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Welcome to another edition of Webinar Wednesday.

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I am Jason there on the left, and we are always lucky to be joined by David Rockland, the digital strategist strategist here and so much more at Brilliant Directories.

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David, thanks for taking the time to join us today.

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And also for 2024, we have some updated webinar slides. So, thank you for that as well.

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Hey, everybody. So glad to be back with you for the first webinar of 2024.

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Yeah, I got some refreshed slides here. Hope you guys like them. A little bit fresher looking.

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Also got some great updates to share with you all for some stuff that's coming soon.

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And, of course, always, looking forward to answering,

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the first questions that you guys have for us, this year.

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Yeah, we should definitely have some time for some good Q and A.

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So, if you have questions about your site, you need a little help, strategy or technical wise, we'll do our best to get to as many questions as we can.

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And a plus here today is we are streaming live on YouTube.

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One of the benefits of that is the replay will be immediately available and we'll post it in the Facebook group.

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But we do encourage you to subscribe to the Brilliant Directories YouTube channel.

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You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/

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youtube.

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You'll have the live streams of the webinars there, the replays,

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any tutor tutorial videos that we, upload, and you'll get notified as soon as those are available.

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And as we mentioned, the replay of this webinar will be immediately available in the BD Facebook group.

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If you're not a member there, you can join us, brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook.

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I think we're we just surpassed about 12,000

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members in there. Lots of good questions in there. A lot of seasoned, BDers in there.

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Ryan, I know you're in there helping a lot of people, so thank you.

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And a lot of new people are joining in there trying to explore the platform

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and asking questions. So,

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it's not only for technical questions.

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You can ask questions about growth strategies, marketing ideas, or just share what's working for you as well.

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It's a really positive community.

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And I myself am in there as well that with the BD ers and it's a really fun group to join.

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So look forward to seeing you guys there.

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And we have a good handful of new names and faces joining the webinar. Welcome to the BD family.

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It's great to have you guys with us. Just a little bit about webinar Wednesday.

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We try to keep things light and it's really a great way for us to showcase and share with you some of the newer features built into the platform,

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specifically the ones that can help you grow your community a bit faster.

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We cover topics such as increasing website traffic,

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converting website visitors into free or paying members.

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One of my favorites is improving your website's navigation that has a big impact on sites and the user experience.

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So, if you have questions on any of these topics or anything else about your BD site,

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please save them and we will do our best to get to your questions today.

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And moving right along, we have a handful

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of pretty good BD lab updates. I think

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they'll add some usefulness

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to your sites.

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And I'll just start right at the top there with the first one, the ability to segment members.

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You can now search members in the admin area

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based on if they are a individual or a company status.

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So this will be a little bit more helpful when you're trying to segment members creating your smart list.

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Let me show you where that is in the admin area. All right. Great. So here we are in the admin area.

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I'll just go to the search members page.

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And over here you'll see a new drop down here. There are quite a few search options here.

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It's called a member type.

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And as you know, when members join your site, they can classify themselves as a company.

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So on their profile page, it won't necessarily show their first and last name because they might just be a representative of the company.

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Let's say Coca Cola joins your site.

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The person managing the account isn't gonna be on the site, but Coca Cola's company name will be.

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Or if it's a personal or individual, maybe it's a law, it's a lawyer,

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as opposed to a law firm. So those would be the cases

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when people would use that. But now you can search.

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And one of my favorite things is you can segment them.

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You can export them or create a smart list for better marketing and targeting.

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We have a few more filters coming here next month. We'll talk about that and what's coming soon.

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Alright. This next one is related to Zapier, Zapier, however you pronounce it. And

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just to get ahead of it, we will be update making this update with Pabbly and Integrately shortly after probably mid February.

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They're just always a little behind than Zapier.

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But now you have the ability to create

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member reviews from third party sources.

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So more recently with Zapier, you had the ability to create users,

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create leads, create posts from third party sources, or if you have an Excel list.

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Now you can do the same for member reviews. You would,

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find the source of the reviews and then attribute them and upload them to the site, attribute them to a member,

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and add it to their profile on your brilliant directory site.

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So this is a great way if you are collecting reviews, maybe from third party forms or you have reviews from another data source, you can pin them to a member and add them to your BD site a whole lot easily now.

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This next one here is kinda related to design on the member profile pages.

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We know when a member has like events and coupons and,

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blog posts and things like that, property listings. There's a tab that shows on their profile page,

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for that content. And you can always choose the order of those tabs.

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You can choose for your site which tab will be number one, two, three, or four.

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Now there's an option to hide the post tab on the profile page.

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Maybe you don't want those posts attributed or shown on member profile pages.

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Let me show you where you can, hide those now.

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And I think it would be helpful if I show you what I'm referring to first.

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So Let's look at somebody's profile page that has

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some content on it. Just a moment here.

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and then we'll hide the events tab. Here we can see articles, events, properties, videos.

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Let's say for the sake of argument, you didn't want events on the members profile pages, but you still wanted them to post it and you're showcasing it in another section of your site.

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So here we can go to edit post settings

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under the my content section

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and we're going to search for events in this example

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and we'll hit edit.

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And once this loads up, we'll toggle over to the profile page design tab.

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And here we have the tab order, the profile page tab order.

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So if the if the post type is going to exist on the member's profile page, this is the tab order.

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So if we scroll all the way to the bottom now, we'll see hide on profile pages and we'll hit save changes.

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we can see the events is now

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hidden and gone from here.

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So just a little bit more control for you guys if you guys are treating specific types of posts in a certain way on your site.

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This next one here is also related to posts. I'm a huge fan of this one.

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We recently introduced the ability to search stock photos in the admin area when you're creating web pages.

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Everyone has access to those.

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Then for the front end of your site,

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we released an add on,

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stock photos for posts.

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And we've been introducing different stock photo libraries.

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But actually this is something we previewed in the previous webinar but now it has been released.

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You can actually select stock photos when you're creating blog articles

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to set the feature image. And let me show you why this is so useful.

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We'll do this real quick together. So,

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before we go further, let me share the add on that I'm referring to.

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And then I'll show you how to enable this setting since you may need to enable it.

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Stock photo library for posts.

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I'll just drop this in the chat.

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You guys can take a look at it later if you're not familiar with it.

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Couple of things that we want to do. Let's start fresh from the dashboard.

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I'm not going to get into all the details, but because this is a new feature, let me show you how to enable it.

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If you have the add on, go to your advanced settings and just search for the word stock.

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Over here you'll have some checkboxes and the one you're going to want to make sure to check based on what I'm gonna show you now is the enable for post feature images.

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And I'll show you what the post feature image is. You may wanna just enable it for all of it.

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It's useful for your members. It's gonna help them create and add more content to your site

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more easily and it's tons of fun to use as well.

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So let's assume that you've got the enable for post feature images. It's checkmarked here.

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Now let's go to create an article.

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I'm logged in as a member here and I want to post a community article. And I already did one

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here. So let's say we want to write an article on why dogs

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or whatever it might be.

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So now if I wanted to add an image here, I'd have to go search the Internet or I have to have something on my computer already.

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And especially for members, not just the owner of this site, it could become cumbersome, time consuming,

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but now it is available.

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You can search stock photos as opposed to finding an image on the internet, saving it to your computer, uploading it here, and that whole workflow.

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So let's just search stock photos.

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versus dogs. We'll search the Pexels library.

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And also the orientation, in this case, we want horizontal.

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And let's actually do dogs versus cats.

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Saw some better options with that earlier. Oh, same options here. Let's actually

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just choose an image here and we'll download it.

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And now we have an image right away of dogs playing with cats.

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And if we have the ChatGPT add on, we can just say, write an article

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why dogs are better than cats.

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And if we wait about five or ten seconds, we can also give it more instructions, the tone to use, use subheadings,

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do it from a scientific perspective. We can tell Chat GPT pretty much anything.

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So I wrote a few paragraphs here on why dogs are better than cats. And

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we are good to go. We can tag it up. We can add more images. We can add links here.

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So it's pretty useful here and a quick way to add content to your site now.

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So stock photos for the feature image.

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And that's the image that is pinned to the article that shows in the search results on the homepage and more.

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Alright. This last one is more kind of like a security.

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So if you're adding,

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users to, as admin users to your site to work on your site,

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maybe they're staff members or developers you're you're hiring.

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Now when you invite someone, you send an invite and they accept the invite or when you remove them from the site, all those instances are going to be shown in the website's admin activity tracker.

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So you as the website admin have some visual

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on some of the activity as far as who's being added and removed

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to your site. And if somebody, another staff member is doing those

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just a little bit of helpful tracking there.

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You kind of have a little more visual on who's being added and removed from your site.

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And it's being stored in the activity tracker lock. All right. Fun stuff there.

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Let's move on over to some upcoming features. I'll breeze through these. These are pretty quick.

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The first four here at the top are really related to security of your site or preventing unwanted

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or mitigating unwanted traffic to your site.

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So there's a new add on coming soon, the ability to block traffic,

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by country. So you wanna be a little careful with this one.

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I mean, even if your site is focused on Canada or The United States or a specific country, your visitors might be traveling or elsewhere in the world.

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So you don't just want to block out every country in the world,

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but you can do that if you want.

