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Alright, Gehing. Welcome to another edition of Webinar Wednesday.

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It is awesome to be with everyone here today.

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Hi, Sudhir from San Francisco.

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Hi, Trisha, Mike, and everyone else joining us. Seems we have an international

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

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

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David, thank you for taking the time to join us on this webinar and the slides you've created for us, for today's quick tips.

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Hey, everybody. So glad to be back with you for another webinar. Yeah.

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Trying something a little new, with the tip of the week this week.

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Don't wanna give too much away just yet.

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We'll get there in just a few moments, but, something, to look forward to.

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Got, quite a few tips for you this time. Yeah. I'm excited for those.

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And we do see that a lot of people are joining us from YouTube.

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So out there in YouTube Live Land, welcome to the webinar. If you're not subscribed to the

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Directories YouTube channel, highly recommend doing that now.

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You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/youtube

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and click on that subscribe button.

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It's a great way to get notified as soon as the webinar replays are available.

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Tips of the week, quick tips, featured tutorials,

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and more.

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And one of the perks of being on YouTube live is the replay will be immediately available to everyone after the webinar is over, and we will post a link to that in the Brilliant Directories Facebook group.

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We also encourage you to join us there. You can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com

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forward slash Facebook and click on that blue join button. I'm in there myself.

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Lots of great discussions. You can ask questions there. You can get feedback and suggestions

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related to your website.

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So it's a really positive group, and we do invite everyone to join us there.

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And just a quick plug here for the Brilliant Directories app.

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If you have a BD site and you don't have the free app, just head on over to the Apple or Google Store and search for Brilliant Directories.

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You can also follow the links that are there on the screen and download the free app.

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It's a great way to stay in touch with the pulse of your site.

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On the go, you can see new members, new transactions,

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and more. And we have a great turnout for today's webinar, and I do see some new names and faces.

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So welcome. Just a little bit about the webinar Wednesdays and what we aim to cover.

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Week after week, the BD team is hard at work pushing new updates into the Brilliant Directories platform.

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Many of them, big round of applause to the BD community for the suggestions that you submit,

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the support tickets, they all help to to improve the platform.

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So in webinar Wednesday, what we aim to do is share some of those newer updates where you can take actionable steps to help grow your community.

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So we'll cover, topics such as how to increase your website traffic, converting website visitors into members, identifying revenue opportunities, and more.

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We're gonna have plenty of time for q and a today.

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So if you need help with your membership site or have questions on any of these topics, just type them into the comments.

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If you want us to unmute your microphone, just type in the question.

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Just make sure you're at brilliantdirectories.com

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forward slash stream, and that allows us to unmute your microphone.

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And before I go into the lab updates, just a little bit about the some of the things we cover here.

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I'm gonna go to the Brilliant Directories website.

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I'm gonna go to the blog section we have here,

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and there's there's lots of great content here.

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You can see all the webinar replays in the sidebar here.

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There's a link that says on demand webinar replays. Plays.

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But one of my favorite things are the, this section here is,

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membership growth strategies.

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A lot of these are the tips of the week that we do in the webinars, the the smaller segments.

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I'm gonna share a link to this. So if you have free time, this is a great place to go,

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and just get educated on some tips and tricks on how to grow,

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your

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membership site. Alright.

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And before we get to the quick tips for this week, we do have some lab updates to share.

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There's a lot of good things coming down the line very soon, but we do have a few kind of like higher level developer updates that we'll share with you today.

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The first one at the top of the list is related to webhooks. If you're not familiar with

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webhooks, it is a way for developers

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or kind of medium,

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I'd say, skilled tech users where you can send the data of your Brilliant Directories site out to third party platforms.

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I'm not gonna get too much into, how the webhooks work, but we do have two new webhooks that should be pretty useful if you are tracking payments on your site and need to send that data to third party platforms or to, other applications.

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So there are two new webhooks. Let's go to the admin area and check them out together.

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And I'll explain what they do.

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So I went to Developer Hub and webhooks, and I'm gonna search for invoice.

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Actually, these webhooks, there's a bunch of default ones.

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I think we're gonna do a small project to give them better naming conventions

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and categorizing them. But for this update, there are two here.

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And I'll start with this top one here, admin subscription and admin invoice actions. So,

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in the admin area, you can manually bill members.

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If you have their credit card on file, you can start subscriptions for them manually in the admin area.

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And this webhook will track all that data,

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when those events take place, in over here in the admin area. So you can create webhooks for that.

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The member, the amounts, the subscription, and all that stuff will be passed through the webhook.

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The next one here is called system invoice action.

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This this could be, named a bit better, but, basically, all the recurring payments, that you're that are processed on the site, all the scheduled payments, all the monthly payments, the annual payments,

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processed by the ED system,

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for members who are on subscriptions.

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The these are the system invoices that are created. And with this webhook,

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wherever you need to send send that data,

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you can send it with this webhook, and it will let you know if the transaction was successful, if it failed,

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or other statuses that might, apply to when the payment is being attempted to be captured.

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So one is for the admin

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subscriptions that you create manually and one are for the auto recurring payments that the system is processing.

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Now you can send that data to third party platforms as needed. Alright.

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This next one here also for developers, it is related to the Brilliant Directories API and is a new endpoint

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related to widgets.

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Again, if you're not a developer, this might not excite you that much, but if you are, this could be a game changer for you.

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So with this new API endpoint there, you can actually create, read, or update or delete your custom widgets on your site.

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And also what's even more magical about this update is you can actually render your widgets on third party sites with the API.

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You can with the API, you can actually render the code of the widget.

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I'm gonna share a couple links here. We have some articles on it.

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This one here, widgets API, how to edit widgets, with the API calls.

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Just go ahead and share this in the chat here.

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And we do have just in general, a reference for the API endpoints and all of them.

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So we have for, members, which are users, leads,

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single image posts, multi image posts, and the new one down here,

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is for widgets.

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And we see something different here which is not just the, the get post put and delete, but there is a post to render,

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the widget content,

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of a specific widget here. So I'll go ahead and share this with you guys as well. Alright.

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This next one here, we've been waiting a long time. It has the word soon next to it for the emojis.

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However, there is a way for you to get this added to your site a bit quicker.

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Up until now, actually, there has not been emoji support.

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So if you're working in your text editor or you wanna save an emoji as a title for something, it gets kicked back with a bunch of question marks after you save the changes.

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That is something with how those emoji values were being saved in the database.

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But with this update, emojis, thankfully,

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will start working. So right now, our system are this is so fresh right now.

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Our system is going and doing the behind the scenes update for sites.

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But if you want to expedite this for your site, if you wanna dive in and start saving emojis around your pages or fields where you wanna save emojis, you can certainly do so.

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So, let's actually do this together.

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Again, this is you're not gonna have to do this.

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The the system is processing this today, across all BD sites.

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But if you want to do it yourself,

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you can come here to your main dashboard area and scroll down to install new updates.

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Normally, we take care of everything behind the scenes.

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If it's here, it's just temporarily, but it's always a good idea to check this periodically, and it's always safe to click the install buttons here.

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But this is the one related to emoji support. So if your site hasn't been updated yet,

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you'll see this install button. So let's go ahead and do that together,

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and let's give it a second to install.

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And while that's doing that alright. It says that it's installed.

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Let's make sure that it's removed from this list. Yep. Okay.

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So now the fun part is if you go to, like, the web page builder as an example,

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and we'll just go to we'll just create a new web page here.

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And we'll say, we'll just call the page emojis. So you'll see now an emoji,

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option here in the text editor. We'll just put a few emojis in here,

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and we'll just do emojis, everything, the main title, the subtitle. We'll even do the meta title,

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and we'll even put it in the URL. I don't know if the URL is gonna work.

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Let's cross our fingers and see. And, hopefully, that installer took care of this update for us. So,

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it looks like things are working well. Let's go to view page.

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so that installer worked. Again, if that we're already running that for all BD sites.

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It's just happening today. So if you just give it about twenty four hours, it'll be auto installed.

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Or if you want to go ahead, you can hit that install button.

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But even if we look at the source code now, we could see the meta title of the page are the emojis that we save,

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and there shouldn't be any issues now with emojis. So I'm super excited about that.

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I like using emojis,

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you know, sparingly, in different areas of the site. So it's nice to see that supported now.

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Alright. Couple more coming soon for posts.

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If you're importing posts to your site, many times, posts have locations attributed to them.

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For example, events or jobs have a physical location with them.

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And up until now, there was no way to bulk geocode them.

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Geocode assigns a latitude and longitude so that those imported posts can be searched via location on the front end of the site.

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That will be remedied soon, and you'll have an option to bulk geocode those posts.

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Next on the list, we are working on some WordPress plugins so that you have some integration

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options between your Brilliant Directory site and your WordPress site.

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The first one here, syncing WooCommerce customers.

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WooCommerce is the number one ecommerce plugin for WordPress.

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So you'll be able to sync your WooCommerce customer records to your Brilliant Directories site.

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It'll create them as member records on your Brilliant Directories site.

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That one has been submitted to the WordPress plug in repository.

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It is pending approval by them.

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So that should be, any day now we should get an approval for that, and it should be available in the WordPress plugin repository.

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The next one here, this one's undergoing development.

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It is the ability to export your WordPress posts

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to your Brilliant Directories website, so that'll be a one click button.

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And if you're working on new posts in your WordPress site, there will be an export button, when you're working on your posts.

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What's cool about the export WordPress post one is after it does the export, it can create a three zero one redirect, which will redirect the old WordPress post URL to the new Brilliant Directories post URL.

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So you won't lose any link juice or traffic coming to the the original blog article link.

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So that's really cool. We have a few others coming down the line, probably.

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Well, I'll just mention what they are.

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The second one is a forms sync, so there's several very popular form plugins for WordPress.

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There's contact form seven, WordPress forms, ninja forms, gravity forms, and a few others.

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What that other plugin is going to do is you'll be able to send that data, those submissions from those form plugins to your Brilliant Directories website.

