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Alright.

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See that we have a lot of people attending from all around the world. So whether it's your morning,

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afternoon, or evening, it's really great to be with you here for another webinar Wednesday.

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I think we're up to almost 25,

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webinar

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Wednesdays. You can always catch them, the replays at brilliantdirectories.com/webinar.

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And as we're, done editing the the replays that are available

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there for you to watch.

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My name is Jason, one of the cofounders and creators of the Brilliant Directories

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platform. In case you guys don't know, we started Brilliant Directories

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about nine years ago. We built it to manage our own directory websites. We were not satisfied

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with the solutions that were out on the market.

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There were WordPress three themes, eDirectory themes.

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They just weren't going to work for us. So we set out to create our own platform.

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And after a while, we we realized we had something really special here.

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So we gave up on our own directory website ideas, and we decided to simply focus on making the software the best

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that it could be. So here we are today.

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We're also joined with, Patrick Bernal, and Gabe will be here in the background to answer any questions that you guys are chatting in.

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So really glad to have Patrick and Gabe with us today.

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If this is your first time joining webinar on Wednesday, I saw a few new faces,

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and names in the attendee list. So glad to see you here. I always recommend also joining our free

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LinkedIn marketing

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strategy network. It's a free LinkedIn group.

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In case we don't get to your questions here in the in the hour that we have for the webinar, you can always start a discussion in that group.

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And myself, Patrick,

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David Rocklin, other member members of the BD family,

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will respond as well as and the best part is fellow directory owners. Other brilliant directories,

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website owners can also chime in, and we can have really constructive conversations there,

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to answer any type of how to questions,

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really marketing strategy

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questions to make sure you're getting the most out of your directory website project.

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And always just the kind of the rules of engagement and what you guys can can ask and what we can cover in the webinars.

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It's it's really an open questions and answers forum.

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You guys can guide where you want the conversations to go.

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You can ask questions about setting up your website, generating revenue,

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adding and editing members, publishing content,

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general questions about how things

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work. There's really nothing that we won't,

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cover in the in the

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webinar.

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If there's something we don't know the answer to, we'll let you know and we'll try our best to get back to you, with the best

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answer. So whatever's on your mind, if you have any challenges or hurdles

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or if you're stuck with something on your website, this is the best place to ask those questions.

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We wanna make ourselves

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available to you. So these webinars really are about helping you guys out the best that we can.

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And we have a few updates. You know, we're launching updates

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weekly by the dozens.

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A lot of them are from some of the support inquiries that you guys send to us.

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Some of the things are already in our feature road map.

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So I just want to outline a couple things that,

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are I think are kind of important for new updates.

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One of them is we've actually improved

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the way your main menu works on mobile view, and I wanna show you an example

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of that.

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So here is our Brilliant Directories demo site.

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And it look looks like we have Patrick joining us here.

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you'll notice you have two menus.

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You have your main menu, and then the user has their menu here on the side.

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And there was a little bit of kind of like a glitch that was happening on mobile, and we've we've fixed that at this point.

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Let me toggle this to a mobile view.

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And what you'll notice is the main menu is gone, obviously, for for mobile. It's it's it's up here.

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And the user's side menu is gone also again for for better performance

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on mobile.

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Now, you'll notice when I toggle the user's menu, we see John Smith here and his menu options.

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The problem that was occurring that's been corrected

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is if you were on a mobile device or a tablet, if you happen to have scrolled down

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and then clicked on the menu, you wouldn't see it because it'd be stuck above where you just were.

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But what we've done is we've corrected it so that the menu follows you wherever you happen to be scrolling

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on the web page.

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And the same works for the main navigation menu. So you'll have your main menu.

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If there's drop down links, you'll see this nice plus sign here.

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And there's nothing you guys need to do to configure this or set this up.

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It should automatically be working as default functionality functionality

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on your websites.

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So we did a little bit of improvement here for better menu management on mobile devices.

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We've also added a add on status checker. Add ons have become very popular

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this year.

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And a lot of people are members of the VIP add ons club, and they just want to know that the add ons are installed on their websites.

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So we have created a a page,

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in the admin. Let me find that and pull that up for you.

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In order to see it, you'll see a nice big banner when you when you first log in to your website, and it'll bring you to this page.

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It's a very simple page.

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It's in also in in a beta version because we're gonna be adding more functionality to this page in case any add ons have,

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settings.

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So what you can do is basically check which add ons are inactive, or if they're active, they'll they'll link up green here.

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And what's really cool about this is is when you do click on one of these links, it will take you to our support center,

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which tells you more about that add on,

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any settings, any functionality that's related to that add on.

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So it it becomes a nice little information hub to not only show you which add ons you have installed active or inactive on your website, but it will provide you with guidance to the documentation,

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so you know how the add on works and how you can best leverage it for your website.

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And you can get to this page in in your main admin dashboard.

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There should be a nice big blue banner on the side there.

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You can click on that banner and it should bring you directly to this page.

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And, speaking of add ons, we actually have two add ons we've mentioned in previous webinars, which are,

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ready for release.

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And I think we have Patrick.

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Were you able to join us, Patrick?

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Yes. I was. I had the blue screen of death with the Windows update.

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So I apologize for the delay, but,

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here I am, ready to get going.

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So I just I just thought maybe you could share a little bit about the InstaLoad search results that's that's now released.

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It's kinda like a lazy load functionality.

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And also the, the click to call members, if you just wanna, chat a little bit bit about these two add ons that are now officially released.

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Yeah. So the we're we're excited about both of those releases. The instaload

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will have a search result layout. In the past, we had tab search results layout.

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So you would load for perhaps the first nine,

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members on a search result page. And with the instaload, it's going to,

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to load additional

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members on the same page without having to go to a second tab, a third tab, and so forth.

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So it's a much better experience,

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particularly in a mobile device mode as you're seeing right now. Jason's sharing that on the screen.

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So that's an exciting update.

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And, of course, the click to call functionality,

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what that does is that makes it easier, obviously, for people to call out to businesses.

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But I believe what it also does, Jason, and and correct me, is it tracks, and we had gone over this in the last webinar,

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click to show the phone number.

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One of the biggest concerns people have with showing phone numbers on directory listings

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is that they're worried I'm not gonna get any credit for those leads.

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So we've had a lot of people hide the phone number just for fear that they don't have a metric that they can leverage to show their paying members that it pays to be on the directory website.

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But with click to call, every time somebody clicks that button to show the phone number,

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that data gets tracked, which you can then use when talking to your members and showing them the benefits of being listed on your website.

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And that really helps with member retention if a member is thinking about, you know, canceling from your from your directory.

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Patrick said it very well.

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When you have metrics saying, well, you know, our our website has sent you 20 phone calls or

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20, 20, you know, lead submissions,

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or messages,

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or 20 clicks to your website.

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It's really hard with the member to to argue with those facts that your website is,

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generating online visibility for them.

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And therefore, it should increase the retention and and lower cancellation rates as well.

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So it's not only a good tool for,

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providing good features for your members, it's also a business tool for you, and another, you know, arsenal in your tool belt for helping to keep your members on your website longer.

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Alright. So that's good stuff there. And actually some good news about the add ons.

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Those of you that are part of the VIP add ons club,

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I think at by tomorrow, we should have about 20 total add ons that are active,

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in the add on marketplace here.

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So that's really exciting.

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And we always have our coming soon add ons, which are always gonna be re released

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relatively soon as well.

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So if you're a member of the VIP add ons club, you do automatically get the click to call and the insta load search results.

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You can just email support. You can you can go to your add on checker.

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If you don't see that it's activated here,

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like the click to call here, you can just email support and say, hey.

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I'm a member of the VIP add ons club. Can you make sure this is installed

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on my website? So really cool stuff there.

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Alright. And we have a quick quick

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Last,

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webinar,

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we asked you guys if you'd like us to spend time maybe focusing a part of the webinar on a specific topic or or presentation.

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So I'm gonna launch this poll here, and, we want you guys to vote

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on what you would like us to, not the whole webinar, but lightly cover, in the next coming webinar.

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Probably about fifteen or twenty minutes, we'll dedicate,

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to to a dedicated topic. So I'm gonna launch a poll on the screen,

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you guys can vote, on the polls. You should be able to see that on your on your screen right now.

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And just let us know what topic you'd like us to to cover.

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How to promote coupon codes to increase member sign ups,

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how to get your Dang members to contribute more content to your website, and, you know, how to get them to come back to your website and use it more.

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The other option is how to keep visitors from leaving your homepage.

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Basically clicking through to additional pages on your website. I I personally like that idea.

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And then there is one, the best way to leverage the multi member manager.

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It's it's one of the hidden gems in in our add ons, and, there are is a lot of functionality there.

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And it looks like almost everyone has voted.

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It looks like 10 more people need to vote, and I will end the poll.

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So if you haven't voted just yet, just let us know,

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what you would like us to cover in the next webinar, and we'll be sure that we include a few slides that will, educate you guys on on some of the best practices for that topic.

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Alright. It looks like just about everyone is voted in, so I'll close the poll.

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And I'll let you guys know the results right now.

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their homepage, from leaving their main page of their website.

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So Patrick, we'll cover that in in the next webinar.

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We'll touch on some of the best practices to get visitors to click into an internal pages and not leave and bounce away from your website.

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And, the number two was the best way to leverage the multi member manager add on.

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I'm really looking forward to that because we're gonna be able to go a little bit more in-depth, and we'll be able to prepare,

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slides or perhaps,

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email templates or additional resources that go along with those topic topics.

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So going in this direction should really, help take these,

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these webinars to the next level. So thank you for everybody's participation. I'm I'm happy

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that how to keep visitors from leaving their home page is the one that won, because that was the one I was most hoping to cover in the in the next webinar.

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So great stuff.

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Awesome. Yeah. I I like that topic too.

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And right before we get into the q and a section, we have a really, really fun

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contest of the week,

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and it's to share your design. And before I I'm gonna leave this slide here.

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I'll come back to it in a second.

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So as you guys know, with Brilliant Directories, there is a section in the admin

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called design settings.

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And here you can create your own colors, you can design your footer and your

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logo and your colors and all that good stuff. But as you know, we do have premade color sets.

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A lot of people use these as a starting point and then change the individual colors themselves.

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And we wanna know we wanna see your custom color designs that you've made for your website.

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it's not sharing your concept or your idea or anything like that.

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We just wanna see your website, and the the websites that we like the best will add

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the color, the the design as one of the color sets.

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We'll give it a fun name, and it'll be part of one of the Brilliant Directories color sets.

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And to participate in this, you guys can email design@brilliantdirectories.com.

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Just email a link to your website,

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if you've done any custom colors on it or anything like that, and we'll select the winning design.

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There can be multiple winners. So if we like, you know, multiple designs across the board,

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you'll win $200 in credits that you can apply towards any new purchases, whether it's add ons or new sites or training sessions,

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or website audits.

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But you'll have that $200

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in credits,

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and we'll use, the color set that you've created, and we'll actually save it as a master color set that other people could use, in the future,

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here in the color set library.

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Colors are fun. People love them.

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So this should be a fun one to see how you guys have done a creative job on on your own website.

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So, you could share your design, just email design@brilliantdirectories.com.

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Make sure to include a link to your website so we can check out the the work you've done on your site.

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And then we'll select the the winning color designs that we like the best and announce them in the next webinar.

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So that seems like a fun one there for everyone.

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Alright. And now is the time to get to

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Alright. Seth, I have unmuted your microphone. How are you doing today?

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Doing well. K. How how am I coming through?

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You're sounding great, Seth. Where are you calling in from?

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Calling, from The Philippines.

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Philippines. Okay. Okay. What time is it out there in The Philippines?

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It is it's early morning. It's 07:20AM.

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Okay. Okay. That's, it's it's, 04:20PM

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So, what's your question for us today?

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So actually, just have a really quick question or I think it should be quick.

