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Alright. Let's get things started. And, yeah, looks like we have people from all over.

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Roger from Wisconsin.

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We got Scott from North Carolina. Good to see you here.

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We got our friends in Australia joining as well. Welcome to, again, Bittersweet, one of the last,

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webinar Wednesdays of the year.

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I think we have one or two more left in us, before New Year's, and we're kicking off 2025.

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If this is your first time joining, welcome. I am Jason there on the left.

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And as always, we're lucky very lucky to be joined by David Rocklin, who is the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directories.

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Thank you, David, for, joining us today. Hey, everybody. Welcome to webinar Wednesday.

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I think this is one ninety two.

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Yeah, only a couple left for the rest of, of the year, but it's always a fun time of year.

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Hope everybody had a very fruitful Black Friday cyber week.

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And, yeah, I got some really, really great updates to share with everybody this week.

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This is gonna be a good one. Definitely.

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We got a lot of, what what I say, irons in the fire, so to say, here at BD.

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For those of you joining us on YouTube, welcome to the webinar.

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If you're not subscribed to the BD YouTube channel, you can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/

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youtube. We'll drop a link in the comments for you guys.

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It's a great way to get updated as soon as these rep webinar replays are available.

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Also, tips of the week and feature tutorials as well.

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And, also, one of my favorite places when I'm feeling down and blue is to come to the BD Facebook group.

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There's so much positivity in that group.

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People are busy working on their sites, sharing ideas together. I'm in there myself. Myself.

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And also the replay of the webinar will be posted in the Facebook group shortly after.

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We invite you to join us there as well. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/facebook

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and click on that join button there.

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And as David alluded to, we'll just make a we'll just drop this very quickly.

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It is the last day for the Black Friday and cyber deals.

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So if you didn't pick something up, highly recommend it.

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Maybe you have an idea in the back of your mind,

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for 2025.

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We'll just take a moment and go there together. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/cyber.

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We'll drop a link in the comments now.

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And, yeah, if you're looking for single site deals, if you need to add the VIP add ons club to any of your sites,

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or if you wanna load up your sites, the instant business records are heavily

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discounted,

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and you can also spread them across multiple sites because these are pretty heavy volumes here.

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And we did create one plan for agencies

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or, you know, power users. There is a 25 lifetime website bundle here.

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So if you need to take advantage of that for whatever your goals are, that is available for you there.

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Alright. Let's get back to here.

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And then also,

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free swag giveaway for everyone on the webinar watching right now on Facebook, YouTube, in the in the stream.

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You can go to shop.brilliantdirectories.com

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and pick yourself up some swag.

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Use these two promo codes at checkout, black fry and also free ship.

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Black fry will reduce the cost of the merch,

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and free ship will bring the shipping cost, down to zero.

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It's up to $30 worth of free shipping, so that should be plenty for our international friends as well.

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Let's go to that shop together real quick.

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I'm very sad. The mouse pad, which was one of my favorite items,

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is, out of stock right now, but there's tons of fun stuff here.

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You can't go wrong with a coffee mug,

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frosted glass here, or a tumbler.

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The other top favorites are the fanny pack and the Bluetooth speaker.

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This thing is actually pretty tiny.

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It's perfect to place on your desk, and then you can play music while you're working.

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And, of course, there is some apparel and some journaling.

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So we invite everyone who is on and watching the webinar right now to go to shop.brilliantdirectories.com

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and pick yourself up some free swag. And we do see a lot of people joining us from around the world.

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Welcome. Webinar Wednesday

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is a great time for us to share some of the recent updates pushed into the Brilliant Directories platform.

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A big shout out to you guys.

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A lot of the updates we do are from your suggestions, things you point out, things you challenge us on, and we do definitely wanna improve.

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So it really is a team effort to make the platform bigger and better for everyone.

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And in webinar Wednesdays, we'll cover some of the updates that you can take actionable steps on to help grow your community, such as increasing traffic, converting your website visitors into free or paying members, sharing and identifying new revenue opportunities,

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and more. We should have plenty of time today for a q and a session.

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So if you're stuck on your site, have questions, we'll do, that two or three minute test to see if we can, troubleshoot any issues you're having on your site and help you move forward on your way.

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Alright. We have a ton of updates.

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Half of these are coming soon, but I thought they were super important, especially as we're getting towards the end of the year.

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I'll try to breeze through these as quickly as possible so I won't I know I tend to talk a lot about a certain future, talk for hours about these.

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So I'll just start at the top here about languages.

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Just a couple days ago, we dropped some new languages so you can start your site in up to 18 different languages right now.

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So you can choose one primary language, and instead of manually changing 1,800 text labels, 95%

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of the translation will be done for you, and there are more languages coming soon.

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So right now, it goes all the way from Arabic down to the two types of Chinese here.

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Let me show you what that looks like. Let's go to a site here together.

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Here is a site. We can see that this is in English here, this holistic health finder site.

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I was gonna show you if you were just starting your site and you're like, hey.

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I need to serve the Japanese market. My site is for for Japan, and and all my members are in Japan.

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and you would choose your primary country, your time format, and now under languages,

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for example, Japanese is one of the 18 that's available now. Let me save the changes.

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Perfect. And I'm just gonna refresh the screen here.

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And if we just hold our breath for a moment there we go. So

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of the site is now in Japanese.

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The only things that you would need to update as the website owner are your main menu,

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and your footer menu as well as the post type names.

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You can translate these and call them what you want.

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A lot of people change what change what these are anyways.

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They change coupons to deals or promotions, so they're already changing the verbiage there.

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So you would just change your main menu,

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your text, your post types, and maybe a few other things.

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The names of your membership plans that come with your BD site translate them.

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But, basically, now with one click, you can have your site translated,

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into any one of these languages when you're starting out. This next one here is coming soon.

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It's related to the newsletters,

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and I'll show you that.

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If you're sending newsletters through the b d the updated b d system, I've been using it myself.

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It's really amazing.

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We have, a handful of updates we're going to also release soon, quality of life updates, but this new one is related to being able to export the email stats as CSV files.

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So right now when you send an email,

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you get these stats of, the how many people it was delivered to, failed, opens, and clicks.

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So let's click on one of these.

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And right now what's nice is you can create a smart list from this.

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What's coming soon is being able to export this as a CSV.

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So if you need to use this in another CRM or another system or just have it for yourself,

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you can export the list based on their delivered,

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status, unopened, open clicks, etcetera.

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So this will make you a bit more stealthier if you're doing your email marketing,

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with the BD system.

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I know it's super helpful for me because we can export, import, and create more segmented lists,

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on the fly. Alright. This next one is also coming soon. We have a goal date of about December 15.

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We're releasing more gateways.

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That first one coming down the line is to support our users in India that right now there's a huge gap.

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They can't use PayPal or Stripe, as easily because of the local markets there.

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So we're releasing Razorpay soon.

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And right on the heels of that, we do have more gateways coming down the line.

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Let me see here.

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We're also going to be releasing Paystack, which better serves our friends in Africa as well, and then there'll be more coming in 2025.

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what we're doing with the update with these two is we're kinda changing our code base with how we're able to,

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add new gateways that integrate with Brilliant Directories.

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So after we get these two, it should be off to the races with adding more based on demand and necessity.

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Alright. This is a big one if you're using Zapier, and I think it's been a huge hurdle up until now.

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We've had to rely on the webhooks,

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with your brilliant directory site. But now in Zapier,

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there are new triggers.

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When any new record is created on your site, you can begin a Zapier

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workflow.

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Basically, Zapier, if you're unfamiliar, lets you connect your Brilliant Directories data with other platforms.

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So if you're using another CRM or you're using something else that you're trying to create actions that, are

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updated based on, data on your BD site. Zapier and other integration tools help with that.

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So let me show you that real quick.

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again, the trigger event now is,

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new, any all users,

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any new form inquiries, any new post, any new review.

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Prior to this, you had to pin it to a field.

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So it was it was there was a kind of a limitation because you had to there was a restriction.

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Now it's just any new record, in these categories here, reviews, posts, leads, forms, and users.

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And this is highly valuable. All the information is gonna come there.

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So if you need to do additional filtering later, so a new member is created, you can then check if it's based on a certain membership plan or subscription,

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and then do other actions from there.

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But now you don't have to do now you don't have to webhook your BD data into Zapier.

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for any new event that's coming through here.

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We'll cover this in a tip of the week later on some of the use cases.

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This next one is also coming soon. It's related to revisions.

