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Alright. Great. Welcome to Webinar Wednesday.

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I think this is the thirty second episode of Webinar Wednesday.

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Thank you for joining us. It's really great to be with you here.

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Today's presenters,

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myself, Jason, they're on the left, and we're always lucky to have Patrick and Gabriel with us as well.

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Patrick is one of the marketing consultants here at Brilliant Directories, helps us out a lot with a digital marketing strategy.

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And Gabe is awesome at providing

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support and also feature suggestions to make your Brilliant Directories experience a whole lot better.

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So Patrick and Gabe, thank you guys for joining us today.

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Always awesome to be here. Thanks, Jason.

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Yeah. Webinar Wednesdays is my favorite part of the week.

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Alright.

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I always like to encourage,

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if you haven't already done so, to join our Brilliant Directories

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LinkedIn marketing strategy network.

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We're just about to ramp up to have some more activity for 02/2018.

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We were a little dormant during the holiday season, but now we're well into January and we're giving a little bit more attention to it.

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It's a great place to carry on the discussions from the webinar.

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If for any chance we don't get to your questions or you have questions after the webinar,

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you can join our LinkedIn group. It's free and you can start a discussion there.

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You'll get answers from myself, Patrick,

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David Rocklin,

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Gabe and other Brilliant Directories team members, as well as one of my favorite is fellow directory owners

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just like yourself.

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You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/linkedin.

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It'll take you directly to the LinkedIn page, and you can join the group and start a discussion there.

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If this is your first time joining webinar Wednesday,

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welcome, welcome, welcome.

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We're really really glad that you've joined us and hope that you'll join us in future webinars.

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The goal of webinar Wednesday here is to help you with your website.

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You can ask any type of questions. All types of questions are fair game.

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We can chat about SEO strategies, how to set up basic things on your website.

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We can even try to get into some complicated code together.

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If for any reason we don't have the immediate answer to your question,

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we'll do our best to point you in the right direction with maybe a resource that you can look further into to help you get the answer you're looking for.

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So, hope you have your questions ready,

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and we'll be taking them in just a few moments.

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Alright. This week, we do have some fun updates

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to share. There's tons of updates always being pushed,

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into the Brilliant Directories platform.

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Some more noteworthy ones, I'm gonna show you, today. Some are ready to release.

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Some are coming up in just the next

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two weeks.

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One of them is we talked we previewed it

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a few webinars ago. One of them is the front end design tool.

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Another one which I'm most excited about

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is the on page editing of text labels. I'll show you a working example of that.

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And we have three new add ons coming into the mix within the next week or two.

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So we'll just highlight those real quick as well. The first one I'll dive into is the front end

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design tool.

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And I'll show you where you guys can see that. That is now live on your site.

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And what it allows you to do is you can actually change some of the colors and

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and text on your site from the front end. Normally you change everything from the design settings.

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For example, your main,

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main website design,

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your header design, lots of color selections here,

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your main menu design,

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and so forth. We've added a link here,

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live design tool,

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and when you get this link you'll get this white sidebar on the left.

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And what it allows you to do, if you can see here I'm on Holistic Health Finder.

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Let's just do some simple edits.

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If you're a real visual person and you wanna see live the changes that you're making, I'm I'm comfortable in the design settings, but I think this is gonna help a lot of people out who want to actually visualize things as they're changing them before locking in their final design.

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Let's change the menu background together.

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Let's change let's just do some drastic changes. Let's change it to red.

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And you can see the colors have changed here.

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And let's change this header color from gray

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a different type of gray, so that would be header design.

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And we'll change this to a slightly darker gray. You can go as dark as you want.

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You can do more red.

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Just hit choose. And you can change things like the the sign up button here.

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As right now, it's it's purple, get listed today.

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So we'll just change this to a red as well.

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What's really cool is if I wanted it to be the same red as the main menu, I can just go ahead and click on this, copy the the color code here,

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you can go back to the header design,

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and paste the color code right into here, And that way you can make sure you're getting a uniform design as you're building your site.

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Let's scroll down a little bit,

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and let's look at the footer design. Right now we have, this is the newsletter sign up background.

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I think that's one of the options. Yeah. Lots of,

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options for the footer here. So newsletter background color, let's also make that the same red.

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And then I want the the footer background to be red, but a slightly lighter one.

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So we so it doesn't match perfectly with

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the newsletter. So more like there we go.

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So this is a really fun way to visualize your changes on your site.

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And once you like what you see, you can just click on save changes

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in the top here. So we hope that'll make things a little bit easier for you guys moving forward.

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I think about 50% of the design settings are here,

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right now.

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And if you don't see it here in the side menu, you can always find it right back where it's been for a while now in the design

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settings. I know we have some additional design settings here,

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that give you more specific control of the colors on your site.

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Alright. Let's go to the on page text label editor.

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And I think this is going to make a world of difference, especially if this is your first website

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with brilliant directories, and this should be releasing in the next few days.

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So as you know, you can edit text on your site. Maybe it's a main menu link.

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Maybe it's text in the design settings like where you build your logo.

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But then there's text around your site that you edit basically by going to settings

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and text labels.

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And text labels is where you'll find the other 90% of the text on your site, so you don't have to get into the code

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to change the text on your website. And I'll show you exactly what I'm talking about right now.

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So what you need would do when this is pushed is click on visit website,

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and we're all familiar with

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the toggle bar for the admin that gives you like the show widgets tool,

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refresh cache, and so on.

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you'll notice some text here that's in yellow.

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This is actually,

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these are text labels and normally you'd go into the admin,

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search for the text that you're looking for on the front of the site, and edit it from the back end, just like the design settings are controlled in the back end.

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With this update, you'll be able to see all the labels that make up a page.

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For example, that the title here is saying

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Patrick is awesome.

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Let's change that to something more practical.

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Just toggle that open and say,

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search by keyword.

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And I'll save the changes.

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And now we can see it says search by keyword.

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So if we come to this page here, the live site, and I refresh it,

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now it says search by keyword.

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And what's really cool about this is this tool will identify all the available text labels that are being rendered on the site.

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Even the search now button where it says find it now,

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we can change it to something like

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find lawyers now.

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Now you could always do this in the back end how it's always been,

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but this will make it a whole lot easier to more rapidly identify text labels on a page

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and change them to whatever you want. So this should now say find lawyers now.

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And I really love how quickly it saves. So

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this should be live in the next few days. Everyone will get this

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update. And if you go page by page, as long as you have the admin sidebar toggled,

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you should be able to see this option here, the on page text labels editor.

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Pat, do you have anything to add about this one?

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We're really excited about the updates, in particular how it's becoming less and less necessary to go into widgets and customize the widgets, which we discussed in the last webinar, being able to keep those

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widgets as default widgets and receive all feature updates is a great step and a and a big update.

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So, yep, I just changed this, option here and said select an option. I said choose an option.

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So it really gives you a lot more control and very rapidly you can change text around your site.

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And then,

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news. There are three upcoming add ons.

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One of them is lead price by category. It will allow you to set

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the price that a member pays for a lead based on the top or sublevel category,

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that the consumer or the website visitor has requested.

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So if you have a site with lots of different categories, for example, find a finding lawyers,

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and finding dog walkers,

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potentially you'll want to sell the lead for the lawyers for a higher value than for the dog walkers.

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And that way you'll have more

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ways to generate revenue from your site.

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Currently the only way to set the lead price is based on a member's membership level.

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So Y thought has worked for the last nine years actually for Brilliant Directories.

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This will give real value

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to the website in being able to

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more specifically

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add value to each category of their website.

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I do have a screenshot to share of what that will look like in your admin.

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So this is a screenshot if you're looking at your top level categories.

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Everything would remain the same here.

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This is another add on that we're we have here related keywords.

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The lead price would be the last one here on the right, and you would just simply enter your price for this lead.

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Sub level categories will supersede the price of top level categories.

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If if there is no price for the category it will fall back to the price of the lead on the for the membership level.

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So this one should be launched

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probably in the next week or so. Super excited about that one.

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And then we have hidden member profiles and keywords for categories.

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You can see the keywords for categories here.

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It'll add this extra column, and you can add related keywords for a category.

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I'll give you an example. If you have a category called dentist,

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if someone searches for dentists with an s or dental as a keyword on your site, they won't get any results.

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So you can add variations

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and synonyms

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without having redundant keywords in your database.

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So it'll allow more members to be found by more keyword searches.

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Let me show you guys where these will be found.

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Right now they're on our add ons page as coming soon,

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and hopefully we'll have those launched in the next,

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one to two weeks. The hidden member profiles one, that will allow you to control,

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which member profiles are hidden from other members. So maybe

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basic members can't search for premium members, but premium members can unlock more types of members that they can search for.

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LinkedIn kind of does has a similar system like this, where if you want to look for more certain types of jobs or certain types of members, that are out of your LinkedIn network,

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you can pay for a higher level and,

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you will then gain access to some of those hidden member profiles

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by upgrading.

