WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.220 Alright, guys. Let's go. Welcome to another edition of webinar Wednesday. 2 00:00:05.279 --> 00:00:10.019 Tips to help grow your online community. It's really great to be with everyone here today. 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:13.280 If this is your first time joining us, welcome. 4 00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:21.695 I am Jason there on the left, and we're lucky to be joined by David Rocklin, the digital strategist and so much more here at Brilliant Directories. 5 00:00:21.755 --> 00:00:25.275 David, thanks for taking the time to join us today. Of course. Hey, everybody. 6 00:00:25.275 --> 00:00:28.654 Glad to be back with you all for another webinar Wednesday. 7 00:00:29.150 --> 00:00:31.869 And David, I know it's been new the last few weeks. 8 00:00:31.869 --> 00:00:34.530 Are we streaming on YouTube today as well simultaneously? 9 00:00:35.230 --> 00:00:37.070 We are still streaming on YouTube today. 10 00:00:37.070 --> 00:00:41.390 So as most of you know, we typically end the webinars with a q and a session. 11 00:00:41.390 --> 00:00:48.547 If you do have any questions, you can go ahead and type them in if you're on YouTube, and we'll try to get to as many as we can. 12 00:00:48.547 --> 00:00:56.030 If you did want to have your microphone unmuted to actually speak with us and ask us a question, then you'll wanna register for these webinars on GoToWebinar. 13 00:00:56.410 --> 00:01:02.170 So, we have that link pinned at the top of the YouTube live chat there for you if you'd wanna go ahead and do that. 14 00:01:02.170 --> 00:01:02.890 Alright. Awesome. 15 00:01:02.890 --> 00:01:06.970 I always like to mention, if you're not part of our Facebook group, it's free to join. 16 00:01:06.970 --> 00:01:11.204 You can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/facebook. 17 00:01:11.204 --> 00:01:14.185 It's a great way to keep in touch in between webinars, Wednesdays. 18 00:01:14.485 --> 00:01:15.784 We also post announcements 19 00:01:16.164 --> 00:01:17.384 in there quite frequently, 20 00:01:17.924 --> 00:01:19.784 in between our new monthly newsletters. 21 00:01:20.325 --> 00:01:25.790 So if you aren't already a member, you can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/facebook. 22 00:01:25.790 --> 00:01:29.170 You can go ahead and do that now, and we'll look forward to seeing you guys there. 23 00:01:29.230 --> 00:01:35.310 And I always like to mention especially for those joining us for the first time, I do see a lot of, new names and faces out there. 24 00:01:35.470 --> 00:01:41.835 Webinar Wednesday is a great channel for us to not only share new features that are built into the brilliant directories, 25 00:01:42.455 --> 00:01:45.674 platform week after week, but how to leverage those features, 26 00:01:46.135 --> 00:01:49.195 to help your community grow faster, generate more revenue. 27 00:01:49.619 --> 00:01:52.439 Some of the topics below here are ones that we like to cover, 28 00:01:52.820 --> 00:01:58.039 how to convert visitors to members or subscribers, which is what we're gonna be talking about today, actually. 29 00:01:58.180 --> 00:02:01.159 And one of my favorites is improving your website's navigation, 30 00:02:01.715 --> 00:02:03.255 creating that simple flow, 31 00:02:03.635 --> 00:02:12.695 logical flow for members and visitors to follow, so you can get higher conversions on your site no matter what action you're hoping people do on your website. 32 00:02:12.755 --> 00:02:19.200 So if you have questions on these topics or any questions at all about your Brilliant Directories websites, please save them. 33 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:23.060 We'll do our best to get to as many questions as we can in just a few moments. 34 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:24.000 Alright. 35 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.020 And just before the webinar, just five minutes before the webinar, I did post in the Facebook group that we do have a special gift, 36 00:02:30.815 --> 00:02:34.035 for everyone joining in on the webinar. And actually, everyone in the BD, 37 00:02:34.495 --> 00:02:38.095 community, you can probably see them down there at the bottom of the list. 38 00:02:38.095 --> 00:02:42.275 The community comments add on is now free and now available 39 00:02:42.870 --> 00:02:43.610 for everyone. 40 00:02:43.910 --> 00:02:48.150 You may need to go into your admin homepage, and there's a software installer link. 41 00:02:48.150 --> 00:02:50.490 I'll show you that in just a moment. You just click a few buttons. 42 00:02:50.950 --> 00:02:53.850 And, there's also a new post type called discussions, 43 00:02:54.310 --> 00:02:56.410 so you can turn this into a questions and answers 44 00:02:56.835 --> 00:02:59.655 post type, and we will cover that in just a moment as well. 45 00:03:00.115 --> 00:03:04.195 Let's get to the top of this list first. There are just a small handful of, 46 00:03:04.755 --> 00:03:10.135 updates that were noteworthy to share in this webinar. The first one is related to the grid 47 00:03:10.610 --> 00:03:13.189 view layout, and this is an add on that allows, 48 00:03:13.969 --> 00:03:17.510 your search results to be structured in a in a grid view. 49 00:03:17.730 --> 00:03:20.469 And now there is a new setting to have a structured 50 00:03:20.769 --> 00:03:25.875 layout or structured view for this. Let me explain, what I'm referring to here. 51 00:03:25.875 --> 00:03:33.655 So in general, if you have the grid view add on, you would have the option to list view, everyone has here, and grid view, 52 00:03:33.955 --> 00:03:36.135 it would put members in a grid view 53 00:03:36.530 --> 00:03:37.670 just like this. 54 00:03:38.050 --> 00:03:41.590 And up until now, as we can see, some members have longer names, 55 00:03:42.210 --> 00:03:44.550 some might have stars or no stars, 56 00:03:44.850 --> 00:03:49.750 and we can see that this is called masonry style. This is essentially how Pinterest 57 00:03:50.465 --> 00:03:52.645 stacks their content as well. 58 00:03:52.865 --> 00:03:58.785 And, you know, things just kind of get connected to each other based on the height of the previous object. 59 00:03:58.785 --> 00:03:59.285 So 60 00:03:59.585 --> 00:04:00.145 this is great. 61 00:04:00.145 --> 00:04:08.700 It's been like this for years, but there were requests in the Facebook group that, you know, they just want the option to have each row be equally level, 62 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:11.640 no matter what's happening above each row. 63 00:04:11.640 --> 00:04:16.839 So now there is a setting for that, and I'd like to show you what that looks like and what it does. 64 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.525 So here's another site we can see here. It's using the masonry 65 00:04:21.225 --> 00:04:23.565 design for the grid view layout. 66 00:04:23.865 --> 00:04:26.365 Let's adjust this to the new structured view. 67 00:04:26.585 --> 00:04:30.845 So we can head on over to our dashboard, and this is in design settings. 68 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:37.340 And once you're in design settings, go to the search results pages 69 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:43.180 module here in the first tab. And if you scroll down right now, this is the last option, 70 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:44.860 grid view layout. 71 00:04:45.004 --> 00:04:51.025 So if you have the grid view add on, you have the option to start your results in grid view, same with your posts, 72 00:04:51.405 --> 00:04:57.270 and here you can choose structured, and we'll see a side by side difference of what the structured view looks like. 73 00:04:57.669 --> 00:05:03.849 And personally, I didn't realize it, but I'm actually a fan of the structured view now, for the grid view layout. 74 00:05:04.310 --> 00:05:07.050 So let's, just duplicate this tab here. 75 00:05:11.155 --> 00:05:12.935 Okay. Great. And we can see 76 00:05:13.555 --> 00:05:16.695 that even though, for example, this guy is a little shorter, 77 00:05:17.315 --> 00:05:24.180 all the rows are starting on the same line here. So just gives a little bit better, organization. 78 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:30.320 Again, just depends on your personal taste and what you're using your site for, but, this is now available for you. 79 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:32.500 Once again, you can go to your design settings, 80 00:05:32.960 --> 00:05:39.085 search results pages, and go to grid view layout, and choose the structured option if you'd like that. 81 00:05:40.265 --> 00:05:44.685 Alright. Another update, and this is with regards to the map view search results. 82 00:05:44.745 --> 00:05:52.650 Prior to this update, if you were on a mobile device, you just simply wouldn't see the toggle to see the results in a map view. 83 00:05:52.729 --> 00:05:58.330 It wasn't working, and now it is available on mobile if you have the map view search option. 84 00:05:58.330 --> 00:06:00.270 So let me show you what that looks like. 85 00:06:00.650 --> 00:06:03.630 We can actually go to our demo site here. 86 00:06:04.330 --> 00:06:06.750 So we see the different toggle views up here, 87 00:06:07.205 --> 00:06:09.785 and we see map view. It does work on the desktop. 88 00:06:10.565 --> 00:06:14.665 Prior to this update, if you were on a mobile device, I'll just toggle mobile here. 89 00:06:15.365 --> 00:06:17.865 This icon these icons would go away, 90 00:06:18.245 --> 00:06:24.850 and it would just start in in list view because that's really all that there's enough room for was list view, but now we have, 91 00:06:25.470 --> 00:06:30.770 map view working. So if you're on a mobile device and you have the map view toggle on your desktop, 92 00:06:31.150 --> 00:06:33.970 you should see it on your mobile device now as well. 93 00:06:35.575 --> 00:06:35.895 Alright. 