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

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I hope everyone had a good,

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last, two weeks there. If this is your first time joining us,

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welcome. I am Jason there on the left and we're always lucky to be joined by David Rocklin,

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the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directory.

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David, thank you so much, for joining us in today's webinar.

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Hey, everybody. We got some good updates and a great tip of the week to share with you.

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So really excited for today's webinar.

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Yeah, and as always, we've made it a routine. We're also streaming on YouTube.

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The benefit of this, of course, is we can instantly share the YouTube replay link

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inside the Facebook group after the webinar.

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So if there's something that you missed or we went too quickly or you wanna recap, it will be available immediately in the Facebook group after the webinar.

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So speaking of the Facebook group, I do see some new names and faces here. Welcome to the webinar.

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If you're not already part of the BD Facebook group, I do invite and encourage you to join.

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You can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com

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forward /facebook.

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Lots of great discussions and questions

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are in that group.

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I'm seeing lots of people ask for feedback and they're getting a constructive criticism on their websites and directories to help them propel those sites forward.

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So again, if you're not already part of the Facebook group, definitely encourage you to join us there.

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And for those of you joining for the first time, again, welcome.

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Webinar Wednesday is really a great place for us to share some of the newer features that are built into the platform week after week.

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Of course, there are tons of small patches and fixes with the platform.

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So in the webinars, we try to focus on the features that can provide you with actionable steps to help grow your community a bit faster and quicker.

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Sometimes we'll cover topics related to increasing traffic,

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converting some of your website visitors into paid or free subscribers or members to your website,

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how to improve search engine optimization, and also one of my favorites, how to improve the navigation and flow of your website

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to provide the best experience for the visitors of your site.

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So if you have any questions on these topics, please save them.

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We'll do our best to get to as many questions as possible

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later on in the webinar.

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Alright. And we have a small handful of BD lab updates to share,

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some new features that are released and some items that are coming soon.

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The first one here is related to the members

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search visibility. This one has come up in the Facebook group

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a few times actually, so we do have a setting

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in your general settings where you can enable this that requires members to have complete profiles

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before their listing displays in the search results. So people don't just join your site,

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add one piece of data like their first name, don't add anything else and they're showing in the search results.

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It gives a bad user experience to the visitors who are trying to use your site as a resource.

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It's a really cool feature.

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If you do enable this, you definitely want to educate your members that they should complete, you know, whatever those fields are that create the complete profile status

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so that they're not wondering why they're not showing in the search results.

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So first, let me show you where the require complete profile settings are.

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And then what's new here is you can actually choose

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which fields are required

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for your members to complete in order to have a complete profile status.

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So let's head on over to,

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the dashboard area here.

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And the setting that's always been here has been in the general settings area.

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And it's under

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search settings.

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we have require complete profiles.

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So this is the setting that's always been here and it's always been locked into

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what it says here under the description.

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If this is enabled,

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it will only include members in the search results who at least have

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a name, a top level category selected,

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a profile photo or logo, and have entered their address

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into their profile. So that would constitute as a complete profile.

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If they don't have those bare minimum fields filled out, they will not show in the search results.

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So it works great.

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Those are some basic things, we've always thought people or members should fill out to complete their profiles.

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some feedback from the BD community has been we'd like to have more required fields or custom required fields.

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So there is a setting in your advanced settings now, we'll go there together,

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and we'll look for require complete profiles.

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this would be the advanced setting for it. This does the same thing that the general setting does.

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However, over here, now you can put

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the field names,

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that are required in order to constitute a complete

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profile. So you would put a comma separated list here,

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don't put any spaces.

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And if you're wondering what to include here, what's what's a good quick quick tip for this,

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maybe you want the phone number field,

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to be required as well. So,

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you would wanna put comma and the phone number field.

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If you don't know the value of what you should put here for the phone number field, I have a quick, tip for you here.

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We do have in our documentation.

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The import file when you're importing members into your site.

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And in here, we do have an import template, and this template has all the names of all the fields,

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that a member could enter into their profile.

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And if you're creating custom fields, you can also include that in your comma separated list.

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And it would be the first link here, it downloads an Excel file to,

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to your computer so you can view the template file.

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I just have it opened in Google Sheets here. You can see all the field names, first name, last name,

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email, company. So if I wanted phone number to be required,

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it's easy to use this template file. I'll just copy phone number,

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to my comma separated list. So now if a member signs up

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they won't show up in the search results. So that's available now.

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Those of you who are using the setting, I'm sure this will come in handy.

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This works for both the default fields that we have with BD, zip code, things like that, and also any custom fields that you might add like hair color or anything like that.

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So that is available now.

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Actually, let's take a quick stop for a second.

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If you wanna raise your hand or we can unmute you, is anyone using the required complete profiles,

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setting now? We could just see from a quick show of hands if anyone is even using

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this setting on their site.

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Teresa and Steven are using this setting. Also,

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Steven we got two Stevens using the setting, very nice.

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And yeah, we got a small handful of people about 10 people here that are using this. Very cool.

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Alright. This next one's pretty awesome. Also requested from the Facebook group.

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As you guys know, last year we introduced premade elements in the admin dashboard area when you're creating web pages

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and things like that.

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It was requested to be able to use the pre made elements when creating things like blog posts, when you have to log in as a member and create a post such as a blog.

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This is now available. I'll show you how it works

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and where you can enable this on any custom post type that you'd want as well. So,

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what we have here, if we go to this site here,

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and we will post, let me post a new blog article. Just a moment. Let's backtrack a second.

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Let me go to my members.

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And let me search for the admin blog author member.

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Okay, let's log in as this blog author member here, so log in as member.

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And let's publish a website blog article.

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So generally, the owner of the website is going to be the one to publish the company

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website blog articles on the site. That's why this post type exists and that's why this membership

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plan exists, the admin blog author membership plan.

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The community articles are separate articles for the rest of your members to contribute articles.

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In this case, this setting is enabled here now for blog articles.

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You'll see this kind of tealish colored button here. It says pre made elements,

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so of course we could always type a blog article from scratch,

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but now if you toggle pre made elements, this is the same thing you're seeing in

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your admin area when you're editing a web page.

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You can now add content blocks to your blog post. So if you're writing an article

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and, you know, maybe you wanted to put an element like this in the middle of the article, it kind of helps,

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quickly construct the page a bit quicker.

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Maybe you wanna insert your own call to action in the middle of an article, maybe you have a webinar coming up, or you wanna incentivize people to join while they're reading your article,

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this is a great way to put in calls to action.

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Or maybe you're creating an article and you wanna do a quick comparison

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of some elements that you're talking about in your blog post.

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So we'll just go ahead and we can always close this,

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and those elements will be here in the blog post.

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in your admin, back end area as well.

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And let me show you one more detail about this, actually pretty important.

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So you're not gonna see this on other post types. Let's go to events for example.

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Events is a post type meant for all your members and you, the admin owner to,

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to create.

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through the event description,

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we don't see that here. Your members wouldn't have the ability

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for post types such as the blog articles.

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If you wanted to know where this that is controlled from, I can show you.

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customized the form that's related to posting and creating blog articles.

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I'll click on edit here.

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elements,

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and I'm just gonna search for a Frowala.

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under fancy fields, we have three editors.

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The Froella editor, that's like your most basic one as far as the toolbar options that are available

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here in the editor.

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The Froella editor with user image upload,

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So that one would allow your members, your users to upload images.

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And then there is one for you, the admin.

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And the admin is the one that not only has image upload,

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item here. So, that's why we're seeing the premade elements on this editor.

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It's because it's using the Froella editor designated for the admin, which would be you the website owner here.

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So if you're editing any of your post type forms and you want one for yourself, that's for the admin to include the premade elements,

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just select the admin here.

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Alright, this one also a suggestion from the Facebook group, round of applause for the Facebook group.