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So if someone fills out that contact form seven form on your WordPress site, you can then create a member with that submission or create a review or create a lead.

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So you'll be able to send data from your WordPress site to your BD site using those existing form plugins.

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And then the last one that we're really excited about is hosting your BD site on a WordPress,

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subfolder or loading your BD site on a WordPress subfolder.

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So if you have an existing WordPress site and you wanna add the BD directory to it, you can just define the forward slash page, the forward slash members or forward slash directory, whatever you wanna call it, and your BD site will load on that page.

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Also, just wanted to mention for February and March, while some of these bigger updates and more recently, we had some good updates.

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But for February and March, we have a lot of smaller updates to do, small patches that have been reported by you guys.

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So we're going to focus on those website stability and security settings through the March so that things continue working as they should and as expected.

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So and, of course, tons more updates on the way. Many of these are from the BD community.

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So thank you guys, for all that you do and keeping us working hard here.

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We really appreciate it, and we love it.

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And with that, we can segue on to a new webinar segment, BD quick tips.

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If it's alright with you, David, I can pass things over, and you could take it from here. Yeah.

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Really looking forward to this one. We're trying out something a little new.

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Instead of doing a full on tip of the week, a full presentation on one specific topic, we thought it might be fun, maybe a little bit more interesting in some cases to cover some more, quick tips on some smaller elements of the platform, certain settings, features, options that are out there that are often overlooked.

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There's a lot of features built into the platform.

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So sometimes it can be a little bit easy to overlook some really useful settings.

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So that's kind of, the idea behind the Speedy quick tip segment here is to kind of rapid fire go through a few different quick tips, smaller tips that, you might want to take advantage of on on your site.

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So you can see here the three, quick tips that we'll get into. Just a little bit of a preview here.

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But going into the first one, autofill coupons on checkout pages.

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So what you can do is you can automatically

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apply a coupon code when a visitor visits a checkout page on your website.

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So this does require the easy coupon codes add on.

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However, if you have it, all you need to do, just create a coupon code or if you already have coupon codes created, all you have to do is get the URL of one of the checkout pages on your website.

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So it's gonna be something like mywebsite.com

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forward slash checkout forward slash the membership plan ID number.

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And then after that number, all you have to do is add a another forward slash and then question mark ref code equals and then replace discount that you see there on the screen with the coupon code.

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And then you can include that link in email marketing, in an email to a member if you want to provide a specific member with a or a specific perspective member with a discount when they're signing up.

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You don't wanna tell them, yo, here's the coupon code to use on the checkout page.

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You can just send them a link so that the coupon automatically gets applied for them.

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So that's how you do it. It's super simple.

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You know, it encourages checkout with that instant discount applied.

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Just a a really neat little feature that is oftentimes overlooked with the coupon codes. Yeah.

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Let's show you guys a demo of how that works exactly. Let's go here.

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Let me share a link to the easy coupon codes add on. It's one of my favorite add ons, actually.

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I'll put this in the chat here for everyone.

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So I've created a coupon called coupon code called save 10, and it saves, it gives you 10% off, your purchase.

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I'll share this in the chat as well. So this is the documentation for the easy coupon codes add on.

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There's lots of good sections here. Let me just search for that ref code here. Here it is.

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Moving on to, the second one here, number two out of three. Hiding table cells on specific devices.

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as the name. Let's save that.

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An article to share about all the actions available in the, the text editor.

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This is a great article here. It talks about, all the settings available.

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I'm gonna share this one as well. Excellent tip there. Really love that one.

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Not always necessary in in all cases, but in some specific cases, it it can really come in handy.

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This last one here, number three out of three, really loving these rapid fire tips here.

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Bulk assign posts to a new author or a new member.

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It's actually kind of a common question that we get. Very simple, very easy to do.

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You just go to content and then manage posts in your admin area.

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You check off the posts that you want to reassign the author, and then you go to the bulk actions drop down, and then you just assign the new author.

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And then as you can see in the screenshot to the right, you just select the new member that you want to be the new author of the posts that you selected.

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essentially of those posts to a new member, you can do that.

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So real easy to maintain organization of your published posts using this bulk action here. Yeah.

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Let's take a look at how it works here.

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So this is really great if, you know, if you have multiple admins, you wanna move posts between the author.

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Or if you're gonna delete a member but they really contributed some good content and it's okay to keep it on your site, instead of losing that, you can, you know, attribute it to a new member.

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the ownership. Let's go ahead and do that

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as the author. So then if we were gonna go delete the member, we could, of course, do that,

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Let's go ahead and delete this bonsai grill account. We'll we'll go delete account.

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transferring them to another author. So it says delete member post.

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all their posts, whether it's photo albums. It's not even the specific ones like blogs or coupons.

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the admin blog contributor in the example that we chose. So let's go back here.

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Do you have an article to share about that one? Here we go.

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This is an article about managing posts, and this is a section for the available bulk actions.

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But this is a great read. There's lots of, sections here, how to edit a post,

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like changing the URL of posts and more.

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So, what I'll do here is I'll just post this link in the comments as well for this article.

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And, yeah, David, great choices for these.

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There's lots of these little tips and tricks built into BD, so I think we'll continue this this style of this segment.

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But thanks for putting this together, David. Yeah. This was, a a lot of fun.

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Looking forward to doing some more of these.

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And if, anyone out there, if you notice any small tips and tricks that you take advantage of frequently when you're managing your site, let us know, and we can include them in these future tidbits here.

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Awesome. Thank you. So we do have plenty of time for questions.

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Feel free to type in your questions. I see a lot of questions have already been typed in.

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We're going to filter through those in just a moment and get to responding to them.

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stream and in the comments type in question in all caps that will indicate to us that you'd like us to unmute

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your microphone.

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Okay, let's start. Here we go. Let's start with something. Rich says funny.

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You're talking about install updates. I was doing that this morning. All worked except two of them.

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Okay. Great point there, Rich.

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If the installing the updates, the software updates ever gets stuck for you, just email the support team and they'll figure out what happened.

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It's always safe to click those install buttons, but if they're not disappearing, it's probably just some kinda quirk or it's hitting a snag to remove it from the list.

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So please feel free to email the support team and inform them of that. Alright.

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Tony's got a question here. Where do I find where to add the featured members ribbon

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setup. The featured members ribbon, that's a great one. It is an add on that we have.

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Let's share that with you here. I love this one too. We've

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we've had lots of use cases, throughout the webinars

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of of when to use this, but it is the highlight member results, and, basically, it allows you to add a sash.

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In the search results, you can choose the color and what the text says.

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It could say verify, feature,

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customer favorite, you know, whatever you can think of. It's based on the membership plan.

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And here, I'll share this link to the add on here.

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And very quickly, I'll just show you where once you have this enabled, where you can make the edits for this.

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If you go to your membership plans,

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hide this

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from there.

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I believe this will be under search visibility tab for the membership plan since it's related to the search results.

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And when you have the add on and scroll down, you'll have the the highlight member profile section.

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You can enable it by turning it on. And then, of course, you can choose things like, the colors,

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what you want it to say.

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favorite. Just you wanna be see that doesn't fit too well customer favorite.

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What you can also do is you can choose if it's across or above.

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It will actually show above here when I save it. You can also change the font size.

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So there's a few settings here,

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that's how it would show there. So you can based on how long the text is and what you're saying,

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you can choose if it'll be above or sashed

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But, yeah, that's basically how you do it, and you would just save your changes.

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00:30:20.220 --> 00:30:24.940
Good question there, Tony. Alright. And we got a long one here. Let me share this one.

415
00:30:24.940 --> 00:30:27.179
Marvin's asking a quick question for the team.

416
00:30:27.179 --> 00:30:36.505
When can we expect an update on the editor page that will allow users to copy and paste articles or blogs while maintaining an SEO optimized format?

417
00:30:36.505 --> 00:30:41.965
Right now, the editor defaults to normal text, which disrupts formatting and requires extra manual adjustments.

418
00:30:42.220 --> 00:30:59.745
So when you're pasting text into a text any text editor, the source of that, is a big deal because if you copy from, like, MS Word, or other service other types of, text editors, it can add a bunch of, I'll call it, gobbledygook that could mess up the the formatting that you really don't want on your site.

419
00:31:01.085 --> 00:31:05.025
I think the setting you're after, which will allow let me hide this here.

420
00:31:07.725 --> 00:31:10.225
Let me I forgot off the top of my head.

421
00:31:11.770 --> 00:31:12.250
Okay.

422
00:31:12.250 --> 00:31:21.950
I think it for all the plain paste with when this setting is enabled, for editor filters the pasted content and keeps only plain text by removing its rich formatting.

423
00:31:22.170 --> 00:31:25.390
I think what you want to do, Marvin, is disable this one

424
00:31:25.715 --> 00:31:28.435
because then it won't turn it into plain text.

425
00:31:28.435 --> 00:31:32.355
It will paste it with the if they are there, the h two,

426
00:31:32.675 --> 00:31:33.735
the all the formatting,

427
00:31:34.435 --> 00:31:38.455
that you have. So I would give this one a try. It's in the advanced settings.

428
00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:43.640
Try disabling this one. Marvin, I'm gonna paste this advanced setting.

429
00:31:44.179 --> 00:31:48.919
It's called Froella plain paste. Just put it here in the the filter here and

430
00:31:49.380 --> 00:31:51.080
disable it and save your changes,

431
00:31:51.685 --> 00:31:54.645
and give that a shot. That may work for you there. Alright.

432
00:31:54.645 --> 00:31:58.325
We do have, Will here who wanted to ask a question with their mic.

433
00:31:58.325 --> 00:32:02.405
So we'll go ahead and add you, Will, to the stage. Hello. Can you hear me? Yeah.

434
00:32:02.405 --> 00:32:06.310
Will, where are you calling in from? I'm calling in from Washington, DC. Alright.

435
00:32:06.310 --> 00:32:10.890
Great to have you on the webinar. Now I apologize in advance for this very simplistic question.