94 00:06:35.895 --> 00:06:41.435 This next one here, third on the list, save web pages with extensions, with file extensions. 95 00:06:41.975 --> 00:06:45.675 This is more for our developers out there or sometimes 96 00:06:46.135 --> 00:06:53.570 a service like Google Search Console is asking you to add a TXT file to your site or some type of a page. 97 00:06:53.870 --> 00:07:00.050 Again, this is more for developers and designers, but you now have the ability to save your web pages with file extensions. 98 00:07:00.270 --> 00:07:04.290 So let me show you an example of how you may want to use this. 99 00:07:06.104 --> 00:07:09.724 Let's go to our content and go to the web page builder, 100 00:07:11.145 --> 00:07:13.004 and we'll create a new web page. 101 00:07:14.664 --> 00:07:15.164 And 102 00:07:15.625 --> 00:07:20.205 so let's say Google gives you something or someone that for site verification purposes, 103 00:07:20.659 --> 00:07:21.479 you know, verify 104 00:07:21.939 --> 00:07:25.300 dot t x t. So now you can put this dot here. 105 00:07:25.300 --> 00:07:33.960 Before you could just add text here and dashes, but now you can actually add a dot and it will save the page with that extension. 106 00:07:34.615 --> 00:07:36.634 What's even cooler is 107 00:07:37.335 --> 00:07:39.034 we do have a page type 108 00:07:39.814 --> 00:07:46.074 and down here it says custom widget as web page. We've covered this in previous webinars, but 109 00:07:46.375 --> 00:07:48.875 when you do custom widget as web page, 110 00:07:49.580 --> 00:07:53.120 you would be able to then you saw things change here when I did that. 111 00:07:53.260 --> 00:07:57.920 You can actually select one of your custom widgets. There's no custom widgets on your site, and 112 00:07:58.300 --> 00:08:02.860 the web page, you can create the custom URL for it, will only load what's in the widget. 113 00:08:02.860 --> 00:08:05.360 So that's how you can have dot CSS files, 114 00:08:05.765 --> 00:08:08.025 or dot PHP files, or dot JavaScript, 115 00:08:08.485 --> 00:08:15.225 dot JS extensions if you need it, and just create a custom widget and pop in the code that you want to render, 116 00:08:15.605 --> 00:08:18.505 with this page and file, extension here. 117 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:24.860 So again, more for our developer crowd there, but now you have the ability to do that and should add a wealth of flexibility 118 00:08:25.320 --> 00:08:27.020 for some of those needs there. 119 00:08:28.200 --> 00:08:30.280 Okay. This is more of a quality of life. 120 00:08:30.520 --> 00:08:37.585 Just like you can clone web pages and clone your menus, you now have the ability to clone your custom forms. 121 00:08:37.585 --> 00:08:40.085 I'll quickly show you where that is. That's in your toolbox. 122 00:08:41.025 --> 00:08:42.804 And you go to the form manager, 123 00:08:43.424 --> 00:08:50.779 and under the actions drop down, you'll now see the clone button that wasn't there previously, and now it's there. 124 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:54.279 Also, pro tip, you can always copy the, short code. 125 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.540 So if you wanted to pop a form on a landing page, just click copy to clipboard, 126 00:08:59.560 --> 00:09:02.519 and I'll open up a little document here. 127 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:07.715 And this is basically what it copied, form equals, and that's the exit survey form. 128 00:09:07.715 --> 00:09:14.615 So if you ever need to quickly copy the short code for, your forms, you can do that, and also for menus as well, and widgets. 129 00:09:15.315 --> 00:09:16.215 Alright. So 130 00:09:16.569 --> 00:09:22.190 those are the top four, features and updates for the last two weeks. Now we do have a new post type. 131 00:09:22.730 --> 00:09:23.870 It's called discussions. 132 00:09:24.649 --> 00:09:34.005 Essentially, we cloned the community articles or member articles post type, but we just gave it its own focus of discussions which can be used 133 00:09:34.305 --> 00:09:40.565 for your site as like a questions and answers area, a bulletin board, maybe you wanna create FAQ 134 00:09:40.865 --> 00:09:41.365 section, 135 00:09:41.769 --> 00:09:45.230 whatever you wanna use it for. By default, it's gonna be called discussions. 136 00:09:45.370 --> 00:09:48.430 Now let me show you a sample of this. 137 00:09:49.130 --> 00:09:52.110 So here it is on a sample site just very, very plainly. 138 00:09:52.490 --> 00:09:53.850 So we can see discussions. 139 00:09:53.850 --> 00:09:57.550 You can, you know, do things like welcome to our community, learn about discussions. 140 00:09:58.305 --> 00:10:03.445 And now that and we'll get more into it. The community comments add on is available on all sites. 141 00:10:03.825 --> 00:10:05.925 People can leave comments under discussions. 142 00:10:05.985 --> 00:10:15.190 So, again, you can call discussions like questions and answers and encourage members to ask post questions and then respond with with answers in the in the comments here. 143 00:10:15.250 --> 00:10:18.070 But let me show you where you can enable the 144 00:10:18.610 --> 00:10:23.750 new post type discussions on your site. And if you're not familiar with what a post type is, 145 00:10:24.130 --> 00:10:25.030 under content 146 00:10:25.650 --> 00:10:27.190 and edit post settings, 147 00:10:28.014 --> 00:10:31.954 on your website, you can essentially you have different channels of content you can publish, 148 00:10:32.415 --> 00:10:34.514 classifieds, coupons, blog articles. 149 00:10:34.975 --> 00:10:36.274 They're just kind of predefined 150 00:10:36.735 --> 00:10:39.714 types of content that make it easy to keep things organized. 151 00:10:40.415 --> 00:10:46.010 So to enable this, go to your dashboard to enable the discussions post type. 152 00:10:47.510 --> 00:10:49.510 And it's always good to do this once in a while. 153 00:10:49.510 --> 00:10:52.410 It's not too often, but right here you'll see install 154 00:10:52.790 --> 00:10:57.450 new updates. It's good to check this, every now and then when you log in to your admin. 155 00:10:58.055 --> 00:11:01.575 And anytime you see something here, just go ahead and click install. 156 00:11:01.575 --> 00:11:06.935 It's basically updating your local database. It's not gonna override any data that you have. 157 00:11:06.935 --> 00:11:12.475 These are pretty much all safe things that you can install on your site to get the latest database structures. 158 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:14.740 So you'll see this here, install 159 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:21.620 discussions post type. And also, if you didn't have the community comments add on prior to today, 160 00:11:21.920 --> 00:11:26.580 you might have an installer to add the community comments tables to your database. 161 00:11:27.255 --> 00:11:31.275 So you can go ahead and install that. I'm actually gonna install both of these on this site. 162 00:11:32.055 --> 00:11:35.815 And let's actually do a before and after before I click this blue button. 163 00:11:35.815 --> 00:11:38.635 Let's go back to my post types, edit post settings. 164 00:11:39.060 --> 00:11:40.980 We'll do a before and after I click that button. 165 00:11:40.980 --> 00:11:46.100 So we can see I don't have these are custom ones that I created before jewelry classifieds, card classifieds. 166 00:11:46.100 --> 00:11:46.580 But, 167 00:11:46.900 --> 00:11:49.000 you can see here it's not here at the discussions. 168 00:11:49.540 --> 00:11:53.800 Let's install that now. I'm actually doing this for the first time with you guys. 169 00:11:55.194 --> 00:11:56.875 Okay. It says that it's been installed. 170 00:11:56.875 --> 00:12:01.694 If we come back to edit post settings, we should see the discussions here. Crossing my fingers. 171 00:12:02.555 --> 00:12:04.975 And there it is. So we have a new post type called 172 00:12:05.355 --> 00:12:06.574 discussions. Now 173 00:12:07.660 --> 00:12:14.880 now that it's a post type, we have to add it to a membership level that would have the ability or privilege to publish discussions. 174 00:12:15.020 --> 00:12:18.640 In this case, I'd like to go to my membership plans, 175 00:12:19.995 --> 00:12:20.495 and 176 00:12:21.035 --> 00:12:22.255 I'd like to allow, 177 00:12:22.715 --> 00:12:24.815 let's say, the premium plan 178 00:12:25.275 --> 00:12:26.475 to post discussions. 179 00:12:26.475 --> 00:12:30.335 Probably you want all your members to post discussions if you're gonna start using this. 180 00:12:30.635 --> 00:12:34.655 So under membership plans, select the membership plan and go to post publishing. 181 00:12:35.420 --> 00:12:38.720 And if you scroll down, these are all your post types essentially, 182 00:12:39.180 --> 00:12:41.440 and you'll see the discussions one here. 183 00:12:41.900 --> 00:12:45.680 I think just as a quick search, pro tip, you can use the filter here 184 00:12:47.020 --> 00:12:52.295 and search for discussions and it'll just filter everything out. And I'm gonna choose can post, 185 00:12:53.555 --> 00:12:55.014 and we'll save the changes. 186 00:12:57.394 --> 00:13:03.654 Okay. Great. That should do it. Let's log in as a premium member and publish a discussion. 187 00:13:06.040 --> 00:13:10.940 Alright. These are all my premium members. Let's log in here, and I should have 188 00:13:12.280 --> 00:13:13.980 a new post type, discussions. 189 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:19.980 And I'll publish your first discussion. Again, you can call it questions and answers, 190 00:13:20.365 --> 00:13:26.225 bulletin board updates, whatever you can get creative with that makes sense for your industry or your focus of your website. 