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Alright, BD fam. It's great to be with everyone here today. Bittersweet,

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the last and final webinar of 2022.

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It's been an amazing year. We have some fun recaps for you,

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some slides in here in this webinar.

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I do see a lot of new names and faces joining us here today, so welcome. It's great to be with you.

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If this is your first time joining, I am Jason

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there on the left, and we're lucky to be joined by David Rockland, the digital strategist and so much more here at Brilliant Directories.

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David, thanks, for joining us today and helping us out with this super webinar extravaganza that we're having.

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Absolutely. Very excited for the final webinar of 2022.

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We've got some great surprises, some messages from some special guests coming up.

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Lots of fun to be had in the next hour or so. Alright. Let's keep things moving along.

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The good news here is we are streaming live on YouTube, and I definitely recommend everyone to subscribe to the YouTube channel.

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You can head on over right now to brilliantirectories.com/youtube

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and click on that subscribe button. You'll get updated with all the newest videos,

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tips of the week and any feature updates and releases,

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of videos that we release there.

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Also good news, if we skip over over something a little too quickly in this webinar, we are gonna post the replay immediately,

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in the Facebook group. You can also join us there at brilliantdirectories.com/facebook.

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It's a great way to keep in touch in between webinar Wednesdays.

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There are we're almost 10,000 members in that group as of this day, so that's really amazing.

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And everyone is helping each other, asking questions, asking for feedback,

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whether it's the look and design of a site or strategies to grow the member your member community.

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You can ask questions there and get feedback from fellow BDers.

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So we look forward to seeing you in there.

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And we do see a lot of new names and faces out there in the audience. As I said, Bedros, welcome.

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Annie and Alexander.

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Celeste, good to see you guys here, and I see a ton of new names.

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We've got several gyms here in the webinar. And Ghassan,

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welcome.

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Webinar Wednesday is a great way for us here at Brilliant Directories to share with you some of the features that we build into the platform week after week.

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We have a lot of features in our roadmap.

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We get a lot of ideas from feature suggestions

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within the community and the Facebook group.

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We launch about a hundred updates, patches, or fixes every month, but in the webinars, we'd like to highlight,

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some of the features that are noteworthy that can help you grow your community a bit quicker.

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Things like increasing traffic, converting visitors to members, improving your navigation, and a lot more.

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So if you have any questions on these topics today, if we have time in today's webinar, because we got a lot to cover in this webinar,

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we'll try to get to as many questions as, we can, but this is what webinar Wednesday is all about is sharing updates,

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that BD has recently

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recently released with you guys in the community.

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And with that said, we do have a small handful of BD Lab updates. I'm gonna try to breeze,

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through the through these.

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The first one here is a mega update at the top of the list, the finance, the new search subscriptions

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page.

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I'm gonna show you a quick preview of what that is, but after this webinar, I recommend everyone run into their admin portal.

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And if you have even one paying member on your site, go to this search subscriptions page.

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It really gives you a great snapshot and overview

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of the health of your site based on the membership plans and subscriptions that are either active or ended,

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and things like that. So let's dive right into the admin area real quick,

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and I can show you where this is. Let me just start from the dashboard area.

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Just a moment here.

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Alright.

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Okay, great. So this new page is in the finance tab,

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and we'll notice a new link here and there are admin permissions.

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So if you have staff working on your site, you can come here and grant them access.

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If they already had limited access, they won't have the ability to view this page unless you manually give them access.

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But if in general, if your staff or yourself obviously have access to the finance section, this new search subscriptions tab, menu link is available.

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And what can you do in here? How is this different than the transaction history page?

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The transaction history page is great for looking at day to day or historical transactions on your site.

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So if a member has a monthly subscription, we can see individual payments that have been processed.

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The search subscriptions page basically gives you a snapshot of all the membership plan data that your members have signed up, to.

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This isn't the best example, but I'm gonna give you an overview of what this shows you.

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When we come to this page, it's gonna show us all these subscriptions that have ever been created on this site, whether they're canceled

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or active and ongoing subscriptions.

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We can see here the status of these two subscriptions. This one is ended.

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It's from a member who was deleted

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and this one is active. So this, member

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has a hundred dollar per year subscription,

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and we can see that it's gonna be due in two hundred and seventy five days from today, September 29 of next year.

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And so far we can see that there's one paid,

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one paid invoice, for this subscription.

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If there were 10, it would show 10 and the total amount.

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What's really cool here and you guys can play around with this when you get into your admin section, but you can obviously search subscriptions based on the member's name or email address,

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the date a subscription was created.

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You can also search subscriptions,

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for the next due date.

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So if you wanna see all your subscriptions that are due to be billed in the month of January next month, you can definitely do a search for that.

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Also, you can search by subscription ID, this is something new that we've just released.

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Every subscription now has an ID

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as well as invoice ID.

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Subscriptions can have multi every time a member is billed, that's one invoice

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within that subscription.

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Also cool, you can search based on the membership plan.

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So if you wanna see which plan has generated the most revenue for you, you can do that here.

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If you wanna search based on the member's status, canceled members.

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So if you want to search canceled members who still have active subscriptions, maybe for some reason they didn't get canceled,

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you can search for canceled members who have active subscriptions

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and you can quickly see and vice versa.

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You can see members who are active and have ended subscriptions and maybe they should be on a paid plan and for some reason they're not.

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Obviously, you can search by the billing cycle monthly, quarterly, semi annually,

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and if there were any coupon codes used. You can search for any code used,

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no codes used, or a specific code that was used. And then after you do that,

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you can search, you can sort by newest created, oldest created,

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next payment date, the closest next payment date, or the furthest next payment date. And again,

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more to come from this page later, we will release bulk actions and the ability to create smart lists based on predefined search filters that you create here.

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And with those smart list, of course, you can market to those segmented lists. So,

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I know I went over this pretty quickly but it is a huge update and it's gonna give you a great snapshot of your website's financial health from a subscription standpoint.

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Alright. Moving on. More with the finance tab.

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There's something very similar here but this is in the transaction histories page.

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Now you can find transactions based on active or ended subscriptions.

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So, we'll go to the transactions history page

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and again, this shows you individual

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transactions that have been processed on your site while the other page shows you entire subscriptions that are currently active or ended.

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So over here with this update, you can always search individual transactions based on billing

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monthly, quarterly, etcetera.

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Now there are two radio buttons here, three actually.

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Subscription status, you can search only active or ended subscriptions.

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This is also a great way if you wanna go back in time in November

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and see how many subscriptions have ended that are monthly.

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That's one example, you could do a search there and it will tell you how many of your subscriptions from November,

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are now ended that were on monthly plans.

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Later in time, we're gonna use this data to provide you guys with charts that calculate churn rate,

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print out reports and all sorts of cool things to give you guys more visual data

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of your website's financial health.

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But for now, you can do quick searches and get the aggregate totals

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of the,

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for example, what's been canceled or what is still active as far as monthly,

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subscriptions or one times annuals, etcetera.

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Alright. This next one here is related to the design. Very small update here but pretty powerful.

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A lot of us do use that homepage,

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hero divider. I'll show you what that is.

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Now you have the ability to open links in new tabs in new windows.

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So first, let me show you what that hero divider is.

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It's that place in the design settings where you can have kind of three slots,

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for just some overview data of what the site is about or if you wanna create three calls to action, And you can also include links here.

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And before these links would always just link to the same window.

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You can see here I click there, but now we have the ability to open in a new tab.

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So maybe one of your calls to action are to join your community's Facebook group or somewhere else you wanna send, users.

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Maybe you have an ecommerce shop somewhere else or some other website property that you wanna send users to as a main call to action.

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If I click this now, it does open in a new window, so that takes them to the new website, and they get to stay on your website in this tab.

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Let me quickly show you where that is, and there there's also a bonus update,

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more for web designers who would be interested in this. So let's go to settings

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and design settings,

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and from design settings, we want to go to the homepage tab.

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Now what's really fun and cool about the homepage is with just a few clicks, you can stream tons of different content that your website is dynamically generating on the homepage.

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In this case, one of the static elements are the home is the homepage hero divider.

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And let's edit this and we can see here, one thing is you can use images.

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So we have one slot, two slots, three slots,

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you can have a title,

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and link text and where that link is going to the link URL.

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So in the link text, this just says button link, button link, go to Facebook group.

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We have this checkbox here open in new tab.

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So in this third column here, we are sending people to a Facebook group so we want to open in a new tab.

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you weren't able to do this before, but now for the link text in this area,

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you can include quotes and HTML

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inline styling. So if you wanted to add maybe an icon element or something that requires,

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like inline font size style just for this number one or whatever it might be, it does support that now.

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So, it's just a little something for the web designers there and for everyone else, you can now open these links in a new tab.

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Alright, speed.

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Not much to show you here with that, but, we have updated a few more pages of, all BD websites.

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We're delivering more assets from BD's,

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global CDN.

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That just means that visitors from around the world who are coming to your site, the pages are gonna load a lot quicker for them.

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And speed and security and stability are ongoing things that we're always working on.

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But we've just done another batch of, pushes for that. So I just wanted to mention that.

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And lastly, for new features, well, this one's not technically a new feature,

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but BD does have a new refer a friend program.

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A lot of people have always asked us,

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you know, I got a friend who wants BD.

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Can I get any credits or some kind of consideration for referring a friend?

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And now you can and let me show you where you can do that.

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If you are in your admin dashboard,

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if you go to

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the view my sites, you can click on all my sites or from this drop down here.

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If you manage one site or multiple sites within BD,

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you can see here, this is where you manage all your sites. There is now a shiny gold button here.

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It says refer friends and earn 50%

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commission for those referrals.

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So it's a really simple program.

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Everyone is welcome to join and participate.

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Even if you don't think you'll use it, you can come to this page here and click join program.

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Now you never know. You might be talking to someone or emailing with someone,

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and you'll have your own referral link that you can share with people that can earn you 50 percent commission,

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for those sign ups. So we definitely recommend,

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everyone come here and join.

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Again, you might have no intention of of using this, in any way, but you never know.

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And it's nice to make a little bit of coin here,

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by promoting BD and you get a little something for yourself as well for your efforts.

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Alright, and coming soon, I always keep this list short, but there's tons of stuff coming soon.

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We introduced the ability to translate all your default text labels into Spanish and we are just QA ing French and German.

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They should be coming, soon.

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And the ability to create coupon codes for one time purchases such as leads, digital products, and more is slowly coming, is quickly coming down the line.

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We should see that early next year.

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Same with the ability to create posts from RSS feeds using Zapier or the BD API.

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This is really cool because if you have other sources where you can pull events, articles, job listings, and other types of content,

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you can create a simple workflow or in Zapier, they call them Zaps and zap that data into your site to quickly populate your site.

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So super cool there.

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In 2023, we're gonna spend some time trying to make the text editor even more intuitive.

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Part of that is going to be the ability to drag and drop the tables, which are the content blocks within the editor.

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So right now, if you create,

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if you use the content blocks and you put it in the editor, you can't really move it up and down, and we realized that's a limitation.

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You gotta kinda copy and paste or recreate that content block elsewhere in the editor. So,

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we are exploring the ability to drag and drop those,

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within the editor, and that should give you guys a lot more flexibility and speed,

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when you're creating blog posts or building out web pages in the web page builder.

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And in addition to that, we have tons more speed, security, and quality of life features.

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A lot of exciting new releases on the way and a big shout out and thank you to the BD community.

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I can't even talk fast enough with the updates that are coming down the line, but it's from your guys' feedback,

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even your support tickets. We know that when you guys send us support tickets,

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it means that you're working hard on your websites, and we we definitely acknowledge that, and we take every one of those very seriously.

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And we look for we identify ways to improve the software from,

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from those pain points that you might be having within the support tickets.

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So thank you guys so much, for participating in the BD community.

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What I'll do now is I don't wanna spend too much time, but if you have a quick question or comment on these features listed here on this slide, feel free to raise your hand and just give a shout out or ask a question,

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and then we can move on with the webinar here.

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Alright. Nobody's hand is going up. That is fine. We are also in awe at these upcoming features.