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Just enabled the review functionality the other day

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function.

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It's great. Everything works fine. Now we have,

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how we've laid out our site is we kinda how I what I call you know, we have a default member listing view, and I'll give you an example for, like, hotels or food.

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to a member listing view, which is great. You see the reviews. Everything's fine. Now we also

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have what I've been calling, I guess, just, a feature listing view, which is more like a classified view.

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For that would be buy and sell, where when you click the buy and sell category, it lists, as the classifieds

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as opposed to the members because we think the classifieds

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are we able to somehow,

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view? Does that does that question make sense?

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the the professional member is the one that has the reviews, and they're the ones publishing classifieds.

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to show with their classified listing.

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It it can be done.

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Let me it's it's not an out of the box thing, but let me see if I can set it up on your site.

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If not, we can just quickly revert it, and,

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it it might be just a quick marketplace request if that's what you're looking for.

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Can I can I take a look at your site?

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Yeah. Sure thing. It's finditangelus.com.

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Give me one moment here.

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I'll just give it a like a two minute try here.

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And and if I can't get it, I know it can be done because the classifieds related to the you can get the user's name, the user's last name, their company name.

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You should be able to maybe pull their reviews as well.

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And for everyone, this is the the banner ad I was referring to that you'll see in your admin here to go to the, the add on the status of your website add ons here.

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So let me just go to the homepage of your site,

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What do you have your classifieds listed under?

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So you could go to buy and sell. Now here's gonna be the dilemma.

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so I don't know if that's gonna be a problem for this this demonstration.

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Yeah. It will be a problem because it's it's, we'd need to have

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set up. So why don't you do this? Why don't why don't I take another question?

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Why don't you add a couple sample reviews?

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And then let me let me circle back let me circle back later, in the webinar.

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Just raise your hand use the raise your hand feature, and we'll come back, and and we'll give it a shot once you have some reviews in there.

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That sounds great. Thanks so much, Jason. Alright, Seth. Sure thing.

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We'll we'll catch up with you in a few minutes.

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Alright. So We have a we have a couple we have a we have a couple of good questions, Jason.

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In the meantime, they should be quick ones for you.

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One of them is sent in by Tristan that's asking how he can add

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a form to a page, like a static

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content page,

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how he can go ahead and embed that.

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create adding a contact us page to a new custom page that's created on the website.

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Gotcha.

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Alright. There's gonna be

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two ways to do this, and and I'll show,

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Give me one moment. Great.

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let's let's check out this site here,

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and let's go to some of the web pages that are available.

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let's go to the let's edit the how it works page first. Let's view the live page.

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So it's just the how it works page with a with an image and some content.

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And what I'll do is I'll I'll edit this.

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Let me open

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edit it here. I'm gonna save it back up just so I can revert it back to what it was.

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What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna empty this whole page here so we have a blank page.

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form equals just like we use widget equals.

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So let's let's grab the login form.

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Let me give it I haven't done this myself.

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Yeah, Pat? It's it's gonna work the same. You're right.

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Just with the variable of the form, however, I think is the only difference.

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But let's give that a try. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So it's either the form name or the the form variables.

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So let's try with the form name first.

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Okay. We're not getting anything here.

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Let's try with the the form variable, which is the system variable here,

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Hope it works. There we go. So here is our no no additional styling applied.

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is rendering here.

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So, yeah. It is Pat's correct. So you would do form equals,

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in the page, and then you wanna grab what the system variable is here.

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Could you go ahead and copy that in the chat?

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I know it's very simple text, but it'd be great for everyone to have it. And again, you can embed

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any form you like on any page that's in the system.

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So it could be, it could be the the contact form, the member login,

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a custom form that you created with a unique variable name,

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and embed them in any place you like. As simple as that.

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Great. I'm gonna share this in the the public chat for everyone, how to embed a form.

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Now we do enter and let me paste this code as well.

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the system variable name,

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to after the equal sign. And also important, make sure there's no spaces

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before or after the equal sign. Make sure that, you have

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just no spaces before here and after and before the the bracket closes.

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So what I've done is I've planned ahead, and I can just save

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the the original page that I had.

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And, this should revert back to what it needs to be. And we have this person eating a bowl of salad.

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So we are good to go.

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And and just as a little bonus tip, I I know it comes in quite a bit.

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Did you wanna show everybody how they can change the for the for for the website contact us form?

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How you can change the email that gets sent out when somebody submits the contact us form?

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you guys have a default contact us form on your website, which also can be modified.

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So when a user fills this out, they get a confirmation email. Right, Pat?

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Is that That's correct.

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Okay. And you That's correct. And,

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you know, what we have is just a a standard template saying thank you.

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Your message has been received. We'll we'll contact you soon. But, what what Pat is kind of,

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alluding to is

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you can actually

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turn that into more of a marketing email asking them for,

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to do other types of actions.

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after the message is sent.

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So, you can go to And I'll give you and and I'll give you an example of people of of people doing this.

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where people,

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fill out a form and they they register to be on the site or it's a it's a form for them to advertise on the site.

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So would you like to advertise on the site, fill out this form.

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So the steps are really to come to copy the contact us form and then you're able to change what email goes out when they submit it.

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So it's good to know that, different forms have different settings.

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And oftentimes, these are easily missed. And and Jason's gonna go ahead and show us,

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how you can control if an email goes out and what email goes out when a form is completed.

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First of all, you bring up a good point.

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If if if you do if you fill out that form because you're doing a test on your website and you're trying to figure out, well, which email template was that?

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I think I think there's about 40 or so e pre made email templates that are available to you guys.

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What I like to do is if you just copy some of the text that's in the email,

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if because let's say you don't know which one of the 40 it is for some reason.

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If you just copy some text in the email, whether it's from the the subject line or the or the body, like, we have received your message, this is a really quick way to identify,

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what the email might be, that you're searching for.

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And as you can see, I'm I'm searching these phrases, and I'm getting the contact us form.

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So if you wanted to customize this, you can click on customize.

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something really interesting here is you'll notice

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They're actually variables. So this is your your website name. Now when you're customizing

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a site, you might want to just, you know, put in what the name of your website is, or you can keep it as a variable.

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But what I like is if you scroll down here, there is a variable map

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here, email variables that you can include. So you can include a person's first name or last name,

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so on and so forth, email.

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So you can say, like, hi, John. You can do, hi, first name, and and it'll create a nice,

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it it'll fill in the template. So when this automatic email goes out, it'll say, hi, John.

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Thanks for sending us your you know, this message and and so on. So here, you can edit the

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the message that goes out after you fill out a contact form just just like any one of the other email templates.

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Did you wanna touch on anything else here related to this, Pat?

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No. No. That was it. I thought it was just a really good thing to cover real quickly. Yeah.

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And so you would go to emails, email templates, and then identify the email template you wanna modify.

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And you can hard cord hard hard code,

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the text, or you can continue using, the variables here. But it's a great way to,

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you know, you can write, like, also check out our

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while you're waiting, and then put a link to your Facebook page.

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So very simple things like that can enhance some of these emails just a bit more and and get a little bit more engagement from from a very simple engagement,

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you know, request that someone submitted through your website.

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Alright. Good stuff there. Thanks for sharing that, Pat.

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Alright. I see some new names here and faces.

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Grace, I've unmuted your microphone.

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Oh, hi there, Jason.

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I've been really curious to see if,

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this database would support

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matches between, let's say, a mentor and a mentee.

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I'm part of a university, and that's one of our signature features that not only do we offer courses, but we wanna offer,

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a highly relational experience. So

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the only challenge,

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is that in some cases, either the mentee or the mentor

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would wanna keep their

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identity or certainly their,

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address,

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confidential.

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So I'm wondering if you could speak to that. Yeah.

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Actually, Patrick and I were talking about the mentor mentee relationship a few weeks ago.

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And also Patrick is one of the biggest fans of our matching,

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add ons. So, Pat, I I think I'll if if you want, we can actually help,

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set set the settings up for you on your on your site if you if you'd like to use that as an example

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so so that the addresses is hidden.

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Okay.

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Pat, do you wanna do you wanna take the controls?

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So do do you have a website with us that we can set this up on? Not yet. Oh,

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okay. In that case, maybe, Patrick, do you want to show how you can

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make certain types of data hidden,

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from from ever displaying? You would probably set everything to no in that sense in that case.

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Right?

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Yeah. Yeah. I probably would have a few more questions on on the whole concept. Okay.

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The mentor mentee,

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there's no you don't want an email address shared either. Is that correct?

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Or is that acceptable to be sent? No. That would be acceptable.

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So you don't want a physical address to be shown?

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Correct.

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They don't on their profile page in particular.

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Yes.

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Yeah. Because it's extremely easy to control what displays on the front end of a member's profile

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and what doesn't display. So you can capture this internally for your data,

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but you can you can hide what fields are display and not.

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So there's two places you can control this. Jason's actually gonna show you the first one right now,

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which is, like, their phone numbers. It's under manage products.

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You can edit the different membership tiers. It could be mentee, for example. Right?

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So you click edit, and you can hide the phone number.

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You can hide the the the you can hide, the the map so nobody can see where they physically are.

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You can hide the ability to contact them

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as well. And you could even go as far as make let's which is the one that that needs the privacy?

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I'm assuming the mentee in particular.

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Actually, the mentor more likely. The mentor is more likely to be to be stocked by the mentee.

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Understood.

449
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So do you want the mentor profile to be visible on the front end of the website or a secret profile

450
00:29:18.775 --> 00:29:21.434
that is just meant for connecting them to to mentees?

451
00:29:23.335 --> 00:29:25.115
I that's a good question.

452
00:29:25.575 --> 00:29:28.795
So if the person already has an avatar or a pseudonym,

453
00:29:29.255 --> 00:29:30.795
then, obviously, we don't mind.

454
00:29:31.575 --> 00:29:33.275
If they go by, like, a different,

455
00:29:34.250 --> 00:29:38.190
author name. That's fine. Then we'd love to publicize that person,

456
00:29:38.730 --> 00:29:41.389
knowing that their real real identity is concealed.

457
00:29:41.850 --> 00:29:42.350
But,

458
00:29:42.809 --> 00:29:44.029
I'm thinking specifically

459
00:29:44.809 --> 00:29:45.309
if

460
00:29:45.985 --> 00:29:48.485
we know of a mentor who would be,

461
00:29:49.345 --> 00:29:56.565
great for a broad spectrum of mentees, but we wanna make sure that nobody knows who that person is except themselves, the administrator.

462
00:29:57.265 --> 00:30:00.565
Perfect. Yeah. So there's a few ways you can do this. The nice thing is a brilliant directory.

463
00:30:00.750 --> 00:30:05.170
You'll see just on this short five minutes how many different things you can do out of the box.

464
00:30:05.310 --> 00:30:11.470
One thing I would do as a quick hack is and I and I've done this for for other people, is they say exactly what you're saying.

465
00:30:11.470 --> 00:30:14.370
I want them to have essentially a display name. Right?

466
00:30:14.510 --> 00:30:17.855
Something that's for public profile for for the public to see.

467
00:30:17.855 --> 00:30:19.775
I don't want it to be their real name.

468
00:30:19.775 --> 00:30:23.635
So what you do is you list you you force them to be listed as companies,

469
00:30:24.015 --> 00:30:26.515
and you repurpose the company variable

470
00:30:26.975 --> 00:30:28.255
as their display name.

471
00:30:28.255 --> 00:30:33.409
So that's gonna automatically hide the first name and last name from appearing anywhere on your website.

472
00:30:33.630 --> 00:30:34.929
You just gotta rebrand

473
00:30:35.549 --> 00:30:39.309
company name to to to be display name in the form manager.

474
00:30:39.309 --> 00:30:43.570
That's the next thing we're gonna show you as well as how to hide things in the form.