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So we make a lot of changes in our admin area. We could be editing a widget. We could be editing,

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a web page. We could be editing a form or a menu.

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The first iteration of this is going to be editing the code base of your post types and being able to revert it.

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Let me show you what I'm referring to. So, let's say you're working on editing the post type for,

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discussions.

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And, again, this one is more code based, but this will be more useful when you wanna revert like what you did on a web page or a main menu or your forms.

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But you will soon have this revision here, and it'll have up to 50 different revisions that you saved historically.

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So I'll just do a simple one here. Let's revert to what I did on November 30,

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and you can load the revision and watch this text here.

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It's going to say, Jason was here. So this is my old code that I had from November 30.

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I can save my changes and stick with this or I can go back to my current code here.

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We can go even further back

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So this is just the methodology of it, and we're gonna release it here because this is the, like, I think, the most low touch area where people would wanna use it, test it out, make sure it's working well here, and then we'll start planting this in the web page builder and, you know, the menus, the forms, and more places like that.

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So this will save you if you do an oopsie daisy somewhere.

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You don't necessarily lose it, and you can revert back to it. Alright.

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This next one, I'm personally super excited for.

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We're working on push alerts for you guys, both on your mobile, but what seems to be it's gonna come first are browser,

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alerts, and I'll show you what we mean. I have a test site here. Let me just reload this page.

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once you subscribe to getting browser alerts for your site, you'll basically get notified

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on your computer while you're working anytime a new member joins your site.

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If you have staff members saving changes on your site. Let me just save the general settings.

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It takes about a minute or so. I'm gonna do it a couple times so we can see it coming.

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It takes about a minute in our demo test here. But if you'll notice in the bottom right hand corner,

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alerts will start coming in soon. I'll just do three times there.

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But this is gonna be super helpful and motivating.

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If you got a new payment you received, you'll be working on your computer and it'll say, you just received $20 on your site, so you don't actually have to come to the admin and check.

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And then from this, we're going to be able to extend this to people who are using the Brilliant Directories app.

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So while you're on the go, you can get notified when new members join your site, when new revenue comes in, and more.

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So let's just give this a second. I'm pretty confident our demo will work.

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We should see those push notifications

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coming in soon. All right.

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This next one is released on the login page where your members log into your site. There we go.

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We see the push notifications

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there and it says general settings of websites saved.

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So this very simple example, we're going to see a few more come in, but

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super helpful and also very motivating.

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So this next one here,

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is related to the member login page. This is available for everyone.

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Now just the convenience and accessibility of the show and hide as they're entering their password.

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Let's go here together. So you'll notice on your password field I mean, your your login page.

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Let me refresh this.

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We now have this lock up here.

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This is my password.

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And, you know, some people have really complicated passwords, so that's why we see this more often because you're encouraged to create a complicated password.

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But sometimes if you're logging in, you really can't see it, and now we can see it.

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You just click it hide,

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unlock, and lock.

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And if you don't want this on your site or I'm gonna show you, this is actually a text label so we can edit this further.

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Let's actually do that together because I had a cool idea of something you can do with this lock icon.

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I think let me just type in password here.

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let me just do this.

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Let's find it.

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Just a moment. It's a new feature. Here we go. So this is the text label.

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So you can search for password icon. I think that would work.

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Password icon label. Okay. I wanna give you guys the okay. There it is. So password icon label.

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If you search that in your text labels, we can see the icons here.

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You can remove them, and it won't show the icon anymore. Let's do that together.

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So if you just decided you don't want this

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there, then the icon is gone. But let's do something else.

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Let's actually add some text here. Let's put the word hide

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and show just to give a bit more context.

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Maybe you have a different audience that they they're not gonna be familiar

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with what that icon is or can do.

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the show, you know, there's the push notifications from the changes I just did.

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So now we have show and hide.

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It's with a little bit more context. We added that right after the icon element here.

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So, that's available to everyone, and I think it's yeah.

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It's a very convenient, and it also looks a little bit more developed.

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So it makes your site feel a little bit more developed than, some others.

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Alright. And, also, when we do the push notifications, they're gonna be throttled.

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Right now, we just have it. We wanna see them instantly, so that's why we're seeing them there.

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But let's move on here. Alright. This next one here related to tagging.

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There was a small issue when you're using Zapier, again, relating referring to Zapier, and you're updating member tags, adding or removing tags based on certain actions in the workflow.

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Right now, it was fully deleting all the tags and then adding new ones.

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So, that actually is coming soon.

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Also coming soon, when you're deleting members, we get a lot of tickets.

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I accidentally deleted my members, this and that.

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So we're adding an extra confirmation when you're deleting your members or an individual member, as well as some helpful options such as reassigning their posts.

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Maybe they have blog articles and you don't necessarily wanna get rid of the articles they added to your site.

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You can reassign them to yourself or another member.

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We just have a mock up of what that's gonna look like.

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So you'll have a delete member. You'll have to

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click on yes, switch this to yes. And then there are other options here.

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in your, in your website.

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And then here, you can reassign the post to the new owner. So you have good delete options there.

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And only after you confirm that you wanna delete the member again, the yes continue will pop up.

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just to make sure you're fully, you you you actually do wanna move forward with this action.

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This next one is related to the leads that members receive, and this came from a previous webinar.

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I forgot who recommended it, but it is coming soon.

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When your members receive leads, they'll now have the ability when this is released to set their own status for the lead so they can track their progress as well as leave themselves personal notes so the member can leave themselves notes.

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That makes the lead interface a lot more interactive for the member, and and they can actually go in there and do some work.

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And I have some mock ups of what that's gonna look like.

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So let's say they just purchased the lead for $10.

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here, and it says mark lead as, and there'll be one, two, three, four, five options, which will be text labels.

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But, effectively, when you're working the lead, it's usually deal one, lost,

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in progress, no response, or needs contact or follow-up. So, this will be coming soon.

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And then when they're back at looking at all their leads, they'll be able to filter by all of this as well, which is super because if they have a lot of deals won, they can filter them and see all how good your site is doing for them as far as return on investment and getting clients.

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So that's gonna be wonderful.

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And then the next one here is below the lead. They'll be able to leave their own personal note.

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This is just an open text field where they can just leave their own notes, you know, tried calling or, you know, sent an email, no answer or whatever they want.

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But this way, they can keep their own personal notes for a lead.

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And then last but not least, in the search members page, right now, you can search members in the admin area by their name, their email address, and a wealth of other filters.

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We are creating a new filter so you can search members who are missing profile photos or profile logos or who have profile photos or logos.

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And then from that, you can create smart lists and email them and saying, hey.

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Coming out of profile photos, you know, get more, engagement on our site.

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So let me show you what that's gonna look like. It's gonna be a filter here for profile images,

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And then from there, you can see members who are missing these assets on their profile pages.

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So there are actually more updates, but because we're getting year end, I wanted to share as much as I could fit onto this slide without making the font too small.

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David, would you like to add anything or anything else we should mention about these updates?

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No. I think this is great. We did have one question over on YouTube, though, from, official

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UFO hub. Great name considering Cyber Week.

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He was asking if the default language, the text labels, if that can be changed on a live site or if that would permanently

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affect the website,

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if they wanted to revert those changes.

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So let's go there together.

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So you're basically choosing the the default language you want your site to start in.

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So we can see here we set this to to Japanese. Now this site's text labels are gonna be in Japanese.

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But if you if you mess up and you're like, oh, no. I need to bring this back to English,

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you can just click English again, and let me save the changes.

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everything will be back to back to English here. So it's just a one time thing.

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You're just gonna choose what you want your primary default text labels to to be always.

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I hope that answers the question.

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Okay. Super.

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Let's see here. Yeah. We got a lot of people in here.

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If you guys have any questions or comments and by the way, guys, if you want us to unmute your microphone, just type in the word question and in all caps, and that indicates to us that you want to have your mic unmuted.

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It's a little different format than our previous webinars, but this way you can verbally ask your questions,

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and we can unmute your microphone. And while we're waiting for,

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for questions to come in, we might want to, address a suggestion Jim had for the show and hide password icon.

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He was asking if the eye icon is a little bit more standard.

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That wouldn't be a problem if you did wanna change it.

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Like Jason showed, you could just edit the text label and the exactly.

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You would wanna do I for the hide, and the I slash is, the other icon to use.

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Oh, I did it backwards. Okay. So this would be the I and the I slash?

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Yep. I dash slash. Okay.

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But the point is you you have control of what's, what's here, which is the the important thing there.

