WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:07.200 Alright, guys. Let's dive right into it. Welcome to webinar Wednesday. 2 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:10.240 We have people joining us from all around the world. 3 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.059 It's always a pleasure to be with you guys today. 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:15.285 If This is your first time joining. 5 00:00:15.425 --> 00:00:20.325 I'm Jason there on the left, and we're lucky to have, Patrick with us as always. 6 00:00:20.865 --> 00:00:22.085 Patrick has transitioned 7 00:00:22.385 --> 00:00:22.885 into 8 00:00:23.585 --> 00:00:25.205 a new role at the Customization 9 00:00:25.665 --> 00:00:26.165 Experts, 10 00:00:26.785 --> 00:00:28.244 making tools and extensions 11 00:00:28.980 --> 00:00:31.460 to complement the Brilliant Directories platform. 12 00:00:31.460 --> 00:00:34.260 We'll talk about a little bit more on that, in just a bit. 13 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:36.680 But, Patrick, thank you for joining us as well. 14 00:00:37.059 --> 00:00:39.239 It's always a pleasure to be here. Thank you, Jason. 15 00:00:39.540 --> 00:00:44.535 Alright. I'm excited for, today's episode. I think we cover a lot of good topics. 16 00:00:46.195 --> 00:00:49.335 I always like to recommend, if you haven't already done so, 17 00:00:49.795 --> 00:00:52.434 joining our LinkedIn strategy network. 18 00:00:52.754 --> 00:00:59.430 If we don't get to your questions today or if you have questions after the webinar, it's a great place to start a discussion, 19 00:00:59.969 --> 00:01:03.750 see what other directory owners are talking about, and get information, 20 00:01:04.369 --> 00:01:10.835 not only from myself and Patrick, but other members of the Brilliant Directories team, as well as fellow directory owners 21 00:01:11.135 --> 00:01:16.595 like yourself. So you can go to brilliantdirectories.com/linkedin. 22 00:01:16.815 --> 00:01:21.155 It's free to join. Just make sure you're logged in to your LinkedIn account. 23 00:01:22.440 --> 00:01:22.840 Alright. 24 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:27.340 And for those of you who are joining us for the first time, the rules of engagement of webinar Wednesday, 25 00:01:27.720 --> 00:01:30.140 we are here to serve you. 26 00:01:30.360 --> 00:01:39.604 So any questions you have about your directory website or directory websites in general, we will do our best, Patrick and myself, to answer your questions for you. 27 00:01:39.744 --> 00:01:44.645 You can ask questions about marketing your website, setting up your website, coding your website, 28 00:01:45.664 --> 00:01:49.284 strategies on how to generate more traffic and leads and revenue. 29 00:01:49.664 --> 00:01:55.119 If we don't know the answer, we'll do our best to point you in the right direction to a resource that might be able to help you. 30 00:01:55.259 --> 00:02:03.075 And again, you can always post your discussion in that LinkedIn group and maybe some other directory owners, might have a better answer for you as well. 31 00:02:03.075 --> 00:02:07.015 So it's all about community and helping each other out here in Webinar Wednesdays. 32 00:02:07.235 --> 00:02:09.495 So it's great to be with you guys here today. 33 00:02:11.155 --> 00:02:14.535 Alright. Before we dive into the q and a section, 34 00:02:14.970 --> 00:02:19.230 we wanted to Patrick and I were talking before the the webinar, and we thought it would be an important 35 00:02:19.530 --> 00:02:20.909 topic to talk about 36 00:02:21.209 --> 00:02:22.349 when and why 37 00:02:22.810 --> 00:02:24.110 to pay for a customization. 38 00:02:24.569 --> 00:02:30.510 And this can be applied to any platform you're using for your online businesses, not just Brilliant Directories. 39 00:02:31.185 --> 00:02:38.725 Obviously, any platform that you choose, whether it's even a WordPress site or whatever it might be, Shopify for e commerce sites, 40 00:02:39.505 --> 00:02:51.450 there comes a point where there is a limitation to the platform and you might have to pay a developer to to do something for you that's outside the the native scope of the of the native features of a platform. 41 00:02:51.670 --> 00:02:53.769 And it's not a bad thing to do a customization, 42 00:02:54.150 --> 00:02:56.170 but there are appropriate times 43 00:02:56.470 --> 00:02:57.530 to do a customization. 44 00:02:58.525 --> 00:03:00.365 So Pat and I put this quick list together. 45 00:03:00.365 --> 00:03:05.665 Pat, do you wanna maybe take over here and and cover a few of these first points and why they're important to consider? 46 00:03:06.845 --> 00:03:08.625 Absolutely. Be happy to. 47 00:03:08.925 --> 00:03:13.985 The the first point on there and and to me, maybe one of the more important ones is 48 00:03:14.820 --> 00:03:19.480 a lot of times when people are getting started, they start thinking about the finished product. 49 00:03:19.780 --> 00:03:21.960 I often like to give my Facebook analogy 50 00:03:22.340 --> 00:03:23.880 where when Facebook started, 51 00:03:24.420 --> 00:03:27.080 basically, it was a a a website for relationship 52 00:03:27.380 --> 00:03:33.144 status in college kids, and they're able to share photos and basically find out if people were dating or not, 53 00:03:33.605 --> 00:03:36.265 was one of the big, initial uses of that. 54 00:03:36.485 --> 00:03:40.345 Of course, you know, Mark Zuckerberg knew he wanted to monetize it someday. 55 00:03:40.565 --> 00:03:44.185 Wanted one day he wanted to be able to allow marketers to to target 56 00:03:44.849 --> 00:03:45.349 via, 57 00:03:46.049 --> 00:03:47.909 sponsored content and so forth. 58 00:03:48.049 --> 00:03:51.909 A lot of additional features have been added to Facebook since then, of course. 59 00:03:52.049 --> 00:03:58.069 But what he did was he got out quickly, launched quickly, and got people using it, got feedback 60 00:03:58.905 --> 00:04:03.084 from his users, and then continued adding functionality to it. 61 00:04:03.465 --> 00:04:06.685 So before you start spending money in customizations, 62 00:04:07.064 --> 00:04:08.045 I always recommend 63 00:04:08.745 --> 00:04:12.630 launching your website with as basic of an idea as you can get, 64 00:04:13.110 --> 00:04:18.089 getting feedback from your end users, getting feedback from potential businesses that could sign up. 65 00:04:18.470 --> 00:04:29.354 And, basically, once you're certain that you're onto something, that you're getting good feedback, that people are using it, finding out from them what type of customizations you should invest in. 66 00:04:29.354 --> 00:04:30.255 Because oftentimes, 67 00:04:31.275 --> 00:04:33.055 if you start it down the customization 68 00:04:33.435 --> 00:04:38.655 path before getting a proof of concept, you can get discouraged and it could lead to long delays. 69 00:04:39.090 --> 00:04:44.470 And eventually, your idea is gonna die out before you ever truly give it an opportunity to succeed. 70 00:04:45.330 --> 00:04:49.190 So you just said a said a good mouthful there, Pat. So you're telling me 71 00:04:49.570 --> 00:04:52.390 Facebook didn't wait to have all the features they have today. 72 00:04:52.504 --> 00:04:55.884 They launched a proof of concept and have continued 73 00:04:56.185 --> 00:04:58.284 adding features to their site, 74 00:04:58.585 --> 00:04:59.805 you know, ongoing 75 00:05:00.264 --> 00:05:02.044 as the site continue to grow. 76 00:05:02.985 --> 00:05:03.965 That is correct. 77 00:05:04.345 --> 00:05:05.164 And oftentimes, 78 00:05:05.625 --> 00:05:07.645 that's how successful online businesses 79 00:05:08.310 --> 00:05:10.330 start out. They add functionality. 80 00:05:10.710 --> 00:05:12.250 It makes for a great newsletter. 81 00:05:12.550 --> 00:05:18.570 Even I often recommend out of the default functionalities that Brilliant Directories has, you have a two year 82 00:05:18.950 --> 00:05:22.090 marketing strategy of releasing new content to your members. 83 00:05:22.205 --> 00:05:26.225 You're now able to you're now able to post deals. You're now able to post videos. 84 00:05:26.605 --> 00:05:30.865 You can now post photo albums. You can now even with the default functionality, 85 00:05:31.325 --> 00:05:33.985 don't give everything to your members out of the gate. 86 00:05:34.125 --> 00:05:37.825 You wanna hold some, custom functionality and some default functionality 87 00:05:38.180 --> 00:05:44.360 for a later time so you can educate people on these all the all these great features your website eventually is gonna have. 88 00:05:45.300 --> 00:05:45.800 Awesome. 89 00:05:47.620 --> 00:05:48.760 And then with that, 90 00:05:49.220 --> 00:05:54.514 brings us to number two is is it absolutely necessary necessary for your business to operate, 91 00:05:55.215 --> 00:05:56.835 with or without these customizations? 92 00:05:58.095 --> 00:06:03.555 And and that goes into, can you afford it? And will would you be able to get to a proof of concept 93 00:06:03.935 --> 00:06:04.995 without the customizations? 94 00:06:05.294 --> 00:06:11.170 Is that kind of the the idea there is are you able to get to a proof of concept without customizations? 95 00:06:12.670 --> 00:06:13.310 That's correct. 96 00:06:13.310 --> 00:06:19.090 There there are instances where the entire concept is built around a small piece of custom functionality. 97 00:06:19.630 --> 00:06:28.625 Of course, in that in that case, it would make sense to invest in that if it's a part of the core concept and the foundation of what your website's going to be about. 98 00:06:28.685 --> 00:06:32.544 It's quite rare that that's the case. If it is the case, it does make sense. 99 00:06:32.764 --> 00:06:41.780 And, of course, the other exception being if you're an existing brand, if you need to keep up with a certain appearance and it's necessary or you have a significant budget 100 00:06:42.080 --> 00:06:44.340 and you're willing to invest in large customizations 101 00:06:44.960 --> 00:06:52.925 and you can handle a delay on the eventual launch, those would be the the case the cases where maybe customizations would be right for you. 102 00:06:52.925 --> 00:06:56.525 But I'd probably put that at a 5% of cases, Jason, to be honest. 103 00:06:56.525 --> 00:06:59.505 It's quite rare that somebody falls under that category. 104 00:07:00.525 --> 00:07:01.725 I also wanna add to that. 105 00:07:01.725 --> 00:07:07.419 You know, I I frequently talk to people about their directory websites ideas. Daily, I talk to them. 106 00:07:07.419 --> 00:07:11.680 And and we're trying to figure out if Brilliant Directories is the right solution for them. 107 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:16.319 And what I've learned after talking to hundreds, if not thousands of people at this point, 108 00:07:17.414 --> 00:07:22.534 you'll never gonna find a platform that has a % of everything you have in your mind. 109 00:07:22.534 --> 00:07:26.794 So you wanna shoot for a platform that has maybe 80 or 90% 110 00:07:27.095 --> 00:07:30.235 of what you're looking for to help you get to that proof of concept. 111 00:07:31.095 --> 00:07:31.595 And 112 00:07:31.909 --> 00:07:35.129 and then the other 10% or 20% that it's lacking, 113 00:07:35.430 --> 00:07:39.849 those are things that you might want to focus on later after you have a proof of concept. 114 00:07:40.469 --> 00:07:42.490 So when you're searching for a solution, 115 00:07:43.030 --> 00:07:51.685 search for something that has 80 or 90% of of what you're looking for, the core competency of what you're looking to achieve with the website, and then focus on customizations 116 00:07:52.305 --> 00:07:54.805 later. So that's always something to consider also. 117 00:07:56.224 --> 00:07:58.645 Yeah. That's great feedback. I completely agree. 118 00:08:00.090 --> 00:08:02.590 An obvious thing is is have you tried workarounds? 119 00:08:04.889 --> 00:08:05.389 So, 120 00:08:05.850 --> 00:08:11.150 you know, you might not have the functionality you need, and I've worked with lots of platforms over the years. 121 00:08:11.289 --> 00:08:13.965 And I found out by, you know, 122 00:08:14.525 --> 00:08:20.705 what you're really trying to control is the navigation and flow of the user experience on your website for the most part, 123 00:08:21.085 --> 00:08:23.185 when you're trying to create custom functionality. 124 00:08:23.965 --> 00:08:27.185 If you can find workarounds that slightly achieve, 125 00:08:27.870 --> 00:08:30.050 though that navigation and that flow, 126 00:08:30.910 --> 00:08:38.850 you could save yourself a lot of time and money until again, we're gonna keep getting back to it, until you get a proof of concept so you can formally and really correctly 127 00:08:39.230 --> 00:08:41.330 create the customization that you need. 128 00:08:42.005 --> 00:08:45.865 So I'm I'm a big big advocate for finding workarounds, finding alternatives, 129 00:08:46.245 --> 00:08:50.265 or maybe just cutting it out altogether and and saving it for a later time. 130 00:08:50.645 --> 00:08:51.545 And and oftentimes, 131 00:08:52.005 --> 00:08:56.195 it's amazing where where I'll be somebody will reach out to me for a customization, 132 00:08:56.740 --> 00:08:59.320 and it's a customization in their minds. And 133 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:01.800 I inform them it's default functionality. 134 00:09:02.180 --> 00:09:03.960 Or if you just tweak a setting 135 00:09:04.500 --> 00:09:07.640 or if you just tweak this, you're gonna get the full functionality. 136 00:09:07.780 --> 00:09:18.505 Something you thought that was gonna cost you a couple thousand dollars is probably one website audit away or website edit call with a Brilliant Directories coach away from being set up on your website. 137 00:09:18.965 --> 00:09:21.705 So oftentimes, I recommend before you, 138 00:09:22.085 --> 00:09:23.865 even submit a lead in the marketplace, 139 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:26.100 Book a call with a coach. 140 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:41.385 Spend thirty minutes with somebody with brilliant directories that knows the system inside out, telling tell them what you're trying to accomplish, and you'll be surprised how often they can point you in a direction that's very close to what you're looking to get with a workaround within the system itself. 141 00:09:41.385 --> 00:09:43.165 It's a very flexible system. 142 00:09:43.305 --> 00:09:47.225 Or you can also join in webinar Wednesday and and ask your question here also. 143 00:09:47.225 --> 00:09:51.245 So this is a perfect platform for you guys to ask questions like that. 144 00:09:51.704 --> 00:09:52.204 Absolutely. 145 00:09:53.270 --> 00:09:54.410 This one's probably, 146 00:09:55.430 --> 00:09:58.870 the least obvious because we're all inside of our own heads. 147 00:09:59.350 --> 00:10:01.910 When the the people that I do talk to, 148 00:10:02.550 --> 00:10:06.330 they want their website to do everything. They want flying kittens across the homepage. 149 00:10:07.005 --> 00:10:09.645 You know, they want to dominate their industry is where they're coming from. 150 00:10:09.645 --> 00:10:10.525 So they want to do this. 151 00:10:10.525 --> 00:10:16.305 They want they want emails to go out when this happens and and x y and z and and they're trying to dominate the industry. 152 00:10:16.525 --> 00:10:22.050 And they really want their website to be a Swiss army knife that does everything and it blows with the competition out of the water. 