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Oh, we we did get a hand up from Celeste.

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Celeste, it looks like you're self muted there. Yeah. So one of my questions, when you showed about

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with their email addresses so I can retar email them directly?

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Yeah. So that's a great question.

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Let me, let me quickly show you what you can do. Give me one moment here. Just a second.

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you can do that on your search members page right now, and I'm gonna show you how you do that, and you can do it based on the membership plan that somebody is.

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and what you wanna do is is a great idea.

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It's kind of reigniting the flame with the with members who might be dormant or stale.

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So you could search for members here.

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all the local business listing members, you could search by subscription which is membership plan.

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We should update that to say membership plan actually. So there are 68 members

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and what you can do you can search for whatever criteria you want there if their account status is active or on hold.

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the types of members you want to create a list, a marketing list out of, you can then come here to list actions and you can export the lists.

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So when you create a smart list, we'll just put this as Celeste

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There's 68 people in it, and we can export this as an email list.

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We can send it to webhook that's more for developers or sending to another platform.

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So there's a few ways to segment members right now that you can do Celeste.

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And I would recommend doing it in the search members page for now. Thank you.

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You're very welcome. Good question there.

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And just to address, I think it was Rob who typed in a question about quickly emailing all members from a specific category.

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You could do the same thing.

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You can do a search and search members for a specific category, create a smart list, and then send an email off to, to that smart list.

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It's the most direct way to do it within, within the BD admin itself.

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We got in someone else's hand up here. We got Moe. How you doing, Moe?

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Looks like yourself muted there.

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Hi. So Who are you calling? I I'm not a member. I just joined my webinar. I'm looking to purchase

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the plan.

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you would be giving out, you know, the free subscriptions

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for the site.

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Is that true or no? Yeah. We're going to be doing a giveaway.

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Just wait a few slides, and hopefully, you'll be the lucky winner, Moe. Oh, sounds good. No problem.

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I'm rooting for you, buddy. Okay.

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Alright. Good question there for Moe. Sorry to cut you off there, Moe. Alright.

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Good stuff there, guys. Yeah.

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We do have a lot to share a little, so let's keep moving with the webinar. Okay. Well, 2022

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has been an amazing year, and we wanna thank you for growing your online communities with us in 2022.

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We wish everyone here in the BD family a great new year, with,

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we wanna bring you strength, hope, and new dreams going into 2023.

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We can't say enough how much we love the BD community. I love the Facebook group.

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We can actually see and interact with you guys in real time, and it's just a joy to to see all that.

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So big round of applause, and thank you guys so much. And David,

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David has put together some amazing stats from 2022. I'll pass it over to you, David.

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You put these together and I was pretty shocked at some of these, figures myself.

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We compiled a list of, some stats that we thought, you all would find interesting here in a variety of different areas.

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So if we go through these really quickly over this past year, 2022,

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we launched over 5,000 new websites on the BD

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platform. And out of all the websites on the platform,

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just this year alone,

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BD sites generated

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over $22,000,000

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in revenue. And as I'm sure you all know, we don't take a cent of that.

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That's all your hard work and hard earned revenue.

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So that was a an excellent number for us to see here.

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Also, on BD sites, again, just in the last year alone, almost 11,000,000

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new members

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on, BD sites on the BD platform,

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and over 687,000

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new leads submitted on BD sites

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over the past year. And the new leads are when website visitors are wanting to contact your members.

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where members can either accept or or pay for those leads that you are providing to them through your websites.

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Exactly. And it was great to see,

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that level of engagement on, on Brilliant Directories powered

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Some more stats here, over a thousand updates pushed, to the Brilliant Directories platform from our dev team over the past year.

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Yeah. We kind of highlight just the,

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the the primary or kind of the biggest handful of updates here on the webinars,

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every other week. But behind the scenes, there's a lot more, going into the platform.

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You know, we publish the change logs every month as well if, if you wanna kind of stay updated and and see what's being pushed, kind of on the back end and some of the more smaller stuff.

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that are requested by, by the community here.

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Those make up, a large portion of kind of the major updates, but also, you know, a lot of bug fixes, quality of life updates, those are huge,

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things like that. So always working hard on making the platform better for you all.

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Also, as, Jason touched on, over 11,300

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support tickets resolved in the previous year by our support team.

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Even though this might sound like a big number, we love to see it because it means that, that you all care about and are working hard on your websites.

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primary goal here is always to help you all as much as we can, to achieve your goals when it comes to your websites.

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Also, moving on to YouTube, we passed the 2,000,000

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view mark in, in 2022.

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a such an invaluable,

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resource for for the community here.

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We're fast approaching 10,000 members in the Facebook group, but, over the past year in 2022,

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over 2,800,

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new users have, and website owners have joined the Facebook group.

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in the Facebook group and over 26,000

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comments. That's that's a lot of engagement.

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some of you I know are familiar with it. Some of you may not be,

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but, you know, we have some third party developers, marketers, SEO experts listed in there,

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who help a lot of our users and and Brilliant Directories website owners.

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done within the marketplace.

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Well those are some pretty big numbers and again all this just means that you guys are working hard on your websites

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and if you're not familiar with the marketplace actually I'll head over there right now

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you know if you need customizations

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on your site or a helping hand with setup and and things like that, things that are beyond what the emailing the support team, can provide, the marketplace is a great place.

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It's a great place to,

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get get a helping hand from pros that we've verified.

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but I just shared a link in there.

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accomended web tools and some of our partner plugins there as well. Alright, Moe.

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It's it's that time guys. It is the lifetime

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one of the lifetime website giveaways,

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in this webinar.

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David, how did you want to go about doing this?

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Should we spin the wheel, based on the attendees number, have everyone input

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their name real quick in an Excel? What should

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we do here? Yeah. I think the quickest and easiest way, would probably to be put in

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a, a list of numbers into the wheel spinner Perfect.

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And, and just select a random number, and then we'll go down the list of attendees and pick a winner.

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Okay. Perfect. We got about a hundred attendees in here right now. Let me get one more in here. 100.

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Just a second. Alright.

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and we will spin the wheel here just a moment.

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All right, and this is the first, we have several of these.

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Let me quickly see who that is. Give me one moment, guys.

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This is Debbie

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Grammer. Debbie Grammer, are you there? Go,

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Grammer. I'm gonna unmute your microphone for a moment here.

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Do you have a mic that works? Looks like you're self muted. If your mic doesn't work, that's okay.

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We just called on you. But, we will follow-up with you after the webinar.

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Debbie Grammer, congratulations.

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You will be assigned a new lifetime website plan shortly after the webinar.

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Debbie says hi with three or four exclamation points. She chatted that in. So congratulations,

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Debbie. We will follow-up with you

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after the webinar and make sure that that lifetime website gets added to your account.

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Congratulations.

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Alright. Well, we'd like to step take a step back. I'm gonna lower everyone's hands here.

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We just wanted to ask the community, especially some of our veteran BDRs, what's one thing you learned this year about your business, your website, or your community?

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Maybe you want to share one piece of advice, with the community here and, or you know something you've learned or something

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you had an moment about, something,

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that you can share with others that can help during their with their journeys of their, directory websites.

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Okay. Ronnie, I see you here. I'm gonna unmute you. Ronnie, looks like you're self muted.

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Did I get it right? You got it, Ronnie. How are you doing? Good.

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So one thing that I could tell you, we've we've had probably the best year we've ever had.

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we've done a lot with our website.

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But one thing that I'll tell you is all the extras that you can give your communities.

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I I think a lot of people are doing niche,

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markets like I do.

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And the more content that you can give your users that are beneficial to them to want to make them wanna come to the site, It would be nice if we could just sell the fact of having a search engine or for an easy market.

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But the more you information you can give your community,

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that you're trying to get to list with you, the more value your website has.

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So giving more to your community as,

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becoming a valuable resource for them, not just a listing,

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has been probably the the biggest thing that we've done to grow our our particular directory.

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What's one one tangible thing that that other people can give to their community like if they wanted to do something tomorrow?

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Well, in our particular community, we offer training.

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So we, develop part of our listing is actually getting a hundred and fifty hours of training within our community.

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If you're not able to do that,

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you may be able to partner with,

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people who can provide training in your niche.

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Any kind of video or training that you do that might help someone better their career, it's definitely gonna

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help you. Awesome.

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Thank you so much and great to hear about the success you've had year after year there, Ronnie.

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Thank you for sharing. Alright. Good stuff there from Ronnie and good advice there as well.

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Engage the community further than just the directory listing.

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Alright we have the lovely Lindsay here. Let me unmute your microphone Lindsay. How are you?

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Looks like you're self muted. Can you hear me now? Yes.

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Always great to have you on the webinars with us.

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Oh, thanks. My mine is quite a follow-up from the last person that spoke.

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It's basically because I'm in a niche market. It's to actually promote your members

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to a wider market.

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You just can't expect people to come into your directory, so you've gotta get out there on social media

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to promote your members.

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And you do get the cut you know, the rewards from doing that.

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So always be out there making sure that

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Also, every day, the first thing that I do is check to see who was joined as a free member.

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And if they're not right for my niche communities, I have people that are looking

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to advertise stuff that has nothing to do with my directories. It's to remove them.

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So your directory is always pure for its members.

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Fantastic,

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and you've been with BD for how long Lindsay? Oh we lost her there, no worries Lindsay.

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All right good to hear thank you for that advice.

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All right if you have more to share we'll post in the Facebook group the same question and we can see what the roundup is for 2022 advice from fellow membership website owners.

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Alright. And

439
00:29:44.335 --> 00:29:49.715
now we have some of our own BD family here. We have cofounder and CTO,

440
00:29:50.095 --> 00:29:53.875
Matthew Brooks. Let me get you on the line here, Matthew. Just a moment.

441
00:29:54.330 --> 00:29:59.070
Alright. And we have a few of the BD family members here to share some of their favorite

442
00:29:59.450 --> 00:30:00.669
2022

443
00:30:00.730 --> 00:30:06.330
updates and feature releases. Hello. I'm here. Jason, can you hear me? Loud and clear, Matt.

444
00:30:06.330 --> 00:30:08.510
It's great to have you on the webinar with us.

445
00:30:08.815 --> 00:30:13.775
Thank you so much for having me on the webinar, and thank you to all the BD family and community.

446
00:30:13.775 --> 00:30:20.735
It's, what an honor and a privilege and a pleasure, to be here with you guys today. So my 02/2022

447
00:30:20.735 --> 00:30:21.235
updates,

448
00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:23.960
there's so many good ones. It was really hard to choose.

449
00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:26.940
I really wanted to pick five, but I was only allowed to pick two.

450
00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:29.500
My two favorite ones this year

451
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:32.539
are, the webhooks and the Zapier integrations.

452
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:44.995
You know, the power of being able to get data from all your different data storage places or or other places that you are interacting with your members and customers right into brilliant directories.

453
00:30:45.615 --> 00:30:47.635
And then to let your members

454
00:30:48.015 --> 00:30:52.640
add more data to their listings, sign up for membership plans, post listings,

455
00:30:53.020 --> 00:30:55.440
and then through a push of a button or a Zapier,

456
00:30:56.140 --> 00:30:58.480
integration to then send that data onto,

457
00:30:59.020 --> 00:31:02.080
the next part of your of your web stack, whether that be Mailchimp,

458
00:31:02.705 --> 00:31:07.525
a Google a Google Sheet, or, you know, any of the thousand of integrations. Just such a powerful,

459
00:31:08.385 --> 00:31:10.085
process that you have in place,

460
00:31:10.545 --> 00:31:14.645
really to just do infinite amount of things with the Brilliant Directories platform.

461
00:31:14.785 --> 00:31:20.519
One of the coolest things that I've seen some customers do is they input it from their ecommerce site,

462
00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:25.480
a zap a zap and and all of their customers become members on the BD platform.

463
00:31:26.260 --> 00:31:31.154
Those members then turn into reoccurring buyers on their Shopify site.

464
00:31:31.154 --> 00:31:39.735
And then they then segment that list into a smart list, send that off to Mailchimp or HubSpot, and then they have a drip email sequence going to those members.

