WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:04.480 Alright. Hey, gang. Welcome to another edition of Webinar Wednesday. 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:06.980 It's great to be with you guys here today. 3 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:10.960 Last webinar was actually, one that we had to do on Thursday. 4 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:14.785 So we're back to our regular schedule here on Wednesdays. 5 00:00:15.084 --> 00:00:19.904 I want to say hi and give a shout out to some of our good friends out there, Arlana and Becky. 6 00:00:20.205 --> 00:00:24.865 Thanks for joining. I see a new name out there, Shizen. Thanks for joining webinar Wednesday. 7 00:00:25.980 --> 00:00:26.480 Also, 8 00:00:27.020 --> 00:00:30.880 Ebony. I I see a new name here. Nice nice for you to join us here today. 9 00:00:31.020 --> 00:00:32.400 And we got some international 10 00:00:32.780 --> 00:00:35.680 attendees here. Jeff, always great to see you in the webinar. 11 00:00:36.059 --> 00:00:37.680 Lindsay as well. Vijay, 12 00:00:38.085 --> 00:00:41.545 Yosef, Terry, great to see you guys here in webinar Wednesday. 13 00:00:41.925 --> 00:00:44.645 We got a nice presentation for you guys here today. 14 00:00:44.645 --> 00:00:49.065 We have a few updates to share and we're gonna go a little old school here today. 15 00:00:49.285 --> 00:00:52.265 For a majority of the time we're gonna open up this webinar 16 00:00:52.710 --> 00:00:56.330 to Q and A and see if we could get to everyone's questions 17 00:00:56.870 --> 00:01:01.130 in this webinar. So let's dive right into it here. 18 00:01:01.510 --> 00:01:05.955 If this is your first time joining us here today, welcome. It's great to be with you. 19 00:01:06.035 --> 00:01:12.755 I'm Jason there on the left, and we're lucky to be joined by Rick and Patrick here in today's webinar. 20 00:01:12.755 --> 00:01:15.555 Rick is one of the support specialists here at Brilliant Directories. 21 00:01:15.555 --> 00:01:21.555 There's no doubt that, you may have emailed with Rick or spoken to him over the phone through one of the phone training sessions. 22 00:01:21.555 --> 00:01:23.790 So thank you Rick for joining us here today. 23 00:01:24.810 --> 00:01:27.130 Thank you for having me. I'm super happy to be here. 24 00:01:27.130 --> 00:01:29.950 Jason, looking forward to this exciting new webinar. 25 00:01:30.330 --> 00:01:35.415 Awesome. Great. And we're also lucky to be joined by Patrick Bernal, from the directory gurus. 26 00:01:35.415 --> 00:01:39.115 You guys are doing some really amazing things helping people with their membership websites, 27 00:01:39.495 --> 00:01:44.875 and really helping people nail down and drill down what the product is that they should be offering through, 28 00:01:45.335 --> 00:01:49.115 their online community. So thank you, Patrick, for joining us here today as well. 29 00:01:49.520 --> 00:01:51.140 It's great to be here. Thank you Jason. 30 00:01:52.080 --> 00:01:52.560 Alright. 31 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:59.380 I always like to mention if you're not already a member of our Facebook group, we encourage you and invite you to join. 32 00:01:59.440 --> 00:02:01.860 You can go to brilliantdirectories.com 33 00:02:02.204 --> 00:02:05.645 forward / facebook. It will redirect you to our Facebook group. 34 00:02:05.645 --> 00:02:07.984 And from there, you can click the join button. 35 00:02:08.044 --> 00:02:12.224 And it's a great place to continue the conversations in between webinar or Wednesdays. 36 00:02:13.245 --> 00:02:17.584 I was actually off the previous week. I was taking a short holiday with the family, 37 00:02:17.910 --> 00:02:19.849 and I saw some amazing discussions 38 00:02:20.230 --> 00:02:24.250 that were started there and even better there's amazing participation 39 00:02:24.709 --> 00:02:27.349 from the fellow group members in that Facebook group. 40 00:02:27.349 --> 00:02:31.590 So if you're not a member, I highly recommend you join. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com 41 00:02:31.590 --> 00:02:32.810 forward /facebook 42 00:02:32.945 --> 00:02:34.405 and we will see you there. 43 00:02:36.065 --> 00:02:39.285 And for those of you joining us for the first time, welcome. 44 00:02:39.665 --> 00:02:44.225 You're part of a great tribe here of BDEers, and we're always learning from each other. 45 00:02:44.225 --> 00:02:45.900 And what we really like to cover 46 00:02:46.379 --> 00:02:47.519 in the webinars 47 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:50.560 are tips to really grow your online community, 48 00:02:51.340 --> 00:02:56.799 and sharpen your marketing skills. And that could be topics from increasing your website traffic, 49 00:02:57.340 --> 00:02:57.840 converting 50 00:02:58.299 --> 00:03:01.519 your website visitors into free or paying members, 51 00:03:01.955 --> 00:03:08.775 Finding and discovering revenue opportunities that might you might have not noticed are available in the industry that you're serving. 52 00:03:08.995 --> 00:03:14.035 And I always like to mention one of my favorites is improving the navigation of your website. 53 00:03:14.035 --> 00:03:16.295 Creating a really good simple experience 54 00:03:16.850 --> 00:03:23.970 for visitors and potential members, and that always leads to good conversions for whatever actions you want your website visitors to take. 55 00:03:23.970 --> 00:03:25.110 So if you have questions 56 00:03:25.490 --> 00:03:29.410 on any of these topics, please save them. This is going to be a special webinar. 57 00:03:29.410 --> 00:03:31.990 We're going to try to get to everybody's questions. So 58 00:03:32.525 --> 00:03:35.025 please save your questions. We're gonna try to get to everyone 59 00:03:35.405 --> 00:03:36.865 in this session here today. 60 00:03:38.205 --> 00:03:46.145 And I think from we're on webinar, we're in the sixties right now, webinar '62 or 63, but in the early webinars, in webinars 40 ish, 61 00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:51.760 we did create a slide on a tip of the week actually on how to get off the hamster wheel. 62 00:03:51.760 --> 00:03:54.740 So you are always making forward progress, 63 00:03:55.440 --> 00:03:56.240 with your business. 64 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:02.315 We wanted to make this slide a staple in all the webinars just as a reminder for ourselves, myself, 65 00:04:02.694 --> 00:04:08.455 that we we want to always traction and cycle through the different steps of running a business. 66 00:04:08.455 --> 00:04:10.875 It's not always about tinkering and designing 67 00:04:11.334 --> 00:04:16.300 the website. We need to do market research. We need to create marketing assets. 68 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:20.300 We have to do outreach to our community. We have to drive traffic to our site. 69 00:04:20.300 --> 00:04:23.740 So it's always important to remember to cycle through these steps. 70 00:04:23.740 --> 00:04:26.320 It could be on a weekly basis, a monthly basis, 71 00:04:26.780 --> 00:04:31.175 but just make sure that you're always making forward progress with your online community 72 00:04:31.634 --> 00:04:35.254 by going through these steps and any other steps that you do to keep 73 00:04:35.555 --> 00:04:37.335 your your business moving forward. 74 00:04:38.194 --> 00:04:41.634 Pat or Rick or even actually David's on the webinar as well. 75 00:04:41.634 --> 00:04:48.360 Do you guys have any any more insight into this slide or any tips for for this, specific idea here, this concept? 76 00:04:49.300 --> 00:04:49.540 Yeah. 77 00:04:49.540 --> 00:04:54.600 I really think based on the conversation and the communities on Facebook, it's about number one, 78 00:04:54.935 --> 00:04:59.595 which is about really taking time to find a need and filling it, which means 79 00:04:59.975 --> 00:05:03.995 at the early stages before building the site, before launching a business, 80 00:05:04.455 --> 00:05:06.315 speaking to the potential customers, 81 00:05:06.935 --> 00:05:11.030 and sharing your idea with them and saying, hey. What do you think of this concept? 82 00:05:11.030 --> 00:05:11.930 Is this something 83 00:05:12.470 --> 00:05:14.950 you would pay to have resolved for you? And, 84 00:05:15.510 --> 00:05:18.890 if it is, then then going down that cycle. So I really recommend 85 00:05:19.430 --> 00:05:23.050 focusing on number one and making sure you are filling a need. 86 00:05:23.764 --> 00:05:26.324 Awesome. Actually, I have to say number one is pretty important. 87 00:05:26.324 --> 00:05:32.564 You it's almost like build are you gonna build a product that everyone wants to use or building a product that nobody needs? 88 00:05:32.884 --> 00:05:36.810 So doing that research and finding out what the need is. And it could be anything. 89 00:05:36.810 --> 00:05:38.590 If you wanna serve the pet industry 90 00:05:38.890 --> 00:05:41.230 or the the legal industry or insurance, 91 00:05:42.090 --> 00:05:42.650 that's fine. 92 00:05:42.650 --> 00:05:48.810 But there you gotta find out what particular problem you're gonna solve in that industry, and and that needs to be your mission and purpose. 93 00:05:48.810 --> 00:05:53.075 And that'll help guide you in your decision making, and and how you market your site as well. 94 00:05:53.855 --> 00:05:57.075 Yeah. I I I just wanna add real quick there, Jason. 95 00:05:57.215 --> 00:06:01.155 The, the fact that you identify a need, and you grow inside 96 00:06:01.615 --> 00:06:04.915 one area in particular of of of your business, 97 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.080 will allow you to become someone in that industry. Right? 98 00:06:08.080 --> 00:06:13.300 And then people will really look forward to becoming a part of that site, to becoming a part of that project, 99 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:15.860 rather than just being another website. 