475
00:30:43.605 --> 00:30:47.304
But if you call that display name and you make it a company, not an individual,

476
00:30:47.605 --> 00:30:52.245
you're guaranteed the first name and last name not to appear and only the display name to be utilized.

477
00:30:52.245 --> 00:30:54.345
And you can make that a mandatory field.

478
00:30:54.485 --> 00:31:01.120
And it's very easy in the form manager to give them instructions and let them know how important it is for them not to use their real name,

479
00:31:01.980 --> 00:31:03.020
when creating this.

480
00:31:03.020 --> 00:31:10.780
The other thing you're able to do, with with Brilliant Directories is you're able to decide by membership tiers if they're visible to the public or not.

481
00:31:10.780 --> 00:31:14.160
So what I would do is I would have a mentor profile that gets created

482
00:31:14.545 --> 00:31:17.445
be non searchable initially, have your staff

483
00:31:17.905 --> 00:31:27.845
verify that they've set everything up properly, particularly with their display name, and then manually move them to a membership tier that makes them public to the profile to to to the website searches.

484
00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:29.659
So that's default functionality.

485
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:34.679
I'm sorry. Can you say that last part? It's, how we decide by membership tier?

486
00:31:34.679 --> 00:31:39.799
Let me let me let me let me bring that up so she can visualize that. Yeah. That'd be great.

487
00:31:39.799 --> 00:31:43.019
So imagine if you had three you had two membership levels. You had

488
00:31:43.355 --> 00:31:44.495
mentor application

489
00:31:45.275 --> 00:31:46.095
and mentor,

490
00:31:47.675 --> 00:31:52.255
just another one called mentor, which is the ones that are live, right, for your website.

491
00:31:52.475 --> 00:32:00.900
So everybody would sign up as a mentor application membership tier, and that membership tier will be non searchable.

492
00:32:00.900 --> 00:32:07.240
So there's there's a setting there that, Jason's gonna show us Okay. That says make searchable,

493
00:32:08.020 --> 00:32:10.680
no. If you if you scroll up I'm sorry, Jason.

494
00:32:11.164 --> 00:32:13.825
Hide hide listings from search engines and

495
00:32:14.365 --> 00:32:16.544
listing searchable on website, no.

496
00:32:16.684 --> 00:32:23.265
So if you select those two settings, now everybody all the mentors that are signing up are not gonna be found by anybody

497
00:32:23.645 --> 00:32:24.625
using your website.

498
00:32:25.399 --> 00:32:25.640
Great.

499
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:33.559
You would have another you would have another another membership tier that would be just called mentor or mentor approved or whatever you wanna label it.

500
00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:42.365
And you would manually move them, and maybe Jason could show you how you can manually move members to different membership tiers so that when you move them to approve,

501
00:32:42.745 --> 00:32:47.165
instantly they start appearing in search result pages on your home page and so forth.

502
00:32:48.025 --> 00:32:48.525
Wow.

503
00:32:49.145 --> 00:32:55.020
So to to move a member from one membership level to another, maybe they're going through some kind of a membership funnel with you.

504
00:32:55.020 --> 00:32:59.039
You they're they've they're at first, they're applicants, then then you're approving them.

505
00:32:59.179 --> 00:33:02.799
And each membership level can have their own set of rules and restrictions.

506
00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:07.760
You can come here and you can actually change their membership level.

507
00:33:07.894 --> 00:33:17.995
So if you had more more membership level options, you can start toggling between what this person should now be because they've gone through some kind of a require requirements that they fulfilled with you.

508
00:33:18.534 --> 00:33:19.034
Okay.

509
00:33:19.495 --> 00:33:22.980
Wonderful. And then the next and and the next thing Jason was

510
00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:29.539
show us how to hide information from displaying on a profile page in the form manager as well.

511
00:33:30.639 --> 00:33:33.940
Correct. So, yeah, there is a there is a third way here.

512
00:33:34.639 --> 00:33:35.139
Okay.

513
00:33:35.679 --> 00:33:36.179
So,

514
00:33:37.785 --> 00:33:40.825
you know, there's there's those settings that we saw, yes or no.

515
00:33:40.825 --> 00:33:43.465
But this is the form people are actually filling out.

516
00:33:43.465 --> 00:33:47.645
This looks familiar, first name, last name, and then the company name.

517
00:33:47.865 --> 00:33:51.485
And you you can see here, I can change this to display name.

518
00:33:51.710 --> 00:33:56.850
And if you don't want these elements to definitely show, there is an advanced setting here.

519
00:33:57.390 --> 00:34:01.650
And these are display options. You can set them all to no.

520
00:34:04.190 --> 00:34:07.765
Okay. The only one that you'd want set to yes is the input view.

521
00:34:07.765 --> 00:34:10.185
That's when members are actually inputting their information.

522
00:34:10.565 --> 00:34:14.324
But everything else you want set to no, so it doesn't show on their profile.

523
00:34:14.324 --> 00:34:17.525
It doesn't show an email templates. It doesn't show anywhere else.

524
00:34:17.525 --> 00:34:19.864
So there's multiple ways to suppress

525
00:34:20.799 --> 00:34:23.380
content on your website as far as member information.

526
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:31.859
But it's good data for the directory owner to know, for you to know how many people how many mentors we have in Chicago, how many mentors in Florida,

527
00:34:32.395 --> 00:34:32.795
Where

528
00:34:33.195 --> 00:34:36.075
what is their phone number? So you wanna collect the data.

529
00:34:36.075 --> 00:34:41.215
You just don't want the public to to to have access to it. So so, again, all of this

530
00:34:41.835 --> 00:34:46.015
default out of the box functionality with Brilliant Directories. So it's very robust,

531
00:34:46.329 --> 00:34:48.270
particularly for what it is you're looking to

532
00:34:49.369 --> 00:34:51.230
achieve. No. This is excellent.

533
00:34:54.329 --> 00:34:54.829
Does,

534
00:34:55.210 --> 00:34:58.890
I mean, does this database actually do any matching itself?

535
00:34:58.890 --> 00:35:01.630
So let's say we have a mentor and mentee, who

536
00:35:02.225 --> 00:35:03.845
have no problems displaying

537
00:35:04.305 --> 00:35:05.205
who they are,

538
00:35:06.065 --> 00:35:10.565
and their contact info. Is there any way that the database would automatically,

539
00:35:11.025 --> 00:35:12.565
let's say, put together

540
00:35:12.945 --> 00:35:15.205
someone from Argentina with a certain

541
00:35:17.150 --> 00:35:19.330
research interest with others

542
00:35:19.710 --> 00:35:21.870
who have a similar interest and,

543
00:35:22.670 --> 00:35:23.970
are from the same place?

544
00:35:25.470 --> 00:35:28.830
The way that I would've go ahead, Jason. If you have a solution, go for it. Sure.

545
00:35:28.830 --> 00:35:31.890
I I was gonna say if there's an intent if there's an an intent

546
00:35:32.255 --> 00:35:34.095
for someone wanting to be matched,

547
00:35:34.575 --> 00:35:38.115
with another another member, the system does have,

548
00:35:38.575 --> 00:35:41.555
a lead matching functionality. And it and it uses,

549
00:35:42.495 --> 00:35:45.155
category and location as the parameters

550
00:35:45.615 --> 00:35:47.875
for how individuals are matched.

551
00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:54.380
All that needs to happen though is and I'll go to just this this person's random listing here on this website.

552
00:35:54.680 --> 00:35:57.500
There has there needs to be a request created,

553
00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:01.579
by somebody that they want to be connected with this member.

554
00:36:02.025 --> 00:36:08.765
So they need to just fill out the form and say, you know, they need to submit something so the system knows to initiate a match.

555
00:36:09.305 --> 00:36:12.204
Okay. That's that's pretty much how it works in a nutshell.

556
00:36:13.704 --> 00:36:14.765
K. Alright?

557
00:36:15.740 --> 00:36:19.119
Terrific. Thank you both. You're very welcome. Great questions there.

558
00:36:19.740 --> 00:36:21.260
Alright. Good question from Gracie.

559
00:36:21.260 --> 00:36:27.099
I knew I saw a new name there, and, it looks like she's just thinking about her idea to get started.

560
00:36:27.099 --> 00:36:28.720
So I'm glad we could get to

561
00:36:29.025 --> 00:36:31.845
her question. I see another new name here and,

562
00:36:33.265 --> 00:36:33.765
Annalisa.

563
00:36:34.065 --> 00:36:35.684
Is that how you pronounce your name?

564
00:36:37.265 --> 00:36:41.684
It's Annalisa. Can you hear me? Annalisa. Yes. Thank you. Where are you calling in from?

565
00:36:42.940 --> 00:36:48.000
I'm calling from Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. Okay. Thank you. And what's your question for us today?

566
00:36:49.500 --> 00:36:50.000
Okay.

567
00:36:50.460 --> 00:36:53.835
My website is businessja.com.

568
00:36:54.635 --> 00:36:55.135
Right?

569
00:36:56.155 --> 00:36:59.535
My issue is How do you how do you spell how do you spell that?

570
00:37:01.115 --> 00:37:02.255
B u s

571
00:37:02.635 --> 00:37:06.815
I n e s s j a. So that's business j a.

572
00:37:07.299 --> 00:37:10.279
Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. Continue, please, please. Mhmm.

573
00:37:11.859 --> 00:37:17.160
So my issue is I want to know how I can get my

574
00:37:17.619 --> 00:37:20.839
my members I want their location to show

575
00:37:22.075 --> 00:37:22.575
second.

576
00:37:22.955 --> 00:37:25.055
Basically, right now, I am having

577
00:37:25.835 --> 00:37:26.575
my members

578
00:37:27.035 --> 00:37:27.535
their

579
00:37:28.235 --> 00:37:28.735
membership,

580
00:37:29.355 --> 00:37:29.755
their,

581
00:37:30.315 --> 00:37:30.815
sorry.

582
00:37:31.675 --> 00:37:33.855
Excuse me. Let me look.

583
00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:37.220
The name of their company is showing last. Right?

584
00:37:37.220 --> 00:37:40.840
And I want it to show first because that's what persons will be searching for.

585
00:37:41.300 --> 00:37:46.260
Right? But right now, their location is showing first, and I don't want that.

586
00:37:46.260 --> 00:37:48.360
How do I do go about doing that?

587
00:37:49.155 --> 00:37:49.655
Gotcha.

588
00:37:50.115 --> 00:37:55.415
My browser just just froze. And when you say location, you mean in their search results

589
00:37:56.675 --> 00:37:59.495
when you're looking at search results? Say they're from Mandeville.

590
00:37:59.875 --> 00:38:04.455
Let's say they're from Mandeville or they're from Kingston. I don't want Kingston local

591
00:38:05.230 --> 00:38:08.610
business to show first. I want the name of the business like,

592
00:38:09.710 --> 00:38:11.170
we have here above

593
00:38:12.030 --> 00:38:13.090
above international,

594
00:38:13.470 --> 00:38:15.890
and I want that to show first. It's a air,

595
00:38:16.430 --> 00:38:18.290
hairdresser, and I want her company

596
00:38:18.635 --> 00:38:20.494
name to show first. Do you understand?

597
00:38:21.194 --> 00:38:21.994
Okay. Let's,

598
00:38:22.395 --> 00:38:24.415
let me go to your search results here.

599
00:38:25.835 --> 00:38:28.335
Is this your your site here, business j a?

600
00:38:30.795 --> 00:38:31.535
Hold on.

601
00:38:32.030 --> 00:38:32.849
Yes. It is.

602
00:38:33.230 --> 00:38:33.730
Okay.

603
00:38:34.270 --> 00:38:34.770
And,

604
00:38:36.750 --> 00:38:38.530
who's something I can search for?

605
00:38:39.950 --> 00:38:40.609
A name?

606
00:38:41.230 --> 00:38:43.250
Above and Beyond. It's on Google mostly.

607
00:38:43.869 --> 00:38:45.490
So on the search engine.

