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Let's dive right into it. Welcome to another edition of Webinar Wednesday.

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This is the first one in March. We've had a great set of webinars so far this year in 2020.

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It's great to see so many people working on their sites and their projects and businesses.

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So today, we have some good updates to share with you today that will hopefully make, your lives and jobs a little bit easier

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on the platform.

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If this is your first time joining us today, welcome.

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I am Jason there on the left, and we're lucky to be joined by David Rocklin, the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directories.

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David, thanks for taking the time to join us today.

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Of course. Glad to be here as usual.

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We've got some really interesting updates and a few really cool tips to show you this week.

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And I always like to mention, if you're not part of our Facebook group, you can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook

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and hit the join button. It's a great place to continue the conversations in between webinars.

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And, again, it's really nice to see, you know, website and directory website owners helping each other and collaborating

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to provide assistance and guidance and helping hand because everyone is growing their communities together.

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So, if you haven't already done so, please join us there.

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You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook.

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And I always like to mention for those of you joining us for the first time, welcome.

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It really is great to be with you guys here today.

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Webinar Wednesday is really a great platform and channel for us to talk about ways to grow our communities.

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You know, launching a website is really easy these days. There's tools.

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You could just turn something on in a few minutes, but growing a community does require some strategy.

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So some topics we like to cover are how to increase traffic,

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convert visitors into members. One of my favorites is how to improve your website's navigation,

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to provide a clear and concise path and journey for visitors and potential members,

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to follow. So if you have questions,

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or if you want to start a discussion about something on these topics, please save them.

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We'll try to get to as many questions at the end of the webinar.

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Alright. So we have,

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some actually really useful lab updates to share,

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with you today. Before I dive into,

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this list,

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if you are interested in learning about,

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the frequent updates Brilliant Directories is pushing,

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you can always head to our blog.

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And over here, there is a category

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on the right hand side. It's called monthly change log.

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I'll actually share a link in the chat for everyone.

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So we have February's change log in here, and you can go month by month to see, some of the noteworthy

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and important changes that have been made. Most of these are happening behind the scenes.

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You don't need to worry too much on them.

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But if you are a developer or making technical changes to your site frequently,

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it's nice to check-in here and see what the team's been working on,

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and see if there's something that you now want to, start taking advantage of.

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So, yeah, these are all the updates from February. Let's see how many there were total.

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So over a hundred feature enhancements to the software just in February.

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We post these updates in the blog typically the first week of every month, and then you can also find,

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direct links to these update posts in the

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dashboard as well when you log in to your website.

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That's right. Let's actually take a look at that together.

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Yeah. Here on the dashboard,

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there is, like,

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need help. So you can type, keywords here and it should, recommend some articles.

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And then also here on the right hand side is the monthly change log.

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If you ever wanna put quick links to there, you can find them here in the dashboard.

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Alright. So

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big update, that I wanna start with today is in the admin area in the text editor, you can now add tables and rows,

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to your content pages. So we're gonna this is actually part of the tip of the week today.

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So, we'll cover that a bit later, adding tables and rows to, your static pages so you can really create nicer landing pages and organize your content

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a lot nicer.

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So because well, that's the tip of the week. I'll show examples of that later.

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This one's really helpful, especially if you're gonna be deleting,

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a group of members that might potentially already have some posts.

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Maybe they published events or articles on your site. There's now a bulk action.

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So you can change the post offer. Maybe you wanna assign those to yourself for whatever reason.

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Maybe you're moving posts from a staff member that's no longer with you.

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So you can now bulk move the ownership of those posts. And then if you're using

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the multi member manager add on where you can have a parent member that has subaccounts,

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and you can now do a bulk action to change,

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who the parent owner of that is or create,

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remove the association. So let me show you, this one real quick.

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So if we go to search members

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and I'll just arbitrarily just select this this first set of members.

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search for the member that you wanna apply the new ownership to. So,

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I think that's pretty straightforward and you guys have the ability to do that now.

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we can see here that this site, the sample site here, is using the parent and subaccount associations.

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For example, this sample member has a parent account. Number number one is the parent of this.

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If you wanted to change that association, you can change the parent member.

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Hit apply, and then the same way, you can just search for the new parent member to assign and they'll be the one who manages those accounts.

