh, you want somebody who can? Who can publish a normal article.

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And I'll just come here to your manage products, and I can see,

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who'd be able to

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publish an article. Do you know anyone who can publish a normal article right now?

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Yeah.

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Who which membership level can do that? Am I Oh, enterprise

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or professional? Yeah. Business solutions is member articles. I see. Okay.

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So let's log in to someone who can post a business solution, which is great.

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You've repurposed that to be called,

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member articles.

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Right.

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So let's add a new article, which is called a business solution.

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Right.

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And okay. You've actually customized this further type of content.

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Yes.

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Okay. So

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you could

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okay. I was gonna clone it and just replace

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this form altogether

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and with the with the same form you're filling out for your blogs.

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And then that would be the form that members fill out. So if I was going to do that,

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if we go to edit post settings,

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and under business solutions,

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you can assign which form people fill out

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to post an article. And let me show you that. That's under

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form to use,

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and currently it's using feature member articles.

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But you may want to use you've you've made changes to this, so I'm not gonna change it.

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But you could use feature member articles new, and then you can go in there and add those those extra fields.

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It looks like you've added yourself.

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But here here is where you can select the form to use, and then if you used

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the new one we just made, that will include

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the SEO details because we cloned it from

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the form when you create blog articles.

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Right.

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So I'm not gonna I'll leave this cloned form here. I'm not gonna save anything.

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Just know that you can now select this form, And if you wanted to, you can go in and add,

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your new custom fields as well. It looks like you just add, like, two of them here.

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And then down here, you'll you'll get what you need there.

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Sound good? Okay. Good. Very good. Alright. Alright. Well That'll be extremely helpful. Yeah.

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That's that's that's a good thing to know that you can clone forms, and you can also assign forms to different types of posts.

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Right. Alright. Thanks for your question, Robert.

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Thank

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you. Alright. Great question there from Robert. Hey there, Jason. Hey, Gabe. How's it going?

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I haven't heard from you. Hey there, Jason. I had a

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Yeah.

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I'm I'm looking at the questions here, the written questions, and I have a question from Brian s.

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He says that how to activate and deactivate

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Google Translator

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on your site.

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That's a question that that I get a lot, in support, and maybe the people here would like to know.

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Absolutely. Thanks thanks for that great question.

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So the question is and I'm actually on our demo site where you can, see that. So people

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he wants to know how do I add this Google translate

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to the header?

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And this is just a default setting that we have.

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And what it does is it utilizes,

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Greek.

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I mean, it utilizes Google Translate, and Google Translate will do the best job that it can to automatically

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translate your site for you.

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I don't think it's the best solution, but when you're trying to appeal to a large international audience, I think they're kind of used to seeing something like this.

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And again, I don't know what this is actually saying in Greek, but I'm sure it's 90% good enough

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for what, you're trying to achieve.

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So how do you add or remove this from the header?

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Well, let's go to our demo site, and I will show you exactly how to do that.

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Alright. We are now loaded into our demo site.

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And controlling if this Google Translate drop down shows or not, is actually in your design settings like many things.

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My favorite area of the entire admin is the design settings.

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So I'm gonna click on design settings,

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and you get a tremendous amount of control in the design settings

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on how things look and appear and if they're visible or not on your website.

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So for this Google Translate tool,

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what you wanna do is go to the header design because it's in the header,

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and very simply there is a option here, show translate tool, yes or no.

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I'll go ahead and set this to no,

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And we're just gonna let that save.

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And if we come back let me close the Google Translate here right now.

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If we come back and refresh the homepage,

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we'll see that the Google Translate tool

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is now gone.

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And let me show you a couple other things that you can easily

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hide or display

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using the design settings.

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The Google Translate is obviously one of them.

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Down

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here, in your footer, you you always have a join our newsletter today.

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This is just a great little perk,

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in case any website visitors feel compelled to join your newsletter because,

469
00:29:18.044 --> 00:29:19.890
they like what they're seeing on your site.

470
00:29:20.290 --> 00:29:22.950
That's also controlled in the footer design actually.

471
00:29:23.570 --> 00:29:24.070
And

472
00:29:24.450 --> 00:29:27.510
you can show the newsletter form, yes or no.

473
00:29:28.370 --> 00:29:30.790
You can hide your entire footer if you want,

474
00:29:31.250 --> 00:29:32.630
if you don't want a footer.

475
00:29:33.905 --> 00:29:36.804
Your main menu, maybe you don't have a main menu.

476
00:29:37.184 --> 00:29:41.044
You can do hide main menu, yes or no. I'll choose yes.

477
00:29:41.345 --> 00:29:45.445
Let's just hide a bunch of stuff. I mean, it's the demo site. We really have nothing to lose here.

478
00:29:46.145 --> 00:29:47.525
What else can we hide?

479
00:29:50.990 --> 00:29:54.050
We can hide the entire header, so I'll set that to yes.

480
00:29:54.190 --> 00:29:58.450
Let's save those changes and we're gonna see a ton of stuff disappear from,

481
00:29:58.910 --> 00:30:03.250
our demo site right now. So here we are at the bottom right now. Let me scroll up.

482
00:30:03.575 --> 00:30:06.235
And we see the footer and the newsletter link.

483
00:30:06.455 --> 00:30:09.755
You could just keep the newsletter link and hide the footer.

484
00:30:10.535 --> 00:30:11.915
So let's refresh this.

485
00:30:14.695 --> 00:30:19.950
We actually customize the header here on the demo so it shows, but we see the menu is gone now.

486
00:30:20.010 --> 00:30:21.390
Let me scroll down here.

487
00:30:22.809 --> 00:30:24.830
And the footer is gone.

488
00:30:25.130 --> 00:30:27.950
It stops right here, so there's nothing else to scroll.

489
00:30:28.169 --> 00:30:31.070
So from the design settings, you get incredible control

490
00:30:32.015 --> 00:30:35.534
for things around your website and your home page as well.

491
00:30:35.534 --> 00:30:40.595
And I think this is the first place people go when they're kind of setting up their Brilliant Directories website.

492
00:30:41.375 --> 00:30:42.674
So yeah. Great question,

493
00:30:43.294 --> 00:30:44.434
on on that.

494
00:30:45.700 --> 00:30:49.080
Okay. Wendy, I'm gonna go ahead and unmute your microphone, Wendy.

495
00:30:49.620 --> 00:30:52.040
Okay. I put my question in the

496
00:30:52.580 --> 00:30:56.840
box, but I wanted to find out how are most people marketing,

497
00:30:58.065 --> 00:31:00.085
these directories. Are they using

498
00:31:00.865 --> 00:31:02.085
paid advertising?