608
00:38:46.224 --> 00:38:47.445
On the search engine?

609
00:38:48.945 --> 00:38:50.724
Yes. So that's above and beyond.

610
00:38:51.585 --> 00:38:53.365
Right? But in Google,

611
00:38:54.145 --> 00:38:56.165
if I'm supposed to search for the company,

612
00:38:56.944 --> 00:38:57.444
then

613
00:38:58.224 --> 00:39:00.964
it is only going to show me their location first

614
00:39:02.349 --> 00:39:05.090
or where the company is and not the company name.

615
00:39:05.630 --> 00:39:06.849
Alright. Let's see.

616
00:39:08.349 --> 00:39:13.650
I'm doing above and beyond, and then I'll I'm just doing a Google search to see if I can get this listing.

617
00:39:13.710 --> 00:39:15.970
Let me just do some quotations here.

618
00:39:17.445 --> 00:39:21.845
Okay. Here is the listing here. It says Mandeville local business above and beyond.

619
00:39:21.845 --> 00:39:23.945
So it's saying above and beyond first,

620
00:39:24.245 --> 00:39:28.805
and then it's saying the low I mean, it's saying above and beyond second and the location first Yes.

621
00:39:28.885 --> 00:39:29.385
Google.

622
00:39:29.820 --> 00:39:30.880
Alright. Patrick,

623
00:39:31.580 --> 00:39:32.640
my my browser,

624
00:39:33.340 --> 00:39:33.840
froze.

625
00:39:34.140 --> 00:39:38.320
Do you want to show her how she can you wanna switch presenters and show

626
00:39:38.860 --> 00:39:40.000
her how she can,

627
00:39:40.940 --> 00:39:43.665
switch the, company name with the location name?

628
00:39:43.745 --> 00:39:52.565
And once we do this change, it might take a couple weeks for for Google to to notice the change, but it will happen in a short amount of time, maybe a week or two, maybe sooner.

629
00:39:53.665 --> 00:39:57.420
Okay. So I'm glad we were able to to figure out what, you're referring to.

630
00:39:57.500 --> 00:40:00.480
And the site, is business j a Patrick.

631
00:40:01.339 --> 00:40:02.299
Alright. I'm there right now.

632
00:40:02.299 --> 00:40:06.559
So, yeah, go ahead and give me the controls, and I'm happy to to give a tour. You got it. Thanks.

633
00:40:07.579 --> 00:40:08.559
There you go.

634
00:40:09.260 --> 00:40:09.760
Alright.

635
00:40:11.555 --> 00:40:13.635
And I hope my connection is good.

636
00:40:14.035 --> 00:40:15.635
The weather is pretty crazy.

637
00:40:15.795 --> 00:40:20.275
For those that don't know, I am in Costa Rica, and and you're in I believe you're in Jamaica.

638
00:40:20.275 --> 00:40:21.555
So hopefully, the weather is,

639
00:40:22.355 --> 00:40:25.560
is, okay where you're at right now. But, that's why my Excellent.

640
00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:27.980
Alright. It's pretty warm here.

641
00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:31.580
Very happy to hear that. So, are you able to see my screen?

642
00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:36.460
Yes. I am. Alright. Perfect. So what we're gonna do here is

643
00:40:37.080 --> 00:40:38.700
we're gonna go to the

644
00:40:39.204 --> 00:40:40.345
admin of your website.

645
00:40:40.724 --> 00:40:43.865
We're gonna go to a place that is called the

646
00:40:44.325 --> 00:40:45.385
SEO templates.

647
00:40:46.885 --> 00:40:47.385
Mhmm.

648
00:40:48.885 --> 00:40:53.625
And the one the one that people wanna to to to customize the most

649
00:40:54.710 --> 00:40:55.609
is the

650
00:40:55.910 --> 00:40:56.410
profession.

651
00:40:56.790 --> 00:40:58.730
So this is the one that we're at right now.

652
00:40:59.270 --> 00:41:00.329
I'm looking here

653
00:41:01.589 --> 00:41:03.690
that it seems as though

654
00:41:04.790 --> 00:41:05.849
you would require

655
00:41:06.309 --> 00:41:07.210
an update

656
00:41:07.845 --> 00:41:10.744
to get the latest SEO templates, but we'll we'll,

657
00:41:11.205 --> 00:41:12.825
you may wanna email support

658
00:41:13.285 --> 00:41:15.785
at Brilliant Directories for that. But we're gonna show everybody,

659
00:41:16.244 --> 00:41:18.485
where you're able to edit that for the file name.

660
00:41:18.485 --> 00:41:21.705
Because we've we've cleaned up the SEO templates so it's easier to identify

661
00:41:22.430 --> 00:41:23.090
which ones,

662
00:41:23.550 --> 00:41:28.530
are able to do what. So this here, what we're looking at is an SEO tip template layout.

663
00:41:29.070 --> 00:41:33.170
If we scroll down, all of the layouts have the same. This is called the SEO

664
00:41:33.550 --> 00:41:34.050
meta,

665
00:41:35.085 --> 00:41:36.225
meta details.

666
00:41:36.685 --> 00:41:41.585
This is what Google is showing. This right here. This is the order. These are the variables.

667
00:41:41.645 --> 00:41:44.065
So you could see it's calling the city,

668
00:41:44.365 --> 00:41:49.025
then it's calling the profession, then it's calling the full name, and then the profession again.

669
00:41:49.610 --> 00:41:53.070
So if we change or swap out the order of these variables,

670
00:41:53.450 --> 00:41:56.110
it's gonna show different. So again, that's why you're seeing

671
00:41:56.410 --> 00:41:58.190
the city and then the profession.

672
00:41:58.410 --> 00:42:04.545
Now the profession variable, in case you're you're wondering where that is, because this is this variable

673
00:42:04.925 --> 00:42:09.485
and that is the most utilized variable throughout your website. It's even here at the top.

674
00:42:09.485 --> 00:42:11.665
So we'll go into your general settings,

675
00:42:12.125 --> 00:42:16.145
and we could see here that the the profession name is local business.

676
00:42:17.369 --> 00:42:20.089
Mhmm. So that's why those two combined.

677
00:42:20.089 --> 00:42:26.490
So it's the towns, right, the city, and then it's the and then it says local business, and then it says the company name.

678
00:42:26.490 --> 00:42:27.789
So if you wanna customize

679
00:42:28.569 --> 00:42:29.069
this

680
00:42:29.530 --> 00:42:32.965
description and you don't need to you don't need to use variables.

681
00:42:33.265 --> 00:42:36.725
This is just using variables so that it's quick and easy to launch a website.

682
00:42:37.825 --> 00:42:39.845
Right? So you can put the full name

683
00:42:40.145 --> 00:42:40.645
first.

684
00:42:41.665 --> 00:42:43.525
Is that what you want? Mhmm.

685
00:42:43.990 --> 00:42:46.490
Yes. The full name of the company first.

686
00:42:47.270 --> 00:42:48.870
Exactly. So we're we've done that.

687
00:42:48.870 --> 00:42:54.470
And then you can have it be the name of the city, and then you can have it say, local business.

688
00:42:54.470 --> 00:42:57.855
Or if you wanna put businessja.com,

689
00:42:57.855 --> 00:42:59.715
you can put it right there in the title.

690
00:43:00.255 --> 00:43:03.315
This is this is where you edit it and you can test it.

691
00:43:03.935 --> 00:43:07.155
Ideally, you're gonna have keywords that people are searching for.

692
00:43:07.295 --> 00:43:12.755
And then also, if you scroll down, you're gonna see that you also have the SEO

693
00:43:13.230 --> 00:43:17.550
description for social media sharing. This is something people ask us a lot.

694
00:43:17.550 --> 00:43:23.410
They say, how can I control what is shown when people share the link to their profile on their Facebook page?

695
00:43:23.790 --> 00:43:28.130
So in case you're curious, this is the social media sharing SEO settings.

696
00:43:28.665 --> 00:43:29.805
And this is the,

697
00:43:30.425 --> 00:43:34.025
the Google SEO settings or all search engines SEO settings.

698
00:43:34.025 --> 00:43:38.685
So it's good to go and give both of those a little bit of love so that they can display,

699
00:43:39.225 --> 00:43:40.765
the way you'd like them to.

700
00:43:41.940 --> 00:43:47.859
Okay. So I can do it now or I or or I would have to have an update first? No. You you could Oh, no.

701
00:43:47.859 --> 00:43:51.060
You you could save those changes, Pat. I think you did it correctly there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

702
00:43:51.060 --> 00:43:53.080
I'm gonna save them for you right now.

703
00:43:53.460 --> 00:43:55.000
And and again very much.

704
00:43:55.595 --> 00:43:56.954
My pleasure. My pleasure.

705
00:43:56.954 --> 00:44:03.694
And and you can do that for any any SEO template in the system, and and customize how that displays.

706
00:44:03.835 --> 00:44:08.015
And, Pat, why don't you go to the the the link up there where it says Kingston local business?

707
00:44:08.474 --> 00:44:11.250
And if you refresh the page, you have a tab open there.

708
00:44:11.730 --> 00:44:17.750
If you do a a hard refresh, we should see that that should start with the now it starts with Beaumont's car rentals.

709
00:44:17.970 --> 00:44:24.790
And then the so you can see right there in the tab the change has already taken place, and it'll just be a matter of time before Google picks up those changes,

710
00:44:25.285 --> 00:44:25.785
too.

711
00:44:27.045 --> 00:44:28.265
Okay. Thank you.

712
00:44:28.645 --> 00:44:30.405
You're very welcome. Alright. My pleasure.

713
00:44:30.405 --> 00:44:37.225
So so just a little tip because you have local business in there twice, I would probably just call the call the profession

714
00:44:37.900 --> 00:44:41.440
variable one time instead of having local business appear two times.

715
00:44:41.580 --> 00:44:47.200
If we hover over this, we can see that it says in in this case, it'll say local business, local business.

716
00:44:47.340 --> 00:44:49.680
So it's something that you may wanna consider as well.

717
00:44:50.540 --> 00:44:52.640
Okay then. Alright. Another

718
00:44:53.775 --> 00:44:54.755
I am another

719
00:44:55.135 --> 00:44:55.635
question.

720
00:44:56.015 --> 00:44:56.515
Quick.

721
00:44:57.055 --> 00:44:59.555
If it's So how do I go to gather, we can help.

722
00:45:00.095 --> 00:45:05.234
What is it? Okay. Can you send me a link on how to do the upgrade or the updates

723
00:45:05.855 --> 00:45:06.674
of the website?

724
00:45:07.454 --> 00:45:08.355
That's yeah.

725
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:20.060
Chat to you can chat to Gabriel in the chat right now, and and Gabriel will be happy to send you a link so that or instructions on how you can get the latest SEO templates

726
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:21.660
installed on your website.

727
00:45:22.164 --> 00:45:25.144
Okay. Sure. Thank you very much. Alright. My pleasure.

728
00:45:26.565 --> 00:45:31.605
Okay. Good question about SEO. Thanks for taking that one, Pat, and fielding it there with that one.

729
00:45:31.605 --> 00:45:36.664
Jason, I I I promised Vincent. I had a very interesting topic. I thought that everybody would enjoy

730
00:45:37.290 --> 00:45:39.310
us discussing it. It had to do with the article,

731
00:45:39.690 --> 00:45:40.410
that we wrote,

732
00:45:41.050 --> 00:45:43.630
just a couple of weeks ago about how to,

733
00:45:44.570 --> 00:45:48.430
basically, some hacks on getting, your members to add content.

734
00:45:48.650 --> 00:45:51.550
He wanted, he wanted us to go a little bit more in detail

735
00:45:51.905 --> 00:45:55.285
in terms of some of the tips, that we had in that particular article.

736
00:45:55.744 --> 00:46:00.385
Yeah. We can let's let's touch on it. I I I actually enjoyed, writing this article with you.