100 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:17.940 One of the many that are out there. 101 00:06:18.215 --> 00:06:27.335 So finding the need, filling that need goes a long way in creating a community, and that's definitely what builds or breaks your your project. 102 00:06:27.335 --> 00:06:27.835 Right? 103 00:06:28.295 --> 00:06:32.795 Yeah. Pat, do you guys cover that in one of the segments in the directory gurus, 104 00:06:33.650 --> 00:06:34.150 training? 105 00:06:34.450 --> 00:06:38.210 Yeah. Yeah. That's definitely a big, big emphasis on on the entire course. 106 00:06:38.210 --> 00:06:40.630 And it it's it's really the first step 107 00:06:41.010 --> 00:06:43.270 that, that even, Bruce who's 108 00:06:43.650 --> 00:06:47.030 who's running a very successful directory on the Brilliant Directories platform, 109 00:06:47.815 --> 00:06:50.794 he really focuses on that at the very beginning of the journey 110 00:06:51.095 --> 00:06:52.315 and making sure 111 00:06:52.854 --> 00:06:53.895 that you're you're 112 00:06:54.375 --> 00:06:58.235 you have a solution to a problem that there's a a demand for. 113 00:06:58.294 --> 00:07:01.354 Because there's a lot of problems, and maybe you're solving a problem. 114 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:06.860 But bottom line, if you're not speaking to people and asking them, is this a priority for you? 115 00:07:06.860 --> 00:07:09.120 Is this a challenge that's serious for you? 116 00:07:09.900 --> 00:07:12.800 Would would this solution make you want to 117 00:07:13.100 --> 00:07:16.880 join this website? If I had a solution for that, would you be interested? So 118 00:07:17.205 --> 00:07:21.764 getting early feedback in the initial stages is so critical. And it 119 00:07:22.805 --> 00:07:24.824 I guess bottom line is is 120 00:07:25.205 --> 00:07:26.345 don't get stuck 121 00:07:26.885 --> 00:07:31.205 working behind a monitor because everybody's in their comfort zone behind a monitor. 122 00:07:31.205 --> 00:07:35.260 It's it's fun to write emails. It's fun to design a website. It's fun 123 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:39.980 to write your your project plans and what the goals are and what you should be doing next. 124 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:45.260 But the bottom line is if you're running a new business, you have to get on the phone. 125 00:07:45.395 --> 00:07:51.895 You have to get comfortable speaking to potential customers, and I would say that's the first skill set anybody should develop. 126 00:07:52.755 --> 00:07:53.875 Awesome. Alright. 127 00:07:53.875 --> 00:07:57.315 Well, if you guys have questions about this later in the webinar, please save them. 128 00:07:57.315 --> 00:07:58.695 We'll get to them real soon. 129 00:07:59.900 --> 00:08:05.419 Alright. We got some BD lab updates today. Woo hoo. Last webinar, we had quite a few of them. 130 00:08:05.419 --> 00:08:07.599 I just created a short list here of 131 00:08:07.900 --> 00:08:10.379 four items that I'd like to share with you today. 132 00:08:10.379 --> 00:08:15.264 And I don't want to spend too much time on them, so I'll try to cycle through them relatively quickly. 133 00:08:16.205 --> 00:08:17.505 The first one is 134 00:08:17.965 --> 00:08:21.824 related to a setting for your membership levels. 135 00:08:22.205 --> 00:08:25.345 It's an ability to disable the public sign up pages. 136 00:08:25.405 --> 00:08:33.110 So maybe you ran a promotion for a specific membership level, or you or or it's just a private membership level you're signing up people to, 137 00:08:33.570 --> 00:08:38.950 from the admin area, and you don't and you want to create the membership level, but you don't want the sign up pages 138 00:08:39.330 --> 00:08:40.309 to be public. 139 00:08:41.250 --> 00:08:45.705 Basically what you could do is disable the sign up the public sign up pages, and it's a simple setting. 140 00:08:45.705 --> 00:08:48.045 I'll show you where you can do that. 141 00:08:48.745 --> 00:08:54.845 So you want to toggle on over to, and let me just reset here. Just finishing something up here. 142 00:08:55.785 --> 00:08:59.325 Alright. So where you want to go is we'll start in the dashboard area, 143 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:01.740 And because this is related to 144 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.500 specific settings for membership levels, we're going to go to manage products. 145 00:09:07.640 --> 00:09:11.800 And here we have different membership levels. And I've already done it for this one. 146 00:09:11.800 --> 00:09:15.420 You could see this this guy here, he doesn't have a sign up page link. 147 00:09:15.685 --> 00:09:20.425 But let's edit this one, the diamond level. Let's actually go to the sign up page right now. 148 00:09:21.765 --> 00:09:25.705 Alright. So here is the public sign up page for the diamond level. 149 00:09:25.845 --> 00:09:29.385 And let's edit this and actually disable the public sign up page. 150 00:09:30.209 --> 00:09:34.790 So you want to edit that level and toggle on over to the pricing tab. 151 00:09:36.129 --> 00:09:41.170 And from here, you'll have a new option here, disable sign ups for this project. 152 00:09:41.170 --> 00:09:47.985 And then the smaller text here, the help text says, if you set this to yes there will be no public sign up pages for this product. 153 00:09:47.985 --> 00:09:50.325 So in this example, I'll go ahead and save those changes. 154 00:09:52.705 --> 00:09:55.445 And I'll just do a simple refresh of this page. 155 00:09:56.090 --> 00:09:58.830 And it takes you to like a four zero four this page 156 00:09:59.210 --> 00:10:02.810 doesn't exist. So no one can attempt to sign up for this membership level. 157 00:10:02.810 --> 00:10:11.135 It could be an internal membership level you're signing people up to, or another thing is it could have been a membership level that was part of a promotion that you no longer, 158 00:10:11.595 --> 00:10:16.815 offer, and maybe some members are grandfathered in, but, the sign up pages have been disabled now. 159 00:10:17.115 --> 00:10:23.215 Say I would say, Jason, that, definitely the blog contributor is is the one I think of first and foremost. 160 00:10:23.640 --> 00:10:26.620 A lot of websites have a blog contributor, which is the admin's 161 00:10:26.920 --> 00:10:27.420 account 162 00:10:27.880 --> 00:10:30.480 to add content as the website owner. There you go. 163 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:37.295 So that'd be a great that'd be a great account that you'd wanna disactivate that because you wouldn't want someone from the public seeing that membership level. 164 00:10:37.675 --> 00:10:38.175 Absolutely. 165 00:10:38.235 --> 00:10:49.470 Actually, I think the way to to dissuade people from signing up to the before this feature was available, you'd make the at a paid membership level and the price, like, something like a million dollars to sign up. 166 00:10:49.470 --> 00:10:53.949 So that would deter people from joining. But now you don't have to to do that work around. 167 00:10:53.949 --> 00:10:56.610 You could just set it as a disabled membership level. 168 00:10:56.829 --> 00:11:12.245 And on on one of my directories that I run, I actually had a customer and I was negotiating with them, and they went back in time and started searching for all the checkouts and numbers and found the offer that I had done in the past that was cheaper than I was offering him. 169 00:11:12.245 --> 00:11:19.610 So like you said, ideally, you shut that down, the offer's over, and no one from the public can see an offer you sent to past customers. 170 00:11:20.709 --> 00:11:22.389 Okay. That yeah. That's great. Yeah. 171 00:11:22.389 --> 00:11:26.630 I mean, it just helps you regulate your your levels and, a little bit better. 172 00:11:26.630 --> 00:11:28.250 So, it's a nice little, 173 00:11:29.269 --> 00:11:30.135 update there. 174 00:11:31.095 --> 00:11:31.595 Alright. 175 00:11:31.975 --> 00:11:34.215 This is an addition to an existing add on. 176 00:11:34.215 --> 00:11:39.915 So if you have the pin featured post add on, and I'll just quickly go to our add ons page. 177 00:11:41.975 --> 00:11:43.355 And let's see here. 178 00:11:44.215 --> 00:11:45.995 Pin featured posts. Alright. So 179 00:11:46.589 --> 00:11:57.490 with this add on, you can select a specific post like a coupon or event that will always show at the top of the search results as long as that post is part of that search result. 180 00:11:58.205 --> 00:12:00.465 With this add with this extension 181 00:12:00.845 --> 00:12:04.365 additional functionality, you can now set an expired date. 182 00:12:04.365 --> 00:12:14.950 So maybe you have someone paying you to pin their post to the top of the search results, and you want to do it for a period of thirty days or at the till the end of the month. 183 00:12:15.810 --> 00:12:19.110 You could set yourself a personal reminder to check 184 00:12:19.650 --> 00:12:24.975 ticket and then uncheck it as being a pinned post on that date, but this is a quality of life 185 00:12:25.535 --> 00:12:29.315 feature where you can just set the expiration date and the post will automatically 186 00:12:29.774 --> 00:12:35.315 stop showing at the top of the search results, and I'd like to show you where that is now as well. 187 00:12:36.014 --> 00:12:37.954 So we'll start at the dashboard again, 188 00:12:39.750 --> 00:12:40.250 And 189 00:12:40.630 --> 00:12:43.050 for this one you want to go to manage posts. 190 00:12:45.750 --> 00:12:46.250 And, 191 00:12:46.630 --> 00:12:50.230 I'll just go to events as an example here. So we have these events here. 192 00:12:50.230 --> 00:12:55.695 So you could check this box here and now this post is now pinned to the top of the search results. 