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Let's go to a search results page. There's a sidebar usually associated with

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a search results page. Let's just look at this site as an example.

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So in this case we see that the sidebar is on the left side and that's fine, and generally on

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mobile devices the sidebar will and has historically always been at the end of the search results.

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we will then see the sidebar elements on mobile

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However, there is a new setting here, and you can decide if on mobile devices, on smartphones,

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iPhones, Androids, things like that, If you want the sidebar to show above

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the results, so sometimes you might want if you have a short sidebar, you might want that to display

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above the results on mobile. Let me show you where you can set that per post type

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the events or it doesn't matter, we'll just go to any post type, the setting is in the same place for all the post types.

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So let's say for the the digital products search results page, you would go to the search results design tab,

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and this will be under additional settings.

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we have some settings here, which sidebar to use, a sidebar search module to use, and here is the new setting,

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sidebar position on mobile devices.

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So by default it's set to bottom because that's what it's always been, but you can set this to top.

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you'll notice that the sidebar and all the sidebar elements will be above the search results

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on mobile. Now a bit of a warning here, if you have a pretty heavy sidebar

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with lots of elements here, it might

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push the main search results that people are after further down the page.

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So I would only recommend using this if you have a short sidebar with maybe one to three maximum elements.

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We don't want people scrolling too much just to get to the results that they've already searched for.

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So just a small pro tip there, this probably works best if you only are using the search module in the left hand side or right hand side of the sidebar and no other elements.

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But this is here now, and, you guys can play around with that and see how it looks from your smartphone device.

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Alright. And some updates coming very soon.

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We did mention this in the recent newsletter and in the previous webinar.

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Two new add ons are almost eking their way to the finish line.

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The file upload for forms and the member credits system.

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We are hoping for a February release on both of these.

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If one of them or at least for one of them and at the latest time, early early March, We are hitting a few snags with some of these, but our QA and development team is working through them.

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So we have those two new add ons coming very soon, and I'll be sure to update,

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update us in the webinars and in the Facebook group as soon as I have more information on their releases.

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And there are three major speed updates also in the final QA process.

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These speed updates touch a lot of places of the software. So the QA team is being

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very diligent in their testing before we push these.

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But effectively what these are going to do, there are things that load on every web page when when the page loads.

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Validation for forms, Google map elements, and also those dynamic drop downs when we're selecting

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from one top level category to a sublevel category.

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Basically, what these updates surround are surrounded around

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are we only need to load these elements when they're requested.

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So only when someone clicks into edit a form or submit a form or when someone wants to use the dynamic drop downs.

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And once these are pushed, we've seen the page speed scores increase dramatically

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So we're looking forward to these releases very soon.

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for sending emails. I know it sounds complicated,

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More of your emails from the BD platform will land successfully in people's inboxes and fewer

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releasing that soon as well.

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Specifically on these topics, we wanna save the q and a, for the end of the webinar.

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I'd love to take a question or two and see what you guys think. Alright. We got some hands up here.

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Good friend, Rich. How you doing, Rich?

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Great, Jason. How's it going? Pretty good. Thanks for joining the webinar.

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Absolutely. Yeah. Love this, this new feature.

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The it's that's the biggest challenge is getting members to complete their profile. So

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anything advancing that cause is just awesome.

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So two questions on that topic,

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is one, is there a way we can view members who have not completed their profile?

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Or if there's a a way that note the member can be notified that it's not completed or some auto reminders.

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member that joined months ago and just completed their profile today.

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that they're it's not complete, and then I just kinda monitor who's logged in.

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And based on that, I to view their profile. But You're pro

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If the setting is enabled in general settings,

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being able to search members based on their completeness status, whether they're completed or not completed.

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Okay. And then and then based on that, this this is where I'm gonna take some notes on here.

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Completed profiles or incomplete profiles.

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And for now it might be a little manual, but maybe on the first of every month you can send an email to the incomplete profiles reminding them what they need to do, something light and friendly

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and things like that. So Yeah.

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Thank you for that.

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Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Richard. That's a very good suggestion. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one there.

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And on the same topic you just mentioned about domain names, I'll just finish with this.

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Is there a way to view members that have unsubscribed?

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it's hard to monitor like we have, you know, the welcome on onboarding process

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and even direct I send a lot of direct messages to members that go through the platform.

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But is there a way to see that, okay, there's the answer right there? Yeah.

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and and they're included in some of your smart list, they will not be sent your email newsletters and things like that.

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So that's right under contacts.

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View contacts and then view unsubscribe list. Here you can

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You can manually add an email to the unsubscribe list, and, of course, you can just see everyone who's part of the unsubscribe list.

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Yeah. Because we're thinking we might just send them an email off the site.

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It'll say, did you intentionally intend to unsubscribe?

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Because some people just click on it, you know, accidentally, but Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah.

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This is awesome.

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Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Rich.

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Alright. Good stuff there.

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We'll get some more questions a little later in the webinar.

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These will be the the cover art for the two new add ons, that are coming down the line, the file uploads for forms

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Alright and tip of the week, David, if it's okay with you, I'd like to pass it over.

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Really cool tip of the week, three elements you should add it to your members dashboard actually goes in kind of in the same vein as what we were talking about with the updates.

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If it's okay, I'll I'll pass it over to you, David, and you can run us through this one.

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Yeah. Absolutely. So the member dashboard page, often

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an overlooked area of your website, but one that's probably viewed most often, at least by your members.

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So we'll start off by talking about what's so special about the member dashboard page

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anyway.

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Again, this is one that, you know, it's not,

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indexed by Google or search engines. It's not one that's linked to in your main menu or your footer.

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It's not one that's accessible by just general website visitors. So what makes it so special anyway?

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Well, after logging in, it's the very first page that every single one of your members will always see.

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By default, this is the page they'll always see first.

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So on this page is a great opportunity to expose them to new and important information

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that, you really wanna get out in front of them.

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blog roll, but maybe your members aren't going to that area of your website.

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They're not checking that out.

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Or maybe kind of the the articles are are getting lost in the shuffle.

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So if there's, you know, a a brand new feature or update that you wanna get out in front of them and really let them know about, this would be a great place and opportunity

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to do that.

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Now the default layout gives members a ton of links, you know, links to publish new content, to access their account details, to manage their account and their billing information, everything like that.

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to really better suit your members and your specific target audience.

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And this is done on a per membership plan basis. So the dashboard page

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for your low level, say your free members, can be totally different than the dashboard page for your highest tier paid members.

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how we can better utilize that page

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for improved member engagement

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to make members look forward to actually logging in, not just so that they can post content or check on their new leads, but also to see what's new that's been added into their dashboard since the last time they logged in.

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So some key elements to add on to your member dashboard.

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Here, we're just kind of gonna, list some, some basic ideas of elements that you can add to your members' dashboards.

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Some of these will make a lot of sense for your specific members. Others won't be that applicable.

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It really depends on your target audience and and your industry and and what your members are looking for out of your website.

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website or company news.

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As I mentioned, if you're utilizing the website blog article section to publish website news, maybe your members just aren't interested,

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necessarily, or they don't know about that section of your website, so they're not seeing those articles.

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or upcoming events, maybe a brand new report on your community's industry just came out or an infographic or new ebook that you're providing.

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All these things, this would be a great place

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You know, as soon as your members log in, they'll see a nice banner.

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You know, if you wanna make a banner and place it in there, this would be a great place to draw some attention to that.

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Obviously, if you wanna go the banner route, you could do that in a program like Photoshop.

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There's also some free online tools. Canva is one that we've talked about a lot in these webinars.

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I think Adobe also actually now has a free online tool to create banners.

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So there's a lot of flexibility here with this type of element.

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What you can also do is share some relevant messages or videos. This can be something

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as simple as, you know, a motivational quote that's related to, to your audience.