737
00:46:00.945 --> 00:46:04.405
Let's see. The title, three secret hacks to turn your website into a content

738
00:46:04.865 --> 00:46:05.365
publishing

739
00:46:05.970 --> 00:46:06.470
powerhouse.

740
00:46:07.410 --> 00:46:07.810
So, yeah.

741
00:46:07.810 --> 00:46:13.430
Why don't you share a little bit about the relevance of this article and why content is even important for websites?

742
00:46:14.290 --> 00:46:15.109
Yeah. Absolutely.

743
00:46:15.250 --> 00:46:21.775
So so one of the biggest challenges that new directory owners face is having enough content on their website

744
00:46:22.234 --> 00:46:24.494
that when a new user comes to their website,

745
00:46:25.035 --> 00:46:30.974
that they feel like it's an established website, that it's worth sticking around on the website and searching.

746
00:46:31.515 --> 00:46:32.815
If you have content,

747
00:46:33.200 --> 00:46:36.500
if you have sections that and this will tie into next week's webinar.

748
00:46:36.640 --> 00:46:40.740
But if you have something to offer them, the chances that they stay on your website,

749
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:42.260
and start browsing

750
00:46:42.560 --> 00:46:43.620
go through the roof.

751
00:46:44.240 --> 00:46:53.705
Having only a member search and not offering them anything else in terms of member search, that might make it a little bit, tricky for them to to stay on-site.

752
00:46:53.705 --> 00:46:59.485
So knowing some hacks, like, we call them hacks. Right? Tricks on how you can get your members

753
00:47:00.240 --> 00:47:02.820
to contribute that content for you,

754
00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:04.660
really goes a long way.

755
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.300
The biggest tip from the article,

756
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:09.940
was really related to the

757
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:10.820
recurring,

758
00:47:12.080 --> 00:47:12.580
functionality

759
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:17.355
that comes with the recurring events add on for your website.

760
00:47:18.375 --> 00:47:21.115
One of the biggest challenges of coupons and events

761
00:47:21.494 --> 00:47:25.035
is directory owners spend a lot of time adding coupons.

762
00:47:25.095 --> 00:47:28.154
They spend a lot of times adding events, then they launch.

763
00:47:28.730 --> 00:47:33.230
And guess what? All those coupons and events they added are either expired or their past date.

764
00:47:33.450 --> 00:47:36.829
So then all that content they added is since it's expired,

765
00:47:37.289 --> 00:47:38.190
it no longer

766
00:47:38.650 --> 00:47:40.029
displays on the website.

767
00:47:40.490 --> 00:47:42.670
So what the recurring event functionality

768
00:47:42.970 --> 00:47:43.470
does

769
00:47:43.985 --> 00:47:45.925
is you allows your members

770
00:47:46.625 --> 00:47:48.325
to create the content

771
00:47:48.785 --> 00:47:50.085
one time. So let's

772
00:47:50.385 --> 00:47:54.485
say let's say I'm a a I have Taco Tuesdays. I have a restaurant,

773
00:47:55.025 --> 00:47:55.525
and

774
00:47:56.010 --> 00:48:06.030
I what I don't have time to do as a restaurant owner, I don't have time to log in to my account every single week and add a new event letting everybody know it's Taco Tuesday.

775
00:48:06.330 --> 00:48:09.850
So I'm not gonna bother with directories because I don't have I just don't have time.

776
00:48:09.850 --> 00:48:11.954
I like the idea. I'd like to advertise.

777
00:48:12.255 --> 00:48:14.115
I don't have time to log in every week.

778
00:48:14.415 --> 00:48:17.795
But now you can tell your those business owners, hey.

779
00:48:18.095 --> 00:48:19.875
With with with with Brilliant

780
00:48:20.335 --> 00:48:21.395
with this directory,

781
00:48:22.255 --> 00:48:24.194
you just need to add your event

782
00:48:24.494 --> 00:48:28.190
one time, and you need to check the box of how often it's recurring.

783
00:48:28.730 --> 00:48:29.710
And every

784
00:48:30.010 --> 00:48:36.430
single week or every single time that the the latest one expires, a new one will automatically display on the website.

785
00:48:36.650 --> 00:48:39.070
So what this does is it serves two purposes.

786
00:48:39.965 --> 00:48:42.465
One, it's giving this busy

787
00:48:43.325 --> 00:48:44.225
business owners

788
00:48:46.125 --> 00:48:49.085
content to add and only having to log in one time to do it.

789
00:48:49.085 --> 00:48:52.320
Even if I'm a busy business owner, I can buy into that.

790
00:48:52.560 --> 00:48:56.100
So what Jason and I did is we actually wrote out email templates,

791
00:48:56.880 --> 00:49:04.580
phone scripts, and showed you three exact ways we would leverage this functionality and how we would sell that to members.

792
00:49:05.055 --> 00:49:12.755
So you it's just a matter of reading the different strategies that we shared and seeing which one would apply for your particular member base.

793
00:49:13.214 --> 00:49:16.835
So, yeah, it's it's just a really great it's a great technique to utilize.

794
00:49:17.135 --> 00:49:18.675
I've even seen some people

795
00:49:19.080 --> 00:49:23.400
leverage the recurring events functionality and rename it daily specials.

796
00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:26.380
I think we talked about that in a in a previous webinar,

797
00:49:26.920 --> 00:49:29.660
but that's also a great tool. So you have,

798
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:34.700
something every Monday, every Thursday's wing night, every Saturday's karaoke night.

799
00:49:34.965 --> 00:49:38.745
And the the second so we said it it serves two purposes. The other purpose

800
00:49:39.205 --> 00:49:44.345
is that all important website visitor that we talk about all the time that's often forgotten.

801
00:49:44.725 --> 00:49:51.460
You wanna make sure that there's a lot of content on your site so they say that it's a valuable It's a valuable place to go to.

802
00:49:51.460 --> 00:49:55.080
If I know I can go to your website and I see a ton of daily specials

803
00:49:55.380 --> 00:50:05.645
or ton of events that I could do on a specific day, I might come back to this site, I might click around, my bounce rate goes down, my relevancy goes up, I get more organic traffic.

804
00:50:05.645 --> 00:50:14.305
It's just a cycle that starts picking up steam, and and it's definitely, something that we recommend everybody read and everybody try to apply for their own websites.

805
00:50:15.085 --> 00:50:16.305
That's basically it.

806
00:50:17.060 --> 00:50:18.340
Awesome. Well said. Yeah.

807
00:50:18.740 --> 00:50:21.320
I I agree with you. But the I think that's

808
00:50:21.620 --> 00:50:25.880
the number one mental hurdle is for people getting started is

809
00:50:26.500 --> 00:50:27.160
or even

810
00:50:27.780 --> 00:50:30.120
wanting to get started is, I don't know

811
00:50:30.945 --> 00:50:32.165
why people are gonna

812
00:50:32.465 --> 00:50:35.505
come to my idea when I have nothing, and I'm starting with nothing.

813
00:50:35.505 --> 00:50:38.545
But you can add members yourself. You can import members.

814
00:50:38.545 --> 00:50:43.685
You can write your own articles to get started. You can add your own deals to get started.

815
00:50:43.825 --> 00:50:46.325
Another good strategy around this is when you're

816
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:51.980
adding content to your site. You know, Brilliant Directories has a ton of of of features.

817
00:50:52.520 --> 00:50:54.940
Let me let me go to our demo site here.

818
00:50:57.720 --> 00:51:00.540
You know, it has events, coupons, jobs,

819
00:51:00.895 --> 00:51:05.315
photo galleries, video galleries. I one of the pitfalls that I see many people

820
00:51:05.775 --> 00:51:06.595
falling into

821
00:51:07.295 --> 00:51:12.915
is they start their site with all these all these features and and content types available,

822
00:51:13.450 --> 00:51:14.270
And it's impossible

823
00:51:14.730 --> 00:51:16.350
for a single person to

824
00:51:16.650 --> 00:51:18.030
fill any one of these,

825
00:51:19.050 --> 00:51:20.750
content types, events, coupons

826
00:51:21.050 --> 00:51:24.910
with enough information that that's actually gonna make their site look like it has

827
00:51:25.370 --> 00:51:26.430
meaningful resources.

828
00:51:26.895 --> 00:51:33.075
So what's what's a good idea is to limit it down to one or two, including the member database as well, adding members,

829
00:51:33.535 --> 00:51:36.195
and really focus on just adding events

830
00:51:36.495 --> 00:51:43.720
or only adding job listings, and really make those parts of your site really robust and and have a lot of good content.

831
00:51:44.180 --> 00:51:47.960
And you're gonna make your job a lot easier. You're gonna deliver better content,

832
00:51:48.260 --> 00:51:51.960
a better website package to your visitors, and you'll see better results

833
00:51:52.260 --> 00:51:53.860
rather than having tons of different

834
00:51:54.420 --> 00:52:02.005
sure, you have lots of types of content, but a majority of it's gonna be empty, and that doesn't serve you well or your your website visitor well.

835
00:52:02.005 --> 00:52:12.260
So keep that in mind when you're when you're getting started is to keep things simple for yourself and reduce the number of challenges and hurdles you need to overcome just to get your your main proof of concept online.

836
00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:14.799
Alright.

837
00:52:14.799 --> 00:52:19.539
Well, Vincent, we couldn't unmute your mic there, but I think we got a lot of good discussion there around,

838
00:52:20.160 --> 00:52:22.900
publishing content on your website. So thank you,

839
00:52:23.359 --> 00:52:24.105
for that.

840
00:52:25.065 --> 00:52:26.285
Alright. We got some

841
00:52:26.585 --> 00:52:27.965
lots of hands up here.

842
00:52:28.665 --> 00:52:29.725
Let's go back.

843
00:52:30.185 --> 00:52:33.225
Seth, I'm gonna go back to you because I promised I'd unneeded your mic.

844
00:52:33.225 --> 00:52:35.484
Were you able to add reviews to your site?

845
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:39.060
Yes. I was. I added two test reviews,

846
00:52:39.600 --> 00:52:40.500
to this section

847
00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:42.820
we looked at, which is the buy and sell.

848
00:52:43.600 --> 00:52:47.300
So thanks for coming back to me. Find it angeles.com.

849
00:52:48.080 --> 00:52:48.580
Alright.

850
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:51.145
Again, I'm not I'm

851
00:52:51.525 --> 00:52:54.805
fifty fifty if I'm gonna be able to get this set up for you. But,

852
00:52:55.365 --> 00:52:59.145
if this doesn't work, then we know that it'll just need the the help of a

853
00:52:59.605 --> 00:53:02.325
of a developer to get it to get it done for you from the marketplace.

854
00:53:02.325 --> 00:53:06.160
And again, it's a very straightforward request. It could be done relatively quickly.

855
00:53:06.160 --> 00:53:10.100
So let's go to your site. And which members did you add the reviews for, you said?

856
00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:15.540
It's gonna be the first two that pop up. Alright. So, let me do sort by reviews.

857
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:16.820
There we go.

858
00:53:17.295 --> 00:53:18.835
So, Drico Drico.

859
00:53:19.214 --> 00:53:24.494
So I'm going to For some for some reason, I'm not seeing, your screen. Sorry about that. Alright.

860
00:53:24.494 --> 00:53:29.454
Oh, no problem. Now you can see them on the the site here. Yep. We're on your search results.

861
00:53:29.454 --> 00:53:34.270
What I did is I I sorted by most reviews, and I quickly got to Justin and Drico.

862
00:53:35.050 --> 00:53:40.430
Great. What would be nice is the code that's rendering this here, if we can pop it into,

863
00:53:42.330 --> 00:53:45.390
the the classifieds page. Now does this guy also have a classifieds

864
00:53:45.770 --> 00:53:46.830
ad that we can

865
00:53:47.305 --> 00:53:51.965
test with? Yes. Yes. He does. So if you go, for example,

866
00:53:52.345 --> 00:53:55.885
if you go the only way I know how to get to is kind of from the homepage.