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So your site's online, then you can choose from a list of countries and IPs visiting your site from those countries will not be able to access your site.

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There was a recommendation in a previous webinar to also make a setting

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exactly what I just mentioned, allow traffic

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only from certain countries and then block everyone else. You'll have the option to do those.

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So if you only want traffic from say 10 different countries,

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you can do that and it'll automatically block everybody else.

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So that should be available probably mid February.

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The next one here, the ability to block disposable e mail addresses.

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We're all familiar with disposable e mail addresses.

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These are kind of like burner phones for signing up to sites. It just it's a temporary email.

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It's not a person's real email address.

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Usually you don't want those types of emails signing up to your site.

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It's generally a strong indication that it's either spam or an SEO listing company just trying to create a profile on your site.

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The next one here is more for data cleanup and just making sure things are nice and tidy.

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You'll be able to search for duplicate values.

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If you want to search all members that who have the same phone number, you'll get a list of it and then maybe it's correct or maybe you need to correct it or maybe you need to remove one of the duplicate records.

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So you can choose what you want to search for.

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Same email, same last name, same company name, things like that.

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And then you'll see records that share those similar attributes and values.

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most of the time you won't need to take any action.

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But also what that's gonna be useful for is you can

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search for duplicate IP addresses.

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And if you see there's a hundred members on your site with the same IP address, that's a strong indication that the listings again are either spam or from a company who's just, you know, adding listings to your site and they're not really the type of listings you want.

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So that's gonna give you guys a little bit more

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power, empower you to moderate your sites a bit better.

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And then the next one here, searching members by IP country name. So,

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right now you can type in an IP address and you'll see the member who matches that.

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If you just want to search all the IP addresses of members who join from United States, just select United States.

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You'll see all those signed up members.

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So if you're suspicious that you're getting sign ups from an unwanted country or location and it's,

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it's becoming a problem, you can then search that country and find all the IP addresses

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for the members who joined from that country.

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So, again, just another way to empower you to mitigate unwanted sign ups.

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This next one here is actually gonna be the tip of the week newsletter that we've been talking about it for such a long time.

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We're looking for a February

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release. We're gonna give you show you a sneak peek of some of the features we've been working on.

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We feel that we owe it to you guys.

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We've been mentioning it a lot, and it is right on the cusp of being released.

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We're really excited about it.

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We're adding another stock photo library to the, to the stock photo access. It's called Unsplash.

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So that'll actually give us four stock photo libraries for BD users. We have Pixabay, Pexels,

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Giphy and then Unsplash. It'll give BD users access to over 10,000,000 images

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And then this last one here, we just decided to pull the trigger on it.

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We're probably about two months away from it, but we're really excited and wanted to make an early announcement.

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We're teaming up with a data company and we're gonna have access to millions of business records.

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and add listings to your site in one click. There will be limits on it because the data does cost.

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We're going to try to work with the company to get the best rate for BD users and also give each BD site a free small sample that they can utilize.

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But if you're looking to populate your site, you know, just so it looks seasoned, this will be a great way to do it.

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data supplier and then pass that on to b users. So we are excited about that.

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Before we move on to the tip of the week, and I know I go quickly here, guys, if you have any questions or comments about either what's newly released or what's coming soon, go ahead and feel free to raise your hand.

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I received Brian Bee's got his hand up here. How you doing, Brian? Pretty good. And you?

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Pretty good. Where are you calling in from again? I'm in Arizona right now. That's right.

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That's right. Alright. What's your question or comment for us?

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So on the, duplicate member values,

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actual address, like, the first line of the address?

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search. So what this is gonna do is you choose the attribute you want to search. For example,

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people who have the same address and then it'll just find any records that have more that have matching

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addresses in that case. So you're not searching the value sorry. You're not searching the value.

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that would have, duplicate values.

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Awesome. Okay. Cool. And I love the

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data thing that's coming as well. That's gonna be really nice. We're excited for that too.

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We're gonna create a nice interface so you can search the records.

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And, again, we're trying to work with we're gonna we're gonna start with one data company and see if we can, procure data from multiple data companies because some companies focus in different regions like The United States or Australia.

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good data for all BD users.

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Cool. Thank you. Thank you, Brian.

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All right. Good stuff there.

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Any other hands up? Feel free to ask any questions of what's released or coming soon.

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I see one more hand up. Carolyn, let me unmute your microphone.

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Can you hear me? Yes. Where are you calling in from?

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New Jersey.

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Alright. Thanks for joining the webinar. What's your question or comment?

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So my question is, for the function you discussed early

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regarding showing and hiding tabs

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on the member's profile page, You showed events as an example.

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Is it possible to set this up by membership plan? So a member with membership plan a

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can we can show tabs x.

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you know, member with membership plan b, we can show tabs x, y, and z.

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Can we set that as in the admin section? That's a great question.

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This update is just site wide to hide tabs,

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on the profile pages.

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It would just require a small snippet of code on each membership plan.

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And keep in mind if a member hasn't created events as an example, the events tab won't show on their profile page at all until they create their first public and published post.

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Got it. Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. You're welcome.

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Maybe someone has implemented a workaround for that and will also be able to take a stab at it for you as well.

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Alright. Great. I don't see any more hands up. Lots of good others.

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And thank you to the BD community. A lot of these updates, of course, are always your suggestions,

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and recommendations that you share with us. So big shout out to you guys as well.

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This is the time where I can pass the reins over to David,

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and we're gonna do a quick overview of the coming soon, the new email newsletter feature updates, for you guys to check out.

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So, David, if it's okay, I'll pass things over to you.

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Absolutely.

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So this was an update that, was kind of conceived in some decent detail probably about a year and a half ago now, but really adding a lot more functionality to the email newsletter features

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within the admin area.

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So when, you know, you're sending email blasts to, your members or newsletter subscribers, everything like that.

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So we're hoping to add a lot more useful functionality

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to the website admin area here with this.

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So some of the key features that, are gonna go along with this update.

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Again, as Jason mentioned, we're hoping to have this out within the next month or so, sometime in February.

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But some of the key features here is enhanced statistics

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based on the newsletters

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that you have sent out to certain segments, dynamic newsletter editing, so a whole refreshed,

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UI when it comes to, creating and editing and previewing,

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your email newsletters, hopefully, much more intuitive.

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that maybe you wanna go out, you know, in one week or tomorrow night or tomorrow morning.

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certain recipients based on, smart lists.

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different smart lists, and you can choose which smart lists to include

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from the newsletter that you're sending out.

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and data reporting so that you can really see what your email newsletters are doing, how they're performing.

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Maybe, you know, take some insight from that and ways to improve your newsletters moving forward.

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per newsletter. We know that's been a limitation

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for some users, depending on how many members you have, how many people you're trying to send emails to.

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So a lot of updates coming, in this update, hopefully in in the next month or so.

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And, before we show you a a quick demo of of how this is going to work, briefly going over the goals that we have with this update.

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So you can kinda know what we're hoping to, achieve when this update is pushed.

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Overall, we wanna allow you to have a more complete understanding of your website's email marketing performance.

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You know, based on those newsletters that you're sending out to, your members, email subscribers, everything like that.

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Kind of going with, the key features here, just having a more intuitive newsletter creation

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user interface as a whole,

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so that not only will it be easier to, to draft and send out newsletters,

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your newsletter drafts.

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Again, just going in the same vein as as being able to draft and send out these newsletters as quickly as possible.

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email previews, check your inbox for those email previews, just be able to do it all in one place, within the admin area.

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via smart lists. Again, that goes into being able to both include and exclude

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certain smart lists from, the recipients

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in the newsletters that you're sending out.

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big feature, with this one that, we're excited to implement.

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Also, being able to see the performance of each newsletter, again, just with more statistics

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large the total, recipient list is for a specific newsletter,

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recipients that email was delivered to, how many bounces,

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a newsletter had, how many times a newsletter was opened based on the number of recipients,

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and then also, you know, how many times, an email was clicked. So a lot of really important,

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statistics that, should give you some insight into how your newsletters are performing.

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more generally speaking here, hopefully being able to rely less on third party email marketing platforms.

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and even more statistics that than we'll be providing.

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Hopefully, you won't need to go down the rabbit hole of utilizing one of those, though, you know, such as, like, HubSpot, Infusionsoft,

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even Mailchimp, things like that. We're hoping to have, all of the really necessary features,

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included in the newsletter functionality

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with this update here.

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Yeah. This is a great list, David. Thank you for putting it together.

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And, yeah, you know, with BD, we always just wanna give you enough to be dangerous to get to get the job done,

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Just to have a little bit edge over your competitors, but being able to do it quickly

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and swiftly. So we are excited about this update. And what we can do now is we do have a demo.

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We did post a video in the Facebook group

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yesterday, but we wanted to on this webinar is for those who didn't see that yet is to see how this new newsletter system is going to work.

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And what better way to start than showing you first what the current email newsletter send newsletter system works, how that works.

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So this is how it currently works.

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you give it a nickname, you choose an email template that's from your email template bank that you have here from the library.

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done. You click save email newsletter and you send it on the next page. So

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pretty simple, pretty straightforward.

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Gets the job done. It's been working great for a long time, but it is time for a small overhaul.

