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Alright, y'all. Let's dive into it. Welcome. It is great to be with everyone here today.

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I cannot believe that we're already past the middle of April

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2023.

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Raise your hand if you guys think, time is flying a little too quickly,

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this

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year. Yeah. Everyone's hands are flying up there.

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Well, let's make the most of our time here today. If this is your first time joining us, welcome.

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I'm Jason there on the left and we're lucky to be joined by David Rocklin,

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the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directories and so much more.

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David, thank you for taking the time to join us in the webinar today. Hey, everybody.

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Glad to be back with you for a brand new webinar.

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This year certainly has flown by, but we've got some great updates to share this week, so really looking forward to it.

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And a fun contest to share so let's actually breeze through some of these intro slides here so good news is we are streaming on YouTube live.

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We definitely recommend subscribing to our YouTube channel you can just head on over right now quickly to brilliantdirectories.com/youtube

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and click on that subscribe button.

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You'll get updated with the newest webinars when they're released, the tips of the week, any tutorial videos that we launched there, and more.

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Also, the good news about streaming on YouTube live immediately after the webinar, we will share a replay of the video in the Brilliant Directories Facebook group and you can join us there brilliantdirectories.com

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forward slash Facebook. It's a great way to stay in touch in between webinar Wednesdays.

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The group is popping. Lots of people are asking questions, getting help from fellow members.

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I'm in there myself assisting,

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people in there and it's just a really positive

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place if you're working on your membership website.

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So we definitely welcome everyone and encourage you to join us there.

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And speaking of the Facebook group, we are running another iPad giveaway contest there.

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I guess historically now where we're running these about every six months. They're lots of fun.

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Let us share the link with you in the chat here.

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All you need to do in order to enter is just leave one comment.

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You don't need to comment multiple times.

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Just leave one comment here. I'll share the the link from the Facebook group,

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of the color iPad that you'd like us to send you if you are in fact,

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the winner.

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We'll be announcing the winner on May 1, so just at the turn of the new month in just over a week or so.

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And along with the iPad giveaway, we will have some,

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secondary prizes,

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lifetime,

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website license giveaways and, maybe a couple more things.

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So, just take a second and just enter the color iPad that you'd like us to send you.

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Let's see how many comments we have in here so far. It's about 262

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comments, but probably it'll it'll tick up closer to three or 400 comments by the time we do the announcement.

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So one in four hundred chance to win an iPad,

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it's pretty good odds.

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Alright. Back to the webinar and the fun stuff. So I do see a lot of new names and faces.

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Thank you guys for joining us and welcome into the BD family.

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Just a little bit about webinar Wednesdays.

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We like to reserve this time to share some of the newer updates that are built into the platform

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week after week.

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Your emails to our support team, questions in the Facebook group, and also participation in the webinar really give us,

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ideas for features we should build into the platform.

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And in webinar Wednesdays, we like to share some of those updates that can give you actionable,

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you know, actionable steps to help grow your community.

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So we'll cover topics such as how to increase traffic,

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converting visitors to members,

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improving your navigation, generating

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more revenue, and things like that.

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So if you have questions on any of these topics or anything else about your membership website, we should have more than enough time to get to everyone's questions here today.

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So please save your questions as many as you have.

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We'll try to take one question at a time, and then we'll circle back around to you if you have multiple questions.

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So, yeah, we look forward to the q and a session today in the webinar.

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Alright. And we do have a hefty number of BD Lab updates to share.

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I'll breeze through this list starting at the very top there.

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The first one here is related to the speed of your home page.

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If you're using the background

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slider, for the home page,

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shows different images on your home page. There is now an option to only enable this on

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desktops.

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It can check devices. So if it's a mobile device, it will just load

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a single image and that's really good for mobile page load speeds because to be honest image slideshows

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really give poor scores.

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They slow down the speed because the user has to download multiple large images

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as well as, the code that cycles through them. So let me show you where that setting is.

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This would be in your design settings, and I'll show you the add on this is related to.

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So that's only if you're using the, image slideshow on your home page.

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But if you do have it enabled, I would recommend this

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if you're using the slideshow to select this setting. So if we go to design settings, homepage,

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scroll down to image slider settings.

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Under enable slideshow, there's now an option for desktop only and I would recommend this or desktop and mobile.

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Now if you're using desktop only,

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what image is gonna show,

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if the slideshow is not showing?

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Well, first, it's going to show on mobile if you're doing desktop only, your hero background image.

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So this static image here. So those of you who wanted a separate mobile image for your homepage,

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you may want to utilize this. You can have,

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the mobile image here, and then the slideshow on desktop would be these images here.

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and they're just using one image and they want one image for desktop and a different size for mobile.

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In that case, just if and a workaround here is enable the slideshow and only have one slide,

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enabled and have that for your desktop

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and then use the homepage background image here as the mobile version of your homepage.

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So maybe a smaller image, less file size, maybe a different,

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proportions, more like a square instead of a horizontal rectangle

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and so on.

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So that's available for you guys and I think it will if you're using the slider, the slideshow on your homepage, it will help improve your mobile page speed.

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Okay. In the admin area under the web page builder,

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this one's a little bit more for convenience.

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Now you can see a quick snapshot

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of the screenshots,

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of the images.

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It should be able to grab them 99%

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of the time, so you could just kinda see what you're working with here when you're looking at the screen.

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If you notice that there's a white screen there, just give it twenty four hours.

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It doesn't check every minute. If there's an update, it checks every twenty four hours,

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But this should just be a little bit nicer when you're working and you have a lot of pages like this.

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Here's an example where it didn't get, the image.

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Sometimes a refresh works or just give it a a day or so to catch up with that image.

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Alright. This next one is related to the dynamic

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category filtering

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add on. It puts check boxes in the member search results sidebar and it lets users,

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check off the categories that they want to see members of in the results.

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Up until now, it's been limited to just checking categories.

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There is an option now where you can add a location search in addition to that.

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Let me quickly show you,

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what that looks like. I have a sample here.

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So where you enable this in the,

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edit post settings for members, I'll show you in just a moment.

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Prior to this update, you were limited to just using the dynamic search with the check boxes,

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and there really wasn't an,

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an ability to also search a location.

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So if you wanted to search restaurants with outdoor seating, there was no way to enter the location.

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the dynamic filtering on the sidebar.

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So, if you're using this already and you wanna add the location, let me show you where you can do.

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So there's a couple ways to do it, but this is the main way.

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Under my content, we wanna go to edit post settings.

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And if we scroll down to member listings or listings, you'll have that.

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So we're editing the, member listings post type, search results design, additional settings.

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there's a an option to select the sidebar search module to use.

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I'll click over here. And if you scroll down, if you have the dynamic category filtering add on,

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we can see here, here are the OG original ones, top level category, top sub level.

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Now there's a corresponding one that also includes the location.

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So top level category plus location,

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top sub and location, sub sub

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and location, and the whole enchilada, top sub, sub sub and location there.

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So you guys can play around with that and see what works best for you on your site. Alright.

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Next one here related to webhooks.

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Webhooks allow you to send data that's created on your site

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out to other third party,

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solutions and services.

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And if you're using webhooks for paid sign ups and you're using

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an external gateway like PayPal standard where the user comes to your checkout page and then is diverted, to PayPal to complete their payment and then come back to your site, those are now compatible

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with the paid sign up, webhook.

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So you can send that data into Zapier or wherever you want to port that data to.

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Next one here related to imports.

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We have been waiting on this one for a while, and this one is fresh, hot off the press.

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I actually don't even have an example of it but I wanted to mention it here because I know a lot of people are excited for this.

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You can now upload a CSV file of your post

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with the images prior was just you know title, the contents of the article or event.

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But now you can import posts such as coupons, events,

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etcetera with their images.

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Let me show you where you would import posts.

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Again, we're gonna have more on this in future webinars.

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We'll be able to create more tutorials, but I just wanted to share it with you guys here.

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If you go to manage posts,

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there's a green button here right now that says import a post file. This is a CSV import.

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And because this is so new, there is a link to the view the import guide, and this is where you would upload your file, your CSV file.

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And if you click on that link, how to import post via CSV file, I don't even think they've added yet the, the information for images because it just got released, but you can

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do that. And if I scroll down at the bottom here, I just wanna show you, there are example import,

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file templates that you can download. Here we go.

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The very bottom here, these are import file templates.

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So you could use these and then import them with the post.

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The reason this is so amazing and valuable is not necessarily importing the post via CSV file.

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However, that will make it easier to migrate from other solutions such as WordPress.

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But if we scroll down here in my coming soon,

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the first one here, Zapier a API import posts from feeds and third party sources.

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So if you have an RSS feed of a blog or something that has events,

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now that we've created this, the import functionality with images,

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you'll be able to what's coming soon and next is use feeds and populate your site automatically,

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using third party sources.

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So it's gonna be really cool and we're gonna create lots of tutorials around this because I think it's just going to empower

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the website owner to establish a site a lot quicker rather than manually inputting and creating posts and things like that.

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So the future of BD is come almost like instant content on your website or close to it and we're excited to share with you down the line how you can achieve those things.

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Moving on. Let me contain my excitement there.

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This one I wanted to share in the updates because Google was aggressively emailing anyone who had the Google login add on,

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where users can sign up or log into your site using their Google account.

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The code has been updated with their most secure method at this point, so there's no further action required by website owners,

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and you can ignore any of Google's,

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emails or notifications,

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asking you to update this on your site. BD has already taken care of it.

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And this last one here is not really a feature update, but it comes up in the Facebook group a lot and we're gonna post a workaround article

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is how to center your logo at the top of your site.

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There are cases where you don't want your logo shifted to the left of the page and you want it in the center of the page.

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So I just wanted to share a quick workaround with everyone,

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who may be interested in doing this, and it's just some alerts and things to consider a best practices

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for doing this. So,

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what we're referring to here

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is the logo. Here's an example of it centered.

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So this is where the logo usually is here on the left of your screen.

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And if we look in like a mobile view, it automatically gets centered, by itself.

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We can see that here.

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And there are cases where you may want the logo centered.

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So before we center the logo and I provide the code, it's pretty simple. It's copy and paste.

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We may even make this a setting later.

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You wanna make sure you're using an image for your logo.

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Using the the text version, it can work, but you really don't get the same effect.

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And if there isn't enough space for the text, it kinda breaks the the the logo name and things like that.

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So you wanna make sure you're using an image and also be conscious of the size of your image.

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You don't want a skyscraper tower.

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Maybe you do, but real estate on web pages is pretty valuable and you don't necessarily want, like I said, like a vertical skyscraper

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of a logo occupying,

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the majority of the page,

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with empty space on the left.

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is if the logo is going to be centered here, you wanna make sure that you don't really have a heavy

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header menu on your site.

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In this case, we just have contact us member login, but if you're using this with many links here,

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it may not make sense or or may not be desired to have the logo,

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centered here. So let me quickly show you here. I have just a very small piece.

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If you don't know what CSS code is, you really don't need to worry about it.

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But, we'll paste this in the chat here for those of you that wanna play around with it on your site.

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So you would just copy and paste all of this that I put there, and

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you would go to design settings.