191 00:13:26.365 --> 00:13:27.345 So we'll say, 192 00:13:28.765 --> 00:13:30.065 why is the sky blue? 193 00:13:31.405 --> 00:13:31.905 And 194 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:34.579 I'm wondering 195 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.300 why the sky is blue. 196 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:39.060 Can someone 197 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:41.060 please tell me? 198 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:43.300 Happy face. 199 00:13:43.839 --> 00:13:47.620 Well, now we have emojis you can enable, so let's do an emoji. 200 00:13:48.714 --> 00:13:50.255 Alright. Let's save the changes, 201 00:13:51.995 --> 00:13:53.535 and we can view the post. 202 00:13:55.035 --> 00:13:59.535 So here it is, and we can see comments are enabled on this site as well. 203 00:13:59.995 --> 00:14:03.420 And why is the sky blue? And we could talk about, 204 00:14:03.959 --> 00:14:05.019 because the sun 205 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:08.699 and sky, etcetera. 206 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:10.459 So people can comment. 207 00:14:11.160 --> 00:14:12.680 He's commenting on his own. 208 00:14:12.839 --> 00:14:17.955 But now you have almost like a bulletin board discussion forum kind of situation here. 209 00:14:18.195 --> 00:14:20.375 So that is how you can 210 00:14:20.915 --> 00:14:23.895 enable the post type discussions on your site. Go to 211 00:14:24.275 --> 00:14:26.935 the software installer, see if there's anything to do there. 212 00:14:26.995 --> 00:14:29.895 Once it's installed on your site, go ahead and assign 213 00:14:30.355 --> 00:14:31.860 the discussions post type 214 00:14:32.420 --> 00:14:36.920 to the membership plans that should have the ability to post it. And just one last thing 215 00:14:37.540 --> 00:14:41.300 is showing you how you can change it from discussions to something else. 216 00:14:41.300 --> 00:14:44.500 I know this is basic for some, but some might not be aware of it. 217 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:46.680 So when you're editing your post settings, 218 00:14:47.625 --> 00:14:48.525 you can edit 219 00:14:49.225 --> 00:14:50.045 the discussions, 220 00:14:50.985 --> 00:14:53.565 and we can call it questions and answers. 221 00:14:54.345 --> 00:14:56.845 And, you know, you can do that. You can change, 222 00:14:57.225 --> 00:14:59.965 the profile page tab to questions and answers, 223 00:15:01.850 --> 00:15:06.029 the search results title, and really that's all you would need to do. Let's save the changes. 224 00:15:06.329 --> 00:15:12.670 And another cool thing in case you didn't know, in the general settings tab of a post type, you can change the URL. 225 00:15:12.730 --> 00:15:14.305 Currently this is discussions. 226 00:15:14.305 --> 00:15:20.405 It just can't be a URL of another page on your site, but you could change this to something else that you need it to be. 227 00:15:20.465 --> 00:15:23.765 And you can also change the icon that members see in their, 228 00:15:24.305 --> 00:15:28.325 member dashboard sidebar. So if you wanted to use another icon that you find here, 229 00:15:28.649 --> 00:15:30.430 you can certainly do that. 230 00:15:31.050 --> 00:15:32.670 So if we come back here, 231 00:15:33.850 --> 00:15:38.670 we'll see now it's called questions and answers, also in the sidebar here, questions and answers. 232 00:15:39.449 --> 00:15:40.990 And if we look at the post, 233 00:15:43.385 --> 00:15:45.245 same thing, why is the sky blue? 234 00:15:46.745 --> 00:15:50.605 And we see here in the title, questions and answers. So, 235 00:15:51.464 --> 00:15:52.605 there we have it. 236 00:15:52.745 --> 00:15:59.950 Now before we get into the tip of the week, let's see if you guys wanna raise your hand if you have any questions about these updates that we just went over. 237 00:16:00.010 --> 00:16:06.269 So we actually did have quite a few questions typed in as we were showing this new discussions post type. 238 00:16:06.330 --> 00:16:12.285 One of them, more so related to community comments, was do users need to be logged in in order to reply to comments? 239 00:16:12.745 --> 00:16:16.524 Whether to post or to reply to comments, they would need to be logged in. 240 00:16:16.584 --> 00:16:24.685 And then Lisa was asking if users need to actually have a membership on your website in order to post a new discussion, 241 00:16:25.269 --> 00:16:29.450 they would need to have an account whether it's a free account or a premium account. 242 00:16:29.670 --> 00:16:30.870 They would need to have one. 243 00:16:30.870 --> 00:16:38.329 So if you wanna kind of make that feature available to your general users in addition to your members, then you could create 244 00:16:38.709 --> 00:16:43.345 a new membership plan for free that general users can sign up for. 245 00:16:43.345 --> 00:16:49.024 They can make an account, and then still give those free users access to the discussions post type. 246 00:16:49.024 --> 00:16:52.404 So that would be a a way to get around that. 247 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:57.620 Yeah. Most of the BD sites come with what's called, like, a general user account. 248 00:16:57.839 --> 00:16:58.980 They're non searchable, 249 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:03.300 so they're not gonna be found in, like, the business directory, that people are searching, 250 00:17:03.839 --> 00:17:05.780 but you can give them some privileges, 251 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:08.420 such as leaving a comment, 252 00:17:08.925 --> 00:17:14.845 bookmarking their favorites if they're if you have the bookmark favorites so they can save their posts and the members that they're following. 253 00:17:14.845 --> 00:17:17.745 They they just need to register a free general user account. 254 00:17:18.045 --> 00:17:22.225 And then if you want, you could give them the ability to post a discussion. 255 00:17:22.445 --> 00:17:28.180 Of course, you can go to general users, post publishing, and just go ahead and give them the ability to, 256 00:17:28.660 --> 00:17:31.880 oh, I called it questions and answers. So it's in alphabetical order. 257 00:17:31.940 --> 00:17:34.920 Go ahead and give them the ability to can post 258 00:17:35.220 --> 00:17:37.400 questions and answers in this case, but discussions, 259 00:17:38.085 --> 00:17:41.225 then they'll have the ability to ask questions as well. 260 00:17:42.645 --> 00:17:43.145 Exactly. 261 00:17:43.205 --> 00:17:50.610 And then another one for Lisa was whether or not the discussion board can be for internal use only, like, only logged in members can view it. 262 00:17:50.690 --> 00:17:54.230 Yeah. That could be done with the private member content add on. Right, Jason? 263 00:17:54.770 --> 00:17:55.590 Yeah. Absolutely. 264 00:17:55.890 --> 00:18:03.830 So if you have, the members only add on so if you have that members only add on, what you can do I think it's enabled on this site, I think. 265 00:18:04.815 --> 00:18:09.635 Yeah. It is. So when you have the members only add on, you can actually protect this post type, 266 00:18:10.575 --> 00:18:12.434 and you can choose to protect 267 00:18:13.534 --> 00:18:17.250 the detail page or the search results page or both. 268 00:18:17.490 --> 00:18:22.470 And when you're actually, this is a good to talk about it. So now this would be protected, 269 00:18:23.410 --> 00:18:26.790 then you have to choose which membership levels can view 270 00:18:27.170 --> 00:18:31.510 this post type questions and answers. So step one is protect it. 271 00:18:31.875 --> 00:18:32.615 Step two 272 00:18:32.915 --> 00:18:36.775 and let's go ahead and and protect it actually in this example, save the changes. 273 00:18:37.475 --> 00:18:43.255 And then you can go ahead and let's say we want you know, you probably want a bunch of members, but you go to the membership plan 274 00:18:43.635 --> 00:18:47.255 who would have the privilege to view it and go to, post publishing. 275 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:53.300 And we can see here all of these are public for all, but the questions and answers 276 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:59.460 is not public for all. So I'm gonna explicitly select that this membership plan can view 277 00:18:59.925 --> 00:19:02.185 questions and answers post types. So, 278 00:19:02.565 --> 00:19:07.925 this is a great way to have internal discussion boards just for your staff, and, of course, you can clone post types. 279 00:19:07.925 --> 00:19:18.170 So you can have public discussions and internal discussions if you wanted to, and easily assign who can and can't view, each post type even if it's a cloned post type. 280 00:19:18.790 --> 00:19:23.190 Alright. We have some hands up here. Our good friend, Colette, you've got your hand up there. 281 00:19:23.190 --> 00:19:24.090 How are you, Colette? 282 00:19:24.390 --> 00:19:27.670 Hi, Jason. I'm well. How are you? Doing awesome, actually. 283 00:19:27.910 --> 00:19:29.850 Great that you can join the webinar today. 284 00:19:30.165 --> 00:19:34.665 Good. Thank you. I've got two questions about the new features, Jason. The one, 285 00:19:35.605 --> 00:19:40.585 refers to the grid view layout. Yes. I might have brought this up before. 286 00:19:41.205 --> 00:19:43.865 Would it ever be possible to have different 287 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:45.140 grid view 288 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.300 or or the table view for the different post types? 