499
00:31:02.705 --> 00:31:07.445
You know, especially when the directory is national, not a local directory

500
00:31:08.145 --> 00:31:15.230
where they can get out and walk the streets and ask businesses to sign up. Got it. Yeah.

501
00:31:15.230 --> 00:31:16.210
Are they using,

502
00:31:16.750 --> 00:31:17.650
paid advertisements?

503
00:31:18.190 --> 00:31:19.090
Are they using

504
00:31:19.390 --> 00:31:21.730
a sales team? Are they using

505
00:31:22.030 --> 00:31:23.490
an affiliate program?

506
00:31:23.790 --> 00:31:28.210
You know, how are most people marketing the directory when it's global or national?

507
00:31:29.075 --> 00:31:31.255
That's a really, really great question.

508
00:31:32.434 --> 00:31:37.095
I'm just getting a little bit of fuzz in the background, but I'm gonna definitely gonna answer your question, Wendy.

509
00:31:37.635 --> 00:31:42.615
The first place I'm gonna go to answer your question is into the Brilliant Directories blog.

510
00:31:43.420 --> 00:31:51.920
And in the blog, I think we do have an article that Patrick wrote not too long ago on how to roll out a national directory.

511
00:31:53.660 --> 00:31:56.860
So you can go to the blog.brilliantdirectories.com.

512
00:31:56.860 --> 00:32:00.395
I'll let you put this in the chat here for everyone, if you want

513
00:32:01.175 --> 00:32:04.155
to check it out here. I'll just put a link to this specific article.

514
00:32:05.175 --> 00:32:09.835
So, you know, Pat outlined some really really great stuff here. First of all, keep it simple.

515
00:32:10.250 --> 00:32:12.750
And if you're gonna have a national directory,

516
00:32:13.530 --> 00:32:15.150
don't focus on every

517
00:32:15.530 --> 00:32:16.590
business category.

518
00:32:16.730 --> 00:32:22.270
Try to focus on just a few categories so you can at least you're already going national or global.

519
00:32:22.695 --> 00:32:25.595
And it's better to create a more focused

520
00:32:25.975 --> 00:32:30.554
directory. I mean I'll just give a simple example. Interior a directory of interior designers.

521
00:32:31.335 --> 00:32:36.554
We started with interior designers on Interior Design Pro, then we then we focused on getting

522
00:32:36.870 --> 00:32:44.650
decorators, and then we focused on getting home stagers, and then we focused on getting architects, and then we focused on getting furniture builders.

523
00:32:45.350 --> 00:32:46.730
So we were able

524
00:32:47.750 --> 00:32:52.425
to focus our even though it was a worldwide directory, we were getting designers from all around the world.

525
00:32:52.905 --> 00:32:59.325
But because we focused on a few categories first, we were able our pitch to sell those people was more compelling.

526
00:32:59.945 --> 00:33:05.405
They weren't just joining any Yellow Pages site, they were joining a site that was specifically for interior designers.

527
00:33:05.820 --> 00:33:08.399
But as time went on and as the directory grew,

528
00:33:08.860 --> 00:33:10.559
we slowly started adding

529
00:33:11.100 --> 00:33:12.000
more categories

530
00:33:12.380 --> 00:33:18.615
that were related to interior design, but as the site kept growing, you know, I don't remember where we ended up, but we were

531
00:33:19.015 --> 00:33:19.515
incorporating

532
00:33:19.895 --> 00:33:21.595
and encompassing a wide array

533
00:33:21.975 --> 00:33:25.195
of all types of design, not just interior design,

534
00:33:25.895 --> 00:33:27.595
into the site. So

535
00:33:27.975 --> 00:33:33.035
start with two or three specialties and grow from there is a really good tip.

536
00:33:33.360 --> 00:33:33.860
Also,

537
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:37.059
I know that you're trying to roll out a national directory,

538
00:33:37.600 --> 00:33:45.620
but you might want to choose one city and then and then get a neighboring city and then do another neighboring city until you have the entire state.

539
00:33:46.845 --> 00:33:53.665
This way your site your pitch to new members is is hyper focused, and the important thing when you're pitching

540
00:33:54.044 --> 00:33:58.125
members to join your site is they need to see value in joining your site.

541
00:33:58.125 --> 00:34:00.065
They don't just want to be another name

542
00:34:00.750 --> 00:34:05.650
in a in a sea of businesses. They want to know that they're joining a site that directly benefits

543
00:34:05.950 --> 00:34:09.090
their business and is related to the services that they offer.

544
00:34:09.949 --> 00:34:12.050
You know, Uber did a great job launching

545
00:34:12.350 --> 00:34:14.610
city by city, and now they're they're worldwide,

546
00:34:15.455 --> 00:34:16.675
as well as specialties.

547
00:34:16.735 --> 00:34:22.835
So, you know, that started with just one type of Uber car, and now they have Uber Pool, Uber Excel,

548
00:34:23.135 --> 00:34:25.074
you know, also, Uber Luxe.

549
00:34:25.455 --> 00:34:28.755
So, you know, they they've now branched out into more specialties.

550
00:34:29.215 --> 00:34:30.719
So this article is great.

551
00:34:31.359 --> 00:34:32.900
What I like to do, Wendy,

552
00:34:33.359 --> 00:34:35.139
is also go to LinkedIn,

553
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:39.699
and LinkedIn has tons of groups for different types of professionals.

554
00:34:41.040 --> 00:34:44.340
Join those groups, and what I like to do as

555
00:34:45.734 --> 00:34:49.355
Robert said on his industry archive, he's publishing blog posts.

556
00:34:49.654 --> 00:34:53.034
What works really well is if you write a feature blog article story

557
00:34:53.335 --> 00:34:54.394
about an influencer

558
00:34:55.335 --> 00:34:56.234
in your industry,

559
00:34:56.934 --> 00:35:02.599
share that write a nice puff piece that tells that writes about why you like that person.

560
00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:07.880
Do that once a week and that person might actually reshare your article to their community.

561
00:35:08.260 --> 00:35:13.000
So you took a few minutes to write a nice article about someone that you admire in the industry

562
00:35:13.475 --> 00:35:16.135
and they're probably gonna want to share that with their followers

563
00:35:16.515 --> 00:35:19.095
and that's going to help bring more attention and traffic

564
00:35:19.395 --> 00:35:20.295
to your website.