153 00:10:22.209 --> 00:10:25.750 One is they probably don't have a budget to do that. Two is they're thinking 154 00:10:26.209 --> 00:10:26.950 $2 155 00:10:27.010 --> 00:10:31.269 especially to just get get a proof of concept off the ground. And number three 156 00:10:31.810 --> 00:10:37.005 is whose ideas are those? Are those in individuals or has a focus group been done? 157 00:10:37.165 --> 00:10:41.345 Have members of your community asked for those features? Does the industry demand 158 00:10:41.805 --> 00:10:42.545 those features? 159 00:10:43.165 --> 00:10:47.825 If it's just your idea and you have a long list of ideas and goals, 160 00:10:48.365 --> 00:10:53.510 you might wanna consider editing that or asking for feedback before investing in customizations 161 00:10:53.970 --> 00:11:00.470 for something that your members may not even want or the industry may not even need for your website to do. 162 00:11:02.610 --> 00:11:05.750 Pat, do you have anything to add about about that understanding 163 00:11:06.875 --> 00:11:10.895 your vision versus what what other peep what your members are actually, 164 00:11:11.435 --> 00:11:14.015 you know, wanting from your website to do? 165 00:11:15.035 --> 00:11:18.575 That's I I do. And and it I would talk to at least 166 00:11:18.990 --> 00:11:23.490 10 potential members. Again, get that initial proof of concept up and running 167 00:11:23.870 --> 00:11:27.330 and sit down face to face time. Business owners will be happy 168 00:11:27.710 --> 00:11:34.130 to sit down and give you feedback because you're basically building a tool that's designed to get them more business. 169 00:11:34.945 --> 00:11:38.485 If they're reluctant, you can always say, hey. I'll give you a year's free membership. 170 00:11:38.704 --> 00:11:40.084 I just would love your feedback. 171 00:11:40.385 --> 00:11:42.644 Here's the here's how it is today. 172 00:11:43.024 --> 00:11:48.565 What functionality would be important to you? Let them tell you. If you start off with your idea 173 00:11:48.910 --> 00:11:51.810 before they're they're able to give you an, an uninfluenced 174 00:11:52.190 --> 00:11:54.290 an unbiased opinion on their end, 175 00:11:54.670 --> 00:12:00.190 you may you may not get the real opinion that you get if you just ask them flat out what their wish list items were. 176 00:12:00.190 --> 00:12:04.610 And you may be surprised that your big idea is nowhere on their needs list. 177 00:12:05.895 --> 00:12:06.395 Exactly. 178 00:12:06.455 --> 00:12:12.395 So imagine you went down the path, you know, you you and your partner, could be a family member, friend, 179 00:12:13.175 --> 00:12:17.915 you know, had a big bright idea and there's not it's not that it's a bad idea, it's just not in demand. 180 00:12:17.940 --> 00:12:26.280 So it's better to find out if it's an in demand idea before going down the I I consider it sometimes the black hole of customizations because, 181 00:12:26.740 --> 00:12:31.860 you know, it can be never ending if if you really don't know exactly what you're asking for from a developer. 182 00:12:31.860 --> 00:12:33.720 And that that's actually another thing is 183 00:12:34.154 --> 00:12:39.295 when you work on customizations with a developer, this is just good knowledge for anyone. 184 00:12:40.154 --> 00:12:42.495 When you're working with a developer, try to, 185 00:12:43.595 --> 00:12:47.695 split your project up into small phases because it's easy to, 186 00:12:49.170 --> 00:12:52.629 it's not a good idea to give the developer up, here, do all of this. 187 00:12:52.930 --> 00:12:56.529 They're not gonna have a target or a goal or a phase one or a phase two. 188 00:12:56.529 --> 00:12:59.829 But if you can break the project down into smaller pieces, 189 00:13:00.255 --> 00:13:04.815 you can say, okay, we're gonna this is our target is to accomplish this one thing. Okay. 190 00:13:04.815 --> 00:13:07.315 This is done. Now we can go on to the next thing. 191 00:13:07.455 --> 00:13:12.435 So you really want to section you wanna create sections and phases for your customization 192 00:13:13.160 --> 00:13:16.940 to not only add sanity for your developer, but to keep you on track, 193 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:19.100 as the as things are getting 194 00:13:19.560 --> 00:13:21.740 completed for you in your development project. 195 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:24.700 And then lastly, 196 00:13:25.404 --> 00:13:28.945 the most important thing is if you're gonna spend money on on something, 197 00:13:30.285 --> 00:13:35.565 unless you have lots of extra cash lying around, you wanna make sure you get a return on your investment. 198 00:13:35.565 --> 00:13:40.545 And generally for websites, it can be different things, but is it gonna help you generate more revenue? 199 00:13:40.710 --> 00:13:43.270 Is it gonna help you bring more traffic to your site? 200 00:13:43.270 --> 00:13:49.130 Or some other type of key performance indicator that's gonna add value to your brand and your organization. 201 00:13:49.510 --> 00:13:51.370 So when you have your list of customizations, 202 00:13:51.910 --> 00:13:53.130 you might wanna outline 203 00:13:54.065 --> 00:14:01.605 the benefit of having that customization so it's clear not only to you but to other maybe your partners or your coworkers when you're trying to present 204 00:14:01.985 --> 00:14:05.205 the customization and lobby that that it needs to get completed. 205 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:10.100 So, you know, just ask yourself what really is the benefit of this customization. 206 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:19.460 You know, one thing at Brilliant Directories, we we are big advocates of trying to save you guys as much money as possible 207 00:14:19.855 --> 00:14:24.115 with your website projects because, you know, Google Ads and customizations 208 00:14:24.655 --> 00:14:30.755 and hiring developers and and SEO, you know, marketers, all this stuff can get very expensive 209 00:14:31.375 --> 00:14:32.115 very quickly. 210 00:14:32.410 --> 00:14:37.950 So our recommendation is try to use the resources and tools that are readily available to you already. 211 00:14:38.250 --> 00:14:42.750 Try to use free resources and tools that are available for marketing your site. 212 00:14:42.810 --> 00:14:47.550 And only when you reach roadblocks and only when you really feel the squeeze and the hurt, 213 00:14:47.935 --> 00:14:49.295 then seek out paid, 214 00:14:49.695 --> 00:14:52.515 paid assistance. That's that's usually the appropriate time, 215 00:14:52.895 --> 00:14:54.115 to seek out additional, 216 00:14:55.055 --> 00:14:56.035 help for hire. 217 00:14:56.895 --> 00:14:59.955 And then with that, we wanna show you guys where you can get 218 00:15:00.910 --> 00:15:04.770 custom if you do need to do customizations on your site. We've mentioned this in previous webinars, 219 00:15:05.550 --> 00:15:08.450 but Brilliant Directories, there is a community of developers, 220 00:15:09.070 --> 00:15:10.190 around Brilliant Directories. 221 00:15:10.190 --> 00:15:15.330 There's also Facebook groups, around Brilliant Directories where you can get, insight from developers. 222 00:15:15.975 --> 00:15:18.555 But if you're if you feel that you need to do a customization 223 00:15:18.935 --> 00:15:21.115 on your Brilliant Directories website, 224 00:15:21.654 --> 00:15:25.435 you can go to marketplace.brilliantdirectories.com. 225 00:15:26.375 --> 00:15:29.115 Here, you can browse to hire, developers. 226 00:15:30.770 --> 00:15:33.990 And what you can do is you can find some you can search here, 227 00:15:34.930 --> 00:15:38.550 and what you can do is you can, you know, click on somebody 228 00:15:39.010 --> 00:15:41.430 that you like. You can read their reviews. 229 00:15:42.130 --> 00:15:45.030 So you can see reviews that they've had from previous jobs. 230 00:15:45.215 --> 00:15:48.595 You can see what their specialties are, maybe it's custom forms, 231 00:15:49.215 --> 00:15:50.115 data importing, 232 00:15:50.415 --> 00:15:51.535 whatever it might be. 233 00:15:51.535 --> 00:15:55.395 And what you can do is you can actually send them a message and request a quote. 234 00:15:55.935 --> 00:16:05.360 So you can come to the marketplace, find who you want, you can share your website link, tell them what you're looking to accomplish, and you can you can you can contact several several people that meet the criteria, 235 00:16:06.140 --> 00:16:07.980 and they'll get back to you with a quote. 236 00:16:07.980 --> 00:16:11.680 And and if you like the quote, then you can move forward with the customization, 237 00:16:12.300 --> 00:16:14.000 on your on your site. 238 00:16:14.545 --> 00:16:16.565 In addition to that, all these developers, 239 00:16:17.665 --> 00:16:23.525 they are certified, Brilliant Directories developers that they've demonstrated an expertise in the software. 240 00:16:24.225 --> 00:16:26.805 They also have extensions that they've built 241 00:16:27.230 --> 00:16:28.370 for Brilliant Directories. 242 00:16:28.990 --> 00:16:33.550 So these are tools and extensions that third party companies have built. 243 00:16:33.550 --> 00:16:39.569 So if you're maybe looking for additional functionality, they may have already created the solution for you here 244 00:16:39.870 --> 00:16:41.410 so that you don't need 245 00:16:41.795 --> 00:16:45.175 to do a customization. You can just probably make a one off payment, 246 00:16:45.714 --> 00:16:46.694 for one of these, 247 00:16:47.394 --> 00:16:50.454 add ons or or, extensions that they've created. 248 00:16:50.514 --> 00:16:54.774 So you guys might wanna take a look and and browse developer plugins and extensions 249 00:16:55.260 --> 00:17:01.600 and see if there's something there that, you need on your site that isn't readily available on the on the native platform. 250 00:17:02.540 --> 00:17:03.740 And with that, 251 00:17:04.220 --> 00:17:08.080 one of the one of the extensions that caught our eye, 252 00:17:08.575 --> 00:17:10.515 here was this one from, 253 00:17:11.135 --> 00:17:15.395 customization experts which is Analytics Pro and it is a free tool 254 00:17:15.695 --> 00:17:20.115 and I'm very amazed with what they've done with the Analytics Pro. 255 00:17:20.655 --> 00:17:23.875 I'm gonna have Patrick tell you a little bit more about 256 00:17:24.230 --> 00:17:28.810 the Analytics Pro. It's a free product and it works on every Brilliant Directories 257 00:17:29.430 --> 00:17:32.650 website and it's gonna give you tremendous insight, 258 00:17:33.510 --> 00:17:34.010 into 259 00:17:35.270 --> 00:17:38.630 the traffic on your site, how many leads are getting processed on your site. 260 00:17:38.630 --> 00:17:46.855 I'm gonna pass it over to Patrick, but that's a little bit on where to get customizations, where to find additional extensions for your Brilliant Directories site. 261 00:17:47.155 --> 00:17:50.675 And because this is a free tool, well, we think it's great for everyone. 262 00:17:50.675 --> 00:17:57.900 So, Pat, I'll pass it over to you, and you can tell everyone a little bit more about what Analytics Pro can do for Brilliant Directories websites. 263 00:17:58.760 --> 00:18:01.980 Thank you very much, Jason. I'm extremely passionate 264 00:18:02.280 --> 00:18:03.340 about this tool. 265 00:18:03.800 --> 00:18:07.340 This tool was built, thanks to some great feedback, 266 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.265 multiple phone calls with the Brilliant Directories customers, 267 00:18:12.045 --> 00:18:17.745 a lot of, conversations here on this webinar. And what we wanted to do is we wanted to build a tool 268 00:18:18.125 --> 00:18:22.225 that a directory owner can use as a foundation for running their directory. 269 00:18:22.789 --> 00:18:27.510 This is such an important tool we feel that it's something that should be 100% 270 00:18:27.510 --> 00:18:28.010 free. 271 00:18:28.470 --> 00:18:32.870 So this is gonna be a free tool for everyone to use. We're constantly gonna be adding to it. 272 00:18:33.110 --> 00:18:36.809 And, Jason, I'm not sure if I have the option to share my screen yet. 273 00:18:37.755 --> 00:18:39.055 Alright. There we go. 274 00:18:40.075 --> 00:18:47.135 So the Analytics Pro is a custom admin module that can be installed inside your billing directory's dashboard. 275 00:18:47.755 --> 00:18:52.975 And what it does is it gives you an overview of important data and metrics 276 00:18:53.610 --> 00:18:58.510 that you can use to analyze what's working, what's not working, spikes, and so forth. 277 00:18:58.810 --> 00:19:05.690 For example, you're able to see how many members you have signed up, how many you've had in the last thirty days, your your month loads. 278 00:19:05.690 --> 00:19:10.365 This is pretty interesting. This is how many page loads you're currently getting for the month. 279 00:19:10.365 --> 00:19:11.345 So we can see, 280 00:19:11.725 --> 00:19:14.045 it's the February 7 and there's been, 281 00:19:14.445 --> 00:19:18.945 16,000 page loads for the month. And today, 1,877 282 00:19:19.245 --> 00:19:20.065 page loads. 283 00:19:20.525 --> 00:19:25.059 You're also able to see how much content has been posted by members. What we mean by content 284 00:19:25.360 --> 00:19:28.660 could be a coupon. It could be an event. It could be a 285 00:19:29.280 --> 00:19:31.540 a photo album. It could be a video. 286 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.240 So we can tell that there's been 260 287 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:38.265 content post within the last thirty days and just under 6,500 288 00:19:38.265 --> 00:19:41.465 in total. We could see how many leads are coming into the site. 289 00:19:41.465 --> 00:19:43.404 We're gonna talk quite a bit about leads, 290 00:19:43.945 --> 00:19:45.245 in just a bit here. 291 00:19:45.705 --> 00:19:46.904 213 292 00:19:46.904 --> 00:19:48.524 in the last thirty days in particular. 293 00:19:49.470 --> 00:19:57.170 This one graph I do like because it lets you analyze the red bar will let you see how many people have logged in on a on a daily basis 294 00:19:57.550 --> 00:20:01.410 throughout the last thirty days. So I find this to be quite helpful 295 00:20:01.755 --> 00:20:05.595 because you can analyze why were there so few people that logged in on this day. 296 00:20:05.595 --> 00:20:11.055 Did we do a social media post? Did an email campaign go out? What did our staff do 297 00:20:11.435 --> 00:20:13.695 to garner that amount of login activity? 298 00:20:14.075 --> 00:20:17.980 You can also see how many sign ups you're getting on a daily basis. 299 00:20:17.980 --> 00:20:22.160 So one day, 76, another day, four, another day, 72. 300 00:20:22.220 --> 00:20:26.299 So what happened on these two days where there's a large spike of sign sign ups? 301 00:20:26.299 --> 00:20:31.360 Me as a directory owner, I would wanna analyze that data. And whatever I'm doing on those days, 302 00:20:31.715 --> 00:20:34.135 you better believe it. I'd like to repeat that behavior 303 00:20:34.435 --> 00:20:36.855 so that we can continue to get a lot of sign ups. 304 00:20:36.915 --> 00:20:40.915 We're also able to see a clean layout of how much content is getting posted. 305 00:20:40.915 --> 00:20:43.255 So we can see we have 27 audio files. 306 00:20:43.555 --> 00:20:46.215 We have, four over 4,000 videos, 307 00:20:46.800 --> 00:20:47.300 etcetera, 308 00:20:47.600 --> 00:20:48.100 etcetera. 