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we're gonna go to custom CSS. Those are design rules.

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These are just some rules for the website logo, so it behaves a little differently.

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like this header right section here. They can they hide it, altogether.

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And, yeah, it does make a nice, very simple presentation if it's just the logo and then the main menu or even sans main, main menu, just the logo and the content below it.

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It's a much cleaner look in some cases.

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in the header design, let me just scroll down.

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it'll contrast the logo nicely. So now we just saved a bit more real estate

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compact view and then there's a fab fab icon

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compact view. The fab icon is this little icon here we see at the top of our tabs.

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And if we refresh that, we can see here. So that's more like an app like experience, right?

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but here we can see just having the menu here

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may just be enough and you've saved a lot of real estate on mobile

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for people who are using your site. Let's go to a search results page. So that's pretty cool.

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Just something for you guys to consider, and those settings again are under design settings,

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Alright. Great.

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And then coming down the line, some updates as I mentioned, importing posts from feeds.

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to when we originally launched this to make it compatible with the majority of RSS feed readers, it did not include the post image.

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from your own RSS feed. We are gonna do a tip of the week on how to turn your RSS feeds,

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into email newsletters to your members.

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So oftentimes people say, I want my members to get notified when there's a new event listing on my site.

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So we're gonna show you a workaround to get you guys probably 80% there with some filters and things just to make sure your members aren't receiving,

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I guess, like garbage posts or or posts that are not, that app don't have as much good quality in them.

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And there are tons more speed, security, and quality of life features coming down the line.

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I'm actually very excited for for May, and I'm excited for the future webinars.

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We really wanna dive into how the leads module works, how to monetize that a bit better.

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to make a better workflow and targeting and segmenting members even better with your email newsletter

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and lots more. So I wanna give a big shout out to the BD community.

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Before we move on, if you wanna raise your hand and have any questions or comments about these specific features,

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we can take one or two now and then we can move on

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with the rest of the webinar here. Alright, Eric, here we go. Hi, Jason.

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How are you today? Doing great. How are you? Pretty good. Pretty good.

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Great to have you on the webinar here. Yeah. This is terrific. I I don't have a chance

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to come on to, webinars on a regular basis, but when I do, I always find a really good tip.

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So I just made that update on the compact view

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of our logo for the mobile site and, tested it out. Looks terrific.

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I'll do that with both of our BD sites.

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I did have a quick question because I'm always looking for

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improvements, ways to do things better on our current sites that have been around for a while.

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And and whether you wanna talk about this topic now or some other time, what will be the benefit of having a,

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an app as opposed to a mobile site

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just in terms of functionality,

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whether it's a better result for

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people using

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the site as a resource?

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Just wanted to get your opinion on that. So

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first of all, that's a that's a great question.

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A lot of people when they get their directory site,

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they feel the tendency or need to I need to make an app out of this.

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We see that question asked a lot in the Facebook group. There's there's pros and and cons.

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I'll tell you one of the cons

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right away. Well I'll tell you the the yeah I'll tell you the cons.

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The cons real quick is you know Apple and I don't know about Android, but they may if your website has any type of payment going through it,

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one, they tax you, like, 30%

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and they put some hurdles up to make it go through, like, Apple Pay or whatever.

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I'm not too familiar with it, but whatever payment workflow that you need to go through inside of the app.

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Otherwise, they'll kick you out of of the app at the App Store,

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if you don't meet those requirements.

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if you're a search directory,

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you have to ask yourself besides your members, like, are is the end user gonna use your app daily,

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or are they just gonna use it one time, get what they need, and then leave?

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Does it need does it really warrant somebody to add it to their phone as as a and take up space as a formal app?

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Another thing is this the b d sites are mobile

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friendly. So when what they see on their mobile browser

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is kind of what they're they're gonna see in the app if if you're just gonna render your site with an app which is the quickest way to turn your site into an app is just render your website within an app framework

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and then it will be mobile friendly

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now Apple and I think Android too, they allow you to save web pages to

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your smartphones wallpaper. So it just you can save a website's homepage

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like an app on your on your device.

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And then now you can there are ways to send we're gonna explore this at b d, but if people do that, ways to send them push notifications

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If they've added your website to their home screen, or one of you know, you can swipe to see all your apps on your phone.

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But, if it's one of the app if it's saved like an app on your phone.

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So the need to really have an app, I think,

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if you have, like, a back end portal for your staff or a back end portal just for b to b where where your members can quickly access their messages of their profiles,

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that would be a useful case

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for an app, for a directory where your members can kind of manage it, see their leads, accept leads, and do things on the go because they're gonna be using your site on a day to day basis.

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So I can see a member facing

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app being useful, but if it's just a search directory,

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for the end user

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who may just use your site one one or one or a few times just to get the data they want or connect with the professional they need for that one project

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that they're gonna do in their life a couple times.

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Then, yeah, just,

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you have to see how much who's who's getting value out of the app and what is the cost to you as the website owner to manage that app

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and and just keep it updated and things like that. K. Thank you. Thanks for that feedback.

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It's important to know the options that are out there. Yeah.

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But it's a great question.

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And I think a few people have. Well, I'll tell you this much.

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With the API now open with brilliant directories,

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the the API allows you to read your member data.

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And and with that, you can design your own templates for your own apps, and developers are starting to do that with BD very slowly.

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It's everything's just so fresh now. But,

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for the member directories or for members to manage some of the key points of their profiles on the go using an an app framework.

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So apps are good.

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You just have to wonder who's gonna use them as far as part of your, who you're targeting and things like that.

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Great. Thanks, Jason. Appreciate it. Sure thing. Good question there, Eric.

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And I guess with that, we'll segue on to the questions and answers portion.

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So if you guys need any assistance with your site,

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about membership sites in general,

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please feel free to use the raise your hand feature and, we could take a few questions

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and go from there. You can also type in your questions as needed. Alright.

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We see some hands going up here.

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We got our good friend, Vijay, here. How are you doing today? Good. Good. Yourself? Pretty good.

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Pretty good. Thank you so much. Good. Just a question about the, pretty URLs feature.

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We added the API for the, the Google API in the

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admin thing and just wondering how it works.

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Based on the help docs, I couldn't I didn't fully understand it.

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So in the help docs of BD, it said that when you add the Google API for pretty URLs that you could Google or something creates

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a URL that's

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not that dynamic thing if somebody was to search on your site? Oh yes yes yes yes. Okay. No.

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This is a great question. Let me show you an example here. Okay?

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So what it's going to do is it's gonna provide you with more so if I do a search for Los Angeles using the,

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just the the search field here,

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we're gonna get an ugly URL.

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If you do a search on Amazon or Yelp, you're usually going to get, a result like this.

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if we and we can see here it it caught four results,

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and it knows that because in this long URL it's getting longitude latitude it knows the boundaries of the search etc.

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Let me get the canonical URL here.

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The pretty URL

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would be let me see here. This one here.

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And this this exists for all b d sites, and this is what makes b d sites kind of optimized for SEO out of the gate.

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The canonical URLs are already created even though it's displaying an ugly URL. It does have,

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or a more precise URL. It does have a corresponding canonical URL.

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This is the what it tells search engines to look for.

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Let me I don't know if this site has the pretty the pretty URLs for Google but we can see four results here.

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Let me do a search here.

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In this case, we start up on our site because there's a couple of areas that we want to create static landing pages for but we couldn't get it to work.

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You couldn't get it to work. Let's take a look at it together if you don't mind. Yeah.

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What it's supposed to do is it's supposed to get the same number of results,

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the long form URL,

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having the pretty URL enabled. Yeah.

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Because we thought that might have been a way that we could work around to create a SEO landing page

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for some of the areas that BD doesn't pick up or, you know, that Google doesn't pick up for the geocoding?

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Got you. So

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you would you would want it would still need to be a a valid search results page.

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It can't just be any random location,

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or or region type. So what I would recommend doing on your site is doing the search for that region.

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Like, what's what's one location you're trying to to get a result for?

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So, for example, like, we're in Auckland, New Zealand, and

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we can't geocode, for example, West Auckland, if that makes sense.

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Also, for example, you might I don't know how it works in LA if there was

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or something like that. What's your website?

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It's eventplanner.co.nz.

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So we do get the search results when we search so if we typed in South Auckland as an example

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like here South Auckland

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let's see what the

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canonical yeah so in this case

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this is the canonical URL

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for this. Let's see, you have

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eight forty three results.

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Let's see when you do this one,

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eight forty nine. Actually, that's pretty good for what

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the pretty URL thing update does.

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That might not have been the best example. Maybe if we typed in West Auckland, I think. Okay.

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West Auckland?

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Yeah. Okay.

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Would it be this?

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Okay. Let's do a search together. Now is West Auckland

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a city? Is it a neighborhood?

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So Auckland's the city, and that's just, like, for example, there's searches for people that type in West, if that makes sense.

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Got you. So here is,

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West Auckland here. So this would be the,

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the pretty URL for West Auckland.

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But they oh, you didn't make us let's see here. That actually should have worked.

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That's something to to notify support about. This this is the canonical URL.

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It should go to the, the search results page for it. The page we were just on, which is

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this one here let's see one more time. Yes see I don't think those results are actually correct

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because I think we have a member in West Auckland as an example.

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just another thing to maybe check you might since you're gonna be doing more specific searches

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You may want to shrink it or

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00:29:59.335 --> 00:30:04.510
you can leave it large and then you enable strict search so it will

446
00:30:05.050 --> 00:30:07.390
only even though the radius might be large

447
00:30:07.930 --> 00:30:17.390
once it hits the the boundary limit of that look type region type it will cut off the results from there so you may want to also do strict search

448
00:30:18.035 --> 00:30:20.294
as well. And that will, again,

449
00:30:20.595 --> 00:30:29.235
even if the radius is outside of the searched area, it'll cut the results to the postal code, the country, or the city match as well.

450
00:30:29.235 --> 00:30:31.655
And that may help you get more precise results,

451
00:30:32.115 --> 00:30:32.855
as well.

452
00:30:33.390 --> 00:30:38.850
However, one thing I'm just noticing is this canonical URL, unless you have a a redirect set up somewhere,

453
00:30:39.230 --> 00:30:40.130
it should be,

454
00:30:40.590 --> 00:30:44.830
it should be, linking to this page itself. It should be showing similar results here.

455
00:30:44.830 --> 00:30:46.770
It shouldn't take you to the home page here.

456
00:30:47.774 --> 00:30:51.695
Or something's happening here because it's selecting this URL. Yeah.

457
00:30:51.695 --> 00:30:53.394
But I would show this example to

458
00:30:53.934 --> 00:30:55.315
the support team.

459
00:30:55.615 --> 00:30:56.115
Okay.

460
00:30:57.054 --> 00:30:57.455
Yeah.

461
00:30:57.455 --> 00:31:04.799
I'll play around because I saw you look at that code which had that canonical URL and that might actually answer some of the questions on the pre URL thing.

462
00:31:05.260 --> 00:31:05.740
Yeah.

463
00:31:05.740 --> 00:31:12.640
Just so you know, all these canonical URLs should be going to the same type of search results but this title should be the same.