565
00:35:20.835 --> 00:35:21.895
And when you

566
00:35:22.275 --> 00:35:27.095
write that article, you can come to the LinkedIn groups and post that article as news,

567
00:35:27.635 --> 00:35:31.520
and you can join groups that again are related to your industry.

568
00:35:31.520 --> 00:35:33.860
I'm part of some social media marketing groups.

569
00:35:35.040 --> 00:35:35.940
You know, actually

570
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:37.380
a few of them.

571
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:38.340
And

572
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:40.900
you know, you can you can

573
00:35:41.454 --> 00:35:45.155
post those articles in here, and you can also announce your website in some of these

574
00:35:45.535 --> 00:35:48.275
groups as well, as long as it's done in a tasteful

575
00:35:48.734 --> 00:35:49.234
manner.

576
00:35:49.855 --> 00:35:54.755
So the way to roll out a national directory, especially if you don't have a big budget,

577
00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:57.820
you know, a little bit of hustle,

578
00:35:58.120 --> 00:35:59.900
a little bit of strategic muscle,

579
00:36:00.600 --> 00:36:03.900
and I think Pat's advice is the best is to keep it simple

580
00:36:04.200 --> 00:36:08.380
and start small. So you can think globally but start locally.

581
00:36:08.915 --> 00:36:11.234
And that's the best advice that I would have for you,

582
00:36:11.555 --> 00:36:13.734
if you actually want to start making traction

583
00:36:14.195 --> 00:36:18.055
in different communities and different industries that you're trying to target.

584
00:36:19.075 --> 00:36:23.619
It's a very common question and, yes, starting a nationwide directory can be very overwhelming.

585
00:36:23.619 --> 00:36:28.760
So it's good to keep it simple and work in things that you have the capacity to make,

586
00:36:29.060 --> 00:36:30.520
you know, an impact on.

587
00:36:31.380 --> 00:36:31.880
Alright.

588
00:36:32.260 --> 00:36:35.000
Steven. I've unmuted your microphone. How you doing, Steven?

589
00:36:36.375 --> 00:36:40.215
I'm great. Thank you. How are you? Good. Good. Good. Rocking and rolling here.

590
00:36:40.535 --> 00:36:41.995
What's your question for us today?

591
00:36:42.935 --> 00:36:47.280
Good to see Gabriel in there. He's helped me a lot over the past few months. Thanks, Gabriel.

592
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:48.960
Let's give a round of applause for Gabriel.

593
00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:54.320
Gabriel's a rock star along with all our, our our support team and the developers here at Brilliant Directories.

594
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:55.940
Thanks, Steven, for that shout out.

595
00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:00.180
Really are. Alright. So I have a the board certified

596
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:02.685
Com website I have, I had a lot of

597
00:37:03.165 --> 00:37:03.665
additional

598
00:37:04.205 --> 00:37:06.065
fields, data fields entered.

599
00:37:06.685 --> 00:37:08.945
And when you upload data

600
00:37:09.405 --> 00:37:10.385
into the,

601
00:37:11.245 --> 00:37:12.705
Brilliant Directory site,

602
00:37:14.205 --> 00:37:16.705
or platform, it creates an automatic

603
00:37:17.005 --> 00:37:18.305
it automatically creates

604
00:37:18.730 --> 00:37:19.470
an identification

605
00:37:19.770 --> 00:37:20.270
number.

606
00:37:21.130 --> 00:37:23.770
So, I have 420,000

607
00:37:23.770 --> 00:37:24.910
names in there currently.

608
00:37:27.050 --> 00:37:29.310
But I also have a unique identifier

609
00:37:30.650 --> 00:37:31.150
number,

610
00:37:31.734 --> 00:37:37.275
It's called an NPI number that populates every record, which I use across multiple platforms.

611
00:37:38.214 --> 00:37:39.755
In my member search,

612
00:37:40.375 --> 00:37:43.355
it gives me the option of name or number.

613
00:37:44.100 --> 00:37:49.560
But it doesn't I can't seem to get it to link to my NPI number instead of the automatically

614
00:37:49.940 --> 00:37:53.640
created number that Brilliant Directories assigns to my lead.

615
00:37:54.580 --> 00:37:58.600
Is this is this one you're searching in the admin area here?

616
00:37:59.415 --> 00:38:00.635
Yes. Under members.

617
00:38:01.895 --> 00:38:02.395
Okay.

618
00:38:03.175 --> 00:38:05.035
I I may have a a solution

619
00:38:05.655 --> 00:38:06.475
for you.

620
00:38:07.575 --> 00:38:08.955
So it's loading right here.

621
00:38:09.095 --> 00:38:12.635
Can I log in as one of your members to kind of see how you have this set up?

622
00:38:13.950 --> 00:38:15.170
Absolutely. Okay.

623
00:38:15.230 --> 00:38:21.570
So so everyone, his question is, he has members that have first names, last names, company names,

624
00:38:22.670 --> 00:38:26.865
and they also have a unique identifier that's related to his specific industry.

625
00:38:26.865 --> 00:38:31.365
It's it's outside of the Brilliant Directories platform, but he is saving that number,

626
00:38:32.305 --> 00:38:35.285
for each member, and it's useful for him to search.

627
00:38:35.505 --> 00:38:38.005
So this is the the ID number from Brilliant Directories.

628
00:38:38.465 --> 00:38:40.625
Where is that number here in

629
00:38:41.720 --> 00:38:44.940
where is that number right here for them? Keep going down.

630
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:52.059
Right there. N p I. Okay. What I would recommend doing in this case,

631
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:53.420
and

632
00:38:54.095 --> 00:38:56.835
you already have members in there. You might have to do just

633
00:38:57.135 --> 00:39:02.595
some MySQL queries to get this sorted out properly, but you can in your MySQL database.

634
00:39:03.694 --> 00:39:04.194
Right.

635
00:39:04.575 --> 00:39:06.570
What I would recommend doing is this.

636
00:39:06.810 --> 00:39:12.270
This so he wants to search him right here, you know, if he wants to search Vincent and hit search,

637
00:39:12.730 --> 00:39:16.350
we're gonna see Vincent Cooper right there along with all the other Vincents.

638
00:39:17.610 --> 00:39:19.310
Taking a second to load there.

639
00:39:19.994 --> 00:39:23.535
And what he wants is to be able to search this special number.

640
00:39:25.994 --> 00:39:28.974
And so here's Vincent, all these different Vincents here.

641
00:39:29.434 --> 00:39:32.015
I'll tell you what you need to do for this to work properly.

