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Alright, gang. Thanks for everyone for your patience.

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Welcome to another edition of webinar Wednesday.

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Honestly, it's so fun to be with you guys here today.

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We're in the middle of the year and the middle of the month of June. So we're basically smack dab,

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in the middle of 2023,

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and it's been a great productive year here at BD,

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and the community's been simply fantastic seeing so many people working on their projects.

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And, of course, the webinars,

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are great time for us to get together, and we can share ideas

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and see how you're working on your websites.

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Lots of new names here, so welcome. Carly, I see you just logged in here. Mahir,

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good to see you as well.

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If this is your first time joining us, I am Jason there on the left, and we're lucky to be joined,

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by David Rockland, the digital strategist here at BD and so much more. We got a great presentation.

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And guys, wanna say thank you, David, for taking the time to join us today.

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Absolutely. So glad to be back with everybody this week.

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Got a great presentation coming up, one that we teased a little bit earlier in the Facebook group.

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So I know a lot of you are looking forward to it. Should help, improve a lot of your sites.

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We're really looking forward to getting to

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that. Awesome. Absolutely. Yeah. Great tip of the week coming, down the line in just a few moments.

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Angel, welcome to the webinar. We see you just got logged in here as well.

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We are streaming on YouTube, and if you're not subscribed to our YouTube channel, highly recommend,

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subscribing. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/youtube

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and just click on that red subscribe button there.

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You'll get updated every time, we post the webinar replays up there, the tips of the week, any new tutorials,

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and a lot more. So we look forward to having you join us there.

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And one of the key benefits of streaming on YouTube live is that the webinar replay will be immediately available,

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after, we finished today, and we will be posting it in the BD Facebook group.

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So you can go to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook

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and click on the blue join button.

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All are welcome. I'm active in there myself.

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Lots of great and constructive conversations and discussions are started in there.

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It's also a great way to keep in touch in between webinar Wednesdays.

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Lots of questions of people getting started. Some people are established.

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They're looking for strategies on how to grow their community.

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Some people are still in the setup phase of their websites and looking for some work around. So,

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all questions are welcome there, and I definitely recommend you take a moment to join us there.

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And welcome to all the new names,

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out there. Glenn and Dominic and Greg, good to see you here.

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Just a little bit about webinar Wednesday.

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BD is a pretty active and nimble company. We're pushing updates

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weekly. We've done so for many years now.

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And webinar Wednesday is really a great way for us to share some of the updates that you can take actionable steps on to help grow your community a bit quicker.

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These these could be topics such as how to increase your website traffic,

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converting visitors to members, identifying revenue opportunities,

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improving your navigation, and more. Actually, today's,

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tip of the week will cover kinda converting visitors to members, identifying revenue opportunities, creating more calls to action on your home page,

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and things of that nature.

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So if you have if you're working on your site and have questions on these topics or anything on your membership site, please save them and stick with us.

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We're gonna get to as many questions as we can in just a little bit. Alright.

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And my favorite part of webinar Wednesday, I'll try to breeze through this list.

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We have some new features recently released and some exciting ones coming soon,

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down the line. I'll start here at the top with webhooks.

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So if you have access to the developer tools in the admin area,

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you may be familiar with the webhooks.

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Webhooks allow you to send data from your BD site out to other platforms.

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I'm not gonna cover the full tutorial on that, but we do have a new webhook.

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When members add profile photos or profile logos to, their, their to their profile,

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you can now send that image data out via webhooks. So maybe you wanna use that profile photo,

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somewhere else on another platform.

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This will allow you to do that. Let me show you where you can find that in the admin area.

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So let's start here. Let me start in the dashboard here.

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from your main page,

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we can go to developer hub,

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and from there we'll go to webhooks,

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and I'm just gonna do a search here for,

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photo. I think that'll be the quickest way to find it. And here we have profile photos,

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form submitted. So when they're,

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adding photos to their profiles,

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that data can be sent out via a webhook.

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It's gonna not just send the the image file extension of the profile photo or logo, it'll it'll include the member's name,

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their user ID on the website, their email address, and a few other key pieces of meta information,

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so that you can,

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map them on whatever third party platform that you're using. Alright.

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This next one is just a simple quality of life.

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Now you can easily copy the sign up link of the membership plans whether they're free or paid plans that you've created on your site.

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Now this is helpful if you're gonna share a sign up link in an email or you're gonna use it in one of your landing pages that you're creating.

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Let me show you where that is.

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We can navigate on over to finance and membership plans,

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and there was always a green button here if you have a public sign up page.

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The view sign up page is available here or you can click it and go there. But now,

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under the actions drop down,

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you can copy sign up link here. So there's a option here.

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And if you didn't already know so, there's a clone button.

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So if you wanna clone a membership plan and then just make some small changes in the newly cloned plan,

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you can also move members,

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between plans.

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This would if you're looking to delete a plan on your site and you wanna move all your free members to an alternate free plan that you now have, you can move them and then delete the older plan.

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So some add good actions, here.

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Let me just copy this sign up link, and we can see it's been copied to the clipboard.

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Also, in the vein of quality of life, there are now some screenshots

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visible in your form manager and in the edit post settings page of the admin area.

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This is just kinda helpful when you're looking, at some of the elements in the admin to give you an idea of what you're working on.

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We recently added it to the web page builder. Let's take a look at that first.

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So in the web page builder, you can kinda see all your static pages,

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and it'll show you a screenshot of what those pages look like, and then of course you can visit them.

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So with this update, if we go to the toolbox and go to the form manager,

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we should just see a small preview of what that form looks like.

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Obviously, forms could be used on many different pages of your site, but you could just kinda gauge that here what it looks

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like. And then for your posts, if you go to edit post settings,

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and these would be like your events,

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blog articles, coupons,

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things of that nature.

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It will show you a preview of the search results page

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for that. Not, all post types have them.

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For example, sub accounts don't have that, but, the vast majority of them will.

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So we can see the discussions one here.

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And if we click here, it should take us directly to the search results page for the discussions post type.

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just a little helpful guide there with the screenshot.

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Another quality of life here and this was a thanks to Ryan Sullivan in the previous webinar.

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We recently released,

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new settings for the easy coupon codes add on, and part of that was being able to create coupon codes for digital products and the paper posts of your site, but it was a little cumbersome to search for some of those,

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and we've now added a keyword search filter. Let me show you where that would be.

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Under your finance section, we can go to coupon codes,

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and I'll go to new coupon code. And if we scroll down, what was new with the recent update

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is there before you could only make coupon codes for sign ups and upgrades.

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Now you can do leads, digital products, and paper posts.

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And we can see here now there is a keyword filter.

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So I'll just type in a classifieds.