464
00:31:13.020 --> 00:31:17.679
I'm a little concerned why yours is going to the homepage or it's showing the homepage.

465
00:31:18.085 --> 00:31:21.705
It is it's not redirecting to the homepage because it is maintaining the URL.

466
00:31:22.165 --> 00:31:25.045
It's it's it's keeping the forward slash. So,

467
00:31:26.565 --> 00:31:29.945
we have to see I would figure out why that's happening in the first place.

468
00:31:30.565 --> 00:31:32.505
Okay. I'll have another look around.

469
00:31:32.850 --> 00:31:37.110
Okay. I wish I had more info, but hopefully that gives you a little bit of direction to go after.

470
00:31:37.170 --> 00:31:39.429
Thank you. Alright. Good question there from,

471
00:31:40.130 --> 00:31:40.630
Vijay.

472
00:31:41.170 --> 00:31:44.630
Alright. We got a bunch of hands up here. I will start in the middle with Ivan.

473
00:31:45.034 --> 00:31:48.075
Ivan, looks like you're still muted. There we go. Yeah. I am. Thank you so much.

474
00:31:48.075 --> 00:31:49.434
Listen, I have a question about,

475
00:31:49.914 --> 00:31:50.414
about

476
00:31:50.875 --> 00:31:52.495
spam emails that come through.

477
00:31:53.115 --> 00:31:55.695
Every time that somebody signs up, I

478
00:31:55.995 --> 00:31:59.730
I go in and I block the IP address. But is there an easier way to do it?

479
00:32:00.210 --> 00:32:01.270
Yeah. There's a couple,

480
00:32:01.730 --> 00:32:03.270
a couple things you can do.

481
00:32:04.450 --> 00:32:07.830
These are related to unwanted sign ups to your site.

482
00:32:08.210 --> 00:32:11.830
Yeah. Sign ups and, and just emails that that I get

483
00:32:12.555 --> 00:32:16.415
like, you want if we can we take a look at one of your sites? Is that possible?

484
00:32:16.795 --> 00:32:20.575
Sure. Sure. I I this greatcity.com.

485
00:32:20.875 --> 00:32:22.155
This greatcity.com.

486
00:32:22.155 --> 00:32:24.715
Okay. Give me one moment here. Let me just,

487
00:32:25.195 --> 00:32:29.580
this will be a good unwanted sign ups is, especially if you have a free plan.

488
00:32:30.600 --> 00:32:32.440
Sometimes it's inevitable once,

489
00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:41.179
we talk about this in different webinars, but once, some of these SEO listing companies find a website property that has a free profile

490
00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:42.059
account,

491
00:32:43.125 --> 00:32:47.685
they'll just hit it up and and start trying to to use it to create free listings for their clients.

492
00:32:47.685 --> 00:32:52.885
If you go to Fiverr, there's tons of these SEO services, and they're looking for sites with free sign ups.

493
00:32:52.885 --> 00:32:57.065
But, let me just do a few things just to check, here.

494
00:32:57.750 --> 00:33:00.170
I just wanna check first that,

495
00:33:00.790 --> 00:33:01.850
you okay.

496
00:33:02.310 --> 00:33:03.290
You do have

497
00:33:03.670 --> 00:33:06.970
your spam keyword list set up, so that's good for messages.

498
00:33:07.270 --> 00:33:08.250
I would recommend,

499
00:33:08.630 --> 00:33:11.050
clicking this one, the block spoof characters.

500
00:33:11.425 --> 00:33:15.445
This one is good for your website contact us form, not necessarily for sign ups.

501
00:33:16.305 --> 00:33:19.525
These are spammers oftentimes use these characters

502
00:33:19.825 --> 00:33:23.825
when submit. They look like regular characters, but we've we've pinned them to,

503
00:33:24.545 --> 00:33:27.620
associated them with with a high level when it's a spam message.

504
00:33:27.620 --> 00:33:32.680
So that should help stop messages to your contact us form and to your members as well.

505
00:33:33.540 --> 00:33:42.165
So if you have an English an English language site, guys, I would recommend coming to your general settings integrations tab and clicking on block spoof characters.

506
00:33:42.705 --> 00:33:43.845
Got it. I'll just go ahead.

507
00:33:43.905 --> 00:33:48.725
And let me just check your site out real quick, and we'll go to your free sign up page.

508
00:33:49.025 --> 00:33:50.645
Let me just check something here.

509
00:33:51.025 --> 00:33:55.690
Okay. So you have paid plans, and then you have a free plan as well? Yeah.

510
00:33:55.690 --> 00:33:58.970
Citizens, that's the the button there at the bottom there. That's,

511
00:33:59.770 --> 00:34:01.710
yeah, that's it right there. Gotcha.

512
00:34:02.170 --> 00:34:06.190
I'll I'll be honest, just as a design thing, I I felt this was an ad banner

513
00:34:06.570 --> 00:34:08.109
actually where it's located.

514
00:34:09.464 --> 00:34:11.484
I didn't I didn't feel like,

515
00:34:12.184 --> 00:34:16.204
oh, this is where I sign up as a as a free member if I'm not ready to pay yet.

516
00:34:17.224 --> 00:34:21.065
So I may be moving it up higher or or if it's working for you, keep it where it's at.

517
00:34:21.144 --> 00:34:23.885
But that was my first instinct. It was just an advertisement.

518
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:25.619
No. Great point. Okay.

519
00:34:26.080 --> 00:34:29.119
Alright. So, we come here. Oh, this is a great page, by the way.

520
00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:32.420
I love seeing the smiley faces here. So this is great.

521
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:35.540
So let's go to your free sign up. Okay.

522
00:34:36.080 --> 00:34:39.860
So you have your free sign up form. So a couple things you can do here,

523
00:34:40.364 --> 00:34:43.264
if you're if you're getting some spam sign ups.

524
00:34:43.725 --> 00:34:47.985
The first thing you can do is you may want to change the URL here.

525
00:34:49.005 --> 00:34:53.185
You you would have to go to all your landing pages where you kinda link to this page.

526
00:34:54.449 --> 00:35:01.510
It might be that this URL is is a known URL of free sign ups on your site, and that can help stop it, right out the gate.

527
00:35:02.210 --> 00:35:06.930
It's updating that. I I'm not gonna do it for you, but let me show you where where you would do it.

528
00:35:06.930 --> 00:35:10.755
So this this is a general sign up. You would go to edit,

529
00:35:11.135 --> 00:35:13.395
and I'm gonna search for URL.

530
00:35:14.015 --> 00:35:16.755
And here's the member sign up page URL.

531
00:35:17.135 --> 00:35:17.615
So,

532
00:35:18.095 --> 00:35:23.055
you know, maybe you wanna call it citizen or or something like that, and that will be the new sign up page.

533
00:35:23.055 --> 00:35:27.740
However, do keep in mind that any landing pages like you've created, you're gonna wanna update,

534
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:32.359
that check forward slash checkout five to go to a new page.

535
00:35:32.359 --> 00:35:39.015
And that should slow it down a bit because it's probably the URL of your site that's been flagged for, like, a free sign up profile and things like that.

536
00:35:39.174 --> 00:35:40.555
Another thing you can do,

537
00:35:41.095 --> 00:35:43.355
it's a little more advanced and

538
00:35:43.815 --> 00:35:49.275
let me see if I can find this we've also talked about this in the webinars. You can set a timer.

539
00:35:49.575 --> 00:35:51.835
Let me see. I think it's called a delay.

540
00:35:52.370 --> 00:35:57.350
There's something where if that free sign up form is filled out too quickly by a by a bot

541
00:35:57.650 --> 00:36:01.510
by, like, a robot that's coming to your site and doing it, it will,

542
00:36:02.530 --> 00:36:06.005
not allow the sign up to happen. I I forgot the name of it. Oh, here.

543
00:36:06.005 --> 00:36:08.665
Spam protection member sign up form time.

544
00:36:09.125 --> 00:36:12.565
So you actually have it to two. You might wanna increase it.

545
00:36:12.565 --> 00:36:25.700
I mean, if someone really came to this page with the loading time of the page, it's probably gonna take them about four for at least four seconds to fill it out with the two emails, their password, clicking the the box.

546
00:36:25.839 --> 00:36:28.660
So you may wanna just update this from two to four.

547
00:36:29.200 --> 00:36:38.295
And if that means that if anyone fills out that four from the moment the page loads faster than four seconds, it's gonna stop the submission and they're gonna have to wait.

548
00:36:38.355 --> 00:36:43.734
So that might thwart away some of these bots if if it is bots signing up through your sign up page.

549
00:36:43.875 --> 00:36:45.974
Okay. So I'll enable that as well.

550
00:36:46.250 --> 00:36:49.530
And then lastly, you were doing the correct you were doing the correct thing.

551
00:36:49.530 --> 00:36:55.869
When when members sign up, you can see the IP address and then just copy and paste it to block that IP address.

552
00:36:56.970 --> 00:36:59.925
So those would be three simple things you can do to kind of

553
00:37:00.485 --> 00:37:00.985
mitigate

554
00:37:01.285 --> 00:37:03.305
unwanted sign ups on your site.

555
00:37:03.685 --> 00:37:04.185
Obviously,

556
00:37:04.565 --> 00:37:07.285
it's unwanted sign ups are annoying and a nuisance, but,

557
00:37:07.845 --> 00:37:12.245
those are some quick things to do. I appreciate it. Thank you very, very much. Alright.

558
00:37:12.245 --> 00:37:15.520
You're welcome, and good luck. Alright. Great question there from Ivan.

559
00:37:15.580 --> 00:37:17.520
We got a hand up from a David.

560
00:37:18.060 --> 00:37:21.820
Hello. This is David Cochlin, Virginia. How are you? How's it going, David?

561
00:37:21.820 --> 00:37:25.600
Thanks for joining us today. Go going great. Years ago, I purchased,

562
00:37:26.140 --> 00:37:27.760
or subscribed to five

563
00:37:28.164 --> 00:37:29.785
brilliant directories. I have one

564
00:37:30.164 --> 00:37:36.724
that is active, and I launched it years ago and kinda shoved it out to see, and it just floated away.

565
00:37:36.724 --> 00:37:40.904
And I kinda forgot about it, basically, and I checked

566
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:43.300
months ago. And,

567
00:37:44.080 --> 00:37:46.260
over the years, I've I have

568
00:37:46.560 --> 00:37:47.860
10,800

569
00:37:48.080 --> 00:37:48.580
members

570
00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:49.860
or listings.

571
00:37:50.560 --> 00:37:51.060
And,

572
00:37:51.680 --> 00:37:56.260
I set it up as a small business directory. And at the time, I was concerned about not having enough

573
00:37:58.255 --> 00:38:02.035
enough volume of listings. So I chose to go

574
00:38:02.655 --> 00:38:03.155
international.

575
00:38:03.535 --> 00:38:06.675
And about 60% of the listings are US based,

576
00:38:07.215 --> 00:38:08.835
40% are international.

577
00:38:09.520 --> 00:38:13.200
And so I don't know if we can if I can ask a couple of strategic questions.

578
00:38:13.200 --> 00:38:14.820
Is that cool with you guys?

579
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:18.660
Absolutely. Fire away. Yeah. So so I've got these listings.