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So if you need to do bulk actions now for these things, before you'd have to go 1 x 1,

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the parent association also. So there would be no parent account,

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attributed to to these members anymore if you wanna do that as well.

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has been requested in the Facebook group. Now we use star icons when writing a review.

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This was something that was coming soon in the last webinar and since been released. So,

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if you're going to write a review for a member, as we can see here,

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very simply now it uses stars instead of those circle radio buttons that we used to see.

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So the aesthetic is a bit better and your site should look a bit more developed.

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a developer would customize this widget, but,

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you should have this update straight away.

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we the next one here, we've created more settings for the advanced post moderation

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add on. Actually, this request was was immediately

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asked for, the moment we released this add on and with the advanced post moderation add on.

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So with this, you can decide

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which post types, for example, it's gonna be coupons

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the member gets to choose if the post is published or not or if the admin needs to moderate all posts,

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that are being published or just automatically

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publish all posts, don't give, the member the choice. So,

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with this, it was really nice. You could choose on a per post type.

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So per like, if it's an event or coupon or blog article.

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But the request was, can we have this on a per membership level?

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So maybe higher tiered members, there is no moderation.

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Lower tiered members, there is moderation.

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And now you have the ability to do that. And let me show you where you would edit that. So

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let me show you where the existing settings were.

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So if we wanted to edit, for example, member articles,

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we come here to, edit the post type for member articles under additional settings.

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There is an option here for post approval, and we could choose member controls publish status, admin moderates all posts, or auto publish all posts.

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this would apply to all membership levels

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now if you go to edit a membership plan let's do the basic one as an example.

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You can by default for everyone, since this is new, it's gonna use the rule from the post settings.

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So it's gonna fall back to whatever the rule you set for the post type.

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Or you can override that rule for this membership level and then select if you wanna change the logic of this.

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now you have it here with us.

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Okay. This next one, I put the phase one here for tracking form

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submissions. This one's been highly

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and asked for as well. Basically, we want to know which members have filled out which forms.

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Have they completed their listing details? Have they published an event post?

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Have they filled out maybe a custom form that we filled out on the site?

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I put phase one here because we are rolling this out, in a couple phases. The first one is,

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we're just going to make this available in the activity tracker.

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So if we go to the dashboard and go to activity tracker,

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you'll be able to see in this example site, you know, this member filled out the about form, their contact details form.

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So this is nice, but it's not really usable at this point.

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Phase two, which now this is

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launched and we'll be working on now,

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is when you go to members search members,

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we are gonna add additional filters here so you can search for which members have

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filled out a certain form or have not filled out a certain form on your site.

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basically have done certain actions on your site or haven't done certain actions

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on your site with with respect to the forms they've been filling out and submitting on your site.

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And then, of course, from that, you can create export lists,

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and do more with that. So,

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very high value to have that information, and we hope to have that out to you guys soon.

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But for now, you you can track numbers,

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the form submissions in the activity tracker.

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Alright. And then one more thing for,

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the parent and subaccount association. I kinda showed this in the previous webinars,

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but let me just show you a bit more. We added an additional layer here.

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So, of course, if a member is a subaccount of a master parent account,

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it will note that here. So the parent account is number one. So you can click on this now.

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And what that does here, look in the top left, it's doing a search for that member's ID with the hashtag and the number one.

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It's member ID one. So it's gonna show us all the subaccounts

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associated with member ID one, so member ID one.

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right here. This is member ID one, and this guy's got four sub accounts associated with him.

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So we can actually see the number and it is clickable, and it'll do the same type of search here.

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this again, this is helpful and ties in well if you're using this on your site and then,

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using it with the bulk action now if you need to change the parent association.

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Alright. Some fun things coming up. I wanna give a shout out to Ryan.

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He's on the webinar here today. He had recommended,

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an update to the detect visitor location add on that we have, and we do have a demo of that for you guys now.

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When you're using the detect visitor location add on,

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no matter what, when the visitor comes to the site, they immediately get an alert saying, hey.

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Do you wanna share your location?

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It works fine, but it's a little intrusive, especially if someone's visiting your site for the first time to be greeted with an alert to share their location.

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So, what what the recommendation was in the location search fields here, and this is pretty standard on on a few other sites, there is a target icon here.

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is when you're going to get prompted to share the location.