193 00:12:56.075 --> 00:13:04.555 So in addition to this, let's say I sold that that top position for a certain amount of money or whatever, and I I was just gonna do it for a period of time. 194 00:13:04.555 --> 00:13:08.495 Again, I could set myself up a personal reminder to come and uncheck this, 195 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:14.280 but what you can do now is you can set it as a featured post and then you can select an expiration date. 196 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:17.020 So for example, April 30, 197 00:13:17.880 --> 00:13:19.180 this post will automatically 198 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:22.280 unpin itself as a featured post from the search results. 199 00:13:22.280 --> 00:13:25.904 So a nice little update there for those of you who 200 00:13:26.524 --> 00:13:30.204 are just using posts to pin posts for a certain amount of time. 201 00:13:30.204 --> 00:13:40.690 Even if it's not paid, maybe you're just doing it internally, and you want to have a better system for rotating posts, this is a good way to expire them without having to manually come in here and uncheck this. 202 00:13:43.230 --> 00:13:43.730 Alright. 203 00:13:44.190 --> 00:13:50.175 We have two new add ons that have recently been released. We did a demo on this one. 204 00:13:50.654 --> 00:13:55.535 Report this page. I'll show you guys again how that works, but that's a new add on that is released. 205 00:13:55.535 --> 00:14:00.195 If you're part of the VIP add ons club, this is available on your site. 206 00:14:00.495 --> 00:14:03.375 You just have to follow this one step to add it to your page. 207 00:14:03.375 --> 00:14:05.460 We didn't want to automatically add it. 208 00:14:05.860 --> 00:14:10.440 The button to report the page to everyone's site. So if you just follow these steps, 209 00:14:10.820 --> 00:14:14.440 you can add it the widget that's for reporting the page 210 00:14:14.740 --> 00:14:19.065 to your sidebar, or anywhere else you can place a widget around your site. 211 00:14:19.625 --> 00:14:22.345 So let's take a look at what that looks like in the first place. 212 00:14:22.345 --> 00:14:25.485 We'll just continue with this demo site example that we have. 213 00:14:25.945 --> 00:14:28.125 And we can go to design tips. 214 00:14:29.705 --> 00:14:32.605 And let's just click on a sample here, this article. 215 00:14:34.500 --> 00:14:39.640 So you can see we have this, we've placed this module here to report this page. 216 00:14:40.420 --> 00:14:44.120 If you're if you need help moderating content, it just helps visitors, 217 00:14:44.820 --> 00:14:50.275 you know inform you as the admin if maybe there's something there's incorrect information, there's inappropriate 218 00:14:51.055 --> 00:14:52.915 content, images, or text, 219 00:14:54.015 --> 00:14:59.375 or there's something misleading, or something your members have have contributed that needs to be fixed or resolved. 220 00:14:59.375 --> 00:15:01.075 It's not necessarily a totally 221 00:15:01.990 --> 00:15:05.130 inappropriate thing, it could just be a misspelling even. 222 00:15:05.589 --> 00:15:07.930 So this, you can place it in your sidebar. 223 00:15:07.990 --> 00:15:10.870 You can really place it anywhere a widget can be placed on your site. 224 00:15:10.870 --> 00:15:18.775 I'll let you know what the name of this module is in a second, but when you click this button you get this form here, report this page, and then the admin of the site 225 00:15:19.155 --> 00:15:21.015 is notified of the page. 226 00:15:21.795 --> 00:15:25.875 And then all this information of why the page is being reported. 227 00:15:25.875 --> 00:15:34.790 It also shows up as a form inquiry in your admin area, very similar to how the contact us form submissions show up in the admin as well. 228 00:15:35.090 --> 00:15:38.630 So let me show you how we got this module here. So you do need to have 229 00:15:39.090 --> 00:15:45.204 the add on for report this page, and again if you're part of the VIP add ons club, this will start working on your site. 230 00:15:45.665 --> 00:15:47.125 So what you want to do 231 00:15:48.144 --> 00:15:53.045 is go to your dashboard, and generally you want to place this in your sidebar. 232 00:15:53.264 --> 00:15:56.485 So in this case we've put placed it in the 233 00:15:56.920 --> 00:15:58.700 single post single page sidebar. 234 00:15:59.640 --> 00:16:02.220 So find the sidebar that you want to place it in. 235 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:11.215 Alright and you can see we've placed it right here at the top here. We have a few 236 00:16:11.595 --> 00:16:12.095 modules 237 00:16:12.555 --> 00:16:16.315 here, but it's this one bootstrap theme module report this page. 238 00:16:16.315 --> 00:16:20.475 Let me just copy that text real quick. Let's add it to another sidebar. 239 00:16:20.475 --> 00:16:22.320 I'm just going to copy the name of this widget. 240 00:16:22.880 --> 00:16:25.620 Let's say for example I wanted to add it to 241 00:16:26.400 --> 00:16:28.260 the member profile page sidebar. 242 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.860 And before before I add it, let's actually, 243 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:37.540 let's go to a members profile page and see that it's not there. 244 00:16:38.805 --> 00:16:40.824 So go to this sample page here. 245 00:16:42.805 --> 00:16:47.305 Okay. Great. This is a demo site we do some testing on. So there's nothing here in the sidebar. 246 00:16:47.605 --> 00:16:50.024 Let's add that module to the sidebar. 247 00:16:50.900 --> 00:16:54.660 So you go to sidebar manager, select the sidebar you want to edit. 248 00:16:54.660 --> 00:16:59.240 In this case, we're editing the member profile page, and then you want to search for your available widgets. 249 00:17:00.100 --> 00:17:08.465 And it's this one here, bootstrap team module report this post and I'm just gonna drag this to the top of the page here and I'll save my changes. 250 00:17:11.724 --> 00:17:12.545 Okay, great. 251 00:17:13.085 --> 00:17:15.265 And if we go back to Stacy's profile 252 00:17:17.490 --> 00:17:20.070 we now have that little module here to report 253 00:17:20.450 --> 00:17:21.190 this page. 254 00:17:22.530 --> 00:17:27.990 And we get this here. So it is portable, I'm just in this example I'm placing it in the sidebars, 255 00:17:28.290 --> 00:17:31.030 but if you know how to kind of edit your page templates 256 00:17:31.425 --> 00:17:35.985 you could you know render it anywhere you really wanted to if you're a designer and whatnot. 257 00:17:36.225 --> 00:17:40.085 You could put at the top of the sidebar, the bottom, you could even place it in your footer, 258 00:17:40.785 --> 00:17:42.725 here if you if you wanted to. 259 00:17:46.040 --> 00:17:49.020 Any insight on that, Pat or Rick? Anything that I didn't cover there? 260 00:17:49.560 --> 00:17:55.660 I mean, I really like that update because oftentimes I I I work with customers and they say, I wanna manually 261 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:59.500 approve all the content that gets added for quality assurance. 262 00:18:00.095 --> 00:18:07.235 But the problem is if I'm a member and I added content and you're away on the weekend and it takes three days for it to get published, 263 00:18:07.535 --> 00:18:11.315 it's a poor experience on my end. So this is to me, it's a great solution 264 00:18:11.855 --> 00:18:14.035 where you allow the content to get published. 265 00:18:14.179 --> 00:18:17.720 You use your public just just like on Facebook, just like on Twitter. 266 00:18:18.100 --> 00:18:27.140 You you can't be expected to oversee all the content on your site as long as you could say there's an avenue for people to report it and for us to take actions. 267 00:18:27.140 --> 00:18:33.995 So it takes away that manual task of having to manually approve all the content, logging in to the admin, and checking it. 268 00:18:33.995 --> 00:18:35.695 So I think it's a great update. 269 00:18:36.875 --> 00:18:39.675 And and there's one more thing. This is a text label. 270 00:18:39.675 --> 00:18:45.250 So as we release, you know new features and things, we try not to hard code the the actual text here. 271 00:18:45.549 --> 00:18:48.370 So if you wanted to edit this from report this page, 272 00:18:48.830 --> 00:18:50.049 and we have this text, 273 00:18:50.429 --> 00:18:53.490 this editor here. I clicked on this like chat module here. 274 00:18:54.405 --> 00:18:56.985 Let me search for report this page. 275 00:19:02.565 --> 00:19:04.825 Alright, here we go. So here's the 276 00:19:06.040 --> 00:19:09.820 tag for it. So you could say like report this post if you wanted to 277 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:11.180 and so on. 278 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:17.100 And here's, like why are you reporting this page that that's those are the things in the form here. 279 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:20.940 These are all text labels as well. Everything in yellow can be modified 280 00:19:21.745 --> 00:19:25.905 further. So, you do have control. Maybe maybe you don't wanna use the word report. 281 00:19:25.905 --> 00:19:27.845 Maybe like help us improve our site, 282 00:19:28.145 --> 00:19:30.485 and turn it into a more positive thing. Like, 283 00:19:31.345 --> 00:19:36.160 submit a, submit a suggestion for this page, kinda like how a Wikipedia does it. 284 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:37.780 You can submit an edit or 285 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:43.780 request an edit or something like that. I personally like the word flag. It's it's neutral, I find. 286 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:49.725 Flag. You know, just for this test, let's, let's just flat let's change the terminology here. 287 00:19:54.205 --> 00:19:55.745 So if we wanted to change 288 00:19:58.205 --> 00:20:00.785 this editor is new. There we go. 289 00:20:01.725 --> 00:20:02.225 So 290 00:20:02.530 --> 00:20:03.830 change it to flag, 291 00:20:04.530 --> 00:20:06.710 and we're gonna change this one to flag. 292 00:20:08.850 --> 00:20:10.150 And we'll save the changes. 