580
00:38:19.200 --> 00:38:21.600
The quality of the listings is actually pretty good.

581
00:38:21.600 --> 00:38:25.075
They I I, generally speaking, have logos for all of them.

582
00:38:25.075 --> 00:38:29.255
If somebody doesn't upload a logo, I do I have been deleting their listings.

583
00:38:30.115 --> 00:38:34.194
So it looks good, and there's a lot of content on the site. My question

584
00:38:34.515 --> 00:38:35.815
first question is,

585
00:38:36.420 --> 00:38:37.079
should I

586
00:38:37.780 --> 00:38:41.480
should I lop off worldwide and get rid of the international

587
00:38:41.780 --> 00:38:47.160
listings and and just continue forward with US only as I begin to try to monetize this,

588
00:38:47.780 --> 00:38:48.599
this monster?

589
00:38:49.914 --> 00:38:56.494
Is it possible to take a look at your site? Sure. Smallbusinesstoday.net.

590
00:38:56.555 --> 00:38:58.494
Alright. Let's take a look at this together.

591
00:38:58.875 --> 00:39:03.694
Yeah. I was blown away when I looked at it. You know, it you when I when it started, it was

592
00:39:04.250 --> 00:39:06.089
few and far between as far as listing.

593
00:39:06.089 --> 00:39:09.470
But the people you described earlier have discovered the site.

594
00:39:09.930 --> 00:39:10.430
Right.

595
00:39:10.650 --> 00:39:18.829
And and, again, they're they're for the most part, they are, legitimate listings because they're they're doing quality SEO listings for their clients.

596
00:39:19.164 --> 00:39:19.325
Right.

597
00:39:19.325 --> 00:39:28.785
The only reason it's bad sometimes is if you if you have a niche directory like a wedding directory in a certain state, you don't necessarily want a lawyer from Nevada

598
00:39:29.164 --> 00:39:32.365
or whatever you know being listed on the site it just doesn't match.

599
00:39:32.365 --> 00:39:38.870
But if in this case, you know, you're a small business director, you're almost like an everything for everyone type of business directory.

600
00:39:39.010 --> 00:39:43.270
Yeah. I'm gonna I'm I'm a hard I'm a hardcore entrepreneur. I love entrepreneurs.

601
00:39:43.410 --> 00:39:47.235
I encourage everybody to become one. So, you know, my heart told me

602
00:39:48.115 --> 00:39:48.695
why why

603
00:39:49.075 --> 00:39:52.855
why not let entrepreneurs around the world join? But now that I,

604
00:39:53.475 --> 00:39:58.055
what what I plan on doing is coming up with a fair price, and that's my next question.

605
00:39:59.075 --> 00:40:01.975
When somebody creates a listing, the the,

606
00:40:03.210 --> 00:40:04.670
the page authority

607
00:40:05.210 --> 00:40:05.950
is immediately

608
00:40:06.250 --> 00:40:06.750
20.

609
00:40:07.369 --> 00:40:10.510
So it's not it's not insignificant from an SEO perspective.

610
00:40:10.970 --> 00:40:14.830
So I wanna start sending emails to all of the folks that are currently

611
00:40:15.210 --> 00:40:15.710
listed

612
00:40:16.415 --> 00:40:20.355
and, let them know that, it's no longer free to play and

613
00:40:20.815 --> 00:40:22.835
and start with your listings first.

614
00:40:24.175 --> 00:40:24.915
And and

615
00:40:25.295 --> 00:40:31.395
so I I just don't know whether to lock international folks before I do that or and focus on just US only or

616
00:40:31.750 --> 00:40:34.010
or just give every anybody's willing to pay

617
00:40:34.390 --> 00:40:35.290
what I ask,

618
00:40:35.670 --> 00:40:37.210
the ability to stay on.

619
00:40:37.590 --> 00:40:42.870
Gotcha. Well, first thing is, I wouldn't delete people who haven't uploaded their logos yet.

620
00:40:42.870 --> 00:40:44.170
I I have another workaround,

621
00:40:44.710 --> 00:40:45.370
for you.

622
00:40:45.965 --> 00:40:46.465
Okay.

623
00:40:46.765 --> 00:40:52.925
And then about and I'll address the international people in just a moment, and then, the advertising component.

624
00:40:52.925 --> 00:40:55.665
I'll address that in a moment, as well. So

625
00:40:55.965 --> 00:40:58.865
what I would recommend doing is instead of deleting

626
00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:01.780
the people who have not uploaded logo

627
00:41:02.240 --> 00:41:03.380
is utilize

628
00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:06.020
the require complete profiles

629
00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:09.300
setting here. In general settings, search settings,

630
00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:12.580
require complete profile. Set this to yes.

631
00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:13.940
At a minimum

632
00:41:15.095 --> 00:41:20.155
in order for them to show in the search results they have to have a name

633
00:41:20.535 --> 00:41:22.234
select the top level category

634
00:41:22.855 --> 00:41:26.395
a profile photo or logo and input an address

635
00:41:27.030 --> 00:41:28.470
So I would set that to you.

636
00:41:28.470 --> 00:41:39.530
You can edit settings to require more fields but I think for your case just because you want just the minimum quality profile this this should suffice for you so I would recommend enabling that

637
00:41:39.885 --> 00:41:40.385
And

638
00:41:40.685 --> 00:41:43.425
whoever doesn't meet this, they still have a profile.

639
00:41:43.645 --> 00:41:48.605
They just don't show up in the search results in the public facing directory to your website visitors.

640
00:41:48.605 --> 00:41:50.785
So they're not getting visibility here.

641
00:41:51.165 --> 00:41:52.785
So I would set that to yes.

642
00:41:53.085 --> 00:41:57.619
K. The second thing I would do, can I set this to yes for you? Sure.

643
00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:58.500
Okay.

644
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:00.339
When you set this to yes,

645
00:42:00.720 --> 00:42:04.339
you get an extra filter in your search members page.

646
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:07.859
Let me refresh the page now that we've set this to yes.

647
00:42:08.115 --> 00:42:13.415
What I would recommend doing here you see profile statuses now here because we've set this to yes.

648
00:42:13.795 --> 00:42:15.015
What you can do is

649
00:42:15.475 --> 00:42:21.495
search for members who have incomplete profiles and and let's do a search now out of your 10,890

650
00:42:21.590 --> 00:42:26.090
who does not have at least a profile photo top level category address etcetera.

651
00:42:26.550 --> 00:42:28.150
So 262

652
00:42:28.150 --> 00:42:29.610
people don't have it at all.

653
00:42:30.070 --> 00:42:34.170
It's not bad at all actually has a tiny percentage considering the site's been

654
00:42:35.255 --> 00:42:36.535
you know, running on its own.

655
00:42:36.535 --> 00:42:43.115
So what you can do here, and this is advice for everyone, and you might everyone might have different incomplete or complete profile criteria.

656
00:42:43.655 --> 00:42:48.315
But what you can do from here is under list actions is create a smart list

657
00:42:48.710 --> 00:42:51.690
and call the smart list the nickname called like incomplete

658
00:42:52.390 --> 00:42:52.890
profiles

659
00:42:53.750 --> 00:42:57.430
and save that. Now that this group of 262

660
00:42:57.430 --> 00:43:00.329
people are a smart list and let's go to smart lists here.

661
00:43:00.390 --> 00:43:02.490
You you can show me how to send them an email?

662
00:43:02.885 --> 00:43:03.765
You can. Yeah.

663
00:43:03.765 --> 00:43:11.625
You can go to your email templates and design up an email saying, hey, we we love that your participation on our site, but you're not getting the visibility.

664
00:43:11.685 --> 00:43:13.464
You can get you're missing out on visibility.

665
00:43:13.605 --> 00:43:23.640
You need to at least have x, y, and z, whatever the required profile is, and provide them a link to come back to the site, log in, and then also say, like, if you'd even like a boost,

666
00:43:24.099 --> 00:43:27.880
then, you know, these are the these are the options to pay. So,

667
00:43:28.180 --> 00:43:32.260
that's what I would do with your incomplete and international profiles is I wouldn't delete them.

668
00:43:32.260 --> 00:43:35.704
I would I would focus on complete versus incomplete profiles.

669
00:43:35.765 --> 00:43:39.204
So the same thing with your international members. I would I would allow them.

670
00:43:39.204 --> 00:43:46.590
There's no reason if someone wants to search London, UK that they shouldn't be able to find a shoe cobbler there, if they've signed up to your site.

671
00:43:47.790 --> 00:43:48.930
Regarding advertising,

672
00:43:49.550 --> 00:43:54.930
I'd figure out what you wanna offer, and we did a webinar. Let me go to brilliantdirectories.com.

673
00:43:55.070 --> 00:43:56.930
I love this webinar that we did,

674
00:43:57.310 --> 00:43:57.810
and

675
00:43:58.110 --> 00:44:01.765
I'm not gonna go over all the details, but let me do a quick search here and I'll share this. Yeah.

676
00:44:01.765 --> 00:44:03.785
I don't want you to have to do a second webinar

677
00:44:04.245 --> 00:44:10.025
in one. Yeah. So so we did a webinar 15 boosts members will pay for to increase their visibility.

678
00:44:10.325 --> 00:44:14.025
And these are things and upsells you can sell an offer to your members.

679
00:44:14.085 --> 00:44:16.265
Let me just scroll down here. We should have a checklist.

680
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:20.020
Their order in your search results, member badges,

681
00:44:20.640 --> 00:44:22.480
more info on their profile pages.

682
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:27.760
There's a there's a laundry list of things here and it just empowers you as the website owner.

683
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:30.340
You can handpick which ones make sense for you.

684
00:44:31.464 --> 00:44:34.525
Let me share this article in the chat here. This is a video

685
00:44:34.905 --> 00:44:36.045
from our blog,

686
00:44:36.425 --> 00:44:41.645
and what I would do is after you've chosen which ones of these you want to offer to your members,

687
00:44:42.184 --> 00:44:46.045
on your website is if you're gonna offer like a sidebar banner,

688
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:51.160
go ahead and and and do one for a member complimentary. They don't even need to know about it.

689
00:44:51.160 --> 00:44:51.660
Basically,

690
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:53.180
put all these advertisements

691
00:44:54.040 --> 00:45:00.920
around your site already on behalf of the members as a sample or just show make it seem like it's there for real, like somebody paid for it.

692
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:01.575
You know?

693
00:45:02.375 --> 00:45:07.275
You just want something tangible that people can get excited about on your site.

694
00:45:07.494 --> 00:45:09.355
And usually, if you're,

695
00:45:10.695 --> 00:45:15.755
you know, you have a lot of categories and a lot of locations, either a business wants a category takeover.

696
00:45:16.329 --> 00:45:20.910
So like if you search a lawyer or immigration attorney, a specific category,

697
00:45:21.290 --> 00:45:26.569
you can sell a buyout package and put their banners and put them at the top and in the sidebar, etcetera.

698
00:45:26.569 --> 00:45:27.869
We covered in the video.