465
00:31:39.794 --> 00:31:43.095
And wow, is that just so powerful. All happened automatically.

466
00:31:43.750 --> 00:31:44.950
So, yeah, that's a big one.

467
00:31:44.950 --> 00:31:50.169
But it is quite cool, and there's so many more things that can be done that that now that that is put in place.

468
00:31:50.549 --> 00:31:54.570
The second thing that I think was really cool that we did is, what Jason just

469
00:31:54.870 --> 00:31:57.210
showed now, the new search subscriptions page.

470
00:31:57.485 --> 00:32:02.625
This is something that's gonna add a lot of power and visibility overall to the Brilliant Directories platform,

471
00:32:03.005 --> 00:32:06.305
being able to manage and view all of the subscriptions at once,

472
00:32:06.685 --> 00:32:09.185
to be able to look at, all of the customers

473
00:32:09.649 --> 00:32:11.110
through various billing cycles

474
00:32:11.490 --> 00:32:16.389
to view all the things that are going on on your on your dashboard just in one quick place.

475
00:32:16.769 --> 00:32:26.355
It's gonna add so much functionality and just make it easy for you as the website owner to see what's going on, make business decisions, and then eventually as we add more functionality

476
00:32:26.894 --> 00:32:31.235
to be able to search all, and then take a segment of specific members

477
00:32:31.615 --> 00:32:33.955
that are in a a certain billing cycle

478
00:32:34.335 --> 00:32:43.670
or in a membership plan, and then click a button and then either export those members or send an email to those members or then, you know, zap those into another platform,

479
00:32:44.450 --> 00:32:49.110
that's part of your web stack. So that's my two favorite updates for 2022.

480
00:32:49.170 --> 00:32:53.325
Thank you. Alright. Well, thank you, Matt. And I couldn't agree more.

481
00:32:53.625 --> 00:32:57.485
You know, just to touch it just very quickly on on these two that Matt selected.

482
00:32:57.705 --> 00:33:02.525
You know, BD had a lot of features in it, but it was on an island. And

483
00:33:03.070 --> 00:33:07.730
having the webhooks and the Zapier integrations is exactly what Matt said. It allows you to sync,

484
00:33:08.110 --> 00:33:12.990
the other platforms that you're using to run your business and sync data seamlessly between them.

485
00:33:12.990 --> 00:33:16.985
And now Brilliant Directories can be a part of that, and it's no longer an island.

486
00:33:17.125 --> 00:33:19.945
It's an international airport for your member data.

487
00:33:20.085 --> 00:33:26.265
And then also that's gonna segue that segues into what some of our roadmap goals for 2023, which is data portability.

488
00:33:26.405 --> 00:33:29.225
We'll talk about that a bit more. And then the search subscriptions,

489
00:33:29.870 --> 00:33:33.470
it's exactly also the next segue that we have for 2023

490
00:33:33.470 --> 00:33:35.330
on the road map is better reporting,

491
00:33:35.790 --> 00:33:37.410
tools, graphs, and charts,

492
00:33:37.710 --> 00:33:40.850
and these are the building blocks for that. So, Matt, I think,

493
00:33:41.230 --> 00:33:45.070
shout out to you for choosing these two out of the thousand that were available. And,

494
00:33:45.895 --> 00:33:50.955
and thank you, Matt, for for all the work you do and contribute to the Brilliant Directories family and platform.

495
00:33:51.095 --> 00:33:52.235
You are definitely a

496
00:33:52.535 --> 00:33:56.075
ray of positive energy for everyone. So thank you. Alright.

497
00:33:56.135 --> 00:34:01.710
We have another staff member here at Brilliant Directories, part of the family, Rick Martinez.

498
00:34:02.010 --> 00:34:05.790
There's no doubt that many of you may have interacted with him in the past.

499
00:34:06.090 --> 00:34:11.710
Rick, let me unmute your microphone here, and you can share your 22 favorite updates. Just a moment.

500
00:34:12.465 --> 00:34:17.905
Alright. Hey, Rick. How's it going? Going well. Jason, thank you very much for having me. Yeah.

501
00:34:17.905 --> 00:34:20.965
Very excited about all the updates. As

502
00:34:21.505 --> 00:34:22.145
as as,

503
00:34:23.105 --> 00:34:25.989
Matt just mentioned, it was very tough to to

504
00:34:26.369 --> 00:34:28.789
narrow it down to only two. However,

505
00:34:29.170 --> 00:34:29.989
a few things

506
00:34:30.369 --> 00:34:35.829
did shine on my end a bit more than others, and I I can relate with the text label translations.

507
00:34:36.210 --> 00:34:41.190
For example, this this is why I chose this one as the first one as a big,

508
00:34:41.514 --> 00:34:42.014
big,

509
00:34:42.795 --> 00:34:50.014
I would say, again, opening as a big change in which more doors will be open for more brand directories users.

510
00:34:50.155 --> 00:34:52.494
Right? So now we we have completed

511
00:34:52.795 --> 00:34:53.534
the Spanish

512
00:34:54.080 --> 00:34:55.120
translation project.

513
00:34:55.120 --> 00:35:03.300
And as you pointed out to earlier today or earlier on the conversation, we all we're also working on the French and the German translations,

514
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:04.900
which should be

515
00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:10.325
done pretty soon. And, again, open more and more doors. Right? The other real cool update

516
00:35:10.625 --> 00:35:12.885
for me was the member credit system.

517
00:35:13.265 --> 00:35:14.885
Right? And the fact that you can

518
00:35:15.185 --> 00:35:18.165
now use brilliant directories to incentivize

519
00:35:18.865 --> 00:35:26.850
your members and your users to be a part of your community by, again, crediting or using those credits to

520
00:35:27.230 --> 00:35:32.050
credit their accounts, right, and incentivize to use them on your websites to purchase

521
00:35:32.350 --> 00:35:35.810
either products that you you would offer as digital products

522
00:35:36.305 --> 00:35:36.805
or,

523
00:35:37.265 --> 00:35:42.085
yeah, dish additional things that you can offer through your website. So those two, I would say,

524
00:35:42.465 --> 00:35:43.365
were very,

525
00:35:44.065 --> 00:35:48.085
had a very big impact on the whole brilliant directories platform,

526
00:35:48.770 --> 00:35:49.270
and

527
00:35:49.570 --> 00:35:55.010
that was why I chose those. Thank you, Jason. No. Awesome, Rick. You explained it very well.

528
00:35:55.570 --> 00:36:04.655
Definitely the text label is going to allow more international users to, more easily use the BD platform, especially by instantly translating 1,800

529
00:36:04.655 --> 00:36:05.715
default text labels,

530
00:36:06.575 --> 00:36:08.335
and also the member credit system.

531
00:36:08.335 --> 00:36:13.455
What better way to incentivize sign ups by giving someone a hundred bucks credit to your site?

532
00:36:13.455 --> 00:36:23.120
I mean, if you're not doing that or some in some way shape or form, I would highly recommend it, and get users signed up to your site utilizing the member credit system.

533
00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:28.160
And huge shout out, Rick, to the entire support team. As Dave pointed out in the stats, over 11,000

534
00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:28.980
support tickets,

535
00:36:29.445 --> 00:36:32.565
they were questions asked and answered by the team.

536
00:36:32.565 --> 00:36:35.305
So thank you guys so much, for helping the community.

537
00:36:35.765 --> 00:36:39.785
Oh my goodness. Clutch my pearls. It's time for another lifetime

538
00:36:40.245 --> 00:36:40.745
website

539
00:36:41.205 --> 00:36:41.705
giveaway.

540
00:36:42.050 --> 00:36:45.810
Alright. We have a few more attendees in here. We're now up to 107

541
00:36:45.810 --> 00:36:47.349
so I will actually increase,

542
00:36:48.130 --> 00:36:49.910
this number here. Just a moment.

543
00:36:50.290 --> 00:36:55.030
Let's get a few more. Let's just dial this up a bit and we'll use the same number system.

544
00:36:55.330 --> 00:36:55.455
Alright.

545
00:36:55.615 --> 00:37:01.235
What we're gonna do is we're gonna every attendee has a number here with us and what we're gonna do is put it in the name of wheels

546
00:37:01.855 --> 00:37:05.215
and Debbie Grammer can't win twice. She already won once.

547
00:37:05.215 --> 00:37:10.835
So what we'll do is we'll even shuffle the numbers here up and we'll go ahead and spin the wheel

548
00:37:11.160 --> 00:37:15.339
And we will let you know in just a moment who the winner is of a new lifetime

549
00:37:15.799 --> 00:37:19.980
website plan. And we have a few more of these coming up as well.

550
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:22.599
Alright. It is number 48.

551
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:25.500
Alright. Give me a minute. I'll let you know exactly who that is.

552
00:37:25.974 --> 00:37:28.555
We have a name here, Leo

553
00:37:28.935 --> 00:37:29.435
Manlosa.

554
00:37:30.535 --> 00:37:31.435
Leo Manlosa

555
00:37:31.895 --> 00:37:36.954
is number 48 here. Let me unmute your microphone, give you an opportunity Hello. Say something.

556
00:37:37.335 --> 00:37:38.635
Leo, you there with us?

557
00:37:39.080 --> 00:37:44.220
Alright, Leo. Leo's self muted on his end. Leo, we are going to connect with you after the webinar.

558
00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:49.980
We have your, email address and so forth, so we will add the new lifetime website plan,

559
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:52.300
to your account, and congratulations,

560
00:37:52.600 --> 00:37:56.195
Leo. Alright. Let's keep things moving on. We got a couple more of these, Moe.

561
00:37:56.195 --> 00:38:00.515
I'm rooting for you still, buddy. So we got a couple more, and hopefully it could be you. Alright.

562
00:38:00.515 --> 00:38:03.715
Oh, now it's my turn here. So Jason's favorite 2022

563
00:38:03.715 --> 00:38:04.215
updates.

564
00:38:04.915 --> 00:38:09.780
Again, there were a lot on the list. I have to say the ImageKit update did it for me.

565
00:38:10.240 --> 00:38:17.859
It is a third party tool, and what it allows you to do is display all the images on your website in an optimized

566
00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:19.380
WebP format.

567
00:38:20.154 --> 00:38:25.855
It's really a plug and play system, and it helps boost your web page speed scores up tremendously.

568
00:38:26.394 --> 00:38:32.400
You know, we're talking 10 or 20 or 30 points depending on the specific page and how many images and so forth.

569
00:38:32.720 --> 00:38:40.079
And not only that, it also helps load the pages a lot quicker as well, which helps with the user experience, helps with conversions, and so forth.

570
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:44.740
So as far as plug and play integrations, I'd say ImageKit was it for me this 2022.

571
00:38:45.005 --> 00:38:48.705
And then lastly, it kinda ties into Matt's choice of the Zapier,

572
00:38:49.405 --> 00:38:50.305
and the API.

573
00:38:51.005 --> 00:38:56.545
The ability to create members from external sources as Matt touched on, like from your Shopify buyers,

574
00:38:57.165 --> 00:38:59.220
or if you have forms with Typeform

575
00:38:59.680 --> 00:39:01.460
or any other platform like ClickFunnels,

576
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:10.260
you can now turn those members or those form submissions wherever you have forms around the Internet and convert those people into members of your site and then start remarketing

577
00:39:10.560 --> 00:39:13.285
to them from inside the Brilliant Directories platform.

578
00:39:13.285 --> 00:39:16.105
So it really expands your reach exponentially

579
00:39:16.485 --> 00:39:23.225
and allows you to grow your community a whole lot faster rather than just waiting for people to come directly to your website.

580
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:24.660
So, yeah.

581
00:39:25.040 --> 00:39:30.340
Those were my top two picks for the year and we will keep things moving along here. Now we have,

582
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:34.580
the one and only David Rocklin. I'll pass it over to you for your favorites.

583
00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:38.580
Great picks there. Yeah. It was hard to pick just two.