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So if you're looking for to create a coupon code just for one of these items, you can use that here, and it's for filtering within the tab that you're on.

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So this would be for digital products and paper posts.

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The rest of them just filter for, membership plans, so there isn't much to edit there or filter for there.

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And last but not least, also a quality of life, making things easier for you guys in the admin area.

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If you are using the private member chat add on, you can see the chats in the admin area. However,

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it would only show you the person who initiated the chat and not necessarily who the chat was, between,

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and now there are actions buttons for each one as well.

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I can show you a screenshot of what that looks like.

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So now if you're in the admin area looking at your chat inter interactions,

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you'll see a preview of the chat on the right hand side and the module that gives you some information,

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will have a little badge on who started the chat and who they are chatting with.

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So you'll see the two members here, and then there's a drop down here, and you'll be able to do things like log in as that member, send them an email, and other simple actions, but you'll see both,

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parties listed here now. And even more exciting, some items coming soon,

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for your member leads, you'll soon be able to see the total revenue generated for each lead.

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So if you're selling leads to your members,

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this can be a quick snapshot of which leads,

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are selling through and which are not.

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I have a screenshot of what that's going to look like as well.

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So on the member leads page, there will be a total revenue. So if you're selling one lead for $25

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and allowing four members to purchase it, you're looking to see the total revenue of a hundred dollars there.

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That would be a full sell out of a single lead through the website, and that should be released soon.

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Newsletters, we've put a priority.

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It was on the back burner for a while, but a better UI and workflow for newsletters.

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Probably, realistically, it's this it's gonna be a July release, but it's gonna be a big release.

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It's comprehensive overhaul of the newsletter scheduling,

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section of the admin,

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as well as providing you with good statistics

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of who opened, who clicked the emails,

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and the ability to create smart lists from those segments as well.

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And also in the vein of smart lists,

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what we're going to release soon is you can create smart lists and sync them with webhooks and the smart lists are dynamic.

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So members are moving in and out of the smart list, and with a webhook, you can send all those contacts

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send all those contacts to a third party platform.

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Maybe you're updating a a Mailchimp emailing list, and right now you have to manually sync this the the smart list using the webhook each time.

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What you're going to be able to do

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is here we are on the smart list page.

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You can sync now, which is the only option right now, but because it's a dynamic list, maybe you wanna update this daily, weekly, or monthly, you'll be able to choose one of these options

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and your smart list will sync to the webhook and that data will port to whatever third party platform

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you're using.

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Your smart list will be dynamic on your BD site, and you can also dynamically update it in real time almost,

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on other platforms as well.

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And also with smart list on the transactions history page, you'll soon be able to export into a CSV file the results of, your transaction history.

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You can do a filtered search,

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export the results,

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as well as create a smart list from those results.

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So if you wanted to search coupon codes and create a smart list of all the users who have paid using a coupon code,

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you can then create a smart list with that and then effectively send the that group of people a newsletter.

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That's that's the main benefit of the smart list is being able to send newsletters to those segmented groups of users.

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And then lastly here, another quality of life.

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On the home page, there are streaming sections that you can have.

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Currently, there are five spots for custom content.

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We're going to add five more default

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custom content slots for the home page, so you'll have a total

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of 10 available custom content spots on the home page.

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I think beyond that, we're gonna we're gonna just stop it at 10 for that.

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If you need more than 10, we would encourage you to just create a custom widget with all your content, but I think 10 will be good for the vast majority of users.

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I can show you where that is. So if you're looking at, the homepage streaming sections,

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here we can see that it's going to include up to 10 custom content spots.

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So, hopefully that should be plenty and excited to see all the different variations of a home page content people add to their sites.

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In addition to that, lots more speed and security updates to this.

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These new features were a lot of quality of life features just making the admin a little more intuitive and easier to use.

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And again, big shout out to the BD community.

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A vast majority and large majority of these updates are from your suggestions, interacting with our support team.

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So round of applause for you guys.

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We definitely appreciate, all your support and backing behind, making the BD platform better for everyone.

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And before we dive into the tip of the week, I know this was a little bit of a mouthful to to hear, but if you have any questions or comments on this slide on these specific updates coming soon or newly released, We'd love to hear just a comment or two or if you have a question

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and then we can move on to the tip of the week. See, James says great updates. He typed that in.

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I think everything was pretty self explanatory. We could move on to the tip of the week

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and I'll pass it over to you, David.

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Today, we're gonna talk about including additional calls call to action, CTAs,

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to your home page hero section. Thanks, Jason. Yeah.

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So this was, an update that we teased in the Facebook group about a month ago now.

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Basically, with this update, there's a couple more couple new spots where you can add custom content of any kind.

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In the hero section, you'll probably wanna add, maybe, you know, a little piece of text, some extra information, or some additional calls to action.

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So that's what we'll be showing in this tip of the week, go over the hero section a little bit, and then also show you some use cases and give you some custom code that you can just copy and paste, drop right into your own site to start,

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adding some custom and additional calls to action to your hero section immediately.

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We did cover hero sections

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kind of more generally as a whole in a previous webinar.

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I think it was webinar one fifty one where we went over some design tips and best practices for hero sections.

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But before we dive into the use cases for this update, we wanted to briefly go over again and review what a hero section is and what the primary goal of a hero section is, what we kind of always wanna keep in the back of our mind as we're crafting them.

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So the hero section, it's typically

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the most prominent section on a home page.

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It's something that we really wanna use to grab a new visitor's attention.

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And in it, we can communicate

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what the main purpose, the main message, the value proposition

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to the visitor.

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So you can see a great example here on the right of a of a great hero section on a home page.

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It'll typically include a really large full width high quality image,

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a title, maybe some subtitle text, but most importantly, some sort of call to action.

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Let them know what the website is for and start getting them to click around and using the site immediately.

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as well as maybe images that represent or reflect who the persona of the visitor or user is on your website.

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That way when people come to your website, they feel like they're in a place where they belong, and they're gonna be encouraged to continue,

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digging into some more of your internal pages.

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they really should help brand new visitors understand the website's purpose, not just through the image itself, but really through the title, if we're gonna have a subtitle,

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It should push new visitors to conduct some sort of action that we want them to take on the website.

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It just has a little tiny icon of like a ribbon, a badge, so that could make new visitors think, okay, well if they have featured tutors, maybe they have some sort of application process

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Just a simple thing like that could help add some credibility to our brand.

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But, again, overall, we wanna keep things simple and have a clear purpose with the hero section and the calls to action that we have within the hero section.

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of the hero section. So here we have some popular use cases.

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We'll show you what these look like in practice.

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We'll also give you the code so you can edit that code and drop it right into your own site to start using it.

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But some popular use cases would be some additional supportive text, really simple, just to go along with the main title or the the subtitle text that you already have in the design settings.