699
00:45:28.569 --> 00:45:30.065
Or it might be more specific,

700
00:45:30.464 --> 00:45:35.365
where you know they want to be in a certain location like for Los Angeles Plumbers

701
00:45:35.825 --> 00:45:40.224
they want to be because it doesn't make sense to be a plumber in New York if you're servicing Los Angeles.

702
00:45:40.224 --> 00:45:41.045
So Right.

703
00:45:41.810 --> 00:45:47.430
What's cool about BDE also is you can do let me just say one more thing here.

704
00:45:48.690 --> 00:45:51.010
Let me go here and search for SEO.

705
00:45:51.010 --> 00:45:55.750
So if you are gonna get customers that wanna be like in Los Angeles Plumbers category,

706
00:45:56.244 --> 00:45:58.585
what you're gonna wanna do is put different sidebars

707
00:45:58.885 --> 00:45:59.925
on those different pages.

708
00:45:59.925 --> 00:46:04.345
And as Vijay was saying, he's creating landing pages for his different search locations.

709
00:46:05.045 --> 00:46:06.724
So here's what I wanted to share with you.

710
00:46:06.724 --> 00:46:10.585
Add custom content banners and SEO value to search results pages.

711
00:46:10.970 --> 00:46:21.470
Basically, AKA what this is saying is if you have advertisers that wanna advertise on a specific search results page, this will show you how to add that custom content to just one category

712
00:46:21.770 --> 00:46:23.470
or category plus location

713
00:46:23.849 --> 00:46:26.595
search results page. So let me share this here.

714
00:46:27.234 --> 00:46:28.455
So I'll stop there.

715
00:46:28.915 --> 00:46:32.055
I think that's that's good advice. The the complete profiles,

716
00:46:32.435 --> 00:46:38.355
emailing them, keeping your international people, and then the the videos that I shared in the chat here with everyone.

717
00:46:38.355 --> 00:46:40.435
I'd have a look at those after the webinar here.

718
00:46:40.435 --> 00:46:46.290
So so the the I think it's pretty obvious that the real value isn't from the volume of

719
00:46:46.670 --> 00:46:48.590
consumers that are showing up at the site.

720
00:46:48.590 --> 00:46:52.930
The value is to all the millions of the SEO guys out there and gals.

721
00:46:53.870 --> 00:46:55.250
What is what is a

722
00:46:55.674 --> 00:46:58.335
page a page that has page authority 20

723
00:46:58.954 --> 00:47:04.174
worth in the SEO world annually? $10, 12 bucks, 20 bucks, no bucks?

724
00:47:04.635 --> 00:47:05.755
Worth something. Right?

725
00:47:06.315 --> 00:47:08.974
So domain authority would be more for backlinks.

726
00:47:10.075 --> 00:47:14.450
Yep. Exactly. So, yeah. So I'm not too sure about that.

727
00:47:14.450 --> 00:47:20.530
You can check Fiverr and see what the going rate is for, like, a backlink on a on a domain authority twenty site.

728
00:47:20.530 --> 00:47:21.250
Yeah. That's a good

729
00:47:21.970 --> 00:47:25.750
I'll do that. However, you may wanna reach out to the businesses themselves,

730
00:47:26.295 --> 00:47:32.295
or email them and let them know that they're getting a lot of visibility and you can help them generate more leads.

731
00:47:32.295 --> 00:47:36.075
So forget about SEO. You can actually deliver them potentially

732
00:47:36.535 --> 00:47:43.670
real leads to them because I'm sure there's some type if they're finding your site some level of consumers are finding your site too.

733
00:47:43.670 --> 00:47:44.170
So

734
00:47:44.550 --> 00:47:48.890
you can do it both ways. You can offer backlinks if your sites d a 20.

735
00:47:49.270 --> 00:47:51.050
There is value there by the way.

736
00:47:52.295 --> 00:47:55.575
Or you can, you know, just give them more. It's just a pride thing. Right?

737
00:47:55.575 --> 00:47:57.995
You you're in another directory and they just want visibility.

738
00:47:58.055 --> 00:48:01.495
They wanna be at the top of your results. They'll pay a nominal fee for that.

739
00:48:01.495 --> 00:48:06.099
If that's You're right. Alright. Great question there, David. Love to talk. Really appreciate it.

740
00:48:06.099 --> 00:48:09.960
We we talked on the phone a while back, and I appreciated that conversation as well.

741
00:48:10.180 --> 00:48:13.160
I can't imagine all the work that's gone into getting this,

742
00:48:13.700 --> 00:48:16.920
to where, you know, this to where it is now today.

743
00:48:17.380 --> 00:48:20.894
Well, it's thanks to thanks to you guys for believing in us, the whole way.

744
00:48:21.295 --> 00:48:24.255
You mentioned that you've had five BD sites for a while. So,

745
00:48:24.734 --> 00:48:29.055
yeah, we appreciate you. Alright. Let's moving on here. Thank you, David. Alright.

746
00:48:29.055 --> 00:48:30.674
We got our good friend, Jeff, here.

747
00:48:31.050 --> 00:48:31.550
Morning.

748
00:48:31.850 --> 00:48:34.350
Hey, Jeff. Good morning. How are you there? Good.

749
00:48:35.050 --> 00:48:37.530
Now I'm not sure whether you could cater for this in this,

750
00:48:37.930 --> 00:48:39.230
seminar, but,

751
00:48:40.570 --> 00:48:44.990
I need to get more explanation about adding emails and

752
00:48:45.494 --> 00:48:45.994
DNS

753
00:48:47.015 --> 00:48:48.154
and domain name.

754
00:48:48.535 --> 00:48:50.954
Is that somewhere that you've got in documentation,

755
00:48:51.494 --> 00:48:53.275
or can you do a

756
00:48:53.815 --> 00:48:55.994
segment on that somewhere along the line?

757
00:48:56.454 --> 00:48:58.154
Yeah. Are you using a subdomain

758
00:48:58.454 --> 00:49:01.035
for your for your website, or are you using,

759
00:49:01.700 --> 00:49:04.119
name servers to to point your domain to BD?

760
00:49:04.740 --> 00:49:07.640
Yeah. I'm using name servers. We have a domain.

761
00:49:08.500 --> 00:49:10.900
Now our provider just closed its,

762
00:49:11.460 --> 00:49:16.039
mail exchange, so I had a complication with that. And I'm just wondering whether,

763
00:49:18.255 --> 00:49:20.275
that the BD side can,

764
00:49:21.135 --> 00:49:23.875
cater for that in in the emails.

765
00:49:24.335 --> 00:49:28.275
Yes. It can. Let me just show you a couple things here. Give me one moment.

766
00:49:28.520 --> 00:49:33.819
I'm assuming you've gone to the domain manager and seen the email deliverability settings?

767
00:49:35.240 --> 00:49:38.619
Yeah. I looked at that. I'm a little bit confused about all that.

768
00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:39.420
Gotcha.

769
00:49:39.720 --> 00:49:44.115
You know what? I'm not gonna lie. I get confused about these two, and sometimes I'll just,

770
00:49:44.835 --> 00:49:46.535
I'll defer to the support team.

771
00:49:46.995 --> 00:49:50.295
But in a nutshell oh, this is this is a staging domain.

772
00:49:50.755 --> 00:49:53.255
Give me a moment here. Let me find,

773
00:49:53.875 --> 00:49:57.290
an example here I can use for you. Alright. So,

774
00:49:57.690 --> 00:49:59.150
under the domain manager,

775
00:49:59.690 --> 00:50:02.110
yeah, the email. So under email deliverability,

776
00:50:02.970 --> 00:50:04.430
what we're after here,

777
00:50:05.290 --> 00:50:09.070
isn't all good over here, especially if you've connected your name server.

778
00:50:09.130 --> 00:50:14.615
If you're seeing this, then emails from your BD site probably have a 99.99

779
00:50:14.615 --> 00:50:17.175
chance that they're reaching your senders.

780
00:50:17.175 --> 00:50:23.195
Now if you're also using another mail exchange platform, but you've pointed your name servers to BD,

781
00:50:24.230 --> 00:50:24.970
I believe

782
00:50:25.270 --> 00:50:30.010
what you can do is a couple things here. I'm I don't wanna give bad information here.

783
00:50:30.309 --> 00:50:36.089
These are records again, I'm this is a little bit outside my realm, but these are records,

784
00:50:36.390 --> 00:50:40.685
that you can copy and paste as needed. And then in addition to that,

785
00:50:41.305 --> 00:50:42.045
if your

786
00:50:42.665 --> 00:50:46.765
separate mail exchange is asking you, like, add this to your domain,

787
00:50:47.065 --> 00:50:49.245
I believe what you do is you go to c panel

788
00:50:50.105 --> 00:50:52.925
and where I went and you search for

789
00:50:54.330 --> 00:50:56.350
TXT rather than the zone editor,

790
00:50:56.810 --> 00:51:00.010
DNS zone records, and they're gonna tell you to copy and paste,

791
00:51:00.330 --> 00:51:02.430
certain things here, which is basically telling

792
00:51:02.810 --> 00:51:03.710
your domain,

793
00:51:04.810 --> 00:51:07.150
like you're gonna wanna add an MX record

794
00:51:07.455 --> 00:51:10.915
to holistic health finder. It's gonna be the MX record of,

795
00:51:11.455 --> 00:51:20.275
whatever mail exchange platform you're using outside of Beak, and then that will allow it them to work to that platform to work with your domain's emails as well.

796
00:51:20.680 --> 00:51:25.560
That's probably as much as I can share from my knowledge of it unless there's, like, a specific example.

797
00:51:25.560 --> 00:51:27.560
But, again, I would defer to the support team.

798
00:51:27.560 --> 00:51:31.580
They're very eager to help with making sure your emails are working properly.

799
00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:38.925
So if you let them know what mail exchange you're using and what they're asking you to do the instructions the support team will be,

800
00:51:39.305 --> 00:51:41.405
will be happy to to kind of guide you.

801
00:51:41.545 --> 00:51:45.485
Just to clarify, BD can't act as a mail exchange is that correct?

802
00:51:45.865 --> 00:51:49.005
It it can. BD can handle all your mail for your domain.

803
00:51:49.520 --> 00:51:54.500
So you you don't need a third party, you can just have your domain hosted and then,

804
00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:56.900
BD can handle the the

805
00:51:57.520 --> 00:51:58.260
mail exchange.

806
00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:00.339
Precisely. I've recently,

807
00:52:00.720 --> 00:52:04.339
did that. We set up a domain name and if you go to email accounts,

808
00:52:05.505 --> 00:52:07.684
and you go to add edit email addresses,

809
00:52:09.505 --> 00:52:14.484
you can then create an email address with whatever you want, social promotions, Nina info,

810
00:52:14.785 --> 00:52:17.184
and then you can also connect it to your devices.

811
00:52:17.184 --> 00:52:29.500
In most cases, I use Gmail, so when I create a domain on on brilliant direct on a brilliant directory site, I just follow the the, instructions to connect it to, to Gmail or to my iPhone and whatnot.

812
00:52:29.560 --> 00:52:33.640
So and then I can send and receive emails from my other devices as well.

813
00:52:34.040 --> 00:52:34.540
So,

814
00:52:34.914 --> 00:52:38.595
you can you can manage all your emails in b d if you're pointing your name servers.