309 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:50.740 We can also see the hourly visit, 310 00:20:51.360 --> 00:20:56.180 metrics. So what hours of the day do people come to my site the most? 311 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.900 This is good for also social media post activities or if you wanna have a newsletter 312 00:21:01.275 --> 00:21:02.975 to go out or an email campaign, 313 00:21:03.355 --> 00:21:07.295 it's usually good to send it out a little bit before your spike comes in. 314 00:21:07.595 --> 00:21:11.215 So in this case, it'd be around the the 3AM or 4AM, 315 00:21:11.915 --> 00:21:14.715 time frame so that you can make sure they get their email. 316 00:21:14.715 --> 00:21:17.850 And then according to their behavior, they're gonna come out to your website, 317 00:21:18.710 --> 00:21:22.649 and and check it out. You're also able to see the latest website activity, 318 00:21:23.190 --> 00:21:28.890 and this allow you to see when members are making changes, when they're logging in, when they're making changes, if admins 319 00:21:29.554 --> 00:21:31.235 are making edits to your site as well. 320 00:21:31.235 --> 00:21:39.875 So anytime a member custom, updates their contact details form or post something new, that's gonna show up here, and it does refresh every ten seconds. 321 00:21:39.875 --> 00:21:44.615 So you get some real analytics in terms of what's going on both on the admin side 322 00:21:44.990 --> 00:21:46.930 as well as on the member side. 323 00:21:47.390 --> 00:21:50.770 And what I'm proudest of is the the lead statistics 324 00:21:51.310 --> 00:21:53.890 where you're able to see the lead distribution 325 00:21:54.510 --> 00:21:59.725 based on the status. So in this case, over almost just under 70% 326 00:21:59.785 --> 00:22:04.665 of the leads are still in pending status. Again, Jason, we'll go we'll go into details over leads. 327 00:22:04.665 --> 00:22:06.684 I do have some tabs open for that. 328 00:22:07.065 --> 00:22:10.845 And we can also lead see the lead distribution by membership level. 329 00:22:11.610 --> 00:22:18.170 So this data is interesting to know how many free members are getting leads, how many paid members are getting leads, and what kind of percentage is that? 330 00:22:18.170 --> 00:22:21.370 What does that equal? Am I taking care of my paid members? 331 00:22:21.370 --> 00:22:23.870 Is there a membership tier that's being forgotten? 332 00:22:23.930 --> 00:22:28.465 Do I have to take care of a certain group of people that are members on my website, for example? 333 00:22:28.605 --> 00:22:29.905 Let me ask you a question. 334 00:22:30.845 --> 00:22:34.145 Lots of colors and charts looks really nice. 335 00:22:35.005 --> 00:22:35.505 How 336 00:22:35.885 --> 00:22:37.265 is this going to help 337 00:22:37.645 --> 00:22:38.865 a directory owner 338 00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:44.380 manage their directory better or or generate more revenue from their directory knowing this information? 339 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:50.380 Alright. So, well, the leads in particular, I'll be able to show you very detailed examples of that. 340 00:22:50.520 --> 00:22:53.820 This here is what we call over overview set statistics. 341 00:22:54.285 --> 00:22:58.065 It's good to have a pulse on your website and know what's going on. Absolutely. 342 00:22:58.205 --> 00:23:00.145 Real act they're not really actionable 343 00:23:00.445 --> 00:23:04.705 work that can be done with these two pie graphs. It's just giving you a good overview. 344 00:23:05.485 --> 00:23:07.885 I will be able to show you what you can do with it. 345 00:23:07.885 --> 00:23:12.700 I do wanna show everyone what a lead is before I dive too deep into the leads. 346 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:15.660 So we're gonna go to a regular directory website, 347 00:23:16.120 --> 00:23:18.360 and as you can see, this is a profile page. 348 00:23:18.360 --> 00:23:22.600 So what is considered a lead is whenever somebody contacts a member directly. 349 00:23:22.600 --> 00:23:24.495 So if I were to fill out this form, 350 00:23:24.895 --> 00:23:30.115 this would go into the, into the admin area, and it would most likely 351 00:23:30.655 --> 00:23:32.595 most of the time, it's labeled as pending, 352 00:23:32.895 --> 00:23:37.320 which means the member received the lead, but they have not clicked the link to accept it. 353 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:44.220 The reason it's done that way is you're able to identify which members are not using their profiles and which ones are using their profiles. 354 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:47.500 And with this tool, we're finally able to fully maximize 355 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:53.715 how valuable that information is, and I'll go into detail in terms of how you can leverage that for your website. 356 00:23:53.715 --> 00:23:58.055 And and a reminder, this is a free tool for everyone, so everyone's gonna be able to use this. 357 00:23:58.595 --> 00:24:03.735 Another lead, some people use the get match forms or lead gen forms on their websites. 358 00:24:04.130 --> 00:24:05.990 These are also considered leads. 359 00:24:06.370 --> 00:24:11.190 Now these can get sent out to 10 members at a time. So that's 10 leads gone out. 360 00:24:11.250 --> 00:24:15.825 But it's important to know which ones are accepting those leads and which ones are still set up as pending. 361 00:24:16.304 --> 00:24:17.284 And then, of course, 362 00:24:17.904 --> 00:24:19.125 this is the admin, 363 00:24:19.745 --> 00:24:25.044 this is the admin dashboard for a member. So a member that receives a lead, 364 00:24:25.424 --> 00:24:27.924 they'll get it like this. When we say that it's pending, 365 00:24:28.300 --> 00:24:32.060 it means that they have not clicked on a button to accept it yet. 366 00:24:32.060 --> 00:24:36.240 So they're gonna have to accept the lead or purchase the lead. In this case, 367 00:24:36.620 --> 00:24:42.605 this lead is for sale. So that's that I would need to purchase it for it to go turn to accepted. 368 00:24:42.605 --> 00:24:45.264 So this works for both free leads and paid leads. 369 00:24:45.804 --> 00:24:48.784 So this is what we're talking about when we're talking about leads. 370 00:24:49.565 --> 00:24:50.065 Currently, 371 00:24:50.365 --> 00:24:53.485 in the admin, this is where we go to manage leads. 372 00:24:53.485 --> 00:24:57.300 So you can see all of your pending leads, your matched leads, and your accepted leads. 373 00:24:57.860 --> 00:25:02.520 This is good for managing the leads. It's an amazing platform for that, but it's difficult for you 374 00:25:02.900 --> 00:25:04.280 to know which members 375 00:25:05.220 --> 00:25:08.980 have received the most amount of accepted leads, pending leads, and so forth. 376 00:25:08.980 --> 00:25:10.815 So that's what we've gone ahead and built. 377 00:25:11.215 --> 00:25:14.595 So if you go ahead and you click on view lead details, 378 00:25:15.134 --> 00:25:16.195 all of these modules 379 00:25:16.575 --> 00:25:18.835 provide deeper analytics for your website. 380 00:25:19.534 --> 00:25:22.195 The idea being that I can now see 381 00:25:22.894 --> 00:25:28.870 who has the most amount of pending leads or how many accepted leads, declined leads, and sold out leads. 382 00:25:29.330 --> 00:25:32.050 And and and we also have the amount of profile views. 383 00:25:32.050 --> 00:25:41.905 So for for me, if I'm gonna be on a phone with a potential member, if I were to call the first member at the top, I would wanna tell him that you've accepted three leads. 384 00:25:41.905 --> 00:25:43.685 You have five still pending leads. 385 00:25:43.825 --> 00:25:47.585 And did you know you had x amount of people that have come to your profile? 386 00:25:47.585 --> 00:25:49.605 We were able to give you this much exposure. 387 00:25:49.985 --> 00:25:52.805 I would wanna leverage that into a a partnership, 388 00:25:53.149 --> 00:25:58.130 upsell him to higher tier, or maybe build a partnership with that particular member. 389 00:25:59.710 --> 00:26:02.049 So you're gonna use data of 390 00:26:02.750 --> 00:26:03.250 how, 391 00:26:03.789 --> 00:26:10.575 let's say, how many interactions your website has had with a potential member, like, how many leads you've sent them and they haven't taken any action 392 00:26:10.875 --> 00:26:11.774 to accept, 393 00:26:12.394 --> 00:26:15.914 an inquiry. So then that's an opportunity for you to get on the phone with them. 394 00:26:15.914 --> 00:26:18.635 One, make sure they can log in to their account. Maybe something happened. 395 00:26:18.635 --> 00:26:22.575 They didn't get an email went to their junk folder, and they never came back to the website. 396 00:26:23.860 --> 00:26:27.240 But this is a way to find opportunities to engage, 397 00:26:27.860 --> 00:26:31.559 your your members whether they're highly engaged or less engaged. 398 00:26:32.419 --> 00:26:33.700 That's correct. That's correct. 399 00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:39.159 And for example, here's an example where I do I wanna see everybody that has the most amount of pending leads. 400 00:26:39.335 --> 00:26:41.915 Pending means they've probably never received an email. 401 00:26:42.215 --> 00:26:46.455 Maybe the email's going to the wrong person, or they don't know how to use their membership. 402 00:26:46.455 --> 00:26:51.355 They don't know how to accept the lead. So in this case, these are very lost opportunities. 403 00:26:51.575 --> 00:26:55.450 This member's received 12 leads, has never accepted a single lead. 404 00:26:55.450 --> 00:27:02.910 It's absolutely worth calling this person and trying to help them through their this is an opportunity probably to upsell them, to build a relationship. 405 00:27:03.210 --> 00:27:09.465 There's no easier conversation to have than to have it with somebody that you're sending them business and you're telling them they're missing opportunities. 406 00:27:10.005 --> 00:27:15.304 This is good for claim listings if you have the claim listing add on from Brilliant Directories as well. 407 00:27:15.605 --> 00:27:19.544 You're able to export your list in the CSV with phone numbers and emails. 408 00:27:19.620 --> 00:27:21.559 You can give this to sales team. 409 00:27:21.940 --> 00:27:24.520 You can filter by membership tier if you want. 410 00:27:24.980 --> 00:27:33.080 So you can see I wanna see of my paid members who has the most amount of accepted leads, has the most amount of decline leads, who has the most profile views, 411 00:27:33.394 --> 00:27:36.274 And we'll be adding more and more filters to this. 412 00:27:36.274 --> 00:27:42.134 This is obviously just, the beginning of this, but the idea is this is a a a sales segmentation 413 00:27:42.434 --> 00:27:47.575 tool that gives the directory owner data that's very valuable during a sales call. 414 00:27:48.600 --> 00:27:51.900 I love it, Pat. How long have you guys been working on this? 415 00:27:52.840 --> 00:27:57.080 This tool is probably four months in the making. It was it's been, quite, 416 00:27:57.640 --> 00:27:58.700 quite the project. 417 00:27:59.160 --> 00:27:59.660 Wow. 418 00:28:02.815 --> 00:28:06.835 That's great. Let's see let's see if anyone has any any questions. We can unmute, 419 00:28:07.295 --> 00:28:08.355 some of the microphones. 420 00:28:10.095 --> 00:28:12.035 Martin, I've unmuted your microphone. 421 00:28:12.895 --> 00:28:13.215 Okay. 422 00:28:13.215 --> 00:28:17.680 It's a nice tool and everything, but the main question is, how will we install it on our website? 423 00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:19.260 Patrick, that is 424 00:28:20.140 --> 00:28:21.200 go for it, Patrick. 425 00:28:22.060 --> 00:28:27.280 That is a great question. So I'm gonna put a link inside of the chat right now. 426 00:28:28.140 --> 00:28:28.640 Basically, 427 00:28:29.905 --> 00:28:33.985 it's it's a form that you fill. So all you need to do is you need to fill out the form. 428 00:28:33.985 --> 00:28:35.125 You're gonna get an autoresponder. 429 00:28:35.985 --> 00:28:41.345 You just need to provide us with temporary credentials to your website, and we'll be able to complete the installation. 430 00:28:41.345 --> 00:28:45.980 The installation's quite quick. It usually takes one business day to complete the installation. 431 00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:48.860 There's, probably gonna be quite a few inquiries, 432 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:54.520 tomorrow, I would imagine. So maybe just tomorrow is gonna take one or two days to do that. 433 00:28:54.520 --> 00:28:57.500 But let me go ahead and paste that link right now. Great question. 434 00:28:58.405 --> 00:29:03.945 I think it'll it'll take you to a page like this with a big orange, and it says give me Analytics Pro? 435 00:29:04.645 --> 00:29:08.425 Correct. Okay. And this is a absolutely free tool. Right? 436 00:29:08.885 --> 00:29:14.090 And it automatically it it automatically update in the future? I won't have to do any updates on it? 437 00:29:14.090 --> 00:29:16.030 It'll do it automatically, or how will that work? 438 00:29:16.410 --> 00:29:16.970 That's correct. 439 00:29:16.970 --> 00:29:21.310 If there's an update, everybody that has an installation will get an email, and they'll have the option 440 00:29:21.930 --> 00:29:26.535 of getting the update or not. That'll be entirely up to you. But as we're adding functionality, 441 00:29:27.554 --> 00:29:29.655 you'll you'll definitely have that that opportunity. 442 00:29:30.835 --> 00:29:31.655 Okay. Thanks. 443 00:29:32.275 --> 00:29:36.195 My pleasure. That was probably the most important question is how do you get it? 444 00:29:36.195 --> 00:29:37.174 So thank you, Martin. 445 00:29:37.635 --> 00:29:38.135 Alright. 446 00:29:39.270 --> 00:29:42.470 Okay. Great. So that is, an awesome extension. It's free. 447 00:29:42.790 --> 00:29:48.870 There's probably more out there from the developers in the marketplace that are just building tools around the Brilliant Directories platform. 448 00:29:48.870 --> 00:29:56.285 So we're really excited to see all this rallying around the Brilliant Directories platform and and seeing developers get involved in creating more tools, 449 00:29:56.825 --> 00:29:57.565 and extensions 450 00:29:57.945 --> 00:29:58.925 for you guys. 451 00:29:59.465 --> 00:30:00.345 I saw some 452 00:30:01.145 --> 00:30:05.785 I was gonna go into the q and a section now, but I did see some people type in questions. 453 00:30:05.785 --> 00:30:08.240 We had an add on that was recently 454 00:30:08.540 --> 00:30:13.120 released, and I just wanna show how that works. Let me just show you guys what that is. 455 00:30:13.180 --> 00:30:19.040 This was the lead price by category add on. So I'll just go to the add ons page here. 456 00:30:20.060 --> 00:30:21.840 This is also a game 457 00:30:22.215 --> 00:30:26.475 changer for your website. So this is already released. We'll we'll remove this banner here. 458 00:30:26.695 --> 00:30:27.195 Basically, 459 00:30:28.855 --> 00:30:32.715 actually, it ties in because Pat just did a big presentation on the importance of leads. 460 00:30:33.095 --> 00:30:34.230 Up until now, 461 00:30:34.790 --> 00:30:40.490 you were able to define the price that a member would pay for a lead based on their membership level. 462 00:30:40.950 --> 00:30:44.730 So, let me show you where that was before. You would go to the 463 00:30:45.429 --> 00:30:46.410 manage products. 