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So again this will be another revenue generator if people are looking for ways to monetize their website and add more value to their premium membership levels.

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Anything to add about these three, Pat?

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No. That basically covers it.

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I'm I'm particularly excited about the lead price by category, obviously.

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We have a local directory,

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which a lot of people have. They have a a directory for their town.

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That it's very difficult to tell, a movie theater or a bakery that they need to pay for leads.

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Oftentimes, it's it's best to charge

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to charge for leads

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when they have a significant amount of money they can generate from getting that lead.

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law, accounting, and so forth.

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So to be able to take care of people that you wouldn't really wanna monetize in a normal basis and charge for the leads in industries where they're used to paying for leads is a pretty awesome update.

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That's right. So you could set the lead price for some categories as $0,

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and those would be free leads for those types of industries.

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I see more, you you charge for leads when it's professional services and and things like that.

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We have some goodies to share

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with regards

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to contests.

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Last webinar

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we had a contest to like and share, and comment on

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our our featured Facebook post. And Emily is our winner.

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We've added 500, this was a big contest, $500

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in BD credits to your account, Emily. You should receive an email from our team today or tomorrow.

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And you can apply those credits

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towards additional website purchases if you want to join the VIP add ons club or purchase any of the add ons a la carte.

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What I think this would be a great value for is to purchase a website audit or a software training session if you want to learn more about how Brilliant Directories works.

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It's always great to educate yourself on some of the higher level things you're able to do with Brilliant Directories.

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So congratulations, Emily. You don't need to do anything. We're adding the credits to your account.

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Let me just show you guys where that was on our Facebook page.

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We had a post for the New Year's, what goals should a successful online business set in 2018?

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We want to thank everyone that participated.

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We got lots of comments and shares here.

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And, we picked a random winner out of a hat from everyone that participated.

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So, thank you very much guys.

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And, if you didn't win this contest there is good news.

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This is a contest we've done in the past and we're going to add an extra caveat to this to make it available to people who have participated in the past.

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If you have created

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custom colors for your website, if you're familiar with

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our preset design settings in the design settings section, we do have preset colors,

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but you can obviously create your own color sets by the way you design your site by choosing colors.

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I think we've added

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five or six colors that have been suggested,

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by you guys, including peaceful purple, Cool Waves, Dark Raspberry, Gray Matrix.

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everyone and anyone who submits an approved color set will win $200

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credits. So, if you think you've created a unique

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And if we add it, we'll mention you in the next webinar and you'll win $200

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Patrick had the amazing idea to take this beyond

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And Pat, I'll go to our demo site and if you can explain how we can extend this to people beyond the color sets.

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Yes. So one of the things that really

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in order to usually collect their email or to get them to continue down some sort of marketing funnels.

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Jason is showing a couple of landing pages.

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These tend to be the two most common ones and most important ones.

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One is a landing page that explains the value of becoming a member on your website.

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menu pricing page where you just go over the highlights, this explains

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what you get with the profile. And then this here,

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which is an ability which is to get them to submit leads.

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So those are two popular landing pages.

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Landing page that explains if you give us your contact information,

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we'll match you or you can receive quotes from our press or, professionals.

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What Jason and I wanted to do today is to open up the contest as well to anybody that'd like to

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share a landing page design that they think would benefit the community.

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If your landing page is selected, we will,

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go over that landing page with everyone else, during the next webinar.

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as as a as a product in the future for everyone to use.

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That's right. And this could be any type of landing page.

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but something that other,

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directory owners could potentially reuse and repurpose, but add their own,

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And if it's something that you think would benefit others, we'd love to see the design. Yep.

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What we could do is, if we like it, we'll we'll we'll see how you made that page.

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We'll take the code, make it generic, so it could be repurposed for other people to use.

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but it could be something that we can share with

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landing pages and splash pages.

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So you can email your site and the page to look at design@brilliantdirectories.com,

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and we'll take a look at who the winners are in the next webinar.

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I'm really looking forward to seeing these entries. Yeah.

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Alright.

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And before we get to the Q and A, the deal of the week, we've done this one before, it is for the VIP add ons club.

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We had a lot of new people sign up to Brilliant Directories,

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during Cyber Week and New Year's.

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And if you haven't yet had an opportunity to join the VIP add ons club, this is a chance to get 50% off the listed price.

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Currently, it's a hundred $20 per month. It gets you all the add ons.

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We're adding three more add ons, within the next week or two, and we'll be adding a bunch more throughout the year.

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I think it's a super value to add to your website.

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In addition to that, as we add more add ons, the price of the add ons club will slightly increase $5.10,

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$15

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throughout the year. So this is a good chance to lock in the lowest price that it is right now.

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I know that in February it will be increasing a few dollars to reflect the additional add ons that have been added

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So you can use the promo code final

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50. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/finalfifty.

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when you're on the page to check out for the VIP add ons clip,

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just enter your promo code here,

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and it will take 50% off the listed price.

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If you're serious about your website I do recommend going

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for the annual option.

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It'll give you 50% off the annual price. There's already 34%

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off compared to the monthly price, so this will be an additional 50% off.

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So this is what you'll pay annually, $4.75,

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If you don't know what the VIP add ons club is, you can go to the broilingdirectories.com

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website, click on add ons,

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and you'll see all the add ons that we currently offer. You can purchase them individually,

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but we've made a superior value to just get all the add ons added to your website with the VIP add ons club.

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And you can see what that includes

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here on the page with the orange drop down that says VIP

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It will take you to the checkout page, and you can get 50% off now to add that, the add ons club to your website.

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Anything you want to add there about the add ons club, Pat?

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No. That's it.

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Just wanna let people know, and we've had a few people already start submitting landing pages, but via the chat.

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Just to remind everybody to if you're gonna submit a landing page, to send it to

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design@brilliantdirectories.com.

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I did have a quick look at some of the ones that were shared, and they're awesome.

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And I definitely hope, you guys go ahead and send it there in order to be, entered in the contest.

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Awesome. Thanks for sharing those, Desai. We love to see what you guys are doing, with your sites,

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and also your designs.

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So now it's the fun part, questions and answers time.

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I hope you guys came prepared with some questions.

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Alright. And we'll jump in with, David. David, I'm trying to unmute your microphone,

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but it says that it's muted on your end. I think it's working now.

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Yep. Unmute it. Yeah. Absolutely. Hi. How are you? Great. Great, David. How are you doing?

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Good. Thanks.

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I was able to add a link,

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for an online schedule,

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but I'd really like to turn that link into a button so that it's a lot more prominent,

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on page for all that that that page should be able to immediately schedule.

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Alright. Let's take a look at your site, and we can see an example.

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And I'll see if I can do that without diving into any of the code. So what's the name of your site?

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It's the best of

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Golf. And if you go into members,

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my I have a profile in there,

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which is under Balbi, b a l b I, golf.

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Alright. Let's look at your profile here.

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Alright. So I see you've done some custom work up here. It looks really nice.

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you got the click Just above the logo. Just above the logo. Right here. The online

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schedule. Alright.

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Yeah. Let me see what magic I can do here, with that.

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Super. There there would be a couple ways to accomplish that.

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Let me see if I can do the least invasive

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And that would be the,

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so I'm going to form manager.

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This is a form that someone has filled out, and it's displaying the results of that form here on the

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the front of the page. And that form is called Listing Contact Details Member.

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Let's edit this form.

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if we scroll down, there's First Name, Last Name. Here's the online schedule.

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You've assigned the field type as website address. That's why it's making it,

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clickable.

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online let me just see what this does. Let me do let me do a couple things, actually.

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Online schedule.

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I don't know what this is gonna do. It's different when it renders on different parts of the site.

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Let me also do online schedule outer. Let's save these changes.

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What this is doing is a little higher level for everyone.

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It's add gonna add a CSS class, and then what I can do is target that CSS class with some design instructions.

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So let me just inspect this here.

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I don't know if it's gonna render in this format because it's doing it a special way.

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doing it, the way that I want.

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It's not adding the class to it, so I wouldn't be able to target it that way.

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Let me see something else.

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I'll try one more thing for you.

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Okay. Let me remove this,

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and let's do it. Let me think of the next best way to do this

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Could you make it straight HTML right into the field label itself?

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That's that's what I'm going to do,

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you want it above the logo, if they have a logo?

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I I mean, I you know, it it it doesn't matter. It's okay if it stays there.

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I just want it to be Okay. You know, more noticeable, kinda like the,

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Gotcha. You know, the contact me or the message

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button is is the button is larger. I just wanted to make it more noticeable.

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Gotcha.

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Okay. I'm going to,

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I'm gonna do it, here. I'm gonna put it in the code. Okay? Okay.

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So just give me one moment. Let me do this correctly.

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And what I'm gonna do is say if that they've entered this

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it'll just take two seconds to do this.