815
00:52:38.595 --> 00:52:41.474
Also, if you're using a subdomain as well. Alright.

816
00:52:41.474 --> 00:52:45.494
That's that's clarified it a little bit more for me. I'll have to do some more research.

817
00:52:46.755 --> 00:52:49.140
There is documentation on that on b d?

818
00:52:49.859 --> 00:52:51.559
There should be. Let's see. Email

819
00:52:51.859 --> 00:52:52.359
addresses,

820
00:52:53.539 --> 00:52:54.519
brilliant directories,

821
00:52:55.059 --> 00:52:59.160
connect. Let's see what comes up with the Google search. Set up and manage email addresses.

822
00:52:59.380 --> 00:53:04.395
That's from our blog. Here we go. Email accounts. I'll just share this link here.

823
00:53:04.635 --> 00:53:06.255
These are probably broad stroke.

824
00:53:07.115 --> 00:53:10.575
Here's a folder with with a few different pieces of documentation.

825
00:53:10.715 --> 00:53:12.655
I'm gonna drop this in the chat for you,

826
00:53:13.115 --> 00:53:16.335
Jeff here. Alright. Everyone else have access to that too.

827
00:53:16.635 --> 00:53:21.460
Yeah. Alright. Yeah. Here. Let's go with our friend, Roger. How are you doing, Roger? Good evening.

828
00:53:21.460 --> 00:53:27.320
So, can you hear me on the mic? Yeah. I can. Thank you for being patient there. Oh, no. That's fine.

829
00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:28.200
Thank you.

830
00:53:29.060 --> 00:53:30.760
We set up with you,

831
00:53:31.140 --> 00:53:32.340
a couple months ago,

832
00:53:33.275 --> 00:53:35.375
and brought over 1,700,

833
00:53:36.395 --> 00:53:38.575
folks from, the wild apricot

834
00:53:38.955 --> 00:53:39.455
folks

835
00:53:39.835 --> 00:53:42.955
and brought it in, and everything seems to be working really well.

836
00:53:43.275 --> 00:53:45.115
We're pretty happy with it, and it's,

837
00:53:45.595 --> 00:53:47.090
functioning quite well.

838
00:53:47.390 --> 00:53:51.330
But the one of the features that they've asked me to help set up, and I I

839
00:53:51.710 --> 00:53:56.370
haven't had the chance to ask you if if this is possible with yours, but they

840
00:53:56.750 --> 00:54:03.675
their other site that they had when someone became a member, they could print a membership card from the site

841
00:54:03.975 --> 00:54:07.355
so they can print their own once once they signed up and paid,

842
00:54:08.135 --> 00:54:14.075
they would give them it's more I'm I'm assuming it's just more or less a JPEG that's, prefilled out,

843
00:54:14.769 --> 00:54:20.150
you know, with the data from their sign up. And where do you have something like that that you

844
00:54:20.690 --> 00:54:22.230
can do within the software?

845
00:54:22.690 --> 00:54:24.150
It's gonna have to be a workaround.

846
00:54:24.769 --> 00:54:25.269
Mhmm.

847
00:54:26.289 --> 00:54:29.990
What data was on that card exactly? They're obviously, their

848
00:54:30.474 --> 00:54:31.535
logo or photo,

849
00:54:32.075 --> 00:54:36.974
their name or company name, the date the member member since, I'm assuming like a customer.

850
00:54:37.994 --> 00:54:46.849
Probably their membership ID number, their name and ID number could be, and then maybe their date that, the card is valid till or something like that.

851
00:54:47.150 --> 00:54:49.890
Because it's so they can have either a one year membership

852
00:54:50.190 --> 00:54:53.329
or a lifetime membership. They can buy one or the other.

853
00:54:53.710 --> 00:54:54.210
Gotcha.

854
00:54:55.550 --> 00:54:57.170
Okay. There isn't anything

855
00:54:57.950 --> 00:54:58.450
default.

856
00:55:00.155 --> 00:55:00.655
How,

857
00:55:02.555 --> 00:55:06.255
let me think. I was I forgot to I forgot to take a screenshot

858
00:55:06.714 --> 00:55:11.295
of it, you know, before we dump the site off and went on with you folks. And

859
00:55:11.675 --> 00:55:14.255
I regret that now that I missed out not

860
00:55:15.069 --> 00:55:20.450
snapping a shot of that for you. But but it really doesn't have to be much. It's just their logo

861
00:55:20.990 --> 00:55:22.530
and their and their name,

862
00:55:23.390 --> 00:55:23.950
and then

863
00:55:24.670 --> 00:55:25.170
Gotcha.

864
00:55:26.349 --> 00:55:29.089
The let me go somewhere real quick here. Mhmm.

865
00:55:29.275 --> 00:55:41.055
And I want I want to I'm I'm thinking this has come up it doesn't come up too frequently because physical membership cards are fewer and far between at this point it's more for like students and things like that but it is still a thing.

866
00:55:42.235 --> 00:55:44.095
You know what I'm thinking is

867
00:55:44.859 --> 00:55:45.359
darn.

868
00:55:46.300 --> 00:55:52.000
You know that right here at the top of their page you got their their picture and their name.

869
00:55:53.420 --> 00:55:56.000
See another thing you can do is you can use Zapier

870
00:55:56.715 --> 00:55:58.575
and I'm I'm betting there's

871
00:55:59.035 --> 00:56:02.495
some way to send the member data to a tool that can create

872
00:56:02.875 --> 00:56:03.855
membership cards.

873
00:56:04.395 --> 00:56:05.375
Oh okay.

874
00:56:05.835 --> 00:56:10.660
Yeah so like you just port the data and then the other tool will create the membership cards.

875
00:56:10.660 --> 00:56:16.280
However, it has come up enough where I think we may wanna make it an add on that's part of the VIP add ons club.

876
00:56:16.580 --> 00:56:17.400
Mhmm. And

877
00:56:17.700 --> 00:56:18.680
where I feel,

878
00:56:20.020 --> 00:56:23.720
we can add it to would be let me go here.

879
00:56:24.275 --> 00:56:31.415
Similar to how we have the QR code in the member dashboard as an option is if you have this add on you can decide if you want to provide

880
00:56:31.795 --> 00:56:36.910
a membership card to your members. The the difficulty becomes let me ask you another question. Mhmm.

881
00:56:37.470 --> 00:56:38.690
With their other platform,

882
00:56:38.990 --> 00:56:46.210
how much control did they have over the design of this automated card that was created besides the default data that was on it?

883
00:56:46.350 --> 00:56:49.070
That is a good question. I never asked them that.

884
00:56:49.870 --> 00:56:50.370
I

885
00:56:50.975 --> 00:56:56.095
I I could reach back to you on that. I'm still working with them getting the site finished.

886
00:56:56.095 --> 00:56:57.875
We've got it mostly completed.

887
00:56:58.975 --> 00:57:00.115
So I don't know

888
00:57:00.895 --> 00:57:03.490
what kind of control they had on it. Gotcha.

889
00:57:04.030 --> 00:57:05.730
If you don't mind Yeah.

890
00:57:05.950 --> 00:57:18.675
I was gonna say if you can post in the Facebook group a discussion and and then maybe ask the group, maybe someone else in the BD Communities that has anyone created the ability for members to print membership cards in their directory and maybe put a sample image of what you're

891
00:57:19.235 --> 00:57:22.455
after. What I'd like to do is also take a look at that post

892
00:57:22.755 --> 00:57:26.135
because what I'm thinking is if we can turn it into a tool,

893
00:57:26.835 --> 00:57:32.455
where the member when they log into their dashboard area, if you choose to enable it for a membership plan,

894
00:57:32.790 --> 00:57:37.530
they basically get kind of like a rectangle here and a print button and it would print

895
00:57:37.990 --> 00:57:43.130
print it on a card size you know whatever a credit card size is that's how it'll come out of their printer.

896
00:57:43.670 --> 00:57:44.170
Okay.

897
00:57:44.885 --> 00:57:45.385
But,

898
00:57:46.005 --> 00:57:47.625
I don't think it's terribly difficult.

899
00:57:47.765 --> 00:57:52.484
I just think it just requires a little bit of of of a focus on it for a little bit.

900
00:57:52.484 --> 00:57:57.045
But if you can post it in the Facebook group, I'll take a look and maybe someone in the community has achieved that.

901
00:57:57.045 --> 00:57:59.680
Sure. Okay. Yeah. Because I I do,

902
00:58:00.140 --> 00:58:01.579
99.9%

903
00:58:01.579 --> 00:58:03.039
of my websites are WordPress,

904
00:58:03.579 --> 00:58:09.579
and yours is, one of the first, out of the box sites that I've and it's it's been fun.

905
00:58:09.579 --> 00:58:11.915
It's been a challenge because it's so different from WordPress.

906
00:58:11.915 --> 00:58:18.955
But with WordPress, I can go find a plug in and then drop it in and do the design work myself and and then just hook it up.

907
00:58:18.955 --> 00:58:22.655
So it it's just a post, in other words, is all it would be in in WordPress.

908
00:58:23.515 --> 00:58:32.490
We'd create a post when they signed up and then it would, then you can just design the post and what content you want in the post and how it goes.

909
00:58:33.270 --> 00:58:34.810
Well well, now

910
00:58:35.430 --> 00:58:38.730
you could do that with now that you're mentioning it that way,

911
00:58:40.065 --> 00:58:48.565
now that the what's coming up next month or the end of this month is the the ability to import posts from from Zapier using the API and whatnot.

912
00:58:49.105 --> 00:58:50.964
Mhmm. Could take the member data

913
00:58:51.425 --> 00:58:52.085
and then

914
00:58:52.680 --> 00:59:03.020
import that as a post to your BD site with the images as I mentioned soon so there and then create the template for that post with the print button that would already exist on the post page.

915
00:59:03.240 --> 00:59:12.965
You just got me excited for a tip of the week topic it's a little high level but what you're basically doing is you're recycling data that's being inputted into your BD site and then

916
00:59:13.265 --> 00:59:13.905
posting it,

917
00:59:14.705 --> 00:59:16.085
you know, some as opposed,

918
00:59:16.545 --> 00:59:17.845
you know, using the API.

919
00:59:18.225 --> 00:59:21.045
But because you said you're using WordPress a lot,

920
00:59:22.210 --> 00:59:25.830
Roger this video here mastering source code changes with BD,

921
00:59:26.450 --> 00:59:29.670
it really shows you I'm going to share this with everyone here in the chat.

922
00:59:29.730 --> 00:59:33.110
It kind of shows you the basic logic of how widgets work

923
00:59:33.570 --> 00:59:41.385
and where you can edit certain parts of your BD site with regards to, to page templates and post templates and things like that.

924
00:59:41.385 --> 00:59:42.525
You don't need to edit

925
00:59:42.825 --> 00:59:46.605
PHP files through FTP. Everything's done in the admin area.

926
00:59:46.984 --> 00:59:48.825
So I shared that link with you there.

927
00:59:48.825 --> 00:59:55.670
And I do look forward to you posting that in the Facebook group as well and and, maybe we could find several workarounds for this ID card thing.