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So it's filled out the location there. I'm located here in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

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So that that's working as it should.

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Now not only is the benefit that it's it's less intrusive to the member who's to the person who's probably visiting your site for the first time, but also if if your site is just prompting everyone to share their location and they click yes, that is a ping to your Google locations API.

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You know, most sites don't need to worry about it, but that you know, Google has started charging for really power users that are using that.

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So if that's been a concern for you or, the cost has been, you know, not fun to receive that, you know, 20 or $30 a month bill, This will help, minimize and mitigate

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wasteful,

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teams to Google's location API. So, that should be released shortly as well.

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This is a great add on that's coming out soon.

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We are providing,

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everyone with the ability to manually send payment reminders to their members and also past due email reminders.

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What we're creating as an add on are automated settings, so you can choose the number of days

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to send a payment reminder email to your members who are on recurring subscriptions

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and also automated past due emails up to three different past due emails.

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So maybe on day one that they're past due, they get an email and then four days later and then eight days later.

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And then you as the admin will also get a daily summary

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of all the members that have upcoming payments, have had past due payments.

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So you're gonna get a better view of exactly what's happening on your site financially with respect to the recurring subscriptions

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on your site. So,

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that should help everyone stay a little bit better on top of their finances with their, recurring subscriptions.

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And this last one here, utilizing a pop up or newsletter registrations.

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It's not just for design and aesthetic. It actually will help, mitigate

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unwanted

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spam submissions to your newsletter forms, and I do have an example of that here as well.

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So currently in your footer, you have the the email form.

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So what what's gonna happen is and and we've tested it.

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It's already reduced a lot of spam coming through sites.

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In your sidebar and your and your footer,

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when you click on the button, you'll be prompted with, the join our newsletter pop up.

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So it's very similar to how some of the other forms on the site work on your BD site.

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And what's really nice is you can now choose to collect more information.

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You're not just limited to the single email address.

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And, also, an issue in the footer is there was no real space to aesthetically add the recapture.

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again, that's really difficult to get that aesthetic nicely,

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So, this will be rolled out soon.

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Alright. That was a mouthful. And, again, a lot of things coming at you.

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Lots to digest or lots of good stuff. And, again, thank you to everyone.

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Most of these updates are from your recommendation, so it's nice that community is really participating to make the software stronger and better for everyone.

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Dave, I'll pass it to you a little bit, and, we could take it away with the tip of the week.

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So one of the pretty major pain points for a lot of new users who had no experience with, web design or web development

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It was relatively easy to add some basic text and images, but to actually get it stylized and looking really nice,

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it was difficult to do without knowing any HTML or CSS.

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So with some of the recent updates we've done to the text editor, it's now easier than ever to build a,

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a a really good looking static web page

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utilizing some of the

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new tools that we've implemented

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as well as a a new table feature that allows you to insert tables into static web pages. This

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might sound simple, but it can really open up the doorways for you in terms of, the possibilities that you have when creating static web pages now.

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Yeah. And, actually, David set up a page for us, and I'm gonna help recreate that page.

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I think it's it's better to just show show you guys, what we're referring to, and then we can cover some how to steps on how to achieve this type of aesthetic.

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So, Dave, tell us about this kinda example page we've created and some of the elements

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Yeah. So like I mentioned, this is just a static web page.

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that you link to maybe in the the main menu of your website, maybe provide some additional information about your website, what you offer, some benefits about the membership that that, you provide.

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There's a new tool that allows you to create a hero section, which is this big top area in the at the top of the page with a big image that takes up the full width and then the text on top of it.

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this update.

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that's on the page. You can create it really easily.

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to actually add additional information

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pretty nicely in a in an aesthetically pleasing way.

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So this first table that we have, it's a really simple table of one row with three columns.

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feature some, some benefits of your website that that you provide.

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we have, some image side by side with the text.

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It sounds and it looks pretty simple, but it was one of those things that was somewhat difficult to achieve before, again, if you didn't know HTML or CSS.

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Now with the new updates that we've implemented into the text editor, it's easier than ever to achieve that without needing to know any code.

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embedded a form into this page. So,

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one of the cool things is you can embed any form or widget into any of the static web pages that that you have on your site.

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some additional information from either just new website visitors or maybe your members as well,

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Below that, we just have, again, some simple text side by side with an image as well as a join now button.