293 00:20:17.275 --> 00:20:19.934 There we go. And let's get rid of the, yellow stuff. 294 00:20:20.315 --> 00:20:24.815 So now it says flag this page, and the the title here also says flag this page. 295 00:20:25.434 --> 00:20:28.735 It's a little less aggressive than report, a little little lighter. 296 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:32.240 And we had somebody message in as well, so it could be, 297 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:33.180 suggest, 298 00:20:33.800 --> 00:20:35.500 suggest an edit. Right. 299 00:20:35.800 --> 00:20:38.060 So there's lots of use cases for this. 300 00:20:38.280 --> 00:20:44.025 And for those of you that are designers that kinda wanna edit this, I'll just this is not for the average user, but 301 00:20:44.585 --> 00:20:50.685 you you can target this. It does have a ID class here, which is the report post module. 302 00:20:51.065 --> 00:20:55.325 So if you wanted to do to any CSS changes to to this button, 303 00:20:55.705 --> 00:20:57.645 you can certainly do so as well. 304 00:20:59.930 --> 00:21:04.750 Alright. So that is now that is now released, and you guys can start adding it to your sidebars. 305 00:21:04.890 --> 00:21:11.310 And another new add on, I think we're working out a couple more kinks on this, but the the phase one has been released. 306 00:21:11.445 --> 00:21:12.424 It is the bookmark 307 00:21:12.725 --> 00:21:13.225 counter. 308 00:21:13.524 --> 00:21:20.184 So you guys are all familiar with the ability for people to click and favorite a post or a member individually. 309 00:21:21.284 --> 00:21:22.184 We've created 310 00:21:23.205 --> 00:21:27.144 enhanced functionality which will allow you, which will display 311 00:21:27.500 --> 00:21:28.240 how many 312 00:21:28.780 --> 00:21:30.400 times visitors have 313 00:21:30.780 --> 00:21:33.840 liked or bookmarked a post or a member 314 00:21:34.220 --> 00:21:34.720 profile. 315 00:21:35.500 --> 00:21:38.720 So let me show you how this add on works, and 316 00:21:39.180 --> 00:21:40.720 let's go to design tips. 317 00:21:41.794 --> 00:21:43.495 And we can see the like button 318 00:21:43.875 --> 00:21:49.174 here, which is fine. This is also a text label. I've seen people change the heart to 319 00:21:49.475 --> 00:21:54.135 one of the other available icons. Also the text from like can be changed to bookmark. 320 00:21:54.620 --> 00:21:56.480 It could be I've seen people say save this, or 321 00:21:57.500 --> 00:22:01.200 add to favorites, or any any phrase that works for your industry. 322 00:22:02.140 --> 00:22:04.320 But the same concept is there as the users 323 00:22:04.780 --> 00:22:07.600 is saving or bookmarking their favorite posts. 324 00:22:08.535 --> 00:22:11.095 So for this to work, you do need to be logged in. 325 00:22:11.095 --> 00:22:15.335 So this is also a great way to get people to register as a general user on your site. 326 00:22:15.335 --> 00:22:17.835 So you can log in or register as a general user. 327 00:22:17.895 --> 00:22:21.515 So let me actually just log in as a member so I can start using this functionality, 328 00:22:22.570 --> 00:22:25.150 And I'll show you how the bookmark counter works, 329 00:22:25.690 --> 00:22:26.750 right after that. 330 00:22:27.370 --> 00:22:30.270 So let's just log in as this sample general user. 331 00:22:31.930 --> 00:22:37.470 Alright. So now that I'm logged in as a registered member, if I come back to the design tips, 332 00:22:38.795 --> 00:22:40.815 I should have the ability to 333 00:22:41.355 --> 00:22:42.655 unlike or like. 334 00:22:43.195 --> 00:22:48.175 So I can like this one, I can also like this one, and this one, and so forth. 335 00:22:48.955 --> 00:22:49.755 And that's fine. 336 00:22:49.755 --> 00:22:54.370 All I'm gonna see is that it's highlighted that I've liked it and and selected this. 337 00:22:54.910 --> 00:22:56.770 And I can also go into my 338 00:22:57.390 --> 00:22:59.090 member dashboard area, 339 00:23:00.030 --> 00:23:05.410 and I can see all the different posts that I've bookmarked. So in this case I've bookmarked five 340 00:23:05.950 --> 00:23:07.890 design blog posts here. 341 00:23:08.775 --> 00:23:12.795 But that's fine for the individual. What I really like about the bookmark counter 342 00:23:13.095 --> 00:23:14.475 is it really shows 343 00:23:15.095 --> 00:23:15.595 engagement 344 00:23:16.135 --> 00:23:19.035 on the site, and that a lot of people are using your site. 345 00:23:19.575 --> 00:23:21.850 So this is available for everyone. 346 00:23:21.990 --> 00:23:26.730 By default it's disabled, so if you want to enable showing the count on your website, 347 00:23:27.429 --> 00:23:29.450 you can go to your design settings, 348 00:23:29.990 --> 00:23:32.570 and it's under the search results design. 349 00:23:33.995 --> 00:23:37.455 And it's this setting here enable bookmark counter 350 00:23:37.995 --> 00:23:39.855 and we want to set this to yes. 351 00:23:41.275 --> 00:23:42.975 I'll go ahead and save the changes. 352 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:52.900 And I'll go back to design tips, and if you notice here this is just the heart and the word like. 353 00:23:53.120 --> 00:23:54.820 Let's refresh this page. 354 00:23:57.920 --> 00:23:59.300 So now it says likes 355 00:23:59.855 --> 00:24:02.735 and one like. So I'm logged in as this member. 356 00:24:02.735 --> 00:24:09.235 Let me actually log in as an alternate member, so we can change it from one to two, and it'll actually show a little more, 357 00:24:09.855 --> 00:24:11.715 of the functionality of this. 358 00:24:15.370 --> 00:24:18.750 And then I'll show you what you guys can do with the text labels as well. 359 00:24:18.890 --> 00:24:21.950 So let me just log in as another sample member here, 360 00:24:23.450 --> 00:24:25.149 and go to design tips. 361 00:24:27.935 --> 00:24:30.095 Okay, so I'm logged in as a new member. 362 00:24:30.095 --> 00:24:36.915 This member hasn't liked anything, but he can see, he or she can see that this post has one like. 363 00:24:37.695 --> 00:24:39.840 So if I like it and now it says two likes. 364 00:24:39.840 --> 00:24:44.020 So imagine if a post has 300 likes or 500 likes or you know 365 00:24:45.040 --> 00:24:51.299 really high number, it really shows that the site has a lot of activity and it probably gets people more excited 366 00:24:51.855 --> 00:24:55.955 to use the site. And it also shows a lot of value for what people are favoriting 367 00:24:57.054 --> 00:24:59.955 on your site as well. So it's a great way to 368 00:25:00.495 --> 00:25:02.175 to show dynamic posts on your site. 369 00:25:02.175 --> 00:25:14.090 And then you as the website owner, if a post does have a lot of likes, maybe you manually want to pin that post to the top of the search results since they're probably really valuable and people are really enjoying those posts, and you can reward 370 00:25:14.550 --> 00:25:15.210 your members 371 00:25:15.910 --> 00:25:21.850 whose posts receive a lot of likes by you know bubbling them up to the search results because it's obviously high value 372 00:25:22.365 --> 00:25:22.865 content. 373 00:25:23.565 --> 00:25:28.865 So you can obviously reward people who are adding good content to your site that other people are quote unquote liking. 374 00:25:29.725 --> 00:25:31.585 And, I've got a great recommendation 375 00:25:32.045 --> 00:25:38.000 from from one of the the listeners, and that is to use the thumbs up, which is super 376 00:25:38.300 --> 00:25:39.280 recognized and 377 00:25:39.820 --> 00:25:44.460 and and I had a quick look at it, and it is available. It's very easy to set up. Let's do it. 378 00:25:44.460 --> 00:25:48.620 So there are a few settings with the the the favorites. So you can change the icon. 379 00:25:48.620 --> 00:25:53.165 I think by default, it's a heart. I think there's a few hundred icons here. 380 00:25:54.185 --> 00:25:55.245 Let's do the, 381 00:25:55.865 --> 00:25:59.805 so there's two thumbs here. I guess this is the solid color. Let's do that one. 382 00:26:00.425 --> 00:26:00.925 And 383 00:26:01.305 --> 00:26:05.645 the active color red, let's make it a little more intense. It's a little muted right now. 384 00:26:07.679 --> 00:26:08.179 And 385 00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:15.380 the disabled color, let's make it a little darker just so there's a little more contrast on the site, and we'll save the changes. 386 00:26:18.320 --> 00:26:27.065 I think I think, Pat, there's, you know, we'd as we add some new design settings, we're we're kind of clumping them into the these two modules here, search results and additional. 387 00:26:27.065 --> 00:26:28.285 We it might warrant 388 00:26:28.665 --> 00:26:32.925 a new module based on, some things that are are related to each other. 389 00:26:35.520 --> 00:26:37.940 But, yeah, I do love the thumbs up. I I think, 390 00:26:38.800 --> 00:26:45.059 generally speaking, whenever you can leverage something that other people are used to, like a thumbs up, like, it's a small detail, 391 00:26:45.520 --> 00:26:46.740 but there's no education. 392 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:48.980 Hearts are not used on any 393 00:26:49.304 --> 00:26:54.125 known platform so that that was a great recommendation I think would be very beneficial to everybody. 394 00:26:55.225 --> 00:26:59.544 Yeah. Another good one. Well, I have seen the heart on things like Pinterest where you can heart. 395 00:26:59.544 --> 00:27:02.445 No. You're right. You're right. Yeah. So it just depends on the platform. 396 00:27:02.539 --> 00:27:05.820 I have also seen here's another good one if you guys are looking for ideas. 