289 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:50.900 That can be done. 290 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:53.780 Actually, we can put it in the 291 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:58.980 search results setting. What we can do is use design settings rule 292 00:19:59.565 --> 00:20:00.065 or 293 00:20:01.164 --> 00:20:03.985 or choose like the start in, 294 00:20:05.164 --> 00:20:05.985 grid view 295 00:20:06.365 --> 00:20:07.985 map or list view 296 00:20:08.445 --> 00:20:11.505 per post type. We can get a setting like that for you, Colette. 297 00:20:11.899 --> 00:20:15.200 That would be great. And then the other one is on the map view. 298 00:20:15.259 --> 00:20:21.679 I noticed that if you do look for map view, it only shows the posts that are on that page. 299 00:20:22.059 --> 00:20:26.720 So if I'm looking for all plumbers, but I've got 51 plumbers and, 300 00:20:27.315 --> 00:20:29.654 my page only goes up to 20 or 30. 301 00:20:29.955 --> 00:20:33.495 It only shows those 20 or 30 when I look on Mac view. 302 00:20:33.875 --> 00:20:37.015 So you could increase the number per page, 303 00:20:37.475 --> 00:20:40.375 by default. You know, say there's 300 results, 304 00:20:40.940 --> 00:20:46.559 just as an example, on some sites, it's it is a little much to show on one map. 305 00:20:46.780 --> 00:20:53.360 But if you increase the results per search results page, maybe you wanna increase it to something like 25 or something that will give somebody 306 00:20:53.660 --> 00:20:56.400 something more substantial than what you currently have. 307 00:20:56.635 --> 00:20:59.775 That would be the one default way to do that. 308 00:21:00.155 --> 00:21:04.715 Right now, what shows on the map is tied to kind of the page view that you're on. 309 00:21:04.715 --> 00:21:10.975 And we'll we could brainstorm other ways, but for now, that would be the best way to to get more results showing on the map at one time. 310 00:21:11.450 --> 00:21:15.610 Perfect. Thanks, Jason. You're welcome, and thank you for the suggestion there. Alright. 311 00:21:15.610 --> 00:21:18.570 Let's, move on forward to the tip of the week. 312 00:21:18.570 --> 00:21:21.790 David's actually done a wonderful job with this, tip of the week. 313 00:21:21.850 --> 00:21:25.710 We were powwowing a bit on what could be, useful, and 314 00:21:26.054 --> 00:21:28.955 more and more people are using the subscribe to newsletter 315 00:21:29.335 --> 00:21:32.215 functionality that's built into the Brilliant Directories platform. 316 00:21:32.215 --> 00:21:39.115 So we thought we'd provide a a simple and effective way to not only increase subscribers, to your newsletter. 317 00:21:39.254 --> 00:21:42.510 Even if you don't send a newsletter, you can still gather email addresses, 318 00:21:42.830 --> 00:21:44.190 for marketing purposes later. 319 00:21:44.190 --> 00:21:49.010 But how you can leverage this a bit more with a thank you page after people 320 00:21:49.390 --> 00:21:52.350 do subscribe to the newsletter submitting the form to subscribe. 321 00:21:52.350 --> 00:21:58.195 So, Dave, if it's okay with you, can I pass it over? Yes, please. So like Jason said, newsletters 322 00:21:58.575 --> 00:22:03.075 are obviously a very useful part of any business or website. 323 00:22:03.295 --> 00:22:07.855 You can get a lot of extra value out of it. Your members can also get a lot of extra value. 324 00:22:07.855 --> 00:22:12.320 So we'll dive in just very briefly until why a newsletter is useful. 325 00:22:12.860 --> 00:22:17.200 But what we'll really be showing you is how to get even more out of, 326 00:22:17.740 --> 00:22:21.280 user after they register to sign up for your newsletter. 327 00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:22.160 Because 328 00:22:22.700 --> 00:22:24.845 by default, they can sign up for the newsletter. 329 00:22:25.145 --> 00:22:27.804 But if they're signing up for the newsletter, they're probably 330 00:22:28.265 --> 00:22:30.345 really interested in what you have to offer anyway. 331 00:22:30.345 --> 00:22:37.465 So that would be a great time to, provide them with some additional calls to action to get a little bit more, use out of them. 332 00:22:37.465 --> 00:22:43.300 So we'll dive into that as well. So first off, real quick, why you should have a newsletter? 333 00:22:43.300 --> 00:22:44.120 Some of the benefits, 334 00:22:44.660 --> 00:22:44.980 these, 335 00:22:45.460 --> 00:22:46.440 are pretty universal. 336 00:22:47.220 --> 00:22:56.765 Some benefits will vary depending on your target demographic, what industry you're in, but some of the universal ones are that newsletters have been proven to increase sales. 337 00:22:56.765 --> 00:22:59.265 So Convince and Convert, they did a study, 338 00:22:59.565 --> 00:23:01.965 not too long ago where they found that 44% 339 00:23:01.965 --> 00:23:08.125 of consumers make a purchase based on promotional emails. I think their study was 44% 340 00:23:08.125 --> 00:23:08.865 of consumers 341 00:23:09.340 --> 00:23:16.460 in the past year of when they conducted their study made a purchase based on the newsletters that they were signed up for. 342 00:23:16.460 --> 00:23:23.920 So, you know, if if you're offering some deals or promotions in your newsletters, that would be a good way to to get some extra revenue out of your community. 343 00:23:24.135 --> 00:23:29.435 You could be offering maybe some additional features on the side or just flat out promotions 344 00:23:29.895 --> 00:23:36.875 for higher tier memberships, or maybe you're offering services or other products on your site that you could be promoting in your newsletter. 345 00:23:37.335 --> 00:23:38.490 Any of those would work. 346 00:23:38.730 --> 00:23:43.309 Another benefit is that it increases the perceived value of your membership. 347 00:23:43.370 --> 00:23:46.429 So when you're providing a free and informative 348 00:23:46.809 --> 00:23:50.030 and well written newsletter, it really does provide 349 00:23:50.410 --> 00:23:55.915 a lot of additional value to your website as a whole, not just your membership plans. 350 00:23:55.915 --> 00:23:59.835 But this could be a good gateway into getting somebody to sign up for a membership. 351 00:23:59.835 --> 00:24:08.415 If they're already receiving some really great free information on your newsletter, then, they may be more inclined to sign up for a premium membership if there's, some extra 352 00:24:08.740 --> 00:24:10.500 benefit that they can get out of that. 353 00:24:10.500 --> 00:24:15.240 Another great benefit is that newsletters will help you connect with your members. 354 00:24:15.860 --> 00:24:16.679 So consumers, 355 00:24:16.980 --> 00:24:21.799 I think most of us would fall into this. Consumers do receive more newsletters 356 00:24:22.179 --> 00:24:26.735 than they do personal emails. So, you know, emails to your friends, your family. 357 00:24:26.875 --> 00:24:29.855 Generally, we receive more commercial email than we do 358 00:24:30.235 --> 00:24:35.855 interactive personal emails. And that's because this was another study done by Return Path. 359 00:24:35.915 --> 00:24:38.015 They found one of the reasons is that consumers, 360 00:24:38.315 --> 00:24:39.215 regular people, 361 00:24:39.809 --> 00:24:44.950 they really do want to receive these commercial emails, these promotional emails, newsletters 362 00:24:45.570 --> 00:24:52.275 because it it's a convenient way to stay up to date with the brands and the companies and the websites that they're interested in. 363 00:24:52.595 --> 00:24:56.135 So generally speaking, consumers, they do want to receive 364 00:24:56.435 --> 00:24:59.415 information from you straight to their email inbox. 365 00:24:59.795 --> 00:25:03.795 Another benefit is that it will increase your website traffic. 366 00:25:03.795 --> 00:25:07.655 So, Salesforce did a study where they found that 82% of consumers 367 00:25:08.230 --> 00:25:10.330 do open their emails that they receive 368 00:25:10.630 --> 00:25:13.029 from the, the newsletters that they're subscribed to. 369 00:25:13.029 --> 00:25:18.409 So if you're providing links in your newsletter to, you know, newly published content on your website 370 00:25:18.710 --> 00:25:22.715 or maybe you're linking out to your social media pages, 371 00:25:23.015 --> 00:25:32.715 there's a good chance if on average 82% of people open that email, that another percentage of those people will click on whatever links you've included in your newsletter. 372 00:25:33.175 --> 00:25:37.080 And lastly, one other just general benefit of having a newsletter 373 00:25:37.540 --> 00:25:40.840 is that they do establish positive long term relationships. 374 00:25:41.780 --> 00:25:48.440 It does that by showing members and even even the members who might still be subscribed to your newsletter but may have canceled their membership. 375 00:25:48.975 --> 00:25:56.515 It shows all of them how valuable they are and that they haven't been forgotten by you and that you do still wanna provide them with, with valuable 376 00:25:57.054 --> 00:26:01.635 information even if they're no longer a member. So those are just some general benefits 377 00:26:02.015 --> 00:26:09.480 of having a a newsletter and and sending that regularly both to your paying members and also just to your general free subscribers. 378 00:26:10.340 --> 00:26:17.565 And, David, we had another webinar where kinda we talked about what types of ways to make it easy to, like, put together a newsletter. 379 00:26:17.565 --> 00:26:17.645 Right? 380 00:26:17.645 --> 00:26:21.165 Because the number one thing is, like, what the what the heck am I gonna talk about in my newsletter? 381 00:26:21.165 --> 00:26:22.385 Didn't we do a webinar 382 00:26:22.925 --> 00:26:25.965 on that? We did, and I did pull that up. So I've got the link here. 383 00:26:25.965 --> 00:26:29.265 I'll share it in the live chat on YouTube and also the chat here on GoToWebinar. 