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button. It could be a call to action for

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that you're providing for free,

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button to get new people to register,

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can really be used, for anything.

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But all of this was done without knowing any code, whether that's HTML or CSS.

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It's all done through the front end text editor.

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And I think the the easiest way to kinda cover this is, just kinda recreate this page, with you guys and show you what we've done here.

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Obviously, the tool I think it's a very simple tool, but, again, it's it's very high value,

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what it can deliver with regards to a a layout like this.

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And if you combine this with, you know, high quality images or icons,

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it'll just create a much more professional look and feel on your site if you're trying to create,

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landing pages. So, yeah, David did mention we did cover how to create this hero section,

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in webinar 78.

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It's at seven minutes and eleven seconds, on how to create the the hero section.

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So I don't wanna spend too much time on that. But, Dave, let's go into the the admin area here,

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and we'll go under edit web pages. And we created the sample page here,

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about sample.

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we can see the editor here.

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some text with an icon on the right,

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image on the left, and then some text. And you'll notice here we're using

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the form shortcode. So it's form equals contact form, and I'll show you guys where I grab that.

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there's another one. This is some text with a smaller image here.

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The hero section options are here on the right hand side. So it'll take your title,

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and then, you can enable the hero section. I'll just cover some basic things.

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It will allow well, it depends on really the aesthetic you're looking for, but it will in my opinion, if you're using a nice image,

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it's nice to show as much of that nice image as possible, or you can go the opposite way and make the padding as small as you need it to if you're just looking for a very slim banner at the top of the page.

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here in the right hand side.

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Alright, Dave. So let's just do something simple. Let's actually recreate this, David, but,

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this is what's new here, everyone, is this tape insert table icon.

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So you can click on insert table, and then we can choose I'll just choose a 1 x 4.

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So I like to work with one row at a time. Just a lot easier if I need another row usually.

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I'll just create a new table for it, but it depends on your preference.

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link here and choose from your gallery,

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If if you have a lot of images on your site, when you go this way, you can actually filter to search the image by its name.

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I I usually like that. This method and what you can do is right click on the image, copy the URL.

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then click here and just put the URL here and insert it.

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So, Dave, we'll set this one to a hundred pixels and we'll just update it.

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So just to save time, I'll use the same image, but you can certainly repeat this with different images.

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if there's extra spaces underneath the image, if you want them to line up

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just to check that. So that's kinda like something you wanna check for if they're not lining up,

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vertical alignment. So it could be vertically aligned bottom or top.

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I'll just copy what I have before. This is a

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And what we can do, David, is, something nice. We can just make the font size bigger here.

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And, again, we cannot I guess, we could just copy everything here.

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again, it just looks for those extra spaces that are in different places.

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I guess I copied the image when I clicked copy.

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So I'll just delete this and go there and we can delete this.

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So let's actually just save the changes here, David,

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That's nice. We have it. We have it there. If we need to add space on top,

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put it right above the image.

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K. Now I can save the changes.

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Okay. Great. So in this example, we've put, four images. Now these could be testimonials.

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They could be benefits for joining your site.

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They could be lots of, different things.

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So you guys can decide what you would want to, use this stuff for.

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this is a pretty common one. It's basically text,

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This is probably one of the simple ones to recreate.

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And, let's scroll down here and

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you can have some fun, just recreating this one. So,

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let's click on table. And this one, we're just gonna do a 1 x 2.

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And I'll just copy this image here since I have it, but you can go and use the method that you're comfortable with adding an image to here.

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So we've added the image and then we can add text. So this is

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about joining

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our site.

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this can be some additional

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And we'll do this in two paragraphs.

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Let's save that. So this is like a perfect fifty fifty split here.

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I didn't adjust the width in the middle.

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K. And let's refresh.

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This is the new one I've added here.

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This is some text about joining our site, and now we have a fifty fifty split.

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What's really nice is when you have the picture the image on the right, and then if you scroll down, the next blurb, the image is on the left, and you do that about three or four times.

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It's really nice for highlighting,

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the the message you're trying to get across about a certain feature or a benefit that the landing page is addressing.

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just make this font size a bit larger.

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That's what the back button is for. Okay. Let's go back to a large font and bold.

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That's what we want.