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And we're gonna copy this.

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Always a nice perk to be able to dive into the code from time to time.

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This would be one of the one of the unique,

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reasons we'd need to do this. We're trying to style up your, button there.

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So what we want is the online schedule. We want the online schedule, and then we're going to,

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we can keep that.

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I'm gonna do, what color do you want it?

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Oh, red.

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Red? Alright.

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Let me I think I got everything that we need, and we're gonna call it online,

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schedule. Right?

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Yep. Alright. Great.

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So let me copy this,

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and we're almost done, actually.

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So So this is all done in HTML. None of this is CSS.

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This method is I did the HTML method.

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That's actually a good point. Let me make a note here.

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Give me one second.

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When field type

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on profile pages.

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and I know how this can easily done, CSS classes.

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That if once we do this update, this is why I love webinar Wednesday. That's a great suggestion.

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Once we do this update, I wouldn't have had to do what I just did.

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I could have just added those those classes, the button button danger that I just added,

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to it. So Okay. Let me quickly refresh the cashier site just to get a

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clear page. And then what I'm gonna do is this is automatically rendering.

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I'm gonna hide this on the front end view. So because we we're manually doing it.

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So show and display,

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And it should show above their actual website link now,

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as a button. Hang on.

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Oh, I didn't close something correctly. That's okay. I'm gonna check that and fix that for you.

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Yeah. That should

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work.

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Let me remove this here.

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And and once you've done this, Jason, would this, carry over

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to any other profiles on the entire site where where they enter,

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an online schedule,

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link in their when they're filling out profile?

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That is correct. Yes. That would that's fantastic.

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Alright. Let me just make sure something is not

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set correctly here. Let me see what I did wrong.

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That's correct.

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That's

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Let me refresh one more time.

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So let me just troubleshoot. Let me remove this. Something in my code here is not right.

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I'm not a coder by true nature.

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K. Give me a second.

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00:30:37.260 --> 00:30:40.240
I wanna make sure we get this for you. So now, yeah, there's that.

466
00:30:40.780 --> 00:30:42.160
Let me just do this.

467
00:30:43.465 --> 00:30:45.005
Let me remove this if statement,

468
00:30:45.545 --> 00:30:47.245
and, we'll go like this.

469
00:31:03.910 --> 00:31:06.250
Alright. There you go. So here's the online schedule.

470
00:31:07.110 --> 00:31:07.610
Okay.

471
00:31:07.910 --> 00:31:08.310
And,

472
00:31:09.855 --> 00:31:12.515
so this should link in a new tab here.

473
00:31:13.215 --> 00:31:15.855
Okay. And then how how how can I change the,

474
00:31:16.655 --> 00:31:18.755
the wording to just, you know,

475
00:31:19.135 --> 00:31:22.590
schedule now or schedule here or something like that? Gotcha. Yeah.

476
00:31:22.590 --> 00:31:26.049
We so instead of putting that there, we could say view schedule now.

477
00:31:26.910 --> 00:31:27.410
Okay.

478
00:31:36.030 --> 00:31:37.809
And let's refresh this.

479
00:31:42.404 --> 00:31:45.044
So now it says view schedule now. So

480
00:31:45.684 --> 00:31:50.264
perfect. Alright. Thank you so much. That was really great. Thanks very much. You're very welcome.

481
00:31:50.804 --> 00:31:55.049
So that was so You're very welcome. Very welcome. That's a good thing you pointed out there.

482
00:31:55.049 --> 00:31:58.970
We could easily create an update, knowing so you don't have to get into the code, like that.

483
00:31:58.970 --> 00:31:59.950
So thank you,

484
00:32:00.250 --> 00:32:03.950
David, for bringing that to our attention, and I'm glad that we were able to get that update,

485
00:32:04.410 --> 00:32:09.425
done on your site. Alright. I see, Jim. I'll unmute your microphone. Jim.

486
00:32:12.365 --> 00:32:14.545
You with us, Jim? You're unmuted here.

487
00:32:15.165 --> 00:32:20.000
Live and broadcasting to the world. Alright, Jim. We'll come back to you later. Alright.

488
00:32:20.220 --> 00:32:23.200
Kevin, I've unmuted your microphone. Are you with us, Kevin?

489
00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:27.200
Yes. I am. Can you hear me, guys? Yes, sir. Where are you calling in from?

490
00:32:28.140 --> 00:32:28.960
San Diego.

491
00:32:29.260 --> 00:32:32.000
Alright. And I know this isn't your first webinar with us.

492
00:32:32.684 --> 00:32:34.445
Hey. You got it. Yep. Alright.

493
00:32:34.605 --> 00:32:42.385
My programmer, Luis, you probably know, he told me to do something every week, and I just wanted to make sure that I should be doing this and I'm doing it correctly.

494
00:32:42.765 --> 00:32:45.184
I make changes to my website every day,

495
00:32:46.010 --> 00:32:50.830
and I go in and once a week, I delete all the pro three zero one redirects.

496
00:32:51.289 --> 00:32:55.710
I refresh the website. I create a site map, and then I submit the site map with Google.

497
00:32:55.850 --> 00:32:59.210
And I'm just wondering, do I need to be doing this every week? Has it helped me out?

498
00:32:59.210 --> 00:33:03.185
Is there is there any way to automate it? And what are your thoughts on that?

499
00:33:05.505 --> 00:33:09.845
We are working to automate that, so I can show everyone what you're referring to actually.

500
00:33:10.385 --> 00:33:11.285
Let's see here.

501
00:33:11.585 --> 00:33:14.645
Under the toolbox, there is something called a site map generator.

502
00:33:14.865 --> 00:33:19.169
It's something you definitely want to submit to Google Webmaster Tools.

503
00:33:19.870 --> 00:33:22.370
It helps with SEO in the sense that,

504
00:33:22.909 --> 00:33:31.445
Google will eventually find all the pages of your website, but this kind of expedites all those really internal pages that might be hard for Google to find.

505
00:33:31.664 --> 00:33:34.085
I don't think you need to do it right now once per week,

506
00:33:34.465 --> 00:33:36.725
because Google's not even updating that quickly.

507
00:33:37.825 --> 00:33:38.725
Maybe maybe

508
00:33:39.105 --> 00:33:41.924
twice, once every two weeks, or once per month,

509
00:33:42.304 --> 00:33:48.240
until we've we've pushed the phase two of this to automate the sitemap generator to automatically add the pages,

510
00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:50.159
to Google.

511
00:33:51.179 --> 00:33:51.679
So

512
00:33:52.140 --> 00:33:54.640
you'd obviously and also you don't need

513
00:33:55.419 --> 00:33:59.995
to go to Google Webmaster Tools and submit actually submit it.

514
00:34:00.535 --> 00:34:03.755
I mean, actually, you would. I take that back because there might be

515
00:34:05.255 --> 00:34:06.635
new indexes. So,

516
00:34:07.255 --> 00:34:08.295
I would do it right now.

517
00:34:08.295 --> 00:34:16.810
Maybe once per month is fine or once every two weeks if you if you really wanna push it because not even Google is gonna be indexing your pages that fast and putting them in the search results.

518
00:34:17.270 --> 00:34:24.489
So Do you like do you like that idea of deleting the pro redirects because those get indexed and they show up as a non working page?

519
00:34:25.955 --> 00:34:33.094
Those those are those should be redirecting to the valid pages that that the, the final page that they should be going to.

520
00:34:33.875 --> 00:34:40.810
So what what Kevin's referring to is if your member joins your site and they put their business name as Jason Incorporated,

521
00:34:41.510 --> 00:34:47.370
the URL is going to be Jason Incorporated. But if they, if I change it to Jason Limited,

522
00:34:47.750 --> 00:34:52.330
the URL is going to change and then the old URL is going to redirect to the new URL.

523
00:34:54.375 --> 00:34:56.235
I don't think you need to get rid of those.

524
00:34:57.415 --> 00:35:01.195
It should be fine because it's already telling Google that this page has been redirected.

525
00:35:01.335 --> 00:35:04.795
You can if you want. You can always delete your redirects,

526
00:35:05.175 --> 00:35:05.675
but

527
00:35:06.055 --> 00:35:14.980
if those pages have been indexed or people have those pages or are sharing those pages, if you kill the redirect, then they're not going to be taken to the correct page anymore.

528
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:16.400
Okay.

529
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:24.735
So if if those pages are are not important and you know nobody's linking to them, then then you could delete any three zero one redirects that you know are are not important.

530
00:35:25.195 --> 00:35:32.335
But you want to make sure you're not deleting any three zero one redirects that might actually be redirecting someone to a valid profile page or search results page.

531
00:35:33.590 --> 00:35:36.170
Okay. Can I ask another quick question? Is is TTID

532
00:35:36.550 --> 00:35:39.610
still in the URL header? I couldn't find it on my categories.