397 00:27:05.820 --> 00:27:07.360 There is one called bookmark, 398 00:27:08.140 --> 00:27:10.240 like specifically. So you can actually 399 00:27:10.860 --> 00:27:14.000 it's like a the bookmark that a web browser uses. 400 00:27:15.325 --> 00:27:16.685 So if we refresh this 401 00:27:17.405 --> 00:27:20.045 So let's actually change the word likes now. Let's see. 402 00:27:20.045 --> 00:27:24.545 Let's do the design setting thing, the text label thing I was referring to, Pat. 403 00:27:25.645 --> 00:27:27.905 Alright. So we got our little module here. 404 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:31.660 So we can see that this says 405 00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:32.460 likes 406 00:27:33.280 --> 00:27:33.780 and 407 00:27:34.600 --> 00:27:39.740 likes here. So there's a plural version and a singular version. So let's edit the text label, 408 00:27:42.245 --> 00:27:43.304 And we get a little 409 00:27:44.725 --> 00:27:50.184 pop up here. So the variable text for the likes one, the plural version is bookmark counts. 410 00:27:50.644 --> 00:27:52.105 So let's search for likes. 411 00:27:53.684 --> 00:27:54.985 And here it is here. 412 00:27:55.684 --> 00:27:56.184 So 413 00:27:57.070 --> 00:27:58.690 let's let's call it something 414 00:27:59.870 --> 00:28:01.250 let's just call it bookmarks. 415 00:28:01.950 --> 00:28:02.450 Like, 416 00:28:02.830 --> 00:28:05.410 two people have have bookmarked this. 417 00:28:07.950 --> 00:28:09.410 And we'll save the changes. 418 00:28:13.485 --> 00:28:19.184 And someone just asked does BD prevent a single user from having multiple likes? 419 00:28:19.725 --> 00:28:21.025 Yeah I can only I 420 00:28:21.405 --> 00:28:26.065 can only click this on or off one time. See see how it goes from two to one. 421 00:28:27.779 --> 00:28:32.580 Yep. I can't I can't keep Becky will Becky will like that. Okay. Great. Yeah. 422 00:28:32.580 --> 00:28:35.640 I can't keep increasing the the number of this. 423 00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:39.539 Yeah. So it's really nice. It it adds a little bit of 424 00:28:40.355 --> 00:28:44.595 you know, it shows a little more engagement and makes the site a little more lively in my opinion. 425 00:28:44.595 --> 00:28:47.735 Not probably not everyone needs to use the counter. It just depends on 426 00:28:48.035 --> 00:28:51.075 the the industry and the market you're serving and your audience. But, 427 00:28:52.450 --> 00:28:55.650 if if it does make sense on your side, I think it's a nice nice touch there. 428 00:28:55.650 --> 00:28:59.670 And of course, if you don't want it, just make sure you go back to your design settings, 429 00:29:00.210 --> 00:29:01.670 and you can click no. 430 00:29:01.970 --> 00:29:03.990 And it'll go back to the regular functionality 431 00:29:04.290 --> 00:29:06.945 from the the bookmark favorites add on. So, 432 00:29:07.345 --> 00:29:07.924 it'll just 433 00:29:08.705 --> 00:29:10.085 show you what you've liked 434 00:29:10.625 --> 00:29:11.745 highlighted or not. 435 00:29:11.745 --> 00:29:17.365 So And and I have a quick question from Natalie since we're on the topic, and she's asking 436 00:29:17.825 --> 00:29:20.725 if I if I like something or or pin something, 437 00:29:21.289 --> 00:29:22.110 by default, 438 00:29:22.730 --> 00:29:24.350 where do I see that information 439 00:29:24.970 --> 00:29:26.669 as a as a member of a website? 440 00:29:27.530 --> 00:29:29.230 Perfect. I'll show you right now. 441 00:29:30.010 --> 00:29:34.190 So this is the single version without the the count. It's the text label 442 00:29:34.585 --> 00:29:35.965 that's the singular version. 443 00:29:36.185 --> 00:29:40.205 And let's see what that looks like just to give you guys some more ideas of what you can use 444 00:29:40.665 --> 00:29:41.485 this for. 445 00:29:43.145 --> 00:29:48.505 So this now says save this post. Alright. So it kinda explains what you're doing as you click it. 446 00:29:48.505 --> 00:29:49.020 So it's, 447 00:29:49.740 --> 00:29:50.640 obviously people 448 00:29:51.420 --> 00:29:56.560 can figure out with the heart or a thumbs up what they're doing, but when you're doing save this post, 449 00:29:56.940 --> 00:30:03.760 what you can do if you're the member, and this is a great you know we we always talk about way reasons to email your members. 450 00:30:04.465 --> 00:30:07.105 You want to educate them on the features of your site. 451 00:30:07.105 --> 00:30:15.904 So if you have the bookmark favorites on your site, that would be a great newsletter to go out to some of your newer members or or older members if you recently added this, 452 00:30:16.625 --> 00:30:18.660 the installed add on on your site. 453 00:30:19.060 --> 00:30:29.080 You can make a short video yourself or just some some instructions or make it a blog post company news that this feature is now available on your site, and you can show them how to use it. 454 00:30:29.140 --> 00:30:34.935 And to find the posts that you've bookmarked or marked as your favorites, you can go to your member dashboard. 455 00:30:37.395 --> 00:30:41.015 And, whatever you're calling it, in this case we're saying my bookmarks, 456 00:30:41.795 --> 00:30:46.810 if you toggle this open all the all the different types of posts are listed here. 457 00:30:46.810 --> 00:30:49.150 So if I bookmarked coupons and events 458 00:30:49.610 --> 00:30:54.270 and property listings, they would all be segmented based on the type of posts I favorited. 459 00:30:54.410 --> 00:30:59.230 So I can see how many member listings I favorited. In this case, it's just these two test ones. 460 00:31:00.065 --> 00:31:03.445 And I can toggle over to the design blog articles that I favorited. 461 00:31:04.145 --> 00:31:06.865 And what's really nice is if you don't like it, you can delete it. 462 00:31:06.865 --> 00:31:10.065 And if you do like it, you can go ahead and view your favorites. 463 00:31:10.065 --> 00:31:13.285 And that's why you're saving them is because you want to save your favorites. 464 00:31:14.290 --> 00:31:20.390 So really good for a property's website or a coupon's website so I can reference my my my research. 465 00:31:21.730 --> 00:31:22.230 Yeah. 466 00:31:22.850 --> 00:31:23.890 A property website. 467 00:31:23.890 --> 00:31:30.745 I've seen a lot of people use BD to kind of make like searching for property rentals or homes for sale, 468 00:31:31.285 --> 00:31:32.105 and definitely 469 00:31:32.805 --> 00:31:35.285 website visitors want to bookmark their favorites. 470 00:31:35.285 --> 00:31:37.785 So you want to get them registered as a general user, 471 00:31:38.245 --> 00:31:41.225 and you want to show and you want to allow them to save their favorites. 472 00:31:41.390 --> 00:31:45.170 But what really if it's a property website, there's a lot of competition. 473 00:31:45.230 --> 00:31:47.490 If I know that 500 people have, 474 00:31:47.950 --> 00:31:56.995 you know favorited a potential property for sale, that that's going to motivate me to want to work a little faster and quicker to maybe snatch up that that asset. 475 00:31:56.995 --> 00:32:02.855 So, it can create a level of competition among the website visitors seeing those favorites and likes. 476 00:32:03.315 --> 00:32:10.070 Alright. Good stuff there. And that's it for this, week's lab updates. There's a ton of small 477 00:32:10.370 --> 00:32:10.870 fixes 478 00:32:11.250 --> 00:32:14.950 that were already done behind the scenes, but these were the most notable updates. 479 00:32:15.330 --> 00:32:17.670 A few things coming down the line for everyone. 480 00:32:18.049 --> 00:32:19.190 No add ons required. 481 00:32:19.809 --> 00:32:22.470 The ability to export your newsletter subscribers 482 00:32:23.010 --> 00:32:26.625 with one click. That's something that's come up in the Facebook group, 483 00:32:27.885 --> 00:32:29.325 quite a few times the last month. 484 00:32:29.325 --> 00:32:32.705 So we're creating a button there where you can export your newsletter subscribers, 485 00:32:33.805 --> 00:32:37.665 people who have submitted leads to members, and other types of contact tags. 486 00:32:38.340 --> 00:32:44.840 We're also creating the ability to apply bulk actions when you're editing members in the admin area. 487 00:32:45.380 --> 00:32:56.055 So let's say you you do a search in the admin for a group of members, and there's 10 pages of results, and you want to set all those people to active or inactive, or you want to change their membership level, 488 00:32:56.675 --> 00:33:02.375 or other various bulk actions, you'll be able to do that in the admin area in just a few clicks. 489 00:33:02.835 --> 00:33:03.975 And something exciting, 490 00:33:04.275 --> 00:33:06.215 we do have a developer in the marketplace. 491 00:33:07.155 --> 00:33:09.500 They've hinted to us that they are creating 492 00:33:10.040 --> 00:33:11.980 a booking or an appointment scheduling 493 00:33:12.360 --> 00:33:15.660 plug in, that can integrate with Brilliant Directories. 494 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:21.980 So I'm hoping to have them on in one of the the next upcoming webinars, maybe one of the next two or three webinars, 495 00:33:22.294 --> 00:33:25.355 and they can demo exactly how that booking scheduler 496 00:33:25.815 --> 00:33:28.075 works, and it actually ties into 497 00:33:28.775 --> 00:33:31.674 your members Google calendars or Hotmail calendars, 498 00:33:32.215 --> 00:33:35.654 that they might have, and it's all integrated on your Brilliant Directories website. 499 00:33:35.654 --> 00:33:38.075 They don't have to leave the site for anything. I saw 500 00:33:38.750 --> 00:33:41.009 a small demo of it. They're doing some final 501 00:33:41.389 --> 00:33:43.809 finishing touches on it, but it looks really promising. 502 00:33:44.029 --> 00:33:48.370 And I think Pat and Rick, a lot of people, they're looking for a streamlined 503 00:33:49.230 --> 00:33:55.505 appointment scheduling solution because there's lots of ways to to get people to book appointments, but they want something that's streamlined 504 00:33:55.885 --> 00:33:59.825 and integrated seamlessly with their Brilliant Directories website. So 505 00:34:00.284 --> 00:34:01.985 looking forward to seeing that soon. 506 00:34:03.320 --> 00:34:06.520 Alright we've got a great segment for you guys today. 