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Okay. Very nice.

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Okay. Now,

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what that does.

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As you can see here, it's perfectly in the middle with the image. And if we refresh this,

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now it's kind of the text starts at the top of the image. So,

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again, you can decide where you wanna position an image or text relative to each other, when you have columns side by side.

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Okay. Let's go to this one, which I think is super important if you're creating a landing page,

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which is the form.

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So in this case, it's gonna follow the same model and, actually, I'm not gonna do much change.

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Let's keep this that I created here. And what I'm gonna do instead is copy this text and put it,

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here. Now let's go grab a form and put it here. So how do we insert a form here?

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and you'll have some default forms there. So you can look for a website,

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contact us form. So let's see here.

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system name is contact form.

454
00:31:28.330 --> 00:31:31.870
And I can just come here and open bracket form

455
00:31:33.130 --> 00:31:36.909
equals contact form. Just make sure there's no and then close the bracket.

456
00:31:37.370 --> 00:31:40.649
And this will now render, the website's contact form there.

457
00:31:40.649 --> 00:31:42.750
So let's go ahead and save those changes.

458
00:31:45.995 --> 00:31:48.415
So that will replace, this one here.

459
00:31:51.275 --> 00:31:53.535
Great. So now we have a title.

460
00:31:54.155 --> 00:31:57.195
We have an image. We have the additional text underneath it.

461
00:31:57.195 --> 00:32:01.130
So these could be, they can even be bullet points. It doesn't have to be a paragraph.

462
00:32:01.130 --> 00:32:05.790
So, really, you have a lot of control over how you want this, to display.

463
00:32:05.930 --> 00:32:08.110
And I think you can even do one more thing.

464
00:32:08.810 --> 00:32:11.390
Let me check it out here. I think you can actually,

465
00:32:12.975 --> 00:32:17.875
if we wanna fill this cell with a background color, let's just put a light gray.

466
00:32:18.975 --> 00:32:20.255
Let's see what that looks like.

467
00:32:20.255 --> 00:32:24.915
So you can actually fill the cells with different colors using the cell background color.

468
00:32:30.980 --> 00:32:31.800
K. So,

469
00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:43.615
again, if for beginners, if you're not gonna go into the HTML and the code with the do CSS stuff, this is a quick and easy way to kinda just, create some elements on a landing page for yourself.

470
00:32:44.475 --> 00:32:48.174
Yeah. I think a good way to think about the text editor now is that previously,

471
00:32:48.554 --> 00:32:50.735
it was it was just a very basic,

472
00:32:51.195 --> 00:32:52.015
text editor.

473
00:32:52.075 --> 00:32:57.380
Now with some of the additional tools we've added, it works very much the same way as something like,

474
00:32:57.860 --> 00:33:00.840
Microsoft Word or Google Docs with the additional,

475
00:33:01.460 --> 00:33:03.000
color tools, the columns,

476
00:33:03.380 --> 00:33:07.639
everything like that. So it's a lot easier now to format pages nicely.

477
00:33:11.395 --> 00:33:14.934
Yeah. I mean, in my opinion, I think these are some really beautiful things to do.

478
00:33:15.875 --> 00:33:21.415
Probably if you play around with it more, you'll get more comfortable with it, and you'll be able to align things a bit easier.

479
00:33:22.970 --> 00:33:24.990
The last one here, if we scroll down,

480
00:33:26.010 --> 00:33:29.070
some text with an image here and then the join button.

481
00:33:29.210 --> 00:33:33.150
Let's actually recreate this one, David, altogether. It should be pretty quick as well.

482
00:33:34.810 --> 00:33:36.510
So if we scroll down here.

483
00:33:37.965 --> 00:33:43.345
K. So this is the module we had. So, again, this was let me just add some spaces here.

484
00:33:43.965 --> 00:33:45.985
Again, you can do a lot with just

485
00:33:46.445 --> 00:33:51.419
two columns with text or image text on the left, image on the right. Let's actually reverse this.

486
00:33:51.419 --> 00:33:53.200
Let's copy this image here again.

487
00:33:55.500 --> 00:33:57.600
Let's actually just copy this text here.

488
00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:01.760
Pop it in here.