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I just didn't like the eye here. It looks a little

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not modern, but it's okay.

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You have control over that with the text labels.

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Alright. And there's the push notifications for saving the text labels there. Okay, buddy.

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There we go. So, yeah, we can move on to the questions and answers.

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into the comments. You don't have to unmute your microphone if you don't want to.

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Or if you'd like us to help you with your site, maybe you're challenged somewhere, you you've hit a roadblock, we can unmute your microphone, take a look at your site together, and go from there.

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App crazy, I think that's Neil there. It says loves the, Zapier updates.

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Perfect.

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Brian's saying, Jason, I was trying to get categories, comedians, DUI, little bartender, and promotions from the import.

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Okay. This is a great question from Brian b. He is looking to he is using the import tool.

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Give me a second. Let's let's go there together.

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Yeah. Finding comedians, because a comedian would just go by their comedian name.

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They're not really a a business.

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But DUI lawyers and bartenders and videographers,

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we can probably find them with the import. So let's go to the business data import tool.

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first, let's look by the categories here. Let me zoom out one bit here. Okay.

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So let's look up bartender.

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So bartender's really not a

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business location. It's more of like a

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it's like a profession or a career.

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So there's bartending schools,

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which is, again, is not a bartender,

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and also the comedian. Those are more like gig jogs.

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I know they're professions and careers, but it's more it's not this is more like brick and mortar businesses or businesses that are established with addresses,

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Brian, that you could find here. However,

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if we use the business name search, let's just search comedian and a partial match, not the exact match.

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This is gonna look for business names that have the word comedian in it.

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So it could be, you know, my name is, you know,

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Mark Jones comedian,

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and that's my business. Or magicians. Right? They they say, like, j and j magician.

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I do birthdays, bar mitzvahs, whatever. Let's do a quick search here.

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So, actually, 22

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businesses with the word comedian in the name are here. I'm curious myself. Let's import them,

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into this site here. This is a test site we have and see what we get here, Brian.

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And while we're doing that, I'm gonna help you with the DUI,

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lawyer thing

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as well.

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We'll let that import. We'll check it in a second.

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So let's clear comedian. Let's look for DUI in the category here. So there is no DUI here.

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This is where

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this comes in helpful.

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So if you look at the business name and you type in DUI lawyer and, again, we wanna do partial match because then it's gonna fall find, like, Jacoby and Myers DUI lawyers

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as part of their full business name. Let's do a search.

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So there's a 16

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DUI businesses with DUI lawyer in their name. And then, also, let's get creative.

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attr, right, because it's gonna look for a partial match.

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DUI attr.

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attorney in the name of the business. So we actually know that that's the business they focus on.

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And then lastly, Brian, I'm just gonna look for videographer here.

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Let's see. I need to spell videographer.

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So videographer is not there, but let's put it in the business name search.

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So, again, this could be like Mark Mark Hopkins, videographer at large, you know,

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weddings,

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whatever it might be.

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Okay. So there's a 54

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videographers,

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and this is why the business name search came in handy is if you do a partial match and it, like videographer is very distinct.

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You know if you're searching this, you're gonna get videographers.

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You're not gonna get people who raise goats,

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by putting that in. As the I'm saying if you put something ambiguous like consulting,

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you don't know the type of consultant you're gonna get by just doing a partial match.

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But let's take a look

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at the comedians. It's importing,

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22 of them, and let's just see the names of them

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as they came in here. It's still trying to fetch the logos and stuff.

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Corporate entertainer,

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comedian, magician. So see this guy's business name is Chris Rose,

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corporate entertainer, comedian,

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and magician.

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Amazon locker comedian, not sure what that is, but comedian Tim Kavanaugh.

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So you can see here magicians and comedians go hand in hand.

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If you're looking for a good time, you'd know who to call. So those are some tips for you, Brian.

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Search by name there. Great question. Thank you.

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We do have Jason waiting to have his mic unmuted to ask a question.

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But while we were on the topic of, importing business records, We did have this question from Hans on, YouTube asking, what's going to happen if we get business names that come up twice in business record imports?

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Great. So,

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the business importer tool will not import

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the same record twice.

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What the same record is is the same address. So if you're if you search for McDonald's,

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it it's it'll import multiple McDonald's, but it won't import the same McDonald's from the same address twice.

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It will skip them. So you can freely continuously

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pull from the categories and what you're searching and get the next batch.

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So maybe they were a thousand found and you only imported 10.

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Go ahead and and just select the next batch. It's gonna skip the 10 that you already imported.

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So the system will skip duplicate records that have already been imported.

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If you're seeing the same business name,

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they probably have a different brick and mortar address.

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So it's it's just the same, like, same Starbucks name, but it's a different location.

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I hope that helps answer. That was a good question there too.

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Okay. And should we bring Jason onto the, the stage here? Yes. Pretty good.

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I had a question about you know how you set up a page, and I saw one time where it'll automatically

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put local businesses.

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Even though you haven't imported them yet, it'll just kinda show it almost looks like a yellow pages type of thing.

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And so I was wondering, can that feature be specific to a a city? Like,

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I noticed whatever like, wherever you are when you look into it, it'll give the local, but I was trying to make it, like, for a specific city.

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Does that make sense? Absolutely. Alright.

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Are you referring to the business import tool as well here?

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Are we in the top of the same thing? No. No. Not the import tool. It's like,

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like, you don't have like, if you don't let's say you don't import any any contacts

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Right.

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It'll just show, like if I said, restaurants, it'll just show, like,

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local restaurants in a format. It kinda looks like Google, like a Google listing almost. Yeah. Yeah.

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So that's the the to me, it sounds like, Jason,

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it just sounds like the regular search results page,

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and you get the results on the site here. So let me see.

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Where is this let me just search London, England. Right?

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Just oh, I don't have the map set up on this site.

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Let me let me go let me view this listing real quick. Let me click on the sum the London here.

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So right now, we're looking at all businesses in London. Right?

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So this is the search results page. Is that where you're referring to?

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Yeah. But, like, I didn't need to necessarily

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put them in there. Like like, let's just say you just set up a a site

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and oh oh oh, yeah. Yeah. So you're referring to the Google search assist.

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Yes. Yeah.

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Okay. So it's to enable that and that's really how some people don't like it.

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So it just depends on your model.

426
00:29:25.545 --> 00:29:31.965
I like the the Google search assist because if people are searching your site for I'll I'll just give an example here.

427
00:29:32.105 --> 00:29:33.245
I'm looking for

428
00:29:34.585 --> 00:29:36.265
diet pills, whatever. I don't know.

429
00:29:36.265 --> 00:29:39.965
Same I don't know why that came to my mind, but let's just search for diet pills.

430
00:29:40.230 --> 00:29:44.250
There's no diet pills on this site, but you see this is the Google search assist here.

431
00:29:44.870 --> 00:29:49.830
For the user, it it's at least something useful that they're getting from your site.

432
00:29:49.830 --> 00:29:58.715
So they do see some results here, which again adds a little bit of utility of your site for them for the categories that you don't have any results.

433
00:29:58.715 --> 00:30:01.835
But let's turn it off for a second so we can see the difference.

434
00:30:01.835 --> 00:30:03.615
So if you go to your general settings,

435
00:30:04.235 --> 00:30:05.055
search settings,

436
00:30:05.580 --> 00:30:09.360
and the Google search assist, I'm gonna go ahead and disable it. Mhmm.

437
00:30:10.460 --> 00:30:12.860
And let's do another search on this site.

438
00:30:13.179 --> 00:30:17.760
We'll look for something like donut shop, which I don't think is on this site.

439
00:30:19.325 --> 00:30:22.305
So you're just gonna get the sorry. We didn't find any results.

440
00:30:22.605 --> 00:30:34.920
We've I think we did a tip of the week or we should on how to make this seem like we didn't find this results, but why don't you be the first to join this category or, you know, showing a video where they can, you know, just we don't instead of them hitting a dead end.

441
00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:39.160
But instead of them hitting a dead end, that's where the Google search assist comes in handy.

442
00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:44.620
And, again, not for every site. It depends, you know, the type of maybe, like, a a small,

443
00:30:46.040 --> 00:30:46.540
association

444
00:30:46.840 --> 00:30:52.485
doesn't want that, but maybe, like, a big yellow pages type of site does want that. So just depends

445
00:30:52.785 --> 00:30:55.684
the model that you're running. But that's the Google search assist, Jason.