928
00:59:55.809 --> 00:59:57.329
Okay. Well that would be good.

929
00:59:57.329 --> 01:00:03.924
I'll, I will watch for that and I will, try to get that post in for you over there. So Okay. Okay.

930
01:00:03.924 --> 01:00:08.825
Well, thanks so much for your help. Likewise. Thank you. Bye bye. Alright. Fun stuff there.

931
01:00:08.885 --> 01:00:11.845
And we got a good friend, Lawrence. You've had your hand up for a moment.

932
01:00:11.845 --> 01:00:14.265
Thank you for your patience. How you doing, Lawrence?

933
01:00:14.805 --> 01:00:16.825
Hey. So it's actually Lawrence's son.

934
01:00:17.650 --> 01:00:22.450
You know, he's kinda busy right now, so he's having me, like, take over the websites and put work on them, whatever he needs.

935
01:00:22.450 --> 01:00:24.390
But, I just have one question.

936
01:00:25.010 --> 01:00:26.550
With designing the websites,

937
01:00:27.090 --> 01:00:34.805
there's a banner on the lower side of the homepage that I cannot find anywhere in the design settings or anything, and I cannot change the banners, and I have no idea.

938
01:00:35.105 --> 01:00:37.585
What's your site? Let's take a look at it together. Alright.

939
01:00:37.585 --> 01:00:39.605
It's the Broward County Chamber of Commerce.

940
01:00:39.985 --> 01:00:45.285
Alright. Let's take a look together here. Alright. You said there's a banner if we scroll down.

941
01:00:45.505 --> 01:00:49.050
Yeah. Right here. So if you go up a little bit, go up a little bit. Right there.

942
01:00:49.050 --> 01:00:50.990
Those four banners down. Yeah. Sorry.

943
01:00:51.450 --> 01:00:52.190
These guys.

944
01:00:52.570 --> 01:00:53.070
Nope.

945
01:00:53.370 --> 01:00:55.070
Little bit more down. Okay.

946
01:00:55.370 --> 01:00:58.910
These guys. Right there. Yep. Those ones. Okay. Gotcha.

947
01:00:59.290 --> 01:01:04.385
And you wanna remove them? Yeah. Or actually replace them with different ones. Got you.

948
01:01:04.445 --> 01:01:07.185
Let me show you. Let's identify where that's at together.

949
01:01:08.525 --> 01:01:10.705
If we go to your design settings here

950
01:01:11.085 --> 01:01:12.705
and we can see here

951
01:01:13.325 --> 01:01:16.145
there's a lot of custom homepage content here.

952
01:01:16.445 --> 01:01:20.810
The majority of it is. It's gonna be one of one of these here.

953
01:01:20.810 --> 01:01:24.430
So if we go to design settings homepage you're probably familiar with this a bit.

954
01:01:24.650 --> 01:01:30.990
So we have hero divider, custom content one, two, okay we have featured members and we have articles

955
01:01:31.825 --> 01:01:37.605
so it's either gonna it's probably gonna be custom content one or two. Let's open up two here.

956
01:01:37.985 --> 01:01:39.845
Let's actually see here edit this

957
01:01:40.545 --> 01:01:41.925
and there it is right here.

958
01:01:42.225 --> 01:01:43.585
I see now. Alright.

959
01:01:43.585 --> 01:01:50.700
And I make that the only thing in there so custom content too, you can, you know, you can delete you can delete it,

960
01:01:51.240 --> 01:01:56.040
keep it. I can keep it here for you just for now, and you can come and modify it as needed. Yeah.

961
01:01:56.040 --> 01:02:00.674
That sounds good. That was the only question I had. Thank you. Only question? Alright.

962
01:02:00.815 --> 01:02:01.775
Well, we love Lawrence.

963
01:02:01.775 --> 01:02:06.415
He's been with BD for a while, so glad to hear that you're helping him out there. Yeah. For sure.

964
01:02:06.415 --> 01:02:10.835
Alright. I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Alright. Good stuff there from Lawrence two point o.

965
01:02:11.135 --> 01:02:15.830
And, alright, we got a good friend, Brian b, on the line. How you doing, Brian? Pretty good. And

966
01:02:16.130 --> 01:02:17.190
you? Pretty good.

967
01:02:17.650 --> 01:02:18.930
I have a question about,

968
01:02:19.490 --> 01:02:21.030
smart lists real quick.

969
01:02:21.970 --> 01:02:25.270
What I'm trying to do is I go to my member search. Right?

970
01:02:25.570 --> 01:02:26.230
And then

971
01:02:26.770 --> 01:02:29.750
I will, like, filter it down by membership type.

972
01:02:30.210 --> 01:02:35.484
I have, like, a bunch of different types of accounts and everything, and they're all, like, claim listings.

973
01:02:35.945 --> 01:02:37.484
What I wanna do is,

974
01:02:38.744 --> 01:02:43.085
have a smart list that excludes my at domainname.com

975
01:02:43.299 --> 01:02:44.119
in a smart

976
01:02:44.660 --> 01:02:51.160
list. So that way it keeps as I'm adding more, if it sees that because I always do, like, the,

977
01:02:51.859 --> 01:02:54.680
membership ID at domain dot com.

978
01:02:54.980 --> 01:02:55.480
Mhmm.

979
01:02:55.914 --> 01:02:57.694
Or an email list. Question.

980
01:02:58.234 --> 01:03:02.015
Where once it's a smart list, what are you doing with that smart list?

981
01:03:02.634 --> 01:03:03.134
Well,

982
01:03:03.434 --> 01:03:06.095
I want to basically send out a newsletter,

983
01:03:07.115 --> 01:03:13.080
or an email to everyone in that smart list, but I want it to keep going and keep going and keep going,

984
01:03:14.580 --> 01:03:15.880
from that smart list,

985
01:03:16.420 --> 01:03:16.900
basically.

986
01:03:16.900 --> 01:03:22.360
I'm I'm trying to get people to claim their their listings, basically, send out an email like that.

987
01:03:22.535 --> 01:03:25.095
Gotcha. I have I have good news for you.

988
01:03:25.895 --> 01:03:26.395
We

989
01:03:26.695 --> 01:03:30.155
I don't want to put an exact timeline but within the next sixty days.

990
01:03:30.535 --> 01:03:31.035
Okay.

991
01:03:31.575 --> 01:03:36.155
Is is my personal target for this. We're gonna allow you to send newsletters

992
01:03:36.560 --> 01:03:42.900
and instead of only selecting the smart list you want it to go to is have a secondary section to

993
01:03:43.200 --> 01:03:46.900
also exclude anyone who may be in other smart lists.

994
01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:53.135
So you can then create a smart list of anyone who has an email address in your dot com email

995
01:03:53.515 --> 01:03:54.735
and select exclude.

996
01:03:55.195 --> 01:04:02.280
So then even if they're part of the main smart list, if they're part of the exclude list, they'll be skipped over when the newsletter is being sent.

997
01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:07.580
So you can then search for email addresses at you knowmydomain.com

998
01:04:08.200 --> 01:04:17.020
create a smart list of that and set those to exclude from your newsletter and I understand why you want to do that one you don't want to waste your your email sending limit

999
01:04:17.505 --> 01:04:19.444
Mhmm. But then also, it's,

1000
01:04:19.984 --> 01:04:21.265
well, actually, that's the main things.

1001
01:04:21.265 --> 01:04:24.164
And then you're not emailing yourself a ton of times as well.

1002
01:04:25.265 --> 01:04:29.525
So you'll be able to to do an exclude on that. Actually, we also,

1003
01:04:29.904 --> 01:04:33.560
just got a message from Matt, the cofounder and CTO here.

1004
01:04:33.720 --> 01:04:38.300
If it's just a normal newsletter that's being sent out, there is an advanced option in there

1005
01:04:38.600 --> 01:04:40.620
to not send that newsletter

1006
01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:45.500
to the same domain. So that would be the domain of the to emails on the domain of the website.

1007
01:04:46.035 --> 01:04:47.954
So when you do that though, like,

1008
01:04:48.595 --> 01:04:50.295
does it keep checking for

1009
01:04:50.595 --> 01:04:53.974
for new sign ups and all that, like, when you're sending the newsletter?

1010
01:04:54.115 --> 01:04:56.934
Because normally once the newsletter is done, it's done. Right?

1011
01:04:57.234 --> 01:05:01.620
Oh, you well, what you there's a few set David, thank you for that. Matt, thank you for that.

1012
01:05:01.700 --> 01:05:06.160
So here's the where you schedule the current method for scheduling newsletters. Mhmm.

1013
01:05:07.140 --> 01:05:07.640
So

1014
01:05:08.020 --> 01:05:09.140
there's three settings here.

1015
01:05:09.140 --> 01:05:17.480
So if you're gonna send the same email over and over again, you can choose if you wanna email people even if they received this email template before.

1016
01:05:17.994 --> 01:05:23.535
Okay. So that could be helpful for you. This is what you're after. Do not send to same domain email.

1017
01:05:23.675 --> 01:05:27.295
So that's anyone that matches your domain name. Don't send them the email.

1018
01:05:27.755 --> 01:05:30.655
I currently use that one, but I was just

1019
01:05:31.089 --> 01:05:33.829
kinda curious on, like I mean, it says

1020
01:05:34.210 --> 01:05:35.589
email even if you,

1021
01:05:36.609 --> 01:05:43.329
if a recipient has received it, but, I mean, I want the reverse of the the top one, you know? Yeah.

1022
01:05:43.329 --> 01:05:46.710
So you probably wanna uncheck this and check this.

1023
01:05:47.065 --> 01:05:54.845
And then it won't it won't resend people I can just keep doing that same list over and over and over again the same smart list then?

1024
01:05:54.985 --> 01:06:04.410
You can do the same smart list and depending on if you check this or not it'll resend the email to the same person over and over again unless you check this and

1025
01:06:04.710 --> 01:06:19.185
it won't send it in that batch it won't send the email to that person if you check this so it only send it to people who've never received that email from you so you really do have a lot of control with this one here And then I guess once they do sign up they're gonna get moved out of my claim

1026
01:06:19.725 --> 01:06:24.365
so they won't get it if they join. Right? So that's basically the thing.

1027
01:06:24.365 --> 01:06:25.585
They'll they'll like disappear.

1028
01:06:26.125 --> 01:06:27.180
So Yeah.

1029
01:06:27.339 --> 01:06:32.640
Right right they're not so if your smart list is going to be people of a certain membership plan when they claim that listing

1030
01:06:32.940 --> 01:06:44.075
they'll be they've now selected another one of your membership plans so they're going to automatically be moved out of that smart list So I guess the the best way for them to stop getting my emails is to pay me and join.

1031
01:06:44.075 --> 01:06:44.575
Right?

1032
01:06:45.355 --> 01:06:46.575
To pay you and join,

1033
01:06:47.195 --> 01:06:49.855
be careful. There's there's an unsubscribe button there.

1034
01:06:50.235 --> 01:06:55.880
Yeah. You know, or they can hit spam on their inbox. So I would I would, I would do it tastefully.