436
00:32:11.030 --> 00:32:16.970
I am in the process now of creating content, and so the post type blogs and or articles.

437
00:32:17.190 --> 00:32:21.675
But when I put the blogs together, it doesn't look very good, And I'm wondering

438
00:32:22.135 --> 00:32:30.875
what resources I'm sure you have that are available that I can look at in terms of the design and look of the blog so it's easy to read for the reader.

439
00:32:31.175 --> 00:32:32.695
Yeah. I have some tips for you.

440
00:32:32.695 --> 00:32:36.770
Do you have an example of a blog article you've published that you're not happy with the formatting?

441
00:32:36.770 --> 00:32:41.169
No. I'm really no longer sure. It's kind of embarrassing. K. Let me see if I can Okay.

442
00:32:41.169 --> 00:32:45.010
I'll give you some tip when you're publishing some blog articles. We can do it together here.

443
00:32:45.010 --> 00:32:45.990
Let's go to,

444
00:32:47.649 --> 00:32:49.350
the let's let's do it.

445
00:32:49.809 --> 00:32:50.549
Let me

446
00:32:50.885 --> 00:32:52.645
let me get my bearings here. Okay.

447
00:32:52.645 --> 00:32:57.225
Let's actually do a quick blog article here on the on the Brilliant Directory site as an example.

448
00:32:57.525 --> 00:32:58.985
Let me just log in here.

449
00:33:00.405 --> 00:33:09.380
I'll give you some tips to make so the the point of a blog article first is is to have that good content on your site so people have something to read.

450
00:33:09.380 --> 00:33:11.080
It's good for SEO and Google.

451
00:33:11.700 --> 00:33:19.865
The next thing is we want it to aesthetically look nice, so that kind of encourages people to finish and get to the end of the article, stay on your site longer,

452
00:33:20.325 --> 00:33:24.265
and things like that. Let's actually publish a new article here.

453
00:33:25.284 --> 00:33:30.025
I wonder if I have the chat g p t. Let's see here. Write an article

454
00:33:31.910 --> 00:33:34.010
about why dogs are

455
00:33:34.310 --> 00:33:35.610
better than cats

456
00:33:35.910 --> 00:33:36.970
as pets.

457
00:33:38.070 --> 00:33:38.570
Use

458
00:33:39.190 --> 00:33:40.090
bullet points

459
00:33:40.550 --> 00:33:41.050
and,

460
00:33:42.390 --> 00:33:42.890
subheadings.

461
00:33:43.190 --> 00:33:43.690
Okay.

462
00:33:44.230 --> 00:33:48.035
Let's see if this works real quick. I I don't know if the yeah.

463
00:33:48.035 --> 00:33:52.435
I have the chat sheet is not connected here. But let's go to the Brilliant Directories blog.

464
00:33:52.435 --> 00:33:55.415
I wanna show you some things that we do, to help

465
00:33:56.915 --> 00:34:02.590
the articles look look good and appealing and good for SEO as well. Let's just take a look at,

466
00:34:03.790 --> 00:34:07.090
this one here, six proven membership giveaway strategies. So,

467
00:34:08.110 --> 00:34:09.170
one tip here

468
00:34:10.110 --> 00:34:12.050
is and this is just like formatting

469
00:34:12.350 --> 00:34:12.850
options.

470
00:34:13.275 --> 00:34:15.375
I personally don't like it if

471
00:34:16.155 --> 00:34:22.315
a paragraph is more than three or four lines aesthetically when you're physically like, when you're actually looking at the paragraph.

472
00:34:22.315 --> 00:34:25.380
I like to keep it three or four lines because it makes it puts the,

473
00:34:26.259 --> 00:34:28.679
the article into easier digestible,

474
00:34:29.299 --> 00:34:30.599
sections and segments.

475
00:34:30.980 --> 00:34:31.639
So that's

476
00:34:32.259 --> 00:34:33.319
tip number one.

477
00:34:33.779 --> 00:34:35.880
Secondly, I like to split up

478
00:34:36.339 --> 00:34:39.799
after two to four paragraphs. I like to have

479
00:34:40.304 --> 00:34:44.804
a subheading, what's called the h two subheading. You don't wanna use an h one. An h one

480
00:34:45.185 --> 00:34:46.085
is your main,

481
00:34:46.464 --> 00:34:52.469
and an h two is what goes in articles. Let me show you in the text editor what an h two is.

482
00:34:52.949 --> 00:34:54.810
So we're on the same page. So,

483
00:34:55.270 --> 00:34:58.010
when you're choosing the type of paragraph here,

484
00:34:59.109 --> 00:35:00.970
you wanna choose h two heading

485
00:35:01.750 --> 00:35:05.685
and then a regular paragraph below it. So this would be normal here. So

486
00:35:06.245 --> 00:35:07.625
set split up your sections

487
00:35:08.005 --> 00:35:11.305
with an h two heading. Let me get my bearings here.

488
00:35:13.845 --> 00:35:18.425
So paragraph's no more than three to four. That equates to about two or three sentences a paragraph.

489
00:35:19.619 --> 00:35:22.119
I like to use bullet lists when possible.

490
00:35:22.819 --> 00:35:24.680
They could be numbered or just bulleted.

491
00:35:25.380 --> 00:35:26.200
That's fine.

492
00:35:26.579 --> 00:35:27.319
And then,

493
00:35:28.259 --> 00:35:28.759
also,

494
00:35:29.299 --> 00:35:30.200
under each

495
00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:34.440
subheading, don't go straight into the bullets. Add a paragraph beneath it.

496
00:35:35.105 --> 00:35:36.005
And then, also,

497
00:35:36.305 --> 00:35:38.484
what I what I like to do is,

498
00:35:39.505 --> 00:35:40.724
under each subheading,

499
00:35:41.345 --> 00:35:43.765
always have at least one to three paragraphs,

500
00:35:44.944 --> 00:35:47.525
and then go oh, and then do your next subheading.

501
00:35:47.585 --> 00:35:52.770
So it's about splitting up the content more than anything. You can sprinkle in some images here.

502
00:35:52.770 --> 00:35:56.710
Right? If you have an image for here, you can float it to the right using the editor.

503
00:35:57.330 --> 00:35:58.470
That also helps.

504
00:35:59.570 --> 00:36:05.194
But those are just some, I guess, structural tips when formatting a blog post to make it,

505
00:36:05.494 --> 00:36:10.155
a little more engaging and something that people wanna get to the finish line with.

506
00:36:10.775 --> 00:36:12.635
Do we have the ability to

507
00:36:13.174 --> 00:36:15.480
have our pages look like this?

508
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:17.720
Because

509
00:36:19.160 --> 00:36:23.640
So let's let me, let's just copy the all this here real quick into the,

510
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:24.940
the editor

511
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:26.700
as an example.

512
00:36:28.295 --> 00:36:32.135
Okay. Great. So this is kinda what what he was talking about with the with the formatting.

513
00:36:32.135 --> 00:36:33.575
I see what he's saying. But yeah.

514
00:36:33.575 --> 00:36:37.675
So what you could do is you get your your whole article here and then just start

515
00:36:38.135 --> 00:36:42.155
doing the, you know, the subheadings. Just start marking them like this.

516
00:36:43.470 --> 00:36:48.610
The styling where you're seeing this underline here, that's a little custom thing that we've done.

517
00:36:49.470 --> 00:36:53.070
Yes. So that that's, you know, that's that's for the CSS rule.

518
00:36:53.070 --> 00:36:57.010
But what would be helpful is if you kind of maybe in the Facebook group posted,

519
00:36:58.255 --> 00:37:08.115
like, a sample article that you've created that you're not fully satisfied with the the way it flows as far as the layout, and be happy to provide some some tips in there, that you can actually,

520
00:37:08.495 --> 00:37:11.960
update with. I will do that. Thank you. Okay. Great question.

521
00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:14.599
But you brought up a great topic, so so thank you for that.

522
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:17.900
The structure, it's not just about the content. It's about

523
00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:24.859
the engagement and getting the reader to the to the finish line of the article, and a lot of that has to do with not making the article look,

524
00:37:25.345 --> 00:37:29.265
overbearing or daunting to read. So those are just some tips for everyone there.

525
00:37:29.265 --> 00:37:33.825
We got a lot of more questions typed in here. I'll try to get through these a bit quicker. Alright.

526
00:37:33.825 --> 00:37:36.245
Let's see here. Another question about blog articles.

527
00:37:36.305 --> 00:37:42.040
Fit Matters is asking, how many posts can you post per day without getting in trouble with Google SEO?

528
00:37:42.040 --> 00:37:47.020
Can you make a site go live with a thousand posts before Google crawls the site index?

529
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:51.800
I don't know the hard and fast rule for that. That would be a better question for chat g p t.

530
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:58.204
I don't know if Google considers a thousand blog posts too much or a hundred thousand blog posts too much.

531
00:37:58.345 --> 00:38:03.704
I do know that Google won't index pages that are duplicate content or thin content.

532
00:38:03.704 --> 00:38:12.340
So if even though you have a thousand posts on your site, if they see that it's very, very similar to another site's content, that's what they consider duplicate content.

533
00:38:12.340 --> 00:38:16.340
They're not gonna penalize you. Like, you're not gonna get a negative hit on your site.

534
00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:20.260
You're not gonna get in trouble with them. They just will choose not to index those pages.

535
00:38:20.260 --> 00:38:25.105
Index means include those pages in Google search results. What I would do is I would do some tests.

536
00:38:25.105 --> 00:38:27.605
I would start small and publish 10 articles

537
00:38:28.065 --> 00:38:34.065
and see how long it takes for those to rank in Google or see why Google is choosing not to rank certain articles.

538
00:38:34.065 --> 00:38:38.704
In the Google Search Console, they will tell you why certain pages are not being indexed.

539
00:38:38.704 --> 00:38:40.460
Usually, they are technical issues.