446
00:30:56.065 --> 00:30:58.245
So let me ask you this. Is that possible

447
00:30:58.705 --> 00:31:01.765
is it possible to make that city specific?

448
00:31:02.305 --> 00:31:03.365
So for example

449
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:11.320
because I was I was doing it and I noticed that if I was in another city and I did the same search, it'll come up, but it will be for that local area.

450
00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:12.860
Even though I'm like, let's say,

451
00:31:14.280 --> 00:31:19.545
Long Beach is a site that I have and I'm in Downey, then the Downey results will pop up.

452
00:31:19.545 --> 00:31:20.665
Well, I'll tell you this.

453
00:31:20.665 --> 00:31:26.785
I'm I'm near Los Angeles, and I didn't type in Los Angeles on this search for donut shops, but it Mhmm.

454
00:31:26.825 --> 00:31:30.045
It somehow knew to pin me to Los Angeles here.

455
00:31:30.450 --> 00:31:33.409
Mhmm. See that? So somehow it knew a little bit.

456
00:31:33.409 --> 00:31:38.070
But if the person types in a location let me let me type in, like, Detroit or something.

457
00:31:38.529 --> 00:31:39.830
Let's just do a search.

458
00:31:44.865 --> 00:31:51.505
So now it is I think it should be doing more Detroit donut shops. Yeah. Here's the results here.

459
00:31:51.505 --> 00:31:53.125
Detroit donut shop.

460
00:31:53.665 --> 00:31:59.685
So if they're typing in a keyword and a location, it will pin the results to to the location.

461
00:32:00.430 --> 00:32:09.390
And it otherwise, it probably just goes by the user's IP or it tries to, and then it tries to kinda push results that might be more relevant to that location.

462
00:32:09.390 --> 00:32:10.770
But that's it's probably

463
00:32:11.310 --> 00:32:13.185
The most you can do. So you really can't.

464
00:32:13.345 --> 00:32:19.905
Because, like, let's say I'm traveling let's say I'm I'm from Downey, but I'm I'm I'm doing some booking for, thank you.

465
00:32:19.905 --> 00:32:21.445
I'm doing some booking for,

466
00:32:21.905 --> 00:32:25.525
you know, Long Beach. You know? So I don't really want Downey's

467
00:32:26.385 --> 00:32:26.885
search.

468
00:32:27.340 --> 00:32:27.740
Right.

469
00:32:27.740 --> 00:32:32.720
Then you would type you you then if you're somewhere else and you wanna see so then you would type Long Beach here.

470
00:32:32.860 --> 00:32:34.860
You know, they have to type it. Okay. Yeah.

471
00:32:34.860 --> 00:32:40.940
And then when they and then when there's no results, then we're gonna see here's here's, some Long Beach results.

472
00:32:40.940 --> 00:32:44.995
I just saw the keywords somewhere. Here we go. Dunkin' Donuts jobs in Long Beach. Right?

473
00:32:44.995 --> 00:32:46.695
The best donuts in Long Beach.

474
00:32:47.235 --> 00:32:50.455
You know? We should visit these places together, by the way. So,

475
00:32:51.715 --> 00:32:57.510
so there you go. So, yeah, it's I'd say it it tries to do the best to give something that's

476
00:32:58.230 --> 00:33:00.570
related to the intent of the user search.

477
00:33:01.110 --> 00:33:05.210
So so my final question, there's no way to force it to give it to that city?

478
00:33:07.270 --> 00:33:12.945
In other like, in other words, if I You could How do I how do I do that? Okay. Okay. I see. I see.

479
00:33:13.024 --> 00:33:15.524
You're saying you you kinda want this to be prefilled

480
00:33:15.825 --> 00:33:16.325
already

481
00:33:16.784 --> 00:33:20.804
for Correct. Correct. For some categories. I might have a category of, like,

482
00:33:21.184 --> 00:33:21.684
pet,

483
00:33:22.304 --> 00:33:25.950
pet foods or something, and I really don't got time to put those contacts in.

484
00:33:25.950 --> 00:33:35.950
So I'm wondering if if I'm if someone that is not locally in that city, if they can put once they come on that site for that city, it'll automatically still give the listing for that city.

485
00:33:35.950 --> 00:33:37.965
Is there a way to, like, force it to do

486
00:33:38.845 --> 00:33:40.784
it? You're saying you wanna guess the visitor's

487
00:33:41.085 --> 00:33:41.585
location

488
00:33:42.284 --> 00:33:43.725
when the No. No. No.

489
00:33:43.725 --> 00:33:48.284
For you you're looking for the you wanna hard code the you wanna hard code the location. Okay.

490
00:33:48.284 --> 00:33:52.500
Right. Let's have some fun. Let's do one real quick. I love getting into the code a little bit.

491
00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:55.480
I like this conversation too, and there weren't that many questions. So,

492
00:33:55.860 --> 00:33:57.799
let me go to show widgets real quick.

493
00:33:58.100 --> 00:34:05.745
So we're gonna edit this widget here, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna turn this into a hidden field with a default value of of Long Beach.

494
00:34:05.825 --> 00:34:06.325
K?

495
00:34:07.105 --> 00:34:07.605
So

496
00:34:07.985 --> 00:34:16.385
it does require so this requires getting a little bit into the code view, but it is definitely possible because we're trying to do we're trying to force the form to do something here.

497
00:34:16.385 --> 00:34:16.885
So,

498
00:34:17.505 --> 00:34:20.819
this is our location input field, and

499
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:22.719
I'm just gonna put,

500
00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:24.819
I'm gonna make it a hidden field.

501
00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:29.219
And we don't need a placeholder.

502
00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:32.020
Just a moment. We don't need this.

503
00:34:33.165 --> 00:34:36.145
And I'm just gonna give it a value of Long Beach.

504
00:34:37.565 --> 00:34:38.065
So

505
00:34:38.605 --> 00:34:43.344
there. So right Long so it's gonna be a hidden field, and the default value is Long Beach.

506
00:34:43.485 --> 00:34:44.785
So let's save that,

507
00:34:45.890 --> 00:34:46.790
and then let's

508
00:34:47.330 --> 00:34:49.590
see what happens when I do a search for lawyers.

509
00:34:49.969 --> 00:34:52.390
I'm gonna see if it gives me Long Beach Lawyers.

510
00:34:54.530 --> 00:34:55.650
So that field's gone now.

511
00:34:55.650 --> 00:34:59.590
I can get rid of this too later or skip that, but let's just type in lawyer.

512
00:35:00.695 --> 00:35:02.795
Let's type in DUI lawyer. That's what,

513
00:35:04.455 --> 00:35:05.835
Brian was looking for.

514
00:35:08.215 --> 00:35:13.255
So here we see the Long Beach. Yeah. We saw it there. Long Beach DUI Lawyer.

515
00:35:13.255 --> 00:35:15.675
So you see the now the location field's hidden,

516
00:35:16.680 --> 00:35:20.380
and it's defaulting to to Long Beach. So what we had to do is

517
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:25.080
we just edit the the form field. Again, you gotta get a little bit of the code here.

518
00:35:25.080 --> 00:35:30.765
And what we're doing in the location input is we're saying the value is Long Beach, and it's always gonna be Long Beach in this case.

519
00:35:32.285 --> 00:35:35.825
So the short answer to your question is is so it can be done.

520
00:35:39.325 --> 00:35:43.440
Is it is that helpful at all? Yes. Yes. That's exactly what I need.

521
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.220
What's your skill level?

522
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:51.599
I mean, I'm left with code a little bit, so I was actually trying to figure out how to do it.

523
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:54.260
Is there a way you could post this or send it to me by email?

524
00:35:54.720 --> 00:35:56.579
I'm gonna put this in the chat here.

525
00:35:58.305 --> 00:36:01.205
So, basically, what you want is you wanted this input field.

526
00:36:01.665 --> 00:36:06.705
The name of the field is location value, and then the value is the city that you want it to be in or the location.

527
00:36:06.705 --> 00:36:10.165
I'm gonna put it in the comments here. So, hopefully, that makes some sense to you.

528
00:36:10.329 --> 00:36:12.329
And you can also ask in the Facebook group.

529
00:36:12.329 --> 00:36:16.190
And, if you get stuck, we can follow-up and try to assist you there.

530
00:36:16.569 --> 00:36:20.190
Thank you so much, Jason. Of course. Lots of fun. Thank you for that question.

531
00:36:20.569 --> 00:36:25.150
Alright. Let's see if we got any other questions lined up. We got some starred ones here, David.