1035
01:06:56.099 --> 01:07:00.260
Number one, the reminders and and incentivize them and also do it,

1036
01:07:00.980 --> 01:07:05.640
you know, periodically, not not too frequently. Make sure you're you're aware of your frequency.

1037
01:07:06.099 --> 01:07:06.339
Yeah.

1038
01:07:06.339 --> 01:07:13.405
I'm I'm just trying to let me tell you something else that you can do instead of just hammering away at them to sign up to your site

1039
01:07:14.905 --> 01:07:15.405
is

1040
01:07:16.025 --> 01:07:20.605
send emails that like indirectly motivate them like spotlight another member

1041
01:07:21.230 --> 01:07:22.829
who may be in a certain category.

1042
01:07:22.829 --> 01:07:29.730
So you might wanna split your claim listing people based on the category they're in and highlight again, I'll just use a lawyer example.

1043
01:07:29.869 --> 01:07:31.970
Highlight a lawyer in one of your newsletters

1044
01:07:32.670 --> 01:07:36.105
or, you know, and maybe create a little bit of FOMO with them.

1045
01:07:37.145 --> 01:07:49.005
So you kinda you can stay in touch with them tastefully with sending, like, newsletters that kinda peak their interest and how do I get involved with what this website's doing rather than just hammering them with sign up sign up sign up sign up.

1046
01:07:49.065 --> 01:07:49.565
Gotcha.

1047
01:07:49.950 --> 01:07:54.190
Yeah. I I wasn't trying to, like, hammer because I only got, like, a thousand a day. Right?

1048
01:07:54.190 --> 01:08:07.075
So I just I just kinda wanted to, like, you know, as I'm adding their emails in there because I'm going around getting, like, business cards and emails and stuff like that, and people are sending me their emails and stuff like that.

1049
01:08:07.075 --> 01:08:09.015
So I'm basically gonna

1050
01:08:09.315 --> 01:08:12.295
put their email on there and then just kinda send it out

1051
01:08:12.595 --> 01:08:17.175
and when they get the email and then kind of a thing letting them know that we're here, basically.

1052
01:08:17.750 --> 01:08:21.689
Well that sounds like a quality list of people rather than just like random

1053
01:08:22.149 --> 01:08:28.010
data that you've added to your site so those are even more high value contacts so you should nurture them accordingly.

1054
01:08:28.069 --> 01:08:33.005
So that sounds that's good that's that's a good quality list of people then. Thanks a lot. Alright.

1055
01:08:33.005 --> 01:08:36.925
Great stuff. Good luck with you, Brian. Thank you. Alright. Good stuff there.

1056
01:08:36.925 --> 01:08:42.604
And we're just going into overtime here, guys. We've got Gordon here. How you doing, Gordon? Hello.

1057
01:08:42.604 --> 01:08:47.320
Hi. Can you hear me? I can. Where are you calling in from, Gordon? I'm I'm calling from Panama.

1058
01:08:47.780 --> 01:08:50.520
Oh, I'm going to Panama in May. Alright.

1059
01:08:51.620 --> 01:08:52.120
Great.

1060
01:08:52.580 --> 01:08:53.720
Yeah. Welcome.

1061
01:08:54.180 --> 01:08:58.885
Alright. What's your question, Jose? I'm I'm just I'm just starting out, and I'm,

1062
01:09:00.005 --> 01:09:02.185
just developing the the site,

1063
01:09:02.564 --> 01:09:03.865
even though I had the,

1064
01:09:04.325 --> 01:09:07.465
the the the the modules for for many years.

1065
01:09:08.005 --> 01:09:14.689
I I just wanna open a business directory that covers Central America. So it's it's seven countries.

1066
01:09:15.630 --> 01:09:17.489
Is there a way to restrict,

1067
01:09:18.750 --> 01:09:19.250
the,

1068
01:09:20.109 --> 01:09:20.929
the subscription

1069
01:09:21.710 --> 01:09:23.090
and also the search,

1070
01:09:23.710 --> 01:09:24.750
when you look for,

1071
01:09:25.835 --> 01:09:28.715
cities and towns to be restricted to the five countries.

1072
01:09:28.715 --> 01:09:34.575
At the moment, I can see that the options is either it's it's one country or global. There's no

1073
01:09:34.955 --> 01:09:36.095
option to select,

1074
01:09:37.515 --> 01:09:38.015
countries.

1075
01:09:38.719 --> 01:09:41.460
That's that's right. So if we go to search settings,

1076
01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:46.340
what he's looking at here is let me see where that is. Is it under localization?

1077
01:09:46.960 --> 01:09:47.939
Yes. Correct.

1078
01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:49.060
Okay.

1079
01:09:50.239 --> 01:09:52.395
Here it is. Location search suggestions.

1080
01:09:52.395 --> 01:10:00.335
So the way Google's API works and we've what we've been able to do as far as limiting limiting limiting it, excuse me, to

1081
01:10:00.635 --> 01:10:07.270
searching all of the world or just a primary country that is set a little higher up here of your site.

1082
01:10:07.270 --> 01:10:10.010
The primary country in this case is United States Of America.

1083
01:10:10.630 --> 01:10:11.770
When this is set

1084
01:10:12.790 --> 01:10:15.210
to only search within primary country,

1085
01:10:15.510 --> 01:10:17.130
let me just show everyone example,

1086
01:10:17.990 --> 01:10:21.210
this is a good question by the way. Let's go to the site here

1087
01:10:21.555 --> 01:10:25.815
and let's search for Paris now. So we don't we're not going to see Paris, France anymore.

1088
01:10:26.835 --> 01:10:30.935
Let's see here that took a second here. So we're seeing Paris, Texas, Paris, California.

1089
01:10:31.074 --> 01:10:32.135
It's only searching

1090
01:10:32.675 --> 01:10:33.815
within that country.

1091
01:10:34.580 --> 01:10:46.755
Unfortunately Gordon there isn't a way to choose multiple countries and only search within those as of right now you may want to search the marketplace and see if a developer has a workaround for that

1092
01:10:47.235 --> 01:10:50.614
However, what I would recommend doing when you can't

1093
01:10:50.915 --> 01:10:52.614
functionally do the restriction

1094
01:10:53.315 --> 01:10:53.815
is

1095
01:10:54.275 --> 01:10:54.775
contextually

1096
01:10:55.315 --> 01:10:58.295
do the the, the function meaning

1097
01:10:59.010 --> 01:10:59.990
around your website

1098
01:11:00.370 --> 01:11:05.270
really hammer away on your home page and the sign up page that this is a site for searching

1099
01:11:05.650 --> 01:11:06.470
these countries.

1100
01:11:06.930 --> 01:11:13.990
On the sign up page you can have a little note that this site is dedicated to businesses serving these countries.

1101
01:11:14.445 --> 01:11:17.665
Listings that are out of these countries will be immediately deleted,

1102
01:11:18.925 --> 01:11:21.585
and things like that. So you can add friendly alerts.

1103
01:11:22.125 --> 01:11:27.825
And then also, again, on the home page and wherever else you're asking people to conduct searches,

1104
01:11:28.240 --> 01:11:34.500
just really let remind them of the countries that are there are available to search so using content

1105
01:11:35.600 --> 01:11:36.900
and content cues

1106
01:11:37.280 --> 01:11:38.260
to really direct

1107
01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:43.595
the visitors and what they're searching as well as kind of trying to mitigate

1108
01:11:44.055 --> 01:11:50.235
unwanted sign ups of people who are who are trying to list businesses outside of those countries.

1109
01:11:50.455 --> 01:11:54.615
Now if you do get sign ups from outside of this country is really it isn't the end of the world.

1110
01:11:54.615 --> 01:11:56.555
It's just requires a bit of moderation.

1111
01:11:57.320 --> 01:11:58.780
And speaking of moderation,

1112
01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:02.060
what you can do if you wanted to make your site,

1113
01:12:02.760 --> 01:12:04.060
have a bit of exclusivity

1114
01:12:04.440 --> 01:12:15.445
and put a little bit of red tape between the members who join, and this can allow you to maybe charge a little bit more sometimes if if it's not just free sign ups all all the way.

1115
01:12:15.685 --> 01:12:18.185
You can choose to moderate sign ups.

1116
01:12:18.645 --> 01:12:19.685
Moderate sign ups.

1117
01:12:19.685 --> 01:12:23.225
You may not want to do this but I'll just share it since we're talking about the topic.

1118
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Manually approve new sign ups so people can join your site, but it requires manual,

1119
01:12:30.440 --> 01:12:33.739
admin approval before they're visible on the website.

1120
01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:38.139
So again, that adds a little bit higher level of exclusivity.

1121
01:12:38.915 --> 01:12:43.094
It also allows you to maybe build a closer relationship with the members who are joining.

1122
01:12:43.155 --> 01:12:45.094
They feel like they're going through an application

1123
01:12:45.395 --> 01:12:49.255
process. It's not just a willy nilly sign up that anyone can do.

1124
01:12:49.475 --> 01:12:52.855
So that having that step of an application process,

1125
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makes them feel a little extra special when they do get accepted to the website and again it will keep unwanted sign ups out of your website.

1126
01:13:02.330 --> 01:13:11.045
And then last thing I just wanted to say Gordon is don't overthink it in the beginning and try to think that you need to launch with all those restrictions in place.

1127
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I would launch your site, make sure you have the content and the titles and the content queues in place that really let people know that your website is serving those seven countries and then see what happens after there.

1128
01:13:22.705 --> 01:13:31.670
There's gonna be a lot of what ifs that come up And rather than suppressing your launch and slowing it down, I would rather launch and then fix things as they come up.

1129
01:13:31.670 --> 01:13:36.469
Or they might not be problems. They could be opportunities that arise as well. Thank you.

1130
01:13:36.469 --> 01:13:37.290
Great advice.

1131
01:13:37.795 --> 01:13:38.295
Alright.

1132
01:13:38.595 --> 01:13:40.995
Thank you for that and good luck with you. Join us in another webinar.

1133
01:13:40.995 --> 01:13:45.815
Let us know the progress on your site. Thank you. Alright. Good stuff there, Jordan from Panama.

1134
01:13:46.035 --> 01:13:49.950
And with that, guys, I don't see any more hands up. We did a super overtime today.

1135
01:13:50.110 --> 01:13:53.810
Before you guys leave, I still see a bunch of people here on the webinar which is awesome.

1136
01:13:54.190 --> 01:14:00.050
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1137
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1138
01:14:01.470 --> 01:14:04.405
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1139
01:14:04.405 --> 01:14:08.585
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1140
01:14:08.645 --> 01:14:10.505
So we're gonna do back to back webinars

1141
01:14:11.045 --> 01:14:11.784
next week

1142
01:14:12.165 --> 01:14:17.225
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1143
01:14:17.640 --> 01:14:24.540
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1144
01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:29.500
This has been an amazing webinar. So much fun. Thank you guys for your questions.

1145
01:14:29.885 --> 01:14:32.545
We hope that we were able to help a lot of you out today.

1146
01:14:32.685 --> 01:14:37.905
On behalf of myself David and the entire Brilliant Directories family, we love you guys.

1147
01:14:37.965 --> 01:14:42.945
It's been great. We'll see you in two weeks. Have a great day and a brilliant week. Bye bye guys.