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every couple months, whatever suits your schedule.

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Or maybe you were in an interview, one of your community members, or a a leader in your target industry.

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Maybe one of them was in a recent interview or webinar or a podcast,

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that's relevant to your members. You can either embed that video or

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if it's a SoundCloud audio file, you can embed that directly into the dashboard,

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or you can share a link, with some additional texts in the member's dashboard.

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explaining the benefits of their new account, how they can navigate the dashboard,

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and, maybe highlight some different sections of the website that they might otherwise overlook.

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where you just ask for their feedback, and you can include a link out to,

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another page on your website.

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and then maybe just a a text box where they can submit whatever comments or feedback suggestions

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that they'd like to send you.

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Something really simple but shows us your community that you are looking to improve and you're eager to to hear what they think and what they have to say.

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are some calls to action that you can add into

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the member dashboard page.

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engagement on your website and within your community.

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a new post, browsing some specific content

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on your website. But you can also include maybe some paid

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calls to action with the primary intent

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sales on your website. So these could be calls to action

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like to upgrade their account,

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linking out to their own website or maybe just to their profile.

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Maybe if they wanna be featured higher in the search results

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on your website than the other members, they can pay for that upgrade or maybe even just have some additional services like a profile audit or maybe some marketing services that you wanna offer.

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You can highlight and showcase those in the member dashboard as well. Yeah.

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These are some awesome ideas that you put together here. Obviously,

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we can let, what is this, Freight, a thousand flowers bloom on on what to put on the dashboard, but positive messaging,

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soliciting suggestions, or are putting links where they can contact you with questions or for help with their profiles,

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getting them to take actions like post a classified ad or post an event, whatever you're trying to get members to contribute for user generated content.

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calls to action for

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paid separate services.

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One obviously upgrading their membership plan if they're on a lower tiered level, or paying for any sponsorships or banner ads

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around the site, and that works great with the download digital

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products add on where you can sell services that are not necessarily membership plans on the site.

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So this is a really cool list here and just to take it a step further, this is stuff just using text and images and links, you can have all these things listed here in the members dashboard.

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However, I have seen people work with developers in the marketplace

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to put more comprehensive,

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slightly more complicated, requires a developer's touch, but reports and charts and things like that for

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for the users as well as completeness checklist. So

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we were talking about the profile completeness.

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I've seen developers

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check boxes when parts of the profile are complete for the dashboard.

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But I think moving on from that, we did create a fully customized member dashboard just using the premade

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elements and blocks.

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So I think let's take a look at that together, David?

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Yeah, let's do that.

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I think the main point here to take away is that there's just a lot of ideas that you can incorporate into the dashboard when you kind of rethink it so that it acts more as a tool

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and a place that your members are looking forward to rather than just sort of a landing page that they get to as soon as they log in.

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Something to engage them a bit more.

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So we did create a sample member dashboard design for membership plan one on this site.

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So first let's log in as a member and then we can see what we've created

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and how we did that as well. So let's log in as this member here.

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Okay great. And just to be honest with you guys, we kind of did this a bit quick right before

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the webinar. However, the fact that we did it this quick, it came out pretty okay in my opinion.

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But just to let you know, if you probably took a little bit more time, you can get even better results for this.

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So why don't we start from top to bottom?

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David, why don't you let us know what you decided to put in here as custom content for this member upon logging in, and then we can show you guys in the back end area how we created this.

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Yeah. So right at the very top, I figured this is the perfect place to kind of showcase or highlight

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the most important

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most recent feature update,

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new event, whatever it may be, that you want to show to your members.

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Figured this was the perfect place to do it, and I thought it would best be done by using a banner to really grab their attention rather than just using

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So as I mentioned, you if you don't have Photoshop or you're not familiar with it, that's how we made this banner here but you could certainly use free online tools like canva and as I mentioned I think adobe also has a free banner maker now as well

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so that's what we did for the first section here.

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Then right below that, we just have a simple message of the week.

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Kind of assuming the sample site was,

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targeted for the digital marketing community.

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We have a little simple quote that kind of goes along, with that theme with traditional marketing.

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You tell people they're a rock star with content marketing.

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You show them they're a rock star, and then we have a little image to go with that.

445
00:31:20.909 --> 00:31:25.250
So this could be just a little something that can be updated weekly or monthly,

446
00:31:25.595 --> 00:31:29.215
but, you know, whatever fits your schedule, but something that at least keeps the dashboard

447
00:31:29.755 --> 00:31:33.295
fresh. And it, maybe it'll give your members, some motivation

448
00:31:33.675 --> 00:31:39.210
or some new ideas, kind of get their their gears going a little bit. That's really important.

449
00:31:39.590 --> 00:31:41.049
This doesn't need to be updated

450
00:31:41.350 --> 00:31:44.250
daily. You could have some, I guess, evergreen

451
00:31:44.789 --> 00:31:47.130
assets here, things that just never change.

452
00:31:47.429 --> 00:31:55.615
And you might have things that might change monthly, like an upcoming event or something specific that's coming soon that you wanna mention.

453
00:31:55.615 --> 00:31:57.155
It could be a feature on the website,

454
00:31:57.855 --> 00:32:01.055
or whatever it might be. It doesn't have to be the message of the week.

455
00:32:01.055 --> 00:32:08.710
It could be the message of the month, and there could be a theme for your members, and you have a video that compliments that message and theme.

456
00:32:08.710 --> 00:32:13.370
And this is the goal that they should have for this month. You know, this this month is all about,

457
00:32:14.070 --> 00:32:17.930
something good for their business or whatever it might be. But that way, you get a unified

458
00:32:18.405 --> 00:32:24.405
community goal together and you could take it a a step further and people can share their experiences.

459
00:32:24.405 --> 00:32:28.105
You could put a link under here and, you know, take it a step further.

460
00:32:28.485 --> 00:32:31.625
So again, it doesn't have to be something that you're updating daily.

461
00:32:31.710 --> 00:32:36.450
There could be some permanent features here and then just some things that you update maybe monthly.

462
00:32:37.549 --> 00:32:37.789
Yeah.

463
00:32:37.789 --> 00:32:44.655
And speaking of those permanent or semi permanent kind of evergreen features, we added three things to do now.

464
00:32:44.895 --> 00:32:49.155
Again, customizing the member dashboard page is done on a per membership

465
00:32:49.615 --> 00:32:50.435
plan basis.

466
00:32:51.135 --> 00:32:57.955
So, these three things to do now could be different for your free members versus your highest tier paid members.

467
00:32:58.095 --> 00:33:01.620
In here, we just added some simple ones like updating their profile,

468
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:08.800
posting an ad, in this case, a classified ad, as well as getting an article written about the member.

469
00:33:08.800 --> 00:33:15.059
So if you offer a service where you can kind of write an article featuring a

470
00:33:15.485 --> 00:33:17.025
specific member of your community.

471
00:33:17.485 --> 00:33:19.105
You can include an application.

472
00:33:19.165 --> 00:33:23.565
So here, you know, we're just linking out to, in this case, that first box.

473
00:33:23.565 --> 00:33:25.505
It would be a link out to,

474
00:33:26.045 --> 00:33:27.905
maybe editing their basic details,

475
00:33:28.285 --> 00:33:30.065
their basic information right there.

476
00:33:30.370 --> 00:33:33.909
So you just grab that URL, and you just add it to the button

477
00:33:34.210 --> 00:33:37.570
in in that section. Posting an ad, it would be the same thing.

478
00:33:37.809 --> 00:33:43.110
You would go to the classified section in the member account, grab the URL,

479
00:33:43.755 --> 00:33:44.155
and,

480
00:33:44.555 --> 00:33:46.975
attach that link to the button there.

481
00:33:47.835 --> 00:33:49.135
And then the last thing,

482
00:33:49.515 --> 00:33:52.335
the last box, they're getting an article written about the member.