507 00:34:06.520 --> 00:34:09.900 Another topic that's been very popular in the Facebook group. 508 00:34:10.040 --> 00:34:13.020 I've seen it I see it come up several times a month. 509 00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:14.699 Rick, 510 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:21.175 today you're going to cover in Rick's corner, how to moderate member posts before they go live. 511 00:34:21.175 --> 00:34:21.675 Right? 512 00:34:23.335 --> 00:34:26.315 Yes. We are. We're gonna go over the simple process, 513 00:34:26.935 --> 00:34:33.195 that will go a very long way if you are one of those people that wanna wants to control, like, the type of content 514 00:34:33.710 --> 00:34:35.969 that gets published through your website, Jason. 515 00:34:36.509 --> 00:34:37.009 So, 516 00:34:37.710 --> 00:34:40.609 yeah, it's very easy to do. It's a very simple process. 517 00:34:41.710 --> 00:34:43.089 Nothing out of the ordinary, 518 00:34:43.389 --> 00:34:45.489 like, the stuff that we usually go through. 519 00:34:46.909 --> 00:34:48.795 Yeah. And like you were saying, like, it, 520 00:34:49.355 --> 00:34:56.014 it does come off in people are interested in in, like, getting getting this done and getting this taken care of. 521 00:34:56.714 --> 00:34:57.214 Some 522 00:34:57.515 --> 00:35:00.075 some of the scenarios, in case you're wondering, like, 523 00:35:00.555 --> 00:35:03.420 Absolutely. When does it become useful. Right? 524 00:35:03.740 --> 00:35:07.839 So let's say, for instance, you're paying someone to publish content for your site. 525 00:35:07.980 --> 00:35:09.839 So you have an admin block contributor 526 00:35:10.220 --> 00:35:11.680 that they basically have, 527 00:35:12.859 --> 00:35:18.400 the, the basic the, like, the limit to only, or, yeah, the limitation of only accessing 528 00:35:18.895 --> 00:35:20.115 your site to post 529 00:35:20.575 --> 00:35:25.315 the the blogs. Right? So you you have someone hired that does that for you. 530 00:35:25.455 --> 00:35:32.835 You wanna make sure that the content that that that person is delivering is actually in line what, with what your website is about. 531 00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:34.740 So you wanna make sure that you 532 00:35:35.279 --> 00:35:37.700 you revise the content before it goes out. 533 00:35:38.319 --> 00:35:41.539 So that that's one scenario in which this becomes super useful. 534 00:35:43.279 --> 00:35:44.819 Yeah and also if you have 535 00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:48.500 members contributing, or user generated content. 536 00:35:50.215 --> 00:36:02.075 You know, if if you have staff and you and you want to make sure that the the quality is really there, and that people aren't just you know breaking your your your guidelines like just throwing advertisements 537 00:36:02.455 --> 00:36:08.130 up or things that aren't really what you're looking for from for example a members article post, 538 00:36:08.589 --> 00:36:09.329 or inappropriate 539 00:36:09.789 --> 00:36:12.130 coupons, or what you know whatever it might be. 540 00:36:12.430 --> 00:36:16.289 This is a great way for for to add another level of control 541 00:36:16.750 --> 00:36:19.170 for the admin owner of the site. 542 00:36:20.495 --> 00:36:21.775 Yeah. 100%. 543 00:36:21.775 --> 00:36:25.795 Yeah. That's the most common, to be honest. That's the most common reason why people, 544 00:36:26.575 --> 00:36:30.835 want to set this up, and it's just to have a real control 545 00:36:31.215 --> 00:36:33.375 of what ends up published on your site. Right? 546 00:36:33.375 --> 00:36:40.650 If you are really behind, like, you if you have a very specific SEO goal, for example, and you know that certain content is hurting you, 547 00:36:41.109 --> 00:36:43.450 then you wanna avoid that by all means. 548 00:36:43.990 --> 00:36:44.890 If you're noticing 549 00:36:45.349 --> 00:36:47.690 certain patterns that don't benefit your 550 00:36:48.105 --> 00:36:50.285 overall website performance, that's that's 551 00:36:50.905 --> 00:36:54.905 also something that requires your attention. And this type of of, 552 00:36:55.305 --> 00:36:56.925 check, it's a good balance, 553 00:36:57.785 --> 00:36:59.244 on your on your site. 554 00:37:00.290 --> 00:37:04.609 I think so too. So let's, I'm gonna pass over the controls to you Rick. And Please do. 555 00:37:04.690 --> 00:37:08.230 If you can just guide us through the steps of what a member sees now, 556 00:37:08.690 --> 00:37:10.390 and what they see after, 557 00:37:11.250 --> 00:37:12.930 you enable this setting. 558 00:37:13.250 --> 00:37:14.710 I think that would be a good 559 00:37:15.555 --> 00:37:19.555 a good demo for us here. So I'll pass over the controls to you here. We got you here. 560 00:37:19.875 --> 00:37:23.575 You're in the member dashboard about to publish a blog post. 561 00:37:24.515 --> 00:37:29.974 That is correct. Alright. So yes, I'm I'm logged in as a member of the website. 562 00:37:30.200 --> 00:37:34.280 I'm about ready to publish my blog article, and this is what we currently have. 563 00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:36.940 We currently have the option here at the top to publish 564 00:37:37.640 --> 00:37:41.660 the the article. Right? So you can select yes or no, which by the way is super common. 565 00:37:42.200 --> 00:37:43.800 People report to us like, hey. 566 00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:47.734 The the the articles are not showing up, and it's because they they're not published. 567 00:37:48.115 --> 00:37:50.454 So that's something that it sometimes goes unnoticed. 568 00:37:51.315 --> 00:37:56.194 Nevertheless, this is what we have. And what we're gonna be able to do after the, 569 00:37:56.675 --> 00:38:01.910 the simple process is just basically hiding this, Setting the default value for this 570 00:38:02.290 --> 00:38:04.470 specific field to no. 571 00:38:04.610 --> 00:38:12.869 So by setting the default value to no and hiding this from the user, then they're not gonna be able to choose whether or not the article gets published right away. 572 00:38:13.884 --> 00:38:16.944 So every time they so every time they save the article 573 00:38:17.565 --> 00:38:21.424 secretly, it will be automatically setting the published status to no. 574 00:38:22.444 --> 00:38:25.805 Correct. Correct. Gotcha. Okay. That's that's that's 100% 575 00:38:25.805 --> 00:38:31.290 correct. So when they save it, then the system will automatically save it as unpublished. Right. 576 00:38:32.230 --> 00:38:34.310 Mhmm. Alright. So let's go ahead and jump to it. 577 00:38:34.310 --> 00:38:39.530 The first thing that you wanna do is figure out which form you're going to be editing. Right? 578 00:38:39.590 --> 00:38:42.890 So in this case, we're gonna be editing the, website blog articles. 579 00:38:43.065 --> 00:38:44.925 So we're gonna search for the form. 580 00:38:45.865 --> 00:38:49.645 The way to do it, it's very simple. Right? Just go to the edit post settings. 581 00:38:49.944 --> 00:38:52.365 Here, I'm gonna open that up on on a new tab. 582 00:38:53.464 --> 00:38:57.964 And we're gonna look for the website blog article feature, which is this one. 583 00:38:58.080 --> 00:39:00.800 And then here we have the blog article fields form. 584 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.100 This is the one that we're going to be editing for this 585 00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:05.460 process. 586 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:10.640 Alright. So let's go ahead and jump over to the form manager. Let's open that up. 587 00:39:10.640 --> 00:39:12.660 And now we're what we're gonna do is, 588 00:39:13.855 --> 00:39:16.675 simply search we're gonna search for that specific form. 589 00:39:17.375 --> 00:39:21.555 So as you guys know, there there shouldn't be any customized forms. 590 00:39:22.175 --> 00:39:26.035 And then here we here we go. We have the feature blog articles form. 591 00:39:26.175 --> 00:39:28.260 So now we're gonna customize that form. 592 00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:34.440 Okay. So customizing basically, just bringing that form here to the 593 00:39:34.740 --> 00:39:36.280 forms manager on your website. 594 00:39:36.740 --> 00:39:40.280 Alright. So what we have is the, form publish. 595 00:39:40.935 --> 00:39:43.915 This is the this is the field that we wanna edit. 596 00:39:44.215 --> 00:39:49.355 Right? Here, we currently have have this set up to be a yes or no type. 597 00:39:49.575 --> 00:39:54.955 So we wanna open up that drop down, and we wanna select the hidden field option. Alright? 598 00:39:55.080 --> 00:39:58.780 So from all that list, just search for the hidden field. 599 00:40:00.040 --> 00:40:04.940 Once you've selected that, then the next step is to go ahead and set the default value. 600 00:40:05.240 --> 00:40:07.420 So to set the default value to unpublish, 601 00:40:07.885 --> 00:40:08.625 just simply 602 00:40:08.925 --> 00:40:12.785 type in a zero. So the system will identify this as, 603 00:40:13.965 --> 00:40:14.865 as the 604 00:40:15.325 --> 00:40:19.745 unpublished value. So meaning the customer fills out the the post, 605 00:40:20.045 --> 00:40:22.545 it's gonna be automatically saved as unpublished. 606 00:40:23.710 --> 00:40:27.330 So very important, let's go ahead and save save those changes here. 607 00:40:29.790 --> 00:40:30.270 Perfect. 608 00:40:30.270 --> 00:40:35.410 I think as a as a customized form, it's just gonna, confirm that you wanna save it to the website? 609 00:40:36.190 --> 00:40:36.690 Correct. 