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So if somebody's really maybe isn't sure exactly what they wanna search for, you can give them some suggestions that they can click on and immediately view search results.

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saying not a member, join now for full access, and that button can link visitors

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kinda had how to add some of these popular use case examples that we've shared, We're first gonna show you some things you can do quickly like in the previous examples

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displaying them on the site, you could use more of these use cases altogether.

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So let's take a look at the sample site we have here, and we'll just go to the home page.

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small bit of coding, that we mentioned here. So let's go to the design settings together.

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the text editor, which is pretty simple point and click. We can add images,

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even the premade elements. Let's just add another one, just for fun.

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whatever it may be that's important.

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for the visitor? What's what pathways

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am I presenting to them, and again, we don't want too much clutter, but maybe an option or two will help guide them to more internal pages of your website,

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because now you've got their attention and that's the hardest part of any website whether it's the homepage or a landing page is keeping people there, getting them to scroll, absorb more information,

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on whatever content you're presenting to them. And then lastly,

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everything. So let's save the changes

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web designers because prior to this update, they'd have to go into some complicated widgets, but now there's some clean widgets that they can edit,

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And we've created this little, Google Doc here that kind of we kind of did this a little quickly before the webinar, but it's gonna show you our examples,

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We've added pretty much everything here once I enable these, But we can pull them back 1 x 1 and see what we've done exactly.

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want to list your company join today. Again, this could be a button for anything.

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We've also and this might be more popular for people wanting to do this, is the popular searches and then you can choose just some popular maybe categories that people search on your site.

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because if if you're already like a a Los Angeles business directory then, you know, searching for doctors make sense because you're already within the Los Angeles area.

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industry or niche, we'll say immigration law and then maybe you visas is a category, so you can just quickly link to that and we'll show you how we did that.

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Maybe your site has received five stars on a review site and you'd like to showcase that you can put, you know, the stars here as an image or what have you.

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and creating some premium areas here where people can pay to have a sponsored banner ad.

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Anything more I need to say about that, David? I think that's it.

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If you are familiar with HTML or CSS, you could certainly edit this further.

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the button here, and we're we're suggesting to use it as a a member sign up or a list your company,

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access to your premium content. We just see see some people logging in here, that's great.

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00:31:40.524 --> 00:31:44.865
But in this one, we've we kind of put some markers here the button link URL. So,

430
00:31:45.245 --> 00:31:45.745
basically,

431
00:31:46.125 --> 00:31:48.225
what you wanna replace is the href.

432
00:31:48.284 --> 00:31:55.810
Right now it's going to the forward slash join page of the website, so just do forward slash whatever you want this button to link to.

433
00:31:56.190 --> 00:32:00.930
You could link directly to a checkout page. So if you just want quick registrations from people,

434
00:32:01.550 --> 00:32:07.855
you can probably just go to the finance section. It's great great way to, intermingle this.

435
00:32:08.475 --> 00:32:12.335
And the general user account, we can just copy the sign up link

436
00:32:12.715 --> 00:32:18.575
and we can utilize that. I'll I'll revert this but we can just paste that in there in the href

437
00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:23.500
equals and in between the quotes is where we wanna put our link.

438
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:26.299
So you can put whatever link, you want there.

439
00:32:26.360 --> 00:32:30.120
And then the text of the button, we again, we put some comment markers here.

440
00:32:30.120 --> 00:32:32.700
This is the button link text. Just replace this,

441
00:32:33.165 --> 00:32:38.305
with whatever you want the button to say. And you can have a button directly above your search.

442
00:32:38.525 --> 00:32:44.305
Again, if let's say, even if you were gonna add just one, I think this would be great because it's gonna encourage

443
00:32:44.765 --> 00:32:48.950
a user registration and user sign up and it's elegant. It's not too busy

444
00:32:49.250 --> 00:32:53.350
and it's telling people that, you know, you're inviting them to sign up to your site.

445
00:32:53.970 --> 00:32:58.150
So these two I think are the two simplest ones, just a paragraph of text

446
00:32:58.690 --> 00:32:59.910
and a button.

447
00:33:00.255 --> 00:33:03.135
And I think the next one we'll look at, we'll scroll down here.

448
00:33:03.135 --> 00:33:07.535
I think this one is also pretty pretty good is the popular searches one.

449
00:33:07.535 --> 00:33:11.235
This one is probably has the most moving parts but is not too complicated,

450
00:33:11.935 --> 00:33:14.355
with the HTML. So let's take a look

451
00:33:14.760 --> 00:33:15.660
at that one.

452
00:33:16.040 --> 00:33:17.320
Let me open this up here.

453
00:33:17.320 --> 00:33:20.940
Let's go to the widget manager, and then we'll look at the Google Doc together.

454
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:26.920
So this was the extra content below. And of course, you can choose what you want above or below.

455
00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:29.580
You can this is a, a mix and match.

456
00:33:29.955 --> 00:33:32.674
So here, I'm just gonna put some line breaks here so we can look at this one.

457
00:33:32.674 --> 00:33:35.335
This is the this is the popular searches one.

458
00:33:35.794 --> 00:33:39.735
So we've commented it with the title text, so popular searches.

459
00:33:40.034 --> 00:33:42.115
Maybe you wanna call it top searches.

460
00:33:42.115 --> 00:33:49.150
Maybe you need to translate it into your language or you might wanna call it quick search, you know, whatever makes sense for you.

461
00:33:49.370 --> 00:33:50.650
And then we have the links.

462
00:33:50.650 --> 00:33:55.070
So let me let me go to the Google doc now so we can see that together if we scroll down.

463
00:33:55.530 --> 00:33:58.030
So this is the tag cloud of popular searches.

464
00:33:58.635 --> 00:34:02.555
So we have the title text here. This is popular searches. Again, you can change it.

465
00:34:02.555 --> 00:34:06.495
Then we have the links. Now maybe you wanna limit this to,

466
00:34:06.795 --> 00:34:11.699
I don't know, three to six links to links depending on how much space you want it to take up.

467
00:34:12.020 --> 00:34:16.679
But you can each one of these lines is a link and again the href equals,

468
00:34:17.540 --> 00:34:20.339
that is a link to that search results page.

469
00:34:20.339 --> 00:34:25.079
So let's see how we can find a search results page for one of our categories together.

470
00:34:25.265 --> 00:34:26.465
Well, a few things you can do.

471
00:34:26.465 --> 00:34:31.844
If you wanna do a search, you can do a keyword search for doctor and just go to the search page.

472
00:34:32.705 --> 00:34:34.324
Many of us have the

473
00:34:34.625 --> 00:34:38.485
browse categories in the footer by default if you haven't removed that.

474
00:34:39.330 --> 00:34:41.430
But we can see here, like, auto services.