384 00:26:29.804 --> 00:26:30.785 I believe it was 385 00:26:31.485 --> 00:26:32.820 10 tips to, 386 00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:34.919 develop a successful newsletter, 387 00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:39.000 increase open rates, and and how to easily write emails. 388 00:26:40.500 --> 00:26:43.779 Oh, yeah. This was a great webinar. This was a great tip of the week that we did. 389 00:26:43.779 --> 00:26:48.875 It's really easy to digest and actionable steps on on creating a newsletter. Alright. 390 00:26:48.875 --> 00:26:52.634 So we know why newsletters are important and awesome, and you don't need to send them all the time. 391 00:26:52.634 --> 00:26:54.715 Once a month is plenty for most, 392 00:26:55.195 --> 00:26:59.855 websites and brands. So, Dave, tell us about, what we're gonna cover more in today's, 393 00:27:00.235 --> 00:27:02.700 now that we know that, newsletters are awesome. Yeah. 394 00:27:02.700 --> 00:27:11.659 So the primary focus of this tip of the week is how can we get even more use out of somebody once they do sign up for our newsletter? 395 00:27:11.659 --> 00:27:18.225 Because they're already showing some interest in our website by wanting to hear more from us and and allowing us to, contact them via email 396 00:27:18.544 --> 00:27:19.025 directly. 397 00:27:19.025 --> 00:27:23.525 So there's a good chance that we might be able to get them to take some more actions on our website. 398 00:27:24.385 --> 00:27:28.804 So once they put in their email address to sign up for the the newsletter, 399 00:27:29.184 --> 00:27:30.085 we can automatically 400 00:27:30.385 --> 00:27:33.110 then direct them to a thank you page. 401 00:27:33.490 --> 00:27:36.870 And just generally speaking, a thank you page, it shows our gratitude 402 00:27:37.250 --> 00:27:37.910 for them 403 00:27:38.210 --> 00:27:43.090 wanting us to send them even more information and for inviting us into their personal inbox. 404 00:27:43.090 --> 00:27:47.975 You know, none of us want spam in there. So when they trust us with their email address, 405 00:27:48.434 --> 00:27:52.754 that's a good sign. They want more information. There's already some level of trust there. 406 00:27:52.754 --> 00:27:55.495 But while they're on this thank you page, it's a great opportunity 407 00:27:55.955 --> 00:27:58.115 to try to get them to take some additional action. 408 00:27:58.115 --> 00:28:08.980 So this will depend on what your goals are for your website and for your members, what specific tasks you want them to take on your website, or what end goal you want them to have. 409 00:28:08.980 --> 00:28:13.860 But some things you can do on this Thank You page are encourage them to follow you on social media. 410 00:28:13.860 --> 00:28:20.145 If If you have a Facebook group, you could link to that or just to your Facebook page, Twitter page, Instagram account, all that sort of stuff. 411 00:28:20.365 --> 00:28:22.865 You can highlight the benefits of joining your community. 412 00:28:22.924 --> 00:28:28.080 So if they're signing up for your newsletter, there's probably a good chance they're not a member yet. 413 00:28:28.380 --> 00:28:32.460 So on this page, you might wanna list just a few bullet points. You don't wanna bombard them. 414 00:28:32.460 --> 00:28:37.600 You don't wanna give them a whole sales speech, but just highlight some of the primary benefits 415 00:28:37.900 --> 00:28:42.544 that they could be receiving if they did sign up, and became a member of your community. 416 00:28:42.924 --> 00:28:49.184 Could also link to any informative articles, videos, or any other sort of posts that you've published on your site. 417 00:28:49.405 --> 00:28:50.385 This will, 418 00:28:51.005 --> 00:28:57.279 have one benefit in terms of SEO where, you know, they'll go to some additional pages on your side, and they won't just immediately leave. 419 00:28:57.580 --> 00:29:02.080 But also, it could show them immediately that you do have other 420 00:29:02.460 --> 00:29:11.235 informative information, useful information that they might wanna be made aware of right now since they're already interested in getting more information from you. 421 00:29:11.615 --> 00:29:16.415 You could also link to a page or other area on your website that they might find useful. 422 00:29:16.415 --> 00:29:22.195 So this would depend on that target demographic, what whatever niche you're in, the the target industry. 423 00:29:22.870 --> 00:29:27.690 But say, for example, you have a local business directory or a local city guide website, 424 00:29:27.990 --> 00:29:31.210 and you get somebody who's registered to receive your newsletter, 425 00:29:31.830 --> 00:29:40.695 then there's a good chance maybe they're not a business, but maybe there's somebody who lives in the area, or maybe there's somebody who visits the local city that that your website targets 426 00:29:41.075 --> 00:29:45.575 regularly. So maybe they just wanna be kept up to date with whatever's going on in that area. 427 00:29:45.875 --> 00:29:49.315 Maybe you wanna direct them to the events page on your website. 428 00:29:49.315 --> 00:29:54.769 Maybe there's some new local events that are coming up that, they may be interested in. 429 00:29:54.830 --> 00:30:00.590 And then lastly, another suggestion would be to provide just a testimonial of of a happy member on this page. 430 00:30:00.590 --> 00:30:05.490 Just something to, again, reinforce that there truly are other people on your website, 431 00:30:05.895 --> 00:30:10.715 existing members and users who are getting a lot of use and value out of your website. 432 00:30:10.855 --> 00:30:16.075 And it just reinforces that aspect of social proof which we've talked about in a few other webinars. 433 00:30:16.535 --> 00:30:18.840 And actually, David, I didn't even realize it. 434 00:30:18.919 --> 00:30:25.320 We do this on the Brilliant Directories website, but but rather than the newsletters when someone requests to try the demo. 435 00:30:25.320 --> 00:30:32.380 Let's actually let's actually do that together right now. If you try a demo, jason@jason.com, 436 00:30:33.475 --> 00:30:36.135 And, you know, this could be like subscribing to newsletter. 437 00:30:36.914 --> 00:30:39.654 We have a link to our Facebook group here. 438 00:30:40.034 --> 00:30:43.414 If they didn't get the demo, we kinda have the form here. Just sometimes, 439 00:30:44.034 --> 00:30:46.200 they mistype their email address or whatnot. 440 00:30:46.760 --> 00:30:49.899 And then here, it says, you may also be interested in, 441 00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:58.600 and we have links to some of our helpful content, some previous webinars that we did, setting up a private tour, if you wanted a one on one demo. 442 00:30:58.600 --> 00:31:13.544 That would be another thing you could offer actually on your thank you page for, just a membership community is if somebody is interested in signing up for a membership, maybe they wanna book a call with you or or send you an email to inquire some more about what benefits they may be receiving. 443 00:31:13.544 --> 00:31:18.230 And then that could open up a great dialogue with you to maybe give you a better shot at closing a sale. 444 00:31:18.610 --> 00:31:23.030 Absolutely. So it's really customer's choice here. You know, we we wanna keep people clicking. 445 00:31:23.250 --> 00:31:24.710 We wanna keep people engaged. 446 00:31:25.090 --> 00:31:28.310 Every website is different. Every offering is different. So 447 00:31:28.665 --> 00:31:32.285 finding two or three or few a handful of things just to keep people 448 00:31:32.745 --> 00:31:37.085 clicking, is important. And then here, we do have thank you page here from our good friend, Eric. 449 00:31:37.305 --> 00:31:41.405 So we do have a testimonial here as well. So, yeah, we we are actually 450 00:31:41.730 --> 00:31:42.130 employing, 451 00:31:42.530 --> 00:31:45.670 some of these, strategies that that we're recommending here. 452 00:31:46.130 --> 00:31:49.250 So let's let's figure out how to do this on a site. Right, David? 453 00:31:49.250 --> 00:31:50.870 We wanted to show this as an example? 454 00:31:51.170 --> 00:31:53.350 Definitely. Absolutely show it in practice. 455 00:31:53.650 --> 00:31:54.150 Okay. 456 00:31:54.895 --> 00:31:58.515 So let's close down some of these windows here and start with 457 00:31:58.895 --> 00:32:03.555 a blank canvas. I think it's here. Okay. So on this site, we created 458 00:32:03.935 --> 00:32:08.115 a landing page. We've we've done lots of videos on using the drag and drop builder, 459 00:32:08.415 --> 00:32:13.070 to set up a landing page. This one's very simple. You know, we we're putting a title here, 460 00:32:13.450 --> 00:32:17.070 want to know about everything, or obviously put something related to your industry. 461 00:32:17.130 --> 00:32:20.830 We we definitely want people to subscribe for a reason. 462 00:32:21.130 --> 00:32:27.835 So the the more benefits we can build in, or what they can expect or what are, you know, what are the reasons they should subscribe, 463 00:32:28.375 --> 00:32:32.475 short term and long term benefits, you wanna put them on a page like this. 464 00:32:32.935 --> 00:32:38.635 And then we can see we have, the newsletter form here that comes with all sites. We've put it here 465 00:32:39.019 --> 00:32:43.360 as well. And then, again, we just put some, you know, benefits here, get all these benefits, 466 00:32:43.899 --> 00:32:47.919 and so on. So let's go to the admin area and see what we've built. 