464 00:30:47.684 --> 00:30:52.645 You'd edit the different membership levels and then you can define what the price of the lead would be. 465 00:30:52.645 --> 00:31:01.480 So in this case, a basic listing would pay $10 for a lead and a prime business, you know, someone at a higher level would pay a lower price for a lead. 466 00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:03.500 And that was all you were able to do. 467 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:05.820 With the lead price by category, 468 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:09.980 it kind of extends that. You can actually set the price 469 00:31:10.760 --> 00:31:11.260 per 470 00:31:12.415 --> 00:31:14.895 category requested in the lead. So I'll show you an example. 471 00:31:14.895 --> 00:31:17.155 So this site has one top level category, 472 00:31:18.095 --> 00:31:22.275 carpet and rug cleaners. I'm just gonna see make sure everyone can see the screen. Yes. 473 00:31:22.975 --> 00:31:25.475 So he has different sublevel categories. 474 00:31:26.370 --> 00:31:30.630 For example, he has commercial carpet cleaning and regular carpet cleaners. 475 00:31:31.170 --> 00:31:33.590 So what we can do is we can set the price. 476 00:31:33.810 --> 00:31:37.750 A commercial carpet cleaning lead can be a hundred dollars 477 00:31:38.210 --> 00:31:40.870 and a regular carpet clean cleaning lead 478 00:31:41.185 --> 00:31:42.465 could be $25 479 00:31:42.465 --> 00:31:46.785 and maybe a mattress cleaning can be 500. I'm just doing these as an example. 480 00:31:46.785 --> 00:31:48.485 Let me save the changes here. 481 00:31:49.745 --> 00:31:50.245 Okay. 482 00:31:50.705 --> 00:31:57.350 Now let's submit the lead through the website asking for a mattress cleaning professional. So 483 00:31:58.690 --> 00:32:00.549 this is our sample website here, 484 00:32:01.490 --> 00:32:05.350 and we're using this is a lead gen form to get find carpet cleaners. 485 00:32:05.809 --> 00:32:09.669 So what we'll do is we'll just fill out the form. This is a residential project. 486 00:32:10.049 --> 00:32:11.030 How many rooms? 487 00:32:11.490 --> 00:32:15.245 Just two. And I'll put my name here and my email, 488 00:32:15.945 --> 00:32:17.804 just jason@bd.com. 489 00:32:18.745 --> 00:32:20.125 I'll put my phone number, 490 00:32:21.784 --> 00:32:27.164 and the location, I'll put a location of a member I know there's that there is someone, Colorado Springs. 491 00:32:27.830 --> 00:32:29.670 And here it says select a specialty. 492 00:32:29.670 --> 00:32:33.910 So this is where people are gonna choose the category of the interest they're looking for. 493 00:32:33.910 --> 00:32:45.655 So if you're a local business site, maybe you wanna charge more for attorney and lawyer leads as opposed to dog walking leads or roofing leads because there is different value for the service that's being requested. 494 00:32:46.275 --> 00:32:49.895 So in this case, I'm gonna select mattress cleaning and if you guys remember, 495 00:32:50.355 --> 00:32:51.895 that was a $500 496 00:32:51.955 --> 00:32:55.975 lead for mattress cleaning. So I'll just go ahead and submit this lead. 497 00:32:59.500 --> 00:33:04.880 Alright. It says, your message has been sent. Thank you. So I'm already logged in as this member. 498 00:33:05.100 --> 00:33:09.120 So if I go to edit listing, I should have a new lead waiting for me. 499 00:33:12.625 --> 00:33:14.465 Let me see here. Oh, you know what? 500 00:33:14.465 --> 00:33:18.865 Actually, I don't think this member is listed that they offer mattress cleaning services. 501 00:33:18.865 --> 00:33:20.965 I did a previous one for, 502 00:33:21.904 --> 00:33:23.284 commercial carpet cleaning. 503 00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:26.440 Let's add them to I'm just because it's really important. 504 00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:29.180 Let me just add them to the mattress cleaning category. 505 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:32.360 See, it's not checked here, so we're gonna add them. 506 00:33:32.360 --> 00:33:36.140 That's why the lead wasn't matched with this person. So let me remove one. 507 00:33:37.745 --> 00:33:39.765 Mattress cleaning. There we go. 508 00:33:40.385 --> 00:33:40.885 Oops. 509 00:33:41.345 --> 00:33:44.065 See what's going on. This the number changed. Alright. 510 00:33:44.065 --> 00:33:46.705 So now let's do let's get rid of a few of these. Alright. 511 00:33:46.705 --> 00:33:49.845 Let's do mattress cleaning now and save the changes. 512 00:33:51.140 --> 00:33:53.640 Alright. I'm gonna submit submit the lead again. 513 00:33:55.539 --> 00:33:59.299 Now that this member is connected to the mattress, and that's what I love about the system. 514 00:33:59.299 --> 00:34:00.120 It'll automatically 515 00:34:00.659 --> 00:34:03.240 match the members with leads based on the category 516 00:34:03.745 --> 00:34:05.345 and the location being requested. 517 00:34:05.345 --> 00:34:09.764 So the system does all the work for you, and then it's up to the member if they wanna purchase 518 00:34:10.065 --> 00:34:10.885 that lead. 519 00:34:12.145 --> 00:34:15.045 So Jason at BD, and I'll just put a phone number. 520 00:34:17.025 --> 00:34:19.125 And we'll do Colorado Springs again, 521 00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:20.620 and we'll select 522 00:34:21.080 --> 00:34:23.739 mattress cleaning. And I'll go ahead and submit this. 523 00:34:26.040 --> 00:34:27.500 Get free quotes now. 524 00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:31.980 Alright. Your message has been sent. So let's log back into Hydro Clean, 525 00:34:33.795 --> 00:34:37.494 And now we have a new notification. So now it says there's two leads pending, 526 00:34:37.795 --> 00:34:39.175 and here's the new one. 527 00:34:39.395 --> 00:34:43.635 So it's autumn the system is auto automatically matched the lead with Hydro Clean. 528 00:34:43.635 --> 00:34:47.655 Hydro Clean gets an email saying, hey, we have a new lead for you. And voila, 529 00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:50.980 The lead price is $500 530 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:51.699 because 531 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:54.100 the option was mattress cleaning. 532 00:34:55.120 --> 00:34:56.100 So this is 533 00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:59.280 this is a game changer if you're looking to generate more revenue. 534 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:02.820 It was very limited just by membership level setting the lead price. 535 00:35:04.215 --> 00:35:08.155 Pat, do you have any comments on this and and and the benefits or any questions? 536 00:35:09.575 --> 00:35:10.075 Outstanding. 537 00:35:10.855 --> 00:35:12.875 If it's just amazing that 538 00:35:13.255 --> 00:35:14.715 most directories I've seen, 539 00:35:15.015 --> 00:35:16.955 the I'd say half of the services, 540 00:35:17.570 --> 00:35:22.710 it's really hard to charge for those in a lead, but you don't wanna just give away a corporate contract, 541 00:35:23.890 --> 00:35:25.350 just for free either. 542 00:35:25.490 --> 00:35:31.970 So directory owners have always been in a difficult position to to figure out how do I charge for certain services and not for others. 543 00:35:31.970 --> 00:35:34.115 And this tool allows you to maximize, 544 00:35:35.135 --> 00:35:37.455 your revenue essentially and not miss out on the 545 00:35:38.175 --> 00:35:38.915 and earn 546 00:35:39.295 --> 00:35:42.515 depending on the type of business that you're sending their way, which is fantastic. 547 00:35:43.135 --> 00:35:45.715 So just give you guys a little logic of how it works. 548 00:35:46.370 --> 00:35:50.310 So you obviously, your site has sublevel categories and top level categories. 549 00:35:51.810 --> 00:35:56.870 If the sublevel of that category has a price, that will be the price presented to the member. 550 00:35:57.170 --> 00:36:02.085 If the there is no sublevel category price, but there is a price for the top level category, 551 00:36:02.625 --> 00:36:07.285 then that will be the price the member pays. And if none of the categories have prices, 552 00:36:08.065 --> 00:36:12.225 set, then it will fall back to the price set in the membership level. 553 00:36:12.225 --> 00:36:15.685 So that will be the hierarchy of how the lead price is selected. 554 00:36:16.350 --> 00:36:20.350 So shout out to the dev team at Brilliant Directories. I think this is a super valuable tool. 555 00:36:20.350 --> 00:36:24.990 If you guys are part of the VIP add ons club, this will automatically get added to your site. 556 00:36:24.990 --> 00:36:30.130 If you don't see it, just email the support team, and they'll make sure that you guys have lead price by category 557 00:36:30.695 --> 00:36:31.755 on your website. 558 00:36:33.015 --> 00:36:35.115 Okay. We were top heavy on 559 00:36:35.495 --> 00:36:39.035 some presentation stuff today, but super valuable. That's okay. 560 00:36:39.495 --> 00:36:42.045 So now let's get into some of the the fun stuff, and, Patrick and I will do our best to, answer your questions. 561 00:36:42.045 --> 00:36:42.810 And, also, we're we're 562 00:36:44.730 --> 00:36:47.850 answer your questions. And, also, we're we're one man short. 563 00:36:48.090 --> 00:36:51.530 I'm gonna do my best to answer as many questions as I can in the chat, 564 00:36:52.090 --> 00:36:56.625 but just wanna let you guys know that, that we'll do our best to answer all the questions that are asked today. 565 00:36:56.705 --> 00:37:00.865 That's right. We usually have Gabe with us on the webinars. He's just not available today. 566 00:37:01.185 --> 00:37:05.445 So he's here with us in spirit, but we are one man short for the webinars. 567 00:37:07.025 --> 00:37:12.670 Alright. So let's start with the a's. And, Arlana. I'll unmute your microphone. How are you, Arlana? 568 00:37:14.570 --> 00:37:17.150 Great. Thank you. Where are you calling in from? 569 00:37:18.810 --> 00:37:20.270 Kelowna, British Columbia. 570 00:37:20.570 --> 00:37:23.150 Okay. K. Great. And what's your question for us today? 571 00:37:23.984 --> 00:37:24.464 It's 572 00:37:24.865 --> 00:37:26.484 how do I find the analytics 573 00:37:27.825 --> 00:37:29.684 for my for the actual, 574 00:37:31.664 --> 00:37:34.164 the page, like, where I can enter keywords 575 00:37:34.625 --> 00:37:38.980 and, you know, to improve the SEO of the entire site? Sure. 576 00:37:38.980 --> 00:37:42.680 I know everybody has their own individual one as a member, 577 00:37:43.380 --> 00:37:43.880 but 578 00:37:44.180 --> 00:37:47.560 I can't remember how to find where I can enter that information, 579 00:37:48.660 --> 00:37:52.724 as an there must be some place to put in the information as a whole. Yes. There is. 580 00:37:52.724 --> 00:37:55.305 What's your site? I'll show you where you can do that. 581 00:37:55.924 --> 00:37:56.424 Okay. 582 00:37:57.765 --> 00:37:59.865 Holistic essentials wellness directory. 583 00:38:00.884 --> 00:38:04.505 Alright. Let's see, and I'll show you I'll show you a couple places. 584 00:38:05.369 --> 00:38:07.869 Beautiful. So, let's go to your home page. 585 00:38:08.089 --> 00:38:11.529 And can you tell me, for example, where you're trying to edit the SEO? 586 00:38:11.529 --> 00:38:14.269 Is it of of your home page, the search results pages, 587 00:38:15.369 --> 00:38:17.710 static web pages that you've custom created? 588 00:38:20.085 --> 00:38:29.305 Well, I I was thinking I I mean, I know how to go in and do it, individually for my pages and for members, but overall for the directory itself. 589 00:38:29.765 --> 00:38:30.745 Gotcha. So, 590 00:38:31.765 --> 00:38:33.065 let me give you an example. 591 00:38:34.460 --> 00:38:38.000 You have a section in your admin called SEO templates, 592 00:38:39.019 --> 00:38:39.519 and 593 00:38:39.819 --> 00:38:44.720 this is for all your dynamic pages. And I'll give you an example. Let me scroll down. 594 00:38:44.859 --> 00:38:49.039 So, for example, you have the the write a review page for the members. 595 00:38:49.994 --> 00:38:51.855 Let's go to one of your members pages 596 00:38:52.234 --> 00:38:52.974 real quick, 597 00:38:55.515 --> 00:38:56.974 and we'll view the listing. 598 00:38:59.115 --> 00:39:01.694 And we'll write we'll click on write a review. 599 00:39:03.130 --> 00:39:04.670 So this page has, 600 00:39:05.930 --> 00:39:09.770 some SEO details that you can edit. And I'll just I'm gonna go look at the source code. 601 00:39:09.770 --> 00:39:12.430 You can already see in the title, it says rate and review, 602 00:39:13.770 --> 00:39:14.270 expressions, 603 00:39:14.730 --> 00:39:18.845 the the name of the company, basically. Let me go into the source the source of the page 604 00:39:19.465 --> 00:39:22.125 here. So we can see the the meta the title here. 605 00:39:23.385 --> 00:39:24.985 And so this is a dynamic page. 606 00:39:24.985 --> 00:39:30.845 It uses a template because it'll it'll use the same model for all the the members write a review page. 607 00:39:31.145 --> 00:39:32.525 So if you're ever wondering 608 00:39:33.290 --> 00:39:34.910 how to edit the 609 00:39:35.450 --> 00:39:40.109 the template that's that will be applied to all the the members' pages like the write a review page, 610 00:39:40.490 --> 00:39:44.430 when you do visit website from the admin area, you'll have 611 00:39:44.810 --> 00:39:48.675 this admin bar on on on your site, which means you're logged in as an 612 00:39:49.555 --> 00:39:51.975 admin. What you can do very easily 613 00:39:52.355 --> 00:39:58.375 when you toggle open this admin bar when you're on a page, you can see here it says edit SEO template 614 00:39:58.995 --> 00:40:00.215 one zero two. 615 00:40:00.755 --> 00:40:02.375 And if you click on this, 616 00:40:03.430 --> 00:40:08.490 it'll take us to the admin. There won't be any content in here, but if you scroll down, 617 00:40:09.830 --> 00:40:15.610 these are the SEO meta details. And if we look closely, we can see that it says rate and review, 618 00:40:16.235 --> 00:40:23.215 and then it's using a variable here, which is the member's full name because this is a template that will be applied to all the different members pages, 619 00:40:23.755 --> 00:40:26.575 their write a review page, their contact us page, etcetera. 620 00:40:27.755 --> 00:40:31.410 So if you wanted to change this, you can embed keywords, 621 00:40:31.950 --> 00:40:34.050 you know, that this is the member's full name, 622 00:40:34.350 --> 00:40:40.130 this is their profession name, their top level category, and then it says reviews on your website name. 623 00:40:40.670 --> 00:40:41.170 So, 624 00:40:41.790 --> 00:40:46.210 here you can edit the SEO meta details of your page title, 625 00:40:46.805 --> 00:40:49.285 the meta keywords, and the meta description. 626 00:40:49.285 --> 00:40:53.305 And you what you wanna do is you wanna use these things that are in percentage signs. 627 00:40:53.605 --> 00:40:55.765 These are different variables of the members. 628 00:40:55.765 --> 00:40:58.325 So the full name will always use the member's full name. 629 00:40:58.325 --> 00:41:02.900 So if we wanted to do full name reviews as a keyword and then comma, 630 00:41:03.520 --> 00:41:05.060 you know, so on and so forth, 631 00:41:05.600 --> 00:41:08.020 that's that's a way to kind of enhance, 632 00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:10.080 the SEO of the site. 633 00:41:10.080 --> 00:41:15.380 But the way you access it is from the go to one of the pages you you wanna change the SEO 634 00:41:16.404 --> 00:41:16.904 template 635 00:41:17.444 --> 00:41:23.224 of toggle open the admin bar, click on the SEO template, and just scroll down to the sidebar here. 636 00:41:23.365 --> 00:41:24.585 And you want to create, 637 00:41:24.885 --> 00:41:28.664 we've talked about this in previous webinars, but you want to create nice powerful 638 00:41:29.619 --> 00:41:33.800 meta titles, keywords, and descriptions for all your pages. We've already started you guys out, 639 00:41:34.500 --> 00:41:42.345 with with good quality stuff, but you can always take it to the next level, if you're if you have SEO goals and and specific targets you're trying to reach. 