475
00:34:41.890 --> 00:34:43.670
We can just click on view all,

476
00:34:44.130 --> 00:34:46.690
and now we have the link for auto services.

477
00:34:46.690 --> 00:34:51.750
It's forward slash auto services, and that's the auto services category of this website.

478
00:34:52.185 --> 00:34:54.985
So let's actually do that together. Let's edit the first one here.

479
00:34:54.985 --> 00:34:58.445
We'll keep the view all, but instead of doctors, we'll do

480
00:34:58.745 --> 00:35:01.405
auto services. So this is kinda the visible text

481
00:35:01.785 --> 00:35:05.885
over here, and then where we want it to link to goes inside of the

482
00:35:06.570 --> 00:35:10.590
href here. Href equals and in between them. So auto services

483
00:35:10.890 --> 00:35:13.470
and auto services. Let's save the changes.

484
00:35:13.850 --> 00:35:18.010
And let's go back to the home page. So now we can see auto services here.

485
00:35:18.010 --> 00:35:23.045
And if I click that, we can if you look at my bottom left there, we can see that it says auto services

486
00:35:23.665 --> 00:35:26.625
and it takes us to the auto services page.

487
00:35:26.625 --> 00:35:31.525
So not terribly complicated but we do need to get the link to the category.

488
00:35:31.984 --> 00:35:38.060
And if you don't have that link in your footer, let me show you another place where you can copy the link for the category.

489
00:35:38.520 --> 00:35:41.580
If we go to my members and member categories,

490
00:35:42.520 --> 00:35:46.540
we can see here, these are the categories. It could be sublevel categories,

491
00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:47.900
top level categories,

492
00:35:48.375 --> 00:35:52.155
but we do have the link URL here. I see this is probably a place where

493
00:35:52.455 --> 00:35:57.595
we'll put a copy button as well. But let's look at restaurants. If I click open here,

494
00:35:58.055 --> 00:36:01.435
we can see that the URL is forward /restaurants.

495
00:36:01.575 --> 00:36:04.529
So let's actually add that as well for the next

496
00:36:04.910 --> 00:36:08.609
one. And we're gonna replace lawyers in this example with restaurants.

497
00:36:09.390 --> 00:36:11.950
And let me just show you. Let me type in top restaurants.

498
00:36:11.950 --> 00:36:15.170
So this is the public text that's gonna show for the button,

499
00:36:15.470 --> 00:36:17.329
and the href is the restaurants.

500
00:36:17.495 --> 00:36:26.235
I always I'm a little worried about sharing HTML code because I know many of us are just beginners and novices, but we're just showing you the kind of the easiest way to do this,

501
00:36:26.695 --> 00:36:27.195
without

502
00:36:27.815 --> 00:36:32.315
tripping over, our own actions here. So if we scroll down a bit now,

503
00:36:32.790 --> 00:36:36.650
and we can see here in this example, it's gone to the next line. So,

504
00:36:37.190 --> 00:36:41.370
we might want to shorten it. I put top restaurants here, and if I click that,

505
00:36:41.750 --> 00:36:45.850
it's taking me to the restaurants page. So let's just switch this back to restaurants.

506
00:36:45.910 --> 00:36:49.375
Now what's cool about doing this, and again, back to the objectives

507
00:36:49.675 --> 00:36:52.015
of the hero section of a home page,

508
00:36:52.475 --> 00:36:55.055
is we want people to quickly

509
00:36:55.515 --> 00:36:58.495
come to the site and do an action, conduct a search,

510
00:36:58.809 --> 00:37:04.190
read what's on the page, and these quick search links, I think, are a great way to get people to

511
00:37:04.490 --> 00:37:08.890
just click them because some people are just curious. They just wanna they just see a link.

512
00:37:08.890 --> 00:37:12.910
It's, you know, it says restaurants. Even David's example, the feature tutors,

513
00:37:13.315 --> 00:37:16.935
just that slide made me wanna click on it and see why are these tutors featured.

514
00:37:17.555 --> 00:37:20.775
It just adds a little bit of intrigue to the home page,

515
00:37:21.235 --> 00:37:23.795
as well as it lets me know the website knows what they're doing.

516
00:37:23.795 --> 00:37:27.610
They've organized content for me to be to find things easily.

517
00:37:27.610 --> 00:37:30.430
So there's also a convenience factor that you're providing,

518
00:37:31.130 --> 00:37:31.950
to the user.

519
00:37:32.650 --> 00:37:37.450
I'm just gonna make this a little high level here for those user, higher level users out there.

520
00:37:37.450 --> 00:37:38.590
These are in

521
00:37:39.474 --> 00:37:44.775
bootstrap columns, in this case it's six. So if we increase this to 10, it goes up to 12,

522
00:37:45.395 --> 00:37:48.355
we should have more space here for the quick search.

523
00:37:48.355 --> 00:37:51.815
Just to show you an example here, we can see that extends out a bit further,

524
00:37:52.355 --> 00:37:54.535
by changing the, the coal MD

525
00:37:54.890 --> 00:37:55.950
in the code here,

526
00:37:56.490 --> 00:38:01.070
between one and twelve. In our case, we had six and just increased it to 10.

527
00:38:01.210 --> 00:38:07.390
And one other good use case for this one would be, you know, if someone has a national or even a statewide

528
00:38:07.770 --> 00:38:08.270
directory

529
00:38:08.785 --> 00:38:12.645
and you wanna show search results or link users to search results

530
00:38:13.025 --> 00:38:14.805
for specific areas,

531
00:38:15.105 --> 00:38:18.645
you could pick out, you know, the top metro areas that you wanna target

532
00:38:18.945 --> 00:38:22.230
and link to those as well here instead of categories

533
00:38:22.530 --> 00:38:23.750
or specific keywords.

534
00:38:24.690 --> 00:38:27.670
Absolutely. Let's let's do Los Angeles as an example,

535
00:38:28.450 --> 00:38:33.430
just as a quick example. So to get the link for that, you can do a search for

536
00:38:33.885 --> 00:38:39.905
Los Angeles and technically everything after the first forward slash is how you get to,

537
00:38:40.365 --> 00:38:42.545
this page. So I could copy this

538
00:38:42.845 --> 00:38:45.025
all this code here and put that

539
00:38:45.405 --> 00:38:46.945
as my href code.

540
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:51.540
Another thing you can do, again, a little higher level if you do a control u,

541
00:38:52.240 --> 00:38:55.360
web pages do have pretty URLs for Google.

542
00:38:55.360 --> 00:39:00.100
So this was a search for Los Angeles, so b d sites are really souped up for SEO.

543
00:39:00.895 --> 00:39:07.875
The canonical link here is what it's called is Los Angeles, so we have that here as well, canonical URL.