610 00:40:38.665 --> 00:40:43.325 Correct. And it wouldn't save it if if I hadn't changed any of the values. 611 00:40:43.865 --> 00:40:47.865 Okay. So let's go ahead and I believe that now we're saved here. Let's see. 612 00:40:47.865 --> 00:40:49.405 Just click it one more time. 613 00:40:52.070 --> 00:40:54.810 If you go yeah. I think you should be good to go now. 614 00:40:55.190 --> 00:41:00.490 Let's go ahead and close this. Okay. Perfect. Let's go to the I'm just gonna go to the there you go. 615 00:41:00.550 --> 00:41:02.170 Okay. So the form, 616 00:41:02.710 --> 00:41:06.090 has already been customized. It's showing up here as the customized form. 617 00:41:06.775 --> 00:41:09.275 Let me jump over here, Jason, to the blog 618 00:41:10.055 --> 00:41:12.795 tab that we had before. So this is the publish 619 00:41:13.415 --> 00:41:15.835 field that we had. Let me refresh the page. 620 00:41:17.975 --> 00:41:18.855 So there you go. 621 00:41:18.855 --> 00:41:24.520 There's no way for me as a user to select whether or not the the article ends up published. 622 00:41:25.860 --> 00:41:30.280 Alright. So this is like basically the configuration, meaning like this is it. 623 00:41:30.500 --> 00:41:35.224 There's no really any other modification for you to do to this particular form. 624 00:41:35.444 --> 00:41:37.785 The next step is to go to the back end, 625 00:41:38.244 --> 00:41:40.424 just to make sure that you're able to identify 626 00:41:40.724 --> 00:41:42.025 what content is, 627 00:41:42.644 --> 00:41:42.885 is 628 00:41:43.444 --> 00:41:48.260 has been saved on your website, right, and the content that needs to be approved at this 629 00:41:48.560 --> 00:41:49.060 point. 630 00:41:49.120 --> 00:41:56.900 So to do that, what we'll do is you'll simply navigate to the manage post section, which is the easiest way for you to just go over all the content, 631 00:41:57.520 --> 00:41:59.380 that has been published through the site. 632 00:42:00.240 --> 00:42:02.340 What we're looking for here is the website 633 00:42:02.855 --> 00:42:03.515 log articles. 634 00:42:04.775 --> 00:42:06.075 Let me open that up. 635 00:42:07.255 --> 00:42:10.954 And here we have this cool feature, which is filter by status. 636 00:42:11.414 --> 00:42:17.434 Now what this does is that it allows us to select whether or not you wanna see the published or the not published. 637 00:42:17.790 --> 00:42:20.370 Right? So in this case, of course, we wanna 638 00:42:20.910 --> 00:42:22.690 go ahead and select the not published. 639 00:42:23.230 --> 00:42:25.810 Those would be the ones that we need to verify first 640 00:42:26.190 --> 00:42:27.650 before publishing them. 641 00:42:28.030 --> 00:42:30.210 Alright. So now once 642 00:42:30.590 --> 00:42:39.924 once you're you go over the article, you you verify that it indeed has all the regulations that you might wanna implement on on the articles. 643 00:42:39.924 --> 00:42:41.704 I mean, it follows all the guidelines. 644 00:42:42.005 --> 00:42:44.744 It has everything that you're looking for. You wanna approve this. 645 00:42:46.270 --> 00:42:47.650 Then it's super easy. 646 00:42:48.590 --> 00:42:52.530 You go ahead and select the article that you wanna that you want to publish. 647 00:42:52.670 --> 00:42:55.090 And here at the bottom from this drop down, 648 00:42:55.550 --> 00:42:56.290 you select 649 00:42:56.590 --> 00:42:57.090 publish, 650 00:42:57.630 --> 00:42:59.170 and then you save the changes. 651 00:42:59.550 --> 00:43:01.005 Now automatically, you'll, 652 00:43:01.404 --> 00:43:03.644 of course, publish the article. It has already 653 00:43:04.125 --> 00:43:07.644 like, it has your green light. So that's basically the whole thing. 654 00:43:07.644 --> 00:43:11.105 You you identify which is the article that's unpublished, 655 00:43:11.565 --> 00:43:15.190 verify it, and then you switch it over. Then it's just gonna show up. 656 00:43:15.490 --> 00:43:18.789 So if we go back to the blog articles here real quick, Jason, 657 00:43:19.170 --> 00:43:21.510 let me go ahead and reload the page. 658 00:43:23.410 --> 00:43:25.829 Then we should have all the articles 659 00:43:26.545 --> 00:43:30.245 that are published show up. So let me go ahead and open that up. 660 00:43:30.705 --> 00:43:31.605 There you go. 661 00:43:32.065 --> 00:43:32.225 Yeah. 662 00:43:32.225 --> 00:43:38.485 If you set that to if you set that to not published status, we'll see that there's nothing there because they're all they're all published. 663 00:43:39.185 --> 00:43:39.665 That's great. 664 00:43:39.665 --> 00:43:45.670 So as now let's say the member goes back and edits one of their posts and makes a change to it. 665 00:43:45.890 --> 00:43:51.110 So you've already approved it. The member still have has access to edit their post. 666 00:43:51.410 --> 00:43:52.370 What's gonna happen? 667 00:43:52.370 --> 00:43:57.545 Is that gonna stay published or does it get set back to an unplugged published status? 668 00:43:58.244 --> 00:44:03.945 It's gonna be set up to unpublished. Right? So whenever does the the customer saves the the post, 669 00:44:04.325 --> 00:44:05.065 the system, 670 00:44:05.365 --> 00:44:10.744 due to the hidden field that we set with the default value of unpublished, it will automatically 671 00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:13.180 save the article as unpublished. 672 00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:17.339 So they can by all means go ahead and edit, no problem. But then 673 00:44:17.720 --> 00:44:20.220 you would need to verify that again. Right? 674 00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:21.579 Gotcha. 675 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:27.575 I have an idea if if you're gonna be utilizing this, scroll down and save the changes here 676 00:44:31.875 --> 00:44:33.175 because there is 677 00:44:33.875 --> 00:44:35.015 a message here. 678 00:44:36.515 --> 00:44:39.734 It says see that message website blog article saved? 679 00:44:41.640 --> 00:44:45.319 You could change that text label as we've talking about text label. You could say, 680 00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:50.940 website blog article saved and under review or something to let them know that 681 00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:53.660 it's being it's being moderated. 682 00:44:55.415 --> 00:45:00.155 So so that's that's probably a good place if you wanted to just put an indicator that 683 00:45:00.455 --> 00:45:05.915 the save this the the changes were saved successfully and the article is now under the 684 00:45:07.589 --> 00:45:08.809 moderation of the website. 685 00:45:09.430 --> 00:45:20.329 And then another thing to do that I would recommend is let's say you do publish somebody's posts, if you wanted to take it a step further, if you're doing you know dozens of posts a day you might not need to do this, but 686 00:45:20.735 --> 00:45:22.995 if you go back to the admin area, 687 00:45:24.735 --> 00:45:31.155 you could set up an email template to email the member notifying them that their article has 688 00:45:32.255 --> 00:45:33.535 manually been approved. 689 00:45:33.535 --> 00:45:37.890 So you can set it to the published status, and then manually send them an email. 690 00:45:37.890 --> 00:45:39.510 It just takes an extra two clicks, 691 00:45:40.530 --> 00:45:41.270 that their 692 00:45:41.730 --> 00:45:43.510 that their post has been published. 693 00:45:44.530 --> 00:45:47.650 That really would would go a very long way for sure. 694 00:45:47.650 --> 00:45:50.710 Like it those type of things builds a very nice relationship. 695 00:45:51.635 --> 00:45:54.295 It encourages the people to continue to contribute 696 00:45:54.675 --> 00:45:56.935 to your site, which is always very useful. 697 00:45:57.795 --> 00:46:01.575 And it does, again, build up long hopefully, long lasting relationships, 698 00:46:01.875 --> 00:46:03.750 which is what you really wanna do here. 699 00:46:04.230 --> 00:46:05.990 Awesome. So, yeah, it's super easy. 700 00:46:05.990 --> 00:46:13.130 As you could see, just a matter of setting up the form, making sure that the that it has the right default value, and then you'll be set. 701 00:46:13.830 --> 00:46:19.775 And then this type of requirement, making sure that you go over the content keeps a very healthy website. 702 00:46:19.915 --> 00:46:22.815 So thank you very much. Alright. Thanks a lot, Rick. 703 00:46:23.275 --> 00:46:24.415 Great topic there. 704 00:46:25.115 --> 00:46:25.855 No problem. 705 00:46:26.474 --> 00:46:28.255 And just a side note everyone, 706 00:46:28.875 --> 00:46:30.815 in the Brilliant Directories blog, 707 00:46:31.839 --> 00:46:35.940 all the segments that we have, and let me just go there 708 00:46:36.240 --> 00:46:37.059 with you here, 709 00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:39.940 they can be found 710 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:41.780 in our blog, 711 00:46:42.640 --> 00:46:45.859 and if you scroll down here we do have a search by category, 712 00:46:46.835 --> 00:46:47.335 and 713 00:46:47.954 --> 00:46:52.135 the directory website tips those would be the tips of the week that we cover 714 00:46:52.674 --> 00:46:53.894 in the various webinars. 715 00:46:55.714 --> 00:46:57.815 Some of the case studies, the showcase websites 716 00:46:58.515 --> 00:47:06.750 are there as well if you want to review what we've covered there, And the popular how to's, those were are where the the Rick's Corner and the Coaches Corner 717 00:47:07.450 --> 00:47:08.890 segments are published. 718 00:47:08.890 --> 00:47:14.510 So if you wanted to ever watch any replays, we invite you to come on over to our blog here. 719 00:47:14.705 --> 00:47:17.925 I'll even send a link specifically to the popular how to's, 720 00:47:18.305 --> 00:47:22.965 and if you guys have free time you can watch some of these replays here at your own 721 00:47:23.425 --> 00:47:23.925 convenience. 