532
00:36:25.805 --> 00:36:30.305
We got a great question, actually. More of a beginner question from James

533
00:36:30.685 --> 00:36:37.345
asking, for a business directory or a membership website, is it better to start in a smaller town or a large metropolis?

534
00:36:37.485 --> 00:36:40.380
Of course, larger city would be harder to rank. What are your thoughts?

535
00:36:41.339 --> 00:36:43.440
I am always leaning towards

536
00:36:43.819 --> 00:36:45.519
more niche and more targeted.

537
00:36:46.059 --> 00:36:46.559
And

538
00:36:47.660 --> 00:36:49.900
the reason is, well, let's do the opposite.

539
00:36:49.900 --> 00:36:52.559
Let's say you're a website that's everything for everyone.

540
00:36:52.965 --> 00:36:56.565
So you're basically doing every business and every location in the world.

541
00:36:56.565 --> 00:37:00.585
It's really hard to convince people that your site specializes for them.

542
00:37:00.645 --> 00:37:11.030
When you focus in a smaller niche or a specific industry or pair that with a specific region as well, like a smaller town or city, it's easy to pitch to the businesses or professionals.

543
00:37:11.089 --> 00:37:11.589
Hey.

544
00:37:11.970 --> 00:37:14.690
We are a directory and add some prestige to it.

545
00:37:14.690 --> 00:37:18.529
You know, you can call it, like, the number one network. Don't just call it a directory.

546
00:37:18.529 --> 00:37:22.455
I mean, that's fine sometimes, but what we're playing to is to people's egos.

547
00:37:22.455 --> 00:37:25.675
They wanna be part of something prestigious, something important,

548
00:37:26.135 --> 00:37:32.155
something that their professional career should should be tied to, and you wanna make your website seem

549
00:37:32.455 --> 00:37:33.275
like a legitimate,

550
00:37:33.895 --> 00:37:34.395
resource

551
00:37:34.780 --> 00:37:38.140
for the the audience that you're serving. So you can always expand.

552
00:37:38.140 --> 00:37:46.380
You can always start smaller and then it oh, now we're now we've expanded our directory to people in this area or, you know, you can go outwards from there.

553
00:37:46.540 --> 00:37:50.540
But also you don't want too small because you don't want to limit your marketing pool.

554
00:37:50.540 --> 00:37:53.875
You wanna make sure that there's volume in the market you're going to serve.

555
00:37:53.875 --> 00:37:59.494
So find a balance between large and small, but definitely finding a niche and a target region

556
00:37:59.795 --> 00:38:01.815
is definitely beneficial in my opinion.

557
00:38:02.195 --> 00:38:06.375
Love it. And we got an another question here kind of on the opposite side

558
00:38:06.810 --> 00:38:08.170
asking if there is,

559
00:38:09.290 --> 00:38:13.630
a BD directory for developed BD sites for sale with or without

560
00:38:14.010 --> 00:38:17.790
cash flow. In the Facebook group, the Facebook group's nonpromotional,

561
00:38:18.410 --> 00:38:24.015
but we have had a lot of users list their websites and purchase websites off of,

562
00:38:24.474 --> 00:38:25.535
other marketplaces

563
00:38:26.075 --> 00:38:29.615
like Flippa. Flippa is a a popular website flipping website.

564
00:38:31.340 --> 00:38:31.500
Yeah.

565
00:38:31.500 --> 00:38:36.060
So selling websites, you gotta be a little careful with that whether it's a BD site or or any site.

566
00:38:36.060 --> 00:38:39.600
But there are dedicated platforms, and I would recommend going,

567
00:38:39.980 --> 00:38:41.280
this route for,

568
00:38:42.220 --> 00:38:46.605
finding websites for sale. I don't know how many BD sites you'll find on here, but,

569
00:38:47.484 --> 00:38:48.305
the the reason

570
00:38:48.845 --> 00:38:52.605
these platforms are good is because they protect both the buyer and the seller.

571
00:38:52.605 --> 00:39:01.005
It goes through an escrow process, especially when when large amounts of cash are involved, like buying something for, you know, a few thousand dollars, you know, and what have you.

572
00:39:01.005 --> 00:39:01.500
So,

573
00:39:02.060 --> 00:39:05.760
this adds a level of protection for both the buyers and the sellers.

574
00:39:06.140 --> 00:39:11.520
But it's a great way to research how much the potential value of your site is because you can see,

575
00:39:12.140 --> 00:39:15.180
maybe similar sites that you may be interested in buying and selling.

576
00:39:15.180 --> 00:39:18.085
So you have an idea of what the market value is,

577
00:39:18.464 --> 00:39:19.365
for there. So,

578
00:39:20.224 --> 00:39:22.964
and if we've noticed here, let's see. Get the latest listings.

579
00:39:23.505 --> 00:39:27.765
This is part of what we're gonna be doing is so you can subscribe to the push notifications

580
00:39:28.065 --> 00:39:28.964
of your own

581
00:39:29.265 --> 00:39:32.160
websites. I'm just gonna hit yes, please, Just for fun.

582
00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:37.119
Oh, and then we see, it it prompts the browser notification there. So I'll hit allow.

583
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:39.060
So for the time being, I'll get some,

584
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:42.099
notifications from Flippa. But,

585
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:43.760
yeah, I would go through,

586
00:39:44.720 --> 00:39:47.925
a qualified source like Flippa. There's a few others out there.

587
00:39:48.224 --> 00:39:52.005
It's just to protect you and you, the buyer and the seller through those processes.

588
00:39:52.545 --> 00:39:53.685
And we do have,

589
00:39:54.145 --> 00:39:58.165
Clayton in the studio. Wanted his mic to be unmuted for a question here.

590
00:39:58.490 --> 00:40:00.490
Hey, Jason. How you doing? Just a quick question.

591
00:40:00.490 --> 00:40:06.329
I noticed how we integrate with Google on a lot of things. I, just, got my site finished.

592
00:40:06.569 --> 00:40:13.309
I have a job placement site, but I wanted to find out how hard would it be to integrate with Google Jobs.

593
00:40:13.635 --> 00:40:13.875
Great.

594
00:40:13.875 --> 00:40:20.535
So, that's actually something it's not on the exact road map right now, but Google has jobs and event feeds.

595
00:40:21.875 --> 00:40:29.370
They're limited because they just give you the surface level of them, but let's actually Google look at this together because I'm kinda interested in

596
00:40:30.570 --> 00:40:32.990
searching it myself. So search jobs here.

597
00:40:34.650 --> 00:40:35.150
And,

598
00:40:35.850 --> 00:40:38.750
right, let's just search for web designer.

599
00:40:41.450 --> 00:40:43.335
Just wanna see what comes up here.

600
00:40:44.295 --> 00:40:45.994
So I think this,

601
00:40:46.455 --> 00:40:50.075
these are just Google Google career jobs. Let me find

602
00:40:51.415 --> 00:40:52.714
the Google jobs

603
00:40:53.015 --> 00:40:53.515
feed.

604
00:40:54.055 --> 00:40:55.435
Google jobs feed.

605
00:40:57.060 --> 00:40:59.000
Job search on Google. There we go.

606
00:41:01.620 --> 00:41:05.080
Get started. Yeah. So what you can do is

607
00:41:06.020 --> 00:41:06.740
short answer.

608
00:41:06.740 --> 00:41:12.165
Right now, if there's an RSS feed, and I think there is, you can use tools like Zapier to

609
00:41:13.025 --> 00:41:18.165
to ping the RSS feed, you know, for a job, and you would do it by category and location.

610
00:41:18.785 --> 00:41:21.525
There's probably some criteria for the RSS feeds.

611
00:41:23.060 --> 00:41:28.119
And then you can use tools like Zapier or Pabbly that will create the job post on

612
00:41:28.500 --> 00:41:30.600
your brilliant directory's website.

613
00:41:32.820 --> 00:41:36.600
Let me see here. Maybe we just ask chat g p t real quick

614
00:41:37.380 --> 00:41:38.520
where that is.

615
00:41:39.885 --> 00:41:40.385
Okay.

616
00:41:42.205 --> 00:41:45.745
Where can I get an RSS feed of

617
00:41:46.525 --> 00:41:47.025
Google

618
00:41:47.965 --> 00:41:49.025
jobs search?

619
00:41:51.530 --> 00:41:54.430
But, yeah, the short answer is if there's an RSS feed,

620
00:41:55.290 --> 00:41:56.030
you can

621
00:41:56.330 --> 00:41:59.770
you can add it add the jobs to your Brilliant Directories website.