544
00:39:08.015 --> 00:39:10.595
And that's kinda the user the the pretty

545
00:39:10.975 --> 00:39:19.820
user facing one, but if you notice if you go to Amazon and you conduct a search, that that URL looks crazy, because it's doing a bunch of dynamic searches.

546
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:25.880
That's usually what the case when you're using forms on a site, but they all come back to a canonical URL.

547
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:28.060
So in this case, we can do,

548
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:30.380
forward slash Los Angeles.

549
00:39:31.125 --> 00:39:34.965
Oops. Yeah. We can do that. And again, we don't need the full URL. We could use it.

550
00:39:34.965 --> 00:39:36.245
That's called the absolute URL.

551
00:39:36.245 --> 00:39:41.545
We just need the first forward slash, and we'll put Los Angeles here. And we'll save the changes.

552
00:39:42.165 --> 00:39:44.105
And if we come back to the home page,

553
00:39:44.420 --> 00:39:47.320
we can see Los Angeles is here, and we'll click on that.

554
00:39:47.700 --> 00:39:50.680
And we're back to the Los Angeles results here.

555
00:39:51.300 --> 00:39:54.040
So already making it easy to to use this website.

556
00:39:54.260 --> 00:39:56.920
Anything else we should cover there, David, with the quick searches?

557
00:39:57.585 --> 00:40:02.244
I think that covers it. Really direct users to, any specific

558
00:40:02.545 --> 00:40:07.845
search results pages or other pages that you kinda wanna hyperfocus on.

559
00:40:08.065 --> 00:40:10.224
You've you've given me another great idea here.

560
00:40:10.224 --> 00:40:20.369
So perhaps your main search is for searching members or business listings on the site, business services on the site, but maybe the quick search is other parts of your site.

561
00:40:20.609 --> 00:40:25.109
Let me just show you. So what we can do are the different post types. So

562
00:40:25.410 --> 00:40:26.549
we can do events,

563
00:40:28.125 --> 00:40:28.625
coupons,

564
00:40:29.165 --> 00:40:33.325
and again this I'm just using examples that are kind of in line with a local business directory.

565
00:40:33.325 --> 00:40:34.465
If you're already serving

566
00:40:35.085 --> 00:40:45.520
a specific region like Los Angeles, then having a link to the events would make sense because we're already just we are we're already in Los Angeles, and we're just gonna see Los Angeles events.

567
00:40:45.520 --> 00:40:47.380
So we would link to that post types

568
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:50.000
URL. So, yeah, it can be,

569
00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:53.140
more categories, it could be specific locations,

570
00:40:53.565 --> 00:40:57.185
it could be to post types, or it could be a combination of all those.

571
00:40:57.565 --> 00:41:00.845
Alright. Let's move down here to the the blurb here.

572
00:41:00.845 --> 00:41:04.385
So in this case, we did upload an image to the media manager,

573
00:41:05.085 --> 00:41:09.980
and we just put some simple text here. I love this solution, we use it every day.

574
00:41:10.040 --> 00:41:14.940
It could be a testimonial of a member, it could be a testimonial of an advertiser,

575
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:17.340
it could be a badge that you've received

576
00:41:17.640 --> 00:41:18.940
from or an accolade

577
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.300
from some kind of industry specific organization,

578
00:41:23.415 --> 00:41:25.655
and you can put your star rating there.

579
00:41:25.655 --> 00:41:34.155
So just some kind of a social proof so that when people arrive to your website, they can see that others are benefiting from your service.

580
00:41:34.215 --> 00:41:38.155
You know, especially if you just launched your website and you're a brand new

581
00:41:38.510 --> 00:41:43.410
entity, we did do a webinar on this, how to immediately establish credibility for your site.

582
00:41:43.710 --> 00:41:46.290
These are some simple things you can do on your homepage,

583
00:41:46.910 --> 00:41:52.365
that can kind of, earn the trust of visitors who may be finding you for the first time.

584
00:41:52.445 --> 00:41:57.325
So let's take a look at the the Google Doc here. Dave, thanks for putting this together.

585
00:41:57.325 --> 00:42:03.505
Super helpful. Testimonial blurb. Here it is. So in this case, there are basically two components,

586
00:42:04.285 --> 00:42:05.185
the testimonial

587
00:42:05.565 --> 00:42:06.065
image.

588
00:42:06.789 --> 00:42:08.890
And over here we have the src

589
00:42:09.190 --> 00:42:11.369
equals and then in between the quotes

590
00:42:12.069 --> 00:42:17.690
is the full file name of the image. So if you're uploading an image to your media manager,

591
00:42:18.150 --> 00:42:22.265
let me show you how you can get that URL. Let's do that together.

592
00:42:22.805 --> 00:42:27.924
Let's go to the media manager. Let's use this image here of this star rating. It's a circle image.

593
00:42:28.164 --> 00:42:32.645
Again, you could upload the image of somebody's face or a badge or what have you.

594
00:42:32.645 --> 00:42:34.744
But when you're here in the media manager,

595
00:42:35.349 --> 00:42:39.369
just right click on the image and the copy URL,

596
00:42:39.990 --> 00:42:44.650
and now we can see the URL of the image. I'm gonna copy this,

597
00:42:45.270 --> 00:42:46.490
and let's go back

598
00:42:46.790 --> 00:42:49.450
to that widget we have here with the testimonial.

599
00:42:49.965 --> 00:42:52.225
Here it is, and I'm gonna replace this.

600
00:42:52.525 --> 00:42:56.625
So what we wanna do is paste the image in between the quotation marks,

601
00:42:57.165 --> 00:43:01.265
and that will be our new image here. Let's take a look at the home page.

602
00:43:01.565 --> 00:43:04.705
There we go. So now it's the picture of the star.

603
00:43:05.120 --> 00:43:09.060
So when you add something to your media manager, if you ever kinda wanna get that

604
00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:16.420
full URL of the image and because you're gonna use it in different places like I just showed, you add it to the media manager, right click,

605
00:43:17.055 --> 00:43:18.575
and you can just paste it.

606
00:43:18.575 --> 00:43:25.075
And of course, you don't need the full URL if you're using it on your own website, you can just take it from the first forward slash.

607
00:43:25.775 --> 00:43:28.115
So in this example, we could have done,

608
00:43:28.734 --> 00:43:29.234
just

609
00:43:29.790 --> 00:43:33.330
forward slash images and the verified member png.

610
00:43:33.630 --> 00:43:35.730
And then the second part is the testimonial

611
00:43:36.030 --> 00:43:40.450
text. In this case we said I love this solution, let's go back to the doc here.

612
00:43:41.230 --> 00:43:44.935
We've added it here, and then the person's name is in a small tag.