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And we can start with what the table is going to look like here. So this is a test site.

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The final product of what we're showing you, the features may look a little differently, and we're doing a ton of tests on this site.

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But, just from coming here and looking at all your email newsletters, you'll have dedicated columns, as David mentioned, for your total list size, delivered, failed, open, and clicked.

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So before diving into some of the things you can do with the stats, let's actually see how scheduling a new newsletter will look like.

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So when you pop this open, and again, things might look a little different, they will be better on the final release.

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what we do now in this new method is you don't just pick an email template

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You can have a standard template for your monthly newsletters, and then you pick that as your starting point for the newsletter that you want to send.

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So this isn't working perfectly, but you'll see a demo of what that preview looks like, what the template looks like, and then you can start working on that template.

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So you can save a template for your newsletters and just keep reusing it and just change what you need to change for each newsletter send.

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Of course, you can choose who it's from. You can choose your name. You can choose the from address.

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whatever you want it to be. And then the subject line and the body is right here.

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While you're working on your newsletter, as David mentioned, we will have a preview tab.

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When you go to this preview tab, it will dynamically show a preview of what you're working on in the text editor.

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So you can work on it here and quickly toggle to the preview preview email tab and get a little sneak peek of what you're working on.

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Of course, you can always send a test email as well so you can see what it looks like on your phone, on your desktop, and so on as well.

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The next part here, which I'm super excited about, and this is actually a game changer, not many email sending platforms have this.

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of smart lists that you've created, but you can also choose to exclude

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people who might be on other lists. So if I've selected all members here to send to

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they'll be excluded

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that go out to really granular lists that you have. And over here you'll see the total of qualifying

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that might be duplicate emails,

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So this is a good number.

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And remember, it'll always be a little lower than your total because there are some emails being omitted just to make sure that people who shouldn't get them don't get them.

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And that's fine, if you're ready to go. However, usually you want to schedule for later.

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You work on the email earlier in the week or the night before, and you want it to go out the next morning.

429
00:29:52.670 --> 00:29:57.810
So you'll have a nice calendar here. You can choose the current date or a date in the future,

430
00:29:58.190 --> 00:30:01.490
and then the time that you want the email to go out.

431
00:30:01.630 --> 00:30:04.370
And what's really nice about this is this date and time

432
00:30:04.765 --> 00:30:09.485
will be synced with the website time that you've set in your general settings.

433
00:30:09.485 --> 00:30:12.125
So on this site, we're set to Los Angeles time.

434
00:30:12.285 --> 00:30:18.030
So this email will be sent at the by the date and time that is synced up with LA time.

435
00:30:18.190 --> 00:30:24.370
And that'll be the same for your site as well, whether if you're in Australia or The UK or wherever you may be.

436
00:30:24.750 --> 00:30:29.730
It will be synced up with your website's time zone. And then lastly, as David was mentioning,

437
00:30:30.325 --> 00:30:35.625
currently with the bb email sending, just because it's a legacy system, there is a limitation where,

438
00:30:35.925 --> 00:30:39.845
we had to throttle things and you can only send batches of 1,500

439
00:30:39.845 --> 00:30:40.345
emails,

440
00:30:40.885 --> 00:30:44.185
per send. With this one effectively, it will be unlimited.

441
00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:48.700
Everyone will have I think before the monthly limit was about 45,000

442
00:30:48.700 --> 00:30:54.940
emails per month you could send. So that's basically how the creating a newsletter is going to work.

443
00:30:54.940 --> 00:30:59.360
Again, my favorites is the exclude and the ability to schedule for later.

444
00:30:59.575 --> 00:31:02.955
Let's take a look at the stats together. Let's go back to the table we were at.

445
00:31:03.175 --> 00:31:05.815
So again, this is just a test site that we've been working on.

446
00:31:05.815 --> 00:31:10.075
So just to start, you'll be able to sort by the status of the newsletter.

447
00:31:10.135 --> 00:31:15.500
So if it's been scheduled but hasn't gone out yet, you might want to turn it back to draft mode.

448
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:20.279
In this case, let's look at sent emails and let's let's look at some of the sample data that we have.

449
00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:23.340
So we'll scroll down here where we can actually see some fun numbers.

450
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:26.299
And we'll just click on this newsletter here.

451
00:31:26.524 --> 00:31:30.465
So what's nice about this and what's new about this is you can see the number,

452
00:31:30.845 --> 00:31:34.784
then you can click it and you can actually see the specific email addresses

453
00:31:35.164 --> 00:31:36.225
that are included,

454
00:31:36.605 --> 00:31:42.140
in this list. And you have three columns here, the email, the smart list association,

455
00:31:42.600 --> 00:31:46.860
as long as that smart list hasn't been deleted. Here we've deleted and done some testing.

456
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:55.100
And then the status for that recipient, if they've if it's been delivered, if they opened it, if it if it failed, and I'll show you some examples of that.

457
00:31:55.505 --> 00:31:56.965
So this is really nice here.

458
00:31:57.425 --> 00:31:58.165
And also

459
00:31:58.465 --> 00:32:02.885
even better up here in the top left, you can actually toggle the different statuses.

460
00:32:02.945 --> 00:32:07.205
So if we wanna see who the email was delivered to but still unopened,

461
00:32:07.900 --> 00:32:18.640
we can toggle that and we can see six sixty seven out of fourteen fifty have still not opened this email even though it was delivered to them certified as delivered.

462
00:32:19.260 --> 00:32:23.679
What I really like about this is you can create a smart list from this.

463
00:32:23.794 --> 00:32:25.495
So you can create a sub segment

464
00:32:26.595 --> 00:32:28.434
of based on the email send stats.

465
00:32:28.434 --> 00:32:36.275
So people who didn't open this email, maybe you want to send them a follow-up email with a stronger subject line saying, hey, good morning.

466
00:32:36.275 --> 00:32:39.259
Open the email. Why didn't you open the previous email?

467
00:32:39.399 --> 00:32:47.799
And vice versa for people who open the email, maybe you wanna send them softer, a gentle reminder to take action because you know they've already viewed the contents within the email.

468
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.340
So as marketers, this gives us a lot more granular control

469
00:32:51.705 --> 00:32:55.725
and the ability to reach people based on different actions that they took

470
00:32:56.025 --> 00:32:56.845
with the emails.

471
00:32:57.625 --> 00:33:04.605
Something really important here is you're also gonna be able to see which emails failed and you'll get the reason why it failed

472
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:08.300
as well. So, you'll see if it's bounced,

473
00:33:08.840 --> 00:33:17.580
previously bounced means that you sent a newsletter in the past and the email bounced and it wasn't gonna attempt to send that, to reach that recipient again.

474
00:33:18.105 --> 00:33:22.365
It can be rejected. There's a slew of reasons why an email can get,

475
00:33:23.465 --> 00:33:28.525
can be failed. And you will see the reasons, here. Let's just click some of these here.

476
00:33:28.665 --> 00:33:30.480
I think all these are bounces. Here we go.

477
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.100
So even sometimes it'll attempt to send the email several times.

478
00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:38.960
Even here, it's attempted four times, and it was rejected four times, and then it finally bounced.

479
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:42.419
So what you can do is you'll be able to create smart lists or export this.

480
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:50.445
And you can we're gonna try to find a way if this email is associated with a member, the ability to click to that member's account so you can see who it is.

481
00:33:50.445 --> 00:33:53.185
And maybe they have a phone number since their email is not working.

482
00:33:53.325 --> 00:33:58.050
You can call them and say, like, hey, what's your correct email address? If you wanna go that far.

483
00:33:58.210 --> 00:33:59.510
And then lastly,

484
00:33:59.890 --> 00:34:02.230
let's see what's here. The spam complaints.

485
00:34:03.010 --> 00:34:03.970
So this is helpful.

486
00:34:03.970 --> 00:34:07.730
These are people who received your email and then marked it as spam in their inbox.

487
00:34:07.730 --> 00:34:08.850
That's never fun.

488
00:34:08.850 --> 00:34:13.844
But what you can do is you can create smart lists from these people and make sure that you don't, send to them again.

489
00:34:13.844 --> 00:34:14.824
They will automatically

490
00:34:15.205 --> 00:34:20.344
be disqualified from future sends, but if you just want to put these people in a bucket and maybe

491
00:34:20.725 --> 00:34:22.905
decide how you want to handle them in the future,

492
00:34:23.284 --> 00:34:29.480
usually in cases like this, you might want to send an email months later, something softer, more gentle, and things like that.

493
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:31.560
But you have some really great stats here.

494
00:34:31.560 --> 00:34:35.739
More importantly, you'll be able to create smart lists to create sub segments

495
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:37.739
based on email sends.

496
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:41.260
And again, we're all looking for a mid February,

497
00:34:41.560 --> 00:34:42.380
end of February

498
00:34:42.839 --> 00:34:46.995
release for this, and it will be available to all BD users.

499
00:34:47.535 --> 00:34:51.135
Awesome. And with that, let's pass it over to the BD family.

500
00:34:51.135 --> 00:34:57.215
If you guys have questions about your site, anything we talked about today, go ahead and use the raise your hand feature.

501
00:34:57.215 --> 00:35:01.030
We have plenty of time to get some questions here. We'll start with Kim.