467 00:32:49.659 --> 00:32:53.600 So we're in the web page builder, and we've made two pages, 468 00:32:54.015 --> 00:32:55.715 and I'll show you them. We've made a 469 00:32:56.415 --> 00:33:02.115 newsletter page here and a newsletter confirmation page, which is what we're going to define 470 00:33:02.495 --> 00:33:05.455 as the redirect page when someone fills out that newsletter form. 471 00:33:05.455 --> 00:33:08.115 Let's take a look at this newsletter page and see what we've done. 472 00:33:10.049 --> 00:33:10.549 Okay. 473 00:33:10.769 --> 00:33:17.830 Well, we did use the, draggable content blocks here on the right, and we kinda just made a two column area here. 474 00:33:18.049 --> 00:33:19.429 It says join our newsletter. 475 00:33:19.889 --> 00:33:24.470 Here's the short code for the newsletter form. I'll actually paste this in the chat for everyone. 476 00:33:24.925 --> 00:33:27.965 That's really the main thing you need is the form equals, 477 00:33:28.285 --> 00:33:30.065 newsletter's model sign up. 478 00:33:30.605 --> 00:33:34.365 And then we are using the hero section, so we have an image up there. 479 00:33:34.365 --> 00:33:37.645 This is always fun to play with. We've we've also covered, the hero section. 480 00:33:37.645 --> 00:33:40.545 That's the area at the top of the page here. 481 00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:43.820 Creates that nice top section there. 482 00:33:44.520 --> 00:33:45.900 And then the page content, 483 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:49.340 yeah, just two columns. Just put some titles, some benefits, 484 00:33:50.120 --> 00:33:53.580 and then the form equals newsletter there, and that's what's rendering, 485 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:54.780 on the site. 486 00:33:55.355 --> 00:33:59.295 Then we created a thank you page, and the thank you page is pretty simple. 487 00:33:59.515 --> 00:34:03.775 It says thanks for joining our newsletter. You'll get great updates from us soon. 488 00:34:03.995 --> 00:34:07.695 We put a link to, the Brilliant Directories Facebook group here. 489 00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:15.679 And, also, we just we didn't choose anything specific, but we used the draggable content blocks, the three features here, and more things to do on our site. 490 00:34:16.060 --> 00:34:16.960 You can certainly, 491 00:34:17.260 --> 00:34:21.360 choose what you want and link them to, kinda what we did on our 492 00:34:21.695 --> 00:34:27.395 on our own brilliant directories pages, you know, have some additional things for them to follow and click on. 493 00:34:28.094 --> 00:34:32.255 So we have the page to subscribe and then the page that they're directed to. 494 00:34:32.255 --> 00:34:40.989 So now the question is, how do we make it so when they fill out the newsletter form, they're going to be redirected to this new custom page we created. 495 00:34:40.989 --> 00:34:42.929 This is called a newsletter confirmation. 496 00:34:43.309 --> 00:34:44.529 Well, it's quite simple. 497 00:34:44.829 --> 00:34:47.489 So the form is newsletter modell sign up, 498 00:34:47.825 --> 00:34:55.105 And what we wanna do is edit this form, and we wanna choose the page they're gonna be redirected to after filling out this form. 499 00:34:55.105 --> 00:34:58.085 So we'll go to toolbox and form manager, 500 00:34:59.665 --> 00:35:04.650 and there's a keyword search filter here. You could just filter for newsletter, Modell sign up. 501 00:35:04.650 --> 00:35:08.030 And once you're here, you can just go ahead and customize this form. 502 00:35:09.530 --> 00:35:12.890 Now in order to customize a form, you technically need to make a change. 503 00:35:13.130 --> 00:35:14.910 So I'm just gonna add the letter 504 00:35:15.370 --> 00:35:19.204 here in the top hidden field, and I'll delete that later. So I will 505 00:35:19.665 --> 00:35:24.724 go ahead and save that, and we'll save everything else, the same for now. 506 00:35:28.224 --> 00:35:32.620 Okay. Great. Here is my newly customized newsletter form. 507 00:35:32.620 --> 00:35:36.080 I'm gonna go ahead and edit this, and we're gonna set up the redirect page. 508 00:35:36.620 --> 00:35:38.560 I'll delete those m's out of there. 509 00:35:38.860 --> 00:35:42.665 So, what we wanna do to set up the redirect page, and this is pretty good. 510 00:35:42.665 --> 00:35:47.325 It's good to know for forms in general because people are making lots of forms for different landing pages, 511 00:35:47.945 --> 00:35:49.305 for ebooks and things like that. 512 00:35:49.305 --> 00:35:54.025 You wanna know how to redirect people to a page after they fill out the form. 513 00:35:54.025 --> 00:35:55.885 So click on edit form settings, 514 00:35:57.110 --> 00:35:59.210 and we just need to do two things. 515 00:36:00.150 --> 00:36:01.370 Go to save actions 516 00:36:02.150 --> 00:36:02.650 and 517 00:36:03.110 --> 00:36:05.450 save actions redirect to URL, 518 00:36:06.070 --> 00:36:10.310 and then all we need to do is put the redirect URL right here in this field. 519 00:36:10.310 --> 00:36:13.635 So in our case, we're gonna be sending people to the newsletter 520 00:36:13.935 --> 00:36:15.155 confirmation page. 521 00:36:16.655 --> 00:36:18.035 We're editing the form, 522 00:36:18.335 --> 00:36:23.954 save actions, redirect to URL, and then put the redirect URL right here. 523 00:36:24.220 --> 00:36:26.000 And we can go ahead and save the changes. 524 00:36:26.700 --> 00:36:28.400 And we're done, basically. 525 00:36:30.060 --> 00:36:32.000 Let's go back here and just check it out. 526 00:36:32.540 --> 00:36:33.040 Yep. 527 00:36:33.340 --> 00:36:38.880 Delete that Okay. So let's try this again. Let's refresh this page and we should be redirected. 528 00:36:40.515 --> 00:36:41.895 Put my name again, Jason. 529 00:36:46.194 --> 00:36:47.895 I'll click on subscribe now, 530 00:36:49.234 --> 00:36:52.194 and there we go. Now I'm I'm sent to the thank you page. 531 00:36:52.194 --> 00:36:55.760 And, again, thank you pages could have any number of things on them. 532 00:36:55.760 --> 00:36:59.920 Animated GIFs, Ryan Reynolds saying thank you, thank you, thank you, whatever it might be. 533 00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:02.260 Keep it funny, keep it serious, keep it professional. 534 00:37:03.200 --> 00:37:05.380 But now with this, we are 535 00:37:05.680 --> 00:37:10.875 utilizing the newsletter process more because the default newsletter just puts a pop up that says, thanks. 536 00:37:10.875 --> 00:37:15.055 You've subscribed to our newsletter, and then they can stay on the same page, which is fine. 537 00:37:15.435 --> 00:37:19.375 You can keep the default functionality. But by redirecting them to this page, 538 00:37:19.755 --> 00:37:27.630 we've even seen, you know, on our brilliant directory site and other directory sites out there that have thank you pages with additional calls to action. 539 00:37:27.630 --> 00:37:29.410 Again, you're getting that more engagement. 540 00:37:29.950 --> 00:37:34.690 You can get people when they're so very interested in your site, give them better materials, better resources, 541 00:37:35.470 --> 00:37:39.994 asking them to contact you, you know, requesting a private tour or something one on one, 542 00:37:40.375 --> 00:37:43.994 you can certainly do that stuff. So just so you know, 543 00:37:44.375 --> 00:37:46.635 I like to repeat it. Just all you need to do 544 00:37:47.414 --> 00:37:51.575 is, this is the form you wanna put, the short code for the form on your landing page. 545 00:37:51.575 --> 00:37:55.710 And when we edit this form, newsletter model sign up, what are we doing? 546 00:37:55.710 --> 00:38:04.610 We're setting the, form settings to redirect URL and then we have to create a link, a thank you page, and then we wanna link to that thank you page in the form settings. 547 00:38:05.230 --> 00:38:09.250 So a little higher level there, but it's good to know that that these things are possible, 548 00:38:09.550 --> 00:38:10.450 with the software. 549 00:38:10.965 --> 00:38:14.665 And what we'd like to do now is take some questions. 550 00:38:15.205 --> 00:38:18.105 How's it going, Brian? Brian, have you unmuted your microphone? 551 00:38:18.485 --> 00:38:21.385 Pretty good. Can you hear me? Yes. Where are you calling in from? 552 00:38:21.925 --> 00:38:22.745 I'm in Arizona. 553 00:38:23.205 --> 00:38:25.705 Alright. Alright. And what's your question for us today? 554 00:38:26.500 --> 00:38:28.180 Kinda ties in with, the, 555 00:38:28.740 --> 00:38:32.280 what you were just talking about with the newsletter and everything. Okay. 556 00:38:32.340 --> 00:38:34.740 Before you guys said you can, like, add different things. 557 00:38:34.740 --> 00:38:40.020 Like, you can get, like, a first name, last name, phone number, email address, etcetera. Right? 558 00:38:40.020 --> 00:38:40.520 Right. 559 00:38:41.055 --> 00:38:51.295 So when you add that kind of stuff on there, and then you go to look at your contacts in there in the back end of the site, and it only, like, registers the, like, first name and the email address. 560 00:38:51.295 --> 00:38:53.875 It doesn't, like, save any of the other data. 561 00:38:54.175 --> 00:38:59.390 I'm glad you mentioned that. What's gonna be happening in an update coming in the next couple weeks 562 00:39:00.090 --> 00:39:01.230 is the newsletter 563 00:39:01.530 --> 00:39:04.670 submissions are going to be saved in your forms inbox 564 00:39:04.970 --> 00:39:08.430 just like your contact us form submissions are going to be saved. 565 00:39:09.105 --> 00:39:12.244 When that is here, you can then export 566 00:39:12.545 --> 00:39:20.405 all the additional details that you've added for your context here, and each piece of data will be in its own column on that Excel file. 567 00:39:20.705 --> 00:39:22.560 Yeah. Because I I was what I was 568 00:39:23.040 --> 00:39:25.300 essentially trying to do was, like, 569 00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:30.320 basically try to convert those people into, like, members. Right? Mhmm. 570 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:35.140 And so I was trying to figure out the best way to do that. I have, like, 19,000, 571 00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:35.700 like, 572 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:36.500 subscription 573 00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:38.705 people that join my newsletter. 