613
00:43:44.935 --> 00:43:49.355
It just makes it a little smaller for for styling. We did a hyphen and their name.

614
00:43:49.655 --> 00:43:53.115
You can remove this if you want. If you don't wanna show somebody's name,

615
00:43:53.655 --> 00:43:55.755
or you can actually get a testimonial

616
00:43:56.055 --> 00:44:00.289
of somebody, and you'll have a small blurb here. David and I were chatting.

617
00:44:00.589 --> 00:44:04.690
We thought actually, just depending on how many you're using on your site,

618
00:44:05.309 --> 00:44:19.115
maybe these the blue sign up button or whatever color you're gonna use for the sign up, and the testimonial can go above or below each other so they're next to each other so you're reading a testimonial and then that's kind of a motivation to want to join the site as well.

619
00:44:19.115 --> 00:44:22.175
So you might wanna put the join and the testimonial

620
00:44:22.555 --> 00:44:26.050
in closer proximity to each other just as an option there.

621
00:44:26.050 --> 00:44:27.990
Some things to think about when you're choosing

622
00:44:28.369 --> 00:44:32.950
which one of these to add to your home page. And another actual example

623
00:44:33.329 --> 00:44:39.555
going along with this, it would require modifying the code a little bit, but if you get a little creative, we've shown avvo.com

624
00:44:39.555 --> 00:44:41.975
in some previous webinars, a lawyer directory,

625
00:44:42.435 --> 00:44:44.055
avv0.com.

626
00:44:44.275 --> 00:44:47.655
But if you wanna kind of either feature specific members

627
00:44:48.035 --> 00:44:58.580
in your hero section or even sell the hero section as kind of featured ad space, you could use a photo of one of your members as the main hero image, and then you can add some additional information,

628
00:44:59.520 --> 00:45:00.340
as text

629
00:45:00.640 --> 00:45:02.320
into the hero section here.

630
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:07.365
Avvo has their name, number of reviews, phone number, that sort of stuff. Yeah. Absolutely.

631
00:45:07.365 --> 00:45:10.185
You can do kinda like a takeover of the homepage,

632
00:45:10.725 --> 00:45:13.225
in a way. Again, mixing and matching

633
00:45:13.685 --> 00:45:19.865
the background image to match the the testimonial text or sponsorship text on the homepage.

634
00:45:20.380 --> 00:45:23.119
Great way to sell ad space on your site.

635
00:45:23.340 --> 00:45:27.440
And even in this example, if they gave this away to Aaron Langstein

636
00:45:28.220 --> 00:45:36.865
for free for whatever reason, if I was a lawyer on this website, I would be emailing and asking how I can get my, my face on there on the home page.

637
00:45:37.405 --> 00:45:47.940
So it's a great way to you can always give the first one out complimentary to someone and that should create some excitement from other members who might wanna be represented on your home page as well.

638
00:45:48.020 --> 00:45:51.880
And, yeah, that just goes back to the last one here is

639
00:45:52.260 --> 00:45:56.920
this is, basically this is just an image here. We just googled sample

640
00:45:57.220 --> 00:46:01.319
banner ad image, but this could be an image you create, it could showcase

641
00:46:01.859 --> 00:46:03.240
a service you're offering,

642
00:46:03.605 --> 00:46:07.385
so it can be an internal banner ad that promotes one of your own services,

643
00:46:07.765 --> 00:46:13.305
it could be an affiliate link to something else, really it's customer's choice here what you want to put,

644
00:46:13.605 --> 00:46:20.780
but let me show you where we did add that in the code if we scroll down here, it's it's probably the simp one of the simpler ones.

645
00:46:20.780 --> 00:46:25.500
Let me just refresh this for a moment. And I'll just add some spaces so it's really easy to see.

646
00:46:25.500 --> 00:46:27.520
I'll I'll reference the Google Doc, but,

647
00:46:27.820 --> 00:46:30.300
in this case, it's just a banner add URLs.

648
00:46:30.300 --> 00:46:43.115
Oh, you don't have to make it a link, but in this case, we're linking it to the join page when you click on it, and then the image src so we've added, just a banner that we uploaded to the media manager here which just showed you how to grab that image

649
00:46:43.655 --> 00:46:46.635
and let's reference it in the Google doc, it'll be up here.

650
00:46:47.095 --> 00:46:48.715
So same thing here. So

651
00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:54.880
here we have the banner ad and the the banner URL and then the banner image itself.

652
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:57.940
So everything in between that src here.

653
00:46:58.240 --> 00:47:01.280
And that's basically it in a nutshell. We can we can get deeper.

654
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:04.185
I think there was one bonus thing we wanted to share.

655
00:47:04.345 --> 00:47:09.885
If you're a hire, we created these because it was hard to slip in content for web designers,

656
00:47:10.265 --> 00:47:13.245
they were having to edit the more complicated homepage

657
00:47:13.545 --> 00:47:16.560
widget that included all the homepage code in it.

658
00:47:16.640 --> 00:47:22.340
So now they can just customize some empty widgets and put these little snippets of code in there.

659
00:47:22.720 --> 00:47:27.220
Just one more thing and this would definitely require a designer's touch is,

660
00:47:27.520 --> 00:47:32.894
what we've seen some other people do in addition to these simpler things. I'm gonna use an example.

661
00:47:33.914 --> 00:47:38.414
Corey Barnes from our previous webinars, he's done some good customizations on his home page.

662
00:47:38.714 --> 00:47:44.095
But with this update, it will be less cumbersome and a bit simpler to kind of have tapped,

663
00:47:45.035 --> 00:47:45.755
home page,

664
00:47:46.154 --> 00:47:47.100
so you can have,

665
00:47:47.580 --> 00:47:49.760
the tab the tab content above

666
00:47:50.060 --> 00:47:53.200
and depending on what you're clicking on, it kinda changes,

667
00:47:53.740 --> 00:47:56.240
what's here. And we can see they're also using,

668
00:47:56.780 --> 00:47:58.160
some quick links here,

669
00:47:58.540 --> 00:48:00.560
right under the search module.

670
00:48:00.620 --> 00:48:04.855
So just something else that a little higher level web designers can consider,

671
00:48:05.315 --> 00:48:07.735
this should make it a bit easier for them.

672
00:48:08.035 --> 00:48:12.215
And anything else we should cover before we start taking some some questions, David?

673
00:48:12.515 --> 00:48:16.295
I think that covers it. You know, these are some great overall general

674
00:48:16.650 --> 00:48:24.890
use cases that could be used here by just copying the code that we've provided and editing the the text that's displayed and any links in there.

675
00:48:24.890 --> 00:48:33.714
But, yeah, if if you're a designer or you've got some experience with HTML or CSS, you you could really go crazy and and put whatever you want in in these custom widgets now.