642
00:39:32.714 --> 00:39:33.855
You gotta utilize

643
00:39:35.580 --> 00:39:36.720
the first name,

644
00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:40.160
or last name, or company name

645
00:39:40.700 --> 00:39:41.200
field.

646
00:39:41.980 --> 00:39:43.680
So what I recommend doing

647
00:39:44.060 --> 00:39:46.000
is instead of first name,

648
00:39:47.340 --> 00:39:48.560
what I would do is

649
00:39:49.494 --> 00:39:52.635
just have them enter their full name here in one field.

650
00:39:53.575 --> 00:39:56.795
This will save you from having to do a customization down the line.

651
00:39:57.255 --> 00:39:58.315
So make

652
00:39:58.615 --> 00:40:04.315
the full name, even though this is the gonna be the first name, we're gonna reserve the first name as their full name.

653
00:40:05.030 --> 00:40:06.890
And then what you can do is

654
00:40:07.430 --> 00:40:10.250
use use one of these which is the company field

655
00:40:10.630 --> 00:40:13.690
and use that as the what is it called? Npsi?

656
00:40:15.830 --> 00:40:16.330
Npi.

657
00:40:16.790 --> 00:40:17.290
Npi

658
00:40:17.910 --> 00:40:18.410
number.

659
00:40:22.735 --> 00:40:30.895
And use the put the MPI number, but you're we know you and I know that that's going to be the company field, but to the user they're entering their MPI number.

660
00:40:30.895 --> 00:40:31.635
And when

661
00:40:32.600 --> 00:40:44.840
you have the first name when you use the first first name, last name, or company name for as one of the ones that they enter for the MPI number, it will then be searchable from this name keyword search.

662
00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:46.060
Because this just searches

663
00:40:46.425 --> 00:40:49.565
their name or ID number or the company name.

664
00:40:50.025 --> 00:40:53.245
So if you can reserve the company name field

665
00:40:53.785 --> 00:40:54.765
as the MPI

666
00:40:55.145 --> 00:40:55.645
number,

667
00:40:56.265 --> 00:40:59.405
then you will be able to search members based on this.

668
00:41:00.290 --> 00:41:04.130
And from the looks of it, it doesn't look like you're using the company field.

669
00:41:04.130 --> 00:41:11.590
So with a little SQL, you can just copy everyone's NPI number to be their company and then just update this form accordingly.

670
00:41:12.885 --> 00:41:16.505
So that instead of saying company, it says NPI number.

671
00:41:18.085 --> 00:41:18.405
Okay.

672
00:41:18.405 --> 00:41:24.105
You say it doesn't look like I'm using the name company the company name field, but group practice name right below

673
00:41:24.645 --> 00:41:26.105
is their actual company.

674
00:41:26.790 --> 00:41:27.590
Got it. You know what I'm saying?

675
00:41:27.590 --> 00:41:32.170
So what I would recommend doing then is utilize the first name as their full name.

676
00:41:32.790 --> 00:41:35.290
Okay. Then use the last name field

677
00:41:35.670 --> 00:41:36.490
as the

678
00:41:37.270 --> 00:41:41.610
company name or the group practice name. You basically have three fields you can work with,

679
00:41:42.105 --> 00:41:46.125
which is the last name, the first name, and the company. And you can

680
00:41:46.665 --> 00:41:51.405
mix and match those however you want with what you want them to represent, but that would be the best workaround

681
00:41:51.785 --> 00:41:54.205
without having to do a more comprehensive customization.

682
00:41:55.869 --> 00:42:01.810
Gotcha. Okay. I don't mind doing customization. I have Luis as the Gotcha. I would still recommend

683
00:42:02.190 --> 00:42:03.890
you doing it this way,

684
00:42:04.270 --> 00:42:05.790
despite customization or not.

685
00:42:05.790 --> 00:42:11.065
It'll make your life a whole lot easier, and then it'll allow you to easily search in that.

686
00:42:11.065 --> 00:42:18.845
Because this keyword search, no matter what you customize, only searches first name, last name, company name, and then the user's Brilliant Directories ID number.

687
00:42:19.065 --> 00:42:23.484
So you're gonna have to designate this number as first name, last name, or company name.

688
00:42:24.170 --> 00:42:26.590
Okay. Good. I'll do that. And one other question.

689
00:42:26.810 --> 00:42:30.110
In terms of geocoding, how important is that in SEO?

690
00:42:34.970 --> 00:42:37.150
I'm thinking about the answer to that question

691
00:42:38.184 --> 00:42:42.365
because let's let's go let's go to this guy's profile page as an example.

692
00:42:43.464 --> 00:42:43.964
Geocoding

693
00:42:45.305 --> 00:42:49.244
mainly means that you're getting the exact latitude and longitude

694
00:42:49.704 --> 00:42:50.684
of a member.

695
00:42:51.305 --> 00:42:51.805
So

696
00:42:52.560 --> 00:42:57.060
even if this member wasn't geocoded to his specific latitude and longitude,

697
00:42:57.600 --> 00:43:00.180
his address is still going to be listed here.

698
00:43:00.560 --> 00:43:01.060
Right?

699
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:06.740
So the latitude and longitude really just make the Google Maps pinpoint properly.

700
00:43:07.835 --> 00:43:11.214
And when people are doing location searches on your home page,

701
00:43:11.515 --> 00:43:17.214
it knows which members are in that radius of the search of the location search that was conducted.

702
00:43:18.795 --> 00:43:19.295
So

703
00:43:19.914 --> 00:43:20.815
for SEO,

704
00:43:21.570 --> 00:43:29.350
I guess for those search for those location search results to prop populate properly, you do need to know the members latitude and longitude.

705
00:43:30.370 --> 00:43:32.070
So in that sense the geocoding

706
00:43:32.770 --> 00:43:33.830
is important

707
00:43:34.690 --> 00:43:36.870
to at least show members in the search results.

708
00:43:37.385 --> 00:43:47.964
But as far as SEO, what the key here is to just make sure the address is showing on their profile page, and and some people use the address in the meta details and things like that, the metadata.

709
00:43:49.065 --> 00:43:49.885
Alright. Great.

710
00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:52.760
Thank you. Alright. You're very welcome. So,

711
00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:56.620
good question there on finding workarounds with the platform.

712
00:43:56.840 --> 00:44:01.580
I actually had to someone wanted all their members names to start with doctor or,

713
00:44:02.120 --> 00:44:11.605
you know, mister or missus, and we ended up using the first name field to represent doctor, mister, or missus, and the last name field, we had them enter their full name.