622
00:41:59.770 --> 00:42:02.830
Do you have any other sources besides Google that you're thinking about, Clayton?

623
00:42:03.050 --> 00:42:06.845
That was the that was the only source that, that I knew because I,

624
00:42:07.625 --> 00:42:08.505
I actually purchased,

625
00:42:09.385 --> 00:42:14.585
job job boardly off of AppSumo. And I saw that they had they were talking about Google Jobs.

626
00:42:14.585 --> 00:42:16.620
And that that's when I first found out about it.

627
00:42:17.100 --> 00:42:18.060
And I was like, you know, hey.

628
00:42:18.060 --> 00:42:21.740
I would love to do that because I have jobs that I'm gonna I'm gonna put on there.

629
00:42:21.740 --> 00:42:26.880
But just like when we use the business data, I just wanted my site to look a little bit fuller.

630
00:42:27.820 --> 00:42:29.200
Got it. Yeah.

631
00:42:29.660 --> 00:42:33.175
Yeah. We're exploring jobs and events because they have both,

632
00:42:34.275 --> 00:42:37.155
and it would be it would basically pull the data from here.

633
00:42:38.035 --> 00:42:41.415
But, yeah, if you can find a feed let me give you a map.

634
00:42:42.035 --> 00:42:42.535
RSS

635
00:42:43.234 --> 00:42:43.734
to

636
00:42:44.275 --> 00:42:45.255
Brilliant Directories,

637
00:42:46.610 --> 00:42:47.110
Zapier.

638
00:42:49.890 --> 00:42:50.790
Here we go.

639
00:42:54.290 --> 00:42:58.070
This is what we want. Create posts in Brilliant Directories, so job posts

640
00:42:58.935 --> 00:43:01.115
for new items in an RSS feed.

641
00:43:01.815 --> 00:43:08.855
I'm gonna post this in the chat here just to give you kind of a direction and road map of of kinda where to poke around right now to find RSS feeds.

642
00:43:08.855 --> 00:43:13.670
If we can find RSS feeds, you can create the put the job post in your Brilliant Directories site.

643
00:43:13.670 --> 00:43:17.349
So find a jobs RSS feed. There there there's probably many out there.

644
00:43:17.349 --> 00:43:20.490
I just can't find it real quick with that Google search I was doing, but,

645
00:43:21.349 --> 00:43:24.405
you should be able to get get get something going.

646
00:43:24.485 --> 00:43:27.385
And then now that you mentioned this, it got me excited to further

647
00:43:27.685 --> 00:43:33.045
kinda fast track the jobs data and the events data, that we could potentially offer you guys. Hey.

648
00:43:33.045 --> 00:43:37.520
I definitely appreciate that. Love the love what y'all doing. Keep up the great work. Alright.

649
00:43:37.520 --> 00:43:41.380
Appreciate you. Thank you, Clayton. Bye bye. Alright. Good stuff there.

650
00:43:42.080 --> 00:43:44.099
I see some more questions here.

651
00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:49.220
I I like this question here. Like, what SEO ranking advantages do we get for a directory?

652
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.605
Is this something we do ourselves? Great question, James.

653
00:43:53.005 --> 00:43:55.885
So your BD site is just like any website out there.

654
00:43:55.885 --> 00:43:59.345
It needs to have good quality content to rank for SEO.

655
00:43:59.405 --> 00:44:05.905
What the benefit is with a brilliant directory site as opposed to or or a directory, I should say, is you have user generated

656
00:44:06.300 --> 00:44:12.060
content, UGC for short. And this is your members creating their listings. It's visitors coming.

657
00:44:12.060 --> 00:44:18.255
If you have a business directory leaving reviews for those businesses, this is all unique content that Google likes to eat up.

658
00:44:18.335 --> 00:44:24.654
And what we've done on the Brilliant Directories site is we've optimized as much as we can the default SEO for your site.

659
00:44:24.654 --> 00:44:30.414
So as long as you're adding good quality content to your site, the BD site kinda takes care of the rest.

660
00:44:30.414 --> 00:44:43.150
And we've tried to do all the in between moves and fill in the gaps with leveraging the the content that's added by you and your members to the site and really multiplying the SEO factor of that the best we can for your site.

661
00:44:43.150 --> 00:44:46.910
But here's an example. The directory let's just use the local business example.

662
00:44:46.910 --> 00:44:53.835
So you'll eventually if you do things right, you'll your site will will start ranking for when somebody Googles doctors in Los Angeles.

663
00:44:54.055 --> 00:44:59.755
Your search results page of your directory for doctors in Los Angeles could be a result found on Google.

664
00:44:59.974 --> 00:45:04.535
And then also the businesses, they'll start ranking for their business names will start ranking.

665
00:45:04.535 --> 00:45:14.220
So, you know, law offices and things like that, when they start googling themselves, their profile on your website or directory site will start ranking in Google.

666
00:45:14.220 --> 00:45:22.434
So you will be able to soon you'll be able to start attracting traffic from consumers or end users who are looking for or seeking out these professionals,

667
00:45:22.755 --> 00:45:26.035
but then you wanna figure out how to monetize that. You wanna do it in two ways.

668
00:45:26.035 --> 00:45:35.220
Either you can put ads around your site or better yet, you wanna funnel these end users who are trying to connect with your professional members and feed your professional members with leads.

669
00:45:35.380 --> 00:45:38.660
Businesses and professionals, they want visibility and they want leads.

670
00:45:38.660 --> 00:45:43.160
And the reason they're going to pay for that visibility on your directory website is because you're successfully

671
00:45:43.460 --> 00:45:46.420
feeding them leads or prospects for their business.

672
00:45:46.420 --> 00:45:54.945
So the SEO benefits are there, and a directory just kinda helps you do it a lot faster because many pages are being created and also the user generated content

673
00:45:55.245 --> 00:45:59.185
factor as well. So good question there. Alright. Let's see here.

674
00:45:59.485 --> 00:46:04.230
Rogelio in Denver has a question. I started a help FAQ page for my site, but it

675
00:46:05.109 --> 00:46:06.730
feels unsurmountable to complete.

676
00:46:07.190 --> 00:46:14.410
Since many functions features for BD are standard, can you provide a starter template page to do our own?

677
00:46:14.630 --> 00:46:16.310
David, help me help me out here.

678
00:46:16.310 --> 00:46:20.815
So he's creating an FAQ page for his members to understand how his website works.

679
00:46:20.815 --> 00:46:30.015
Rogelio, if you can follow-up, is this maybe on the pricing page, like FAQs when they're signing up, or are you trying to itemize every possible feature on your BD site for your members?

680
00:46:30.015 --> 00:46:33.260
If you could clarify that, that could be a little helpful, actually.

681
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:40.140
It sounds like he's talking about the features that are available to either the members and or just the general website visitors.

682
00:46:40.520 --> 00:46:44.060
One thing a lot of users have done in the past is actually create

683
00:46:44.520 --> 00:46:50.234
a quick simple screen recording, kind of going through the process of setting up a member profile,

684
00:46:50.775 --> 00:46:55.914
showing kind of all the features that are available to members, and then just embedding that video

685
00:46:56.375 --> 00:46:57.674
in, members'

686
00:46:58.130 --> 00:47:00.230
dashboard. So as soon as they register,

687
00:47:00.770 --> 00:47:09.990
the first time they log in, they see this embedded video right up front in their dashboard so they can start to get familiar with their account and all the features that are available.

688
00:47:10.210 --> 00:47:14.065
I like that idea. Let's actually go there together real quick on a site

689
00:47:14.445 --> 00:47:14.945
and

690
00:47:16.125 --> 00:47:19.645
stick with this site here. Let me see what I had open. There we go.

691
00:47:19.645 --> 00:47:22.065
Let's just go to the web page builder real quick,

692
00:47:23.244 --> 00:47:25.230
and we'll create a new page.

693
00:47:27.150 --> 00:47:28.930
And we'll just call it FAQ,

694
00:47:30.030 --> 00:47:30.850
learn about

695
00:47:31.710 --> 00:47:33.490
being a member.

696
00:47:34.590 --> 00:47:37.250
And, again, there could be a million and one

697
00:47:37.550 --> 00:47:42.355
things that they need to do. So what we wanna do is address the most common FAQs.

698
00:47:42.415 --> 00:47:44.195
We don't want a thousand FAQs.

699
00:47:44.735 --> 00:47:50.835
At a when you when you have that many, you're basically creating a support knowledge base with articles for for everything imaginable.