574 00:39:39.485 --> 00:39:42.065 So I was like, you know, I exported all of those 575 00:39:42.445 --> 00:39:46.625 and created free accounts for them, and I was gonna try to see about, like, 576 00:39:46.925 --> 00:39:49.885 trying to, like, kinda email them out and say, hey. 577 00:39:49.885 --> 00:39:54.380 You can just jump in your free account or something like that. That's a really good idea. 578 00:39:54.380 --> 00:39:56.000 Another thing you can do, Brian, 579 00:39:56.300 --> 00:40:01.200 is, yeah, import them to, like, a membership level. I think they may have recommended this to you, 580 00:40:01.500 --> 00:40:03.705 and then create a smart list from them. 581 00:40:03.785 --> 00:40:08.045 So you can, like, search for your general users or whatever you wanna call them. 582 00:40:08.825 --> 00:40:09.485 And then, 583 00:40:10.025 --> 00:40:11.325 create a smart list, 584 00:40:13.225 --> 00:40:15.325 and you can call this, like, imported 585 00:40:16.265 --> 00:40:16.765 newsletter 586 00:40:17.859 --> 00:40:18.359 subscribers 587 00:40:18.820 --> 00:40:21.000 from, you know, x y z platform. 588 00:40:21.859 --> 00:40:23.720 And once it's a smart list, 589 00:40:24.339 --> 00:40:25.480 you can send 590 00:40:26.339 --> 00:40:27.480 newsletters to 591 00:40:27.859 --> 00:40:31.700 specific smart list segmented which which have segmented members in them. So, 592 00:40:32.205 --> 00:40:42.545 that might be another avenue to not only group those people on your site, but then you can email them specifically as a smart list by targeting the smart list in your, newsletter campaign. 593 00:40:42.845 --> 00:40:43.165 Yeah. 594 00:40:43.165 --> 00:40:49.799 I I already exported all the data and imported it in, and I made, like, a I cloned the general user one Mhmm. 595 00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:51.220 And then basically, 596 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:55.460 named it general user import or whatever. Right? And then 597 00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:58.800 from there, I imported all my members in. Mhmm. 598 00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:08.735 I just imported them to that, and then I was just only trying to find a way how I could reach out to him, which, seems like what you just showed me would be a great way to start that. 599 00:41:08.735 --> 00:41:14.595 So Yeah. And, yeah, we are looking to create more functionality around the forms inbox area. 600 00:41:14.815 --> 00:41:17.075 So you can also create smart lists 601 00:41:17.450 --> 00:41:20.410 from the people who are in the forms inbox and things like that. 602 00:41:20.410 --> 00:41:25.230 So those are things that are coming down the line in the some in the coming weeks and and more in the coming months. 603 00:41:25.369 --> 00:41:28.750 Okay. Alright. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for the questions, Brian. 604 00:41:29.545 --> 00:41:33.005 Alright. Our really good friend Vincent has joined us. How you doing, Vincent? 605 00:41:33.705 --> 00:41:37.885 Hey. Good. How are you guys? Pretty good. Pretty good. What can we help you with today? 606 00:41:37.945 --> 00:41:40.765 Well, I got a little problem where one of my sites, 607 00:41:41.465 --> 00:41:44.525 for some reason gets all kinds of spam accounts. 608 00:41:44.950 --> 00:41:47.130 And I know on one of the prior 609 00:41:47.670 --> 00:41:52.730 things you talked about, do putting certain things as a requirement for them to be able 610 00:41:53.270 --> 00:41:57.615 to create an account. But I don't wanna make it so hard that the people that wanna sign up. 611 00:41:57.935 --> 00:42:03.295 You know, you know, we're put we're actually putting two additional security there's so many things on that sign up page. 612 00:42:03.295 --> 00:42:07.635 There's, like, the Google, the I'm not a robot. We actually have a few other things in place. 613 00:42:08.255 --> 00:42:12.675 We're actually, in the next few weeks, are gonna be adding two more, 614 00:42:13.490 --> 00:42:15.349 security elements to sign up pages 615 00:42:15.809 --> 00:42:17.750 just to make sure that they're fortified. 616 00:42:18.050 --> 00:42:20.230 I would wait on that, Vincent. 617 00:42:21.170 --> 00:42:25.349 Okay. Great. I I will mention it in the in the in the webinar when it's available. 618 00:42:25.595 --> 00:42:32.234 But do you wanna check out your site and see just make sure you have some of the existing things that that are available there to to prevent spam? 619 00:42:32.234 --> 00:42:36.815 Yeah. This is this site that has the problem is pestcontroldeals.com. 620 00:42:37.275 --> 00:42:38.635 Alright. Give me a second here. 621 00:42:38.795 --> 00:42:43.210 Let's just take a quick look at it and make sure you have the things that need to be there. 622 00:42:43.750 --> 00:42:48.069 So now this is to your free account, your free sign ups? Yeah. 623 00:42:48.069 --> 00:42:50.170 And the problem is on the free sign ups. 624 00:42:50.310 --> 00:42:58.875 I mean, I am getting some regular pest control places signing up, which I want, but I for every real one, I get 10 or 20 bad ones. 625 00:42:58.875 --> 00:43:02.015 Like, here you see them right here. This is probably from today. 626 00:43:02.555 --> 00:43:04.655 Right. Right. Right. I see. Okay. 627 00:43:05.595 --> 00:43:09.355 Well, let's check out your, free sign up form here. Are you using the default form here? 628 00:43:09.355 --> 00:43:10.335 Well, it looks 629 00:43:10.839 --> 00:43:11.339 like 630 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:14.300 this is a custom form here. 631 00:43:14.680 --> 00:43:19.079 Am I wrong or right about that? No. I don't I don't have any custom forms. Oh, okay. 632 00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:23.500 The Google that I know of. I hope I don't. I don't think I do. Let's check it out. 633 00:43:24.215 --> 00:43:25.995 We could do the show widgets here. 634 00:43:26.455 --> 00:43:31.195 It looks like your member sign up free sign up form. It doesn't have the Google security here. 635 00:43:32.455 --> 00:43:34.775 Oops. Yeah. You may wanna just, 636 00:43:35.415 --> 00:43:38.980 can we just disable it? We don't have to delete your work, so you don't just disable it. 637 00:43:38.980 --> 00:43:39.880 That's fine. 638 00:43:40.180 --> 00:43:40.420 Yeah. 639 00:43:40.420 --> 00:43:45.380 Like, on the default form, there's, like, things like honey pots and just all sorts of things to help, minimize, 640 00:43:45.700 --> 00:43:47.720 you know, what what you're seeing here. So let's 641 00:43:48.020 --> 00:43:50.040 let's see what that's gonna do. 642 00:43:50.435 --> 00:43:54.355 Alright. We can get rid of the show widgets. It's really cool to show widgets. Okay. 643 00:43:54.355 --> 00:43:57.175 So now you got the Okay. Sign up. That's 644 00:43:57.635 --> 00:44:00.455 because none of the other sites have this problem. 645 00:44:00.915 --> 00:44:03.015 It's just this particular site somehow. 646 00:44:03.369 --> 00:44:06.890 Okay. Yeah. Keep it like this for now. I mean it has all the required fields. 647 00:44:06.890 --> 00:44:10.490 It has I'm not a robot and and some other things that are hidden in here. 648 00:44:10.490 --> 00:44:12.170 So keep it like this and see how it goes. 649 00:44:12.170 --> 00:44:16.510 But we are also adding a few more things to help lock down these pages even better. 650 00:44:16.955 --> 00:44:24.255 So one one other thing about your program where you can call up and somebody can, you know, walk through different problems you're having with the website. 651 00:44:24.395 --> 00:44:28.175 I know that you have the marketplace, but don't you guys have, like, an internal 652 00:44:28.990 --> 00:44:32.110 program where you can talk to somebody for half an hour or an hour? Yeah. 653 00:44:32.350 --> 00:44:36.110 So first of all, you can email in about ever anything. You're very familiar with that, Vincent. 654 00:44:36.110 --> 00:44:36.310 Right. 655 00:44:36.510 --> 00:44:42.530 But if you wanted, like, a private phone training, yeah, there's there's a there's, like, a thirty minute and a one hour phone training. 656 00:44:43.145 --> 00:44:49.305 But this is, like, after you've gone as far as you can and support emails, you just really wanna talk to someone. 657 00:44:49.305 --> 00:44:52.845 Maybe you wanna have your whole team. A lot of people do staff calls, 658 00:44:53.385 --> 00:44:57.310 on these training calls and have two or three people on the line asking questions, 659 00:44:57.690 --> 00:45:02.270 for new people who are managing the BD site. So that's where this becomes more high value. 660 00:45:02.410 --> 00:45:03.950 But, yeah, this is certainly available, 661 00:45:04.570 --> 00:45:07.790 if and when anyone needs it as well. Did they ask you beforehand, 662 00:45:08.090 --> 00:45:12.315 like, what you wanna cover so they can be ready for the phone call as well? Yes. 663 00:45:12.615 --> 00:45:17.575 They, in the past, I've used it, and I gave them a list of things I wanted to talk about. 664 00:45:17.575 --> 00:45:18.215 And then they, 665 00:45:19.015 --> 00:45:22.715 they were kinda ready for it when I Right. That'll help maximize, 666 00:45:23.095 --> 00:45:25.290 the time on the on the on the call with them. 667 00:45:25.290 --> 00:45:28.490 So, yeah, feel free to take advantage of that, if you like. Alright. 