533
00:35:40.550 --> 00:35:42.950
It should be. If you're we can go to our,

534
00:35:43.910 --> 00:35:49.155
let's go to our demo site here. The TTID would be the sublevel category if I'm correct.

535
00:35:49.475 --> 00:35:50.935
So if we do a search,

536
00:35:52.435 --> 00:35:53.415
let's just search,

537
00:35:53.955 --> 00:35:54.935
plumber here.

538
00:35:57.875 --> 00:36:00.935
The URL was coming up with just the word plumber, not TTID.

539
00:36:01.075 --> 00:36:04.110
See, assistant it's not showing the URL that I can see up there now.

540
00:36:04.590 --> 00:36:06.930
Let me search Holistic Health Finder here.

541
00:36:07.870 --> 00:36:08.770
Just a second.

542
00:36:10.030 --> 00:36:11.970
Let's do a search for acupuncture.

543
00:36:13.230 --> 00:36:15.070
Maybe that's how I need to do it. Let's yeah.

544
00:36:15.070 --> 00:36:19.090
The it's only gonna be used when it's, one of these searches, not a keyword search.

545
00:36:19.464 --> 00:36:21.865
Okay. That's the problem. Yeah. Let me do the yoga.

546
00:36:21.865 --> 00:36:24.905
Let me do yoga actually because I know there's sub level categories.

547
00:36:24.905 --> 00:36:27.565
And let's do aerial yoga and do a search.

548
00:36:29.145 --> 00:36:34.840
So the s I d and then the the t I d. Now t t I d would be the sub sub level category.

549
00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:39.900
This site is not using a sub sub level. It's only going top sub, and that's it.

550
00:36:40.200 --> 00:36:43.020
I was using the wrong search, I think. Got it.

551
00:36:43.640 --> 00:36:46.460
So, yeah. It would that would work when it's a dynamic search,

552
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:48.285
not a keyword search.

553
00:36:49.325 --> 00:36:51.964
Perfect. Thanks for your help. I appreciate it. Alright. You're welcome.

554
00:36:51.964 --> 00:36:53.484
Good question there about site maps.

555
00:36:53.484 --> 00:37:00.224
And, yeah, we are gonna work on the phase two to automate that so you guys don't need to, continue submitting it to Google.

556
00:37:01.645 --> 00:37:02.145
Alright.

557
00:37:03.244 --> 00:37:03.744
Melanie.

558
00:37:05.060 --> 00:37:06.680
Gonna unmute your mic, Melanie.

559
00:37:07.220 --> 00:37:09.800
I'm here. Hey, Melanie. Where are you calling in from?

560
00:37:10.740 --> 00:37:11.560
Los Angeles.

561
00:37:11.940 --> 00:37:15.640
Alright. Too far. Very good. Very good. What's your question for us today?

562
00:37:16.715 --> 00:37:17.915
Kind of two questions.

563
00:37:18.235 --> 00:37:24.335
One, I was wondering what kind of support is available, like, as far as I've seen, like, training sessions or coaching sessions.

564
00:37:25.355 --> 00:37:26.575
I'm wondering what

565
00:37:26.955 --> 00:37:28.415
we can get help with.

566
00:37:29.500 --> 00:37:30.000
Perfect.

567
00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:33.840
Patrick, can I pass that one over to you?

568
00:37:34.460 --> 00:37:34.960
Absolutely.

569
00:37:35.420 --> 00:37:45.040
You could maybe go to the Brilliant directory website, Jason, and show them both the onboarding plans as well as the audits, which are really the two

570
00:37:45.395 --> 00:37:49.335
best options in terms of getting help with Brilliant Directories reps directly.

571
00:37:49.395 --> 00:37:52.055
There are you are you at the very beginning stages?

572
00:37:52.275 --> 00:37:57.734
Or have you kinda done the basic setup and now you'd like to get more hands on assistance from an internal coach?

573
00:37:57.835 --> 00:38:00.595
I On the second. I've been,

574
00:38:01.370 --> 00:38:04.890
I've been a member for about a year. I've been building my site for about a year. Mhmm.

575
00:38:04.890 --> 00:38:07.070
I launched it in, March.

576
00:38:07.370 --> 00:38:07.690
And,

577
00:38:08.570 --> 00:38:14.250
I wanna it would be nice to have someone to kinda go through the site with me and kinda go through some of the, you know

578
00:38:15.385 --> 00:38:15.705
I don't know.

579
00:38:15.705 --> 00:38:20.905
Just to have someone kinda go through it with me and look to make sure I've done everything correctly and get your opinion.

580
00:38:20.905 --> 00:38:21.485
And then,

581
00:38:22.345 --> 00:38:25.385
and then that that goes into my second second part is,

582
00:38:25.705 --> 00:38:26.445
I purchased,

583
00:38:27.460 --> 00:38:32.760
or actually, I'm trying out, Zoho One. And so I'm kinda looking at what I can

584
00:38:33.060 --> 00:38:34.280
use with the site.

585
00:38:35.700 --> 00:38:37.000
Okay. Zoho One,

586
00:38:37.380 --> 00:38:47.495
having an audit and having a a coach tell you what you can and can't do with Zoho One, that would fall a little bit outside of the scope of the type of, things they'll be able to consult with.

587
00:38:48.355 --> 00:38:52.215
The what what Jason had there was what was included in those audits.

588
00:38:52.675 --> 00:39:00.150
Basically, what they'll do is they'll do exactly what you're saying, go over your site with you, make sure everything's set up properly.

589
00:39:01.170 --> 00:39:03.410
There is an advanced website audit.

590
00:39:03.570 --> 00:39:07.830
It's a little bit more, but I definitely think you get a lot of value there,

591
00:39:08.370 --> 00:39:13.190
because you'll get a senior coach. And and normally, you get a little bit more, marketing insight,

592
00:39:13.674 --> 00:39:16.714
since they've been around a little longer, they've seen more more in more,

593
00:39:17.355 --> 00:39:20.714
more different types of of niche niches and so forth.

594
00:39:20.714 --> 00:39:24.734
So they bring a little bit more value in terms of giving you guidance on the marketing side.

595
00:39:24.954 --> 00:39:28.015
But both of those are excellent places to start. I know oftentimes

596
00:39:28.640 --> 00:39:34.260
when people get one audit, they're very quick to book the second one because what you can do in an hour with somebody,

597
00:39:34.640 --> 00:39:39.220
working on your site with you is pretty impressive because they know where everything is. And,

598
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:45.475
and you can also ask them to record it at times, and and then you can have a copy of that of that audit.

599
00:39:45.475 --> 00:39:53.015
And it's a great resource as well, later on to to go back and and look at it again and try to continue applying those changes to your site.

600
00:39:54.195 --> 00:39:59.319
And, Great. Let me do that. Melanie, you can apply the promo code for the deal of the week, to this.

601
00:39:59.319 --> 00:40:03.180
So if you wanted to take advantage of that, you could you could use the final 50,

602
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:04.300
promo code,

603
00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:05.420
for this.

604
00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:07.740
Oh, wow.

605
00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:09.099
That's great.

606
00:40:11.720 --> 00:40:12.599
There's also,

607
00:40:13.405 --> 00:40:16.045
training sessions. So the audits are about an hour long.

608
00:40:16.045 --> 00:40:23.265
There's quicker ones, thirty minute training sessions, and they cover different types of topics, making website edits, importing members,

609
00:40:23.885 --> 00:40:25.105
so on and so forth.

610
00:40:25.660 --> 00:40:30.480
So if if you were looking for kind of like how to integrate third party tools,

611
00:40:31.100 --> 00:40:36.240
you might want to book something like a developer training to show you how to integrate third party tools

612
00:40:36.620 --> 00:40:40.800
with your Brilliant Directories websites. A lot of those tools like from Zoho,

613
00:40:41.135 --> 00:40:51.635
or from HubSpot, or any other or or even chatting software like we have here, a lot of those tools, they're made that you just embed some code on the site and it should just work instantly.

614
00:40:52.335 --> 00:40:53.155
Some require

615
00:40:53.615 --> 00:40:54.115
more

616
00:40:55.230 --> 00:40:55.730
detailed

617
00:40:56.110 --> 00:40:58.850
integration, but some of them are just kind of plug and play.

618
00:40:59.070 --> 00:41:02.290
So it might not be that complicated to execute those.

619
00:41:04.030 --> 00:41:04.530
Okay.

620
00:41:04.750 --> 00:41:12.645
And then also and then lastly, if you wanted to know where to get all the different types of support, under our community drop down, there is a support center.

621
00:41:13.345 --> 00:41:14.805
And there's video tutorials,

622
00:41:15.585 --> 00:41:17.925
the free group workshops or the webinar replays,

623
00:41:18.464 --> 00:41:19.765
private training sessions,

624
00:41:20.464 --> 00:41:21.825
the website setup service.