502
00:35:01.030 --> 00:35:02.970
Kim, I'll unmute your microphone here.

503
00:35:03.270 --> 00:35:08.170
And, Kim, where are you calling in from today? How are you doing? Hi. I'm calling from Texas.

504
00:35:08.470 --> 00:35:09.849
Alright. Welcome to the webinar.

505
00:35:10.309 --> 00:35:14.089
Thank you. And I've been on your Facebook site. You probably know who I am.

506
00:35:16.525 --> 00:35:18.945
Anyway, I have I have a couple of questions actually.

507
00:35:19.165 --> 00:35:21.425
One of them, I like what you did with the newsletter

508
00:35:21.725 --> 00:35:25.025
that that was good. I actually sent out my first one,

509
00:35:25.565 --> 00:35:29.985
last month and well, I got, like, 23 open, so that's okay.

510
00:35:31.530 --> 00:35:36.190
But another question I had regarding that is with the AI technology,

511
00:35:37.210 --> 00:35:39.710
I noticed that we have to create our own templates.

512
00:35:40.090 --> 00:35:43.630
Can we because I actually created my own template using JetGPT.

513
00:35:45.365 --> 00:35:48.665
Is that gonna be an option that can be done within your platform?

514
00:35:49.285 --> 00:35:50.724
Yeah. Absolutely. So,

515
00:35:51.445 --> 00:35:53.525
actually, I'm I'm glad that you asked that question.

516
00:35:53.525 --> 00:35:57.065
So we're gonna be doing things in in three phases, hopefully,

517
00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:58.260
quick phases.

518
00:35:58.560 --> 00:36:01.380
The first one is this release of what we just showed you guys.

519
00:36:01.680 --> 00:36:06.580
So let me go back to edit to create a newsletter real quick. I'll just hit this.

520
00:36:07.120 --> 00:36:08.820
The second phase is

521
00:36:09.200 --> 00:36:10.660
how you edit a newsletter.

522
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.795
So we're going to make this a little more it's a little I'm a little it's a little clunky here.

523
00:36:15.795 --> 00:36:18.455
So we're going to make this a little more easier and intuitive.

524
00:36:18.515 --> 00:36:21.015
We're going to create more draggable content blocks.

525
00:36:21.315 --> 00:36:27.210
So it'll be easier for you to build newsletters from scratch or create, you know, and create your own templates and things like that.

526
00:36:27.369 --> 00:36:41.290
The third phase after we get this interface a bit nicer, the actual part where you build your your thing, is we're going to create a library of newsletters and templates that you can just pick from just like we're familiar with with some of the big name platforms out there.

527
00:36:41.290 --> 00:36:45.495
So we wanna give you guys, you know, several dozens or, you know, we'll build it over time.

528
00:36:45.495 --> 00:36:51.115
But templates, you can just pick from and then just add your logo and your images, and it'll look beautiful every time.

529
00:36:51.415 --> 00:36:54.930
Wonderful. I had one more question if you don't mind. Yes, please.

530
00:36:54.990 --> 00:37:01.150
It actually doesn't have to do with the newsletter, but I I posted this, on and I don't know if you can answer this for me.

531
00:37:01.150 --> 00:37:08.744
But I have a very, very long list on my menu of states, and I you know, it just drops all the way down the page.

532
00:37:08.744 --> 00:37:12.444
And I wanted to see, do you guys have an option to make it to where it's,

533
00:37:12.905 --> 00:37:15.885
her horizontal or something so it looks a little better,

534
00:37:16.905 --> 00:37:17.405
than

535
00:37:17.865 --> 00:37:20.365
than just dropping all the way down the page?

536
00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:23.859
Can we take a look at your site to see what you're referring to? Is that okay?

537
00:37:24.160 --> 00:37:24.660
Sure.

538
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:25.859
What's the name?

539
00:37:26.240 --> 00:37:28.660
Mycontractornetwork.com.

540
00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:33.140
Okay. Let's see if we can find that. We have your site here, and

541
00:37:33.975 --> 00:37:36.395
if we hover, I see that. That's it.

542
00:37:37.975 --> 00:37:39.115
That drives me crazy.

543
00:37:39.735 --> 00:37:41.355
May I have a couple

544
00:37:41.815 --> 00:37:42.315
suggestions

545
00:37:42.935 --> 00:37:44.475
Okay. Which may

546
00:37:45.015 --> 00:37:47.190
which may you may or may not want to do.

547
00:37:47.430 --> 00:37:51.990
When it's when the dropdown is this long, it's the kind of the usability for a user. You're right.

548
00:37:51.990 --> 00:37:57.450
It does get lost. And it's what is it? 50 states? 50 how many states? Yeah. 40? Yeah. Okay. So

549
00:37:58.310 --> 00:38:03.495
what you might want to do is just link to a static page that just has a link.

550
00:38:04.115 --> 00:38:09.735
I'll just show you real quick. So if we go if we go here and just create a page and just,

551
00:38:10.915 --> 00:38:11.415
categories.

552
00:38:11.955 --> 00:38:15.075
If you just make a page that has I guess locations would be better.

553
00:38:15.075 --> 00:38:19.320
Just has the states listed and their links, just like you have them as links. So like,

554
00:38:19.780 --> 00:38:22.900
you know, in alphabetical order, that's one option. Okay.

555
00:38:22.900 --> 00:38:25.960
So you don't even have to have the long drop down. Okay.

556
00:38:26.020 --> 00:38:30.040
The other option is I can do something for you here if you want real quick. Yeah.

557
00:38:30.565 --> 00:38:32.965
Okay. So give me one moment. Let me see what I can do.

558
00:38:32.965 --> 00:38:35.625
But let me just let me try one thing for you here,

559
00:38:36.005 --> 00:38:40.185
and see if we can we can do something for you. Change the thing here.

560
00:38:40.805 --> 00:38:45.225
I'm trying something for you here. You know, what we can do is you can do it so it like scrolls.

561
00:38:45.849 --> 00:38:47.289
Yes. That's way better.

562
00:38:47.690 --> 00:38:50.010
Where I was going. But you do

563
00:38:50.490 --> 00:38:53.930
Yeah. We still gotta move that. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's still

564
00:38:54.650 --> 00:38:57.390
I would create the page where it just links to

565
00:38:57.785 --> 00:39:00.905
where you list all the states and just go from there. Okay.

566
00:39:00.905 --> 00:39:04.745
It's it's 50 it's it's 50 different links. It's it's still gonna be hard here.

567
00:39:04.745 --> 00:39:06.185
But, yeah, I think you get what I mean. Right?

568
00:39:06.185 --> 00:39:08.905
Just create a page and I mean, even put the state's flag.

569
00:39:08.905 --> 00:39:12.905
I mean, I I did Arizona as my state report in eighth grade or something. Oh, that's a good idea.

570
00:39:12.905 --> 00:39:17.720
Okay. You know, just so it's a little visual as well. Okay. Thank you. Alright. You're welcome.

571
00:39:17.860 --> 00:39:21.800
Alright. Good question there. Alright. We got, we got a good friend Rich here.

572
00:39:22.180 --> 00:39:25.860
Hey, Jason. How's it going? Pretty good. Pretty good. How are you doing? Happy New Year. Good. Yeah.

573
00:39:25.860 --> 00:39:26.340
Same to you.

574
00:39:26.340 --> 00:39:30.092
I've been on a call here for I've been watching the recordings, but not live for a minute.

575
00:39:30.092 --> 00:39:39.659
So, well, actually, to her earlier point, I I did put a link in the, chat right there about, how we list not only of our states, but the countries around the world.

576
00:39:39.659 --> 00:39:43.700
We just use kind of the, if you wanna take a look at that in the chat

577
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:48.020
as a visual. Got it. It's kinda what you're illustrating, but, yeah. So there

578
00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:51.460
is all the countries, and at the bottom is The US. It's all alphabetical.

579
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:55.940
Right. So that yeah. So that'd be example of what she could use utilize.

580
00:39:56.535 --> 00:40:00.615
That's fantastic. Yeah. This is good. And you just said it's a it's a one and done kind of thing.

581
00:40:00.615 --> 00:40:04.855
You just set it up, put your links, and and and just have the page there. Yeah.

582
00:40:04.855 --> 00:40:09.415
It didn't require a lot of programming and all that stuff. So so having that said, I have a couple,

583
00:40:10.040 --> 00:40:12.760
rapid fire on the newsletter. And then if you don't mind, two quick questions.

584
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:14.300
I think we'll have quick answers

585
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:15.740
to regarding,

586
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:20.280
smart list for members who have not logged in and then verified members.

587
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:21.980
But first on the newsletters, yeah, that's

588
00:40:22.359 --> 00:40:24.700
awesome. Super cool. Exciting.

589
00:40:25.005 --> 00:40:28.365
I'm sure it's a lot of it's been a lot of work on your end.

590
00:40:28.684 --> 00:40:30.305
So what about best best practices,

591
00:40:30.924 --> 00:40:32.704
you know, to avoid, you know, Google

592
00:40:33.005 --> 00:40:35.585
marking our primary domain name as spam?