584
00:39:39.025 --> 00:39:49.045
My first one here, the file uploads for forms add on, sounds simple, but it really completely expanded the possibilities of what's capable with a BD website,

585
00:39:49.345 --> 00:39:50.965
adding the ability for

586
00:39:51.330 --> 00:39:57.990
members and website visitors to upload and attach files to really a variety of form submissions,

587
00:39:58.370 --> 00:40:02.550
like the lead form, which was a big one, member contact form,

588
00:40:02.930 --> 00:40:07.744
member verification form, in some cases, post publishing forms, so much more.

589
00:40:07.885 --> 00:40:17.984
It just completely broadened the potential scope of BD websites and the amount of info that can be collected and also distributed like, in the case of leads.

590
00:40:18.444 --> 00:40:21.184
My second one, the bulk email and newsletter

591
00:40:21.484 --> 00:40:22.625
workflow update

592
00:40:23.190 --> 00:40:28.810
added a whole new design and user interface to the send newsletter section of the admin area.

593
00:40:29.109 --> 00:40:30.170
It really streamlined

594
00:40:30.470 --> 00:40:31.690
the entire process

595
00:40:31.990 --> 00:40:38.974
for sending out either just general newsletters or even one off email blasts with, a few new options

596
00:40:39.355 --> 00:40:43.454
as well. And, you know, in combination with being able to select which

597
00:40:43.755 --> 00:40:57.890
contact tags and automatically updated smart lists to send those emails to, it really opened up, a new and more fine tuned way to communicate and stay in touch with certain website users and members.

598
00:40:57.890 --> 00:41:02.230
So lots of great updates over the past year, but these were my top two picks.

599
00:41:02.610 --> 00:41:05.590
These are great picks. And also just to touch on the file upload,

600
00:41:05.994 --> 00:41:07.135
fields for forms,

601
00:41:07.435 --> 00:41:14.895
some some use cases that we've been seeing with that, people are creating forms for job listings, and people are submitting their resumes,

602
00:41:15.435 --> 00:41:16.655
with those job listings.

603
00:41:17.355 --> 00:41:20.974
For a lot of sites that that are visual, there's, you know, there's a lot of

604
00:41:21.380 --> 00:41:25.880
local business or or contractor and construction directories out there for local areas,

605
00:41:26.180 --> 00:41:27.240
and now consumers

606
00:41:27.540 --> 00:41:31.860
can upload images of the projects that they need help with through these form fields.

607
00:41:31.860 --> 00:41:35.960
So those are just two use cases, but those are two very popular ones that we're seeing.

608
00:41:35.985 --> 00:41:39.345
And also with the the email newsletter workflow, that's on our roadmap.

609
00:41:39.345 --> 00:41:41.285
We're gonna improve that even further,

610
00:41:41.825 --> 00:41:44.005
for everyone. So great picks here, David.

611
00:41:44.225 --> 00:41:48.725
We had Kate Flannery from the office with a special message to the BD community.

612
00:41:49.690 --> 00:41:51.630
Hey, everybody. It's me, Kate Flannery,

613
00:41:52.010 --> 00:41:53.870
Meredith in the office. What's up?

614
00:41:54.250 --> 00:41:55.070
Back again.

615
00:41:55.530 --> 00:41:58.510
Wishing you all the best, and congrats

616
00:41:59.130 --> 00:42:02.430
to the Brilliant Directories family on another year

617
00:42:02.865 --> 00:42:03.605
down the

618
00:42:03.985 --> 00:42:05.605
down on the books. Sorry.

619
00:42:06.545 --> 00:42:08.325
Yeah. Keep working hard.

620
00:42:09.265 --> 00:42:10.485
That's what she said.

621
00:42:11.265 --> 00:42:13.345
Yeah. Keep working hard on your projects and,

622
00:42:13.985 --> 00:42:14.640
you know,

623
00:42:15.279 --> 00:42:18.260
you're if you're having a tough day, just sleep in

624
00:42:19.279 --> 00:42:20.500
and forget The Office.

625
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:26.180
Yeah. And maybe watch The Office. Right now, I'm gonna present you with a special Dundee.

626
00:42:26.799 --> 00:42:27.299
Wait.

627
00:42:27.785 --> 00:42:28.285
Sorry.

628
00:42:28.985 --> 00:42:30.205
Grabbed the wrong thing.

629
00:42:31.225 --> 00:42:32.365
That's what she said.

630
00:42:33.625 --> 00:42:35.805
Yeah. Brilliant Directories family.

631
00:42:36.585 --> 00:42:39.405
It's gonna be a good year, and thank you so much for this past

632
00:42:39.865 --> 00:42:40.845
happy anniversary.

633
00:42:41.625 --> 00:42:43.485
Many, many more to come.

634
00:42:44.660 --> 00:42:45.720
That's what she said.

635
00:42:46.100 --> 00:42:46.580
And,

636
00:42:47.060 --> 00:42:48.440
you know, may I say,

637
00:42:49.700 --> 00:42:51.700
you guys are looking good out there. So,

638
00:42:52.100 --> 00:42:53.320
keep up the good work,

639
00:42:53.780 --> 00:42:54.180
and,

640
00:42:55.460 --> 00:43:00.065
have a little tune just for you guys. Sing along if you know the words. Here we go.

641
00:43:00.065 --> 00:43:02.964
Come on, brilliant directors family. Let me hear you.

642
00:43:08.305 --> 00:43:09.365
Happy anniversary.

643
00:43:12.460 --> 00:43:13.600
You did it.

644
00:43:14.860 --> 00:43:16.000
That's what she said.

645
00:43:17.100 --> 00:43:21.440
And very quickly and, we have another lifetime website

646
00:43:21.740 --> 00:43:22.240
giveaway.

647
00:43:22.700 --> 00:43:25.485
Another one. Alright. Major key alert here.

648
00:43:25.725 --> 00:43:29.965
Let's, go back to our wheel here, and we will spin the wheel.

649
00:43:29.965 --> 00:43:38.305
We still got 107 attendees with us right now, and we are gonna spin this wheel, and we will find out who the lucky attendee winner is,

650
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:41.340
based on your attendee number that we have

651
00:43:41.800 --> 00:43:42.620
and it's

652
00:43:43.080 --> 00:43:44.520
number 104.

653
00:43:44.520 --> 00:43:47.580
That's easy. I can just count backwards here from 107.

654
00:43:47.640 --> 00:43:48.700
So Tom

655
00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:49.900
Ballard.

656
00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:55.175
Tom Ballard. Let me unmute your microphone. Go Tom. There we go. Hey, Tom.

657
00:43:55.555 --> 00:43:56.455
Hey. Awesome.

658
00:43:57.395 --> 00:43:59.015
Congrats, bro. Win anything.

659
00:43:59.875 --> 00:44:01.095
You never win anything.

660
00:44:02.035 --> 00:44:05.095
How'd you when when did you first find BD in your life?

661
00:44:05.395 --> 00:44:11.490
How'd you find us? I actually I got got the the first one on AppSumo. I I have two two,

662
00:44:12.450 --> 00:44:15.029
subscriptions with you guys. So you're addictive.

663
00:44:15.490 --> 00:44:16.309
We're addictive.

664
00:44:16.609 --> 00:44:21.829
Well, let me quickly find that ImageKit URL that you were asking about. Stay with us just a moment.

665
00:44:22.145 --> 00:44:25.845
K. And, it's in our blog. Let me just search for image kit.

666
00:44:26.224 --> 00:44:30.964
That's right. It's in this, tip of the week here. I'll share this link. If you go

667
00:44:31.505 --> 00:44:33.125
to minute nineteen eleven,

668
00:44:33.585 --> 00:44:36.724
excuse me. If you go to minute ten thirty six,

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00:44:37.370 --> 00:44:41.770
we we explain how to plug and play the image kit solution into your BD site.

670
00:44:41.770 --> 00:44:46.170
So let me paste that here. Awesome. Alright. Well, Tom, great to that you're with us.

671
00:44:46.170 --> 00:44:49.870
I'm glad that you won, and, we look forward to see what you create with your sites.

672
00:44:50.255 --> 00:44:54.195
Love your software. Thank you very much. Appreciate it, Tom. Congrats.

673
00:44:54.895 --> 00:44:56.915
Alright. Fun stuff there.

674
00:44:57.375 --> 00:44:57.875
Alright.

675
00:44:58.175 --> 00:44:59.555
Let's see what's next.

676
00:44:59.935 --> 00:45:01.715
Alright. If there was someone

677
00:45:02.015 --> 00:45:13.330
behind the scenes who really keeps the wheels turning, there's the only one and only Jeffrey Wyatt, the chief operations officer and chief TCB here at Brilliant Directories.

678
00:45:13.330 --> 00:45:14.630
Let me unmute Jeff's,

679
00:45:15.090 --> 00:45:16.790
mic here. Just a moment.

680
00:45:17.375 --> 00:45:20.095
He is not on. He is taking care of business right now.

681
00:45:20.095 --> 00:45:25.075
So, anyways, two of Jeff's favorite also under the classification of the Zapier,

682
00:45:25.615 --> 00:45:26.115
integrations.

683
00:45:26.655 --> 00:45:28.755
We first needed to create an API.

684
00:45:29.214 --> 00:45:30.994
Again, this is for the developers,

685
00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:35.520
who want to do integrations with brilliant directories. Now they have the ability to do so.

686
00:45:35.520 --> 00:45:39.839
The Zapier and the Pabbly integrations are all built upon this API first.

687
00:45:39.839 --> 00:45:44.020
So developers who are familiar with APIs, they can use the API directly,

688
00:45:44.355 --> 00:45:47.735
and Zapier and Pabbly are for novice users mostly,

689
00:45:48.195 --> 00:45:54.675
who just need a point and click system, but all the API complicated stuff is taken care of through Zapier and Pabbly.

690
00:45:54.675 --> 00:45:56.755
So definitely agree with you there, Jeff.

691
00:45:56.994 --> 00:46:02.630
Shout out to the BD API, and it's gonna continue to develop to develop further through 2023.

692
00:46:02.930 --> 00:46:07.190
Number two on his list, the new domain manager and email authentication.

693
00:46:07.810 --> 00:46:13.109
You guys send emails to your members, and we wanna make sure that they're delivered.

694
00:46:13.335 --> 00:46:18.795
And with the new domain manager, before you would just connect your domain, and that's all that we saw in the domain manager.

695
00:46:18.935 --> 00:46:23.275
Now you can see stats that it's connected properly, the method that it's connected with.

696
00:46:23.335 --> 00:46:25.275
If there's any warnings or alerts,

697
00:46:25.910 --> 00:46:32.170
you will see them and it will allow our team to troubleshoot those issues quickly which reduces your overall downtime.

698
00:46:32.710 --> 00:46:34.330
And again, the email authentication

699
00:46:34.630 --> 00:46:35.610
settings now,

700
00:46:35.990 --> 00:46:42.145
that will just ensure that more of your emails land in your members inboxes and not in their spam folder.

701
00:46:42.285 --> 00:46:44.445
So, Jeff, great, choices there.

702
00:46:44.445 --> 00:46:50.204
I'm I'm sorry we've missed you in the webinar or you might be under a different name, but, we love you, Jeff, and everything you do.

703
00:46:50.204 --> 00:46:52.305
So thank you. Alright. And now,

704
00:46:52.925 --> 00:46:58.290
the man himself, the one and only customer success agent sitting right next to me here actually right now,

705
00:46:58.750 --> 00:47:02.450
Dennis Tenerino. I'll go ahead and unmute your mic there. It looks like you're self muted,

706
00:47:02.750 --> 00:47:05.970
and let us know your twenty twenty two favorite updates.

707
00:47:06.350 --> 00:47:08.965
Hey. What's up everybody? It's a pleasure and honor to be here.

708
00:47:08.965 --> 00:47:12.425
Dennis Tenerino, the customer success director here at Brilliant Directories.

709
00:47:12.725 --> 00:47:16.265
Spoken with many of you and, you know, this is always a fun time.

710
00:47:16.805 --> 00:47:19.705
Shout out to David and Jason for just making it a party.

711
00:47:20.670 --> 00:47:23.230
Alright. So a couple of my favorite and top updates.

712
00:47:23.230 --> 00:47:27.150
I mean, there again, there were so many, like, we've all been saying, and it was really hard to pick.