625
00:41:21.825 --> 00:41:27.930
If if this is your first website with Brilliant Directories, I highly recommend getting the Kickstart website setup service.

626
00:41:28.150 --> 00:41:31.829
It will definitely ensure you have more success with your first website with us.

627
00:41:31.829 --> 00:41:36.569
I I don't deny there's a small learning curve with Brilliant Directories. So having

628
00:41:37.415 --> 00:41:40.555
utilizing the website setup service on your first website

629
00:41:40.855 --> 00:41:42.635
will definitely go a long way.

630
00:41:43.175 --> 00:41:47.755
You also have access to the community Q and A. So that would be a good place to maybe

631
00:41:48.615 --> 00:41:51.355
search by keyword Zoho. Let's do that together.

632
00:41:52.650 --> 00:41:55.390
And see if anyone has actually started any discussions

633
00:41:56.250 --> 00:41:57.869
using Zoho. So,

634
00:41:58.490 --> 00:41:59.790
there is something here,

635
00:42:00.170 --> 00:42:03.309
or you can start your own discussion as well.

636
00:42:04.010 --> 00:42:07.869
So there's the community center and then we have our knowledge base documentation.

637
00:42:08.225 --> 00:42:10.565
So you can go here and also search by keyword.

638
00:42:11.345 --> 00:42:17.185
And we've we've done a really good job from top to bottom covering the different parts of what the software can do.

639
00:42:17.185 --> 00:42:20.965
So you can also search for things by keyword here, such as importing.

640
00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:26.900
And you'll find numerous articles and discussion posts, that might cover one of the topics that you're looking for.

641
00:42:30.080 --> 00:42:31.940
Helpful. Thank you. Alright.

642
00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:33.680
You're very welcome.

643
00:42:33.680 --> 00:42:39.055
And and and if you're an add ons member, Jason, maybe you can show everybody where to find the master classes.

644
00:42:39.055 --> 00:42:40.035
I know myself,

645
00:42:40.575 --> 00:42:41.955
if you're trying to get,

646
00:42:42.575 --> 00:42:55.020
guidance and advice going to the master classes and watching those, I cannot think of any single resource that's better for somebody that's starting out with, with a new directory website and taking these master classes.

647
00:42:55.020 --> 00:43:03.359
If you wanna learn the marketing strategies, how to upsell, how to generate revenue, how to get your first members, how to get your members posting content,

648
00:43:03.815 --> 00:43:07.275
all the big questions and challenges that most directory owners find themselves.

649
00:43:07.495 --> 00:43:10.635
There's these really high value videos that have been put together,

650
00:43:11.095 --> 00:43:19.710
and you could basically just watch those and it's going like, going to directory you and learning everything you need to learn about, very important skill sets that people need to learn.

651
00:43:19.950 --> 00:43:21.950
Yeah. Joe, you were we just updated your site.

652
00:43:21.950 --> 00:43:24.750
You were interested in making it a a lead generating website.

653
00:43:24.750 --> 00:43:28.589
There's a master class on how to launch a profitable lead generating website.

654
00:43:28.589 --> 00:43:33.170
So if that's your first time setting up a site like that, this would definitely be worthwhile.

655
00:43:34.085 --> 00:43:38.744
So these premium workshops are for VIP add ons club members. So I'll just say it again.

656
00:43:39.125 --> 00:43:41.385
If you're not a member, you can join

657
00:43:41.924 --> 00:43:47.464
the VIP add ons club for 50% off. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/finalfifty,

658
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:51.099
and that will give you access to these master class workshops

659
00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:56.460
here. And while we're here, the free webinar replays are always here on the first tab, and

660
00:43:56.920 --> 00:44:00.599
we try to upload them within a week or two after after they air.

661
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:06.035
I think we have 30 up right now, 31 will be up soon, and then this one will be after.

662
00:44:07.055 --> 00:44:09.075
Alright. Thank you for your question, Melanie.

663
00:44:09.855 --> 00:44:10.755
Alright. William,

664
00:44:11.135 --> 00:44:13.155
William, your hand just went up. How you doing?

665
00:44:16.349 --> 00:44:17.029
Good. Thank you.

666
00:44:17.029 --> 00:44:24.269
I don't wanna embarrass myself and have anyone look at my site, but, I I'm in the process of setting a lot of things up.

667
00:44:24.269 --> 00:44:25.970
But I was curious about the

668
00:44:26.589 --> 00:44:27.089
structured

669
00:44:27.470 --> 00:44:30.849
snippets of structured data, like, for Scheme of markups.

670
00:44:31.685 --> 00:44:35.225
Yeah. And is it best to do that primarily for static pages?

671
00:44:35.685 --> 00:44:36.744
Or or can

672
00:44:37.285 --> 00:44:40.425
you not implement some You're gonna wanna do that in actually,

673
00:44:40.805 --> 00:44:42.905
the search results pages and,

674
00:44:43.925 --> 00:44:46.505
your member profile pages and and such.

675
00:44:47.390 --> 00:44:51.310
Okay. What what type of content are people gonna be searching for on your site?

676
00:44:51.310 --> 00:44:54.530
Is it just members or is it gonna be things like coupons and articles?

677
00:44:56.190 --> 00:44:58.510
It would be articles. It would also be,

678
00:44:59.630 --> 00:45:00.930
searching for restaurants.

679
00:45:01.704 --> 00:45:02.444
That's primarily

680
00:45:02.744 --> 00:45:08.444
it. Okay. Gotcha. And maybe bits events as well, but I'm focusing right now on just Okay.

681
00:45:08.984 --> 00:45:13.320
Let me show you where those two. Okay. Let me show you where you would add your schema markup.

682
00:45:14.040 --> 00:45:21.900
And usually when you're looking up schema markup for articles or reviews, they probably give you a good example of where you should add the the classes in the code.

683
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:23.980
Are you have you ever done that before?

684
00:45:26.055 --> 00:45:29.734
No. I mean, this has been a whole learning experience for me, so I will learn.

685
00:45:29.734 --> 00:45:34.635
I I I was self taught with the schema markup, but once you get your head around it,

686
00:45:35.655 --> 00:45:37.835
it it it kinda works itself out.

687
00:45:38.510 --> 00:45:43.490
For those of you who don't know what schema markup is, I'll give you a quick example.

688
00:45:44.270 --> 00:45:45.970
Let me see what I can Google.

689
00:45:47.710 --> 00:45:48.690
Top news,

690
00:45:49.710 --> 00:45:51.730
New York. Let me just see here.

691
00:45:52.695 --> 00:45:55.755
No, nothing there. Let's see. Best Nikes.

692
00:46:01.415 --> 00:46:07.470
Okay. Here's here's one example. This isn't the best example, but you see the date here, 12/05/2012.

693
00:46:07.470 --> 00:46:12.130
You guys have seen search results where there's like review stars, or an author's image,

694
00:46:12.510 --> 00:46:13.650
and things like that.

695
00:46:14.110 --> 00:46:18.450
Schema markup tells Google what certain details of your posts are.

696
00:46:18.670 --> 00:46:29.285
There's literally thousands of different classes for schemas, but I'm just going to show you William where you can find that code so when you're ready to enter it, you can do so knowing where to go.

697
00:46:29.285 --> 00:46:32.825
What you want to do is go to your post settings,

698
00:46:33.285 --> 00:46:34.425
edit post settings.

699
00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:37.680
And I'm not gonna make any changes on the site.

700
00:46:37.680 --> 00:46:43.620
Then find the type of content you want to add the schema markup to. For example, blog article.

701
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:44.820
Okay?

702
00:46:47.680 --> 00:46:49.940
When you're here, you have a few different tabs.

703
00:46:50.135 --> 00:46:55.815
The ones that are most important for the schema markup are the search results design and the detail page design.

704
00:46:55.815 --> 00:46:59.675
The detail page is the actual page where a single article is listed.

705
00:47:00.055 --> 00:47:05.850
The search results design is the code of the search results that repeat line after line when you're on the search results

706
00:47:06.730 --> 00:47:09.390
page. When you go to something like the detail page design,

707
00:47:09.930 --> 00:47:11.950
you'll see lots of complicated code.

708
00:47:12.650 --> 00:47:14.030
But in order to achieve

709
00:47:14.490 --> 00:47:19.150
the schema markup, all you have to do is put classes around the certain variables.

710
00:47:20.090 --> 00:47:20.910
For example,

711
00:47:22.005 --> 00:47:25.944
and when you're ready to do this we might be able to do it together on on one of your posts,

712
00:47:26.484 --> 00:47:30.905
on one of the types of sites that you want to do it. So this is the date. So there would be

713
00:47:31.285 --> 00:47:35.850
classes you put around the date, and then that will inform Google, hey this piece of

714
00:47:36.410 --> 00:47:38.430
information is the date of the post.

715
00:47:38.570 --> 00:47:42.490
And then you can do that with the author name, and and so on and so forth.