593
00:40:36.325 --> 00:40:41.060
You know, would you recommend, like, a different from email address, or what are some

594
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:45.460
you know, do you send it at a volume of 50,000, hundred thousand, or even 10,000?

595
00:40:45.680 --> 00:40:47.460
Yeah. What I like to do is,

596
00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:51.440
break down the list into a smaller batch and just feel it out.

597
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:53.940
Basically, what you want is you don't want high spam.

598
00:40:54.105 --> 00:40:57.750
You don't wanna get marked as spam, too many spam complaints. You don't want too many bounces.

599
00:40:57.750 --> 00:41:01.610
The bounces aren't such a big deal. Just waste to send because it did attempt to send it.

600
00:41:01.610 --> 00:41:10.150
So if you have, like, 50,000 emails and you're gonna attempt to, like, reach out to them with a cold email or or whatever it is, or maybe it's a list from that you haven't really,

601
00:41:10.770 --> 00:41:12.630
sent an email to in a long time.

602
00:41:13.410 --> 00:41:19.010
Segments, it's like 1,500 emails or 10,000 emails. Like 10,000 in the realm of emails is not a lot.

603
00:41:19.650 --> 00:41:23.650
You know, it's when you start getting into the tens of thousands, you know? Yeah. Okay.

604
00:41:23.650 --> 00:41:27.244
Hundreds of thousands, then it's then you're being monitored and things like that.

605
00:41:27.244 --> 00:41:29.164
Because now you're just creating junk around the Internet.

606
00:41:29.164 --> 00:41:31.565
So test out your it's also good for AB testing.

607
00:41:31.565 --> 00:41:36.545
Start with a small sample, see that you're getting favorable responses or at least not spam complaints.

608
00:41:36.765 --> 00:41:42.450
And then go and then once you feel good about that, go ahead with the the larger send to the to the rest of your list.

609
00:41:42.509 --> 00:41:46.829
Okay. Yeah. We use, like, an email list verification if we're doing a large thing.

610
00:41:46.829 --> 00:41:51.230
That's helpful as well too. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And then other note on the newsletter.

611
00:41:51.230 --> 00:41:56.675
So would this be an could there be an application for using for follow-up, like, email drip campaigns

612
00:41:57.135 --> 00:41:58.895
to encourage, like, upgrades or,

613
00:41:59.535 --> 00:42:04.355
interact with inactive members, you know, using the smart list, in lieu of Zapier?

614
00:42:04.415 --> 00:42:10.190
But it can can you kinda automate the drip campaign or these kinda one offs and you you just manually

615
00:42:10.650 --> 00:42:13.330
sequence them? So I think what I was especially.

616
00:42:13.330 --> 00:42:17.050
I think it was Kim that I was mentioning to the the three phases that we have.

617
00:42:17.050 --> 00:42:23.630
I think the fourth phase would be that is creating additional triggers and potential drip campaigns,

618
00:42:24.234 --> 00:42:27.855
once all those other things are in place. So it's not just one off sends.

619
00:42:27.994 --> 00:42:35.135
They could be it could be a dynamic sequence based on, either an action a member or inaction a member has or hasn't taken,

620
00:42:35.675 --> 00:42:41.849
or if they've taken an action, you just want to send, like, you know, continuous emails to them, with a nurture sequence.

621
00:42:42.789 --> 00:42:48.630
We've kind of been hesitant on that part, just because there are other there are other solutions out there that just do it so much better.

622
00:42:48.630 --> 00:42:50.230
That's that's basically all they do.

623
00:42:50.230 --> 00:42:55.545
But I think in the fourth phase, that will get to maybe experimenting with that a bit. Okay.

624
00:42:55.545 --> 00:42:57.224
The last question on the newsletter is,

625
00:42:57.865 --> 00:42:59.005
unsubscribe versus

626
00:42:59.305 --> 00:43:00.285
managed preferences.

627
00:43:01.144 --> 00:43:02.845
Is there gonna be an option? Because,

628
00:43:03.260 --> 00:43:14.319
you know, just as as a recipient end of a lot of, you know, companies that I have somewhat intrigued with, I'll get on their newsletter list, and it's, like, too much or too frequent or not, you know, pertinent.

629
00:43:14.380 --> 00:43:18.000
But I wanted them to keep in touch. Not only to unsubscribe, but could they

630
00:43:18.325 --> 00:43:20.825
manage a preference or default just gonna be unsubscribe?

631
00:43:21.925 --> 00:43:23.285
Well, that's a good good question.

632
00:43:23.285 --> 00:43:28.565
So when someone's on your unsubscribe list, they'll still receive transactional emails from your site.

633
00:43:28.565 --> 00:43:32.105
For example, like, they're not not gonna get all emails.

634
00:43:32.330 --> 00:43:34.510
It stops them from getting the newsletter emails.

635
00:43:35.210 --> 00:43:39.210
I think there's a couple other we have documentation on it, but they're still gonna get transactional emails

636
00:43:39.610 --> 00:43:41.470
Okay. From from your site.

637
00:43:42.090 --> 00:43:50.905
What I'm thinking right now is if they do want to unsubscribe for a certain type of email, just we don't have it right now, but you could even do something right now where they come to a page

638
00:43:51.365 --> 00:43:59.945
and they checkbox a bunch of stuff and it that adds them to a certain smart list, and you can always exclude that smart list on when you're sending, newsletters as an example.

639
00:44:01.310 --> 00:44:02.369
So I would say there,

640
00:44:02.750 --> 00:44:12.109
there is a workaround right now based on what I what kind of what I just said where people can put themselves on a smart list by, you know, submitting their email to a form just like unsubscribe form or something like that.

641
00:44:12.109 --> 00:44:14.590
But for the list, they don't wanna be part of. But yeah.

642
00:44:14.590 --> 00:44:16.850
And also, it gets important to know when they are unsubscribed.

643
00:44:17.045 --> 00:44:26.905
That's basically true all around the Internet, because transactional emails, you know, emails related to receipts, those need to get delivered to the recipient, even if they've unsubscribed from newsletter emails.

644
00:44:27.125 --> 00:44:29.465
Okay. And last two questions, unrelated newsletters.

645
00:44:29.720 --> 00:44:33.900
Is, smart list maybe I don't know if you do a visual on the screen share, but,

646
00:44:34.359 --> 00:44:37.960
is it I thought there was a way to create a smart list for,

647
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:40.599
members that have not logged in for a period of time.

648
00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:45.019
But the default is, like, when you know, if you go to the site, like the admin,

649
00:44:45.335 --> 00:44:46.234
it just shows,

650
00:44:47.255 --> 00:44:50.055
when they last logged in, the last thirty days or so.

651
00:44:50.055 --> 00:44:56.934
But how would we create a smart list for people that have been act inactive or not logged in for a certain period of time?

652
00:44:56.934 --> 00:44:58.290
Is there a way to do that?

653
00:44:58.850 --> 00:45:00.630
That's a good question,

654
00:45:01.010 --> 00:45:02.310
and that would be

655
00:45:02.930 --> 00:45:04.530
helpful. The whole yeah.

656
00:45:04.530 --> 00:45:09.670
Because that's the whole point is, like, you know, ping people reach out to people with a specific message.

657
00:45:09.890 --> 00:45:13.635
Hey. You know, you haven't logged in a month or six weeks or whatever period of time.

658
00:45:13.715 --> 00:45:16.055
Is there something we can help you with or just a reminder?

659
00:45:16.435 --> 00:45:19.575
But right now, the default, as I see it on the admin,

660
00:45:19.875 --> 00:45:23.975
is who's logged in the last seven days or fourteen days or thirty days. But,

661
00:45:25.235 --> 00:45:27.180
so maybe I'm missing something there, but,

662
00:45:27.660 --> 00:45:28.880
that's the way I see it.

663
00:45:29.260 --> 00:45:31.740
Search members. Yeah. You know, no. You're right.

664
00:45:31.740 --> 00:45:38.619
What I'm thinking is, you know, there are webhooks that and, again, this is, again, piece piecemealing together some some workarounds and stuff like that.

665
00:45:38.619 --> 00:45:45.245
Like, you know, there are ways to know who's updated their profile recently with the webhooks, you know, who's recently saved the form,

666
00:45:45.625 --> 00:45:46.765
and things like that.

667
00:45:47.145 --> 00:45:50.345
But I'm more we're more interested in, like, the opposite end of that. Right?

668
00:45:50.345 --> 00:45:53.565
So, like, because if they're act if they're engaged in the platform,

669
00:45:54.220 --> 00:45:58.140
that's great. And that's kind of the newsletter purpose to your engaged members.

670
00:45:58.140 --> 00:46:00.140
But it's the eighty twenty rule would have. Right?

671
00:46:00.140 --> 00:46:05.340
So there's 80% that have it logged in in a month or whatever period of time.

672
00:46:05.340 --> 00:46:09.955
How would we identify those people to say, you know, hey, we miss you. You know, that,

673
00:46:10.435 --> 00:46:14.355
how can we help? Yeah. That that's a good one. The again, first yeah.

674
00:46:14.355 --> 00:46:17.235
That would be really helpful actually now that you're mentioning it. Yeah.

675
00:46:17.475 --> 00:46:23.740
And just as a workaround when the newsletter thing is released is so you could make a smart list of people who have taken action.