676
00:48:34.174 --> 00:48:34.494
That's right.

677
00:48:34.494 --> 00:48:44.434
And we showed before getting into this some of the simpler ways, the point and click set settings as I like to call them of how to add custom content to the home page by using the available text editor.

678
00:48:44.820 --> 00:48:47.140
So again, this is just a little a little bit more,

679
00:48:47.780 --> 00:48:55.620
intermediate level, for those people that want to sneak in some additional things in between the title and the search box or below the search box there.

680
00:48:55.780 --> 00:48:59.295
So I guess with that we can move on to the questions section.

681
00:48:59.295 --> 00:49:02.255
Dave, thanks for so much for putting that together and those examples.

682
00:49:02.255 --> 00:49:07.954
I know a lot of people are going to appreciate that. I got Jim here. How you doing, Jim? Hey there.

683
00:49:08.255 --> 00:49:09.635
Really quick question actually.

684
00:49:10.015 --> 00:49:10.494
Please.

685
00:49:10.734 --> 00:49:18.519
In those new sections that we can create, I'm assuming that you're not restricting us, and we can put a small snippet of JavaScript in there.

686
00:49:18.900 --> 00:49:23.079
What I wanna do is to do a a call out to another server

687
00:49:23.380 --> 00:49:25.880
to grab basically, it'd be a rotating banner

688
00:49:26.260 --> 00:49:27.875
type thing. So I can display

689
00:49:28.415 --> 00:49:31.235
rotating banners in there instead of just a single banner.

690
00:49:31.775 --> 00:49:32.595
You can absolutely

691
00:49:33.135 --> 00:49:33.695
do that.

692
00:49:33.935 --> 00:49:38.335
If you're coding it, you might wanna add a delay on that so it doesn't because you'll be doing,

693
00:49:38.895 --> 00:49:40.815
an an external request to another,

694
00:49:41.215 --> 00:49:42.195
service, but

695
00:49:42.510 --> 00:49:47.970
adding a a time out or a delay on that, that way the rest of your home page doesn't slow down its load time.

696
00:49:48.110 --> 00:49:49.490
Oh, yeah. That's not a problem.

697
00:49:50.270 --> 00:49:53.630
But, yeah, you can certainly you can certainly do that. Yeah. You're welcome. Alright.

698
00:49:53.630 --> 00:49:58.505
Good question there from Jim. Yeah. You guys can embed, any type of JavaScript that you need,

699
00:49:58.885 --> 00:50:03.605
pretty much anywhere in the anywhere you can render a a widget. That brings up another good point.

700
00:50:03.605 --> 00:50:05.944
Not really having to do with JavaScript, but,

701
00:50:06.484 --> 00:50:08.505
if people who aren't familiar with

702
00:50:08.805 --> 00:50:13.620
HTML, CSS, JavaScript wanna add custom content to either of those,

703
00:50:14.080 --> 00:50:15.780
homepage hero section widgets

704
00:50:16.160 --> 00:50:25.700
other than the examples that we showed, they could just use the web page builder, you know, the the visual editor, build something there, copy that code, and drop it into the widgets.

705
00:50:26.035 --> 00:50:27.735
That's actually a great suggestion,

706
00:50:28.515 --> 00:50:29.235
as well.

707
00:50:29.875 --> 00:50:33.255
Let me let me show you guys what, what David's referring to there.

708
00:50:33.475 --> 00:50:36.135
So if we go to our web page builder,

709
00:50:36.595 --> 00:50:39.635
and we'll just create a new page. We don't need to save it, but,

710
00:50:40.560 --> 00:50:47.140
we can grab a content block. Maybe it's it's this one here. So now we have kind of four things here.

711
00:50:47.520 --> 00:50:50.980
And we went to code view. We could copy all this

712
00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:53.780
and paste this into the custom widget.

713
00:50:53.975 --> 00:51:00.075
So we would just copy all this and then come back to our our widget here and and paste it in here,

714
00:51:00.375 --> 00:51:02.615
as the example. Let's actually do that together.

715
00:51:02.615 --> 00:51:06.455
We'll we'll paste it in, right here and see what that looks like.

716
00:51:06.455 --> 00:51:09.255
I don't think it's gonna look pretty because we just did it blindly, but,

717
00:51:10.110 --> 00:51:11.810
let's hit save changes.

718
00:51:12.350 --> 00:51:15.630
Yeah. We could see here. So now we have kinda those four things.

719
00:51:15.630 --> 00:51:19.650
So we can use the web page builder to kinda manipulate our our code visually,

720
00:51:20.030 --> 00:51:28.405
or what we want to render visually and then paste the code view of that into the widget if we're not comfortable with, what's provided here in the Google Doc.

721
00:51:28.465 --> 00:51:32.565
Alright. Let's switch gears here. Thanks for that suggestion. A few hands up. We got Nadia.

722
00:51:32.705 --> 00:51:34.485
Nadia, I'll unmute your microphone.

723
00:51:35.025 --> 00:51:38.005
Maybe you can hear me now? Yeah. Perfectly. Where are you calling in from?

724
00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:41.000
Hi there. I'm I'm in New York. Okay. Great.

725
00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:43.900
Suburbs of New York, about thirty minutes away from New York City.

726
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:50.520
I have had BD for a very long time, but lately, I've been going full force with it because I wanna get it going.

727
00:51:50.520 --> 00:51:50.760
But,

728
00:51:51.905 --> 00:51:56.545
a couple of questions that I don't know whether or not it's been asked before, so bear with me.

729
00:51:57.425 --> 00:51:59.025
Is there a way with,

730
00:51:59.505 --> 00:52:03.365
the way the home page looks at the moment that when someone

731
00:52:04.240 --> 00:52:05.540
tries to do a search,

732
00:52:06.240 --> 00:52:08.020
that it could be directed

733
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:08.900
first

734
00:52:09.200 --> 00:52:09.700
to

735
00:52:10.160 --> 00:52:11.940
a sign on page for

736
00:52:12.640 --> 00:52:16.260
not paid members, but regular members so that you can utilize

737
00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:18.740
leads a little bit better.

738
00:52:19.724 --> 00:52:25.644
I don't know if there's a widget or something already involved with BG that that would allow something like that.

739
00:52:25.644 --> 00:52:26.704
Am I making sense?

740
00:52:28.045 --> 00:52:29.424
Yes. Let me

741
00:52:29.964 --> 00:52:30.464
so

742
00:52:32.230 --> 00:52:38.470
a a a brand new person comes to your home page and you have the search form there, the search module.