867
00:53:56.185 --> 00:53:58.205
So if you go back to buy and sell,

868
00:53:58.505 --> 00:53:59.725
there We might

869
00:54:00.230 --> 00:54:02.230
Might have a the first two. Might have a quicker way.

870
00:54:02.230 --> 00:54:05.369
If we go to the admin area, we can go to manage posts.

871
00:54:06.069 --> 00:54:09.369
Okay. We can go to classifieds. You've got 214

872
00:54:09.510 --> 00:54:10.010
classifieds,

873
00:54:10.549 --> 00:54:13.130
and I can search for which one has it, Justin?

874
00:54:13.355 --> 00:54:16.795
I think it was those first two that were just Alright. That were just there before.

875
00:54:16.795 --> 00:54:19.694
So we got Justin Justin here. He's got a pair

876
00:54:20.154 --> 00:54:21.434
of, fly Adidas,

877
00:54:22.315 --> 00:54:24.255
z x flux limited edition.

878
00:54:25.194 --> 00:54:30.559
So let's let's go to his, this page here. So you got your classified here. You got the sidebar

879
00:54:31.020 --> 00:54:31.920
on the left,

880
00:54:32.460 --> 00:54:32.960
and

881
00:54:33.420 --> 00:54:34.319
let's do,

882
00:54:34.859 --> 00:54:37.599
one quick thing here. Here's his profile page.

883
00:54:37.660 --> 00:54:42.480
I'm gonna need to do show widgets on this to see Okay. What's rendering this,

884
00:54:43.755 --> 00:54:44.895
these stars here.

885
00:54:47.674 --> 00:54:51.535
Well, let's see. Maybe I could just render this widget here. It looks like it's a function.

886
00:54:52.234 --> 00:54:55.375
And what I'm gonna do is drop into your post settings.

887
00:54:55.760 --> 00:54:59.859
So these are your posts. So so in case those of you who don't know, this was a quick way to

888
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:04.640
get a three sixty view of all the the content that's published on your site.

889
00:55:04.640 --> 00:55:06.339
You can see he's got 30 events,

890
00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:11.595
some commercial space, classifieds, and then you can filter here by by keyword.

891
00:55:11.595 --> 00:55:16.175
And you saw how quickly I found Justin. So just a quick little shortcut there for everyone.

892
00:55:16.475 --> 00:55:17.855
So let's edit your

893
00:55:18.155 --> 00:55:18.655
classified.

894
00:55:19.515 --> 00:55:20.735
Let's look for classifieds.

895
00:55:21.755 --> 00:55:23.535
Just wanna make sure it's classifieds.

896
00:55:24.520 --> 00:55:27.340
And I'm gonna edit the detail page. So

897
00:55:27.640 --> 00:55:30.200
with Brilliant Directories, they're everything is is in the cloud.

898
00:55:30.200 --> 00:55:32.300
There's no reason to edit PHP files,

899
00:55:32.600 --> 00:55:37.020
like you would normally with WordPress. So this is the detail page specifically for

900
00:55:37.375 --> 00:55:40.195
classifies. We're gonna jump into a little bit of code here, so,

901
00:55:40.575 --> 00:55:44.515
everyone stay calm. Don't don't get too scared here. Let me,

902
00:55:45.215 --> 00:55:46.515
try something here.

903
00:55:47.695 --> 00:55:49.795
Let me just do widget equals,

904
00:55:50.495 --> 00:55:51.555
and this

905
00:55:52.970 --> 00:55:55.609
this seems to be the widget that is rendering on the,

906
00:55:57.049 --> 00:55:59.390
the member's listing page. Let's save that.

907
00:56:00.329 --> 00:56:03.470
What I'm referring to is it's the widget that's rendering here,

908
00:56:04.170 --> 00:56:05.309
to show stars.

909
00:56:07.335 --> 00:56:11.015
Again, I I really hope this works right now. I hope you're crossing your fingers, Seth.

910
00:56:11.015 --> 00:56:13.595
Let's refresh the page. I don't know if it is okay.

911
00:56:14.535 --> 00:56:18.935
Oh. We Look at that. We got we got something, but you'll see it's empty.

912
00:56:18.935 --> 00:56:21.195
It's not getting his star rating.

913
00:56:21.520 --> 00:56:25.540
It's not registering the stars. Yeah. It's not registering the stars.

914
00:56:25.600 --> 00:56:29.300
It probably needs to just be proceeded with something to

915
00:56:29.680 --> 00:56:32.180
get his star rating. So let me just quickly

916
00:56:32.560 --> 00:56:33.540
go in here,

917
00:56:34.055 --> 00:56:36.395
and I might be able to do something for you.

918
00:56:37.655 --> 00:56:38.875
Let's edit the

919
00:56:40.855 --> 00:56:43.595
the profile. I just wanna take a look at this real quick

920
00:56:45.095 --> 00:56:49.435
and see if there's something that is getting the user or get the review data.

921
00:56:52.580 --> 00:56:55.400
Yeah. Okay. It looks like this gets the review data.

922
00:56:56.580 --> 00:56:58.120
I'm going to put this

923
00:57:00.020 --> 00:57:02.260
let me just copy this whole thing, and I'll take what I need.

924
00:57:02.260 --> 00:57:08.825
Again, this is just a little higher level stuff for everyone, but the good news is all is possible with the brilliant directories.

925
00:57:09.045 --> 00:57:09.545
And

926
00:57:10.725 --> 00:57:15.785
I'm going to get rid of that, and it looks like the review stuff ends

927
00:57:16.885 --> 00:57:17.625
right here.

928
00:57:18.245 --> 00:57:20.185
This is other stuff we don't need.

929
00:57:21.030 --> 00:57:21.770
Alright. Let's

930
00:57:22.630 --> 00:57:24.010
save the changes again.

931
00:57:24.070 --> 00:57:30.730
So this is calling the database saying get the users review stuff, and then when we render this widget, it will have should have

932
00:57:31.430 --> 00:57:34.970
the right information to display the star rating here.

933
00:57:35.484 --> 00:57:36.785
That did not work.

934
00:57:39.005 --> 00:57:43.105
Let's try refreshing it one more time just in case it took another moment.

935
00:57:43.964 --> 00:57:48.625
Alright. So I'm obviously not doing something right. Just a little bit out of my personal scope.

936
00:57:49.484 --> 00:57:49.984
Uh-huh.

937
00:57:51.380 --> 00:57:52.040
I would

938
00:57:52.820 --> 00:57:56.440
this would again, it's just I'm I'm I'm missing something here. I don't know

939
00:57:57.060 --> 00:57:58.280
what it might be.

940
00:57:59.940 --> 00:58:03.825
I'm on the right track, but I'm not doing something right. Yeah. We're we're very close.

941
00:58:03.825 --> 00:58:08.244
Can can we check something real quick? I wonder even with how you have it right now,

942
00:58:08.785 --> 00:58:14.645
would that also show on, like, the feature listing view? Like, not just the listing itself,

943
00:58:15.265 --> 00:58:21.480
but if you go back, click buy and sell, would it show yeah. Like, on the classified view. Yeah.

944
00:58:21.480 --> 00:58:23.880
So so what we would do there and is you know what?

945
00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:27.819
I'm I am normally, I would remove the code, but I'm gonna leave this code here for you.

946
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:32.279
Uh-huh. And I'm gonna because I it's just missing the thing that gets

947
00:58:33.174 --> 00:58:35.994
that references it. So we're gonna put this in the search results

948
00:58:36.535 --> 00:58:37.255
page loop.

949
00:58:37.255 --> 00:58:42.234
I'm gonna put this let's see where appropriate place would be to put this in the search results.

950
00:58:43.575 --> 00:58:44.075
Probably

951
00:58:44.535 --> 00:58:46.315
let's just put it under the location

952
00:58:46.615 --> 00:58:47.515
for right now.

953
00:58:48.369 --> 00:58:48.869
Yeah.

954
00:58:50.050 --> 00:58:50.550
And

955
00:58:50.930 --> 00:58:53.650
what you'll need to finish this off with is,

956
00:58:54.770 --> 00:58:56.790
let's see here. Let me just find the location.

957
00:58:58.050 --> 00:58:58.950
Here we go.

958
00:59:03.525 --> 00:59:04.744
I think this should work.

959
00:59:07.605 --> 00:59:13.224
Well, this is actually perfect because we have, we have a developer, and what I could do is I could just show him

960
00:59:13.525 --> 00:59:17.224
what you did here and see if he could figure out just, like, the minor tweak.

961
00:59:18.270 --> 00:59:18.750
Yes.

962
00:59:19.070 --> 00:59:20.290
That's that's exactly

963
00:59:20.590 --> 00:59:28.990
exactly what you should, show him is, like, just to query the database to get the the review stuff, and then you should be you should be good to go.

964
00:59:28.990 --> 00:59:32.785
Let me just get that in the search results also for you. And then,

965
00:59:33.645 --> 00:59:35.905
and then I'll and then we'll just let it be for now.

966
00:59:37.485 --> 00:59:40.545
I'm gonna just use the PHP version to render this.

967
00:59:41.565 --> 00:59:45.030
And it's if you have a developer on on on hand, that's great.

968
00:59:45.030 --> 00:59:48.970
Again, this is just a little outside the box of what BD does normally, but

969
00:59:49.270 --> 00:59:52.810
I think we're we're really close there. So let me just make sure we're getting the

970
00:59:53.430 --> 00:59:55.590
stars here. Okay. So we're getting the stars here.

971
00:59:55.590 --> 00:59:58.970
We just need to get the number of of stars to show.

972
00:59:59.270 --> 00:59:59.770
And

973
01:00:00.825 --> 01:00:03.325
if you inspect this widget here, the

974
01:00:04.265 --> 01:00:09.484
the Bootstrap theme member profile header that I'm confident the answer will be in there for you, Seth.

975
01:00:10.345 --> 01:00:14.905
Got it. Perfect. Thank you so much for doing that. Where can I where can I rewatch these,

976
01:00:16.080 --> 01:00:17.060
these screencasts?

977
01:00:17.600 --> 01:00:18.580
Gotcha. So,

978
01:00:19.520 --> 01:00:23.280
we're actually, like, a couple weeks behind on the most recent ones. But,

979
01:00:24.080 --> 01:00:26.400
if you go to brilliantdirectories.com

980
01:00:26.400 --> 01:00:28.260
forward /webinars,

981
01:00:30.395 --> 01:00:34.974
I think and and it's the first tab here. These are the training webinars.

982
01:00:35.634 --> 01:00:37.355
It starts with, episode one.

983
01:00:37.355 --> 01:00:41.515
We started on January eighteenth of this year, and then you can scroll all the way down.

984
01:00:41.515 --> 01:00:45.730
And I think I think we're missing two that aren't published yet. So,

985
01:00:46.350 --> 01:00:49.470
this would be number 25, I think. So, hey, let's celebrate number 25.

986
01:00:49.470 --> 01:00:54.270
So, yeah, there's two that are pending, plus this one would make, episode 20 25 episodes.

987
01:00:54.270 --> 01:00:57.070
But they will be here on on brilliantdirectories.com.

988
01:00:57.070 --> 01:00:58.335
You can just type in webinar,

989
01:00:58.635 --> 01:01:00.495
and it'll slingshot you right here.

990
01:01:01.195 --> 01:01:04.635
Perfect. Well, thank you so much for your help, Jason. Alright, Seth. Good luck with that.

991
01:01:04.635 --> 01:01:07.295
They'll join us in the next webinar. Let us know if you get that working.

992
01:01:07.915 --> 01:01:10.015
Will do. Alright. Have a great day. Thanks.

993
01:01:10.555 --> 01:01:11.055
Alright.

994
01:01:11.435 --> 01:01:13.819
So we're over two for Seth, but we got him,

995
01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:16.779
in the right direction. So I feel good about

996
01:01:17.160 --> 01:01:17.660
that.