540
00:38:40.520 --> 00:38:46.520
Either, again, duplicate content or thin pages is 90% of the issues, and there are some additional ones on top of that.

541
00:38:46.520 --> 00:38:50.760
But normally, Google won't penalize you. They just will choose not to index those pages.

542
00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:55.755
So they're not gonna hurt your entire domain. What you can get hurt for is building backlinks.

543
00:38:55.975 --> 00:39:06.450
I know that for sure because years and years ago, I kinda hired someone to build backlinks to a website, and they did too many backlinks from too many crummy web sites where their domain authority was low.

544
00:39:06.450 --> 00:39:13.350
And, actually, Google decided to I forgot the name, but they deranked or delisted that site and had to go through a huge arbitration

545
00:39:13.650 --> 00:39:14.450
process with them.

546
00:39:14.450 --> 00:39:22.474
So I don't recommend hiring someone or or doing, like, volumes of backlinks to your site, but I think adding content to your site should be fine.

547
00:39:22.474 --> 00:39:26.095
And then Google will pick and choose what content they deem as valuable,

548
00:39:26.474 --> 00:39:28.715
to be indexed and included in their search results.

549
00:39:28.715 --> 00:39:31.755
So that's kinda not the exact answer you might be looking for.

550
00:39:31.755 --> 00:39:40.540
Maybe ask ChatGPT or one of the, the chatbots for some tips on that, but that's kind of the methodology I use for getting things ranked in Google, especially when you're doing it in volume.

551
00:39:40.540 --> 00:39:45.340
Just do it in small batches and tests and see if you're even getting results with, you know, posting 10 at a time.

552
00:39:45.340 --> 00:39:47.795
Alright. Good stuff there. I like this question.

553
00:39:48.015 --> 00:39:53.474
Jamil is asking, can I use the same Stripe for different BD websites? You absolutely

554
00:39:54.175 --> 00:39:57.795
can. Your Stripe account is mainly, like, for the parent organization.

555
00:39:57.935 --> 00:40:02.970
You don't need a separate Stripe account for every website you run. So you can 1000%

556
00:40:02.970 --> 00:40:04.349
use your Stripe credentials

557
00:40:04.650 --> 00:40:06.269
on different website properties

558
00:40:06.569 --> 00:40:11.535
that you own and manage. That's generally with most gateways as well, like with PayPal as well.

559
00:40:11.775 --> 00:40:13.714
Alright. Let's see here.

560
00:40:14.095 --> 00:40:16.255
Here's one from Isaac, a long one. Let's see here.

561
00:40:16.255 --> 00:40:23.615
Regarding the WordPress plug in progress, I am considering implementing a strategy to load members on different WordPress sites separate from my BD site.

562
00:40:23.615 --> 00:40:29.470
I plan to display them on these other sites by creating a menu button link that leads to a page showcasing those members.

563
00:40:29.470 --> 00:40:32.590
For example, my BD site is usaplumbers.com,

564
00:40:32.590 --> 00:40:34.130
great name, and I have a WordPress

565
00:40:34.590 --> 00:40:36.355
site called denverplumbers.com.

566
00:40:36.355 --> 00:40:42.595
I'd like my BD members in Denver to be displayed on the WordPress site Denver Plumbers Dot Com.

567
00:40:42.595 --> 00:40:47.735
Okay. I have some good news, regarding that one. Let me go to our API documentation.

568
00:40:48.275 --> 00:40:49.315
I I'm not fully

569
00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:53.500
I don't know exactly how how to implement it yet.

570
00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:54.380
However,

571
00:40:55.080 --> 00:40:56.380
there is a new endpoint

572
00:40:57.560 --> 00:40:58.780
for search results.

573
00:40:59.720 --> 00:41:07.765
So you're saying that you want your like, the the Denver search results of your members to be displayed on this WordPress site, which is a third party site.

574
00:41:08.785 --> 00:41:10.865
So Isaac actually posted some more context.

575
00:41:10.865 --> 00:41:17.760
He said the only issue I foresee is that URLs for members outside of Denver will also be created on the WordPress site.

576
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:19.780
Could this negatively impact SEO

577
00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:22.020
or result in duplicate content?

578
00:41:22.560 --> 00:41:26.820
Got it. Okay. In that case, let me let me search look here.

579
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.100
It's not posted here yet. We have a

580
00:41:30.405 --> 00:41:36.645
endpoint coming where you can display your search results as they are on your BD site on third party sites.

581
00:41:36.645 --> 00:41:40.485
And then when people click on it, it will target out to that profile page.

582
00:41:40.485 --> 00:41:45.445
So, one is you'll be able to do that soon. We're gonna kinda get some more documentation on that.

583
00:41:45.445 --> 00:41:46.720
If you're just copying

584
00:41:47.099 --> 00:41:52.000
your Denver members from your BD site and then actually adding them as records,

585
00:41:52.619 --> 00:41:55.740
to your WordPress site, it would be considered duplicate content.

586
00:41:55.740 --> 00:41:58.220
It's not gonna negatively impact your SEO.

587
00:41:58.220 --> 00:42:02.914
You're just not gonna get any SEO benefit on the site where they're duplicated on.

588
00:42:02.914 --> 00:42:10.035
Again, Google will choose to rank either the the records on the BD site or your WordPress site, but probably won't do both.

589
00:42:10.035 --> 00:42:12.000
But if you're lucky, they might rank both.

590
00:42:12.080 --> 00:42:16.480
So just depends kinda how you've updated your meta titles and things like that.

591
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:26.180
Maybe you can add some slightly, like, a unique blurb on one site that is not included in the other site based on the user's metadata, their phone number, location, create some paragraphs

592
00:42:26.505 --> 00:42:28.984
like that. So it won't negatively impact SEO.

593
00:42:28.984 --> 00:42:32.204
You might just not see SEO benefit from the duplicate content.

594
00:42:32.265 --> 00:42:34.105
And then, yeah, I'm excited to actually share.

595
00:42:34.105 --> 00:42:39.224
Imagine being able to show your BD search results on third party websites. That'll be pretty huge.

596
00:42:39.224 --> 00:42:40.345
It's literally just released.

597
00:42:40.345 --> 00:42:45.800
I don't even think we have documentation on it yet, but once we do, we will definitely cover that in a future webinar.

598
00:42:45.940 --> 00:42:51.940
Good stuff there, Isaac. Thank you for that. Alright. Let's see here. We got one from Roger Peck.

599
00:42:51.940 --> 00:42:55.319
I couldn't figure out where to go to delete. Are you a local business?

600
00:42:55.505 --> 00:43:00.465
List your company now on this page. Alright. Let's go there together now.

601
00:43:00.465 --> 00:43:05.125
And he's talking about the login page, so let's go to his login screen.

602
00:43:08.465 --> 00:43:11.390
Okay. It says, are you a local business? List your company.

603
00:43:11.390 --> 00:43:13.390
Now he's referring to these two buttons here.

604
00:43:13.390 --> 00:43:19.410
So on this login screen by default, you know, majority of sites, generally, when you're not a member,

605
00:43:19.789 --> 00:43:22.670
it says, hey. If you don't have an account, log in.

606
00:43:22.670 --> 00:43:26.505
Like, BD, we want to encourage people to join your site.

607
00:43:26.885 --> 00:43:32.105
However, you can edit and remove these. There are several ways to do that.

608
00:43:32.485 --> 00:43:35.525
This is a menu. Let me show you where it is in the menu manager.

609
00:43:35.525 --> 00:43:37.765
I'll show you two ways where you can remove this.

610
00:43:39.210 --> 00:43:43.690
So this would be the login page sign up buttons, those two buttons that we're seeing below there.

611
00:43:43.690 --> 00:43:48.490
I'll just customize this on your site. And what you can do is don't do anything.

612
00:43:48.490 --> 00:43:50.430
Just customize it and delete

613
00:43:50.890 --> 00:43:53.150
both of them and save your changes,

614
00:43:53.585 --> 00:43:54.484
and you'll

615
00:43:54.865 --> 00:43:55.525
be done.

616
00:43:56.065 --> 00:44:02.805
The other thing you can do is if you don't wanna customize it and save changes a little higher level, but you can still do it, is with CSS.

617
00:44:03.025 --> 00:44:06.510
It's one of my favorite things to do, and I'll just give you the code that.

618
00:44:06.510 --> 00:44:09.970
You could just do a display none on that, and they do go away.

619
00:44:10.670 --> 00:44:11.810
I'll paste this,

620
00:44:12.910 --> 00:44:14.850
here in the design settings.

621
00:44:16.350 --> 00:44:20.954
I'll do this method. This this is, although it's with CSS, it's a small snippet of code.

622
00:44:20.954 --> 00:44:25.115
It you don't have to customize that that menu and have a custom menu on your site.

623
00:44:25.115 --> 00:44:28.575
Where you wanna save this is in your design settings, custom CSS.

624
00:44:29.115 --> 00:44:33.180
It's saying the login page call to action buttons, we're gonna display none of them.

625
00:44:33.260 --> 00:44:37.040
I'll save the changes there for you. Also paste this in the comments for everyone.

626
00:44:38.780 --> 00:44:41.520
And if we come back to your login page here, Roger,

627
00:44:41.980 --> 00:44:45.975
they should be gone here. So you just have the login page. If you wanna bring them back,

628
00:44:46.695 --> 00:44:51.275
just delete this from your design settings, custom CSS. Just clear that and save your changes.

629
00:44:51.335 --> 00:44:53.675
And if you wanna keep them and modify them,

630
00:44:53.975 --> 00:44:55.435
you can do the menu manager.

631
00:44:56.135 --> 00:45:02.360
You can certainly customize the login page sign up links, change the text, change where they go to, and so on.

632
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:06.440
So some options there for you. I love these questions. Thanks, guys, for them.

633
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:13.800
Regarding descriptive about content for members, I remember you previously did a tip of the week to demonstrate using chat g b t to auto generate list.

634
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:16.285
Do you have a link for that? Yes. Absolutely.