640 00:41:42.825 --> 00:41:44.525 Does that does that answer your question? 641 00:41:45.065 --> 00:41:47.244 Well, is there is there a way to, 642 00:41:47.945 --> 00:41:48.845 increase it 643 00:41:49.145 --> 00:41:49.885 for the 644 00:41:50.345 --> 00:41:52.605 the website itself rather than individual 645 00:41:53.305 --> 00:41:53.805 pages? 646 00:41:55.869 --> 00:41:59.150 Yeah. So so we like I said, we've we've started you off, 647 00:41:59.470 --> 00:42:04.450 with with lots of good keywords built into here, like the member's name, the name of your website, 648 00:42:05.310 --> 00:42:08.030 the the top level category the member's a part of. 649 00:42:08.030 --> 00:42:13.255 So if you wanted to enhance each, there's a lot of control here. That's that's why you have, 650 00:42:13.954 --> 00:42:16.135 access to all these different types of pages. 651 00:42:16.994 --> 00:42:17.894 These are different 652 00:42:18.194 --> 00:42:19.494 combinations of pages, 653 00:42:19.875 --> 00:42:23.575 top level category search results, search results for sublevel categories, 654 00:42:24.035 --> 00:42:27.000 combinations of top level and sublevel categories. 655 00:42:27.859 --> 00:42:29.799 The SEO is already done for you. 656 00:42:29.940 --> 00:42:37.640 You the only reason you'd wanna go page by page to enhance it is if you have additional keywords you wanna inject into those. 657 00:42:38.785 --> 00:42:42.165 A good a quick way to do it is to go to your general settings, 658 00:42:43.185 --> 00:42:47.925 and a lot of times we're injecting the industry name and the profession name 659 00:42:48.305 --> 00:42:48.805 into 660 00:42:49.265 --> 00:42:52.565 the meta information of those, the SEO details, 661 00:42:53.140 --> 00:42:55.480 the the meta the metadata details. So, 662 00:42:56.420 --> 00:43:05.460 if you want certain keywords to always be repeated on the page, in your SEO details to rank well for those, just make sure they're part of your industry and your profession name. 663 00:43:05.460 --> 00:43:09.825 I wouldn't spam it. I would still keep it relatively short and just answer what it's asking you. 664 00:43:09.825 --> 00:43:14.065 For example, what is the profession of the site? Interior designer. You did a good job. 665 00:43:14.065 --> 00:43:16.085 You did holistic health and wellness business, 666 00:43:16.545 --> 00:43:21.505 and wellness products and services as the industry. So you've done a good job here. I am 667 00:43:22.220 --> 00:43:23.260 you might wanna put, 668 00:43:23.660 --> 00:43:25.920 wellness products and holistic services 669 00:43:26.460 --> 00:43:30.400 just to get an extra keyword in here. Do you want do you mind if I save this 670 00:43:31.339 --> 00:43:32.160 for your industry? 671 00:43:32.859 --> 00:43:33.920 Yeah. Okay. 672 00:43:34.140 --> 00:43:43.015 Well, there it is, both spellings are acceptable, but, yes, I don't I don't have it spelled with just the h in very places. 673 00:43:43.015 --> 00:43:45.355 So I probably should include that somewhere. 674 00:43:45.655 --> 00:43:47.175 That that was one of my questions, 675 00:43:47.974 --> 00:43:50.555 to incorporate words that maybe are not 676 00:43:51.335 --> 00:43:52.555 part of the, 677 00:43:52.970 --> 00:43:54.190 you know, the main descriptor. 678 00:43:54.569 --> 00:43:58.990 So, holistic with a w, that's you're doing that for branding purposes. Right? 679 00:44:00.650 --> 00:44:02.430 Well, partly, but the there's 680 00:44:03.289 --> 00:44:03.789 holistic. 681 00:44:04.250 --> 00:44:07.015 It it does have a bit of a different meaning. Gotcha. Okay. 682 00:44:07.015 --> 00:44:11.015 So it's it's it's a keyword in of itself. So, yeah, you can stick with that. And, 683 00:44:11.575 --> 00:44:18.235 yeah, these are some ways that, you have access to your SEO so you can, you know, amp it up however however you see fit. 684 00:44:19.970 --> 00:44:22.930 Okay. Alright. I'll start with that. Thank you. Alright. I'm, 685 00:44:23.650 --> 00:44:25.750 I just wanna check one thing also. 686 00:44:27.809 --> 00:44:30.710 I wanna I wanna try something. I just wanna Google 687 00:44:33.325 --> 00:44:34.785 holistic wellness directory. 688 00:44:38.685 --> 00:44:41.585 So okay. What I wanted to see is if Google is recommending 689 00:44:42.765 --> 00:44:46.385 which spelling. Google is recommending the holistic with an h. 690 00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:52.180 I'm not I'm not even the first result is is the holistic with an h here. 691 00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:56.100 But you're saying it is a it is a word, 692 00:44:56.640 --> 00:44:58.900 and it's a known word in the industry. So, 693 00:45:00.855 --> 00:45:06.135 okay, probably just has less search volume. Here's here's doctor Posner's Holistic Wellness. Okay. 694 00:45:06.135 --> 00:45:11.095 I'm with you. Alright, Arlana. Thank you so much for sharing your site with us. Okay. Thank you. 695 00:45:11.095 --> 00:45:11.755 You're welcome. 696 00:45:12.135 --> 00:45:15.835 Alright, Lisa. And we we have a we have a question from a Colette, 697 00:45:16.750 --> 00:45:19.150 and it's it's a simple one, to to answer. 698 00:45:19.150 --> 00:45:27.490 She just wants us to explain what the list in all locations is for under quick edits for members, and if we could talk about that a little bit. 699 00:45:28.030 --> 00:45:28.530 Absolutely. 700 00:45:30.505 --> 00:45:31.465 So there is, 701 00:45:32.105 --> 00:45:33.165 really cool functionality. 702 00:45:33.625 --> 00:45:35.005 I'll show you guys an example. 703 00:45:36.185 --> 00:45:36.685 So 704 00:45:37.385 --> 00:45:40.125 as you know, you can do location searches on a website. 705 00:45:41.945 --> 00:45:42.445 And 706 00:45:43.160 --> 00:45:47.980 when you do a location search, you can find members. I'll just type California here. 707 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.740 Or I guess this site is only searching Canada, so let's do 708 00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:54.780 Toronto. 709 00:45:56.280 --> 00:45:57.580 So you do search, 710 00:45:58.815 --> 00:46:00.915 and there's three members in Toronto. 711 00:46:02.015 --> 00:46:03.875 Now there is a feature 712 00:46:04.895 --> 00:46:05.395 where 713 00:46:05.695 --> 00:46:09.234 you can and I'll and I'm in the search members area of the admin. 714 00:46:09.615 --> 00:46:11.315 You can do a quick edit, 715 00:46:13.610 --> 00:46:17.550 And actually, let me let me do something here. So Bonita Summers. 716 00:46:17.930 --> 00:46:20.910 Bonita Summers is not one of the three results 717 00:46:21.690 --> 00:46:26.170 here in the search results. I'm just gonna quickly, I'm gonna I'm gonna switch this back, Arlana. 718 00:46:26.170 --> 00:46:27.150 No worries here. 719 00:46:27.455 --> 00:46:30.035 So I'm gonna set her there is a listing setting 720 00:46:30.495 --> 00:46:32.595 to list the member in all locations. 721 00:46:33.375 --> 00:46:35.395 And basically, what that means is 722 00:46:35.695 --> 00:46:36.995 no matter what location 723 00:46:37.695 --> 00:46:39.155 is searched on the site, 724 00:46:39.455 --> 00:46:40.915 that member will always 725 00:46:41.230 --> 00:46:44.210 show up in the location. So that's gonna give the member 726 00:46:44.510 --> 00:46:45.490 huge exposure 727 00:46:45.790 --> 00:46:48.530 throughout the website for all location if they're available 728 00:46:48.990 --> 00:46:51.010 through with all location searches. 729 00:46:51.310 --> 00:46:53.250 So this could be another upsell 730 00:46:53.735 --> 00:46:57.575 if someone upgrades to a higher level, you're gonna list them in all locations. 731 00:46:57.575 --> 00:46:58.955 Maybe they service nationwide 732 00:46:59.255 --> 00:47:01.595 all over Canada or The US or worldwide. 733 00:47:02.135 --> 00:47:06.535 So listing them in all locations will definitely give them more visibility throughout the site. 734 00:47:06.535 --> 00:47:09.195 And now you can see we have four results 735 00:47:09.710 --> 00:47:11.009 here in the search results. 736 00:47:11.549 --> 00:47:14.930 And here's Bonita Summers here, the person we just added, 737 00:47:15.390 --> 00:47:18.990 to list in all locations. She will show up for all location searches. 738 00:47:18.990 --> 00:47:24.769 Now, if you do a keyword or a category search plus locations, if she's not part of that category, 739 00:47:25.895 --> 00:47:30.795 she won't show up for that category plus location search. She'll she would have to be the category, 740 00:47:31.255 --> 00:47:33.515 at least in the category and then any location 741 00:47:33.895 --> 00:47:34.555 to qualify, 742 00:47:34.935 --> 00:47:38.075 in the search results. Let me switch this back real quick. 743 00:47:38.550 --> 00:47:40.570 So this is a really awesome tool. 744 00:47:41.030 --> 00:47:46.730 Everyone should have this on their Brilliant Directories website, and it's a great way to upsell your members to get additional visibility 745 00:47:47.110 --> 00:47:48.730 throughout your directory website. 746 00:47:50.870 --> 00:47:53.450 Alright. She's gone now, and there's only, 747 00:47:54.705 --> 00:47:56.725 three results back to normal here. 748 00:47:58.305 --> 00:48:01.685 Alright, Colette. Great question there, and it's a great way to show that feature off. 749 00:48:03.425 --> 00:48:06.005 Alright. Let's see more questions here. 750 00:48:07.030 --> 00:48:10.330 Alright, David. We'll, we'll come back to you now. How's it going, David? 751 00:48:10.950 --> 00:48:12.250 Good. Thank you, Jason. 752 00:48:12.950 --> 00:48:15.850 My site is the best of Golf, 753 00:48:17.110 --> 00:48:17.610 and, 754 00:48:18.310 --> 00:48:20.970 we have on our profile, on our member profile, 755 00:48:21.675 --> 00:48:23.615 we have a place that they can, 756 00:48:24.155 --> 00:48:26.095 put in if they have, an online, 757 00:48:27.355 --> 00:48:28.175 booking engine. 758 00:48:28.715 --> 00:48:31.855 So so they to go to that to that site, 759 00:48:32.235 --> 00:48:35.935 but the, the one of the sites we're using also provides 760 00:48:36.555 --> 00:48:37.135 a script 761 00:48:37.730 --> 00:48:38.230 code, 762 00:48:39.010 --> 00:48:44.470 for you know, so you could put it, like, into a a a WordPress site or something so it will just pop up. 763 00:48:45.329 --> 00:48:48.309 And I could I figured out how to get it to pop up 764 00:48:48.609 --> 00:48:53.825 on the site in general through a sidebar, but but it was, you know, it was showing up on everybody's page. 765 00:48:53.825 --> 00:48:56.325 So I wanna know if there's a way to 766 00:48:56.625 --> 00:48:59.525 to be able to put that that attach that that, 767 00:48:59.825 --> 00:49:02.885 you know, personal script if you like to the 768 00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:04.820 book now button 769 00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:06.820 on a on a particular 770 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:08.180 member's profile. 771 00:49:09.040 --> 00:49:10.580 Yeah. Go into go into members 772 00:49:11.520 --> 00:49:16.100 Okay. And search for Balbi, b a l b I. Yeah. That's me there. 773 00:49:17.904 --> 00:49:18.805 And you'll see 774 00:49:19.105 --> 00:49:19.605 that, 775 00:49:21.424 --> 00:49:24.565 there's a, there's a button down there about halfway down, 776 00:49:26.944 --> 00:49:27.684 that says, 777 00:49:28.464 --> 00:49:28.964 yeah. 778 00:49:29.585 --> 00:49:32.164 View schedule. Right? So that is, 779 00:49:33.230 --> 00:49:34.530 yeah. Turn me off. 780 00:49:35.150 --> 00:49:36.369 That is the link, 781 00:49:36.750 --> 00:49:38.050 but but I have, 782 00:49:39.150 --> 00:49:41.970 you know, I have a piece of code, the script code 783 00:49:42.349 --> 00:49:44.050 that that would allow this 784 00:49:44.589 --> 00:49:46.290 schedule to pop up 785 00:49:47.385 --> 00:49:48.585 within brilliant directions. 786 00:49:48.585 --> 00:49:52.505 I'd like people, you know, I would like to not have them be taken to an external side. 787 00:49:52.505 --> 00:49:53.645 I'd like to keep them 788 00:49:54.025 --> 00:49:55.965 within the member's profile page. 789 00:49:56.425 --> 00:49:56.925 And 790 00:49:57.465 --> 00:50:02.925 so, you know, is it is this, something that can be done even, you know, whether it's something you do or or 791 00:50:03.840 --> 00:50:04.900 or within the customization. 792 00:50:05.200 --> 00:50:07.060 Is that do you think that's a reasonable, 793 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.660 Let's go back to the no. No. Let's go back to the slide. 794 00:50:11.120 --> 00:50:14.500 I've, it's it might it's gonna create a better user experience. 795 00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:16.775 Yeah. I I 796 00:50:17.155 --> 00:50:21.635 can see how you can do a customization on that. You could load a pop up that has an iframe. 797 00:50:21.635 --> 00:50:23.255 I'm using technical terms here. 798 00:50:23.635 --> 00:50:27.575 So they get a pop up that has an iframe that has the scheduler in it. 799 00:50:28.194 --> 00:50:30.135 Right. And that would be something 800 00:50:31.170 --> 00:50:34.150 a developer would be able to do relatively. It's very straightforward 801 00:50:34.450 --> 00:50:35.270 what it is. 802 00:50:36.050 --> 00:50:39.349 What and this is a platform called bookme.name? 803 00:50:40.290 --> 00:50:44.230 Yes. So I don't know if they might have an embed tool to embed 804 00:50:46.375 --> 00:50:47.735 They have the embed code. 805 00:50:47.735 --> 00:50:53.495 I mean, I can get, you know, I can get the script code from them, but but they don't have a, you know, a pop up tool. 806 00:50:53.495 --> 00:50:57.195 So they can give me the the the the code for an embed, 807 00:50:57.815 --> 00:51:00.450 but, actually, how to get that into 808 00:51:01.150 --> 00:51:03.090 the individual profile page. 809 00:51:03.870 --> 00:51:07.970 Let's Let me show you how to do that. Let me show you how to do that. Now would definitely solution. 810 00:51:08.990 --> 00:51:09.310 Would, 811 00:51:09.790 --> 00:51:12.370 would this be, would this go in the sidebar? 812 00:51:13.755 --> 00:51:19.295 Yeah. Can I I can put the script code into the text into the chat if you like? Yeah. Go for it. 813 00:51:19.595 --> 00:51:24.474 That's the that's the code. I've, okay. It's in the chat right now. Okay. Let me see. 814 00:51:24.474 --> 00:51:27.855 I'm looking for it. Oh, there it is. I see it. Okay. 815 00:51:28.359 --> 00:51:30.300 So, you've given me your code. 816 00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:31.260 Let's 817 00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:33.260 try 818 00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:39.720 let's let's try something. Okay. This will be this will be a fun one. I'll try to do okay. 819 00:51:39.720 --> 00:51:42.365 We're gonna give it a three minute time time line. Yes. 820 00:51:42.365 --> 00:51:47.325 If we can do it, then, if not, then we'll then we'll just backtrack. So couple things I'm gonna do. 821 00:51:47.325 --> 00:51:51.665 First is, we're gonna add an input so your members can input their own, 822 00:51:52.525 --> 00:51:54.125 code in there. So I'm gonna edit the, 823 00:51:55.020 --> 00:51:58.000 list. I'm gonna the additional details for members. 824 00:51:58.460 --> 00:52:01.280 Yep. I don't know if this is gonna work, but we're gonna try it. 825 00:52:01.660 --> 00:52:03.920 We're gonna create a new form field called, 826 00:52:05.180 --> 00:52:06.320 user booking. 