713
00:47:27.150 --> 00:47:31.470
But I'll start with the first one here. Right? Number one, website speed updates.

714
00:47:31.470 --> 00:47:32.770
You know, the BD team

715
00:47:33.234 --> 00:47:37.555
really has worked hard, to make everyone's website work really fast. Right?

716
00:47:37.555 --> 00:47:40.435
Especially on the front end. That's the most important thing. Right?

717
00:47:40.675 --> 00:47:43.315
BD sites, you know, if you think about it, they are really complex.

718
00:47:43.315 --> 00:47:46.710
There's lots of moving parts that you don't really think about happening,

719
00:47:47.170 --> 00:47:51.890
be behind a website, a directory website itself. So it's not just text and images, essentially.

720
00:47:51.890 --> 00:47:55.270
You've got searching, sorting, you got member profiles.

721
00:47:55.730 --> 00:48:00.710
There's dynamic things happening that BD takes care of, and it makes all of them really powerful.

722
00:48:00.770 --> 00:48:02.775
So that's what's really amazing about it. Right?

723
00:48:02.775 --> 00:48:08.375
So all those things, you know, can and were at at for a while there, slowing some things down with the page speed.

724
00:48:08.375 --> 00:48:11.435
The BD team took that. We went in the labs.

725
00:48:11.815 --> 00:48:15.835
We hacked things up. We figured out what we needed to do to make those websites

726
00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:17.280
run really fast.

727
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:24.660
So a huge improvement and a game changing move for us is speeding up those front end of the websites for everybody on the BD platform.

728
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:31.744
You know, if you think about it, you know, the way that we've done it, you know, BD is like an engine, and we want everyone to be rolling in a Ferrari engine.

729
00:48:32.045 --> 00:48:34.285
Right? We want your your sites to be really fast.

730
00:48:34.285 --> 00:48:39.665
And and, you know, when it when your sites are like that, you know, the reason why that's better, right, is because

731
00:48:40.045 --> 00:48:45.424
you're gonna have faster page loads, better visitor experience, which is super important nowadays, of course.

732
00:48:45.609 --> 00:48:50.089
You'll convert more members and a better chance to be successful overall in the long run.

733
00:48:50.089 --> 00:48:53.930
So some things to think about there, and thank you BD for making these sites lightning fast.

734
00:48:54.170 --> 00:48:59.630
Number two, this has been a fan favorite and one for me as well. We have a new integration.

735
00:48:59.690 --> 00:49:00.829
It's called Embedly.

736
00:49:01.494 --> 00:49:03.115
It's a really kick butt tool.

737
00:49:03.415 --> 00:49:08.075
You know, it's an advanced setting that we've created, where you can enable it on the front end of Fuella editors.

738
00:49:08.375 --> 00:49:14.315
When the settings act active in the system will automatically include Embedli functionality on all the Fuella editors,

739
00:49:15.095 --> 00:49:16.155
using all types,

740
00:49:16.640 --> 00:49:20.880
throughout the the entire front end of the website. So embedly is really cool.

741
00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:23.540
It supports more than 700 content providers.

742
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:28.260
There are so many in there for video, audio, photos, products, and more.

743
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:32.815
Embed the content your users are really gonna want to see and love the most. Right?

744
00:49:32.954 --> 00:49:38.734
Embedly makes it so that there's no need to modify code if people update things on their end on the other side,

745
00:49:39.275 --> 00:49:44.414
especially on the content delivery side, and they take care of all the details for you. So this

746
00:49:44.859 --> 00:49:48.700
integration is really powerful, very exciting. And lastly, you know, what are you gonna embed?

747
00:49:48.700 --> 00:49:50.480
Right? Videos from YouTube, Vimeo,

748
00:49:51.020 --> 00:49:56.475
Ustream, Brightcove, images from, like, Instagram, Dribble, and Imgur is another popular one.

749
00:49:56.715 --> 00:50:00.415
And then rich media as well from, like, Foursquare, Check-in, Embed PDFs,

750
00:50:00.875 --> 00:50:03.775
and media sources from, like, Scribe, Prezi, or Storify.

751
00:50:04.075 --> 00:50:08.395
So that would be definitely my second favorite one. I know there's gonna be many more to come.

752
00:50:08.395 --> 00:50:14.760
Thank you, BD, for making this so easy for everyone to use, and I can't wait to embed more content myself on my own website.

753
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:16.700
So thank you so much for having me, guys.

754
00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:19.319
Go, Dennis. Thank you. Yeah. Embedli is awesome.

755
00:50:19.319 --> 00:50:23.260
Actually, in the last two days in the Facebook group, I answered,

756
00:50:23.640 --> 00:50:28.975
people had questions, and I I answered them by showing them how to embed using Embed.ly.

757
00:50:29.055 --> 00:50:32.595
Someone wanted some Instagram posts, in their blog articles,

758
00:50:33.295 --> 00:50:33.795
Twitter,

759
00:50:34.175 --> 00:50:35.375
cards, and things like that.

760
00:50:35.375 --> 00:50:39.950
So Embed.ly is taking care of a lot of that heavy lifting, and it's it's native in in Brilliant Directories.

761
00:50:39.950 --> 00:50:44.589
If you go to your advanced settings, you can just enable Embedley, and it'll be part of your,

762
00:50:44.910 --> 00:50:46.130
text editor toolbar.

763
00:50:46.670 --> 00:50:50.510
Nothing more you need to do or sign up for it. It's already integrated into BD.

764
00:50:50.510 --> 00:50:54.565
So great choices there, Dennis. Thank you. Alright. Let's keep moving things on. Alright.

765
00:50:54.565 --> 00:50:56.805
Just a little bit about the 2023

766
00:50:56.805 --> 00:50:59.785
vision for Brilliant Directories and the road map.

767
00:51:00.005 --> 00:51:05.385
I promise you guys we have three three hundred, project cards, in the queue.

768
00:51:05.685 --> 00:51:07.950
We obviously prioritize them based on,

769
00:51:08.430 --> 00:51:12.829
security and and speed and and bug fixes first and then new feature releases.

770
00:51:12.829 --> 00:51:14.210
But just to give you guys,

771
00:51:14.750 --> 00:51:18.210
a macro view of what All In One reimagine looks like,

772
00:51:18.510 --> 00:51:19.329
these are some,

773
00:51:20.835 --> 00:51:24.935
some bigger picture items that we're looking forward to in 2023.

774
00:51:25.475 --> 00:51:27.815
The top of the list there is a more intuitive

775
00:51:28.195 --> 00:51:33.255
admin area. We wanna help you guys work faster and quicker and more efficiently.

776
00:51:33.710 --> 00:51:38.369
So you can click click boom, do what you need to do, and continue working on your business.

777
00:51:38.589 --> 00:51:44.130
So some areas in the admin that are gonna get a bit of TLC and love, the workflow for matching leads,

778
00:51:44.589 --> 00:51:47.569
scheduling newsletters, it's gonna be a smoother workflow,

779
00:51:48.125 --> 00:51:52.305
creating those email templates, and on the post sending the newsletter

780
00:51:52.605 --> 00:51:58.204
is better reporting and stats, and the ability to create smart lists based on newsletter data.

781
00:51:58.204 --> 00:52:10.660
For example, if you want to email people who did not open the email the first time or who did open the email the first time, we're looking forward to creating, allowing you to create smart lists based on that extra segmented data.

782
00:52:11.280 --> 00:52:14.365
Making it more intuitive to design your web pages.

783
00:52:14.365 --> 00:52:17.265
I mentioned earlier, the drag and drag and drop of,

784
00:52:17.565 --> 00:52:18.684
the content blocks.

785
00:52:19.005 --> 00:52:25.740
There's even more that we wanna do, to empower you when you're designing your pages or creating your blog posts and things like that.

786
00:52:25.980 --> 00:52:29.360
Making it more powerful to manage members. Again, we just saw,

787
00:52:29.740 --> 00:52:31.180
the search subscriptions page.

788
00:52:31.180 --> 00:52:35.660
There's gonna be a lot more, with graphs and charts coming down in 2023.

789
00:52:35.660 --> 00:52:39.840
And also just the the page load time of the admin pages,

790
00:52:40.244 --> 00:52:42.484
we're gonna make them a lot more rapid for you guys.

791
00:52:42.484 --> 00:52:46.964
So there's less wait time as you're navigating between pages within the admin area.

792
00:52:47.204 --> 00:52:49.944
We're also exploring the ability to preview

793
00:52:50.404 --> 00:52:53.464
and more easily revert changes for sidebars,

794
00:52:54.060 --> 00:52:55.760
forms, and your web pages.

795
00:52:56.220 --> 00:52:59.580
Right now you have to save a web page, see what it looks like on the front end.

796
00:52:59.740 --> 00:53:03.440
We want to allow you guys to preview your changes and then save your changes,

797
00:53:03.980 --> 00:53:12.665
permanently or if you need to quickly revert back to a previous version of something like a sidebar or form, we want to, provide help you with that.

798
00:53:13.125 --> 00:53:18.665
Well, we all make errors or test things out, and it's it'll be better if we can just undo our changes, in that format.

799
00:53:19.045 --> 00:53:27.490
And as I mentioned, more reporting charts, graphs, and statistics, so you can actually get a better pulse on your website's health, with regard to,

800
00:53:28.110 --> 00:53:28.930
member engagement,

801
00:53:29.310 --> 00:53:30.530
finance, and more.

802
00:53:30.990 --> 00:53:34.450
And then secondly on this list, big picture is that data portability

803
00:53:34.750 --> 00:53:35.890
and more integrations.

804
00:53:36.430 --> 00:53:43.655
We're seeing more and more people integrate their existing data with Brilliant Directories and vice versa, so we wanna make that easier.

805
00:53:44.355 --> 00:53:49.895
More noteworthy here is the ability to populate your site with content and members from external sources

806
00:53:50.195 --> 00:53:54.320
and vice versa is sending your data out to other platforms as well.

807
00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:55.940
So what we're gonna do is actually

808
00:53:56.320 --> 00:54:05.540
create more integration use cases and tutorial videos, with some of the most popular platforms and questions that people, are talking about and that are trending,

809
00:54:05.915 --> 00:54:11.915
to give you guys an idea of what you can do with all this integration talk and buzzwords that we're we're using here.

810
00:54:11.915 --> 00:54:18.494
And then lastly, and this is the staple of Brilliant Directories is just always delivering ongoing updates and new features.

811
00:54:19.035 --> 00:54:20.815
That's a train that doesn't stop.

812
00:54:21.410 --> 00:54:24.150
Speed, security, and stability, the three s's there first.

813
00:54:24.530 --> 00:54:28.550
Bug fixes, you guys report small things, big things, we get them knocked out quickly.

814
00:54:28.850 --> 00:54:32.790
And also what helps the platform move forward are your feature requests.

815
00:54:33.005 --> 00:54:34.545
We definitely take them seriously.

816
00:54:34.765 --> 00:54:39.425
We can't get to all of them, to be honest, but we do prioritize based on popularity,

817
00:54:39.725 --> 00:54:41.885
demand, need, necessity, and things like that.

818
00:54:41.885 --> 00:54:45.825
So, we're always open minded to your feature requests and suggestions.

819
00:54:45.965 --> 00:54:48.410
So we wanna thank you guys always for that.

820
00:54:48.630 --> 00:54:54.869
So, this is just some, bigger picture 2023 updates coming down the line, and I can't wait for the webinars in 2023

821
00:54:54.869 --> 00:54:58.970
and when we can do the lab updates when a lot of these things have been newly released.

822
00:54:59.510 --> 00:55:01.109
And I just wanna say a quote here.

823
00:55:01.109 --> 00:55:06.345
This is actually Matthew Brooks here says this quote a lot and I thought it would be a little

824
00:55:06.645 --> 00:55:11.865
nice to share this one. Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.

825
00:55:12.325 --> 00:55:16.984
You are not where you want to be but neither are you where you used to be. So

826
00:55:17.390 --> 00:55:29.865
you know, there's always room for improvement and growth, and the important thing is that you just show up every day and you make incremental progress on a worthy idea, and that is the definition of success.