676
00:46:24.200 --> 00:46:25.820
And and then you can

677
00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:30.220
email, like, all your members, but exclude the people who have taken action.

678
00:46:30.520 --> 00:46:34.280
And the negative of that will be the people who have taken no action almost.

679
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:45.085
But I of course, what you're saying would be super helpful to do, but just something that's available now would be those kind of things where you would exclude people who have been active and then email the people who have been inactive.

680
00:46:45.085 --> 00:46:48.385
And then by doing that, you would just email people who have been inactive.

681
00:46:48.990 --> 00:46:51.490
So we would do a smart list, basically, of

682
00:46:51.790 --> 00:46:52.770
all other members

683
00:46:53.470 --> 00:46:57.730
that have not been active in thirty days or so. Of of who have been active,

684
00:46:58.350 --> 00:46:59.570
or the vice versa.

685
00:46:59.870 --> 00:47:03.935
But, yeah, based on one of those, you then you could then you could construct a send.

686
00:47:03.935 --> 00:47:06.835
But what you're saying is super useful. I'm gonna pass it on to the team,

687
00:47:07.535 --> 00:47:14.675
especially just the login one, like who who's logged in within a certain amount of time or before or after a certain date,

688
00:47:15.055 --> 00:47:20.020
and having a smart list based on that. That's a great hotter who's hot and who's cold as a member.

689
00:47:20.020 --> 00:47:22.980
So yeah. No. I I totally get it. That that's a great suggestion.

690
00:47:22.980 --> 00:47:25.780
I'll definitely make a note of that and pass it over to my team. Okay.

691
00:47:25.780 --> 00:47:29.059
Well, I had another question, but I'll let you go on to some other people, I guess. Yeah. Alright.

692
00:47:29.059 --> 00:47:32.135
Always good chatting with you. Yeah. Same here. Take care. Thanks, Rich. Alright.

693
00:47:32.135 --> 00:47:35.194
Good questions from Rich there. Thank you. And we'll get Steven here.

694
00:47:35.655 --> 00:47:38.075
Yeah. Can you hear me? Yes. How you doing, Steven?

695
00:47:38.375 --> 00:47:41.575
Great. How's everyone doing? Happy to be here. Good. Happy to be here. Yes.

696
00:47:41.575 --> 00:47:46.555
So great work and and and very exciting. Two quick questions. One has to do with the newsletter,

697
00:47:47.150 --> 00:47:48.050
and then another

698
00:47:48.350 --> 00:47:49.890
not related to the newsletter.

699
00:47:50.670 --> 00:47:55.390
So with the newsletter with the scheduling of the newsletter, can you schedule based on intervals?

700
00:47:55.390 --> 00:47:59.570
What I what I mean by that is, like, you know, every Wednesday at 2PM or,

701
00:48:00.535 --> 00:48:04.715
the first of every month at 12PM, that sort of thing, as opposed to,

702
00:48:05.015 --> 00:48:06.694
you know, on March

703
00:48:06.694 --> 00:48:07.815
2024,

704
00:48:07.815 --> 00:48:08.715
that sort of thing.

705
00:48:09.255 --> 00:48:12.935
So you wouldn't be able to schedule interviews or intervals. Excuse me.

706
00:48:12.935 --> 00:48:18.289
Every time you wanna send a newsletter, you have to create one and then schedule a future date for it as of right now.

707
00:48:18.589 --> 00:48:23.170
It's interesting that you bring that up. Like, what use case would you wanna use that for?

708
00:48:23.470 --> 00:48:24.510
Well, one is,

709
00:48:25.069 --> 00:48:25.809
it's easier

710
00:48:26.430 --> 00:48:27.230
so from a,

711
00:48:27.630 --> 00:48:31.454
user standpoint or from an admin, it's easier to sort of set it

712
00:48:31.755 --> 00:48:37.434
where it's simply every Wednesday at 12PM as opposed to I gotta remember a single time. Okay. March,

713
00:48:37.835 --> 00:48:38.335
seventh.

714
00:48:38.714 --> 00:48:40.714
Now I gotta do it again for March.

715
00:48:40.714 --> 00:48:43.135
Now I gotta do it again for March.

716
00:48:43.220 --> 00:48:47.880
That that's But wouldn't the but wouldn't the contents of the newsletter be different every time as well?

717
00:48:48.019 --> 00:48:50.500
Not necessarily. It depends depends depends on the newsletter.

718
00:48:50.500 --> 00:48:54.599
Because some depending on the newsletter. Sometimes it's a a reminder.

719
00:48:55.805 --> 00:48:56.305
Sometimes

720
00:48:56.685 --> 00:48:57.825
it's a like, for example,

721
00:48:58.365 --> 00:49:01.585
one okay. Yeah. I might I might have a RSS feed, for example,

722
00:49:02.445 --> 00:49:06.145
that's or or or or something. Yes. Something related to the, blog.

723
00:49:06.525 --> 00:49:10.020
And because I have a blog on a regular basis, well, Wednesday is my blog day.

724
00:49:10.020 --> 00:49:14.520
You know, that's where they they always get my blog. Right. I see what you're okay. So I reminders.

725
00:49:14.580 --> 00:49:18.420
Okay. I got you. That that's that's why that's why I wanted to ask because I was I was curious.

726
00:49:18.420 --> 00:49:20.900
It's a really good use case. I'll make a note of that as well.

727
00:49:20.900 --> 00:49:24.180
Probably not on this release, but that's really good suggestion there, Steven. Thank you. Yeah.

728
00:49:24.180 --> 00:49:27.335
Yeah. Yeah. No problem. The end is other examples because of the security.

729
00:49:28.115 --> 00:49:28.695
The second,

730
00:49:29.875 --> 00:49:32.435
kind of not related to the newsletter, but has to do with,

731
00:49:32.835 --> 00:49:33.335
Smartlist

732
00:49:34.035 --> 00:49:38.295
and the syncing of Smartlist to be sent to Pavly or or Zapier.

733
00:49:38.980 --> 00:49:43.080
And I pulled this up before. I'm not sure if you guys gave us any thought, or consideration.

734
00:49:43.700 --> 00:49:46.760
But right now, we have the option of syncing smart list,

735
00:49:47.140 --> 00:49:48.020
either by,

736
00:49:48.340 --> 00:49:51.975
every day, every week, or every month, I believe it is.

737
00:49:52.215 --> 00:49:58.795
But one of the things that I thought might be interesting or or use very useful, I should say, is to be able to sync it,

738
00:49:59.735 --> 00:50:00.395
more frequently,

739
00:50:00.775 --> 00:50:02.715
like like, once every hour,

740
00:50:04.215 --> 00:50:04.715
because

741
00:50:05.180 --> 00:50:10.960
there are situations where, you know, what I would like to do anyway is, you know, a member completes the profile.

742
00:50:11.580 --> 00:50:20.080
And as soon as the member completes the profile or soon after, maybe, like, thirty minutes after or an hour after, their information gets sent to Pabbly,

743
00:50:21.005 --> 00:50:23.505
that there's some corrections that are automated that happened.

744
00:50:23.725 --> 00:50:27.345
They get, bumped up to another level. Get you know, a series of things happened.

745
00:50:27.405 --> 00:50:28.865
But to wait a whole day,

746
00:50:29.325 --> 00:50:33.490
although it's not horrible, it's ideal if it's if it was much shorter.

747
00:50:33.490 --> 00:50:37.090
And I don't know if that's an easy fix for you guys or it's definitely more or You did no.

748
00:50:37.090 --> 00:50:38.470
You did mention this before.

749
00:50:38.850 --> 00:50:40.130
I think I did make a note of it.

750
00:50:40.130 --> 00:50:43.430
We just haven't gotten to it yet, but you made me think of another thing also.

751
00:50:43.650 --> 00:50:46.530
Sink the sink the smart list per hour is definitely doable.

752
00:50:46.530 --> 00:50:49.615
So I'm gonna kind of bring that up to the team again.

753
00:50:49.915 --> 00:50:56.815
But also, it could just be when the smart list counts, like the number of of recipients or contacts in a smart list changes,

754
00:50:57.195 --> 00:51:00.494
sync it at that point also or Yeah. Or sync

755
00:51:01.020 --> 00:51:01.500
anytime,

756
00:51:02.140 --> 00:51:04.240
counts in smart list changes. Well,

757
00:51:04.540 --> 00:51:09.980
my original my original actually desire, but I figured it the the way I just described it would be No.

758
00:51:09.980 --> 00:51:14.235
I see what you're saying is as they're updating information, the new information gets passed.

759
00:51:14.555 --> 00:51:15.215
Per hour.

760
00:51:15.355 --> 00:51:23.055
Or or if they're if they're my original design was if their profile is as soon as they complete their profile per the way I describe,

761
00:51:23.675 --> 00:51:30.530
a defined completion because every admin is gonna admin has a different way of this of defining how, profile is complete.

762
00:51:31.150 --> 00:51:34.590
But but if it's completed and as soon as it's completed, then it triggers.

763
00:51:34.590 --> 00:51:36.610
That would be my the perfect scenario

764
00:51:37.150 --> 00:51:37.550
or,

765
00:51:38.110 --> 00:51:40.245
but that might be a lot more work on your end.