489
00:34:02.395 --> 00:34:04.895
Okay. Great. So this is an example where

490
00:34:05.275 --> 00:34:08.335
we actually drag the cell to the left,

491
00:34:08.875 --> 00:34:14.475
which shrunk the image and gave a little bit more weight to more width to, the text.

492
00:34:14.475 --> 00:34:18.949
So maybe you don't need a large image. You just need a small graphic there. And, obviously,

493
00:34:20.050 --> 00:34:24.389
it'll extend the it'll give more width to the text, so you're not you're gonna have less lines

494
00:34:24.690 --> 00:34:26.230
of, characters. So,

495
00:34:26.690 --> 00:34:29.589
and then what we did for the join button is,

496
00:34:30.945 --> 00:34:40.565
we we really don't wanna code a button, so we just Googled or or went to a site and we just looked for a join button icon, and we found this one and and uploaded it to our images.

497
00:34:41.265 --> 00:34:44.699
So what we can do is I'll just grab it here from the images on this one.

498
00:34:45.179 --> 00:34:46.880
So we have the join button,

499
00:34:47.260 --> 00:34:48.719
and then I centered it.

500
00:34:49.579 --> 00:34:50.079
And

501
00:34:50.619 --> 00:34:54.460
this is just an image, basically. And then you can link it to wherever you want.

502
00:34:54.460 --> 00:34:58.160
Maybe you wanna link it to your join page or directly to a checkout page.

503
00:34:58.445 --> 00:35:00.545
And let me go ahead and insert that link.

504
00:35:01.405 --> 00:35:03.244
And, actually, let me make that,

505
00:35:04.685 --> 00:35:07.885
and that link is let me edit the link. I wanna open it in a new tab.

506
00:35:07.885 --> 00:35:10.125
So when they click on it, they go to a new new,

507
00:35:10.605 --> 00:35:11.825
page, new tab.

508
00:35:13.540 --> 00:35:15.240
And if we refresh this

509
00:35:17.460 --> 00:35:18.359
so here,

510
00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:21.720
this is the new one we created with the image on the left

511
00:35:22.180 --> 00:35:22.680
and

512
00:35:23.140 --> 00:35:26.200
a blurb of text and an action button here.

513
00:35:26.605 --> 00:35:32.145
And, again, we can resize the images very easily. You just drag them. So if we wanted to make this,

514
00:35:32.605 --> 00:35:35.325
larger or smaller, we could certainly do so.

515
00:35:35.325 --> 00:35:41.905
I wanna recommend extending it larger than the the actual size of the image because then it can start showing distorted or blurry,

516
00:35:42.530 --> 00:35:49.349
but smaller than than the size, than its actual size actually gives you a crisper look on, some displays.

517
00:35:49.410 --> 00:35:52.150
So that's that's sometimes a good thing to do as well.

518
00:35:56.865 --> 00:35:59.925
And this is now available to you guys. We're gonna let it run-in

519
00:36:00.225 --> 00:36:01.765
the admin text editor,

520
00:36:02.545 --> 00:36:08.849
just so we can get some feedback, see if there's any quirks we need to work out, and then we'll release it on the front end.

521
00:36:08.849 --> 00:36:17.190
So when you're creating a blog article or an event or coupon or some type of post that you're publishing on the front end of your site, you'll also have,

522
00:36:17.890 --> 00:36:19.589
that table editor available,

523
00:36:20.025 --> 00:36:21.724
so you can do things similar,

524
00:36:22.345 --> 00:36:24.605
to this with respect to, organizing

525
00:36:24.984 --> 00:36:25.484
content,

526
00:36:26.025 --> 00:36:26.765
in rows.

527
00:36:30.905 --> 00:36:35.065
And just to recap, we actually didn't go through slides here, David, but we did make slides.

528
00:36:35.065 --> 00:36:39.050
So there's a hero like, hero section that you can have to your pages,

529
00:36:39.750 --> 00:36:42.809
and you can create rows with several blocks of elements,

530
00:36:43.349 --> 00:36:43.849
nicely,

531
00:36:44.309 --> 00:36:46.010
lined up and perfectly aligned.

532
00:36:46.790 --> 00:36:49.609
You can have text, side by side with imagery.

533
00:36:50.945 --> 00:36:52.245
You can add forms,

534
00:36:52.945 --> 00:36:56.865
to your pages very nicely. And, again, you can have images there on the left or right.