716
00:47:42.490 --> 00:47:45.230
The number if it's reviews you could put the number of reviews.

717
00:47:45.290 --> 00:47:48.430
So you use the variables and you put the schema markup classes

718
00:47:48.890 --> 00:47:55.155
around the individual variables, and piece by piece you'll be telling Google, hey these these words represent,

719
00:47:56.575 --> 00:48:02.910
you know, the number of reviews, or the specific review, or the person who left the review, or the name of the product that's being reviewed.

720
00:48:03.150 --> 00:48:06.210
So you you put the different classes around the variables,

721
00:48:06.510 --> 00:48:10.609
and that informs Google on what everything is, if that makes sense.

722
00:48:11.150 --> 00:48:12.270
Yeah. It makes sense. Okay.

723
00:48:12.270 --> 00:48:18.925
And everyone's looking at a bunch of complicated code, but it's pretty simple once you grasp the idea that all you have to do is put the correct classes

724
00:48:19.465 --> 00:48:22.685
around the correct variables and it's as simple as that.

725
00:48:24.425 --> 00:48:27.245
And then you do the same thing with your search results design.

726
00:48:27.385 --> 00:48:32.400
You'd go to the page loop, that's the information that's being repeated line after line.

727
00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:34.339
You find the variables that relate,

728
00:48:34.640 --> 00:48:38.900
it's like the post title. You'd put the schema class that this is the name of the

729
00:48:39.200 --> 00:48:47.700
post, or the name of the product, or the name of the review, and you would just continue doing that till you've itemized all the different elements of your of your schema markup.

730
00:48:48.954 --> 00:48:49.915
Okay. Alright.

731
00:48:49.915 --> 00:48:56.335
A little higher level for everyone to understand, but I think because you're researching it and and for other some other people this might make sense.

732
00:48:57.355 --> 00:48:59.994
Okay. Thank you very much. Alright. You're very welcome.

733
00:48:59.994 --> 00:49:04.770
And if if when you're ready, William, to actually do it on your site or if you give it an attempt and you're not successful,

734
00:49:05.150 --> 00:49:09.890
join us in the next webinar and we can actually get it set up properly for one of your types of posts.

735
00:49:11.470 --> 00:49:15.330
Alright. Let's continue moving on. Good higher level question there about coding.

736
00:49:16.585 --> 00:49:17.085
Alright.

737
00:49:18.185 --> 00:49:22.585
Look, while Gabe is checking those, we'll The Oh, yeah. Gabe, go ahead.

738
00:49:22.585 --> 00:49:24.525
There was actually one one good question.

739
00:49:25.145 --> 00:49:25.645
Sure.

740
00:49:26.665 --> 00:49:28.985
I think it was Ron that asked this question.

741
00:49:28.985 --> 00:49:32.850
He was asking, how would the overview tab in the profile page add the

742
00:49:33.150 --> 00:49:34.530
second option in the

743
00:49:34.830 --> 00:49:35.330
menu?

744
00:49:36.510 --> 00:49:37.890
That is a great,

745
00:49:38.350 --> 00:49:38.850
question.

746
00:49:39.470 --> 00:49:40.530
Let me show,

747
00:49:41.150 --> 00:49:43.010
what, Ron, you said.

748
00:49:46.025 --> 00:49:46.525
So

749
00:49:46.905 --> 00:49:48.285
on the profile pages,

750
00:49:49.305 --> 00:49:53.244
you'll notice the tabs, overview, specialties, photo albums, reviews.

751
00:49:53.545 --> 00:49:56.365
You can control the order of these tabs.

752
00:49:56.750 --> 00:50:02.349
So if you wanted to make, overview the second or the third or the last, I'll just show you where you can do that.

753
00:50:02.349 --> 00:50:04.369
I'm not gonna change anything on this site.

754
00:50:04.829 --> 00:50:10.175
But in order to accomplish that, you know, maybe you wanna start with the photo albums, if it's a photo

755
00:50:10.955 --> 00:50:12.015
focused website.

756
00:50:12.875 --> 00:50:17.055
If you want to make the overview tab another slot you can scroll down.

757
00:50:17.355 --> 00:50:19.855
The overview tab is the listing one.

758
00:50:20.555 --> 00:50:22.015
You can click on edit.

759
00:50:24.730 --> 00:50:26.029
And when you're here

760
00:50:26.410 --> 00:50:27.470
editing the listing,

761
00:50:28.010 --> 00:50:29.630
the profile page design

762
00:50:30.490 --> 00:50:34.750
is the tab you want to go to and all of your different types of posts, coupons,

763
00:50:35.529 --> 00:50:37.390
events, articles, reviews,

764
00:50:37.715 --> 00:50:39.495
they all have a tab order.

765
00:50:39.955 --> 00:50:48.135
So if you wanted it to be the number two spot, you know, you could just set it to number two, find out what the current number two one is, and just just switch the

766
00:50:48.515 --> 00:50:49.255
the order.

767
00:50:50.115 --> 00:50:53.980
You know, if you wanted it to be the last one, you could just set it to some really high number.

768
00:50:54.680 --> 00:51:00.140
Right now it's set to number one, and then you can just choose, you know, 12345

769
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:03.420
based on the different types of content your site is supporting.

770
00:51:03.815 --> 00:51:04.875
Does that help, Gabe?

771
00:51:07.015 --> 00:51:11.595
It absolutely helps. Okay. It's exactly what you needed to know. Alright. Great. Great.

772
00:51:12.615 --> 00:51:14.875
Alright. We'll go to Lisa here.

773
00:51:15.815 --> 00:51:17.515
Lisa, I've unmuted your microphone.

774
00:51:19.670 --> 00:51:22.490
Great. Can you hear me? Yeah. How are you doing today?

775
00:51:23.830 --> 00:51:25.530
I'm great. How are you guys doing?

776
00:51:26.470 --> 00:51:26.970
Super.

777
00:51:27.590 --> 00:51:32.090
I had a question about wondering if you could just show us a little bit about the recurring

778
00:51:32.390 --> 00:51:33.450
events module.

779
00:51:34.055 --> 00:51:36.555
Oh, that's And, one of Patrick's favorite.

780
00:51:37.735 --> 00:51:40.075
Did you have any specific questions about that?

781
00:51:40.695 --> 00:51:44.535
I could. I the thing is I'd be happy to prepare something for the next webinar.

782
00:51:44.535 --> 00:51:46.775
There is a little bit of preparation that goes into that.

783
00:51:46.775 --> 00:51:48.819
I need to have a site that would have set up and whatnot.

784
00:51:48.819 --> 00:51:55.540
But what I'm gonna do right now is and you may have already watched it, and I'm sorry if you have because it's not gonna be much help.

785
00:51:55.540 --> 00:51:57.960
But this video link that I'm sharing right now,

786
00:51:58.660 --> 00:51:59.319
it is

787
00:52:00.099 --> 00:52:01.640
literally the a very

788
00:52:01.994 --> 00:52:09.134
thorough me setting it up, creating a recurring event, going to the search results, really from a to z, taking my time with that specific feature.

789
00:52:09.434 --> 00:52:11.914
So hopefully and that's the link I shared, Jason,

790
00:52:12.234 --> 00:52:14.370
that everybody is able to watch. So,

791
00:52:14.930 --> 00:52:17.890
so, yeah, I would I would give that, I would give that a chance.

792
00:52:18.130 --> 00:52:20.470
And and if there's any questions that aren't answered,

793
00:52:21.330 --> 00:52:23.250
then then maybe then maybe let us know.

794
00:52:23.250 --> 00:52:27.510
I'd be happy to spend a little bit more time on it, in the following, webinar.

795
00:52:28.530 --> 00:52:29.670
Okay. Great. Thanks.

796
00:52:29.975 --> 00:52:32.695
I'm just gonna make one comment about the auto recurring events.

797
00:52:32.695 --> 00:52:40.555
So in a nutshell, it allows you to create an event and make sure that it if it repeats weekly or every two weeks or monthly,

798
00:52:41.255 --> 00:52:45.660
it will continue to remain on your site and it will show the next upcoming date.

799
00:52:46.140 --> 00:52:51.760
So normally when an event happens, it has a start date and an end date, and then it's off your website because it's expired.

800
00:52:52.220 --> 00:53:00.319
With the auto recurring events, you can add recurring events like if a car wash has a weekly car wash special, early bird on Wednesday mornings.

801
00:53:00.775 --> 00:53:07.195
You can add that for the car wash, and now you have content that will stay on your website indefinitely.

802
00:53:07.735 --> 00:53:18.259
So if you find businesses that have weekly deals, you can add those weekly deals or monthly deals to your website and they'll always be available, and it's always good content for your users.