483
00:33:52.555 --> 00:33:57.295
In this kind of hypothetical scenario, you could link that button out to a page,

484
00:33:57.675 --> 00:33:58.475
on your website.

485
00:33:58.475 --> 00:34:07.390
You know, one that maybe isn't indexed by search engines, one that's not included in your main menu, but a page that you created that includes a form where they can add some information about themselves,

486
00:34:07.930 --> 00:34:11.310
what they're looking to get out of a featured article, things like that.

487
00:34:11.694 --> 00:34:16.835
Yeah one thing we covered in previous webinars is you you know you can create these portals

488
00:34:17.295 --> 00:34:22.914
for your users using the pre made elements you know this is basically just three blocks next to each other

489
00:34:23.375 --> 00:34:25.635
and you can always grab the links

490
00:34:25.989 --> 00:34:31.270
of these things. So maybe this would say like update your profile photo. Just grab the link.

491
00:34:31.270 --> 00:34:39.050
You just right click it, copy link, and when you're editing this module here and we'll show you how when we go to the admin area, just make this link

492
00:34:39.515 --> 00:34:41.675
correspond to where you want to send them.

493
00:34:41.675 --> 00:34:57.180
So you can create really good portal click portals kind of things for your members getting them to post content or taking them to areas of your site, especially if you have a members only site, you can then portal them to the pages that are members only that they can now access

494
00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:02.140
since they're logged in. So this is but this is great to get them to take action,

495
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:06.015
on things they should do on for the site on the site. Yeah.

496
00:35:06.015 --> 00:35:15.075
Kind of going back to the slide with the ideas for elements you can include, that section would kind of go, in line with those free calls to action to boost

497
00:35:15.454 --> 00:35:19.694
engagement on the site. And then following that, we have some paid calls to action,

498
00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.380
where you can generate some additional revenue

499
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.180
from your members. In this, specific

500
00:35:25.720 --> 00:35:26.220
example,

501
00:35:26.680 --> 00:35:29.020
we have some additional services like a profile

502
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:37.805
review where maybe, you know, you wanna go over the member's profile with them, see how it can be improved, what information can be added, how it can be cleaned up.

503
00:35:37.805 --> 00:35:43.505
Maybe the member wants to be the featured profile of the week, maybe on your home page.

504
00:35:43.645 --> 00:35:45.165
You can charge them for that.

505
00:35:45.405 --> 00:35:53.470
Or maybe if they wanna be featured for an entire month instead of just for one week, you offer that, as an option for an additional service as well.

506
00:35:53.610 --> 00:35:58.190
So we put this together, as Jason said, really in about forty five minutes.

507
00:35:58.570 --> 00:36:02.510
I think this looks pretty good, pretty clean, lots of different information here.

508
00:36:02.975 --> 00:36:10.035
So, it's really up to you and your imagination kind of what you can do with this in, you know, half a day's time.

509
00:36:10.415 --> 00:36:14.355
Let's take a look at the admin area and where we've made those edits.

510
00:36:14.735 --> 00:36:18.275
So each dashboard is based on the membership plan.

511
00:36:18.540 --> 00:36:22.240
So in this case, we edited the membership plan one.

512
00:36:22.460 --> 00:36:25.600
These are just generic names for the for the webinar here.

513
00:36:26.460 --> 00:36:26.960
And

514
00:36:27.420 --> 00:36:32.080
where you can edit this dashboard stuff is in the members dashboard tab.

515
00:36:32.795 --> 00:36:35.375
And these are, oops, these are all settings,

516
00:36:35.755 --> 00:36:39.215
related to the members dashboard, what they can see,

517
00:36:39.755 --> 00:36:45.535
and do. So what we did actually in the dashboard display settings, we turned off all the default

518
00:36:46.020 --> 00:36:50.920
options that would dis that are displaying there by themselves, manage listings, QR code,

519
00:36:51.380 --> 00:36:53.860
and things like that. And we're 100%

520
00:36:53.860 --> 00:36:54.360
using

521
00:36:54.820 --> 00:36:57.720
the custom dashboard content. So what's really cool

522
00:36:58.180 --> 00:37:00.280
is you can have header content,

523
00:37:00.660 --> 00:37:03.055
which would be this text editor here,

524
00:37:03.755 --> 00:37:05.535
and if you have any of these

525
00:37:05.994 --> 00:37:07.295
other things enabled,

526
00:37:07.755 --> 00:37:10.734
they will show in between the header content.

527
00:37:11.275 --> 00:37:15.214
And if I scroll down a bit more, there's dashboard footer content.

528
00:37:15.420 --> 00:37:18.000
So you can actually sandwich in some of the default

529
00:37:18.380 --> 00:37:18.880
things

530
00:37:19.180 --> 00:37:19.920
in between,

531
00:37:20.220 --> 00:37:23.520
the dashboard footer content, the custom dashboard footer content,

532
00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:30.000
and your dashboard header content. Let's actually enable a few of these, just three of them.

533
00:37:30.059 --> 00:37:32.204
I will say account details

534
00:37:32.585 --> 00:37:33.085
and

535
00:37:34.105 --> 00:37:36.685
the QR code. Let's just save that

536
00:37:37.865 --> 00:37:41.005
and see how this looks with some of the custom

537
00:37:41.545 --> 00:37:44.285
elements mixed in with some of the default

538
00:37:44.700 --> 00:37:46.080
elements that are available.

539
00:37:46.859 --> 00:37:55.200
So if we scroll down a bit, so here now we can see that these are the custom elements and here are the default elements, published content,

540
00:37:55.740 --> 00:37:56.720
account details,

541
00:37:57.204 --> 00:37:58.744
free QR code image.

542
00:37:59.285 --> 00:38:07.464
And then this is these are the footer elements, things to do now and additional services just to give you a gauge of what's happening here on on this page.

543
00:38:08.085 --> 00:38:11.464
So if we go back here, I'll just turn these off now.

544
00:38:12.484 --> 00:38:14.190
I That's pretty clear.

545
00:38:15.530 --> 00:38:19.230
And if we scroll down, we can see what David created here.

546
00:38:19.690 --> 00:38:22.410
Used some of the pre made elements here, so,

547
00:38:22.810 --> 00:38:23.550
for example,

548
00:38:24.250 --> 00:38:25.950
we can use a pre made element

549
00:38:26.410 --> 00:38:26.910
for

550
00:38:28.475 --> 00:38:31.775
teams or whatever. You you guys can get creative here, but basically,

551
00:38:32.635 --> 00:38:34.895
these are just pre made templates of content.

552
00:38:34.955 --> 00:38:39.355
You can drop it in and then make your changes to the newly added section here.

553
00:38:39.355 --> 00:38:42.349
I'll go ahead and save the changes and we'll see this,

554
00:38:42.970 --> 00:38:43.789
this default

555
00:38:44.250 --> 00:38:45.630
content block here.

556
00:38:46.569 --> 00:38:48.589
And these will be gone now as well.

557
00:38:49.529 --> 00:38:51.529
So this is it just it looks really nice.

558
00:38:51.529 --> 00:38:55.289
You might not want to overwhelm users with with too many items.

559
00:38:55.289 --> 00:39:01.635
It might distract them from the key calls to action that you want them to take, but you can definitely

560
00:39:02.015 --> 00:39:03.075
put some elegant

561
00:39:03.455 --> 00:39:08.675
links and content blocks here to either share information or get them to take,

562
00:39:09.295 --> 00:39:10.195
take an action.

563
00:39:10.620 --> 00:39:13.280
And then the same thing is for the footer.

564
00:39:13.820 --> 00:39:19.340
Here are the things to do now. In this case, David had used the block.

565
00:39:19.340 --> 00:39:23.360
I think it's a basic content block for three elements. Just put it up here.