535
00:36:56.865 --> 00:37:00.645
You can add complimentary text or bullets or whatever you need as well.

536
00:37:02.260 --> 00:37:06.420
And then you can create, you can get a little more creative and have two different elements.

537
00:37:06.420 --> 00:37:08.980
We have the table with the two columns on top.

538
00:37:08.980 --> 00:37:13.720
We stretch the text width a little bit wider, and then separately, we added a join button,

539
00:37:14.260 --> 00:37:18.755
directly below that table. So you can mix and match these elements to create,

540
00:37:19.214 --> 00:37:22.994
modules that present really well to, the visitors of your sites.

541
00:37:24.815 --> 00:37:25.295
So,

542
00:37:25.615 --> 00:37:29.135
that was the tip of the week for today. Dave, thanks for recommending that one.

543
00:37:29.135 --> 00:37:33.320
I think it's really high value now that that feature is available in functionality. So,

544
00:37:33.700 --> 00:37:37.800
what we can do now is pass it over to you guys, and we can take a few questions.

545
00:37:38.900 --> 00:37:42.040
We got a good friend, Eric, here. How's it going today, Eric?

546
00:37:42.580 --> 00:37:43.960
Good. How are you guys doing?

547
00:37:44.275 --> 00:37:46.915
Good. Good. Thanks for joining us today. Yeah. Thanks,

548
00:37:47.235 --> 00:37:48.215
for the updates.

549
00:37:48.835 --> 00:37:49.494
I wanted

550
00:37:50.435 --> 00:37:53.575
to ask, you know, are you guys going to

551
00:37:54.115 --> 00:38:03.810
make the the the landing page builder, if you will, you know, the static page builder, any more, like, drop in drag and drop style, or will it always be

552
00:38:04.190 --> 00:38:04.690
HTML?

553
00:38:05.470 --> 00:38:13.630
As far as right now, I don't think we're gonna go in the direct immediately in in the in the short term, go in the direction of creating drag and drop.

554
00:38:13.630 --> 00:38:16.915
It does require a lot of, like, resources to get it right.

555
00:38:17.535 --> 00:38:22.995
And right now, what we're mainly trying to focus on, especially through this year, is focusing on the finances,

556
00:38:23.455 --> 00:38:26.355
that you have. So better billing and better reporting

557
00:38:26.655 --> 00:38:28.675
and better collecting of revenue,

558
00:38:29.055 --> 00:38:29.955
from your members.

559
00:38:30.579 --> 00:38:32.680
So what we wanna do is try to provide

560
00:38:32.980 --> 00:38:33.960
some of the

561
00:38:34.339 --> 00:38:37.160
the the most important elements. For example, this one,

562
00:38:37.700 --> 00:38:41.720
that will give you a bit more control than the text editor had in the past.

563
00:38:41.940 --> 00:38:45.924
But just in the immediate future of formal drag and drop, I don't see it.

564
00:38:45.924 --> 00:38:50.085
It could be in the in in maybe next year or something like that. But,

565
00:38:52.085 --> 00:38:54.984
yeah, what we're trying is create some some simpler tools.

566
00:38:55.285 --> 00:38:56.805
However, I am with you.

567
00:38:57.045 --> 00:39:02.140
Some of those bells and whistles really do elevate for further elevate the value of the page.

568
00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:04.859
So I think what we're gonna do is let this ride,

569
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.019
get some feedback from people,

570
00:39:07.640 --> 00:39:09.099
and see if there are opportunities

571
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:16.635
to definitely, you know, take your feedback and your suggestions and see if we can improve some of these things into in a phase two or phase three release.

572
00:39:16.855 --> 00:39:21.275
Just some feedback. Well, I it's great. I I like the updates. I really appreciate it.

573
00:39:22.214 --> 00:39:22.454
And,

574
00:39:23.335 --> 00:39:28.775
Yeah. Thanks a lot. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And, yeah, we, you know, we always like your feedback. So,

575
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:31.700
keep sharing in the Facebook group. We're definitely

576
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:35.540
receptive and and listening for, what you guys have as far as ideas.

577
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:40.740
Alright. Let's see who else had their hand up here. Alright. Colette. How are you doing, Colette?