722 00:47:25.505 --> 00:47:30.000 Alright, great. So in the spirit of the original webinar Wednesday's 723 00:47:30.779 --> 00:47:32.160 from a few years ago, 724 00:47:32.460 --> 00:47:36.559 we'd like to just open it up to some questions and answers. If you 725 00:47:36.940 --> 00:47:42.240 have any how to questions about your site, maybe you're trying to make small small modifications, 726 00:47:42.700 --> 00:47:43.200 or 727 00:47:43.615 --> 00:47:44.675 you're looking for 728 00:47:45.055 --> 00:47:46.115 tips to improve 729 00:47:46.415 --> 00:47:47.635 your site's marketing, 730 00:47:47.935 --> 00:47:52.435 and we'll field a few questions. Hopefully, we can get to everyone here today, 731 00:47:52.975 --> 00:47:56.035 and we'll see if we can provide some assistance for you guys. 732 00:47:57.099 --> 00:47:58.640 So here we have Lindsay. 733 00:47:59.180 --> 00:48:01.119 Lindsay has a few questions today. 734 00:48:02.540 --> 00:48:05.200 The, she has a site for UK members, 735 00:48:06.060 --> 00:48:10.400 but every day she gets businesses from around the world, especially from The US, 736 00:48:11.445 --> 00:48:12.825 and they get signed up. 737 00:48:13.365 --> 00:48:16.485 She wants to get rid of all the all the free listings. 738 00:48:16.485 --> 00:48:21.945 So I guess that basically the the question is how do I restrict people from different places 739 00:48:22.485 --> 00:48:24.585 from registering on my site? So, 740 00:48:25.690 --> 00:48:29.550 anytime a site has has free sign ups, and signing up free is fine. 741 00:48:30.650 --> 00:48:34.970 But you open yourself up to just people wanting to join your site, 742 00:48:35.610 --> 00:48:38.910 with, you know, just because they see a free sign up. 743 00:48:39.865 --> 00:48:42.185 We see it actually a lot in the Facebook group a lot. 744 00:48:42.185 --> 00:48:44.685 They're saying, you know, I'm getting a lot of unrelated 745 00:48:44.985 --> 00:48:51.325 members joining my site. There are SEO companies out there whose job it is to get their clients 746 00:48:51.705 --> 00:48:55.670 listed on on free websites, sites that are ranking well, and getting backlinks. 747 00:48:56.930 --> 00:48:58.470 A few things you can do. 748 00:49:00.210 --> 00:49:01.990 One thing from a technical standpoint 749 00:49:02.610 --> 00:49:05.510 is is this. If you have free members, 750 00:49:07.055 --> 00:49:11.394 under the manage product section, and I'll get into a couple more strategies. 751 00:49:12.335 --> 00:49:15.394 If you're offering free listings and you're letting them 752 00:49:16.894 --> 00:49:21.154 add their website links, mainly they're looking for links back to their website. 753 00:49:22.230 --> 00:49:24.250 So a couple things you can do under 754 00:49:25.590 --> 00:49:26.970 the additional settings 755 00:49:27.830 --> 00:49:33.610 is don't allow, it's actually the first option here, the show website link set it to no. 756 00:49:33.670 --> 00:49:34.650 You can really 757 00:49:35.715 --> 00:49:36.535 dial down 758 00:49:37.235 --> 00:49:42.135 the available public information on the free listings. So that's the first thing you can do. 759 00:49:42.355 --> 00:49:43.575 If you are allowing 760 00:49:44.035 --> 00:49:49.655 website links and social media links, and this is the technical standpoint, from the search visibility 761 00:49:50.035 --> 00:49:50.535 tab, 762 00:49:51.369 --> 00:49:55.230 it might if if if the person who's spending time adding all these listings 763 00:49:56.330 --> 00:50:01.230 is adding no follow, set this to yes. It's under the search visibility tab. 764 00:50:01.530 --> 00:50:03.675 Add no follow to member web links. 765 00:50:03.995 --> 00:50:11.595 Adding no follow basically is telling Google I'm not giving any credit or value to the this external link on my website. 766 00:50:11.595 --> 00:50:17.970 So if it's a savvy enough company that's trying to list all these take advantage of your free listing sign up 767 00:50:18.530 --> 00:50:22.950 through your site. If they notice that all the website links are no follow, 768 00:50:23.250 --> 00:50:27.430 again it's a small deterrence that they're they're not going to waste their time 769 00:50:27.890 --> 00:50:31.910 joining the the free memberships on your site. So there's just two 770 00:50:32.484 --> 00:50:33.945 technical things you can do. 771 00:50:34.724 --> 00:50:37.464 If you wanted to take it a step further, 772 00:50:39.285 --> 00:50:43.065 we always talk about the $1 sign up, the 1 time payment. 773 00:50:43.685 --> 00:50:47.625 Instead of free sign ups, and again if if you're getting a lot of 774 00:50:48.119 --> 00:50:48.619 like 775 00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:51.660 erroneous free sign ups from your site, 776 00:50:52.200 --> 00:50:58.140 I I like the idea of maybe changing it from a paid account from a free account to a paid account. 777 00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:02.039 And we we do have this nice feature here, one time setup fee. 778 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:07.935 So just set the monthly and all the recurring stuff to zero, and just do $1 sign up. 779 00:51:08.315 --> 00:51:09.135 And that'll 780 00:51:09.595 --> 00:51:16.895 mean that anyone who's slightly interested in joining your site would probably pay $1 to sign up, and that'll probably solve 781 00:51:17.230 --> 00:51:20.930 the problem that you're having of the free sign ups, free people joining 782 00:51:22.510 --> 00:51:23.250 your site. 783 00:51:23.630 --> 00:51:26.850 The next thing you can do if you wanted to take it a step further 784 00:51:27.310 --> 00:51:30.610 is moderate all the free sign ups. And 785 00:51:31.185 --> 00:51:33.685 with that we've talked about it in previous webinars. 786 00:51:33.985 --> 00:51:42.645 Basically when a free member signs up, they get that welcome email, and they have to click the link in that welcome email to verify their email address 787 00:51:43.105 --> 00:51:45.285 and to set their account to public. 788 00:51:46.770 --> 00:51:47.510 If you 789 00:51:47.970 --> 00:51:50.710 remove that link in the welcome email, 790 00:51:51.570 --> 00:51:54.050 then they don't have a way to activate their account. 791 00:51:54.050 --> 00:52:00.045 So while they may be signing up to your site, none of the profiles will go public on their own. 792 00:52:00.045 --> 00:52:01.105 You'll need to manually 793 00:52:01.964 --> 00:52:03.665 change the valid accounts 794 00:52:04.365 --> 00:52:04.865 from, 795 00:52:05.645 --> 00:52:11.345 from inactive to active. So a little bit more work on your end, but you can definitely make sure 796 00:52:11.645 --> 00:52:13.184 that you're activating 797 00:52:13.990 --> 00:52:17.290 qualified members. And again, it will deter them from continuing 798 00:52:17.750 --> 00:52:20.410 to try and sign up to your site. 799 00:52:20.790 --> 00:52:24.730 In addition, one step further, if you are doing the $1 800 00:52:25.030 --> 00:52:26.010 sign up route, 801 00:52:26.484 --> 00:52:29.865 We do have this neat setting here, it's country settings. 802 00:52:30.724 --> 00:52:37.065 And what you can do is people need to put their billing information with their their billing credit card address, 803 00:52:37.845 --> 00:52:38.825 on the site. 804 00:52:39.365 --> 00:52:39.865 So, 805 00:52:41.150 --> 00:52:52.450 if you wanted to take it a step further, I I don't necessarily recommend doing this, but, you can choose to set which countries are available when people are entering their billing information. 806 00:52:52.750 --> 00:52:56.130 So what you could do is set them all to not active, 807 00:52:56.875 --> 00:53:00.255 and then search for for example United Kingdom, 808 00:53:01.115 --> 00:53:03.295 and you could set this one to active. 809 00:53:03.915 --> 00:53:07.935 Effectively then the only country to select for your billing address 810 00:53:08.235 --> 00:53:09.935 would be The United Kingdom. 811 00:53:10.340 --> 00:53:18.740 The only thing that I'm thinking for that is your billing address might be Canada or United States even though you might be a valid business in The United Kingdom. 812 00:53:18.740 --> 00:53:22.040 So you might be alienating some people that could be 813 00:53:22.340 --> 00:53:25.640 valid and qualified sign ups. But this is just another deterrent 814 00:53:26.984 --> 00:53:32.924 is is changing the country settings, and this is again on the the billing information that people enter 815 00:53:33.224 --> 00:53:34.505 on the checkout pages. 816 00:53:34.505 --> 00:53:39.164 So you're really be gonna be make sure that people from your country are joining. 817 00:53:39.224 --> 00:53:42.120 So that's another option for you there as well. 818 00:53:42.900 --> 00:53:43.400 Okay. 819 00:53:44.580 --> 00:53:48.280 Hope that answered that question. Yeah. That was great. That was 820 00:53:49.700 --> 00:53:52.520 quite the answer. Thank you very much. I mean I mean there 821 00:53:53.385 --> 00:53:56.185 look, you can really lock down your site if you wanted to. 822 00:53:56.345 --> 00:54:01.225 You can go as granular as really only allowing certain IPs to view your site and etcetera etcetera. 823 00:54:01.225 --> 00:54:01.725 But 824 00:54:02.505 --> 00:54:05.885 if you're doing a little bit, it's what it is, it's a balance of moderation 825 00:54:06.345 --> 00:54:09.840 and a balance of kinda letting some people get through at the same time. 826 00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:19.300 So you don't wanna make it you don't wanna put too much red tape up, but you wanna put a few things that few deterrents or few places where you can moderate the potential members signing up. 827 00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:26.045 I think I don't see any more hands up. Alright. Well well Rick, Pat, great, 828 00:54:26.505 --> 00:54:27.725 great webinar today. 829 00:54:28.505 --> 00:54:31.245 Rick's Corner was awesome. 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