997
01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:21.420
And let's see here. I just wanted to recap for everyone the

998
01:01:21.720 --> 01:01:25.935
the contest of the week. I see that a lot of people joined us just a little bit later.

999
01:01:26.495 --> 01:01:27.635
We're looking for,

1000
01:01:28.335 --> 01:01:32.515
if you've made a custom design on your site, whether it's using colors,

1001
01:01:33.135 --> 01:01:34.975
emaildesign@brilliantdirectories.com.

1002
01:01:34.975 --> 01:01:39.455
You can include a link to your website. And what we're looking for is the color design of your site.

1003
01:01:39.455 --> 01:01:43.210
We don't really care too much about the industry you're serving. We we wanna see,

1004
01:01:43.830 --> 01:01:45.910
the color set that you've created for your site.

1005
01:01:45.910 --> 01:01:48.570
And if we like the the color theme that you've created,

1006
01:01:48.950 --> 01:01:51.270
we'll add it to our premade color sets.

1007
01:01:51.430 --> 01:01:56.915
We'll give it an a nice name, and you can win $200 in credits that you can apply to any new purchases.

1008
01:01:57.855 --> 01:02:00.995
Alright. And, Pat, you said you had a question lined up for us as well?

1009
01:02:01.295 --> 01:02:03.475
Yeah. I'm gonna see if I can unmute,

1010
01:02:04.495 --> 01:02:07.235
Saul's mic here. Hey, Saul. Can you hear us okay?

1011
01:02:08.940 --> 01:02:12.000
Yes. I can. Yeah. How are you? Alright.

1012
01:02:12.380 --> 01:02:13.340
Fantastic. Hello.

1013
01:02:13.340 --> 01:02:18.160
So you had a you had a question for us regarding email automation and best practices.

1014
01:02:18.220 --> 01:02:20.235
Could you tell us a little bit more about it?

1015
01:02:20.715 --> 01:02:21.215
Okay.

1016
01:02:22.795 --> 01:02:27.855
The the the website is smea.org.au.

1017
01:02:29.115 --> 01:02:31.535
We're the SME Association of Australia,

1018
01:02:31.915 --> 01:02:32.415
and

1019
01:02:35.380 --> 01:02:40.500
I I just wanna say that, a brilliant directory is is just brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

1020
01:02:40.500 --> 01:02:42.120
We we don't we can't believe

1021
01:02:43.060 --> 01:02:44.920
what's actually happening with the traffic.

1022
01:02:45.780 --> 01:02:48.920
All we did, we launched the site in, early

1023
01:02:49.535 --> 01:02:50.115
August and,

1024
01:02:52.095 --> 01:02:58.915
from a WordPress site to the brilliant directory site, and we got a instant instant 575%

1025
01:02:59.135 --> 01:03:00.275
increase in traffic.

1026
01:03:01.375 --> 01:03:05.119
We are now getting without spending a cent, we are now getting,

1027
01:03:06.059 --> 01:03:07.260
about a 40

1028
01:03:07.260 --> 01:03:08.000
new subscribers,

1029
01:03:09.260 --> 01:03:09.920
a week.

1030
01:03:11.500 --> 01:03:14.720
Again, without spending a cent that's just coming to,

1031
01:03:15.819 --> 01:03:17.039
to put in their details

1032
01:03:17.339 --> 01:03:18.400
or to claim

1033
01:03:20.335 --> 01:03:23.555
claim something or but majority of them are actually,

1034
01:03:24.895 --> 01:03:26.595
what's happening is that their

1035
01:03:27.535 --> 01:03:29.475
their website is actually ranking

1036
01:03:29.935 --> 01:03:33.615
below ours. You know, ours is coming up before their their own website.

1037
01:03:33.615 --> 01:03:36.589
Their their list their listing on your website is outranking

1038
01:03:36.890 --> 01:03:38.270
the company's own website?

1039
01:03:39.210 --> 01:03:40.270
Correct. Correct.

1040
01:03:40.730 --> 01:03:41.230
And,

1041
01:03:41.770 --> 01:03:43.069
problem to have.

1042
01:03:43.609 --> 01:03:48.089
It it is a good problem to have. The only thing is is that we're seeing all these 40

1043
01:03:48.089 --> 01:03:48.910
new emails

1044
01:03:49.805 --> 01:03:52.705
being inputted into the platform, but

1045
01:03:53.725 --> 01:03:56.385
I'm used to either GetResponse or ActiveCampaign

1046
01:03:56.845 --> 01:03:57.585
with autoresponders

1047
01:03:58.205 --> 01:03:59.885
and, you know, and all that.

1048
01:04:00.605 --> 01:04:01.085
And,

1049
01:04:02.205 --> 01:04:04.945
I just, you know, can't get my head around,

1050
01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:07.940
you know, how how to do that within

1051
01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:11.380
within brilliant directories. Like, as soon as someone joins,

1052
01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:18.740
I want we want to offer them something else, another tool that we have, a free tool for members for businesses in Australia.

1053
01:04:20.454 --> 01:04:26.694
And and then once, you know, they open that, then I wanna send them something else a week later or you know?

1054
01:04:26.694 --> 01:04:27.515
So I just

1055
01:04:27.815 --> 01:04:33.275
I just need to know best more or less best practice and and how to do auto responding.

1056
01:04:35.090 --> 01:04:38.070
Look. We've we've got at the moment about 220,000,

1057
01:04:38.210 --> 01:04:40.550
you know, people on now on the website,

1058
01:04:41.170 --> 01:04:43.350
and and we're even getting reviews.

1059
01:04:44.930 --> 01:04:49.545
We just don't know how this is all happening. We we have no idea how this is happening,

1060
01:04:50.265 --> 01:04:50.924
you know,

1061
01:04:51.385 --> 01:04:54.825
but but but it is. That's great. Pat Patrick, you wanna you wanna take that one?

1062
01:04:54.825 --> 01:04:56.125
I've know you I know that you've,

1063
01:04:56.744 --> 01:04:57.545
dabbled with,

1064
01:04:58.105 --> 01:05:00.525
you know, setting up news, newsletter campaigns,

1065
01:05:01.464 --> 01:05:02.204
based on

1066
01:05:02.700 --> 01:05:07.440
submission yeah. Email submissions, and form submissions into the Brilliant Directories platform.

1067
01:05:07.980 --> 01:05:11.520
Yeah. I'd I'd be happy to to to show my best practices,

1068
01:05:11.980 --> 01:05:13.119
out of the box functionality,

1069
01:05:13.500 --> 01:05:17.744
of course, regarding the the Brilliant Directories platform. Should I pass Go ahead and Yeah.

1070
01:05:17.744 --> 01:05:20.005
Should I pass it to you? Alright. You got it. Yep.

1071
01:05:21.345 --> 01:05:23.204
Alright. And and, actually,

1072
01:05:23.665 --> 01:05:28.165
I'm I'm sorry to do that. Could you repeat the name of your website? I know it was an abbreviation.

1073
01:05:28.224 --> 01:05:29.125
It was s

1074
01:05:29.585 --> 01:05:30.484
s m

1075
01:05:30.785 --> 01:05:31.525
e a

1076
01:05:32.510 --> 01:05:34.530
dot org dot a u.

1077
01:05:35.630 --> 01:05:36.530
Okay. Perfect.

1078
01:05:38.430 --> 01:05:42.450
We're also ready to start spending some money now on we've got a budget,

1079
01:05:43.710 --> 01:05:47.890
on ads, Google Ads and all that, but this is all just happening organically.

1080
01:05:48.855 --> 01:05:52.455
Alright. So let's, let's let's start taking a look at this.

1081
01:05:52.535 --> 01:05:54.235
First and foremost, obviously, congratulations.

1082
01:05:55.255 --> 01:05:57.675
There's a couple of things that you can do with automation.

1083
01:05:59.015 --> 01:06:00.875
I'm gonna look here and see

1084
01:06:01.770 --> 01:06:04.350
what you have in terms of the lead engine.

1085
01:06:04.730 --> 01:06:05.210
Beautiful.

1086
01:06:05.210 --> 01:06:10.990
You have the add ons club, so that's gonna be fantastic as well because I'm gonna show you some stuff with the lead engine.

1087
01:06:11.130 --> 01:06:15.375
So the one that's obviously the easiest one to understand and most people know that exists

1088
01:06:15.935 --> 01:06:21.635
is the automated email that people get when they sign up. You can control that right here.

1089
01:06:22.575 --> 01:06:23.795
And and that's where

1090
01:06:24.335 --> 01:06:26.835
when they sign up on the site, they instantly

1091
01:06:27.295 --> 01:06:29.680
get that particular email thanking them for joining.

1092
01:06:29.680 --> 01:06:37.780
So if they're claiming their profile and they're picking a specific tier, you can control exactly what information they get and what email they get after they sign up.

1093
01:06:37.840 --> 01:06:41.380
I'm assuming that you're already utilizing that particular email.

1094
01:06:42.155 --> 01:06:43.855
In terms of automation,

1095
01:06:44.955 --> 01:06:47.775
the other automation that you're able to do easily

1096
01:06:48.075 --> 01:06:51.275
with the Brilliant Directories platform because you have the,

1097
01:06:51.835 --> 01:06:52.974
the auto matching

1098
01:06:53.275 --> 01:06:54.030
plug in

1099
01:06:54.510 --> 01:06:58.050
is to go into the different actions that occurs on the website

1100
01:06:58.670 --> 01:07:00.370
such as when they receive

1101
01:07:00.910 --> 01:07:04.450
a direct lead, which means somebody contacts them on their profile.

1102
01:07:04.750 --> 01:07:07.410
You can control what email they get in that instance.

1103
01:07:08.055 --> 01:07:16.555
You can control what email they get when it's a lead that you send them via the get match form and other actions occurring on the site.

1104
01:07:16.615 --> 01:07:22.555
But I believe your particular question is not so much these automated triggers that happen based on action

1105
01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:23.720
on a website.

1106
01:07:23.720 --> 01:07:31.640
You're wanting to do some form of drip campaign or make sure that everybody's hearing from you two weeks after signing up and so forth.

1107
01:07:31.640 --> 01:07:35.900
Correct? Correct. Yeah. So we're gonna jump into that part of it now.

1108
01:07:36.435 --> 01:07:37.155
There is,

1109
01:07:38.035 --> 01:07:39.895
and again, you'll only wanna use

1110
01:07:40.275 --> 01:07:41.795
these if they're real, members.

1111
01:07:41.795 --> 01:07:47.955
You wouldn't wanna do this as a as a as an email blast unless they really did come in and and claim.

1112
01:07:47.955 --> 01:07:50.135
But, I'll show you some really cool functionality

1113
01:07:50.520 --> 01:07:54.620
with the out of the box email newsletter and why I really like the way it was set up.

1114
01:07:55.880 --> 01:07:59.740
So I I might have gone a little fast there. So just to repeat, I went to emails,

1115
01:08:00.200 --> 01:08:02.460
then I went to the send newsletter option,

1116
01:08:03.414 --> 01:08:07.835
and then we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna create a new a new email campaign.

1117
01:08:09.015 --> 01:08:14.075
I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and give it, it it I'll give it the two weeks

1118
01:08:14.870 --> 01:08:15.370
after

1119
01:08:15.910 --> 01:08:16.649
sign up

1120
01:08:17.109 --> 01:08:19.270
if you like, or you can call it whatever you like.

1121
01:08:19.270 --> 01:08:25.270
And then, of course, you'd have to create an email template and the email templates that you'd wanna call for that.

1122
01:08:25.270 --> 01:08:27.290
So I don't know what that would be, a newsletter

1123
01:08:27.935 --> 01:08:33.154
or what's new with the website or new products, like you said, that you'd like to send out to them.