566
00:39:23.825 --> 00:39:28.725
When you come here now, we have these three generic blocks here. In this case, David replaced

567
00:39:29.025 --> 00:39:32.485
these larger, you know, default images with little smaller,

568
00:39:33.025 --> 00:39:35.905
images here. And then yeah, Dave? Yeah.

569
00:39:35.905 --> 00:39:44.770
And I was just gonna say, I think one other important thing to, to note is if you are familiar with HTML or CSS and you really wanna get a little bit more creative,

570
00:39:45.230 --> 00:39:48.130
add some some additional details, you can, of course,

571
00:39:48.430 --> 00:39:53.384
access the the code view for these, as well and and add your own code.

572
00:39:53.384 --> 00:39:59.565
Or even if, you know, you just want to embed a YouTube video or something like that in the dashboard, you can do that here as well.

573
00:40:00.105 --> 00:40:04.420
And, yeah, I actually bring up a good point for for people who are more familiar with coding

574
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:07.700
and want to move beyond just the, the premade elements,

575
00:40:08.240 --> 00:40:10.900
you can choose to use the text editor

576
00:40:11.200 --> 00:40:17.155
or you can use a custom widget that you create that's totally coded from the ground up that uses JavaScript

577
00:40:17.455 --> 00:40:23.875
and your own custom CSS and HTML and everything, just select the custom widget that you want to render here,

578
00:40:24.255 --> 00:40:28.515
in this case in the dashboard footer content or in the header area. So

579
00:40:28.860 --> 00:40:39.440
whether you're a novice, a beginner, and just want to use the pre made elements, or a developer and you want to really show your own custom content here, you really have the ability to do so with this here.

580
00:40:40.540 --> 00:40:45.685
And then, what I was gonna show one more thing is just these additional services

581
00:40:45.985 --> 00:40:46.485
is,

582
00:40:46.945 --> 00:40:51.265
you know, how you can get these to link to where you can purchase this.

583
00:40:51.265 --> 00:40:56.005
This would work in in line with the, let me just go there,

584
00:40:56.770 --> 00:40:57.990
The digital products,

585
00:40:59.170 --> 00:41:02.790
add on. It's the sell excuse me, not download. Sell digital downloads,

586
00:41:03.410 --> 00:41:03.810
add on.

587
00:41:03.810 --> 00:41:08.610
I always mix up the name on this one, but the sell digital downloads add on, and I'll share a link there.

588
00:41:08.610 --> 00:41:12.470
And let's actually create a digital product, David, and link it

589
00:41:12.905 --> 00:41:15.005
there in the dashboard real quick. So,

590
00:41:15.305 --> 00:41:17.565
this is for the admin, the website owner,

591
00:41:17.865 --> 00:41:23.405
to create posts of additional things you can sell on the website. So let's actually log in,

592
00:41:24.185 --> 00:41:26.460
as an admin blog contributor real quick.

593
00:41:26.700 --> 00:41:31.520
Let's create a digital product and link it there in the dashboard. I think this will bring

594
00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:33.580
the presentation full circle here.

595
00:41:33.580 --> 00:41:37.440
So let's just search for a member that's an admin blog contributor,

596
00:41:38.220 --> 00:41:41.680
and we'll log in. And I believe this site has the digital

597
00:41:42.365 --> 00:41:43.505
downloads add on.

598
00:41:44.204 --> 00:41:46.385
Yep. So website digital products.

599
00:41:47.964 --> 00:41:50.145
So let's just create a new digital product.

600
00:41:51.724 --> 00:41:53.585
And this one will be called

601
00:41:54.180 --> 00:41:59.960
I guess we'll call it what it says here in the dashboard which is a profile review, dollars 50.

602
00:42:00.660 --> 00:42:01.960
So profile review,

603
00:42:02.260 --> 00:42:02.920
dollars 50.

604
00:42:03.619 --> 00:42:06.599
You can leave that bank, but so the buy button, so

605
00:42:07.780 --> 00:42:08.520
get reviewed

606
00:42:11.045 --> 00:42:15.944
Now, so what's cool is you can choose what the buy button text says, the call to action on the buy page.

607
00:42:16.085 --> 00:42:19.045
You can redirect buyers to a custom thank you page.

608
00:42:19.045 --> 00:42:25.305
You have to create that thank you page first, and then you can choose that that is the page they'll be redirected to upon purchase.

609
00:42:25.740 --> 00:42:36.880
You can send a confirmation email after purchase, so of course we would want to create a custom email template and then provide instructions on what they can expect next after they have purchased this product.

610
00:42:37.180 --> 00:42:40.080
So you could choose the custom email template to receive,

611
00:42:40.595 --> 00:42:43.815
and then the description of this product get a

612
00:42:44.194 --> 00:42:44.694
profile,

613
00:42:46.035 --> 00:42:46.535
review,

614
00:42:47.315 --> 00:42:49.174
and we'll just save the changes.

615
00:42:49.795 --> 00:42:52.055
And I think you can add images as well.

616
00:42:53.090 --> 00:42:56.770
I don't have any images but we'll just we'll just link to this page here real quick.

617
00:42:56.770 --> 00:43:00.070
So now that the product is published we can view the post.

618
00:43:01.330 --> 00:43:03.030
So this is a digital product

619
00:43:04.050 --> 00:43:04.845
and it's

620
00:43:05.405 --> 00:43:10.385
profile review. So what you can do is and this is where it says $50 profile review.

621
00:43:10.765 --> 00:43:11.984
Get reviewed now.

622
00:43:12.365 --> 00:43:13.505
If I click this,

623
00:43:14.205 --> 00:43:17.724
I don't think there's a payment gateway set up on this demo site. But, yeah, there you go.

624
00:43:17.885 --> 00:43:21.050
The person could put their credit card number in, and they can proceed

625
00:43:21.510 --> 00:43:22.410
with purchasing,

626
00:43:22.870 --> 00:43:23.610
this product.

627
00:43:24.070 --> 00:43:29.610
So what we'd wanna do is we'd want to and this is back to editing the dashboard footer content.

628
00:43:29.830 --> 00:43:32.570
We have the links here. We can edit the link

629
00:43:33.135 --> 00:43:36.915
to go to that page, digital products, profile review,

630
00:43:37.695 --> 00:43:39.715
and we can change it from learn more

631
00:43:40.095 --> 00:43:41.315
to buy now

632
00:43:42.015 --> 00:43:44.835
or get it now. And I'll go ahead and save these changes.

633
00:43:48.260 --> 00:43:51.400
And what we can do is let's log in as

634
00:43:51.700 --> 00:43:54.440
back to that dashboard of a member who would see that.

635
00:43:55.619 --> 00:43:59.720
Okay so we're back to a member who has a customized dashboard,

636
00:44:00.099 --> 00:44:02.680
and if we scroll down and click on

637
00:44:03.305 --> 00:44:06.445
the 50 profile review, we can click on buy now,

638
00:44:07.945 --> 00:44:09.485
and it takes us to

639
00:44:09.785 --> 00:44:16.845
not a very well decorated page, but from here, they can purchase a profile review, get reviewed now, etcetera, etcetera.

640
00:44:16.905 --> 00:44:23.180
So that brings it full circle on how you can add internal links to your website on this dashboard page.

641
00:44:23.180 --> 00:44:27.280
Maybe they're free calls to action you want them to take, paid calls to action,

642
00:44:27.980 --> 00:44:30.320
or anything else that you can imagine.

643
00:44:30.725 --> 00:44:34.085
Do we leave anything out here, David? I think that was pretty complete there.

644
00:44:34.085 --> 00:44:35.845
I think that pretty much covers it.

645
00:44:36.085 --> 00:44:43.305
Again, it it really just comes down to rethinking the dashboard about how, it can be used more of as a tool for your members.