827
00:55:29.865 --> 00:55:35.885
There's no end point. It's just incremental progress on a worthy idea that you have. So,

828
00:55:36.265 --> 00:55:44.985
if you're ever feeling down, there's no shame in taking a break or stepping away from the computer and and getting away from screen time and resetting your mind.

829
00:55:44.985 --> 00:55:49.780
That's definitely super important and something we advocate a lot here internally to BD.

830
00:55:50.160 --> 00:55:54.100
So sometimes getting away from the project is the best way to move the project forward.

831
00:55:54.800 --> 00:55:58.340
The best ideas come when you're taking a shower sometimes, you know,

832
00:55:58.725 --> 00:56:00.345
so, go for a walk.

833
00:56:00.805 --> 00:56:04.645
And again, just think positive and remember how far you've come and,

834
00:56:05.445 --> 00:56:09.045
and that your idea is worthy and you're making incremental progress on it.

835
00:56:09.045 --> 00:56:12.090
And with that said, David, I'll pass this over to you.

836
00:56:12.090 --> 00:56:14.910
We have some outstanding everyone in the Brilliant community

837
00:56:15.210 --> 00:56:15.870
is special,

838
00:56:16.330 --> 00:56:18.890
but we wanted to give a special shout out to some,

839
00:56:19.370 --> 00:56:23.370
community members who have helped other BD users, in the Facebook group. Yeah.

840
00:56:23.370 --> 00:56:25.070
As, as we were mentioning earlier,

841
00:56:25.425 --> 00:56:30.405
when we were going over some of those stats, you know, we've had some major engagement

842
00:56:30.705 --> 00:56:32.325
in the Facebook group.

843
00:56:32.785 --> 00:56:35.425
As we said, I believe it was over 4,200

844
00:56:35.425 --> 00:56:38.485
new Facebook group posts, 26,000

845
00:56:38.890 --> 00:56:40.670
new comments over the last year.

846
00:56:40.890 --> 00:56:45.869
And, we just wanted to highlight some of the, it was really hard to pick just a handful,

847
00:56:46.410 --> 00:56:50.109
but we picked just a handful of people to highlight who have been, super helpful

848
00:56:50.570 --> 00:56:54.135
over in, the Facebook group. Terrence, Karen, Spencer.

849
00:56:54.194 --> 00:56:58.535
Karen and Spencer, I know who, are also over in the marketplace, Jessica.

850
00:56:58.915 --> 00:57:00.135
And, a special,

851
00:57:00.755 --> 00:57:03.960
shout out to, the community MVP, Gregory Bell, who's,

852
00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:07.580
been helping a lot of people, providing a lot of great insight,

853
00:57:08.200 --> 00:57:10.839
over in the Facebook group. Thank you. Yeah.

854
00:57:10.839 --> 00:57:13.560
And I try to be in the Facebook group as much as possible.

855
00:57:13.560 --> 00:57:30.375
You know, there's a lot of questions asked and answered, of course, but sometimes we're asleep and questions are being asked in the middle of the night, and it's nice to see sometimes when we wake up, not just these amazing people listed here, but other BD community members are helping their fellow members and helping to answer questions,

856
00:57:31.150 --> 00:57:38.270
steer them in the right direction, whether it's finding a setting in the admin area or asking a strategy of of certain type of configuration or setup.

857
00:57:38.270 --> 00:57:38.770
So,

858
00:57:39.150 --> 00:57:43.950
definite big shout out to the big five here, and, we love the Facebook community as well.

859
00:57:43.950 --> 00:57:48.255
You guys just keep asking questions in there, and, yeah, we'll I'll see you in there myself.

860
00:57:48.255 --> 00:57:48.655
Thank you.

861
00:57:48.655 --> 00:57:59.130
And one other thing I'll add, you know, even if you have a question and you think it might be something dumb or something too simple or you're afraid to ask it, feel free to ask in the Facebook group.

862
00:57:59.130 --> 00:58:05.230
Even if the question's been asked in the past, there's always new people in there who might be seeing your question for the first time.

863
00:58:05.529 --> 00:58:07.789
You know, it might not necessarily be,

864
00:58:08.170 --> 00:58:08.670
some

865
00:58:09.049 --> 00:58:12.985
insightful advice that you have to share, but even questions can be incredibly

866
00:58:13.285 --> 00:58:22.185
helpful, to the community, especially when, Jason or myself or any of the other Facebook group members dive in there and, and engage in that conversation.

867
00:58:22.645 --> 00:58:22.805
Yeah.

868
00:58:22.805 --> 00:58:29.859
Actually, the way I look at it, if a question is asked multiple times, it's something that we need to improve on maybe in the admin to make it a bit more intuitive.

869
00:58:29.859 --> 00:58:37.880
So it's actually a good indicator for us on things that we could or should improve on, and that's why the asking those types of questions are so helpful for us as well.

870
00:58:38.475 --> 00:58:38.975
Okay

871
00:58:39.435 --> 00:58:41.295
we have another lifetime

872
00:58:41.755 --> 00:58:42.255
website

873
00:58:42.635 --> 00:58:43.695
giveaway. Congratulations

874
00:58:44.155 --> 00:58:44.655
to

875
00:58:45.355 --> 00:58:49.515
the the current winners and what we'll do is we will spin this wheel again.

876
00:58:49.515 --> 00:58:51.450
We got the wheel of numbers here actually.

877
00:58:51.609 --> 00:58:55.770
We see here we still got we got hundred and five attendees in here still, and you all have a number.

878
00:58:55.770 --> 00:58:57.470
I'll go ahead and spin this wheel.

879
00:58:57.849 --> 00:59:01.470
I'm rooting for you, Moe. I'm still rooting for you. Come on, Moe.

880
00:59:02.250 --> 00:59:05.630
Let's see what number is going it's gonna land on here.

881
00:59:06.135 --> 00:59:07.515
Looks like 35.

882
00:59:07.815 --> 00:59:11.115
30 5. Alright. Give me a second, guys. Let me find out who 35 is.

883
00:59:11.495 --> 00:59:14.795
We got a BD veteran as the winner here, Johnny

884
00:59:15.175 --> 00:59:17.195
York. Johnny York, congratulations.

885
00:59:17.655 --> 00:59:19.975
You are the winner of a lifetime, a website plan.

886
00:59:19.975 --> 00:59:23.750
Johnny York, I'll unmute your mic, give you an opportunity to say a word or two.

887
00:59:23.970 --> 00:59:27.030
Looks you might be self muted, but, congratulations

888
00:59:27.410 --> 00:59:31.990
on winning if you wanna say something real quick. Your mic is unmuted right now.

889
00:59:32.290 --> 00:59:35.925
Alright. No worries, Johnny. Congratulations. I know we caught you off guard there.

890
00:59:36.485 --> 00:59:41.385
We will connect with you after the webinar, and we will deliver to you a lifetime,

891
00:59:41.925 --> 00:59:43.545
website plan. So congratulations.

892
00:59:43.925 --> 00:59:49.065
And Johnny's also been with BD. He's a veteran for a while, so I'm glad to give you a freebie there.

893
00:59:49.205 --> 00:59:53.250
And, we look forward to seeing what you create with that. Alright. This was another video.

894
00:59:53.250 --> 00:59:58.470
We got Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore to give a special message to the BD community.

895
00:59:59.330 --> 01:00:03.190
Hey, BD family. Shooter McGavin here out in my man cave,

896
01:00:03.570 --> 01:00:05.925
living the dream in my happy place.

897
01:00:05.925 --> 01:00:11.705
And I know you should be in your happy place because when the going gets tough, what do you do?

898
01:00:11.925 --> 01:00:13.545
The tough get brilliant,

899
01:00:14.085 --> 01:00:17.385
and you've done it. Golf clap. Oh my god. Congrats

900
01:00:17.765 --> 01:00:22.790
to the BD family working hard on your dreams and passions. 02/22.

901
01:00:23.010 --> 01:00:24.549
Two zero '2 '2. Yeah.

902
01:00:25.010 --> 01:00:27.430
Good year. 02/23.

903
01:00:28.049 --> 01:00:29.170
Oh, 2023

904
01:00:29.170 --> 01:00:30.150
is gonna be

905
01:00:30.450 --> 01:00:30.950
crazy.

906
01:00:31.345 --> 01:00:32.645
It's gonna be great.

907
01:00:32.705 --> 01:00:40.645
It's gonna be amazing because you put your time in, you pay your dues, and now it's the BD Families Tour golf club.

908
01:00:40.945 --> 01:00:41.765
That's fantastic.

909
01:00:42.225 --> 01:00:44.245
Listen. This is how it's done.

910
01:00:44.930 --> 01:00:49.090
In golf, as in life, you gotta play it as it lies. Those are the rules. I didn't write them.

911
01:00:49.090 --> 01:00:52.850
I had to hit it off for Frankenstein's fat foot if you remember. But what did Shooter do?

912
01:00:52.850 --> 01:00:56.390
He chipped it off that monster's tomb. My god, he was huge.

913
01:00:57.090 --> 01:00:59.030
Put her on the green and plopped

914
01:01:00.565 --> 01:01:05.545
32 foot butt. Shoot it style. Shoot it. So that's how I want you to do it.

915
01:01:05.685 --> 01:01:11.365
I want you to keep on keeping on. This momentum you built over over the year in 02/2022

916
01:01:11.365 --> 01:01:12.265
is gonna be

917
01:01:12.565 --> 01:01:13.065
so

918
01:01:14.330 --> 01:01:14.830
eclipsed

919
01:01:15.210 --> 01:01:16.830
by 02/2023.

920
01:01:16.970 --> 01:01:21.690
Keep on going. This is a golf club, and that is about as good as you can get out there. It's good.

921
01:01:21.690 --> 01:01:26.430
People scream on the course right now. You put it in the hole. You know, when he's on par five.

922
01:01:26.650 --> 01:01:29.070
Have you ever watched the game of golf? Really?

923
01:01:29.525 --> 01:01:33.625
Put it in the hole? Come on. There are a lot of great

924
01:01:34.165 --> 01:01:38.245
big morons out there. Just just jump over them. Just

925
01:01:38.965 --> 01:01:44.790
look. This is your time. This is like I say, it's your tour. You put your time in.

926
01:01:44.790 --> 01:01:47.610
You paid your dues. You're not gonna get yourself sideshow

927
01:01:48.070 --> 01:01:52.170
clowned by these nimrods that are in the world. Just keep on working hard.

928
01:01:52.230 --> 01:01:56.995
Put your notes to the grindstone, and here's to the best 02/2023

929
01:01:56.995 --> 01:02:00.615
ever. Well done, Jason. BD family, you rock.

930
01:02:01.155 --> 01:02:03.895
Take it for a man who knows a little thing about winning.

931
01:02:05.155 --> 01:02:06.035
Go for it.

932
01:02:06.035 --> 01:02:15.700
Just bring it every time, one shot at a time, one customer at a time, one business dealing at a time, and just go for it.

933
01:02:15.700 --> 01:02:21.400
And all the no's mean I'm gonna get a yes right around the corner. Have a great one. Happy holidays.

934
01:02:21.540 --> 01:02:23.160
All the best to you. Shuda

935
01:02:23.535 --> 01:02:24.035
out.

936
01:02:25.135 --> 01:02:30.595
It's not only inspiring and hilarious as well. Oh my goodness. Another lifetime website giveaway.

937
01:02:31.214 --> 01:02:31.714
Okay.

938
01:02:32.095 --> 01:02:35.295
Alright. Just a second. We'll we're gonna spin this wheel one more time.

939
01:02:35.295 --> 01:02:36.734
Johnny's gotta say something.

940
01:02:36.734 --> 01:02:41.160
He says, he missed oh, Johnny, I'm gonna unmute your microphone real quick here. Hey there.

941
01:02:41.160 --> 01:02:45.560
Can you hear me? Yes, buddy. How are you? Hey. Doing well. How are you? Good. Good. Good.

942
01:02:45.560 --> 01:02:50.380
Thanks for joining the webinar. Thank you. I was actually just about to buy another license. So,

943
01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:51.340
awesome.