766
00:51:40.245 --> 00:51:45.445
So it might just be just as easy to say, you know, you can set it to every hour or half hour. Yeah.

767
00:51:45.445 --> 00:51:49.625
Yeah. No. I agree with you there. Oh, thank you. Sharing that. Okay. I'll bring that back.

768
00:51:49.845 --> 00:51:52.505
Just for consideration. Great. Thank you. Absolutely.

769
00:51:52.805 --> 00:51:56.550
Thank you. Always good always good stuff from Steven. And Steven, thank you.

770
00:51:56.550 --> 00:51:58.230
You've come up with a lot of good ideas for us.

771
00:51:58.230 --> 00:52:01.849
That's why we love these webinars and appreciate you joining us here as well.

772
00:52:01.910 --> 00:52:07.685
I do have some questions over on the YouTube live chat. Open House Texas, they were asking,

773
00:52:07.985 --> 00:52:10.965
when we mentioned the, block traffic by category

774
00:52:11.265 --> 00:52:16.245
add on that's coming soon. They say I'm seeing an uptick in traffic from India, Pakistan, and China.

775
00:52:16.465 --> 00:52:20.005
It is a daunting task to put them all on the IP block list.

776
00:52:20.240 --> 00:52:24.339
Do we need to do that or is BD secure enough to protect my members info?

777
00:52:24.720 --> 00:52:29.539
Okay. So there's two questions there. So members info. So your members info is, protected,

778
00:52:30.240 --> 00:52:32.260
as far as, like, the sensitive data.

779
00:52:32.484 --> 00:52:37.845
Public pages on your site or public pages on your site, they're open to anyone to view them.

780
00:52:37.845 --> 00:52:43.125
And with a simple, you know, highlighting and copy paste, they can they can kind of script the data.

781
00:52:43.125 --> 00:52:44.425
Now, if you want to,

782
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:45.500
block

783
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:53.500
all the traffic from those IPs without having to do it manually, yeah, the block by country add on is going to take care of that for you.

784
00:52:53.560 --> 00:52:56.380
With just one or two clicks, you'll be able to stop

785
00:52:56.760 --> 00:53:00.140
all the traffic that's coming from the countries that you set there.

786
00:53:00.494 --> 00:53:05.154
Beautiful. And then, another one from Nick. This is in, in relation to,

787
00:53:05.775 --> 00:53:12.914
the feature coming soon to be able to search for specific businesses and then immediately be able to import them into the website.

788
00:53:13.510 --> 00:53:17.210
Will those business records include profile photos or logos?

789
00:53:17.750 --> 00:53:17.990
Yeah.

790
00:53:17.990 --> 00:53:22.790
So the data companies that we're chatting with, we wanna specifically make sure that we're working with,

791
00:53:23.270 --> 00:53:24.490
records that have,

792
00:53:25.110 --> 00:53:30.035
logos and, profile photos available. In this case, it's usually the business or the company,

793
00:53:30.655 --> 00:53:31.155
logo.

794
00:53:31.695 --> 00:53:35.395
So, yeah, that that will be part of that update is being able to

795
00:53:35.855 --> 00:53:40.575
when the businesses that you're adding to your site, tick the needle that you also want them to have logos.

796
00:53:40.575 --> 00:53:49.240
It might shrink the available data because probably most of the time, it's it's harder to get the logo, but they will have it available for a majority of the of the business records they have.

797
00:53:49.240 --> 00:53:53.580
So it will be part of that. Excellent. And two more here shifting over to emails.

798
00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:56.380
Can we upload emails via CSV?

799
00:53:57.275 --> 00:53:58.075
Yes. You can.

800
00:53:58.075 --> 00:54:08.095
So what you can do is create a new membership plan, make it non searchable members, and just call it something like general contact list or, you know, prospective member list.

801
00:54:08.475 --> 00:54:11.855
And once then you can import them just like you import members.

802
00:54:12.630 --> 00:54:14.710
And then they won't be searchable on the site.

803
00:54:14.710 --> 00:54:21.289
They won't have profiles per se, and you can send emails to them asking them to join your site, take action on your site,

804
00:54:21.670 --> 00:54:26.145
claim their profile if you're doing claimable profile stuff, and things like that.

805
00:54:26.545 --> 00:54:30.465
Alright. That one was for John. And then last one here on YouTube from Tess.

806
00:54:30.465 --> 00:54:32.405
Can you recommend an email verification

807
00:54:32.705 --> 00:54:33.205
tool?

808
00:54:33.505 --> 00:54:36.545
Yeah. We just used one from Pabbly. There's a ton of them,

809
00:54:36.945 --> 00:54:37.605
out there.

810
00:54:38.319 --> 00:54:38.819
Pabbly,

811
00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:39.520
email

812
00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:42.420
I guess it's called like an email cleaner sanitizers.

813
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:46.980
It's called here. Email list cleaning. See here. I'll send

814
00:54:47.359 --> 00:54:48.020
this one.

815
00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:51.460
All of them pretty much do the the same thing.

816
00:54:52.160 --> 00:54:53.484
I'll just share this here.

817
00:54:53.484 --> 00:54:58.145
Basically, if you have large lists, you're basically paying like per email that you're scrubbing.

818
00:54:58.925 --> 00:55:04.385
So larger lists will be more expensive, but it's pretty it's pretty helpful to do this, especially if you're uncertain

819
00:55:04.765 --> 00:55:08.545
of or you haven't like, emailed the list in a long time and

820
00:55:09.060 --> 00:55:12.660
you just want to ensure that they're valid. Here's five plus email verification.

821
00:55:12.660 --> 00:55:15.880
So Pabbly use this as common when people offer a service, they do

822
00:55:16.580 --> 00:55:17.720
articles on

823
00:55:18.100 --> 00:55:20.840
other services. There's five listed here.

824
00:55:21.425 --> 00:55:25.665
And you can kind of you said Tess. So Tess, I put it in the chat there, David.

825
00:55:25.665 --> 00:55:30.165
So if you want to pass it over to the YouTube chat, you could do that for them. We got it.

826
00:55:30.305 --> 00:55:34.829
All right. Thank you very much. Good questions there. And let's see who's got their hands up. Okay.

827
00:55:34.829 --> 00:55:37.410
We got Carolyn again here. I'll unmute your microphone.

828
00:55:38.029 --> 00:55:39.089
Yeah. Hi, Jason.

829
00:55:40.270 --> 00:55:43.329
Just a follow-up question about the newsletter's update.

830
00:55:43.789 --> 00:55:44.289
Yes.

831
00:55:44.589 --> 00:55:47.089
If I populate my site with members

832
00:55:47.405 --> 00:55:50.545
and their email addresses that didn't sign up themselves

833
00:55:51.244 --> 00:55:52.305
for opt in,

834
00:55:52.685 --> 00:55:53.425
so basically,

835
00:55:53.885 --> 00:55:56.545
members I would categorize as clean listings,

836
00:55:57.645 --> 00:56:01.410
can I send them an email as part of a mass email out of b d?

837
00:56:01.809 --> 00:56:03.430
You you will be able to.

838
00:56:03.970 --> 00:56:07.750
What I would do is the same suggestion I gave to Rich, which is,

839
00:56:08.450 --> 00:56:10.150
you wanna avoid spam complaints.

840
00:56:10.289 --> 00:56:15.265
That's really the indicator to the email services that's, you know, you're you're annoying people.

841
00:56:15.665 --> 00:56:19.265
And when you're doing cold outreach, cold outreach is is definitely a thing.

842
00:56:19.265 --> 00:56:21.205
Now there's services that specialize

843
00:56:21.905 --> 00:56:23.365
only in doing cold outreach.

844
00:56:24.625 --> 00:56:26.485
But you wanna make sure your email is tasteful,

845
00:56:27.380 --> 00:56:33.460
and that the list actually it it resonates good with your email resonates well with the people that you're sending it to.

846
00:56:33.460 --> 00:56:36.020
So, again, you just wanna kinda minimize those spam complaints.

847
00:56:36.020 --> 00:56:38.520
So a good strategy with that, Carolyn,

848
00:56:39.075 --> 00:56:42.515
is maybe send an email. I don't know if let's say you have 10,000 in your list.

849
00:56:42.515 --> 00:56:44.835
Maybe send an email to just like 250

850
00:56:44.835 --> 00:56:50.615
of them or 500 of them and see what happens, see what the stats are, how many opens you got.

851
00:56:50.850 --> 00:56:53.250
The again, the most important thing is the spam complaints.

852
00:56:53.250 --> 00:56:57.190
Like, people are not opening your email isn't the biggest deal because there's no,

853
00:56:57.970 --> 00:57:02.390
there's nothing wrong that you've done with people not opening opening your email, but,

854
00:57:02.690 --> 00:57:07.875
the spam complaints are are kinda one of what you wanna look out for. Okay. Got it. Thanks so much.

855
00:57:07.875 --> 00:57:09.495
And I do know about those companies

856
00:57:09.955 --> 00:57:10.695
that you can

857
00:57:10.995 --> 00:57:13.655
send, you know, and and mask your

858
00:57:14.115 --> 00:57:15.095
domain, so

859
00:57:15.475 --> 00:57:18.215
that's good to know. Thank you so much. You're welcome.