827 00:52:07.420 --> 00:52:08.480 Field type, 828 00:52:09.335 --> 00:52:10.315 I wanna do 829 00:52:13.015 --> 00:52:14.234 no. Cannot custom 830 00:52:14.535 --> 00:52:15.035 HTML. 831 00:52:16.934 --> 00:52:18.875 Yeah. That that's might work. 832 00:52:19.494 --> 00:52:19.994 Actually, 833 00:52:21.015 --> 00:52:25.180 let me just do a a, a text area box first, see if that works. 834 00:52:26.119 --> 00:52:28.780 So that would be multiline text area. 835 00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:34.460 Enter booking 836 00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:35.980 scripts code. 837 00:52:36.845 --> 00:52:39.505 So I'm creating a custom field where you would enter 838 00:52:40.444 --> 00:52:44.464 this. Okay. That's fine. Show in display view. No. 839 00:52:44.845 --> 00:52:46.145 Let me save the changes. 840 00:52:47.964 --> 00:52:51.265 And we're logged in. Let me log in as you. 841 00:52:55.630 --> 00:52:57.170 K. Let's go here. 842 00:53:00.670 --> 00:53:02.029 First, I wanna see is, 843 00:53:02.910 --> 00:53:06.345 if I save it, is it if it's gonna allow me to save script code. 844 00:53:06.345 --> 00:53:11.785 Sometimes there's a to prevent spammers and stuff, it doesn't let you to just save script code, into here. 845 00:53:11.785 --> 00:53:14.205 But let's let's try saving this here. 846 00:53:15.705 --> 00:53:17.885 So now we can see there's a field at the top 847 00:53:19.390 --> 00:53:20.690 and the listing details, 848 00:53:20.990 --> 00:53:23.250 and it looks like it's saved it here. 849 00:53:24.270 --> 00:53:24.770 Okay. 850 00:53:28.670 --> 00:53:31.410 So the second thing we wanna do is create a widget 851 00:53:32.510 --> 00:53:33.890 that will render that. 852 00:53:34.645 --> 00:53:36.265 So we're gonna create a new widget, 853 00:53:37.285 --> 00:53:39.065 and we're gonna call it users 854 00:53:41.685 --> 00:53:45.545 booking script. And then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pop this widget in the sidebar 855 00:53:47.170 --> 00:53:48.290 and see if we can, 856 00:53:49.010 --> 00:53:50.790 get it to render. So 857 00:53:52.530 --> 00:53:53.030 echo, 858 00:53:54.930 --> 00:53:57.030 see if I do this correctly. User. 859 00:53:58.290 --> 00:54:00.150 I think I called it user booking. 860 00:54:05.345 --> 00:54:06.405 Let's save that. 861 00:54:07.505 --> 00:54:09.605 Let's see what I did here. Yeah. It's user booking. 862 00:54:12.625 --> 00:54:14.805 And we're gonna go to your sidebar manager, 863 00:54:16.030 --> 00:54:18.190 and we're gonna go to the member's profile page. 864 00:54:18.190 --> 00:54:24.270 I should, like, create an if statement, like, if the that that works for the if that exists for the user, then then do it. 865 00:54:24.270 --> 00:54:26.210 But let me just do a quick one here. 866 00:54:28.365 --> 00:54:33.485 I don't know if it's gonna render it's gonna execute the script or if it's just gonna show the text of the script. 867 00:54:33.485 --> 00:54:34.545 That's what I'm wondering. 868 00:54:35.165 --> 00:54:40.465 So don't don't hold me to it if it works or not. So, let's see if this works now. 869 00:54:43.580 --> 00:54:46.400 It's doing something here. Now there's a space. It's loading. 870 00:54:47.900 --> 00:54:50.880 There we go. So now there's times here. Boom. 871 00:54:51.820 --> 00:54:52.320 Oh, 872 00:54:54.335 --> 00:54:54.835 fabulous. 873 00:54:57.375 --> 00:54:58.015 So this is, 874 00:54:58.895 --> 00:55:00.515 what are you using for this booking? 875 00:55:01.535 --> 00:55:01.855 Book 876 00:55:02.734 --> 00:55:04.434 well, so so Book. Name? 877 00:55:05.055 --> 00:55:05.454 Yeah. 878 00:55:05.454 --> 00:55:12.150 The the the company is called Book Like a Boss, but they're but they're, you know, this is their this is their, book. 879 00:55:12.150 --> 00:55:14.150 Name is the So you're gonna URL. 880 00:55:14.150 --> 00:55:19.370 Are you gonna request all your users would have to register an account with them in order to for the booking to work. 881 00:55:20.230 --> 00:55:23.510 Yes. Yeah. But it's but they their their basic account is free. 882 00:55:23.510 --> 00:55:25.665 So it's it's, you know, it's kind of a no brainer. 883 00:55:25.665 --> 00:55:29.205 And if you want if they want to do more, if they have a lot more, 884 00:55:30.065 --> 00:55:32.885 features, then they can, you know, they can pay to, 885 00:55:33.425 --> 00:55:36.885 but I, you know, I just wanted people to be able to book without going 886 00:55:37.450 --> 00:55:41.290 to an, you know, an external page and then and then getting distracted. 887 00:55:41.290 --> 00:55:46.890 So if they could book it right right there So that's a great great way to reach out to members and say, hey. 888 00:55:46.890 --> 00:55:49.130 We wanna help you get set set this up. 889 00:55:49.130 --> 00:55:55.434 And, you you know, you can you can call them, and this is something that you can do proactively or or just make it available for pro members. 890 00:55:55.655 --> 00:55:58.315 But now there's a booking Right. On the sidebar here. So, 891 00:55:59.015 --> 00:56:00.234 Right. There you go. 892 00:56:00.934 --> 00:56:01.434 Okay. 893 00:56:01.734 --> 00:56:05.599 As as always, fantastic. Thank you very much. Alright. Our pleasure. 894 00:56:05.980 --> 00:56:11.359 And and, Jason, do you wanna just talk just a minute on what it means when we say an embed code? 895 00:56:11.819 --> 00:56:15.440 Because I mean, I think some people might not be familiar what an embed code is, 896 00:56:15.900 --> 00:56:17.759 and how like, for example, YouTube 897 00:56:18.059 --> 00:56:20.935 and and and so forth. You you just you're embedding 898 00:56:21.475 --> 00:56:22.695 a third party code. 899 00:56:23.235 --> 00:56:24.855 Correct. So let's go to YouTube, 900 00:56:25.475 --> 00:56:25.875 and, 901 00:56:26.755 --> 00:56:31.175 let's get, some embed code from one of our favorite DJs, Solomon. 902 00:56:33.560 --> 00:56:34.300 And so 903 00:56:34.600 --> 00:56:36.140 if you wanna share a video, 904 00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:38.380 we can get the embed code, 905 00:56:39.080 --> 00:56:40.940 and I'll just copy this here. 906 00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:45.660 So then with this embed code, I can put this video on any website anywhere. 907 00:56:46.515 --> 00:56:48.434 In this case, we'll I'll save it, 908 00:56:49.234 --> 00:56:50.615 where where David's profile. 909 00:56:51.635 --> 00:56:55.974 Let me save his previous code so I can swap it out. But now we'll see a 910 00:56:56.434 --> 00:56:59.414 YouTube video in the sidebar. So if your members, 911 00:56:59.954 --> 00:57:01.095 you know, they want 912 00:57:01.550 --> 00:57:05.490 to have a video at the top of their page or stuff like that, these these are great workarounds. 913 00:57:05.550 --> 00:57:08.930 Let's let's see if this works. Everyone's fingers are crossed, I hope. 914 00:57:10.190 --> 00:57:12.930 Alright. So that's saved. Now let's view the profile. 915 00:57:14.744 --> 00:57:18.664 I don't know if that will work. Well, yep. There is a a video here. It's not the prettiest thing. 916 00:57:18.664 --> 00:57:19.724 You gotta do some, 917 00:57:20.184 --> 00:57:24.105 design work to just get it sized up, but but it is here in the sidebar. 918 00:57:24.105 --> 00:57:25.964 It just needs a little more height. I 919 00:57:26.265 --> 00:57:31.360 I find I find Jason putting an embed code in a div works. So far, it's worked all the time for me. 920 00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:32.820 Just putting a div in there, 921 00:57:33.280 --> 00:57:36.420 it'll instantly format it. A div is essentially a box. 922 00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:44.240 So whenever you do get a third party piece of code, if you put it inside of a div, it should, display, perfectly in whatever container you have it, 923 00:57:44.905 --> 00:57:45.405 placed 924 00:57:45.865 --> 00:57:47.465 in. Alright. Let me replace, 925 00:57:48.025 --> 00:57:50.125 David's code with the correct stuff 926 00:57:50.505 --> 00:57:50.825 and, 927 00:57:51.705 --> 00:57:52.605 go from there. 928 00:57:54.185 --> 00:57:55.545 That's good to know you can do that. 929 00:57:55.545 --> 00:58:02.080 So, you know, booking or videos, whatever it might be, you can have your members, put some additional stuff on their sites. 930 00:58:02.220 --> 00:58:04.880 Alright. Let's move on. Thank you for that question, David. 931 00:58:05.580 --> 00:58:06.080 Nadia, 932 00:58:06.620 --> 00:58:08.400 Nadia, we've unmuted your microphone. 933 00:58:08.860 --> 00:58:13.840 Okay. I would figure out how to add, featured members on my site. 934 00:58:14.235 --> 00:58:17.855 I'm not sure if that's part of the VIP add ons, which I've already, 935 00:58:18.315 --> 00:58:19.855 what's what's the name of it? 936 00:58:20.555 --> 00:58:20.875 Yeah. 937 00:58:20.875 --> 00:58:27.595 So, just so everyone knows, she just asked how can she add features featured members to her home page on her website. 938 00:58:27.595 --> 00:58:29.295 What's the name of your website, Nadia? 939 00:58:29.990 --> 00:58:33.210 I just typed it in. What? Oh, you just typed it in? Okay. 940 00:58:33.510 --> 00:58:38.809 Let me see if I can pull it up. It was hard to hear you. Okay. So let's go to your home page. 941 00:58:40.470 --> 00:58:41.849 Hey. I love your logo. 942 00:58:44.265 --> 00:58:45.005 Okay. So, 943 00:58:45.625 --> 00:58:48.765 here's your home page. You have the main menu, search box, 944 00:58:49.545 --> 00:58:53.005 and then you have just basic information and the footer. 945 00:58:54.265 --> 00:58:59.484 Right now. I wanted to figure out I I I feel like I can get a couple of people and just 946 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:10.020 the information that you gave me just now with the free trial, that's awesome because that's gonna be my rope thing to a lot of people that already basically told me that they they definitely will sign up. 947 00:59:11.200 --> 00:59:15.145 But I do wanna be able to feature them on the website 948 00:59:15.465 --> 00:59:16.265 Sure. On the front page. 949 00:59:16.265 --> 00:59:20.765 I'm not sure how to do that, and I don't know if it's part of the VIP add in. Let me show you. 950 00:59:21.385 --> 00:59:24.845 So, what you wanna do is you wanna go to your design settings. 951 00:59:25.385 --> 00:59:27.244 And under home page layout, 952 00:59:28.509 --> 00:59:37.490 everyone should know if you if you've been doing your Brilliant Directories homework, there is a a section where you can choose different elements to feature on the home page. 953 00:59:37.549 --> 00:59:40.185 And I noticed that you've put featured members here. 954 00:59:40.345 --> 00:59:43.965 Let me put that in in in the second spot, show featured members. 955 00:59:44.505 --> 00:59:45.005 Oh, 956 00:59:45.385 --> 00:59:50.925 okay. And hold on one second. Show featured members. And then the second spot, I'll do your about. 957 00:59:50.985 --> 00:59:51.485 Now, 958 00:59:51.945 --> 00:59:55.645 if we notice, there were no members going on your home page, 959 00:59:56.760 --> 01:00:00.700 because there you haven't featured any members. So let me show you how to do that now. 960 01:00:01.240 --> 01:00:06.780 Oh, oh. So what you wanna do is you wanna go to the search members page in the admin, 961 01:00:08.724 --> 01:00:16.105 And under the actions so we used this earlier today with the quick edit when we talked about how to list a member in all locations. 962 01:00:16.805 --> 01:00:22.025 Right. Under quick edit, you wanna come here, and then listing settings is the second tab. 963 01:00:23.045 --> 01:00:23.545 And 964 01:00:25.260 --> 01:00:25.760 homepage 965 01:00:26.380 --> 01:00:27.660 featured member order. 966 01:00:27.660 --> 01:00:32.380 So you can now this everyone is do not feature because you're gonna specify which members. 967 01:00:32.380 --> 01:00:35.260 So you can choose what position they will be featured. 968 01:00:35.260 --> 01:00:38.320 So let's do this guy position one and save the changes. 969 01:00:40.185 --> 01:00:42.205 And then let's refresh the home page. 970 01:00:44.825 --> 01:00:48.685 And we have featured member here, and we got this handsome guy, 971 01:00:49.145 --> 01:00:49.885 right here. 972 01:00:50.585 --> 01:00:51.085 And 973 01:00:51.865 --> 01:00:54.045 let's do some let's do one more person. 974 01:00:55.560 --> 01:00:58.860 Let's do Thomas, Art and Entertainment here. Quick edit. 975 01:01:00.040 --> 01:01:01.020 Listing settings, 976 01:01:01.720 --> 01:01:02.840 we'll do position two. 977 01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:06.615 Now if someone has the same position, the system might toggle them back and forth. 978 01:01:06.855 --> 01:01:11.595 So if you wanted to randomize people as featured, you can just set them all as the 979 01:01:11.975 --> 01:01:15.755 same one. I think it'll randomize it. But let's refresh the page now, 980 01:01:16.775 --> 01:01:21.525 and that person did not show. Let's find out why. Oh, there's the Castro. 981 01:01:21.680 --> 01:01:25.300 Their account is their account is on hold, it looks like. 982 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:30.400 Let me just can pass it in Set set them as active. So the system's smart. 983 01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:33.060 It knows, you know, which members are on hold and and whatnot. 984 01:01:33.840 --> 01:01:34.340 Good. 985 01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:37.380 So if we come here now, we we now have 986 01:01:37.974 --> 01:01:41.415 we have two featured members. And this is coveted space on your home page. 987 01:01:41.415 --> 01:01:47.755 So you can charge a premium to have people if you have traffic coming to your site, you can definitely charge a premium, 988 01:01:49.015 --> 01:01:53.570 to have members featured here. Now let me let me take it one step further for you, Adia. 989 01:01:53.570 --> 01:01:56.530 Instead of calling it featured members, let's call it, 990 01:01:57.330 --> 01:02:01.750 something a little more powerful. So if you close if we're back in the design settings now, 991 01:02:02.290 --> 01:02:04.450 if we click on the section order options 992 01:02:05.315 --> 01:02:08.295 so these are all the different sections. I'm gonna click this checkbox, 993 01:02:08.915 --> 01:02:10.695 and you'll see we're left with 994 01:02:10.995 --> 01:02:11.895 featured members. 995 01:02:12.275 --> 01:02:15.635 And we can change the title of this pair. So, 996 01:02:16.355 --> 01:02:18.055 you can do something like highest 997 01:02:18.755 --> 01:02:19.255 recommended 998 01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:21.500 What is your site? 999 01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:22.780 Businesses? 1000 01:02:24.040 --> 01:02:26.700 It's, yeah, local businesses and within my county. 1001 01:02:28.520 --> 01:02:29.980 Okay. So let's do this. 1002 01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:31.420 Rockland County 1003 01:02:32.694 --> 01:02:33.194 preferred 1004 01:02:33.575 --> 01:02:34.075 businesses. 1005 01:02:34.454 --> 01:02:34.954 Okay? 1006 01:02:35.255 --> 01:02:37.434 And let's say you had, like, six people there. 1007 01:02:38.535 --> 01:02:41.815 That's that's coveted space once your site gets traffic. 1008 01:02:41.815 --> 01:02:45.835 And then by giving it, like, a title that has such value like that, 1009 01:02:47.369 --> 01:02:53.950 the members are gonna feels feel warm and fuzzy inside and and the and people are gonna wanna click on this and learn more about these people. 