944
01:02:52.475 --> 01:02:55.755
It's okay. Know about the software. I mean, I think everybody already knows that,

945
01:02:56.395 --> 01:02:59.375
you know, the software support, everything that you guys provide is

946
01:02:59.675 --> 01:03:00.175
amazing.

947
01:03:00.475 --> 01:03:02.175
Amazing. Probably the the best,

948
01:03:02.555 --> 01:03:05.830
you know, full package solution that anybody offers.

949
01:03:05.830 --> 01:03:11.589
So you guys are doing awesome work and it's nonstop, and, it's much appreciated. Thank you, Johnny.

950
01:03:11.589 --> 01:03:15.530
We appreciate you very much too. Congratulations on that. We look forward to seeing what you make.

951
01:03:15.750 --> 01:03:16.250
Cheers.

952
01:03:16.550 --> 01:03:16.869
Alright.

953
01:03:16.869 --> 01:03:21.515
With that said, yeah, Johnny's been with us for a good while now, and I'm happy we were able to give him that giveaway.

954
01:03:21.815 --> 01:03:27.035
And, we gotta spin this wheel one more time here, or there might be more times. Let's see here.

955
01:03:27.575 --> 01:03:29.755
Let's let's spin this wheel here.

956
01:03:30.295 --> 01:03:30.795
Alright.

957
01:03:31.815 --> 01:03:33.755
The lucky winner is number

958
01:03:34.569 --> 01:03:35.390
102.

959
01:03:35.609 --> 01:03:40.650
Alright. That's easy. We have a winner 102. Let me count backwards here from 107.

960
01:03:40.650 --> 01:03:42.829
So that is Tim Martin.

961
01:03:43.530 --> 01:03:44.430
Tim Martin.

962
01:03:45.049 --> 01:03:49.845
You there with us, Tim? Let me unmute your microphone real quick. Alright. No worries, Tim.

963
01:03:50.145 --> 01:03:52.805
We will, we will connect with you after

964
01:03:53.185 --> 01:03:56.245
the webinar. We have your email address, Tim, and congratulations

965
01:03:56.705 --> 01:03:58.625
on the lifetime website giveaway.

966
01:03:58.625 --> 01:04:02.165
We'll add that to your account and email you shortly after the webinar.

967
01:04:02.660 --> 01:04:06.200
Alright guys, I think we've reached the end of the road here.

968
01:04:06.980 --> 01:04:10.340
We just want to say one more time, we love the BD community.

969
01:04:10.340 --> 01:04:14.920
Thank you for growing your your websites with us. We're looking forward to 2023.

970
01:04:15.805 --> 01:04:20.705
You know, we wish everyone the greatest success. We work hard to help you guys succeed.

971
01:04:21.645 --> 01:04:22.625
You know, sometimes

972
01:04:22.925 --> 01:04:23.805
things come up.

973
01:04:23.805 --> 01:04:29.825
The important thing is that, you know, we show up and we're there to support you guys and help you out and it feels mutual.

974
01:04:30.150 --> 01:04:32.410
You guys are there to support us as well and we definitely

975
01:04:32.789 --> 01:04:34.890
definitely appreciate each and every,

976
01:04:35.589 --> 01:04:36.410
one of you.

977
01:04:36.789 --> 01:04:40.010
And with that, we'll do one more lifetime website giveaway.

978
01:04:40.789 --> 01:04:46.515
Hey. Dennis is asking for another one. We'll do one more lifetime website giveaway here.

979
01:04:46.515 --> 01:04:47.735
I'll I'll spin the wheel.

980
01:04:48.435 --> 01:04:51.255
Moe, I'm still rooting for you, buddy. Let's spin this wheel.

981
01:04:51.635 --> 01:04:54.215
Lots of fun here, guys. Alright. Number

982
01:04:55.170 --> 01:04:56.470
number 31.

983
01:04:56.609 --> 01:04:57.109
Alright.

984
01:04:57.490 --> 01:04:57.990
Okay.

985
01:04:58.290 --> 01:05:00.550
This is Misty Warren.

986
01:05:01.010 --> 01:05:13.175
Misty Warren, you have won a lifetime website plan for the end of twenty twenty two on I'll unmute your microphone just to, give you an opportunity to say a word or two if you want, how you found BD in the first place.

987
01:05:13.955 --> 01:05:16.535
It looks like you're self muted if you're trying to say anything.

988
01:05:16.915 --> 01:05:21.060
Yeah. We're catching you guys off guard. I understand your mic not be might not be on.

989
01:05:21.540 --> 01:05:22.600
Nevertheless, congratulations,

990
01:05:23.060 --> 01:05:25.460
Misty. We will connect with you after the webinar.

991
01:05:25.460 --> 01:05:29.160
We have your email address, and we will add that lifetime website plan,

992
01:05:29.780 --> 01:05:31.080
to your account.

993
01:05:31.940 --> 01:05:36.185
We just wanna say thank you again, guys. Catch those videos in the Facebook group.

994
01:05:36.185 --> 01:05:39.965
Go to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook.

995
01:05:40.105 --> 01:05:44.425
Alright. Let's do one more life alright. Dennis wants one more lifetime website giveaway.

996
01:05:44.425 --> 01:05:48.585
Everyone's still with us here. Alright. This so we we were only gonna do three. Now it's, like, six.

997
01:05:48.585 --> 01:05:49.085
Okay.

998
01:05:49.430 --> 01:05:52.010
Alright, guys. This is for 2022.

999
01:05:52.550 --> 01:05:54.970
Let's do it. Let's spin this wheel one more time.

1000
01:05:55.430 --> 01:05:58.090
This is lots of fun. Here we go. Alright.

1001
01:05:58.630 --> 01:05:59.850
That wheel is spinning.

1002
01:06:00.390 --> 01:06:01.130
The number

1003
01:06:01.985 --> 01:06:04.705
is 35. That was, Johnny York.

1004
01:06:04.705 --> 01:06:09.925
We can't have two winners, so we will we will pass that over, and we will spin again.

1005
01:06:10.225 --> 01:06:11.765
And we will spin that again.

1006
01:06:12.385 --> 01:06:13.185
Okay. 40

1007
01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:15.040
what is that? 74.

1008
01:06:15.040 --> 01:06:18.020
Alright, just a second guys. We have a

1009
01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:18.900
Raquel

1010
01:06:19.599 --> 01:06:20.099
Osborne,

1011
01:06:20.559 --> 01:06:23.619
Raquel Osborne. Let me unmute your microphone here.

1012
01:06:23.920 --> 01:06:25.700
Go Raquel, then it says,

1013
01:06:26.045 --> 01:06:30.925
she's typing in. Raquel says, hi. If you wanna unmute your microphone, you can chat. That's okay.

1014
01:06:30.925 --> 01:06:34.365
I know we're catching you guys off guard. Alright. Well, congrats Raquel.

1015
01:06:34.365 --> 01:06:39.665
We will connect with you after the webinar and send over, a lifetime website plan.

1016
01:06:39.770 --> 01:06:42.410
Randy, I see your hands up. Let me unmute your microphone here.

1017
01:06:42.410 --> 01:06:44.109
Do you wanna say a word or two, Randy?

1018
01:06:44.569 --> 01:06:45.930
Yes. Thank you very much.

1019
01:06:46.410 --> 01:06:49.150
I reiterate what, Johnny York said about your

1020
01:06:49.450 --> 01:06:52.430
platform and your customer service. Just totally amazing.

1021
01:06:53.210 --> 01:06:55.405
I wanted to ask a about the new,

1022
01:06:56.025 --> 01:06:58.525
subscriber search feature that you mentioned today.

1023
01:06:58.825 --> 01:06:59.325
Yes.

1024
01:06:59.545 --> 01:07:08.045
Is it there a way that you can put a checkbox there that says select all or deselect all and only and choose more than just one plan to do the search for?

1025
01:07:08.529 --> 01:07:11.670
I noticed it didn't look like that was there. That's just a suggestion.

1026
01:07:11.970 --> 01:07:15.089
It would make it a little easier if I wanted to search for just,

1027
01:07:15.569 --> 01:07:18.390
three of the five plans, let's say, that I have.

1028
01:07:18.690 --> 01:07:22.035
And then if I may Let me let me ask you a quick question.

1029
01:07:22.035 --> 01:07:24.035
I want because I wanna be on the same page as you.

1030
01:07:24.595 --> 01:07:25.095
So,

1031
01:07:25.795 --> 01:07:28.935
I think we are going to do this just so I'm on the same page.

1032
01:07:29.395 --> 01:07:31.575
So under the membership plan here,

1033
01:07:31.955 --> 01:07:33.974
you would like something where

1034
01:07:34.310 --> 01:07:36.970
it's a drop where you can check multiple like this?

1035
01:07:37.510 --> 01:07:38.650
Exactly. Yes.

1036
01:07:39.030 --> 01:07:43.350
Okay. Matt, note that. I think we were talking about doing that and,

1037
01:07:44.150 --> 01:07:47.030
I I think that's a good suggestion here as well. So you can Yeah.

1038
01:07:47.030 --> 01:07:54.115
Otherwise, you'd like to select three or four separate different drop down search or just three or four different searches to find what we want.

1039
01:07:54.115 --> 01:07:59.015
So thank you if you can do something like that. May I ask another two quick questions? Sure.

1040
01:07:59.395 --> 01:08:00.455
Coupon codes.

1041
01:08:01.475 --> 01:08:05.490
So the coupon codes are great on my v on the the add on package and all.

1042
01:08:06.690 --> 01:08:12.310
Is there a way that I can like, I only wanna offer certain coupon codes and promos to

1043
01:08:12.610 --> 01:08:13.110
annual

1044
01:08:13.810 --> 01:08:14.869
payment subscribers,

1045
01:08:15.170 --> 01:08:17.109
not the monthly, not the semiannual.

1046
01:08:17.569 --> 01:08:23.965
I don't think there's a way for us to do that within the coupon codes without creating maybe some kind of new membership plan.

1047
01:08:24.185 --> 01:08:33.244
Is it easy, and is it possible for we could choose that this code would only apply to annual and if they chose any other payment plan that they would, get an error code?

1048
01:08:34.350 --> 01:08:38.529
Right now the way to do it would be to clone a membership plan. There isn't a way

1049
01:08:38.830 --> 01:08:41.550
to distinguish, but that's a good suggestion as well.

1050
01:08:41.550 --> 01:08:47.250
We we have an update coming down the line that will enable the coupon codes for those one time purchases.

1051
01:08:47.949 --> 01:08:51.895
And more so what that's gonna allow you to do is get more granular,

1052
01:08:53.395 --> 01:08:56.755
with with the with the options on where the coupon codes can be applied.

1053
01:08:56.755 --> 01:08:58.854
And I think at that point, we may,

1054
01:08:59.395 --> 01:09:04.630
put the the, like, annual or monthly what that can apply for based on the membership plan. So,

1055
01:09:05.090 --> 01:09:08.950
I'll make I'll make a note on it. I I've seen a few people ask for that. I know Colette,

1056
01:09:09.330 --> 01:09:13.250
who's been in previous webinars, has also asked for that as well. Great.

1057
01:09:13.410 --> 01:09:15.750
One last one if you have time. Sure.

1058
01:09:16.210 --> 01:09:16.609
So,

1059
01:09:17.585 --> 01:09:19.045
in the on the home page,

1060
01:09:19.665 --> 01:09:20.645
design settings,

1061
01:09:21.104 --> 01:09:23.125
where you can select what is displayed,

1062
01:09:24.064 --> 01:09:24.885
section settings,

1063
01:09:25.745 --> 01:09:29.425
I noticed that you can go custom content one, two, three, four, and five.

1064
01:09:29.425 --> 01:09:31.979
I believe, what if you wanted to add additional items?

1065
01:09:32.540 --> 01:09:34.640
Like, for example, if I wanted to duplicate,

1066
01:09:35.899 --> 01:09:37.120
the hero section

1067
01:09:37.580 --> 01:09:39.520
on a different portion of the page,

1068
01:09:41.020 --> 01:09:46.675
if I do something like that and redesign it, it doesn't come up as that new design on the lower part of the page.