860
00:57:18.595 --> 00:57:21.255
We got Roger here. Roger, I'm not gonna leave you hanging.

861
00:57:21.560 --> 00:57:23.740
Yes. Hi. Where are you calling in from, Roger?

862
00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:25.420
With Northern Wisconsin.

863
00:57:26.040 --> 00:57:29.960
Alright. And what's your question for us today? Well, I'm still a newbie to this.

864
00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:34.359
I've been, working with WordPress for eighteen years. I'm still wrapping my head around this.

865
00:57:34.359 --> 00:57:39.435
I've purchased, four or five of your brilliant directory so far, and I'm just getting started.

866
00:57:39.435 --> 00:57:45.275
So I put the SIM as a question in the meeting here. Let me check it out. Okay. Yes.

867
00:57:45.275 --> 00:57:47.214
It's in the chat question section.

868
00:57:47.835 --> 00:57:51.135
Can you show me how to add a fourth column in the

869
00:57:51.450 --> 00:57:54.830
homepage hero divider? Okay. So in that case,

870
00:57:55.290 --> 00:57:57.930
what I would do, I would just use the content blocks.

871
00:57:57.930 --> 00:58:02.510
In that case, the homepage hero divider is something that we created. It's like a legacy,

872
00:58:03.369 --> 00:58:06.725
stream of widget for BD. So let me just share my screen here real quick.

873
00:58:06.725 --> 00:58:10.025
I'll do it with you together. And I think we already know where I'm going with this.

874
00:58:10.405 --> 00:58:12.485
Yes. Okay. Just so,

875
00:58:12.805 --> 00:58:15.705
I'll just show people who may not know since you asked the question

876
00:58:16.325 --> 00:58:17.225
on the homepage.

877
00:58:18.390 --> 00:58:23.190
Yeah, here. So this is kind of what I would do here, is but make it a little nicer, of course.

878
00:58:23.190 --> 00:58:25.609
So in the streaming content section,

879
00:58:26.150 --> 00:58:32.730
you can have the homepage hero divider. And in that, there's kind of three options here, basically.

880
00:58:33.269 --> 00:58:33.769
Basically,

881
00:58:35.045 --> 00:58:35.865
three columns.

882
00:58:36.325 --> 00:58:39.785
But really, it's a little bit of a relic. What you can do instead is,

883
00:58:40.485 --> 00:58:44.665
excuse me, let me go here, is use one of the custom content sections.

884
00:58:45.445 --> 00:58:47.545
And I would just use the premade elements,

885
00:58:48.410 --> 00:58:48.910
basic

886
00:58:49.210 --> 00:58:54.350
blocks, and you have a four column right there. You can add images, you can make icon,

887
00:58:54.890 --> 00:58:56.830
and whatever you needed to do right there.

888
00:58:58.490 --> 00:58:59.310
Can you have

889
00:59:00.730 --> 00:59:02.510
a few buttons below that?

890
00:59:03.315 --> 00:59:04.935
Right, we have one called lodging.

891
00:59:05.395 --> 00:59:08.535
And what they're wondering is if I can break that down to,

892
00:59:09.555 --> 00:59:13.655
you know, bed and breakfast, camping, that type of thing, and have a different,

893
00:59:14.355 --> 00:59:17.790
different buttons down there. What would you recommend for all of that?

894
00:59:18.190 --> 00:59:21.410
So you're saying within one column, you want multiple buttons?

895
00:59:21.950 --> 00:59:23.490
Well, possibly. Yeah. They're

896
00:59:23.790 --> 00:59:26.130
they're what they're going to be is subcategories

897
00:59:26.910 --> 00:59:28.370
of, the lodging.

898
00:59:28.910 --> 00:59:29.410
Okay.

899
00:59:30.635 --> 00:59:35.115
Let me do something here. Let me unlink this real quick. Yeah. What you could do is you can,

900
00:59:35.915 --> 00:59:37.615
let me copy this. Sorry.

901
00:59:37.915 --> 00:59:39.535
You could do something like this

902
00:59:39.915 --> 00:59:40.575
and then

903
00:59:40.875 --> 00:59:44.974
convert them into into links. So you can, link them up here,

904
00:59:45.515 --> 00:59:51.930
make it a link. Okay. And then once it's a link, then you can give it a a button color if you want.

905
00:59:52.310 --> 00:59:56.810
Oh, I see. You can make it large, small. You can give it the color that you want, like a red button

906
00:59:57.190 --> 00:59:58.410
and so on. So,

907
00:59:58.950 --> 01:00:00.890
you can certainly do that and

908
01:00:01.235 --> 01:00:02.675
and do that. Even cooler,

909
01:00:03.075 --> 01:00:05.495
let's take it a step further, actually. Let's delete

910
01:00:05.955 --> 01:00:08.695
this since we're having fun with tables here.

911
01:00:09.155 --> 01:00:10.675
What you could do is,

912
01:00:11.475 --> 01:00:14.695
and let me just get rid of this here. I have this.

913
01:00:15.010 --> 01:00:17.830
Okay. So in here, what you could do is you could

914
01:00:18.210 --> 01:00:22.070
insert a table and let's say we want to do a 2 x 2 x 2.

915
01:00:22.290 --> 01:00:26.390
And then in each one, you can have a nice organized button here. So

916
01:00:26.690 --> 01:00:27.190
button,

917
01:00:28.050 --> 01:00:28.550
button,

918
01:00:28.875 --> 01:00:35.055
you know, and then you can link it up accordingly and then you can do that across so that way you'll have a little bit more uniform control,

919
01:00:35.915 --> 01:00:37.275
of the look of this,

920
01:00:37.675 --> 01:00:42.760
to show you how you want it to be. So those are just some options there for you. Okay. Yeah.

921
01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:47.640
That looks good. Great. Well, thanks again. I appreciate it. You're welcome. Alright, guys.

922
01:00:47.640 --> 01:00:51.180
And we got Rich here. Rich, why don't you take us home with the final question here?

923
01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:55.500
Yeah. The cliffhanger here. So I think this is an easy one compared to the previous.

924
01:00:56.280 --> 01:00:56.600
So,

925
01:00:57.465 --> 01:00:58.925
verified member option,

926
01:00:59.225 --> 01:01:05.165
is there a way we can automatically add, you know, the verified check mark to members based on, you know,

927
01:01:05.865 --> 01:01:07.405
criteria they complete?

928
01:01:07.865 --> 01:01:10.845
The way I would think about that is by using, like, a Zapier,

929
01:01:11.990 --> 01:01:14.410
or with the API somehow. Because

930
01:01:15.270 --> 01:01:18.410
what I'm thinking is you can update a member's information

931
01:01:18.790 --> 01:01:20.089
through those. So

932
01:01:20.630 --> 01:01:22.730
if you start it with a trigger of

933
01:01:23.190 --> 01:01:26.170
these things happened, now please update the member and

934
01:01:26.555 --> 01:01:28.895
set their verify to one, which means true.

935
01:01:30.075 --> 01:01:31.835
That's in my mind how I'm thinking.

936
01:01:31.835 --> 01:01:37.155
You would have to use something like a Zapier or if you're familiar with the API, that that's more developer stuff.

937
01:01:37.155 --> 01:01:37.595
Yeah.

938
01:01:38.155 --> 01:01:40.895
But that's how I would do it. I would use the up update

939
01:01:41.300 --> 01:01:46.119
member or update user action that's available in Zapier. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

940
01:01:46.420 --> 01:01:50.760
Easy enough. Appreciate it, man. Thanks again. Alright. Good chatting with you, Rich. Same

941
01:01:51.220 --> 01:01:56.325
here. Yeah. Thank you. And, guys, thank you for another amazing webinar. First one of the year.

942
01:01:56.325 --> 01:01:58.805
David, thank you so much for putting together these slides.

943
01:01:58.805 --> 01:02:03.365
We seems like the newsletter is gonna be a big hit, and we hope to get it to you guys very soon.

944
01:02:03.365 --> 01:02:06.665
We don't wanna keep you, in more suspense than is required.

945
01:02:07.125 --> 01:02:08.745
Lots of lab updates underway.

946
01:02:09.500 --> 01:02:10.640
Lots of new releases.

947
01:02:11.099 --> 01:02:13.819
The replay will be available in the Facebook group.

948
01:02:13.819 --> 01:02:17.180
If you're not a member, please join us, brilliantdirectories.com

949
01:02:17.180 --> 01:02:18.400
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950
01:02:18.619 --> 01:02:24.079
Those of you that joined us in YouTube land, thank you, and we look forward to seeing you in the next webinar.

951
01:02:24.135 --> 01:02:28.235
We'll see you guys in two weeks. It will be mid February, close to Valentine's Day.

952
01:02:28.535 --> 01:02:31.115
And that will be the next webinar Wednesday.

953
01:02:31.495 --> 01:02:36.935
On behalf of myself, David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, we appreciate you guys so much.

954
01:02:36.935 --> 01:02:40.603
You have no idea. And we look forward to seeing you in the next webinar.

955
01:02:40.743 --> 01:02:44.603
Have a great day and a brilliant week. Take care, guys. Bye now.