646
00:44:43.830 --> 00:44:47.510
Absolutely. So what we'll do now is we do have some time left over.

647
00:44:47.750 --> 00:44:54.250
We can take some questions or comments if you want to ask something related to the tip of the week, your own personal website.

648
00:44:54.710 --> 00:44:58.970
We'll see if we can help a few of you out there now. So do you see some hands up?

649
00:44:59.244 --> 00:45:01.665
Our good friend, Roy, how are you doing there?

650
00:45:02.125 --> 00:45:07.105
I'm doing very well. Thank you very much. And I'm very interested to see your last item about

651
00:45:07.565 --> 00:45:08.065
modifications

652
00:45:08.445 --> 00:45:11.744
to the dashboard and and selling additional services.

653
00:45:12.650 --> 00:45:15.150
A situation I've I've got developed regarding

654
00:45:15.450 --> 00:45:16.250
things like,

655
00:45:16.730 --> 00:45:18.910
property sales, classified ads,

656
00:45:19.850 --> 00:45:23.310
events listings, where if somebody wants to sell a

657
00:45:23.610 --> 00:45:27.310
a property on the site, they might want to advertise it for three months.

658
00:45:28.315 --> 00:45:32.735
And I could set that up as a one time payment for for for three months duration or

659
00:45:33.035 --> 00:45:37.215
similarly with a, an advert just to sell a car or something like that.

660
00:45:37.435 --> 00:45:40.815
But if the item doesn't sell within that period of time,

661
00:45:41.230 --> 00:45:43.490
I've been trying to figure out how I could then

662
00:45:43.870 --> 00:45:49.730
enable them to, you know, buy an extra month or buy an extra couple of weeks or something like that.

663
00:45:50.270 --> 00:45:50.770
So,

664
00:45:51.230 --> 00:45:53.020
you know, they'll the

665
00:45:53.405 --> 00:45:53.905
member

666
00:45:54.445 --> 00:46:00.224
says we won't do that for another month, and then I have to manually go in and charge them and then manually

667
00:46:00.525 --> 00:46:05.265
extend the period. I wonder if there's any way that that could be automated. I'm with you.

668
00:46:05.645 --> 00:46:07.265
So there isn't an automated

669
00:46:07.645 --> 00:46:12.289
way to do that. However, and it seems pretty clear what you're looking,

670
00:46:12.750 --> 00:46:13.490
to accomplish,

671
00:46:14.030 --> 00:46:17.490
the first thing I'm going to share with you is how to add,

672
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a hidden expiration date

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for things like property listings.

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So each listing will expire three months or whatever number you decide is the website owner.

675
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It will expire

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x amount of days after the listing is published. Let me share this link with you here,

677
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and what this does is you'll probably want to use the hidden field method and what will that will allow you to do

678
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is put a hidden expiration date,

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for x amount of days after a post is published, like a property,

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a photo, or a product.

681
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What you might want to do with a developer from the marketplace

682
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is, because it doesn't exist in the BD system, is when one of these post types

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expire, such as a property listing,

684
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have an email be sent out asking the website owner if they'd like to repost

685
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their property listing or classified or whatever it would be.

686
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That part you would need to work with a developer.

687
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However, the scope of it, as I explained, seems pretty straightforward.

688
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And if you're using this hidden field method so we know that there is the system is creating a defined

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time

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when a post,

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will expire,

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then it can initiate

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that email that you can send a setup

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to be sent to the person whose post just expired.

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So, those would be the two things you might want to

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set up.

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You might wanna also remind people in their dashboard that posts auto expire after, you know, three months if they're not taken down by the the, the member themselves.

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Obviously, when when you sell a pair of shoes on a classifieds website, you wanna take that listing down so people don't keep asking for your Air Jordans,

699
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you know, after you don't have them anymore.

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So people usually take care of that by themselves, but things like property listings and stuff, I would use the hidden

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field method here. It's about three steps to follow and you can add whatever,

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days you want these post types to, to expire after they're published.

703
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So hope that helps you out there, Roy.

704
00:48:21.815 --> 00:48:22.295
Alright.

705
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Let's see. Dan, I got your hand up here, Dan.

706
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There we go, Dan. How are you? Good. Can you hear me? Yeah. Perfectly.

707
00:48:29.829 --> 00:48:31.210
Okay. Perfect. So,

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we went to create a

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new webhook today for the post,

710
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and then we ran a a test

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and so forth. And it looks like the the URL of, like, the blog post isn't included

712
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in that. So I was wondering if there's any way that,

713
00:48:49.205 --> 00:48:57.890
you know, we can include the the URL of the blog post in that, that webhook data so that way we could, like, automatically post it it to Facebook and social media and everything

714
00:48:58.270 --> 00:48:59.089
via Zapier?

715
00:48:59.470 --> 00:49:01.890
If it's not doing that, it it's probably not happening.

716
00:49:02.190 --> 00:49:06.990
That's a good suggestion to we call it the file name. That's the URL of the the post.

717
00:49:06.990 --> 00:49:11.070
So, yeah, we should definitely include the file name of the post, with the webhook.

718
00:49:11.070 --> 00:49:15.204
I'll I'll notify the team and have them put that on the on the to do list.

719
00:49:15.505 --> 00:49:18.805
Okay. Awesome. Thank you. You're welcome. Good suggestion there.

720
00:49:19.265 --> 00:49:20.305
Okay. We got,

721
00:49:20.944 --> 00:49:26.869
Stephen b. Stephen b. I've unmuted your mic. Oh, hi, Jason. Thanks so much for this wonderful

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webinar.

723
00:49:28.369 --> 00:49:29.430
Hey. A question

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about these

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features with,

726
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like, the events coupons, anyone with, say, ninety days.

727
00:49:36.635 --> 00:49:40.815
What happens to the data after the ninety days, the pictures? I know

728
00:49:41.115 --> 00:49:42.175
it's good to Good question.

729
00:49:42.635 --> 00:49:46.494
Good service, but I mean, is it is it a big residue on the website?

730
00:49:46.875 --> 00:49:52.530
Not at all. So anything that's expired won't show in the active search results on your site.

731
00:49:53.090 --> 00:49:58.310
However, that they will remain online for SEO purposes. It's it's a really good tool

732
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so that that user generated content to attract

733
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visitors to your site.

734
00:50:03.570 --> 00:50:07.750
I do believe the expiration date is there, so if anyone who finds that page,

735
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it will say that the events or the coupon and whatnot,

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is expired.

737
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And you as the website owner, if you really wanted to, you you could choose to delete those,

738
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but I wouldn't recommend it. I'd recommend keeping them on the page.

739
00:50:23.670 --> 00:50:27.210
One, it's a historical reference for what the members have published,

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to your site.

741
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And again, two, it's really good SEO value because it's unique SEO content that that the members have created on your site.

742
00:50:35.735 --> 00:50:36.635
Oh, I think that's

743
00:50:37.255 --> 00:50:40.375
I am so happy I answered the question. Just to make sure.

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So when it expires, say the event expires, if somebody did a search and they happen to find that event on the Internet somewhere, it would be there, they could read about it, but if they clicked it would just say it's expired.

745
00:50:52.200 --> 00:50:54.140
However, it would be out there, correct?

746
00:50:54.680 --> 00:50:55.400
Correct. Right.

747
00:50:55.400 --> 00:51:01.580
But if they're doing active searches on your website for events, it won't show in those search results on your website.

748
00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:02.175
Yeah.

749
00:51:15.210 --> 00:51:22.349
If the people clicked on that does it take them to the my website or does it take them to their profile?

750
00:51:22.570 --> 00:51:28.750
Yeah, so if they clicked from Google it would take them to that event post or coupon post on your website,

751
00:51:29.895 --> 00:51:35.835
but from there they could then click to many other areas of your site such as any related posts you have in the sidebar,

752
00:51:36.295 --> 00:51:41.095
back to the search results for your main events and and things and anything in your main menu as well.