803
00:53:18.259 --> 00:53:18.759
So

804
00:53:19.059 --> 00:53:24.279
that's one of the big values of auto recurring events in my opinion. It's my it's my personal

805
00:53:24.819 --> 00:53:25.880
favorite hack

806
00:53:26.275 --> 00:53:28.295
for people that are starting off with a new directory.

807
00:53:28.994 --> 00:53:39.655
I know oftentimes I go check out their sites and I start clicking all links that they have on their websites, and I'll see two blog articles, two events, one coupon, and it just has that empty feel to it.

808
00:53:40.089 --> 00:53:45.710
The auto recurring events, which what Jason just says what I use it for is I call it I call it the daily specials.

809
00:53:45.930 --> 00:53:49.869
It's very easy to call the restaurants and all the bars and the bowling alleys.

810
00:53:50.089 --> 00:53:51.869
Every business tends to have

811
00:53:52.175 --> 00:53:58.915
some sort of happy hour or bowling half off or mini putt, the half off on Sundays from this time to that time.

812
00:53:59.215 --> 00:54:05.610
And all that is a gold mine for content that end users are interested in learning about because people always love a deal.

813
00:54:05.770 --> 00:54:13.450
And you just have to enter it one time, and it's literally on your website for life until the specials, ends on their on their end.

814
00:54:13.450 --> 00:54:17.625
So I find that a great tool. Yep. Sorry. Is it is it custom

815
00:54:19.065 --> 00:54:22.685
Because I I looked at a trial or something, I don't know, I think, and there was, like, you said,

816
00:54:23.305 --> 00:54:28.285
Jason, every week, every second week, something like that. But I had one that was, like, every third

817
00:54:28.905 --> 00:54:36.730
Thursday of the month or something like that, and there wasn't a way for me to kind of customize if it was, like, off weeks or strange.

818
00:54:36.950 --> 00:54:41.210
So So right now, the the options to choose are day every day,

819
00:54:41.750 --> 00:54:42.250
weekly,

820
00:54:43.190 --> 00:54:47.130
every two weeks, every three weeks, and there's also, a monthly option.

821
00:54:48.775 --> 00:54:51.975
So there isn't like choosing the first or last day of the month right now.

822
00:54:51.975 --> 00:54:55.275
So it's a little limited in the types of dates you can select, but hopefully,

823
00:54:56.295 --> 00:54:59.335
one of these will will kind of help fall into that category.

824
00:54:59.335 --> 00:55:04.030
If it's something awkward you could just create the event manually for those in between,

825
00:55:05.210 --> 00:55:05.710
scheduling

826
00:55:06.330 --> 00:55:07.130
things. Yeah.

827
00:55:07.130 --> 00:55:11.290
Because it was stuff like a lot of people will do, like, oh, it's the first Monday of every month.

828
00:55:11.290 --> 00:55:12.270
It's the first

829
00:55:13.050 --> 00:55:14.984
I think that'll be rolled out. You know what I'm saying?

830
00:55:14.984 --> 00:55:20.105
Oh, I totally know what you're saying because I when I deal with banking, we have to pay for stuff and and they give you those types of options.

831
00:55:20.105 --> 00:55:24.525
I think that that kind of stuff will be rolled out in a phase two, for the auto recurring events.

832
00:55:25.550 --> 00:55:26.430
Okay. Cool.

833
00:55:26.430 --> 00:55:34.190
And I had posted another question about, did you guys have a coupon code update, and they said you guys are still working on the coupon codes where we'll be able to Yes.

834
00:55:34.349 --> 00:55:38.955
Move over our free people? Yes. It's actually third on the projects list, from what I saw.

835
00:55:38.955 --> 00:55:42.495
So it'll be queued up, hopefully soon on one of the developers,

836
00:55:43.355 --> 00:55:45.515
boards, and hopefully we can get that launched soon.

837
00:55:45.515 --> 00:55:48.495
I know last year, all of last year was something that was highly,

838
00:55:48.955 --> 00:55:49.455
requested.

839
00:55:49.755 --> 00:55:51.695
So hopefully we can have it to you guys soon.

840
00:55:52.190 --> 00:55:53.870
Great. Thanks you guys. Alright. Thank you.

841
00:55:53.870 --> 00:55:56.510
And thanks for continuing to bang on that door for that feature.

842
00:55:56.510 --> 00:55:58.690
It really lets us know what's most important.

843
00:55:59.470 --> 00:56:01.950
Alright. Let's see here. How are we doing on time? Alright.

844
00:56:01.950 --> 00:56:04.210
We we take a couple more questions here, Pat.

845
00:56:04.665 --> 00:56:06.425
We got one more question. Pat, you wanna choose,

846
00:56:07.625 --> 00:56:09.405
one of the hands that are up right now?

847
00:56:10.505 --> 00:56:13.405
Yeah. Sure. Well, that's fun. I will choose,

848
00:56:15.225 --> 00:56:15.725
Martin.

849
00:56:17.225 --> 00:56:18.925
So let's unmute Martin.

850
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:23.740
Hey, Martin. How you doing? Where are you calling in from today? Calling in from Buffalo, New York.

851
00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:26.460
Alright. Great. Great. And what's your question for us today, Martin?

852
00:56:27.080 --> 00:56:29.660
Yes. We talked about this before a little bit in the past.

853
00:56:30.120 --> 00:56:34.860
Okay. If I if I'm trying to get perspective directory members and they say send me something,

854
00:56:35.325 --> 00:56:39.825
what would you include in like a short screen? I I can capture my screen on video.

855
00:56:39.885 --> 00:56:43.905
What would you include like in a in a video to to try to sell a directory?

856
00:56:46.605 --> 00:56:47.905
Explanation of benefits,

857
00:56:48.685 --> 00:56:49.665
short and sweet.

858
00:56:50.670 --> 00:56:52.050
Your value proposition,

859
00:56:52.670 --> 00:56:53.890
what makes you unique.

860
00:56:54.750 --> 00:56:55.410
And then

861
00:56:55.710 --> 00:56:57.410
maybe a sample profile

862
00:56:58.109 --> 00:57:04.030
of what they can expect to see when they're featured in the search results, and when they're featured on their own profile page.

863
00:57:04.030 --> 00:57:09.755
And how their profile page will decorate their business, and and put their business in a positive light.

864
00:57:11.095 --> 00:57:18.315
And besides just showcasing them on your site, how you're, you know, generally with the public directory, you're going to help the online visibility

865
00:57:18.980 --> 00:57:20.039
of of businesses.

866
00:57:20.900 --> 00:57:25.380
So when people Google their name, their listing is going to show up from your website.

867
00:57:25.380 --> 00:57:27.079
So you're helping to increase their

868
00:57:27.780 --> 00:57:28.680
online visibility.

869
00:57:28.740 --> 00:57:35.835
Now, let me explain to you why a regular profile, even if it doesn't say anything fancy on a business, is valuable.

870
00:57:36.695 --> 00:57:37.994
One reason is

871
00:57:39.255 --> 00:57:40.474
is brand reputation.

872
00:57:40.855 --> 00:57:43.755
Your online reputation and reputation management.

873
00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:48.260
It could be the case that businesses has bad reviews online,

874
00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:54.500
but having more neutral slash positive pages about their business can outweigh any negative,

875
00:57:55.760 --> 00:58:01.215
any negative reviews or pages of a business online. So they can kind of better control

876
00:58:01.755 --> 00:58:08.175
their online presence by controlling their profile on your website and making it look like their business is shed in a positive light.

877
00:58:08.360 --> 00:58:10.700
That's that's one of the benefits you can you can

878
00:58:11.160 --> 00:58:13.500
showcase. So keep things short and sweet.

879
00:58:14.040 --> 00:58:17.020
Show them what the final product looks like and outline the benefits,

880
00:58:17.800 --> 00:58:19.420
neatly and cleanly for them.

881
00:58:20.120 --> 00:58:22.940
And another question with with the, Holsten I received,

882
00:58:23.405 --> 00:58:25.565
is there any type of, file storage?

883
00:58:25.565 --> 00:58:29.805
They have a video and I wanna store on my on on your server, on my site.

884
00:58:29.805 --> 00:58:31.265
Is there a way to do that or

885
00:58:31.565 --> 00:58:36.224
There isn't a way to do that. What I recommend doing is uploading your video to YouTube.

886
00:58:36.740 --> 00:58:40.280
And on on YouTube you can set the video to private

887
00:58:40.980 --> 00:58:41.720
and designate

888
00:58:42.020 --> 00:58:46.520
the website that you can embed it on. So for what's the name of your website for example?

889
00:58:47.299 --> 00:58:49.725
OrthopedicSurgeonsToday.com.

890
00:58:49.805 --> 00:58:53.965
So you can upload the video to YouTube. It'll be private to the rest of the world.

891
00:58:53.965 --> 00:58:56.305
You can designate, hey YouTube only

892
00:58:56.765 --> 00:59:01.245
render this video on my domain name. Orthopedicsurgeonstoday.com.