1069
01:09:46.675 --> 01:09:50.675
It just duplicates exactly what's or it changes the one above the page.

1070
01:09:50.675 --> 01:09:53.575
Is there a way for me to be able to have a similar layout

1071
01:09:54.115 --> 01:09:59.079
but have different information than what shows up in the in the home page hero divider?

1072
01:09:59.380 --> 01:10:01.380
That's a good question. So right now,

1073
01:10:02.179 --> 01:10:05.320
you could just have one of these. So if you put it here as well,

1074
01:10:05.780 --> 01:10:08.179
it would just it would the same settings would apply.

1075
01:10:08.179 --> 01:10:11.880
It wouldn't be an alternate home page hero divider settings. However,

1076
01:10:13.195 --> 01:10:14.475
and you brought up good point.

1077
01:10:14.475 --> 01:10:20.575
You could use one of the custom content blocks and you can give it a background like the hero divider has.

1078
01:10:20.955 --> 01:10:23.695
And you you sound very proficient with with BD.

1079
01:10:24.235 --> 01:10:31.040
You know, you could drop in basically what that is is the hero divider is three three content blocks here.

1080
01:10:31.040 --> 01:10:37.780
So you can just you could modify this and have a very similar design to what close to what the hero divider is looking like.

1081
01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:40.900
Can you have more than five custom content

1082
01:10:41.280 --> 01:10:45.364
options? Like, could I have a six and a seven? Do you create a new widget for that?

1083
01:10:45.364 --> 01:10:54.264
Or how would I like, if I've already used up five custom content sections, but I have more things I wanted to add, is that able are are we able to do that?

1084
01:10:54.565 --> 01:10:56.040
No. It's limited to five.

1085
01:10:56.440 --> 01:11:10.620
If you need to add more than five, then you just want to start getting into the realm of of widgets and and rendering the widget inside one of the con I've seen people, they just have one custom content block and it's and it's so it's one widget rendered in there.

1086
01:11:11.355 --> 01:11:18.335
But in this case, you're gonna wanna maybe make a widget with with all your custom code in it and do widget equals, you know, homepage content.

1087
01:11:18.394 --> 01:11:21.375
Got it. Whatever whatever you create in that case. Okay.

1088
01:11:21.755 --> 01:11:24.719
You guys are fabulous. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

1089
01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:28.579
You actually thank you for the questions. Those are those are all really good questions, Randy.

1090
01:11:28.800 --> 01:11:32.320
Great. You actually reminded me I forgot to mention something, guys.

1091
01:11:32.320 --> 01:11:38.739
We have an add on coming down the line, and I didn't mention in this webinar, but what it's going to allow you to do

1092
01:11:39.425 --> 01:11:39.925
is,

1093
01:11:40.785 --> 01:11:44.645
add star ratings to your posts. So if you have,

1094
01:11:45.185 --> 01:11:46.085
product posts,

1095
01:11:47.025 --> 01:11:51.045
or whatever posts, people can, you can choose to enable it,

1096
01:11:51.489 --> 01:11:53.429
to leave comments with star ratings.

1097
01:11:54.690 --> 01:11:55.750
And that way,

1098
01:11:56.130 --> 01:12:02.310
if you have products or classifieds or coupon codes and people can, you know, one through five, if the coupon code is working,

1099
01:12:02.770 --> 01:12:05.495
whatever you decide to enable that on,

1100
01:12:06.135 --> 01:12:14.635
soon enough, you will be able to have leave comments and choose if those comments can be with star ratings, and then you'll be able to search,

1101
01:12:15.415 --> 01:12:17.595
comments based on the the star rating,

1102
01:12:18.535 --> 01:12:19.595
and so forth.

1103
01:12:19.820 --> 01:12:25.520
What's important about this, and Johnny, you're gonna like this because I know you've been asking for upvote and downvote a lot.

1104
01:12:25.660 --> 01:12:28.800
What this is gonna allow us to do is we're going to reimagine

1105
01:12:29.260 --> 01:12:34.700
what the post comment settings look like. And we're looking at a preview here. This is not live yet.

1106
01:12:34.700 --> 01:12:37.815
It's still in R and D development mode but,

1107
01:12:38.755 --> 01:12:40.055
for your post comments,

1108
01:12:41.155 --> 01:12:43.895
each post type will have its own settings.

1109
01:12:43.955 --> 01:12:47.815
And from these settings you can enable things like the star ratings

1110
01:12:48.280 --> 01:12:54.300
And this is going to segue into allowing us where you can enable up votes or down votes and other metadata

1111
01:12:54.600 --> 01:12:55.900
related type of settings,

1112
01:12:56.520 --> 01:12:59.900
for post comments. And then you can do searches and sorts and filters

1113
01:13:00.324 --> 01:13:02.324
based on that aggregate data later.

1114
01:13:02.324 --> 01:13:08.005
So, we're starting with this new updated layout for the post comments coming soon.

1115
01:13:08.005 --> 01:13:10.824
I'd say early twenty twenty three in January.

1116
01:13:11.764 --> 01:13:17.200
It's gonna start with the basic settings plus the ability to enable star ratings as an add on.

1117
01:13:17.740 --> 01:13:22.300
And then from this, I think the next will be up votes, down votes, and and other things.

1118
01:13:22.300 --> 01:13:24.080
So you can have more of a Reddit

1119
01:13:24.460 --> 01:13:30.225
kind of vibe with some of your posts, whether it's just discussions or if you're doing products and classifieds and things like that.

1120
01:13:30.225 --> 01:13:30.725
So,

1121
01:13:31.345 --> 01:13:35.345
I forgot to mention that, but this is something that's coming soon in in 2023

1122
01:13:35.345 --> 01:13:38.165
as well. Super excited about this one. Alright.

1123
01:13:39.360 --> 01:13:40.740
Dennis, does that it everything

1124
01:13:41.120 --> 01:13:41.620
there?

1125
01:13:42.320 --> 01:13:43.940
Alright, guys. One more.

1126
01:13:44.480 --> 01:13:48.720
One more lifetime website giveaway. Alright. If you've hung out with us alright.

1127
01:13:48.720 --> 01:13:52.000
This will be the last one here for real. It's this is too much fun.

1128
01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:53.780
We're also over time, but it's okay.

1129
01:13:54.675 --> 01:13:57.155
Let me spin the wheel here. If you're still with us,

1130
01:13:57.795 --> 01:14:02.535
you got an opportunity to win a lifetime website plan here. Alright. The wheel is spinning.

1131
01:14:03.475 --> 01:14:03.975
Alright.

1132
01:14:04.515 --> 01:14:05.015
Number

1133
01:14:05.475 --> 01:14:06.535
26.

1134
01:14:06.915 --> 01:14:09.240
Alright. Let me count here who's 26.

1135
01:14:09.320 --> 01:14:14.460
Greg Tosi, you are the winner. Go, Greg. You are the winner of a lifetime website plan.

1136
01:14:15.080 --> 01:14:19.000
I've unmuted you, Greg. How are you doing? You guys are awesome. Thank you so much.

1137
01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:24.220
I wanna just repeat what a previous person said that this platform is fantastic. I've been in IT

1138
01:14:24.575 --> 01:14:29.155
and doing computer online marketing for a long time, and this is head and shoulders above the rest.

1139
01:14:29.295 --> 01:14:32.895
And this support you guys have put together is is like none other.

1140
01:14:32.895 --> 01:14:36.735
So it's a pleasure to work with you guys and and just thank you so much. Alright.

1141
01:14:36.735 --> 01:14:38.570
Appreciate those kind words, Greg.

1142
01:14:39.050 --> 01:14:44.510
It definitely motivates the team here, so thank you so much for that, and congratulations on your lifetime website plan.

1143
01:14:44.570 --> 01:14:49.130
Alright, guys. Congratulations to the Brilliant Directories Community Award winners here.

1144
01:14:49.130 --> 01:14:51.050
We will get in touch with you as well,

1145
01:14:51.450 --> 01:14:55.125
via Facebook, and thank you so much for your contributions to the Facebook

1146
01:14:55.585 --> 01:14:58.645
group. And don't forget, you got a long ways to go, but,

1147
01:14:59.105 --> 01:15:01.045
don't discount how far you've come.

1148
01:15:01.665 --> 01:15:05.365
Thank you, Dennis, Jeff, all the lifetime website plan winners.

1149
01:15:05.425 --> 01:15:09.685
Join us in the Facebook group to watch these hilarious, funny, and inspiring videos.

1150
01:15:09.800 --> 01:15:12.540
Santa's got a special message for the entire BD family.

1151
01:15:13.560 --> 01:15:15.880
Hello. It's me, the big guy.

1152
01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:23.580
And I bring you good tidings of great joy with this special Christmas shout out to all members in good standing of my special

1153
01:15:24.285 --> 01:15:25.105
five star

1154
01:15:25.405 --> 01:15:27.585
North Pole VIP squad,

1155
01:15:28.125 --> 01:15:35.345
which is, it's it's just sort of a big term the elves use to try to make them feel like big shots when they're talking about the nice list.

1156
01:15:35.805 --> 01:15:36.785
Ho ho ho.

1157
01:15:37.380 --> 01:15:37.880
So

1158
01:15:38.420 --> 01:15:41.400
that highlight and mile marker of your journey

1159
01:15:41.780 --> 01:15:44.840
has been achieved as you are all on the nice list,

1160
01:15:45.460 --> 01:15:48.600
each one of you members of the brilliant community.

1161
01:15:49.474 --> 01:15:53.414
The elves tell me the BD family is celebrating the end

1162
01:15:53.954 --> 01:15:54.934
of an amazing

1163
01:15:55.315 --> 01:15:56.695
2022.

1164
01:15:57.395 --> 01:16:02.215
Everyone in the brilliant community has worked hard on their projects

1165
01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:05.220
and deserve a pat on the back.

1166
01:16:05.760 --> 01:16:08.500
Stay positive because 2023

1167
01:16:08.720 --> 01:16:09.940
will be even

1168
01:16:10.400 --> 01:16:11.780
better and brighter.

1169
01:16:12.160 --> 01:16:12.980
And remember,

1170
01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:16.500
there will always be a very special place

1171
01:16:17.120 --> 01:16:18.420
in Santa's heart

1172
01:16:19.055 --> 01:16:20.195
just for you.

1173
01:16:21.055 --> 01:16:21.555
Merry,

1174
01:16:22.575 --> 01:16:23.395
merry Christmas.

1175
01:16:24.175 --> 01:16:25.475
Ho ho ho.

1176
01:16:27.615 --> 01:16:31.215
Here we go. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/

1177
01:16:31.215 --> 01:16:31.715
Facebook.

1178
01:16:32.100 --> 01:16:33.700
Click the join button if you're not a member.

1179
01:16:33.700 --> 01:16:36.660
If you are a member, start a conversation, leave a comment.

1180
01:16:36.660 --> 01:16:39.940
We'd love to hear from you guys and watch those hilarious videos,

1181
01:16:40.260 --> 01:16:46.920
from, the celebrities there, Santa and Kate and so on. We will see you guys in 2023,

1182
01:16:47.505 --> 01:16:51.425
and, I think we'll do an iPad giveaway when we hit webinar one fifty.

1183
01:16:51.425 --> 01:16:54.225
I think we're just a few webinars away from that.

1184
01:16:54.225 --> 01:16:58.385
So in webinar one fifty, we'll do another big announcement, and we'll have an iPad Air,

1185
01:16:58.705 --> 01:17:04.300
giveaway inside that webinar for those webinar attendees. So, guys, we love you guys so much.

1186
01:17:04.300 --> 01:17:08.699
Thank you so much, for joining this webinar and all of the webinars in 2022.

1187
01:17:08.699 --> 01:17:14.856
On behalf of myself, David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, this is the last time we'll be saying it this year.

1188
01:17:14.996 --> 01:17:18.836
Have a great day and a brilliant week. Catch you guys in 2023.

1189
01:17:18.836 --> 01:17:20.216
Love you guys. Bye bye.