1010 01:02:54.890 --> 01:02:58.109 Right. I that's what I figured. That's what I'm on. 1011 01:02:58.490 --> 01:03:00.589 Okay. They're just gonna come out here. 1012 01:03:01.185 --> 01:03:02.965 I don't know if you had a few, 1013 01:03:03.905 --> 01:03:08.085 moments just for quick yeses and noes about some ideas that I had on my website. 1014 01:03:08.705 --> 01:03:10.965 Let's do one of them because there's a lot of questions. 1015 01:03:13.610 --> 01:03:14.270 I wanted 1016 01:03:14.970 --> 01:03:16.830 to add, like, the tangible products. 1017 01:03:17.290 --> 01:03:21.790 Something like the to the effective if you you're going to go to the platinum level, 1018 01:03:22.330 --> 01:03:24.490 we're going to feature you in, 1019 01:03:24.810 --> 01:03:25.710 like, an EDDM 1020 01:03:27.135 --> 01:03:28.175 marketing plan. 1021 01:03:28.175 --> 01:03:32.255 So basically, it's just to mail everything out to everybody in Rockland County and say, hey. 1022 01:03:32.255 --> 01:03:34.675 These people joined No.food.com 1023 01:03:35.135 --> 01:03:35.795 on it. 1024 01:03:36.175 --> 01:03:39.395 It's no? No. What I would recommend is doing this actually. 1025 01:03:39.455 --> 01:03:42.810 What you're creating is a a local travel guide because you're focusing 1026 01:03:48.810 --> 01:03:49.310 recommend 1027 01:03:49.690 --> 01:03:52.750 doing is I'm just using our alumni theme as an example. 1028 01:03:53.450 --> 01:03:56.510 I would start your website not with the searchable directory, 1029 01:03:57.025 --> 01:04:01.685 but create content. So these could be articles like top five family restaurants 1030 01:04:02.065 --> 01:04:03.365 in Rockland County. 1031 01:04:03.825 --> 01:04:08.645 I have the best activities in Rockland County. This is the featured blog article slider add on. 1032 01:04:09.339 --> 01:04:12.880 Turn your site from the main focus being the directory 1033 01:04:13.260 --> 01:04:15.359 to being consumer facing content 1034 01:04:16.220 --> 01:04:19.920 about what you can do in Rockland County, news in Rockland County. 1035 01:04:20.300 --> 01:04:26.835 Then what you do is the the directory part of it, turn that into the Rockland County preferred business directory. 1036 01:04:26.895 --> 01:04:32.115 That's secondary after the content of your awesome articles and things like that because 1037 01:04:32.734 --> 01:04:38.300 now you're gonna have a site that's let me get back to it. Is gonna have lots of good content 1038 01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:40.300 for 1039 01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:43.260 Rockland County both locals and tourists 1040 01:04:43.640 --> 01:04:52.025 and then the preferred business directory, hey every business is gonna want to be in the Rockland County preferred business directory and then that becomes the secondary focus of it. 1041 01:04:52.025 --> 01:04:54.045 So you see here it says alumni directory. 1042 01:04:54.265 --> 01:04:58.125 This could be preferred business directory, and this is where people search 1043 01:04:58.425 --> 01:04:59.405 for the businesses. 1044 01:05:00.105 --> 01:05:01.484 That would be my recommendation 1045 01:05:02.025 --> 01:05:03.484 moving forward with the site. 1046 01:05:05.349 --> 01:05:06.730 Build a site for consumers, 1047 01:05:07.190 --> 01:05:09.130 then the the professionals will follow. 1048 01:05:10.310 --> 01:05:10.810 Okay? 1049 01:05:11.510 --> 01:05:12.490 Alright. Thanks. 1050 01:05:12.790 --> 01:05:18.010 That that's great, Jason. I have a question related to that, and that is the the section order. 1051 01:05:19.055 --> 01:05:23.315 Basically ask Dwayne is asking, how do you set up the section order, 1052 01:05:25.215 --> 01:05:29.075 sort order? So choosing what's gonna display where on your home page. 1053 01:05:29.775 --> 01:05:34.790 So, in the design settings under the home page layout tab, I'll just reset everything. 1054 01:05:34.790 --> 01:05:37.770 It's this, the first long option here. 1055 01:05:39.270 --> 01:05:40.170 So there's 1056 01:05:40.790 --> 01:05:44.330 you could have up to 15 sections. I think that's too much. 1057 01:05:45.430 --> 01:05:46.250 But basically, 1058 01:05:46.865 --> 01:05:49.365 we want to make it easy for you guys to showcase 1059 01:05:49.744 --> 01:05:51.105 your content on the homepage. 1060 01:05:51.105 --> 01:05:55.045 You want a site that has nice images on the homepage, captivating content, 1061 01:05:55.664 --> 01:05:58.085 things that are really going to suck people in. 1062 01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:06.560 I I don't like putting too much information on the homepage because it it distracts a person from where you're trying to control the navigation and flow. 1063 01:06:06.560 --> 01:06:07.940 I'll use that phrase again. 1064 01:06:08.160 --> 01:06:12.980 But you wanna have some teasers in there, maybe some events, some news, some featured members. 1065 01:06:13.865 --> 01:06:16.045 You want to keep it tasteful but here, 1066 01:06:16.505 --> 01:06:19.724 we have lots of different options. You can show recent coupons, 1067 01:06:20.025 --> 01:06:21.244 classified jobs, 1068 01:06:21.704 --> 01:06:24.365 photo albums. So depending on what type of content 1069 01:06:24.744 --> 01:06:26.684 your website is focusing on, 1070 01:06:27.180 --> 01:06:30.079 you might wanna showcase that in the different section orders. 1071 01:06:30.300 --> 01:06:36.079 And the way that it's that the logic works is section one will show above section two 1072 01:06:36.460 --> 01:06:37.680 and so on. So, 1073 01:06:38.300 --> 01:06:44.875 it'll start with whatever you set as the top one and then as you scroll down the page, it'll show the other different things that you're featuring, 1074 01:06:45.335 --> 01:06:46.155 on your homepage. 1075 01:06:48.855 --> 01:06:53.015 So super easy to add content to the homepage, keep it and it'll update live. 1076 01:06:53.015 --> 01:06:57.435 So if you have new events, it'll always update with the newest events on your on your homepage. 1077 01:06:57.735 --> 01:07:00.370 I'm a big fan of the featured blog article slider, 1078 01:07:01.150 --> 01:07:02.610 because you can really control 1079 01:07:03.310 --> 01:07:07.730 the initial captivating content that new users are gonna see on your site. 1080 01:07:07.790 --> 01:07:09.230 You don't always have to update it. 1081 01:07:09.230 --> 01:07:15.995 If you have a article that just kills it and it converts people into sign ups or gets users to engage your site, you might want to keep that, 1082 01:07:16.315 --> 01:07:22.235 pinned up here the whole time because you can choose which five articles you want in the blog article slider. 1083 01:07:22.235 --> 01:07:26.575 And I think for a lot of website concepts, it's a lot better to start with 1084 01:07:27.170 --> 01:07:30.230 captivating content than, hey, search the directory. 1085 01:07:31.250 --> 01:07:32.710 There are many, 1086 01:07:33.970 --> 01:07:37.110 many situations where searching the directory first is important. 1087 01:07:37.410 --> 01:07:41.745 But again, in Nadia's example, she's creating basically a local city guide. 1088 01:07:41.825 --> 01:07:46.645 I'd wanna see some captivating local city news before I just search for the direct in the directory. 1089 01:07:47.505 --> 01:07:50.625 How are we doing on time here, Pat? Let's let's take a look. Alright. 1090 01:07:50.625 --> 01:07:52.645 We're just about got time for a few more 1091 01:07:52.945 --> 01:07:53.845 questions here. 1092 01:07:54.450 --> 01:07:59.990 Alright. Let's go to one of our favorites here, Cindy. I'm gonna unmute your microphone, Cindy. 1093 01:08:00.450 --> 01:08:00.950 Okay. 1094 01:08:01.570 --> 01:08:06.470 I'm I think it's a different Cindy. But, anyway, it's rentersworld.com 1095 01:08:07.330 --> 01:08:07.830 and 1096 01:08:08.135 --> 01:08:09.755 set up as a classified 1097 01:08:11.335 --> 01:08:11.835 website. 1098 01:08:13.095 --> 01:08:13.595 Okay. 1099 01:08:14.295 --> 01:08:14.795 And 1100 01:08:15.335 --> 01:08:16.694 and my question is, 1101 01:08:17.255 --> 01:08:17.755 because 1102 01:08:18.614 --> 01:08:20.234 a lot of the people will have 1103 01:08:20.730 --> 01:08:21.550 several horses 1104 01:08:22.330 --> 01:08:22.830 advertised. 1105 01:08:23.610 --> 01:08:25.550 And so when they get their lead, 1106 01:08:26.970 --> 01:08:31.790 how can I get it so that they put their the horse's name in so they know which horse? 1107 01:08:32.170 --> 01:08:34.670 So if you were to look at the view all 1108 01:08:36.314 --> 01:08:36.814 page 1109 01:08:37.354 --> 01:08:38.895 and then click on the 1110 01:08:41.114 --> 01:08:43.194 Okay. Let's see. And go to the profile of the 1111 01:08:43.995 --> 01:08:45.455 So let's look at a gorgeous, 1112 01:08:45.995 --> 01:08:48.094 Derby Mare here for 30,000. 1113 01:08:49.689 --> 01:08:53.069 And Right. So there's a contact this member here. 1114 01:08:56.010 --> 01:08:56.510 Right. 1115 01:08:57.290 --> 01:08:57.790 And 1116 01:08:58.330 --> 01:08:59.630 you want to know 1117 01:09:00.250 --> 01:09:01.149 which page 1118 01:09:02.010 --> 01:09:04.109 this this inquiry came from, 1119 01:09:06.064 --> 01:09:06.785 Zach? Well, no. 1120 01:09:06.785 --> 01:09:12.725 What I'd like to I'd like to when they're like, when they put the message in there to maybe say, 1121 01:09:13.345 --> 01:09:15.285 be sure and enter the horse's name 1122 01:09:15.665 --> 01:09:16.405 or to 1123 01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:20.479 to put another slot in there asking for the horse's name? 1124 01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:23.059 Is this the horse's name, gorgeous Derby Mare? 1125 01:09:24.399 --> 01:09:26.639 Is the title The horse's name would be 1126 01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:32.420 it's horse's name. See, it right under contact this member, and it says horse's name. 1127 01:09:32.854 --> 01:09:35.835 So it's the next one of Mercedes little step. 1128 01:09:36.215 --> 01:09:40.715 Gotcha. Let me see what I can do for you. Let me see what I can do for you. Give me one moment. 1129 01:09:42.694 --> 01:09:44.475 Might be able to do something there. 1130 01:09:45.590 --> 01:09:47.689 Let me just grab a variable here. 1131 01:09:51.510 --> 01:09:53.769 So that is horse's name. 1132 01:09:54.949 --> 01:09:59.530 K. Okay. Let's see what we can do here. Status here. Horse's name. So this is 1133 01:10:00.155 --> 01:10:00.815 the group. 1134 01:10:01.835 --> 01:10:05.055 Okay. I don't know if this is gonna work, but we're gonna try it. Okay? 1135 01:10:05.915 --> 01:10:09.695 Another this is another kinda workaround here. I'm gonna create a widget, 1136 01:10:12.810 --> 01:10:13.630 a new widget, 1137 01:10:14.490 --> 01:10:16.510 and we'll call it, horse name. 1138 01:10:19.690 --> 01:10:24.910 And all I'm going to do is, input that the variable that gets the horse's name there. 1139 01:10:31.145 --> 01:10:35.005 And what I'll do is let's go to your form, 1140 01:10:36.905 --> 01:10:39.565 the get matched form. That's the lead form. 1141 01:10:40.980 --> 01:10:43.080 And I'm gonna add a new form field. 1142 01:10:43.860 --> 01:10:45.480 Go back to the widget here. 1143 01:10:47.140 --> 01:10:48.520 And I'm gonna grab 1144 01:10:50.420 --> 01:10:50.920 the 1145 01:10:51.780 --> 01:10:55.640 the this here. So I'm gonna copy the widget, which renders 1146 01:10:56.155 --> 01:11:00.175 the name of the horse. So I'm gonna create a new form field called 1147 01:11:02.795 --> 01:11:03.995 actually, what I'm gonna do 1148 01:11:05.915 --> 01:11:08.335 let me just think the best way to do this. 1149 01:11:09.349 --> 01:11:10.889 Okay. Let me try two things. 1150 01:11:13.670 --> 01:11:17.190 We'll do horse's name. There's two ways to do this. Let me try this one first. 1151 01:11:17.190 --> 01:11:18.730 So we're gonna do lead 1152 01:11:19.909 --> 01:11:21.130 horse name, 1153 01:11:21.829 --> 01:11:23.929 and this is gonna be a text input. 1154 01:11:24.835 --> 01:11:25.335 And 1155 01:11:26.434 --> 01:11:30.295 we could the default field value, we could do this widget. 1156 01:11:31.954 --> 01:11:35.014 So let me what I'm gonna do is basically render the 1157 01:11:35.554 --> 01:11:37.094 horse's name as the widget, 1158 01:11:37.730 --> 01:11:41.989 as the default value. This is one way to do it. Let me save the changes. 1159 01:11:45.810 --> 01:11:49.590 And let me just put that, as one of the top options here. 1160 01:11:53.725 --> 01:11:57.185 Okay. Let's save the changes. Let's give it a shot. 1161 01:11:59.645 --> 01:12:02.225 I'm not sure about this one, but let's see if that works. 1162 01:12:06.870 --> 01:12:10.250 Here, it says horse's name, Mercedes little step. 1163 01:12:11.350 --> 01:12:14.090 So if it exists, it'll fill this in automatically. 1164 01:12:16.150 --> 01:12:17.850 Do you see that? Alright. 1165 01:12:18.855 --> 01:12:19.984 Okay. So 1166 01:12:20.741 --> 01:12:23.127 okay. I see that. 1167 01:12:23.255 --> 01:12:29.995 And that'll that'll that'll that'll get submitted with the when just like all the other information the person is entering. 1168 01:12:32.535 --> 01:12:37.800 Oh, Okay. So will it also do that from the profile page as well or not? 1169 01:12:38.020 --> 01:12:41.940 Well, the profile page, it wouldn't because a member could have many horses. 1170 01:12:41.940 --> 01:12:45.720 So it doesn't know which specific horse. That one works because, 1171 01:12:46.195 --> 01:12:53.015 so if we do send a message see, there's no horse's name here because that one, it knows which classified listing you're looking at. 1172 01:12:53.315 --> 01:12:57.655 So but this is not bad because maybe Okay. Someone has 20 horses and, 1173 01:12:58.035 --> 01:13:01.420 you can just type here, like, you know, the horse's name, 1174 01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:03.100 if you know it. 1175 01:13:05.960 --> 01:13:09.240 So this is the member's listing a member. Okay. Oh, no. Yeah. 1176 01:13:09.240 --> 01:13:13.020 When you're contacting a member, they might have Perfect. 50 horse listings. 1177 01:13:13.080 --> 01:13:15.420 Oh, you like it like this? Yeah. That's good. 1178 01:13:16.835 --> 01:13:21.655 Yeah. I didn't see that I was looking, and I didn't know that it was on there yet. Because, like, 1179 01:13:22.675 --> 01:13:23.175 has 1180 01:13:23.715 --> 01:13:25.255 20 horses, and so 1181 01:13:25.635 --> 01:13:30.215 she has a horrible time because the people don't put they just say this horse 1182 01:13:30.750 --> 01:13:32.450 or I want more information. 1183 01:13:32.910 --> 01:13:37.410 So Right. So this is nice. So now there's a field. It'll it'll work. 1184 01:13:38.270 --> 01:13:39.970 And, yeah. You should be good. 1185 01:13:41.790 --> 01:13:44.690 Good to go on that one. Thank you very much. You're very welcome. 1186 01:13:46.585 --> 01:13:49.565 I know Pat and I had a little sweat on our brow on that one. 1187 01:13:51.945 --> 01:13:54.605 Alright. Let's take, let's take one more question here. 1188 01:13:55.385 --> 01:13:58.765 Alright. We got Brandon. Brandon, how are you? 1189 01:13:59.730 --> 01:14:02.710 Hey. How's it going? Awesome. Thank you for joining us. 1190 01:14:04.290 --> 01:14:06.230 Where are you calling in today? No problem. 1191 01:14:07.170 --> 01:14:10.930 I actually live in Atlanta now. So I live in Atlanta, so I'm calling from Atlanta. Alright. 1192 01:14:10.930 --> 01:14:12.710 How did you like this webinar today? 1193 01:14:13.645 --> 01:14:15.804 Hey. I loved it, man. You know, I've been trying to catch them. 1194 01:14:15.804 --> 01:14:21.645 And just to let you know, I've been blowing it up out here, partnering with a lot of celebrities, and, we're about to really do some big things with Brilliant Directories. 