714
00:44:11.605 --> 00:44:14.905
So people were able to type, you know, doctor Martin Jones,

715
00:44:15.365 --> 00:44:19.320
and get that effect. So there are ways to kind of do those workarounds,

716
00:44:19.700 --> 00:44:20.600
with the system.

717
00:44:21.860 --> 00:44:22.360
Alright.

718
00:44:22.980 --> 00:44:26.600
Nadia. Nadia, I'll go ahead and unmute you. Are you with us, Nadia?

719
00:44:27.540 --> 00:44:30.920
Yes. I am. Can you hear me? Yes. I am. Where are you calling in from?

720
00:44:31.645 --> 00:44:33.425
I'm in Rosslyn County.

721
00:44:34.365 --> 00:44:36.785
Okay. Great. Great. And what's your question for us today?

722
00:44:37.885 --> 00:44:39.025
Just kind of piggybacking

723
00:44:39.325 --> 00:44:41.245
off of, one of your other,

724
00:44:41.645 --> 00:44:42.605
questions. But,

725
00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:45.020
she was talking about

726
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:48.860
being able to do SEO nationally. And I'd like

727
00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:53.000
to keep my directory very local to my county.

728
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:58.300
So I was wondering if there was kind of a way to lock it up so that people outside of the county

729
00:44:58.905 --> 00:44:59.865
and outside the zip codes,

730
00:45:01.305 --> 00:45:02.365
can't sign up?

731
00:45:03.225 --> 00:45:07.645
Absolutely. Well, it's hard to not allow people to sign up,

732
00:45:08.105 --> 00:45:17.960
but what but what you can do, because if someone can just go through the process and and sign up, but what you can do is you can make sure to moderate all the members who sign up.

733
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:27.100
So like for example your free members, we do have an advanced setting, and I think I covered this in a in a previous webinar.

734
00:45:27.405 --> 00:45:30.545
So when someone signs up for free, all they have to do is

735
00:45:30.845 --> 00:45:34.545
click the link to verify their email address and their listing goes public.

736
00:45:36.205 --> 00:45:38.785
So let me just see. If you search auto activate

737
00:45:39.165 --> 00:45:42.865
so if you search auto activate free sign ups, see that's set to zero?

738
00:45:44.040 --> 00:45:48.380
And you should be doing that you should be able to do that for the paid sign ups as well.

739
00:45:50.280 --> 00:46:00.535
We actually are working on a feature, so based on the membership level, the specific membership level, not just if it's free or paid, you'll be able to choose if they're auto activated or not.

740
00:46:00.755 --> 00:46:01.875
But here's the kicker.

741
00:46:01.875 --> 00:46:09.895
So if you don't want your free members to activate their own listings or because they're the ones who have to just click that link in the email template,

742
00:46:10.914 --> 00:46:12.135
when they sign up,

743
00:46:12.660 --> 00:46:17.400
You can edit the email template. I think it's called like a welcome basic or something.

744
00:46:20.660 --> 00:46:21.960
And if you customize

745
00:46:22.260 --> 00:46:23.000
this one

746
00:46:24.339 --> 00:46:28.280
and I'll just, I'll customize it and then delete it here.

747
00:46:28.845 --> 00:46:33.265
So this is the email people get when they sign up as a free member, and it says action required.

748
00:46:33.325 --> 00:46:34.785
Please verify your listing.

749
00:46:35.405 --> 00:46:38.865
So what you can do is change this to say something like,

750
00:46:39.565 --> 00:46:42.560
request received. We are now reviewing your profile.

751
00:46:42.560 --> 00:46:45.780
And instead of saying, like, click here to verify your email address,

752
00:46:46.080 --> 00:46:47.220
you can change this

753
00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:49.220
to, like, to get started,

754
00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:50.660
please complete

755
00:46:51.040 --> 00:46:51.860
your listing

756
00:46:52.160 --> 00:46:54.260
the best that you can.

757
00:46:56.885 --> 00:46:58.425
You know, we will review

758
00:46:59.285 --> 00:46:59.785
review

759
00:47:00.565 --> 00:47:01.385
your listing

760
00:47:01.765 --> 00:47:03.865
and email you once your

761
00:47:04.165 --> 00:47:05.705
account is activated.

762
00:47:06.165 --> 00:47:09.625
And then you get rid of the confirmation link. So now they can't even

763
00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:15.080
auto activate their listing and you're telling them that, hey, we're gonna moderate all the listings that that,

764
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:17.740
are are trying to get signed up to the site.

765
00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:21.260
So you can edit the email that the member gets.

766
00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:22.380
Just

767
00:47:23.565 --> 00:47:28.145
create it create an email that paints the picture that all accounts are going to be under moderation.

768
00:47:28.205 --> 00:47:29.724
And then when you do,

769
00:47:30.125 --> 00:47:30.625
eventually,

770
00:47:33.005 --> 00:47:36.625
activate someone that meets, you know, your criteria for your site,

771
00:47:37.460 --> 00:47:41.319
you can easily send them an activation email. Let me show you what that looks like.

772
00:47:43.619 --> 00:47:47.619
Sorry about that. That's fine. So what you can do is under actions you can send an email.

773
00:47:47.619 --> 00:47:48.500
Let's say we just,

774
00:47:49.140 --> 00:47:52.839
oh so let me show you. You can go to quick edit. Let's say this person wasn't active.

775
00:47:53.085 --> 00:47:58.465
So once you want to manually activate them you're gonna want to switch them from not active to active.

776
00:47:59.565 --> 00:48:03.905
So you'll manually do that because you have to manually approve people.

777
00:48:04.125 --> 00:48:06.305
And then what you can do is send an email,

778
00:48:07.340 --> 00:48:09.280
and there is an email to

779
00:48:10.780 --> 00:48:15.200
account activated, and that'll send them an email notifying them that their account is activated.

780
00:48:15.340 --> 00:48:25.345
And just like all the email templates, you can even edit that one and customize it to make it all fancy and make them feel like they've just won the lottery for being accepted to your website.

781
00:48:26.765 --> 00:48:28.545
So there is a level of moderation,

782
00:48:29.085 --> 00:48:32.785
when you want when you don't want members to just sign up on their own.

783
00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:37.020
Alright. Did that help answer your question?

784
00:48:37.640 --> 00:48:41.660
Sure. It does. I was just looking for that magic bullet that would say click. You can't

785
00:48:41.960 --> 00:48:44.040
you can't sign up. Well, yeah.