635
00:45:16.825 --> 00:45:17.565
I think

636
00:45:17.945 --> 00:45:21.165
we might have two two methods to do this. Let me

637
00:45:21.545 --> 00:45:24.365
let me get my bearings here. Let's go to our blog.

638
00:45:25.625 --> 00:45:28.525
David, I think we one of them was the spotlight article.

639
00:45:29.420 --> 00:45:32.700
Kinda using ChatGPT for spotlight articles. Same thing.

640
00:45:32.700 --> 00:45:36.080
You you don't have to do it as a blog article. You can use it as their,

641
00:45:37.420 --> 00:45:41.445
their about section or or kinda give you some ideas. Let me just paste this in here.

642
00:45:42.885 --> 00:45:44.185
Chime explains the methodology

643
00:45:44.485 --> 00:45:45.625
of how to use ChatGPT

644
00:45:46.005 --> 00:45:46.905
to spin up,

645
00:45:47.525 --> 00:45:49.605
content about content for your members.

646
00:45:49.605 --> 00:45:53.785
It basically uses their name, their business name, their address, location.

647
00:45:53.845 --> 00:45:55.385
If you already have a small

648
00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:57.440
snippet of about information

649
00:45:57.740 --> 00:45:59.680
of re related to them, it will,

650
00:46:00.140 --> 00:46:03.360
expand on that. Let me see if we have another one.

651
00:46:04.860 --> 00:46:07.900
But here's a good one too, how to sell spotlight articles to your members.

652
00:46:07.900 --> 00:46:10.385
Let me just since this compliments it so well,

653
00:46:10.685 --> 00:46:15.185
you can sell them and then use chat gpt to write them real quick. So that's that's a plus.

654
00:46:16.205 --> 00:46:17.585
I I shared that.

655
00:46:18.045 --> 00:46:22.625
Let me just search for chat gpt one more time here, because I think there was one more

656
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:25.540
that we had.

657
00:46:26.359 --> 00:46:26.859
I

658
00:46:27.680 --> 00:46:28.180
think

659
00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:31.680
I think those two should be good to start. Yeah.

660
00:46:31.680 --> 00:46:36.575
If you have more questions on that, just please feel free to ask in the Facebook group. Alright.

661
00:46:36.575 --> 00:46:40.734
Marvin is asking, I don't have the ChatGPT on my editor.

662
00:46:40.734 --> 00:46:44.174
Is this a feature newly implemented, and what level is being offered?

663
00:46:44.174 --> 00:46:47.474
So, yeah, what you wanna do is you wanna connect your ChatGPT

664
00:46:47.934 --> 00:46:48.434
API

665
00:46:48.734 --> 00:46:51.180
since there's usage costs, with that.

666
00:46:51.420 --> 00:46:55.599
There's an add on and it allows you to just connect your ChatGPT,

667
00:46:57.020 --> 00:46:57.520
account.

668
00:46:57.980 --> 00:47:00.619
I'll share this with you here, Marvin. It's really simple to do.

669
00:47:00.619 --> 00:47:03.964
There's a video on how to do it here, and the prices for

670
00:47:04.345 --> 00:47:06.444
these AIs are getting cheaper and cheaper,

671
00:47:06.744 --> 00:47:09.305
with economies of scale and the technology is getting better.

672
00:47:09.305 --> 00:47:13.865
And now there's more competition, so they're incentivized to have competitive rates.

673
00:47:13.865 --> 00:47:15.820
So, yeah, it works with ChatGPT

674
00:47:16.120 --> 00:47:22.700
four, four o mini, which is the best value, for ChatGPT, and it does a great job at, you know, creating content,

675
00:47:23.080 --> 00:47:23.900
in the editor,

676
00:47:24.520 --> 00:47:25.260
for you.

677
00:47:25.640 --> 00:47:27.015
So there you go. Alright.

678
00:47:27.015 --> 00:47:34.535
Rich is asking, I know how to use coupon codes, but is there an article or link showing how to automatically add it to the checkout page?

679
00:47:34.535 --> 00:47:38.934
So, yeah, that one, Rich, is I think we may have already answered this one for you.

680
00:47:39.335 --> 00:47:40.795
You're gonna want to,

681
00:47:41.494 --> 00:47:43.680
link it. I think we have the

682
00:47:44.080 --> 00:47:45.700
had the link. I lost it.

683
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:50.980
Let me just let me just share the link to the easy coupon codes add on here.

684
00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:53.200
There is a link to,

685
00:47:54.080 --> 00:47:55.815
documentation here, and I'll

686
00:47:56.775 --> 00:47:58.635
share with you the link one more time.

687
00:47:59.494 --> 00:48:03.835
You're gonna just have to add the ref code to the end of the checkout page links.

688
00:48:05.734 --> 00:48:07.815
Here we go. I'll just copy this,

689
00:48:08.214 --> 00:48:09.115
this here.

690
00:48:09.830 --> 00:48:10.970
So you can

691
00:48:11.350 --> 00:48:15.190
copy the ref code that you want, and then then it will automatically add that.

692
00:48:15.430 --> 00:48:17.850
It'll apply the discount on their checkout.

693
00:48:18.150 --> 00:48:21.850
So, yeah, that that that would take care of what you're looking to do there. Okay.

694
00:48:21.910 --> 00:48:24.730
Roger's asking, can the map on this page be displayed on the

695
00:48:26.445 --> 00:48:26.945
homepage?

696
00:48:27.405 --> 00:48:30.365
So, visit cornucopia.com

697
00:48:30.365 --> 00:48:31.265
forward slash,

698
00:48:32.685 --> 00:48:35.665
search results. Let's see if I can type that in here. Visit

699
00:48:41.609 --> 00:48:45.230
cornnewcopia.com.

700
00:48:50.089 --> 00:48:52.109
Alright. And if we go to search results

701
00:48:55.755 --> 00:48:57.775
and you're so okay.

702
00:48:58.555 --> 00:49:00.974
It's a double edged sword. It used to be,

703
00:49:02.234 --> 00:49:02.474
I

704
00:49:03.355 --> 00:49:08.900
the problem with having the map on the home page is it's going to ping like crazy,

705
00:49:09.520 --> 00:49:10.020
your,

706
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:14.500
the Google Maps API, and that's on every single

707
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:19.920
home page load. And it's a really inefficient way to do it. Can it be done?

708
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:21.700
Probably with a a small customization.

709
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.099
It's probably moving some widgets around,

710
00:49:24.695 --> 00:49:25.835
to your home page.

711
00:49:26.135 --> 00:49:29.195
Do would I recommend it? I I wouldn't recommend it.

712
00:49:31.975 --> 00:49:34.555
Mainly, we'll go to a site like Yelp.com

713
00:49:35.175 --> 00:49:37.490
or YellowPagesuh,

714
00:49:38.430 --> 00:49:43.490
Com, just looking at some business search sites real quick. You know, the way to do it is

715
00:49:44.030 --> 00:49:47.410
you're not really seeing a map. It's asking you to

716
00:49:47.710 --> 00:49:50.210
do the keyword and the location search.

717
00:49:50.625 --> 00:49:52.325
The keyword and the location

718
00:49:52.705 --> 00:49:53.205
search.

719
00:49:53.665 --> 00:49:57.185
A lot of this is also because of the intent of the user.

720
00:49:57.185 --> 00:50:01.345
We don't just want to one, the the maps take a lot a long time to load.

721
00:50:01.905 --> 00:50:05.820
It's it's a it's a loading nightmare for Google page speed and things like that.

722
00:50:06.380 --> 00:50:11.920
But, also, we want to make it easy for the user. It's not really useful to show them,

723
00:50:12.940 --> 00:50:19.360
you know, hundreds or thousands of of pin drops on a map on the home page without them having to have filtered for something

724
00:50:19.775 --> 00:50:24.435
first. So I do know why you may may wanna do it, and there definitely are some pros for it.

725
00:50:24.735 --> 00:50:29.795
If if that is part of your business model and it's essential, you can reach out to someone in the marketplace.

726
00:50:29.855 --> 00:50:38.290
Again, it's just a a matter of probably moving some widgets to the home page, probably not too much heavy lifting, because the the map widget is already created.

727
00:50:38.829 --> 00:50:46.395
But my personal recommendation would be, you may not want to fight that battle and just make it easy for people to search on your home page.

728
00:50:46.635 --> 00:50:51.615
If your site is already location specific, which in your case it is, it's a Cornucopia,

729
00:50:51.915 --> 00:50:52.415
Wisconsin.

730
00:50:53.275 --> 00:50:57.215
In that case, you might just want to focus on the keyword search,

731
00:50:57.675 --> 00:51:01.775
and remove the locations since we're the website is already focused on the location.

732
00:51:02.260 --> 00:51:07.320
So you just ask them to enter the type of business, the category business they're looking for.

733
00:51:08.100 --> 00:51:12.440
Showing them lawyers and dog walkers and hamburger stands

734
00:51:12.900 --> 00:51:13.940
on the home page,

735
00:51:14.340 --> 00:51:15.220
seems like fun.

736
00:51:15.220 --> 00:51:21.515
But, again, it's really resource intensive and it's not the best user experience that you might want to to present.

737
00:51:21.515 --> 00:51:22.015
So,

738
00:51:22.395 --> 00:51:24.715
again, maybe not the exact answer you're looking for.

739
00:51:24.715 --> 00:51:28.735
It is possible with the customization, but you may wanna consider simplifying,

740
00:51:29.650 --> 00:51:34.070
the process and just making something where people feel like they're going into a portal,

741
00:51:35.250 --> 00:51:38.530
of of your site. Alright. Great questions though, by the way. Alright.

742
00:51:38.770 --> 00:51:45.405
Salinas is asking, I use the recommended dimensions for uploading my website logo, but it still keeps displaying

743
00:51:45.865 --> 00:51:49.305
smaller and blurred. What I would recommend is a couple of things.

744
00:51:49.305 --> 00:51:54.125
I don't know if you're using a JPEG or a PNG. Do you wanna share your site, Salinas?