1195 01:14:21.645 --> 01:14:26.620 So Alright. Invite some invite us to the parties whenever whenever it's about them. 1196 01:14:26.620 --> 01:14:29.360 They they come in. They come in. Trust me. They come in. 1197 01:14:29.820 --> 01:14:34.800 Nice. But, speaking of that, my site is wrapplug, w w Wrap plug Com. 1198 01:14:35.100 --> 01:14:35.600 And, 1199 01:14:36.540 --> 01:14:41.145 it's it's probably not a big fix, but it is something I just wanna see if we can do it or not. Okay. 1200 01:14:41.225 --> 01:14:43.565 You know, on rapplug.com, 1201 01:14:43.625 --> 01:14:45.325 I kinda tweaked one of the, 1202 01:14:46.265 --> 01:14:46.765 featured, 1203 01:14:48.025 --> 01:14:50.205 features on rapplug.com 1204 01:14:50.505 --> 01:14:54.125 because I want people to be able to have their music shown on the home page, 1205 01:14:54.640 --> 01:14:57.380 just like we have some of the other stuff shown on the home page. 1206 01:14:58.240 --> 01:14:59.220 And at the bottom, 1207 01:14:59.760 --> 01:15:01.300 you'll see that, 1208 01:15:02.240 --> 01:15:03.060 there is 1209 01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:06.580 a a a home line I mean, a streamline 1210 01:15:08.135 --> 01:15:12.395 feature for them to see, the actual music, but the the pictures won't pop up. 1211 01:15:12.455 --> 01:15:14.155 So at the bottom of the home page, 1212 01:15:14.535 --> 01:15:16.155 the thumbnail for the actual, 1213 01:15:16.535 --> 01:15:18.695 music SoundCloud link won't pop up. 1214 01:15:18.695 --> 01:15:22.795 So everything else it does for the videos and events and products, but not the 1215 01:15:23.770 --> 01:15:24.010 music. 1216 01:15:24.010 --> 01:15:33.230 And I was trying to see if it was possible for us to fix that because it pops up when you go to the actual music, you know, page for the SoundCloud links, but it doesn't pop up on the homepage. 1217 01:15:33.530 --> 01:15:35.690 Alright. Let me check a couple things first. 1218 01:15:36.409 --> 01:15:38.510 So this this one here, the music. Right? 1219 01:15:39.375 --> 01:15:43.635 Yeah. It's under jobs. So I, it's called jobs, but I, I had it render, 1220 01:15:44.414 --> 01:15:45.795 the actual, SoundCloud. 1221 01:15:46.894 --> 01:15:51.554 Okay. So I I Is there Just to click on one reason why sorry. Go ahead, Jason. 1222 01:15:52.850 --> 01:15:56.950 Okay. So this one is is working here. I see. But it's not getting it here. 1223 01:15:57.810 --> 01:15:58.310 Right. 1224 01:15:59.330 --> 01:16:00.390 You know, I 1225 01:16:01.010 --> 01:16:04.325 I don't think we ever made so 1226 01:16:04.705 --> 01:16:07.105 by the way, very nice job. Round of applause. 1227 01:16:07.105 --> 01:16:09.925 You're using the streaming widgets here on the home page. Right? 1228 01:16:10.385 --> 01:16:14.465 Yeah. The streaming content. Okay. You did a really good job. You got the article slider here. 1229 01:16:14.465 --> 01:16:16.725 I don't think you actually, 1230 01:16:17.060 --> 01:16:20.760 so you you just threw a curve ball at us. I don't think we ever created 1231 01:16:21.540 --> 01:16:23.239 a way to stream. 1232 01:16:24.260 --> 01:16:27.480 I have a I have a solution for you, though, but I don't think we ever created 1233 01:16:27.860 --> 01:16:31.800 a section order to stream audio. Let me go down to 15 here. 1234 01:16:32.335 --> 01:16:33.715 Show recent audio. 1235 01:16:35.215 --> 01:16:38.755 So yeah. So I saw that. So what I did was I I rendered jobs, 1236 01:16:39.135 --> 01:16:45.235 and then, when I put jobs in, it asked me what feature I wanted, and I went ahead and selected, audio. 1237 01:16:45.390 --> 01:16:50.690 So I kinda had to, like Okay. Work around it. Let me I I got a workaround for you. Okay? 1238 01:16:51.310 --> 01:16:52.370 Can we do, 1239 01:16:53.950 --> 01:16:56.450 I wanna do member articles with sidebar. 1240 01:16:57.150 --> 01:16:57.650 Okay? 1241 01:16:58.315 --> 01:17:01.535 So this one, you did recent jobs. I wanna do with the sidebar. 1242 01:17:02.475 --> 01:17:06.335 I don't think it's gonna get the pictures, but it might at least get the the player. 1243 01:17:06.795 --> 01:17:12.095 Okay? So let me let me just show you how this might look. So let me do the articles with sidebar, 1244 01:17:12.875 --> 01:17:13.375 and 1245 01:17:14.610 --> 01:17:19.990 let's go here. So member article with sidebar. I'm going to assign it to the 1246 01:17:21.570 --> 01:17:22.070 audio, 1247 01:17:23.250 --> 01:17:27.110 and we'll do a sidebar. Let me just do post search results sidebar. Okay. 1248 01:17:27.215 --> 01:17:30.335 I'm gonna edit that widget for you, and I'm gonna try something. 1249 01:17:30.335 --> 01:17:32.994 I don't know if it's gonna work, but we'll try something. Okay? 1250 01:17:33.695 --> 01:17:34.195 Okay. 1251 01:17:36.335 --> 01:17:38.675 Alright. So let me go to your home page. 1252 01:17:39.679 --> 01:17:41.920 Yeah. Because it looks great in a search result layout. 1253 01:17:41.920 --> 01:17:46.960 If you do slash audio files, it's gonna look real nice. That's the layout we need. Okay. 1254 01:17:46.960 --> 01:17:48.340 Let me refresh this. 1255 01:17:51.360 --> 01:17:51.860 Okay. 1256 01:17:52.719 --> 01:17:53.780 Member products. 1257 01:17:55.005 --> 01:17:57.505 It's not grabbing it. Let me just recent 1258 01:17:57.965 --> 01:17:59.585 member articles with sidebar. 1259 01:18:01.005 --> 01:18:05.185 Oh, post must have photo. So let me do show all even if no photo. 1260 01:18:05.645 --> 01:18:07.265 Mhmm. And let me save the changes. 1261 01:18:11.300 --> 01:18:11.800 And 1262 01:18:14.100 --> 01:18:16.200 I'm gonna refresh the home page again. 1263 01:18:17.940 --> 01:18:22.025 This might work. Feel good about it. I'm gonna have to grabbing 1264 01:18:22.341 --> 01:18:22.841 a 1265 01:18:23.156 --> 01:18:23.656 link 1266 01:18:23.973 --> 01:18:24.473 to 1267 01:18:24.789 --> 01:18:25.289 it, 1268 01:18:25.605 --> 01:18:26.185 not the image. Now what 1269 01:18:27.165 --> 01:18:27.665 I 1270 01:18:28.075 --> 01:18:28.575 can 1271 01:18:28.985 --> 01:18:29.485 do 1272 01:18:29.894 --> 01:18:30.394 is 1273 01:18:30.804 --> 01:18:35.420 I can't you can we do two things, Brandon. We can allow for a photo upload. 1274 01:18:35.420 --> 01:18:38.480 So you can upload a photo with these, and it'll show here. 1275 01:18:38.780 --> 01:18:44.940 So I know it's grabbing the image on the detail page, but on the search results, if you wanted to have a photo, you could upload a photo. 1276 01:18:44.940 --> 01:18:48.159 But you're probably not gonna upload photo for all the different SoundCloud files. 1277 01:18:48.195 --> 01:18:52.215 What I could do here instead is put the player so you can actually play these here 1278 01:18:53.554 --> 01:18:56.375 on the home page. Player is dope. Alright. So 1279 01:18:57.074 --> 01:19:01.255 let me, I'm gonna edit the widget and I'm gonna put the search results design 1280 01:19:01.790 --> 01:19:03.010 for the player 1281 01:19:03.550 --> 01:19:05.010 on this one. So 1282 01:19:06.110 --> 01:19:09.410 Yeah. So, yeah, it's like on slash audio files. Correct? 1283 01:19:09.950 --> 01:19:12.590 Is that what you're gonna go for here? Exactly. 1284 01:19:12.590 --> 01:19:16.115 So I'm gonna go to the I don't know if it's gonna work, but we look. 1285 01:19:16.115 --> 01:19:18.215 We're crossing our fingers a lot this webinar. 1286 01:19:18.595 --> 01:19:23.015 But so far, we've done a good job. So I'm going to the search results layout for audio. 1287 01:19:23.155 --> 01:19:27.255 Let me show everyone what that's gonna look like before we do it. So what we're looking for 1288 01:19:27.560 --> 01:19:30.220 is we're looking for this on the home page, 1289 01:19:32.040 --> 01:19:35.160 where it's actually going to and we'll just give it a second to load. 1290 01:19:35.160 --> 01:19:36.860 It's actually gonna load the songs. 1291 01:19:37.160 --> 01:19:41.000 See this sound SoundCloud. And you're only gonna do four, so I think it'll be okay. 1292 01:19:41.000 --> 01:19:46.115 So that way you'll get the songs that are on the home page. So let's go to the search results view, 1293 01:19:47.295 --> 01:19:48.515 search results design, 1294 01:19:50.495 --> 01:19:50.995 and 1295 01:19:51.535 --> 01:19:54.995 again, I don't know if this is gonna work. I'm just gonna copy this guy right here. 1296 01:19:56.150 --> 01:19:58.250 It might not work, Brandon, so don't 1297 01:19:59.989 --> 01:20:03.449 don't hold me to this. Actually, I I don't think it's gonna work. 1298 01:20:04.070 --> 01:20:07.770 I hate to say it. A lot of hype. That's the music industry, you know. 1299 01:20:09.715 --> 01:20:13.815 Alright. This might work. If I paste this in here, I think this is it. 1300 01:20:15.315 --> 01:20:16.855 I think this is it right here. 1301 01:20:21.235 --> 01:20:22.055 Let's see. 1302 01:20:22.870 --> 01:20:26.230 Yeah. That that was it. So if it's gonna work, it's this is gonna work. 1303 01:20:26.230 --> 01:20:28.010 If not, then it's not gonna work. 1304 01:20:30.230 --> 01:20:34.170 So, let me refresh the cache on your site just to make sure it got the changes. 1305 01:20:37.655 --> 01:20:39.515 I'll get rid of the show widgets here. 1306 01:20:48.040 --> 01:20:49.180 Alright. Let's give this 1307 01:20:50.200 --> 01:20:53.260 a second to load. It's loading because I just reached refreshed cache. 1308 01:20:54.120 --> 01:20:54.620 Okay. 1309 01:20:55.160 --> 01:20:56.300 We got Rick Ross 1310 01:20:57.480 --> 01:21:02.060 featured there. Alright. We scroll down. I might need to refresh the home page again. 1311 01:21:02.775 --> 01:21:04.074 Alright. Let's refresh this. 1312 01:21:08.215 --> 01:21:10.074 How many sites you got going, Brandon? 1313 01:21:11.335 --> 01:21:15.275 I probably have, like, eight in my account. I'm shooting for a hundred by the end of the year. 1314 01:21:16.270 --> 01:21:20.910 I'll probably have at least 20 within the next, you know, month that I'll be getting from you guys. 1315 01:21:20.910 --> 01:21:22.450 Boom. And just to let you know, 1316 01:21:23.150 --> 01:21:25.570 I pitched one of my sites at a pitch competition, 1317 01:21:26.590 --> 01:21:28.965 three days ago, and I won $50,000. 1318 01:21:30.724 --> 01:21:32.264 Invite us to the party, man. 1319 01:21:33.205 --> 01:21:36.425 Thank you. That's crazy. I'm really really happy to hear that. 1320 01:21:36.885 --> 01:21:38.165 No. Really happy to hear that. 1321 01:21:38.165 --> 01:21:43.800 So it looks like this Kodak one isn't linked up right, but the other ones here this is our office dog here. 1322 01:21:44.040 --> 01:21:45.980 These other ones are streaming on the homepage. 1323 01:21:47.000 --> 01:21:49.099 So you might want to create a special sidebar 1324 01:21:49.480 --> 01:21:53.260 just for the homepage streaming widgets. So let me show you where to do that. 1325 01:21:55.320 --> 01:22:01.244 So go to design settings, Create a separate sidebar just for your homepage and just put the content that you want in there. 1326 01:22:01.784 --> 01:22:03.485 Go to homepage layout, Brandon. 1327 01:22:03.864 --> 01:22:05.405 Homepage section order. 1328 01:22:05.625 --> 01:22:10.284 And then on the recent well, you remember we're repurposing the recent member articles with sidebar. 1329 01:22:10.610 --> 01:22:15.270 Just choose the sidebar you want after you've created it with the elements you want in there. Okay? 1330 01:22:16.210 --> 01:22:20.929 And it'll and that way you'll have a a dedicated sidebar that's special just for the homepage that you want. 1331 01:22:20.929 --> 01:22:28.025 And you obviously want the sidebar to be kind of the same length as the the four videos that you're the the four audio files that you're showing there. 1332 01:22:28.025 --> 01:22:32.205 So right now, you we're using the, a sidebar that's very long. See this? 1333 01:22:33.065 --> 01:22:37.804 Yeah. So you might wanna just make custom sidebar and, or alternatively, 1334 01:22:38.105 --> 01:22:40.284 let's do this for now. Let's do no sidebar 1335 01:22:40.880 --> 01:22:44.500 and it'll just go full width that way it's not even a problem for you. 1336 01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:45.679 I like that. 1337 01:22:45.679 --> 01:22:50.000 I might just keep those the no sidebar for the home page and then just keep the sidebar on the other page. 1338 01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:50.400 Okay. 1339 01:22:50.400 --> 01:22:56.655 Now a benefit of what we just did, I thought we weren't gonna get the image but there is an image in the embed player. 1340 01:22:57.114 --> 01:23:00.735 Let's just refresh the page one more time. Just takes a second with the changes 1341 01:23:01.435 --> 01:23:01.935 saving. 1342 01:23:03.835 --> 01:23:04.815 Alright. So 1343 01:23:06.920 --> 01:23:08.380 so now we got full, 1344 01:23:08.840 --> 01:23:13.180 so this is a again, this is a great place. Let me make sure this sidebar is off for you. 1345 01:23:13.480 --> 01:23:17.980 Something's happening there. I'll take care of that for you. This is a great place to feature 1346 01:23:18.440 --> 01:23:21.415 people's songs on the homepage. So it's really good there. 1347 01:23:21.415 --> 01:23:23.835 I'll I'll make sure this is off for you, the sidebar here. 1348 01:23:24.534 --> 01:23:29.415 Mhmm. And in the future, I might need to this is probably gonna be customization, I know. But, 1349 01:23:29.815 --> 01:23:36.930 instead of just doing SoundCloud, I wanna see if there is a way that I can get them to also have their audio files from, like, Tidal and Spotify 1350 01:23:37.470 --> 01:23:41.650 and, you know, as well. You know, that way, just in case they want to have their music displayed 1351 01:23:41.950 --> 01:23:43.330 from other, music, 1352 01:23:43.870 --> 01:23:49.655 streaming channels, they can. Yeah. I I'm sure if those sites also follow the same logic as, 1353 01:23:50.675 --> 01:23:51.175 SoundCloud. 1354 01:23:51.235 --> 01:23:58.115 So it might just be a simple customization, and I think that would increase your ability to, you know, to render more content on your site. 1355 01:23:58.115 --> 01:24:00.375 So that would be something worthy of of a customization. 1356 01:24:02.199 --> 01:24:05.960 Alright. Alright. Alright, Brandon. I'll I'll take care of that sidebar issue. 1357 01:24:06.119 --> 01:24:09.980 Let me just sign off on the webinar here. I think this was a terrific webinar. 1358 01:24:10.199 --> 01:24:13.659 Thank you everyone, for joining us. Don't forget about our tips 1359 01:24:13.960 --> 01:24:17.165 for, when and why to pay for a customization, 1360 01:24:18.185 --> 01:24:19.165 and don't forget 1361 01:24:19.545 --> 01:24:22.344 to get the Analytics Pro for your Brilliant Directories website. 1362 01:24:22.344 --> 01:24:26.744 You can go to analytics.thecustomizationexpert.com. 1363 01:24:26.744 --> 01:24:30.844 Those guys are doing truly, truly amazing things. It's a free tool. 1364 01:24:31.300 --> 01:24:33.080 Get it now. Get it. 1365 01:24:33.940 --> 01:24:34.840 And finally, 1366 01:24:35.219 --> 01:24:37.159 if we didn't get to your questions today, 1367 01:24:37.540 --> 01:24:43.000 please feel free to go to our LinkedIn group. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/linkedin. 1368 01:24:43.565 --> 01:24:50.065 Start a discussion there, ask questions, and myself and other fellow directory owners will be there to, to answer your questions. 1369 01:24:50.445 --> 01:24:52.365 So have a great day. Have a great week. 1370 01:24:52.365 --> 01:24:57.085 We'll catch you in about two weeks, in the next webinar, Wednesday. Have a great day, guys. 1371 01:24:57.085 --> 01:25:00.279 Thank you so much. Alright. See you guys soon. Thanks a lot. Goodbye.