786
00:48:44.040 --> 00:48:50.745
Also, you know, people aren't gonna let's let's look at the Corpus Christi Chris I always say crispy Corpus Christi site

787
00:48:52.405 --> 00:48:53.705
as an example here.

788
00:48:54.165 --> 00:48:57.785
So they're a site dedicated to one local region and,

789
00:48:58.405 --> 00:49:01.785
you know, what I would recommend is what what location is your site in?

790
00:49:01.845 --> 00:49:03.225
What is it what is it covering?

791
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:05.860
Rockland County, New York.

792
00:49:06.240 --> 00:49:15.440
So you can, you know, you can you can say things like find local businesses in Rockland County, New York, and you'll notice that they don't even have a location option here.

793
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:15.940
So,

794
00:49:16.385 --> 00:49:21.125
you know, you're just searching for businesses in Corpus Christi on this site.

795
00:49:22.065 --> 00:49:23.204
Okay. Okay?

796
00:49:24.865 --> 00:49:26.325
Alright. Thanks for your question.

797
00:49:27.585 --> 00:49:33.260
Yeah, so that's good to know that, you know, you can have control over the members signing up to your site.

798
00:49:33.260 --> 00:49:37.920
You can let them go ahead and sign up, but it doesn't mean that their listing is gonna be public right away.

799
00:49:38.060 --> 00:49:39.360
You can definitely moderate,

800
00:49:39.740 --> 00:49:43.920
people who sign up. Dave L, I've unmuted your microphone. Are you with us?

801
00:49:45.144 --> 00:49:49.404
Yes. I am. Yeah. Did you have a question for us today? Yeah. Definitely. How are you doing today?

802
00:49:49.625 --> 00:49:51.464
Yeah. My my main question was,

803
00:49:51.944 --> 00:49:52.444
regarding,

804
00:49:53.704 --> 00:49:56.204
can you set up a a landing page

805
00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:58.300
for a member

806
00:49:59.000 --> 00:49:59.980
for their profile?

807
00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:04.760
Like, I guess, like, directly from the,

808
00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:07.020
from the, search results.

809
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:09.420
So

810
00:50:10.265 --> 00:50:12.205
let's go to our demo site here,

811
00:50:12.585 --> 00:50:16.845
and let me know what you're trying to achieve. So let me go to the search results for,

812
00:50:17.385 --> 00:50:20.685
just I'll just do a search for members here on our demo site.

813
00:50:22.265 --> 00:50:22.765
And

814
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:27.339
so tell me exactly what you mean by creating a landing page.

815
00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:29.660
In other words,

816
00:50:30.200 --> 00:50:31.819
where it says view listing,

817
00:50:33.160 --> 00:50:36.165
so on Elite Golf Academy that I'm looking at now,

818
00:50:37.285 --> 00:50:38.905
Rather than it go to,

819
00:50:40.085 --> 00:50:41.625
I guess, the kind of standard,

820
00:50:44.405 --> 00:50:46.745
Layout here. Profile. Right. Yeah.

821
00:50:47.445 --> 00:50:53.779
Can it be set up as more of a landing page? And then I've got a follow-up to that if if so.

822
00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:58.420
Let's actually edit this site. Give me one moment here.

823
00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:03.539
And I'll show you the out of the box options that you have with us.

824
00:51:04.240 --> 00:51:04.740
So

825
00:51:05.200 --> 00:51:06.260
first and foremost,

826
00:51:06.695 --> 00:51:10.715
if you really wanted to, as you saw with me using the show widgets functionality,

827
00:51:12.375 --> 00:51:17.675
you or a developer or designer do have the ability to actually get into the code and make your own Picasso

828
00:51:17.975 --> 00:51:20.075
however you want this data to be displayed.

829
00:51:20.135 --> 00:51:31.320
So we provide you with the data and the simple layout which works very well, but you might wanna, you know, turn this on its head and and make something totally fresh and new, which you have the ability to do.

830
00:51:31.620 --> 00:51:36.735
But that requires coding. I'll let you know what you can do out of the box that a lot of people do.

831
00:51:37.935 --> 00:51:42.095
So what we're gonna do is let's go into the admin to the products.

832
00:51:42.095 --> 00:51:44.435
We actually have a really cool option

833
00:51:45.295 --> 00:51:45.795
for,

834
00:51:46.735 --> 00:51:47.715
with the products.

835
00:51:48.495 --> 00:51:52.035
So that guy is actually a premium member, I think so,

836
00:51:52.590 --> 00:51:54.850
And let me edit the premium membership levels.

837
00:52:00.830 --> 00:52:05.330
Okay. Great. Under the additional settings tab, which is the last one,

838
00:52:06.115 --> 00:52:09.655
you do have the ability to hide the website header

839
00:52:10.995 --> 00:52:13.095
and hide the website footer.

840
00:52:14.595 --> 00:52:15.975
Let me save those changes.

841
00:52:18.115 --> 00:52:20.375
And, yeah, that guy is a premium member.

842
00:52:21.250 --> 00:52:21.750
So

843
00:52:22.450 --> 00:52:25.190
hiding the website header and the website footer

844
00:52:25.970 --> 00:52:32.130
is, without doing any coding, as close as you're gonna get to a landing page without doing any more customization work.

845
00:52:32.130 --> 00:52:40.405
So let me refresh this page and let me just show everyone you will we see the main menu in the header and we also see the footer of the website.

846
00:52:41.185 --> 00:52:42.965
And when I refresh the page,

847
00:52:45.825 --> 00:52:48.245
those options the header is now gone

848
00:52:49.619 --> 00:52:51.400
and the footer is now gone.

849
00:52:52.420 --> 00:52:52.920
So

850
00:52:53.460 --> 00:53:02.234
it's not necessarily a landing page because some people want to offer their members like their own website, and the profile page becomes like their own landing page website.

851
00:53:02.234 --> 00:53:04.734
So I totally get what you're trying to achieve there.

852
00:53:05.994 --> 00:53:11.675
Out of the box, this is as close as you can get to instantly creating a landing page for the members.

853
00:53:11.675 --> 00:53:14.415
You could even do something to hide the breadcrumbs here,

854
00:53:15.355 --> 00:53:18.200
so that they're not taken anywhere else.

855
00:53:19.620 --> 00:53:22.920
I've even seen people give their members this link and,

856
00:53:24.420 --> 00:53:26.840
you know, you could, you can spoof

857
00:53:27.700 --> 00:53:31.400
a URL so you can do mybusiness.com.