745
00:51:54.350 --> 00:51:57.150
And we could take a look if you wanna update your question there.

746
00:51:57.150 --> 00:52:03.790
But what I like to do with logo images is may upload it a little larger than it's gonna be on the site.

747
00:52:03.790 --> 00:52:04.910
Not a crazy image.

748
00:52:04.910 --> 00:52:09.975
We always wanna stay away from immensely large images on our site, but I was, like, maybe 10 to 20%

749
00:52:09.975 --> 00:52:14.375
larger width than the image is going to be displayed on the site.

750
00:52:14.375 --> 00:52:18.900
And then when it's sized down automatically, the system will size it down to fit the space.

751
00:52:19.140 --> 00:52:21.220
That actually creates a sharper image.

752
00:52:21.220 --> 00:52:30.180
What I'm afraid of is maybe you're uploading an image that is even though they're the dimensions, the space that you're loading the image, maybe you're using the wide screen on your site.

753
00:52:30.339 --> 00:52:33.155
It's actually stretching the image that might be a smaller image.

754
00:52:33.155 --> 00:52:39.415
And anytime you stretch an image larger than it actually is in its original size, it is gonna appear pixelated

755
00:52:39.715 --> 00:52:42.995
or blurry. So if you want to, it would be helpful to see your site.

756
00:52:42.995 --> 00:52:48.890
If you wanna type in a comment, Salinas, we can maybe check-in in a little bit and see what's going on with your logo there.

757
00:52:48.890 --> 00:52:53.549
Alright. Mike is asking, does the ChatGPT add on allow members to write posts using ChatGPT?

758
00:52:53.769 --> 00:52:55.630
That is a fantastic question.

759
00:52:55.930 --> 00:53:04.185
You as the admin get to choose which when you have this add on, which members can have the privilege of utilizing the ChatCPT

760
00:53:04.725 --> 00:53:09.205
in their text editor. And let me show you an example of that. I'll show you where that setting is.

761
00:53:09.205 --> 00:53:12.665
It one is you probably need to educate your members that that toolbar,

762
00:53:13.125 --> 00:53:14.990
exists because it's kinda easy to miss.

763
00:53:14.990 --> 00:53:18.450
But that's a great way to include in a newsletter for your community.

764
00:53:18.990 --> 00:53:25.250
It's great way to, you know, advertise that your site has now unlocked this or developed this new functionality.

765
00:53:25.310 --> 00:53:28.995
What's cool about Brilliant Directories is as we release new stuff for you guys,

766
00:53:29.395 --> 00:53:33.155
you can report it as news as what you've developed for your community.

767
00:53:33.155 --> 00:53:41.315
So everything that's being pushed that kind of benefits as a member benefit or perk or feature that you can offer to your members, you know, you can let your members know.

768
00:53:41.315 --> 00:53:42.455
You asked, we answered,

769
00:53:43.190 --> 00:53:45.430
and now you can do, you know, x, y, and z.

770
00:53:45.430 --> 00:53:50.410
So when you're editing a membership plan let me just search for chat GPT. Here it is.

771
00:53:50.789 --> 00:53:54.089
So when you have the add on, you can select this enable chat GPT

772
00:53:54.390 --> 00:53:57.210
in the text editors. You're gonna wanna set this to yes.

773
00:53:57.474 --> 00:54:00.935
And, again, you can do this for all your membership plans if you want, or

774
00:54:01.474 --> 00:54:07.494
you can hold it back and only offer it to your higher tiered membership plans as an extra benefit or perk,

775
00:54:07.954 --> 00:54:10.515
for, again, those higher tiered membership plans.

776
00:54:10.515 --> 00:54:15.290
So it's in the membership plan settings when you have the add on and you wanna select enable ChatGPT.

777
00:54:15.750 --> 00:54:17.530
And when your members are publishing,

778
00:54:17.990 --> 00:54:21.770
you know, blog article posts or any type of post using the text editor,

779
00:54:22.150 --> 00:54:25.290
in their member dashboard, they'll have access to that ChatGPT

780
00:54:26.454 --> 00:54:28.234
tool. Alright. Let's see here.

781
00:54:28.375 --> 00:54:32.635
Rich is asking, I was looking in our email outbox and found 54 unopened,

782
00:54:32.935 --> 00:54:37.435
which is the email they used to sign up. Is there a way or tool to verify

783
00:54:37.895 --> 00:54:41.700
their email address? This is not just for newsletters, but for emails everywhere.

784
00:54:41.700 --> 00:54:48.280
So if it's showing as delivered but unopened, it would mean that it is a valid email address.

785
00:54:48.580 --> 00:54:49.560
If it shows,

786
00:54:49.860 --> 00:54:56.685
like, a hard bounce or soft bounce and it would be in red text in your email outbox, Rich, that would mean that it's an invalid

787
00:54:56.985 --> 00:55:00.045
email address. So somebody signed up with a dummy email address.

788
00:55:00.105 --> 00:55:01.885
How can you get in touch with that person?

789
00:55:01.945 --> 00:55:07.405
If they maybe added their phone number, somewhere, you might wanna call them and say, hey, your email is invalid.

790
00:55:07.465 --> 00:55:11.230
Or, you know, people are on the Internet. Sometimes people just play around to see what happens.

791
00:55:11.230 --> 00:55:21.855
And if you have a free sign up plan, they might do the free sign up, but they're obviously not clicking the, you know, verify your email address because there it's an invalid email they entered, and you can reach out to them.

792
00:55:21.855 --> 00:55:25.215
But the email address is what is used to sign up for the free account.

793
00:55:25.215 --> 00:55:33.420
So if we don't have another point of contact for them like a phone number, then, you know, it's really on them to figure out how to get their email verified.

794
00:55:33.579 --> 00:55:35.099
But it's very it's pretty standard.

795
00:55:35.099 --> 00:55:42.059
You know, when you sign up for anything that's free on the Internet, usually, you can put any email address in there that's in a correct email address format.

796
00:55:42.059 --> 00:55:45.054
But if it's an invalid email that, you know, they won't know, they just won't get the verification email.

797
00:55:45.054 --> 00:55:45.849
So if it shows unopened, though, and there's no soft,

798
00:55:47.915 --> 00:55:53.515
unopened, though, and there's no soft bounce or hard bounce, it means that it was a valid email entered there, Rich.

799
00:55:53.515 --> 00:55:55.195
Oh, and one thing you can do,

800
00:55:55.675 --> 00:55:56.415
is this.

801
00:55:57.355 --> 00:55:58.895
You can do a search

802
00:56:00.030 --> 00:56:02.130
in your members here.

803
00:56:03.630 --> 00:56:09.890
And what you can do is search for whatever your free membership plan is because those are the ones, let's say, general users.

804
00:56:10.590 --> 00:56:13.995
And you can do account status not active because that is,

805
00:56:14.555 --> 00:56:17.535
they are not active until they verify their email address.

806
00:56:17.915 --> 00:56:19.455
So you can search for those.

807
00:56:20.395 --> 00:56:26.010
This site doesn't have any, but those two things, the free membership plan that these members have signed up to

808
00:56:26.410 --> 00:56:28.990
and the account status, not active.

809
00:56:29.130 --> 00:56:35.470
And then you can create a smart list from this, or you can export this list and take additional action, as needed.

810
00:56:36.650 --> 00:56:38.055
Yeah. For for bounces,

811
00:56:38.615 --> 00:56:40.775
you should purge those over time.

812
00:56:41.255 --> 00:56:46.075
They are they're just invalid people just, you know, putting dummy information in,

813
00:56:46.615 --> 00:56:47.755
or in accidentally

814
00:56:48.135 --> 00:56:48.615
doing it.

815
00:56:48.615 --> 00:56:54.190
But it's hard to kind of figure out who they are because, really, they're they're just inputting their email address on that sign up form.

816
00:56:55.070 --> 00:56:58.770
I'll give you another tip, since we're talking about tips here.

817
00:56:59.070 --> 00:57:02.290
You could add a phone number field to that free

818
00:57:02.670 --> 00:57:04.910
sign up form, and make it required.

819
00:57:04.910 --> 00:57:10.355
Again, they could put a dummy phone number in there, but at least you'll have two points of contact for your free sign ups.

820
00:57:10.735 --> 00:57:13.395
So let me find this update checkout page

821
00:57:14.095 --> 00:57:14.595
fields.

822
00:57:15.775 --> 00:57:17.875
Brilliant. Let's see what we can get here.

823
00:57:19.535 --> 00:57:20.355
Here we go.

824
00:57:20.815 --> 00:57:22.275
So you can actually

825
00:57:22.690 --> 00:57:28.230
add more fields to capture more information on checkout pages. I'll share this article here.

826
00:57:29.410 --> 00:57:32.610
And you may wanna consider adding a phone number field here.

827
00:57:32.610 --> 00:57:38.475
So, if this is a, like, a ongoing issue for you where there's a lot of people signing up for free and they're not

828
00:57:39.995 --> 00:57:49.995
verifying their email address for that free sign up, you may be able to capture a phone number, and that may be a great way to talk to them and learn more, why they joined your site, what they like.

829
00:57:49.995 --> 00:57:52.815
And it could've just been an honest mistake where they put an accidentally

830
00:57:53.500 --> 00:57:57.200
incorrect email address. Alright. Great. Great. Great. Let's see here.

831
00:57:57.420 --> 00:57:59.420
Jamil is asking duplicating a site.

832
00:57:59.420 --> 00:58:04.720
Can you copy all your settings and customizations from one BD site to another?

833
00:58:05.100 --> 00:58:07.440
Yes. You can. There is a service,

834
00:58:07.805 --> 00:58:09.265
called clone your site.

835
00:58:09.885 --> 00:58:14.125
The one thing we're we're that are we're gonna work on this so you guys can do this yourself.

836
00:58:14.125 --> 00:58:15.105
Right now, it requires,

837
00:58:15.565 --> 00:58:17.025
the BD support team.