1124
01:08:33.694 --> 01:08:35.715
Once the once the template is created,

1125
01:08:36.175 --> 01:08:40.575
then what you're able to do is you're able to select that template here from your email templates.

1126
01:08:40.575 --> 01:08:45.370
And as you'll see, we made it very easy for you to find your custom templates at the top.

1127
01:08:45.510 --> 01:08:49.510
We have a lot of, default templates. It get difficult to find them.

1128
01:08:49.510 --> 01:08:51.290
But if you created a new template,

1129
01:08:51.670 --> 01:08:55.609
and as we can see here, you have two of them, article posted and new review.

1130
01:08:55.910 --> 01:08:59.425
Those are gonna show up at the top. So they're easy to find for you.

1131
01:08:59.484 --> 01:09:02.845
So let's say you wanted to send the new review even though it's not what we wanna send.

1132
01:09:02.845 --> 01:09:04.625
Let's say that's what you wanted to send.

1133
01:09:04.845 --> 01:09:08.785
You're then able to scroll down and you're able to select which tiers

1134
01:09:09.725 --> 01:09:13.170
are going to get which, are gonna get which particular,

1135
01:09:14.349 --> 01:09:14.849
newsletter.

1136
01:09:15.389 --> 01:09:18.449
So you can send a newsletter if you have submitted a review.

1137
01:09:18.590 --> 01:09:22.849
You can send a a new a newsletter to people that have tried to contact your members.

1138
01:09:22.989 --> 01:09:26.130
Or in this case, you can send a review to your basic members.

1139
01:09:27.035 --> 01:09:28.415
Now the functionality

1140
01:09:28.715 --> 01:09:30.255
that's unique here is

1141
01:09:30.555 --> 01:09:32.495
there if you scroll to the bottom,

1142
01:09:33.274 --> 01:09:35.215
you're gonna see there's these check boxes.

1143
01:09:36.795 --> 01:09:44.130
And you're gonna see by default, the way the Brilliant Directories platform works is it's not going to send that email template

1144
01:09:44.830 --> 01:09:47.890
if the member has already gotten that email.

1145
01:09:48.510 --> 01:09:51.229
So let's say you have 303

1146
01:09:51.229 --> 01:09:55.125
basic members and you send them all this email that you all want them to get today.

1147
01:09:55.665 --> 01:10:02.085
And three weeks from now, you log back in and you check off the basic members again and you send out that email again.

1148
01:10:02.225 --> 01:10:03.844
You'll be you can rest assured

1149
01:10:04.160 --> 01:10:07.540
that these 303 people are not going to get that email again.

1150
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Only the new basic members that did not get that email template are going to get that email campaign.

1151
01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:15.540
So while it's not a drip sequence,

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like a HubSpot software per se,

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01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:19.460
this

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does give you the power to send out segmented

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email campaigns to specific,

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product groups or to specific levels of members

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and make sure that they don't get the same newsletter

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twice.

1159
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Okay.

1160
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So is it is it possible to do do you know whether if they,

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01:10:41.510 --> 01:10:47.210
if they open or did not open, you know, the email, is that possible to do that too?

1162
01:10:47.485 --> 01:10:54.465
If your website is getting significant amount of traction and things are really rocking and rolling, which is the goal

1163
01:10:54.845 --> 01:10:59.745
of everybody on this webinar is to get to that point, at that point, you may wanna consider,

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01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:06.060
looking to use a software like Mailchimp that's extremely affordable, that has incredible metrics,

1165
01:11:06.360 --> 01:11:08.380
that focuses a %

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01:11:08.440 --> 01:11:15.260
on email and email reporting and email metrics that gives a % of its development functionality to email delivery

1167
01:11:15.784 --> 01:11:18.685
and and and and possibly migrating your list,

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to Mailchimp

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and and and then managing emails through there.

1170
01:11:23.304 --> 01:11:29.005
That's that's what I would personally do if I wanted to take my email marketing to the next level with my members.

1171
01:11:29.385 --> 01:11:30.605
With with So,

1172
01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:33.739
yeah, we we have Mailchimp. We also have ActiveCampaign,

1173
01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:36.460
and we got GetResponse for different levels,

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01:11:37.400 --> 01:11:38.780
of membership. Yeah.

1175
01:11:39.159 --> 01:11:41.320
And and, also, just so you know, like, integrating,

1176
01:11:43.159 --> 01:11:43.659
integrating

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01:11:44.625 --> 01:11:50.565
your sign up forms with Mailchimp is actually a quite small customization that you could accomplish in the marketplace.

1178
01:11:51.344 --> 01:11:53.824
There's not much work that goes into that, believe it or not.

1179
01:11:53.824 --> 01:12:00.005
And then every time someone signs up, that could automatically be fed into your Mailchimp list, the one that you've designated

1180
01:12:00.390 --> 01:12:04.489
as new members, and you can instantly plug them in so you would never have to manually

1181
01:12:05.030 --> 01:12:09.050
be copying members over. So that's a good solution. That's a little that's flawless.

1182
01:12:09.110 --> 01:12:14.405
Is is it only Mailchimp or is it the others also? Can I also get the Yeah? Constant

1183
01:12:14.745 --> 01:12:15.245
Contact,

1184
01:12:15.825 --> 01:12:20.485
Aweber, all of those would be good solutions to to have those lists automatically

1185
01:12:20.785 --> 01:12:21.285
integrated,

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with with those email platforms. So so a lot of people do do that.

1187
01:12:25.745 --> 01:12:28.485
Again, this is not something I recommend people do before.

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01:12:28.980 --> 01:12:32.340
What what I love that you've done here is that you've gotten your proof of concept.

1189
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You're getting traction. You're getting people using it.

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01:12:34.900 --> 01:12:43.995
And now you know it's time to look for a solution that can grow with you rather than having spent this time and resources before launching and knowing if this is the right niche.

1191
01:12:43.995 --> 01:12:48.015
So so that's that's that's a fantastic We're we're even getting sponsors now

1192
01:12:48.955 --> 01:12:51.295
approaching us. Yeah. Yeah. So,

1193
01:12:52.475 --> 01:12:56.175
yeah. Okay then. No. We're we're absolutely wrapped in this. It's,

1194
01:12:57.210 --> 01:13:00.350
it's a brilliant and and I I have referred a few people,

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01:13:00.810 --> 01:13:01.310
you

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01:13:02.489 --> 01:13:05.130
know, you know, two brilliant directories in that. So,

1197
01:13:05.930 --> 01:13:11.195
yeah. Yeah. No. We we we just have it we just wanna maximize it. That's that's what we wanna do.

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You know?

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And and we we wanna have a bit of a drip so that if they if they don't do it's it's more if they don't do something.

1200
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You you know? Like, the last thing you want them to do is to come in here, but don't do anything.

1201
01:13:25.720 --> 01:13:28.840
You know? It it's more or less like I said and forget to them.

1202
01:13:28.840 --> 01:13:35.900
So, you know, like, it'd be nice if you if you had something like You know you know, a member that has You know who's really good for that is HubSpot.

1203
01:13:36.680 --> 01:13:43.285
HubSpot is a little pricey, but if you're if you have the traction that you that warrants paying for that type of solution,

1204
01:13:43.665 --> 01:13:47.925
they're really good at creating campaigns when actions are not met,

1205
01:13:48.465 --> 01:13:50.005
rather than when things happen.

1206
01:13:50.305 --> 01:13:58.630
And what's good about HubSpot is you can put a HubSpot tracking ID in the in in your, website code so it knows

1207
01:13:59.010 --> 01:14:01.170
which visitors are visiting which pages.

1208
01:14:01.170 --> 01:14:08.070
So if if one of your contacts fails to visit a success page or or some page that you're really wanting

1209
01:14:08.494 --> 01:14:13.954
that that wanting them to visit or a form to complete, you can then initiate campaigns,

1210
01:14:14.895 --> 01:14:16.514
based on on that inactivity,

1211
01:14:17.534 --> 01:14:18.514
using HubSpot.

1212
01:14:18.974 --> 01:14:20.915
HubSpot is is a very comprehensive

1213
01:14:21.320 --> 01:14:24.780
program. It's it's it's a real business decision to wanna go that route.

1214
01:14:25.800 --> 01:14:30.860
But if, again, if you are getting the traction, it doesn't warrant that type of a a robust solution.

1215
01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:33.180
Okay. Alright?

1216
01:14:33.560 --> 01:14:34.380
Okay. Fantastic.

1217
01:14:35.115 --> 01:14:39.295
Congratulations. Mhmm. Thank you, Sal. Thank you. Take care. Take care. Alright.

1218
01:14:39.355 --> 01:14:43.435
Great words from Sal. Great to hear he's having, good traction, with his site.

1219
01:14:43.435 --> 01:14:46.955
And, honestly, not too much customization from what I can see on his site.

1220
01:14:46.955 --> 01:14:49.455
He's just found himself in a in a really nice niche,

1221
01:14:49.790 --> 01:14:53.250
and he launched the product. The most important thing is to launch your website.

1222
01:14:53.950 --> 01:14:55.810
I know it could be tempting to continue

1223
01:14:56.190 --> 01:15:01.870
tinkering on your website and making small changes and with the date format and the colors and then this and that.

1224
01:15:01.870 --> 01:15:08.094
But the key to everything is is launching your idea to the world, and then you can make decisions like these afterwards.

1225
01:15:10.315 --> 01:15:14.415
So I'll say, Pat, I think we're good on time for Yep. This this webinar.

1226
01:15:14.475 --> 01:15:18.800
This was a terrific webinar. I I love the questions that we got from everyone.

1227
01:15:19.420 --> 01:15:24.000
It was it was highly valuable for for myself to to see where people are at with their websites.

1228
01:15:24.540 --> 01:15:28.800
So thank you guys for joining us. I know, Patrick, I think you you enjoyed this one too.

1229
01:15:30.445 --> 01:15:34.545
So we'll join you guys in two weeks. In the next webinar, that's in two weeks.

1230
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Feel free to join the contest.

1231
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If you've done some type of a creative design on your site, send it to design@brilliantdirectories.com.

1232
01:15:41.725 --> 01:15:45.270
We'd love to check it out, and you'll, have an opportunity to win

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$200

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in credits.

1235
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In the next webinar, we will cover how to make sure your visitors do not leave your homepage.

1236
01:15:54.610 --> 01:16:00.895
So if you're having trouble with your site, with people leaving your homepage, we'd love for you to bring that up in next week's webinar.

1237
01:16:00.895 --> 01:16:12.755
We'll spend about fifteen or twenty minutes presenting on that topic, and then, we'll go to you guys for some questions and examples and see if we can actually improve some of your homepages so they'll convert better for website

1238
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visitors.

1239
01:16:14.140 --> 01:16:18.160
Also, don't forget about the new add on releases. Click to call is awesome.

1240
01:16:18.220 --> 01:16:23.360
Insta load search results. It's gonna provide your visitors, especially on mobile devices,

1241
01:16:23.980 --> 01:16:24.800
with awesome

1242
01:16:26.220 --> 01:16:26.720
performance

1243
01:16:27.100 --> 01:16:28.480
and a user experience.

1244
01:16:29.224 --> 01:16:29.965
And lastly,

1245
01:16:31.224 --> 01:16:38.364
join us in the LinkedIn marketing strategy network. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/linkedin.

1246
01:16:38.664 --> 01:16:42.844
It's totally free. We'd love to see you there. If we didn't get to your questions in this webinar,

1247
01:16:43.224 --> 01:16:47.179
sorry. We can carry the conversation though in the LinkedIn group.

1248
01:16:47.239 --> 01:16:50.440
Just go ahead and start a discussion, and we can start chatting there.

1249
01:16:50.440 --> 01:16:55.099
So thank you guys, and we'll catch you in two weeks in the next webinar. Thanks a lot.

1250
01:16:55.639 --> 01:16:57.980
Awesome. Thanks a lot, guys. See you guys soon.