858
00:53:31.460 --> 00:53:31.960
And

859
00:53:32.765 --> 00:53:36.945
if someone goes to this domain, it can be a mirror of this of this page.

860
00:53:38.445 --> 00:53:42.125
So they can actually put this page on their business cards with their name.

861
00:53:42.125 --> 00:53:47.025
They just have to configure something with their with their URL with GoDaddy or whoever they're with.

862
00:53:47.369 --> 00:53:49.309
So without doing any additional coding,

863
00:53:49.690 --> 00:53:52.269
you can achieve removing the header and the footer.

864
00:53:52.490 --> 00:54:02.265
And then as far as, you know, kind of turning this page inside out, you know, to to your liking, that would just require some design work, but you definitely have access to the code to accomplish that.

865
00:54:02.825 --> 00:54:04.345
Good questions from Dave there.

866
00:54:04.664 --> 00:54:08.125
More questions about how to customize the profiles and things like that.

867
00:54:08.424 --> 00:54:12.765
So thank you for that, Dave. Alright. We're almost nearing the end of the time here.

868
00:54:12.825 --> 00:54:15.885
I just wanna mention again the the deal of the week.

869
00:54:16.270 --> 00:54:19.410
It's the best deal you're gonna get on the ad, automatic lead matching.

870
00:54:19.470 --> 00:54:21.810
And when we had Interior Design Pro,

871
00:54:22.270 --> 00:54:23.250
beyond members,

872
00:54:23.790 --> 00:54:32.255
paid member sign ups, we generated more revenue from lead sales and we were utilizing automatic lead matching back then when we had interior design pro.

873
00:54:32.255 --> 00:54:33.474
So it's a super value.

874
00:54:34.015 --> 00:54:37.714
If you guys haven't even purchased it yet, do it right after,

875
00:54:38.255 --> 00:54:38.914
the webinar.

876
00:54:39.295 --> 00:54:40.835
Okay. We're gonna take one

877
00:54:41.535 --> 00:54:42.994
final question here.

878
00:54:44.090 --> 00:54:47.470
And I got my man Vincent on the line. Vincent, how you doing?

879
00:54:48.170 --> 00:54:50.110
Good. Good. Alright, Vincent.

880
00:54:50.730 --> 00:54:53.850
Last question of the day. Glad you can join us. You join us every week.

881
00:54:53.850 --> 00:54:58.430
Really appreciate you having a you being here with us. And what's your question for us today?

882
00:54:59.205 --> 00:55:06.025
I'm trying to create I've created a widget that runs the home page, but I want and I then I copied that widget,

883
00:55:06.965 --> 00:55:09.225
and now I'm trying to get that on a second

884
00:55:09.525 --> 00:55:12.745
page. On the home page, I use the OEM

885
00:55:14.750 --> 00:55:18.290
dealerships in Dallas, but then I have the second page which is the services,

886
00:55:19.390 --> 00:55:22.350
and so instead of just having the drop down, I want a,

887
00:55:23.310 --> 00:55:26.369
a layout like the homepage on for the services.

888
00:55:26.865 --> 00:55:32.085
So I created the widget, but I cannot seem to figure out how to insert it into the page and make it show up.

889
00:55:32.465 --> 00:55:35.205
Gotcha. Alright. Let's check it out together.

890
00:55:36.305 --> 00:55:38.325
Let's check out your website real quick here.

891
00:55:39.369 --> 00:55:44.430
Alright. So this is your home page. Widget right there. That's my widget that I've borrowed.

892
00:55:45.050 --> 00:55:49.310
Let's see what you've done here. And then you see where it says services at the top there? Yes.

893
00:55:49.530 --> 00:55:53.950
Right there. Instead of the drop down, I want another page like this where I'm gonna put images

894
00:55:54.855 --> 00:55:55.835
of all the services.

895
00:55:56.215 --> 00:55:58.475
Okay. Can we did you create a page?

896
00:55:59.655 --> 00:56:02.395
I did not create the page, but I created the widget.

897
00:56:02.695 --> 00:56:05.755
Okay. Let's, Which is called services subcategory

898
00:56:06.615 --> 00:56:07.115
services.

899
00:56:08.535 --> 00:56:09.035
Okay.

900
00:56:12.050 --> 00:56:12.710
And services

901
00:56:13.170 --> 00:56:13.670
are

902
00:56:14.610 --> 00:56:16.710
is this this is for Dallas. Right?

903
00:56:17.330 --> 00:56:22.710
Right. And there's a lot more. I just I quit I quit putting it on in there because I wanted to

904
00:56:24.545 --> 00:56:27.924
Okay. Can we call the page Dallas Auto Services?

905
00:56:28.785 --> 00:56:29.285
Yes.

906
00:56:29.904 --> 00:56:33.984
Okay. Great. And I'm gonna just render this widget in here. And then we'll just

907
00:56:34.944 --> 00:56:36.645
let's create a new widget.

908
00:56:38.860 --> 00:56:42.640
That it's called services, just dash services. There it is.

909
00:56:43.180 --> 00:56:47.200
This one? I just copied it. I haven't switched the pictures yet. Okay.

910
00:56:47.980 --> 00:56:49.200
So let me see if I

911
00:56:49.500 --> 00:56:51.040
I did set up the categories

912
00:56:52.025 --> 00:56:57.565
separately like a little bit like what he did or he was trying to do. I I created one set of

913
00:56:58.825 --> 00:57:02.365
second level for the homepage and then I've created a second

914
00:57:02.905 --> 00:57:03.725
set for

915
00:57:04.190 --> 00:57:07.950
all the services. Gotcha. So you can see I created a brand new web page.

916
00:57:08.510 --> 00:57:10.430
Just to start I'm doing the one on your home page.

917
00:57:10.430 --> 00:57:14.210
So we see Dallas Auto Services, and now you got this guy here.

918
00:57:15.310 --> 00:57:16.910
Is this enough for you to continue working?

919
00:57:16.910 --> 00:57:20.575
Let's try putting the actual widget that you want there there, which is Yeah. We want that right.

920
00:57:20.575 --> 00:57:24.035
I because I I'm gonna now redo this widget to,

921
00:57:24.815 --> 00:57:29.455
For for this appropriate page for the services. Right. So I I just I hadn't started working on it.

922
00:57:29.455 --> 00:57:33.075
I just wanted to I know once I can get it on the page, I'll be fine.

923
00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:35.020
Okay. Let's see how it's looking.

924
00:57:35.720 --> 00:57:36.220
Alright.