668 00:45:28.490 --> 00:45:30.590 Olga, we've unmuted your microphone. Olga? 669 00:45:31.130 --> 00:45:34.570 Yeah. Hi. Alright. How are you doing today? Hi. How are you? Good. 670 00:45:34.730 --> 00:45:36.570 What I want what I wanted to find out, 671 00:45:37.385 --> 00:45:43.405 how is it possible to put a contact form on the web page in a framed way, like the way it shows in a sidebar? 672 00:45:44.184 --> 00:45:48.444 Do I need to put it as a widget in a deep section or something to be framed? 673 00:45:48.984 --> 00:45:51.660 Not just To be framed on a web page? 674 00:45:52.120 --> 00:45:52.620 Yeah. 675 00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:55.980 So I can show you kind of what, what you can do. 676 00:45:56.040 --> 00:46:00.360 Just just to make it in style with everything else I have on the website. Yeah. You can, 677 00:46:01.080 --> 00:46:05.494 well, you're you're a coder also. Right? So I can give you two ways. So in this case, 678 00:46:06.194 --> 00:46:11.494 you know, we just gave it back we we made the table and we and we gave a background color to the cell. 679 00:46:11.635 --> 00:46:12.035 Mhmm. 680 00:46:12.674 --> 00:46:16.694 That's one thing you can do. And if you wanted to get into the code, 681 00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:18.619 what you could do 682 00:46:19.240 --> 00:46:24.780 is, I don't I don't give it to you. What's on your all those those content boxes on your site, 683 00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:27.420 it's a a module class. 684 00:46:27.720 --> 00:46:33.565 So you could Yeah. You could just do that in the code, div class module and the deform equals, 685 00:46:33.865 --> 00:46:39.085 and, it will put it you know, I'll just save the changes here since we're doing you know, this is a test page. 686 00:46:39.385 --> 00:46:41.705 And you'll see here, obviously, you wanna put it, 687 00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:46.740 it will put it in this module box, and then you could put this module box in a 688 00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:48.980 a cell, if you wanted to. 689 00:46:49.680 --> 00:46:54.720 Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. And, sorry. The the the last thing I think Oh, yes. 690 00:46:54.970 --> 00:46:56.174 That's very quick. 691 00:46:57.194 --> 00:47:02.174 You added the the the possibility to to to have some icons on the web pages, 692 00:47:02.555 --> 00:47:08.630 but there are so few of them. And I'm always struggling to find the currency ones and, 693 00:47:09.890 --> 00:47:12.549 say I have created my own email signature. 694 00:47:12.690 --> 00:47:17.829 Basically, I made it on the web page and just copied and pasted it to the email and it works fine. 695 00:47:18.130 --> 00:47:19.410 But there are so, 696 00:47:19.970 --> 00:47:23.194 few icons. So say I need to put a cell phone, 697 00:47:24.214 --> 00:47:27.115 a landline, or something, and and there is no choice. 698 00:47:27.494 --> 00:47:29.035 So the icons here, 699 00:47:29.734 --> 00:47:31.275 are HTML friendly 700 00:47:31.654 --> 00:47:36.150 icons, which means they'll load on all browsers. So we did keep it as a limited list. 701 00:47:37.029 --> 00:47:38.890 If yours is gonna be in an email, 702 00:47:39.430 --> 00:47:40.890 tools like Font Awesome, 703 00:47:41.270 --> 00:47:47.529 won't work because they require the Font Awesome scripts to work on a website, and those are not gonna happen in an email. 704 00:47:48.549 --> 00:47:51.615 Okay. If you if what you might wanna Google though, 705 00:47:52.255 --> 00:47:53.315 HTML entities, 706 00:47:54.335 --> 00:47:56.195 I believe that's it. And, 707 00:47:57.695 --> 00:47:58.595 you can use, 708 00:47:59.855 --> 00:48:05.630 you know, any of any of the these are all web safe ones, but there's so many it didn't it didn't make sense. 709 00:48:05.630 --> 00:48:07.490 But but Google HTML entities, 710 00:48:07.869 --> 00:48:09.410 and then you can use those, 711 00:48:09.710 --> 00:48:14.130 on your you can just copy and paste the symbol into your email signature or wherever else 712 00:48:14.430 --> 00:48:15.089 it is. 713 00:48:15.950 --> 00:48:20.045 Alternatively, you can find images as icons and use the images. 714 00:48:20.905 --> 00:48:22.744 Email, that was just an example because, 715 00:48:24.665 --> 00:48:30.744 say, for web pages for web pages, what I need to do is just go somewhere, copy the symbol, and then put go back and 716 00:48:31.390 --> 00:48:33.310 Correct. So let's let's just show you an example. 717 00:48:33.310 --> 00:48:38.369 If I wanted the yen, if I have a Japanese audience, I could go ahead and just paste that here 718 00:48:38.670 --> 00:48:40.290 and Yeah. That's what I keep doing. 719 00:48:40.830 --> 00:48:42.450 And make it large. Yeah. 720 00:48:42.510 --> 00:48:46.825 Just we we you know, there are there are hundreds and hundreds of of symbols. 721 00:48:46.825 --> 00:48:51.945 So the list here is limited based on probably what most people are gonna be using on their landing pages, 722 00:48:52.345 --> 00:48:53.085 rather than 723 00:48:53.465 --> 00:48:56.345 stuffing it with, you know, every single thing that's out there. 724 00:48:56.665 --> 00:49:00.205 You know, even all these are symbols, so it didn't make sense. Alright? 725 00:49:00.600 --> 00:49:05.580 Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Olga. Always good questions, from Olga there. 726 00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:09.100 Alright. Let's see. We got time for one more question here from Manish. 727 00:49:09.560 --> 00:49:13.875 Manish, your mic is muted. How are you? Yeah. Hi. I'm good. 728 00:49:14.355 --> 00:49:17.155 Thank you for the session. I'm very new to this, 729 00:49:17.715 --> 00:49:21.335 to the business directories. Like, I'm in my trial mood right now. 730 00:49:21.715 --> 00:49:27.575 So just want to know, like like, the kind of idea which I have is I'll have a community specific 731 00:49:28.275 --> 00:49:28.775 business 732 00:49:29.100 --> 00:49:36.800 group directory where people will be posting their, you know, services, and then the customers or the clients can come and take the services. 733 00:49:37.100 --> 00:49:40.000 Along with that, I'm also planning to add matrimonial 734 00:49:40.300 --> 00:49:44.955 stuff over there so where people who are looking for grooms or brides, they can post. 735 00:49:45.175 --> 00:49:51.675 So I'm confused, like, what kind of theme I should go for because I see there's one community theme and then there is 736 00:49:51.975 --> 00:49:54.535 all in one theme. So I'm confused between both of those. 737 00:49:54.535 --> 00:49:56.875 So could you suggest something on that lines, please? 738 00:49:57.210 --> 00:49:59.070 Yeah. Basically, the themes 739 00:49:59.609 --> 00:50:00.109 will 740 00:50:00.410 --> 00:50:02.030 are are like a premade homepage. 741 00:50:02.810 --> 00:50:08.990 So in your case, I mean, it's just a premade homepage is is what the theme effectively is, 742 00:50:09.530 --> 00:50:12.430 because all BD sites come with the same default 743 00:50:13.235 --> 00:50:16.295 features and post types and and all that stuff. So 744 00:50:16.915 --> 00:50:17.895 in your case, 745 00:50:18.515 --> 00:50:23.415 you may want the city guide theme. We can go to our demo site real quick. 746 00:50:23.715 --> 00:50:28.780 And you said again, what is the focus of on the site? You said it's to find business professionals? 747 00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:29.900 Yes. 748 00:50:30.200 --> 00:50:31.020 And matrimonials. 749 00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:35.020 So what I like about the city guide theme, it's pretty boilerplate, 750 00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:37.740 but you can highlight 751 00:50:38.040 --> 00:50:39.100 special categories. 752 00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:44.694 Like things to do, you can change to weddings or matrimonials as you're calling it. 753 00:50:44.755 --> 00:50:46.295 So you can link to specific 754 00:50:46.915 --> 00:50:49.095 categories or post types on your site, 755 00:50:49.474 --> 00:50:52.835 in the menu. But I I would recommend the city guide thing. 756 00:50:52.835 --> 00:50:58.990 And, of course, you can change, like, local city guide to, you know, what the title of your website is, you know. 757 00:51:00.090 --> 00:51:01.470 But this is pretty simple, 758 00:51:01.850 --> 00:51:04.990 easy to find. It's, you know, you're just filtering two categories, 759 00:51:05.850 --> 00:51:08.030 to start top level and sub level. 760 00:51:08.595 --> 00:51:09.095 And, 761 00:51:09.635 --> 00:51:13.975 I think this would be a good good place to start for you, the city guide thing. 762 00:51:14.435 --> 00:51:17.395 Okay. Great. Thank you so much. I'll look into that. Alright. 763 00:51:17.395 --> 00:51:19.175 Look forward to seeing your site online. 764 00:51:19.475 --> 00:51:22.535 Alright, guys. Great webinar today. We had a great turnout. 765 00:51:22.869 --> 00:51:25.290 Next webinar will be in two weeks. 766 00:51:25.910 --> 00:51:29.190 Lots of lab updates. Everyone has the discussions post type now. 767 00:51:29.190 --> 00:51:38.065 Just go to your software installer on the homepage of your admin area, and, also the community condiments add on is now available for all. 768 00:51:38.525 --> 00:51:41.565 If you haven't already done so, take a moment to join our Facebook group. 769 00:51:41.565 --> 00:51:45.165 You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook. 770 00:51:45.165 --> 00:51:47.985 And on behalf of myself, David, and the entire 771 00:51:48.454 --> 00:51:52.854 Brilliant Directories family, thank you for an amazing webinar. We'll see you in two weeks. 772 00:51:52.854 --> 00:51:55.754 Have a great day and a brilliant week. Take care, guys.