578
00:39:41.120 --> 00:39:42.740
Hi, Jason. Good. And you?

579
00:39:43.135 --> 00:39:47.155
Good. Good. Thank you. Very soon, I'm going to need to register for GST.

580
00:39:48.175 --> 00:39:52.435
I know you mentioned you were working on wanting to work on the billing side.

581
00:39:52.735 --> 00:39:56.355
Will there be or is there an easy way of adding GST

582
00:39:56.829 --> 00:39:57.650
to existing

583
00:39:58.270 --> 00:40:01.089
clients' bills, or does one have to do that individually?

584
00:40:02.270 --> 00:40:05.250
Yes. You're, you're saying for taxes. Right?

585
00:40:05.630 --> 00:40:06.130
Yes.

586
00:40:06.670 --> 00:40:11.250
Yes. So we are we are coming out with an add on that will, will provide,

587
00:40:13.395 --> 00:40:16.695
a a few high value settings for establishing

588
00:40:16.995 --> 00:40:17.495
taxes,

589
00:40:18.195 --> 00:40:21.335
to include in the invoices, and you'll have some options there.

590
00:40:21.475 --> 00:40:24.295
In the interim, you can email the support team.

591
00:40:24.890 --> 00:40:28.570
I think it's currently, it's on a site by site basis upon request.

592
00:40:28.570 --> 00:40:32.830
That's why we're trying to convert this into an add on, with some helpful settings.

593
00:40:34.090 --> 00:40:38.750
I think it's a hundred $50 1 time, and what they'll do is, enable,

594
00:40:39.555 --> 00:40:42.214
some tax settings for you on your site,

595
00:40:42.595 --> 00:40:48.055
in the interim. And then when the add on is available, anyone who's previously paid that $1.50,

596
00:40:48.595 --> 00:40:52.375
if you're not part of the VIP add ons club, you'll you'll have that add on,

597
00:40:52.755 --> 00:40:54.375
associated with your site.

598
00:40:55.230 --> 00:40:59.570
So you can email support in the interim and just tell them that you need to add taxes,

599
00:41:00.350 --> 00:41:01.330
to your invoices.

600
00:41:02.350 --> 00:41:03.070
Great. And,

601
00:41:03.550 --> 00:41:09.935
when do you think this add on will be implemented? If I if I had to guess, I'd say the April

602
00:41:09.935 --> 00:41:10.755
or May,

603
00:41:11.535 --> 00:41:13.795
as an add on to include taxes.

604
00:41:14.415 --> 00:41:22.710
The the billing automation ones that I mentioned earlier where the emails and the payment reminders will go out, those payment reminders will include invoices.

605
00:41:22.769 --> 00:41:26.470
It won't include the taxes just yet, but it will include an invoice.

606
00:41:27.089 --> 00:41:32.130
That should be ready by the end of this month or at latest, by the April.

607
00:41:32.130 --> 00:41:34.484
So April and May, we'll be seeing,

608
00:41:34.885 --> 00:41:39.704
some more tools for billing, including the the email reminders and including taxes.

609
00:41:40.484 --> 00:41:41.625
Wonderful. Thanks.

610
00:41:41.925 --> 00:41:42.984
You're very welcome.

611
00:41:44.165 --> 00:41:45.785
Alright. And with that, guys,

612
00:41:46.165 --> 00:41:51.079
we are just about at that time. So I do wanna thank everyone for joining us here today.

613
00:41:51.859 --> 00:41:54.420
Play around with that new, table editor,

614
00:41:54.819 --> 00:41:55.319
option,

615
00:41:55.619 --> 00:42:00.680
create some landing pages, maybe update your contact us page that comes with your site by default,

616
00:42:01.315 --> 00:42:04.295
maybe add an image and some additional text if you like.

617
00:42:05.795 --> 00:42:10.835
And then, again, if if we didn't get to your question here today, please feel free to join us in the Facebook group.

618
00:42:10.835 --> 00:42:14.830
You can head on over to brilliantdirectory.com/facebook.

619
00:42:14.830 --> 00:42:18.770
The next webinar will be in two weeks. So on behalf of myself,

620
00:42:19.230 --> 00:42:23.330
David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, thank you guys for joining us today.

621
00:42:23.390 --> 00:42:26.609
Have a great day and a brilliant week. Take care, guys.