838
00:58:17.565 --> 00:58:22.365
It's $25 to clone your site. Use the promo code VIP 30. It'll get you 30% off that.

839
00:58:22.365 --> 00:58:26.850
But, what we wanna make sure of is that we're not duplicating the billing subscriptions.

840
00:58:26.990 --> 00:58:31.330
We don't want your members to get cloned on a new site, and now they're being billed

841
00:58:31.790 --> 00:58:33.710
double twice on the two sites.

842
00:58:33.710 --> 00:58:39.464
So there are some some nuances that our team is doing right now to make sure that, those don't happen.

843
00:58:39.464 --> 00:58:41.164
Or if you're moving the members

844
00:58:41.545 --> 00:58:46.105
to the new site and you're gonna deprecate the older site, we wanna make sure the billing gets transferred.

845
00:58:46.105 --> 00:58:51.885
So the billing is a big nuance here why it's still a service that we offer, but we're gonna be putting this in your hands,

846
00:58:52.664 --> 00:58:53.865
probably later this year.

847
00:58:53.865 --> 00:58:59.250
But use the clone my site tool, and you can easily just duplicate the site. Exactly what you wrote.

848
00:58:59.250 --> 00:59:03.490
Copy all the settings from one site and customizations to another BD site. Alright.

849
00:59:03.490 --> 00:59:11.105
And last one here. How can we create our own chat g p t thing like BD has for my own BD site?

850
00:59:11.105 --> 00:59:13.845
Alright. So there are a lot of chatbot

851
00:59:14.145 --> 00:59:14.645
tools.

852
00:59:15.585 --> 00:59:16.085
We

853
00:59:16.385 --> 00:59:18.145
what what he's referring to is,

854
00:59:18.545 --> 00:59:20.485
is this. Let's go there together.

855
00:59:21.530 --> 00:59:25.150
So here we have the BD help bot, and you can ask it questions.

856
00:59:26.330 --> 00:59:27.630
Where do I edit,

857
00:59:28.650 --> 00:59:29.150
members?

858
00:59:30.170 --> 00:59:32.250
And we've trained the bot. We have a prompt,

859
00:59:32.650 --> 00:59:34.109
but there's lots of tools.

860
00:59:34.555 --> 00:59:38.655
You you wanna train it on your information. Generally, you're gonna train it on,

861
00:59:38.955 --> 00:59:40.635
your website's site map.

862
00:59:40.635 --> 00:59:46.575
It'll read all the data on your site map, and then you can ask it things like, where can I find a dentist in Colorado?

863
00:59:46.715 --> 00:59:51.670
And it should just recommend the dentist in Colorado profile links that are on your site.

864
00:59:51.670 --> 00:59:53.849
So it's almost like a little butler concierge

865
00:59:54.390 --> 00:59:55.210
for navigating,

866
00:59:55.589 --> 00:59:56.410
your site.

867
00:59:57.029 --> 00:59:58.470
So a few tools here,

868
01:00:00.230 --> 01:00:01.665
chatbased.co.

869
01:00:02.225 --> 01:00:06.545
Some of them have a free option. Some of them have, you know, pricing options.

870
01:00:06.545 --> 01:00:07.925
I'll just share this here.

871
01:00:08.465 --> 01:00:11.025
And if we go to chatgpt,

872
01:00:11.025 --> 01:00:12.145
we can find out some,

873
01:00:13.185 --> 01:00:13.685
alternatives

874
01:00:14.349 --> 01:00:16.609
for chat based because I just don't know any

875
01:00:16.910 --> 01:00:17.970
off the top of my

876
01:00:18.270 --> 01:00:18.770
head.

877
01:00:21.630 --> 01:00:22.109
And,

878
01:00:22.510 --> 01:00:25.490
yeah, any of these, you're gonna just want to,

879
01:00:26.270 --> 01:00:28.994
add your sort you you gotta give your source data.

880
01:00:28.994 --> 01:00:32.275
So usually you give your site map, and then you give it the prompt.

881
01:00:32.275 --> 01:00:37.174
You're a helper for the website so and so. You help visitors find only find,

882
01:00:37.714 --> 01:00:41.095
links to pages on our site, you know, etcetera etcetera.

883
01:00:41.940 --> 01:00:42.599
I'll just

884
01:00:42.980 --> 01:00:45.560
Google this also and share this with you.

885
01:00:46.660 --> 01:00:49.880
There we go. Writesonic is another one. So

886
01:00:50.740 --> 01:00:53.560
I'll just share this as well. But you can do a Google search

887
01:00:55.085 --> 01:00:59.105
for alternatives to Writesonic and chat base. But, yeah, you can certainly

888
01:00:59.565 --> 01:01:05.025
use a chatbot and embed it on your BD site. It's a nice little touch there. Costa Rica unlimited

889
01:01:05.565 --> 01:01:08.065
question. Can members manage multiple businesses

890
01:01:08.444 --> 01:01:09.585
with one account?

891
01:01:10.230 --> 01:01:11.930
The answer to that is yes.

892
01:01:12.390 --> 01:01:14.890
With that, you're going to want the multi,

893
01:01:15.750 --> 01:01:16.650
multi member

894
01:01:17.190 --> 01:01:22.810
manager add on. Let me find that. It's a tongue twister there. Multi member manager add on.

895
01:01:23.055 --> 01:01:26.355
And what this does is it allows a parent account,

896
01:01:27.214 --> 01:01:27.954
to manage,

897
01:01:28.575 --> 01:01:30.355
multiple what we call subaccounts.

898
01:01:31.135 --> 01:01:33.234
So let's say the law firm

899
01:01:33.535 --> 01:01:40.290
is the main parent account, and they have profiles for the individual lawyers who work at that law firm.

900
01:01:40.450 --> 01:01:45.349
The multi member manager would allow that law firm to have that parent account.

901
01:01:46.210 --> 01:01:48.225
Another, use case for this,

902
01:01:49.665 --> 01:01:55.765
let's say you're, you know, a pizza shop and you got five pizza shops in, the local city.

903
01:01:56.145 --> 01:02:07.290
And this way, when you have when you have the privilege of of being a parent with subaccounts, you can have the main flagship location, and then you can list the four additional,

904
01:02:08.070 --> 01:02:10.730
locations for your pizza shop so you can manage,

905
01:02:11.110 --> 01:02:12.070
all those profiles.

906
01:02:12.070 --> 01:02:16.605
They might have a different address and different phone number, but most of the information will be the same.

907
01:02:16.605 --> 01:02:19.585
And, also, the parent account wants to receive all the leads,

908
01:02:20.045 --> 01:02:21.745
from the subaccounts potentially.

909
01:02:22.285 --> 01:02:26.385
And one final use case is, for example, let's say you're a talent agency.

910
01:02:27.245 --> 01:02:33.819
You're you're the parent account is the talent agency, and the subaccounts are the profiles for all the singers, actors, musicians,

911
01:02:34.520 --> 01:02:35.400
and so on,

912
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:38.140
are the subaccounts that have profiles.

913
01:02:38.200 --> 01:02:42.414
So the multi member manager add on should do the trick for you. Alright.

914
01:02:42.414 --> 01:02:45.075
Wayne is asking if a site member posts

915
01:02:45.454 --> 01:02:46.494
a blog article.

916
01:02:46.494 --> 01:02:53.154
So if a member posts a blog article, how can they point their customers directly to that article on my BD site directly?

917
01:02:53.214 --> 01:02:58.020
Is that possible? Yeah. Actually, well, they could do a few things. If they're publishing

918
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:01.780
a a blog article, let's go to demo Bootstrap, actually.

919
01:03:03.680 --> 01:03:07.619
It's our demo site. Let's log in as a sample member here.

920
01:03:10.055 --> 01:03:10.535
Great.

921
01:03:10.935 --> 01:03:12.954
Okay. So he's got some articles here.

922
01:03:14.055 --> 01:03:18.474
So few things he could do. First, he can view his posts, and, of course, he could just

923
01:03:18.855 --> 01:03:20.954
share the, the URL here.

924
01:03:22.170 --> 01:03:25.950
Also, there's you can share on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,

925
01:03:26.330 --> 01:03:28.670
etcetera. So there are some options here.

926
01:03:29.050 --> 01:03:32.270
But I do so they can they can do all that. Let me see.

927
01:03:32.330 --> 01:03:37.275
How can how can they point their customers directly to the article on my BD site? Is it yeah.

928
01:03:37.275 --> 01:03:38.175
They can link

929
01:03:38.475 --> 01:03:42.335
to what they're publishing. So LinkedIn is is famous for,

930
01:03:42.795 --> 01:03:45.135
allowing people to so let's go LinkedIn,

931
01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:48.660
SEO tips for,

932
01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:50.740
I don't know,

933
01:03:51.520 --> 01:03:53.780
business owners. I'm sure there's an article there.

934
01:03:56.480 --> 01:03:57.140
Let's see.

935
01:03:58.320 --> 01:03:58.720
Basically

936
01:03:59.200 --> 01:03:59.940
Yeah. So

937
01:04:01.455 --> 01:04:09.395
so this person works at LinkedIn, but LinkedIn has a section where, like, regular people who have LinkedIn accounts can write articles.

938
01:04:10.895 --> 01:04:14.910
And I'm just trying to see if I can find one. Here we go. This one might be one.

939
01:04:15.950 --> 01:04:21.410
And, yeah, it's called Pulse. It's called LinkedIn Pulse. So, you know, these rank in SEO.

940
01:04:22.030 --> 01:04:24.910
People can comment on it. You have comments with your b e.

941
01:04:24.910 --> 01:04:27.630
But, as far as encouraging them to share it,

942
01:04:27.950 --> 01:04:31.475
you know, it's really on educating them on the benefits of sharing it.

943
01:04:32.255 --> 01:04:34.195
But, yeah, they have access to the link.