700
00:47:51.455 --> 00:47:52.195
So maybe

701
00:47:52.830 --> 00:47:55.570
here is to maybe simplify things for yourself.

702
00:47:56.110 --> 00:47:57.410
Maybe just include

703
00:47:58.830 --> 00:48:03.250
10 if you really wanna be, you know, aggressive, maybe 20 FAQs.

704
00:48:03.710 --> 00:48:07.970
How do I log in to my account? How do I reset my password? How do I add a profile photo?

705
00:48:08.105 --> 00:48:09.565
How can I get more visibility?

706
00:48:09.944 --> 00:48:14.204
Just common things that are a combination of both how to take advantage of their

707
00:48:14.664 --> 00:48:15.164
their,

708
00:48:15.704 --> 00:48:19.645
their member account with you and also how to troubleshoot some basic issues.

709
00:48:20.025 --> 00:48:23.900
And then what you can do is at the top of this page, as David was suggesting,

710
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:27.020
is put a YouTube video at the top of this page.

711
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:33.500
You can im insert a video here, and just create a one minute video showing them how to quickly sign up,

712
00:48:33.880 --> 00:48:35.100
quickly log in,

713
00:48:35.765 --> 00:48:37.385
quickly update their listing.

714
00:48:37.845 --> 00:48:40.985
After they do that, seeing their listing on the search results pages,

715
00:48:41.285 --> 00:48:47.785
and then encourage them to do other things, like ask people to leave reviews and the other actions you want them to take.

716
00:48:48.565 --> 00:48:51.180
Promote a coupon or event your business is having.

717
00:48:51.420 --> 00:48:57.099
And then end it with and if you have more questions along the way, just fill out our contact us form.

718
00:48:57.099 --> 00:48:59.680
So what I was gonna do at the bottom of the FAQ

719
00:49:00.780 --> 00:49:03.119
is say something like, if you have more questions,

720
00:49:03.900 --> 00:49:06.800
you know, just some call to action, etcetera, etcetera,

721
00:49:07.155 --> 00:49:10.935
you know, contact us. And you can link this to your contact us page.

722
00:49:11.235 --> 00:49:15.975
So now what you've done is you've presented them with a a helpful video, you know, one or two minutes.

723
00:49:16.915 --> 00:49:25.710
You've addressed 10 to 20 common asked questions about using their account, getting the most out of your website, and some basic troubleshooting like resetting their password.

724
00:49:26.010 --> 00:49:33.135
And then you can end it with, you know, this is not the right way to do it, but you can put a nice button here and say, here, you can drop this here.

725
00:49:33.295 --> 00:49:34.835
Do you still, you know,

726
00:49:35.695 --> 00:49:36.675
still need help?

727
00:49:38.575 --> 00:49:41.155
And, you know, you can link them to,

728
00:49:42.575 --> 00:49:46.890
your contact us form with one of these buttons here. Just just a quick way to do it. So,

729
00:49:47.769 --> 00:49:51.069
yeah, that's that's basically what I would suggest for the FAQ.

730
00:49:51.130 --> 00:49:53.150
Simplify things for yourself, and then

731
00:49:53.690 --> 00:49:56.029
try not to overthink it. We don't we can't

732
00:49:56.410 --> 00:49:56.910
guess

733
00:49:57.289 --> 00:50:03.065
everything our users need. It would debilitate us if we try to address every if and,

734
00:50:03.925 --> 00:50:05.145
hypothetical situation

735
00:50:05.525 --> 00:50:11.065
our members would encounter. So just produce something good. I'm a big advocate for 80%.

736
00:50:11.125 --> 00:50:17.385
Get it 80% good, and then move on to the next task, especially if you're working on your site on your own or with a small team.

737
00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:19.000
Alright. Good question there.

738
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:25.579
And we do have a couple people just piggybacking off of that asking how to add custom content to the member's dashboard.

739
00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:29.640
I believe we have a tip of the week video explaining how to do that.

740
00:50:29.640 --> 00:50:33.195
So I'll, I'll look for that and, share the link in the chat here.

741
00:50:33.915 --> 00:50:37.935
Okay. Great. Let me I think I can grab it real quick. I I know where it is off the top of my head.

742
00:50:38.395 --> 00:50:41.375
Just search for that's one of my favorite ones that we did, actually.

743
00:50:42.475 --> 00:50:45.775
Here it is. Three ways to engage users inside their dashboard.

744
00:50:46.220 --> 00:50:51.680
I'm not gonna I'm gonna just fast forward so you guys can see kind of where where we end up with this here.

745
00:50:52.059 --> 00:50:53.180
So in their dashboard

746
00:50:55.660 --> 00:50:59.680
so this is inside their dashboard. And what we did is we added some banners,

747
00:51:00.185 --> 00:51:06.045
things to do. So it's really nice. Let me share this link in the chat with everyone.

748
00:51:08.185 --> 00:51:10.365
And it's a great way to share company news,

749
00:51:11.145 --> 00:51:12.825
or shout out certain things that are coming.

750
00:51:12.825 --> 00:51:17.530
So every time they log in, know, you you can manually update it, you know, message of the week.

751
00:51:17.530 --> 00:51:17.930
Right?

752
00:51:17.930 --> 00:51:22.810
That's that's really fun, and it actually gives them something to look forward to when they log in.

753
00:51:22.810 --> 00:51:27.710
Alright. Let's see here. Todd's asking, how can we track banner ad clicks and views for monetization

754
00:51:28.090 --> 00:51:28.590
purposes?

755
00:51:28.965 --> 00:51:34.325
So what you can do is BD doesn't have a click tracking, like, built in for the banner ads.

756
00:51:34.485 --> 00:51:37.305
You can use tools like Bitly or Tiny.

757
00:51:38.485 --> 00:51:41.385
There's a there's a ton of them. They're basically URL shorteners.

758
00:51:41.940 --> 00:51:43.160
And with these tools,

759
00:51:44.579 --> 00:51:49.640
you can create a redirect for where that link is supposed to go to and then you can track

760
00:51:50.339 --> 00:51:50.839
the

761
00:51:52.099 --> 00:51:55.665
the progress of that link. This is Bitly is just one. You can Google, like,

762
00:51:56.305 --> 00:51:58.945
link shortener tool and there there's some that do a lot.

763
00:51:58.945 --> 00:52:02.485
You can choose, like, what the what the shortener is,

764
00:52:02.945 --> 00:52:05.425
but this way you can track your clicks and things like that.

765
00:52:05.425 --> 00:52:06.705
And there's a ton of free ones out there.

766
00:52:06.705 --> 00:52:09.810
I know this one says pricing, but this is just the first one that

767
00:52:10.450 --> 00:52:11.670
comes to mind. So,

768
00:52:12.290 --> 00:52:19.910
the simple solution is that if you need to go the next level, then you can use, like, a banner ad management system like AdButler.

769
00:52:22.050 --> 00:52:24.870
That might be too much. Let's just go to AdButler.

770
00:52:26.075 --> 00:52:31.035
These do have costs, and this is like they do all the ad serving. You put your ads in there.

771
00:52:31.035 --> 00:52:33.615
It'll track clicks, it displays, impressions,

772
00:52:34.315 --> 00:52:38.015
all the higher level stuff that you would wanna do with ad management.

773
00:52:39.090 --> 00:52:41.430
Again, might be too early or overkill.

774
00:52:42.290 --> 00:52:43.670
And I think just a simple,

775
00:52:43.970 --> 00:52:46.710
like, link shortener that does, like, tracks the clicks

776
00:52:47.090 --> 00:52:48.230
could be a better,

777
00:52:48.610 --> 00:52:49.110
tool,

778
00:52:50.210 --> 00:52:53.925
to start with. And, actually, since we were on a chat CPT thing,

779
00:52:54.225 --> 00:52:55.605
let's let's ask it.

780
00:52:56.545 --> 00:52:57.685
What are the

781
00:52:58.225 --> 00:52:58.725
top

782
00:52:59.265 --> 00:53:00.244
link shorteners

783
00:53:00.865 --> 00:53:02.085
that track

784
00:53:02.785 --> 00:53:03.925
clicks and

785
00:53:04.260 --> 00:53:04.760
are

786
00:53:05.140 --> 00:53:05.640
free.

787
00:53:06.580 --> 00:53:10.740
Let's have some fun here, Todd. Alright. So, yeah, it's gave Bitly here.