753
00:51:41.095 --> 00:51:44.430
Alright. Thank you very much for your time, Ken. Great question. Absolutely.

754
00:51:44.430 --> 00:51:45.490
That's really good question.

755
00:51:45.790 --> 00:51:50.510
Alright. And we've had Steven b. Let's go with Steven w here. Can you hear me? How's it going today?

756
00:51:50.510 --> 00:51:54.210
Yep. I can hear you. Okay. Great. Thanks. Yeah. Great webinar. Thank you.

757
00:51:54.750 --> 00:51:56.270
Yeah. I have a question regarding the,

758
00:51:57.515 --> 00:52:01.535
the initial discussion about the completed profiles, the new feature.

759
00:52:02.795 --> 00:52:06.895
So I know in the in the advanced setting, you could put the variable names,

760
00:52:07.675 --> 00:52:12.790
like, you know, first first name, you know, first dash name and last name, that sort of thing.

761
00:52:12.790 --> 00:52:13.849
But what about the,

762
00:52:14.470 --> 00:52:16.810
the other section, like the search categories?

763
00:52:17.430 --> 00:52:20.630
Are you able to somehow include that or the even the,

764
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service areas,

765
00:52:23.030 --> 00:52:25.109
to to see if they completed something on that?

766
00:52:25.109 --> 00:52:27.945
Is that, or is it only gonna be the profile information

767
00:52:28.484 --> 00:52:28.984
variables?

768
00:52:30.244 --> 00:52:32.585
That's a good question. I'll show you everything,

769
00:52:32.885 --> 00:52:34.744
that it would include real quick.

770
00:52:35.045 --> 00:52:35.525
Okay.

771
00:52:35.925 --> 00:52:37.225
I don't think it includes

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service areas. That would be those would be additional service areas that a person

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serves or travels to. So maybe somebody doesn't have

774
00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:51.835
additional service areas beyond the main address that they put in with their main contact information.

775
00:52:53.494 --> 00:52:56.954
However, let me show you everything that that you can include.

776
00:52:57.335 --> 00:52:59.835
Let me just log in as a sample member here. So,

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00:53:00.375 --> 00:53:04.474
basically all four of these so bay I'll open these in different tabs.

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00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:08.580
So anything in the

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00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:14.900
first tab, even if you add custom fields here, just add that to your comma separated list.

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So you can add any of these things here.

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00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:20.340
For the profile photo or logo,

782
00:53:21.245 --> 00:53:23.505
input file. So just type file

783
00:53:23.965 --> 00:53:28.625
in as and that will that will check that they have a profile photo or a logo

784
00:53:28.925 --> 00:53:29.825
photo added.

785
00:53:30.445 --> 00:53:34.350
Okay. So that's so that would require them to have a profile photo added to their listing.

786
00:53:34.350 --> 00:53:40.050
So just use the word file in your comma separated list. Okay. Under additional details,

787
00:53:41.630 --> 00:53:42.770
so this would be,

788
00:53:43.390 --> 00:53:44.850
anything here basically,

789
00:53:45.310 --> 00:53:47.410
on this page. I'm not sure about

790
00:53:47.744 --> 00:53:48.565
the subcategories.

791
00:53:49.984 --> 00:53:52.244
Yes. What I was referring to, the subcategories.

792
00:53:53.025 --> 00:53:54.644
Let me I need to ask

793
00:53:54.944 --> 00:53:57.765
let me let me ask the team. Can subcategories

794
00:53:58.144 --> 00:54:02.970
if you wanna ask and if you wanna email the support team and ask them, that's fine too or ask in the Facebook group,

795
00:54:03.930 --> 00:54:04.430
count

796
00:54:05.130 --> 00:54:07.290
as a required Alright. I mean, do you want me to?

797
00:54:07.290 --> 00:54:12.190
I don't need I don't need it immediately, but but with the feature that you're offering, I was just wondering if you have that capability.

798
00:54:12.730 --> 00:54:16.650
So I I don't know. This one's a this just this is its own widget.

799
00:54:16.650 --> 00:54:19.755
I don't know if it's tied into that logic, but I'll I'll ask the team.

800
00:54:19.755 --> 00:54:22.255
But if you also wanna email support if subcategory

801
00:54:22.555 --> 00:54:28.635
I put a screenshot, like, can these be selecting these be added to the that that with screenshots help them a lot.

802
00:54:28.635 --> 00:54:32.555
They'll be able to answer you a lot quicker. I'll do that. And then the last thing is the about me.

803
00:54:32.555 --> 00:54:34.640
So if you require them to input,

804
00:54:35.180 --> 00:54:37.359
their the about me section too.

805
00:54:38.060 --> 00:54:39.200
Okay. Alright?

806
00:54:39.660 --> 00:54:43.680
Alright. Great. Yeah. And and that and not to give you any pressure or, you know, but,

807
00:54:43.980 --> 00:54:44.720
the first,

808
00:54:46.575 --> 00:54:50.115
audience member that spoke up regarding the being able to search

809
00:54:50.494 --> 00:54:55.695
easily to determine if if what profiles are complete, and then you had suggested that maybe you guys would put a,

810
00:54:56.494 --> 00:55:00.950
a drop down option for that. And then Yeah. That that's low hanging fruit for us.

811
00:55:00.950 --> 00:55:03.349
So I'll mention that to you. To do?

812
00:55:03.349 --> 00:55:08.070
On our end, that would be one of one of the easier updates to do for on for our team to do.

813
00:55:08.070 --> 00:55:13.145
So I'll mention it to them, and they'll see, where they can slip it into the project queue, for this one.

814
00:55:13.145 --> 00:55:16.505
That'd be great. Yeah. I think that is I think so. The same thing.

815
00:55:16.505 --> 00:55:21.545
I check it manually 1 x 1 then move over to complete one, so a different plan and that sort of thing.

816
00:55:21.545 --> 00:55:25.805
So, yeah, that would be much better. Absolutely. I agree with you. Thank you.

817
00:55:26.260 --> 00:55:30.420
Sure. Alright. Good stuff. The guys love love the suggestions here.

818
00:55:30.420 --> 00:55:35.320
Look, we already got, like, four things here to just double check or or create, so thank you for that.

819
00:55:35.460 --> 00:55:37.320
Alright. We'll move over to Theresa.

820
00:55:37.780 --> 00:55:38.760
How you doing, Theresa?

821
00:55:39.620 --> 00:55:40.120
Hi.

822
00:55:40.434 --> 00:55:44.375
I am feeling new. So one of the questions that I have

823
00:55:44.835 --> 00:55:46.375
is that for the

824
00:55:47.075 --> 00:55:49.895
the call to action under member dashboard.

825
00:55:50.275 --> 00:55:54.694
I have a question for you about the sizes for the banners for those

826
00:55:55.290 --> 00:55:56.030
call to

827
00:55:56.410 --> 00:56:00.190
actions? Good question. Like what would be the desired size to put?

828
00:56:00.730 --> 00:56:01.230
Yeah.

829
00:56:01.690 --> 00:56:03.070
That's a really good question.

830
00:56:03.930 --> 00:56:05.870
I will tell you what I would recommend.

831
00:56:06.890 --> 00:56:11.505
So let me just do I can actually inspect elements and then tell you what what the size should be.

832
00:56:11.505 --> 00:56:14.865
So basically this area, you can see the 870

833
00:56:14.865 --> 00:56:16.885
there. That's the width of this area.

834
00:56:17.424 --> 00:56:21.904
I usually like to upload images that are just about maybe,

835
00:56:22.224 --> 00:56:23.040
25

836
00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:28.260
larger than the area they're gonna fill. I've learned you get crisper images when you do that. So,

837
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:31.060
if you're gonna create an image eight seventy,

838
00:56:31.520 --> 00:56:41.575
I might I might up use an image that's maybe a thousand pixels wide or close to that, a thousand or 1,100 pixels wide, and then the height is depending on what you need the height to be.