944
01:04:35.535 --> 01:04:37.395
I'm just thinking right now

945
01:04:38.175 --> 01:04:39.795
you're giving me some ideas

946
01:04:40.095 --> 01:04:41.955
on the admin page here

947
01:04:43.860 --> 01:04:48.120
where they're looking at this, one of the actions should be share

948
01:04:48.580 --> 01:04:50.280
with a pop up of

949
01:04:51.140 --> 01:04:52.360
the share options

950
01:04:53.780 --> 01:04:57.140
that we're seeing, you know, in the sidebar. So for that article.

951
01:04:57.140 --> 01:04:59.080
So they'll get, you know, share article.

952
01:04:59.575 --> 01:05:01.755
That's a great suggestion. Action action

953
01:05:03.015 --> 01:05:03.755
or post

954
01:05:05.175 --> 01:05:06.475
share pop up.

955
01:05:07.335 --> 01:05:13.655
And one of them can be, like, just, when the pop up comes is also, like, a the link, like, so they can copy the link real easily.

956
01:05:13.655 --> 01:05:17.910
So they'll have the share buttons, and they'll have the link to copy. So

957
01:05:19.009 --> 01:05:20.710
that's a great suggestion there.

958
01:05:21.329 --> 01:05:22.789
And link to copy.

959
01:05:24.130 --> 01:05:27.704
It'll be in the actions drop down, so they still gotta see it, but,

960
01:05:28.345 --> 01:05:31.464
we'll figure it out. That's a good suggestion there. So thank you for that, Wayne.

961
01:05:31.464 --> 01:05:34.525
But, yeah, they have the URL. They could they could share that article.

962
01:05:34.825 --> 01:05:39.944
Alright. Let's see here. Any more starred ones, Dave? We do have, Marvin here.

963
01:05:39.944 --> 01:05:45.610
So let's go ahead and add Marvin to the stage. Hey, Marvin. Yes, gentlemen. You guys are hearing me?

964
01:05:45.610 --> 01:05:49.070
Yeah. Loud and clear. Excellent. So I've had actually multiple

965
01:05:49.370 --> 01:05:54.670
instances where apart from the claim listings, I've had issues where,

966
01:05:55.290 --> 01:05:56.990
then I would add my own

967
01:05:57.984 --> 01:05:58.484
other

968
01:05:58.865 --> 01:05:59.365
upload,

969
01:05:59.744 --> 01:06:05.045
I should say, upload other lists, a bunch of emails so that I can go ahead and distribute newsletters.

970
01:06:05.265 --> 01:06:06.405
But I've had customers,

971
01:06:06.945 --> 01:06:10.640
call me and reach out to me and tell me that they can't sign up because

972
01:06:11.020 --> 01:06:13.579
they are not able to proceed to the next step.

973
01:06:13.819 --> 01:06:18.160
The system does not allow it because just later to find out that they do have a duplicate

974
01:06:18.539 --> 01:06:25.915
email apart from the separate from, the claim listeners that I would purchase from the site from brilliant directors.

975
01:06:26.295 --> 01:06:28.635
So, how can we make that process

976
01:06:29.175 --> 01:06:33.175
easier for the potential customer so that they don't come up with that problem?

977
01:06:33.175 --> 01:06:35.275
Because they won't be able to sign up unless

978
01:06:35.910 --> 01:06:41.450
I physically go into the back end of the site and delete at least one of those emails.

979
01:06:41.589 --> 01:06:43.049
Then they are able to proceed.

980
01:06:43.430 --> 01:06:45.130
So when I upload,

981
01:06:45.589 --> 01:06:47.750
let's say, 50, a hundred emails,

982
01:06:49.645 --> 01:06:52.545
then they may be already there as part

983
01:06:53.245 --> 01:06:54.705
of the claim listings.

984
01:06:56.685 --> 01:07:00.705
But that's a problem because now I how do I eliminate a duplicate,

985
01:07:01.485 --> 01:07:07.050
scenario, case scenario when it comes to emails so that the customer does not come across that problem?

986
01:07:07.190 --> 01:07:08.010
Great question.

987
01:07:09.030 --> 01:07:10.890
So there's two parts to that.

988
01:07:12.150 --> 01:07:14.250
It's great that you're using the claim listing.

989
01:07:14.470 --> 01:07:19.415
And in order to claim a listing, you have to go to that profile page and say, I wanna claim this listing.

990
01:07:19.415 --> 01:07:20.395
I'm this business.

991
01:07:20.855 --> 01:07:24.395
Right? And then you can claim that. They you can claim that business.

992
01:07:25.095 --> 01:07:35.280
If they're if they're not going to the profile page and saying, I wanna claim this business and they're just going to your site and and signing up as a new member, which is great that you're getting that participation, by the way.

993
01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:39.700
Getting that level of engagement means that you're sending good emails to people and motivating

994
01:07:40.160 --> 01:07:43.780
them to join. What you can do is there's this advanced setting here.

995
01:07:44.055 --> 01:07:48.214
And generally, on a on a site, you don't want people to have duplicate emails.

996
01:07:48.214 --> 01:07:52.855
But, again, that's just a business model strategy. It's not a hard rule. So this setting exists.

997
01:07:52.855 --> 01:07:54.315
I would turn this off.

998
01:07:54.775 --> 01:07:59.430
Allow basically, it allows the same email address to exist when people are signing up.

999
01:07:59.430 --> 01:08:00.730
That will solve your problem

1000
01:08:01.110 --> 01:08:05.370
right there. Let me Excellent. Excellent. Post this, and I'm gonna show you another thing also.

1001
01:08:05.430 --> 01:08:10.155
So just go to your advanced settings and search for I just typed it into the comments there.

1002
01:08:10.635 --> 01:08:13.115
Allow multiple user accounts with same email addresses.

1003
01:08:13.115 --> 01:08:16.234
If enabled, members can have multiple accounts with the same email.

1004
01:08:16.234 --> 01:08:19.835
Basically, it allows the same email address to sign up. Multiple list then. Okay.

1005
01:08:19.835 --> 01:08:22.555
And just disable that feature there. Disable it.

1006
01:08:22.555 --> 01:08:29.029
And then what you can do is over time because it's not gonna be a high volume of this happening, but this will remove that roadblock.

1007
01:08:29.410 --> 01:08:33.989
Over time, what you can do maybe once a month, come to your search members page

1008
01:08:34.529 --> 01:08:38.069
and search for find duplicates and type in email.

1009
01:08:38.585 --> 01:08:43.165
I don't know if there's any on this site. And what it's gonna do is it's gonna search for any

1010
01:08:44.024 --> 01:08:44.524
members,

1011
01:08:44.904 --> 01:08:48.364
multi multiple members who might have the same email address,

1012
01:08:48.904 --> 01:08:49.725
on file.

1013
01:08:50.665 --> 01:08:56.109
And then with that, you can choose to delete one of the one of the the one that you wanna keep.

1014
01:08:56.109 --> 01:08:59.309
You can delete the one you don't wanna keep if it's a if you care about it.

1015
01:08:59.309 --> 01:09:09.045
So this find duplicates tool is really helpful because it'll especially for the email address or or the phone number or the address because then you can really find duplicates on your site.

1016
01:09:09.205 --> 01:09:16.904
You you might want not wanna take any action, but then you can choose to take action if you want to, such as deleting a duplicate or erroneous redundant,

1017
01:09:17.604 --> 01:09:18.425
member listing.

1018
01:09:19.364 --> 01:09:23.580
That that sounds great. Yeah. Thank you for that insight. I'll definitely, be doing that.

1019
01:09:23.979 --> 01:09:27.820
Absolutely. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Great question there. Wow.

1020
01:09:27.820 --> 01:09:32.220
That was a whirlwind fun round of q and a. You guys are awesome, by the way.

1021
01:09:32.220 --> 01:09:36.875
For those of you who stuck around and hung out with us to the end, thank you so much. It's amazing.

1022
01:09:36.875 --> 01:09:38.235
We're already in 2025.

1023
01:09:38.235 --> 01:09:41.535
The next webinar will be in two weeks.

1024
01:09:41.915 --> 01:09:46.955
So we look forward to seeing you then. Let's see what date that, is. It's February 19 right now.

1025
01:09:46.955 --> 01:09:50.655
So that will be March 5. So we'll see you guys in March.

1026
01:09:51.090 --> 01:09:54.690
If we didn't get to your question today, please ask it in the Facebook group.

1027
01:09:54.690 --> 01:09:57.250
David, thank you for putting together these quick tips.

1028
01:09:57.250 --> 01:10:01.510
Super helpful and fun to to see some of these settings that really don't get too much attention.

1029
01:10:01.650 --> 01:10:05.190
Lots of updates coming down the line. We'll be sure to share them with the community.

1030
01:10:05.695 --> 01:10:09.775
And, of course, the replay will be available in the Brilliant Directories Facebook group.

1031
01:10:09.775 --> 01:10:12.335
You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/

1032
01:10:12.335 --> 01:10:13.775
Facebook and join us in that group.

1033
01:10:13.775 --> 01:10:17.550
Feel free to participate in there, ask questions, ask for feedback on your site.

1034
01:10:17.550 --> 01:10:19.550
It's a really positive place to be.

1035
01:10:19.550 --> 01:10:22.829
And, for those of you that joined us on YouTube, thank you so much.

1036
01:10:22.829 --> 01:10:24.929
Don't forget to like and subscribe.

1037
01:10:25.150 --> 01:10:30.110
On behalf of myself, David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, we love you guys so much.

1038
01:10:30.110 --> 01:10:31.889
We're grateful for all your participation

1039
01:10:32.190 --> 01:10:36.645
and helping, to make the platform better for everyone. We'll see you guys in two weeks.

1040
01:10:36.645 --> 01:10:39.385
Have a great day and a brilliant week. Take care.

1041
01:10:39.525 --> 01:10:44.665
And while we're doing that, let's put some outro music, which we just learned how to do.

1042
01:10:46.245 --> 01:10:46.745
Alright.

1043
01:10:48.270 --> 01:10:50.610
Thanks guys for joining the webinar. Lots of fun.