788
00:53:10.740 --> 00:53:12.840
Let's zoom in a little bit more. Rebrandly

789
00:53:13.140 --> 00:53:15.560
tiny URL. That's a that's a good one, I think.

790
00:53:16.420 --> 00:53:18.695
The list goes on, and on.

791
00:53:18.835 --> 00:53:24.355
And they probably all have variations of free versions, and then at some level, you probably have to pay a nominal fee.

792
00:53:24.355 --> 00:53:28.595
But this is a good place to start here. Good stuff there, Todd. Alright. Let's see here.

793
00:53:28.595 --> 00:53:32.810
We got Roger's asking, will you be adding features to the web page editor in '25?

794
00:53:32.810 --> 00:53:38.990
Example, I can drag in three column modules, but if I only want two, I have to manually edit the HTML.

795
00:53:39.210 --> 00:53:44.250
Let me help you out there, Roger. You can do something right now, which I think might help you out.

796
00:53:44.250 --> 00:53:44.990
Let's go

797
00:53:45.494 --> 00:53:50.555
to the, let me go back to this, site here. Let's go to the web page builder together.

798
00:53:52.375 --> 00:53:53.355
Let's go to

799
00:53:53.974 --> 00:53:54.875
web page builder.

800
00:53:56.535 --> 00:53:57.035
And

801
00:53:57.620 --> 00:54:00.440
what Roger's referring to in this specific example

802
00:54:02.500 --> 00:54:06.280
so let's throw in this three column one, and he only needs two.

803
00:54:07.060 --> 00:54:09.720
What you can do, Roger, is you can click here,

804
00:54:10.035 --> 00:54:12.194
and there are options here for columns.

805
00:54:12.194 --> 00:54:17.734
You can delete the column and we've now split it evenly into two. So,

806
00:54:18.275 --> 00:54:21.474
you can achieve that now without having to go I know what you were doing before.

807
00:54:21.474 --> 00:54:24.454
You're going to code view and and deleting one of the columns,

808
00:54:25.089 --> 00:54:30.310
but you can do that there. What I wanna do later, and we don't have it nailed down yet, is

809
00:54:30.770 --> 00:54:32.710
you can insert a column here.

810
00:54:32.770 --> 00:54:36.869
What I wanna do is as you're sliding the column so you can see the percentage,

811
00:54:37.385 --> 00:54:45.305
So as you're sliding it, if you want equal columns, you can actually see that it's, like, 33, you know, whatever the is equal.

812
00:54:45.305 --> 00:54:51.944
So you can actually see what percent the column is taking up and get it as evenly as possible without having to get into the code view.

813
00:54:51.944 --> 00:54:52.290
But,

814
00:54:53.250 --> 00:54:56.550
but, yeah, you can use this this area here to,

815
00:54:57.250 --> 00:55:00.230
add columns or delete columns there. We went from four,

816
00:55:01.650 --> 00:55:07.750
to to three to two, and then you can go down. And you can also do rows also. You can add rows above,

817
00:55:08.105 --> 00:55:10.645
etcetera, etcetera. So hopefully that,

818
00:55:11.305 --> 00:55:12.424
gives you some direction there.

819
00:55:12.424 --> 00:55:19.950
And, yeah, we will be doing more updates to the the web page builder, basically making it a bit more intuitive and easier to use, more fluid.

820
00:55:20.190 --> 00:55:21.810
Alright. We got one more here,

821
00:55:22.510 --> 00:55:27.329
from Jason. Can you also import local weather from a city into a BD site?

822
00:55:27.470 --> 00:55:32.109
You know, for that, I don't know exactly what use case you have for that, but,

823
00:55:33.405 --> 00:55:35.345
I think there's a local weather

824
00:55:35.725 --> 00:55:39.585
widgets, and you can just add them to your site. Just do free here.

825
00:55:40.125 --> 00:55:41.585
There's probably a ton of them.

826
00:55:42.365 --> 00:55:44.940
Yeah. Local Google has one local weather widgets.

827
00:55:46.460 --> 00:55:53.680
Just look up local weather widget and you can add it to a custom widget on your site and then put it in your footer or your header.

828
00:55:53.819 --> 00:55:57.839
Be careful with these. They suck up a lot of the loading time on your site.

829
00:55:58.575 --> 00:56:04.275
So if you can find one that loads relatively quickly and doesn't slow down the experience for your users,

830
00:56:04.815 --> 00:56:06.275
just be wary of that,

831
00:56:07.215 --> 00:56:07.955
with this.

832
00:56:08.415 --> 00:56:12.200
And in addition to widget, I would also include in your search embed.

833
00:56:12.580 --> 00:56:17.880
I know a lot of weather site Yeah. Have embed code that you can just copy and paste. Right.

834
00:56:18.339 --> 00:56:18.839
Absolutely.

835
00:56:20.500 --> 00:56:25.404
And weather's ever changing, so it'll be dynamic. Okay. Good question there, Scott. Alright, guys.

836
00:56:25.404 --> 00:56:31.105
Let me let me backtrack a bit here. We do have our cyber deals ending today.

837
00:56:31.724 --> 00:56:38.130
So if you didn't pick something up, highly recommend at least getting one thing just so we you don't have any regrets.

838
00:56:38.130 --> 00:56:40.630
We have lowered the prices very aggressively.

839
00:56:41.569 --> 00:56:46.609
You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/cyber.

840
00:56:46.609 --> 00:56:49.785
I think we have a banner we can tick across the stream here. There you go.

841
00:56:49.865 --> 00:56:52.345
Brilliantdirectories.com/cyber.

842
00:56:52.345 --> 00:56:57.464
And then for everyone on the webinar, go to the Brilliant Directory shop and get some free swag.

843
00:56:57.464 --> 00:57:00.365
You can go to shop.brilliantdirectories.com.

844
00:57:00.505 --> 00:57:06.230
Use these two promo codes, free ship and black fry. It'll bring the price, down to zero.

845
00:57:06.230 --> 00:57:11.930
You could spend up to $20 in the shop, get yourself a hat, tumbler, fanny pack, lots of good things there.

846
00:57:11.990 --> 00:57:16.010
And do we have any final questions, David, or should we end it on that high note there?

847
00:57:16.070 --> 00:57:18.970
We do have one. Steve's asked this before,

848
00:57:19.270 --> 00:57:24.125
but I know it's, it's a a feature that a good amount of users are are asking for.

849
00:57:24.125 --> 00:57:29.585
Are we any closer to getting mailing addresses added to the download of the transaction history report?

850
00:57:29.805 --> 00:57:31.740
I have to check on that. I can get back.

851
00:57:31.900 --> 00:57:35.280
And that would be the billing address that's on file for the member, I'm assuming.

852
00:57:35.340 --> 00:57:39.660
We should be exporting that if you're exporting data from the transactions table.

853
00:57:39.660 --> 00:57:44.400
So I will follow-up, and, hopefully, I'll have some news for you on the next webinar. Alright, guys.

854
00:57:44.495 --> 00:57:48.195
Well, we're just about out of time there. Super fun webinar. Amazing questions.

855
00:57:48.495 --> 00:57:51.935
And, again, there were a ton of lab updates. Let's just review these.

856
00:57:51.935 --> 00:57:54.655
Lots of irons in the fire coming soon.

857
00:57:54.655 --> 00:57:57.210
And, again, big shout out to you guys and your suggestions and your

858
00:57:58.170 --> 00:57:58.650
ideas,

859
00:57:58.970 --> 00:58:00.190
and also your participation

860
00:58:00.650 --> 00:58:05.530
in the Facebook group and also on our YouTube channel. The next webinar will be in two weeks.

861
00:58:05.530 --> 00:58:09.630
Let's take a quick look at a calendar here. Let's see if this is one of those.

862
00:58:09.770 --> 00:58:13.954
The next webinar will be on the eighteenth, so just before the holiday season there.

863
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And, yeah, the the following

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is Christmas day, so we won't do a webinar that day.

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So, yeah, the eighteenth may be the last webinar, David, for the year.

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Maybe we do one not on a Wednesday, maybe on another off day just so we can get two more in for the year if it's possible.

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We'll we'll look into that. Alright. Cool. Well, fun stuff there. On behalf of myself,

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David, and the entire

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Brilliant Directories family, this was amazing, guys.

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Bittersweet the year is coming to an end, but we're gonna be better and stronger than ever going into 2025,

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and we want you guys to be as well.

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Next webinar will be in two weeks. We'll catch you then. Have a great day and a brilliant week.

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Take care guys. Ciao.