839
00:56:41.795 --> 00:56:45.315
But I wouldn't upload, for example, a three or 4,000

840
00:56:45.315 --> 00:56:48.935
pixel wide image in this place. I'd stick to around a thousand.

841
00:56:49.850 --> 00:56:53.230
So a thousand by maybe two fifty or is that two fifty

842
00:56:53.610 --> 00:56:54.910
width? I mean, height?

843
00:56:55.210 --> 00:57:00.490
So the height really depends on what the you might be uploading a square image for certain reasons.

844
00:57:00.490 --> 00:57:02.350
You might be uploading a horizontal

845
00:57:03.015 --> 00:57:05.914
image like you're mentioning. But, yeah, I think generally,

846
00:57:06.454 --> 00:57:11.194
people are used to two fifty or 300 height for banner for banner images.

847
00:57:11.494 --> 00:57:13.434
So Okay. Something like that.

848
00:57:13.895 --> 00:57:14.395
Awesome.

849
00:57:15.099 --> 00:57:15.420
Okay.

850
00:57:15.900 --> 00:57:19.420
Yeah. Good luck with that. If you want, post in the Facebook group what you create.

851
00:57:19.420 --> 00:57:24.800
We'd like to see what you do. Yeah. I'll attempt it tonight. Thank you. Okay. Good luck. Cheers.

852
00:57:24.940 --> 00:57:28.720
Alright. Fun stuff there from Theresa. We got a good friend Ryan here.

853
00:57:29.184 --> 00:57:32.325
Gonna unmute your mic there. Ryan, how are you doing? Hey. Good evening.

854
00:57:32.865 --> 00:57:33.605
Good evening.

855
00:57:34.224 --> 00:57:39.265
I I said a couple of questions that popped in my brain when you're talking about, pushing updates with the web website.

856
00:57:39.265 --> 00:57:43.424
One question on RSS feeds. Is there a reason or is there a way to actually,

857
00:57:43.970 --> 00:57:45.349
push the image,

858
00:57:46.210 --> 00:57:49.809
from posts in that RSS feed? Because I think it just does the text portion.

859
00:57:49.809 --> 00:57:51.410
I've never seen the image come through.

860
00:57:51.410 --> 00:57:55.910
I don't know if it's supposed to or if that's been left out for a reason. But,

861
00:57:56.495 --> 00:57:56.995
that

862
00:57:57.695 --> 00:58:00.195
Yeah. I think it was left out on purpose.

863
00:58:00.495 --> 00:58:03.795
There were some conflict with some RSS readers

864
00:58:04.335 --> 00:58:05.075
to not

865
00:58:06.095 --> 00:58:08.995
that they were having conflicts when we added the image.

866
00:58:09.330 --> 00:58:11.830
However Okay. You you bring up a good point.

867
00:58:12.130 --> 00:58:14.150
We could have an advanced setting

868
00:58:14.530 --> 00:58:18.390
because people use their sites in different ways, like, with with readers that will

869
00:58:18.690 --> 00:58:22.035
read the images, and and you might need that personally for your own site.

870
00:58:22.674 --> 00:58:26.934
Yeah. It's just a lot more muted without the image on there for most instances that you're using.

871
00:58:28.035 --> 00:58:32.194
So and then, just came up with a client today, and I I don't know if this is a setting for the,

872
00:58:33.155 --> 00:58:37.255
the events or whatever that they disappear after, you know, they're they're done.

873
00:58:37.539 --> 00:58:41.640
Is there a setting to keep them on there just for historical purposes,

874
00:58:42.259 --> 00:58:50.920
even if they're, like, stacked at the bottom or, you know, older if you're doing that the new to the old or whatever, you know, just so that they're there so people because some people are adding

875
00:58:51.275 --> 00:58:57.275
links in there that are historical, I guess, of a, you know, a a recording or whatever that event was.

876
00:58:57.275 --> 00:58:59.915
So it's still useful, and it just kinda disappears on people.

877
00:58:59.915 --> 00:59:01.455
So I didn't know if that was a setting.

878
00:59:01.755 --> 00:59:05.695
So let's let's look at this together. So this is like our demo site.

879
00:59:06.780 --> 00:59:10.960
I'll just so this is showing this obviously works the way it does where

880
00:59:11.660 --> 00:59:17.440
these events we we set way in the future so they don't expire off the demo site like in 2025.

881
00:59:17.900 --> 00:59:18.400
So,

882
00:59:18.875 --> 00:59:20.415
you know, you can search events.

883
00:59:20.954 --> 00:59:24.954
This the select date range is the date range where the event is happening.

884
00:59:24.954 --> 00:59:27.515
So if it's happening between February

885
00:59:27.515 --> 00:59:28.315
15

886
00:59:28.315 --> 00:59:33.515
and February 20 and people search that, they'll be able to find it. What would you think

887
00:59:34.390 --> 00:59:42.490
I know you're saying, like, put it at the bottom, but how can we not confuse users with, you know, where would we put events that that have expired?

888
00:59:42.550 --> 00:59:47.830
We're like Well, I think I think that I think you just pointed to it, to be honest, the calendar thing.

889
00:59:47.830 --> 00:59:50.170
I understand about defaulting it to,

890
00:59:50.765 --> 00:59:54.685
the calendar starting from now until the future, but, and then disappearing them.

891
00:59:54.685 --> 00:59:55.985
But if I wanted to search,

892
00:59:56.445 --> 01:00:00.865
and change the event search to last month and it showed the last month, it would then reshow

893
01:00:01.165 --> 01:00:01.665
everything

894
01:00:02.125 --> 01:00:04.360
from last month because I searched for it.

895
01:00:05.140 --> 01:00:07.800
Oh, okay. So you bring up a good point here. So

896
01:00:08.420 --> 01:00:12.920
if okay. For events or anything with expiration date for events or

897
01:00:13.300 --> 01:00:15.640
post with expiration dates,

898
01:00:16.835 --> 01:00:17.335
If

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the date

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field

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is

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empty,

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just show just show up non expired nine non expired

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posts.

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And then if searching

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dates in the past,

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then show posts

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from those,

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dates.

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Because a lot of events have, you know, video and stuff that can be replayed after the fact and stuff.

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And so there's a lot of use cases where you'd still wanna have access to some details on it.

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Yeah. Yep. That's the actually, this has been

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you know, with coding and stuff, it's one of those things.

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Just you can go down a black hole when you're trying to create the logic for certain things, but I think something closer to this would work.

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So thank you. I'll I'll share this with the team.

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K. Thanks. Alright. Good stuff there. Okay. Yeah. The the expiration date thing is it's always been

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something for us to to tackle and, we just defaulted to showing posts that are still active.

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However, if you look for things in the past, it should show you those ones in the past.

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Good one there, Ryan.

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Alright, guys. Let me see. I think we did take a bunch of questions here.

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We are just a little bit past our time here.

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If we didn't get to your question,

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I do encourage you to ask it in the Facebook group.

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David, thank you so much for this tip of the week. Really opens a lot of opportunities

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on how to utilize

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the member dashboard as a tool for the website.

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I hope you guys like the lab updates and the, the ones coming soon.

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We'll be sure to keep you posted in the Facebook group.

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So on behalf of myself,

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David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, thank you so much for joining the webinar.

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The next webinar guys will be in

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two weeks,

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so that'll be closer to the end of the month this February.

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Hopefully, I'm crossing my fingers, we'll have some of those add ons released by that time.

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And again, if you're not already part of our Facebook group, please join us brilliantdirectories.com

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forward slash facebook. Go there now. We'll see you there and take care guys.

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Have a great day and a brilliant week. Bye bye.