925
00:57:36.600 --> 00:57:38.360
Yeah. Link it up at the top where,

926
00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:43.660
okay. Oh, what happened? Oh, that was your, that was your homepage.

927
00:57:44.040 --> 00:57:44.700
Oh, man.

928
00:57:45.640 --> 00:57:46.700
Hang on a second.

929
00:57:48.765 --> 00:57:51.744
There we go. This is the one you want. Cars is for your home page.

930
00:57:55.645 --> 00:57:56.944
Alright. Save that.

931
00:57:57.645 --> 00:57:58.145
And

932
00:57:58.525 --> 00:57:59.025
services

933
00:57:59.565 --> 00:58:00.065
here

934
00:58:00.740 --> 00:58:01.700
is for your

935
00:58:03.059 --> 00:58:04.660
so here's a nice tip for people.

936
00:58:04.660 --> 00:58:12.119
When you have a lot of code that you're that you wanna put on a custom landing page, you don't necessarily need to do it in the code editor here.

937
00:58:12.260 --> 00:58:18.244
What I like to do is I like to make a widget with all my code in it, and then I just render the widget on this page.

938
00:58:18.244 --> 00:58:20.265
It just helps keep things nice and tidy,

939
00:58:20.724 --> 00:58:25.145
while you're working on your site, especially if you're doing a lot of coding and things like that.

940
00:58:25.525 --> 00:58:30.030
So all you need to do is put that code right there and the widget will show up on the page? Yeah.

941
00:58:30.030 --> 00:58:36.430
Widget equals and then, you know, if it's a valid widget that it will actually render something then it'll it'll it'll render it.

942
00:58:36.430 --> 00:58:36.930
So,

943
00:58:37.230 --> 00:58:42.930
you just wanna make sure there's no like spaces before and after the brackets and the equal sign, and you should be good to go.

944
00:58:43.295 --> 00:58:45.315
So let's save the changes here.

945
00:58:47.535 --> 00:58:49.235
And this is for your services.

946
00:58:50.015 --> 00:58:50.335
So

947
00:58:50.815 --> 00:58:52.735
Something something happened to it.

948
00:58:53.535 --> 00:58:54.975
Yeah. What I'm thinking is,

949
00:58:56.335 --> 00:58:57.775
you don't have the same,

950
00:58:58.900 --> 00:59:01.120
let's see here what you have down here. CSS.

951
00:59:01.900 --> 00:59:06.320
When I did the cars one, it was it was correct. You might have not copied all the CSS properly.

952
00:59:07.340 --> 00:59:10.140
So How do you do that? Yeah. Just make sure when yeah.

953
00:59:10.140 --> 00:59:13.200
Just make sure, for your widget let me just edit this widget.

954
00:59:14.705 --> 00:59:17.505
So when you when you copy a widget there's three tabs.

955
00:59:17.505 --> 00:59:20.405
There's the HTML, the CSS, and the JavaScript.

956
00:59:20.705 --> 00:59:25.745
Okay. You're right. I did not do those. Okay. Yeah. Just check these other two yeah.

957
00:59:25.745 --> 00:59:29.880
Check these other two and there might be some CSS. CSS is the design styling,

958
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:33.180
and, and then you should be okay with your design here.

959
00:59:34.279 --> 00:59:38.140
Okay. So that where so now let's go back to the home page real quick.

960
00:59:38.759 --> 00:59:39.259
Alright.

961
00:59:40.759 --> 00:59:44.945
So the home page is correct. Now if up there it's services, now is that linked to services?

962
00:59:44.945 --> 00:59:48.305
Do you see right there? Yeah. So Is it possible to make Yeah. So that's Yeah.

963
00:59:48.305 --> 00:59:50.725
Let's link it to the Dallas Auto Services,

964
00:59:51.585 --> 00:59:54.245
and to do that we'll just go to the toolbox,

965
00:59:54.785 --> 00:59:55.765
menu manager,

966
00:59:58.020 --> 01:00:00.360
And we're gonna edit your header main menu.

967
01:00:01.220 --> 01:00:03.400
And I'm gonna look for the services link.

968
01:00:07.060 --> 01:00:11.000
And just go like that. And does that mean you're getting rid of all the drop downs?

969
01:00:11.775 --> 01:00:16.755
Yeah. I am gonna drop get rid of the drop downs. Alright. Let me just save that for right now, and

970
01:00:17.135 --> 01:00:18.275
successfully saved.

971
01:00:18.575 --> 01:00:20.755
Let's go back to your home page.

972
01:00:22.655 --> 01:00:25.080
And just take a second to load here.

973
01:00:25.080 --> 01:00:28.940
And if we click on services now, it's gonna take us to that new page we created.

974
01:00:29.240 --> 01:00:30.620
Dallas Auto Services.

975
01:00:32.120 --> 01:00:32.620
Alright.

976
01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:34.380
Wow.

977
01:00:35.240 --> 01:00:39.995
Alright. I just love your software. I just can't get enough of it. Thank you. Thank you.

978
01:00:39.995 --> 01:00:43.055
Alright, Vincent. Well thank you for calling in. Great question there.

979
01:00:43.755 --> 01:00:48.235
Thank you. Very welcome. Very welcome. We're gonna stop it there for now for webinar Wednesday.

980
01:00:48.235 --> 01:00:51.855
I want to thank all you guys for joining us today. Gabriel,

981
01:00:52.555 --> 01:00:56.230
thank you for joining us and helping me out here as well today.

982
01:00:58.690 --> 01:01:04.930
And the deal of the week, if you guys haven't done it, go ahead after the webinar and purchase the automatic lead matching.

983
01:01:04.930 --> 01:01:08.310
It's a steal of a deal this week. Also the contest of the week,

984
01:01:08.915 --> 01:01:11.555
don't forget you can go to the brilliantdirectories.com

985
01:01:11.555 --> 01:01:15.095
website and just leave a comment on any of the workshop videos.

986
01:01:15.635 --> 01:01:26.270
Preferably the easy one for us to find is the first one, and you'll automatically be entered leaving a comment there into our contest for next week which will be a super duper awesome

987
01:01:26.810 --> 01:01:27.310
prize.

988
01:01:29.130 --> 01:01:30.750
Yeah. Any final words Gabe?

989
01:01:32.494 --> 01:01:36.274
It was great being here with everybody and hope to see you in the next webinar.

990
01:01:36.734 --> 01:01:41.394
Awesome. Definitely. Thank you so much guys and have a great rest of the week. Cheers.