893
00:59:01.245 --> 00:59:02.705
You can then embed the video

894
00:59:03.240 --> 00:59:07.660
and then you can save on your your storage usage with with Brilliant Directories that way.

895
00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:10.200
Okay. And just another comment.

896
00:59:10.200 --> 00:59:16.460
I was doing some SEO work today, and I noticed I know you guys had the Google Analytics, and you have a site map generator.

897
00:59:17.045 --> 00:59:22.185
Now is do you guys have any anything that's part of a feature that allows you to verify

898
00:59:22.725 --> 00:59:23.945
the site with Search Console?

899
00:59:25.925 --> 00:59:27.525
Yeah. So when you go to the,

900
00:59:28.005 --> 00:59:30.585
webmaster tools now called Google Search Console,

901
00:59:31.530 --> 00:59:34.030
when you want to add your site there they give you

902
00:59:36.170 --> 00:59:36.990
a code.

903
00:59:37.530 --> 00:59:40.750
I'll just show you real quick. I'll tell you where you can place that code.

904
00:59:42.810 --> 00:59:44.350
So Google Search Console.

905
00:59:45.355 --> 00:59:49.435
So we have a bunch of sites here. So you add a property. I'll just I'll give you an example.

906
00:59:49.435 --> 00:59:53.855
So the www.fun.com,

907
00:59:55.275 --> 00:59:59.375
and you add it to Google Search Console. It's going to give you some options

908
01:00:00.060 --> 01:00:04.320
like downloading a file. What I like to do Martin is use the alternative method.

909
01:00:04.940 --> 01:00:07.760
Okay. And I choose the HTML tag,

910
01:00:08.700 --> 01:00:11.440
copy this code. It's unique to every site,

911
01:00:11.835 --> 01:00:19.375
And, I'm not going to add anything here, but what you can do is go to your design settings and this is good for any type of meta code that you need to add to your site.

912
01:00:19.435 --> 01:00:20.815
So you take that code,

913
01:00:21.195 --> 01:00:21.935
go to

914
01:00:22.315 --> 01:00:26.175
your custom CSS and paste that into the second box here,

915
01:00:26.940 --> 01:00:27.839
Save your changes

916
01:00:28.180 --> 01:00:28.680
and

917
01:00:29.020 --> 01:00:32.880
your site should be able to be verified. So save your changes and then click verify.

918
01:00:33.500 --> 01:00:36.480
And that will allow you to add your site to Google Search Console.

919
01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:39.515
Okay great. Thanks.

920
01:00:39.815 --> 01:00:46.694
Just a little just a little tip to everybody that's, staying around and still listening for the, getting businesses interested in signing up.

921
01:00:46.694 --> 01:00:51.835
What I find works really well, and it, it it's teach their own marketing strategies.

922
01:00:52.130 --> 01:00:55.110
But I like to have a demo profile just like Jason said.

923
01:00:55.170 --> 01:01:09.785
But I like to go in and click their profile, click their contact page, contact them, click their social media links, and submit a bunch of leads so that I can then display in my video the analytics of a profile page so that you can see all the views that their profile gets.

924
01:01:09.785 --> 01:01:15.005
And I take them to the lead page and I show them all the leads that get generated when they have a listing on the website.

925
01:01:15.385 --> 01:01:15.885
Oftentimes,

926
01:01:16.185 --> 01:01:17.805
business owners are more interested

927
01:01:18.130 --> 01:01:23.810
in connecting the dots that they can they're making an investment in your website and can lead to more business.

928
01:01:23.810 --> 01:01:29.830
So seeing that they can receive leads, seeing how they manage their leads, and seeing that they can get profile statistics,

929
01:01:30.665 --> 01:01:34.845
is something that, that I find really helps get them engaged during the sales process.

930
01:01:34.984 --> 01:01:39.725
So do you have to create a dummy profile and let it sit for a while or can you just do that on a fly?

931
01:01:40.025 --> 01:01:46.420
Or I create a dummy profile and then I I I I I submit leads on different days.

932
01:01:46.640 --> 01:01:49.940
I might I might really amp up that profile for one or two weeks,

933
01:01:50.319 --> 01:01:56.819
so that it looks like there's a lot of activity, it didn't all get submitted on the same day, and then kinda give an idea of what's possible on the website.

934
01:01:57.265 --> 01:01:58.805
And I find that works well.

935
01:01:59.345 --> 01:01:59.845
Great.

936
01:02:00.465 --> 01:02:01.525
Lastly, Martin,

937
01:02:02.625 --> 01:02:08.405
you know, once you understand the the flow of how your what's what your selling points are gonna be,

938
01:02:08.945 --> 01:02:10.890
that might be a good time to invest

939
01:02:11.289 --> 01:02:14.430
in someone to create like a video of what your site's about.

940
01:02:14.970 --> 01:02:19.549
And you can go to a site like Fiverr, and there's lots of people who can make some

941
01:02:19.849 --> 01:02:20.569
videos for you.

942
01:02:20.569 --> 01:02:26.190
And and the video explains the the problem and how your site is the solution, and and they'll take some screenshots

943
01:02:26.495 --> 01:02:32.595
of what the end product is. So once you have that ready, it might be worthwhile to invest in

944
01:02:33.935 --> 01:02:37.455
a whiteboard video where people you know, you've we've all seen them before.

945
01:02:37.455 --> 01:02:41.700
It shows someone typing, you know. Let me send you this link. So I went to fiverr.com.

946
01:02:41.700 --> 01:02:44.360
It's just an awesome website to get help for anything,

947
01:02:44.660 --> 01:02:45.640
creating a logo.

948
01:02:46.260 --> 01:02:47.940
Yeah. I was just there today actually.

949
01:02:47.940 --> 01:02:53.320
So if you just search whiteboard animation or white whiteboard video explainer, all this stuff,

950
01:02:54.075 --> 01:02:57.515
just find someone that's you know medium price, or you know whatever it is.

951
01:02:57.515 --> 01:03:03.215
If this is for your business I would imagine you know spending a couple hundred bucks is definitely worth it.

952
01:03:03.755 --> 01:03:09.115
But if you just want to get your feet wet there's people starting at $15 probably creating something super simple.

953
01:03:09.115 --> 01:03:10.520
I'll I'll share this link here,

954
01:03:11.860 --> 01:03:12.680
in the chat.

955
01:03:13.380 --> 01:03:20.440
And again I would recommend doing this after you know what you're selling prop your value proposition is to your customers.

956
01:03:20.580 --> 01:03:26.505
What pain points you're solving for your customers, because those are the things you want to make sure you mention in your video.

957
01:03:26.565 --> 01:03:27.464
Are you tired

958
01:03:27.845 --> 01:03:30.484
of, you know, can openers, and blah blah blah?

959
01:03:30.484 --> 01:03:34.904
Are you tired of seeing your competitors online, and you're not getting the visibility you want?

960
01:03:35.060 --> 01:03:39.300
You want a simple way to get more customers and leads and quote, blah blah blah.

961
01:03:39.300 --> 01:03:46.340
So once you figure that stuff out, then you can tell the guy who's making, or girl, who's making the video what you want included in the whiteboard video.

962
01:03:46.340 --> 01:03:48.680
And they're usually thirty to sixty seconds long.

963
01:03:50.315 --> 01:03:51.135
Okay. Great.

964
01:03:51.674 --> 01:03:52.174
Alright.

965
01:03:52.714 --> 01:03:53.694
Thank you Martin.

966
01:03:54.474 --> 01:03:56.015
So guys I really wanna

967
01:03:57.355 --> 01:03:59.674
make sure you take advantage of the deal of the week.

968
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969
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970
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971
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972
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973
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974
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975
01:04:27.685 --> 01:04:30.505
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976
01:04:31.020 --> 01:04:31.920
email designbrilliantdirectories

977
01:04:32.940 --> 01:04:39.660
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978
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979
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981
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982
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And lastly,

983
01:04:56.925 --> 01:04:58.705
if you haven't already done so,

984
01:04:59.170 --> 01:05:02.770
join our free LinkedIn marketing strategy network. It's a great way.

985
01:05:02.770 --> 01:05:08.210
If we didn't get to your questions here today, go ahead and continue the conversation there in our LinkedIn group.

986
01:05:08.210 --> 01:05:12.164
You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/linkedin.

987
01:05:12.944 --> 01:05:17.204
Someone from the Brilliant Directories team as well as fellow as well as fellow directory owners,

988
01:05:17.585 --> 01:05:20.005
can respond to your questions there.

989
01:05:20.305 --> 01:05:22.805
So have a great day. Have a great week.

990
01:05:23.140 --> 01:05:28.280
It was a great to be with you in this webinar, and we hope to see you in the next one, in two weeks.

991
01:05:28.421 --> 01:05:29.640
Have a great day, guys.

992
01:05:29.941 --> 01:05:30.921
Alright. Bye, everyone.