743
00:52:38.470 --> 00:52:40.250
Yes. So they type in,

744
00:52:40.790 --> 00:52:45.530
say, doctors as an example. Just just Yes. And then they hit the search button

745
00:52:46.025 --> 00:52:48.125
and Yeah. If they're not signed in already

746
00:52:48.585 --> 00:52:50.445
or they don't have an account already.

747
00:52:50.745 --> 00:52:52.845
If they don't have an account, then

748
00:52:53.465 --> 00:52:55.165
prompt them that to

749
00:52:55.705 --> 00:52:57.885
create an account to continue searching.

750
00:52:58.359 --> 00:52:58.859
Yeah.

751
00:52:59.160 --> 00:53:00.540
So there is I noticed

752
00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:07.260
that you what once you do that, I right now have it I don't have all the, members in.

753
00:53:08.359 --> 00:53:19.095
But right now, it directs you to a page and kind of populates it, I think, from Google, and they do have the ability to sign up or log in or sign up at the upper right corner, I believe.

754
00:53:19.475 --> 00:53:21.815
Sure. Let me was thinking something more

755
00:53:22.195 --> 00:53:23.575
within the body of the page.

756
00:53:24.355 --> 00:53:26.615
So I can show you a couple of things you can do.

757
00:53:26.700 --> 00:53:31.680
So with the member with the members only add on, you can go to edit post settings

758
00:53:32.380 --> 00:53:33.359
Okay. And

759
00:53:33.660 --> 00:53:36.640
cert you'll find the member listings one, the post type.

760
00:53:36.780 --> 00:53:41.839
And when you have the add on, you can or you could protect the search results pages.

761
00:53:43.325 --> 00:53:47.905
And with that, there's a few things that happen. So let's just go ahead and do that together.

762
00:53:48.365 --> 00:53:50.704
I may be able to get you, you know,

763
00:53:51.565 --> 00:53:56.224
80 50% there or a good percentage there together. So let's do it together.

764
00:53:57.020 --> 00:54:01.500
And I'm not logged in. We can see it's asking me to sign up. Let's just hit the search now button.

765
00:54:01.500 --> 00:54:04.000
It's gonna be a message, not a form.

766
00:54:04.460 --> 00:54:04.960
However,

767
00:54:05.339 --> 00:54:10.140
we could it says this content is for members only. Click to log in or become a member.

768
00:54:10.140 --> 00:54:12.675
So it's, like, the most basic thing you can show.

769
00:54:12.995 --> 00:54:17.975
But let me take it a step further for you because they might be a member, they're just not logged in at the moment.

770
00:54:18.595 --> 00:54:21.575
Okay. So what we can do is click to log in,

771
00:54:22.435 --> 00:54:25.495
or become a members here. But what we can do even better

772
00:54:25.955 --> 00:54:26.455
is

773
00:54:27.140 --> 00:54:28.520
go to the general settings,

774
00:54:29.060 --> 00:54:32.840
and what I would recommend doing is enabling the express,

775
00:54:33.860 --> 00:54:35.080
express member registration.

776
00:54:35.700 --> 00:54:40.280
And what this what this does is and we'll call it so it's gonna allow people to

777
00:54:41.045 --> 00:54:44.985
without going to, like, another sign up page is on the same page

778
00:54:45.525 --> 00:54:50.265
register as, like, your most basic type of user, like a general user. So they have,

779
00:54:50.725 --> 00:54:52.105
a login with an email,

780
00:54:52.485 --> 00:54:56.265
or just something that can help them register an email quickly so they can continue

781
00:54:56.940 --> 00:55:02.080
leaving a comment or favoriting a member or accessing a basic members only page.

782
00:55:02.700 --> 00:55:03.180
Okay.

783
00:55:03.180 --> 00:55:08.800
So let's do general user account and then you could do start with the express registration tab selected.

784
00:55:09.099 --> 00:55:10.965
I'll just go ahead and save that real quick.

785
00:55:12.165 --> 00:55:22.025
And what that's gonna do is anywhere your login form renders, so we can render the if we wanted to, this is these are all text labels so we could edit the text label and render,

786
00:55:22.725 --> 00:55:27.840
like a widget or a form here or what have you. If we do click to log in now actually,

787
00:55:28.300 --> 00:55:30.720
we're it's it's toggled with the create,

788
00:55:31.100 --> 00:55:34.640
register as a new account here or I can log in. So,

789
00:55:35.100 --> 00:55:36.960
basically, the express member registration

790
00:55:37.340 --> 00:55:42.385
will allow me to to register. Let's do test@test.com.

791
00:55:43.724 --> 00:55:44.224
K.

792
00:55:44.605 --> 00:55:46.145
And create my profile.

793
00:55:46.685 --> 00:55:49.405
And what this should do, it should keep me there's a set advanced setting.

794
00:55:49.405 --> 00:55:51.885
I'll see if it's enabled on this site, but it should keep me,

795
00:55:53.190 --> 00:55:55.910
on this same page. Let me see if it does. This actually logged me.

796
00:55:55.910 --> 00:56:01.069
There's an advanced setting so it'll allow me to proceed into that same page that I was just Oh, okay.

797
00:56:01.270 --> 00:56:01.770
So

798
00:56:02.070 --> 00:56:02.970
let me find

799
00:56:03.349 --> 00:56:06.970
that advanced settings because that would be a good final step for this as well.

800
00:56:07.494 --> 00:56:08.715
Search for express.

801
00:56:10.215 --> 00:56:11.494
This one was enabled.

802
00:56:11.494 --> 00:56:16.155
I have to see why it wasn't, but it reload the same web page after express member registration.

803
00:56:16.455 --> 00:56:20.395
So it's I'll I'll see why it didn't, but basically someone, they

804
00:56:20.910 --> 00:56:27.069
come to a a paywall or a members only wall, and you can quickly get more people to register that way.

805
00:56:27.069 --> 00:56:28.930
What what I like to do is

806
00:56:29.390 --> 00:56:42.454
I like to maybe show them the search results page which has some information on it, but protect the detail page that has all the members information on it or a post information on it like That's probably what I was trying to relay unsuccessfully.

807
00:56:42.994 --> 00:56:43.734
But yeah.

808
00:56:44.035 --> 00:56:48.615
So so in that case, let me show just one let me take it a step back. So,

809
00:56:49.230 --> 00:56:51.490
we don't necessarily want to protect

810
00:56:52.190 --> 00:56:55.970
the search results pages. So let me show you what we want to protect.

811
00:56:56.430 --> 00:56:58.130
So we'll go back to member listings

812
00:56:59.070 --> 00:57:01.090
and we're not gonna do that.

813
00:57:01.685 --> 00:57:03.065
And instead, so now

814
00:57:03.365 --> 00:57:05.525
any user can get to the search results page.

815
00:57:05.525 --> 00:57:10.825
They'll see some stuff, they'll see names and what have you. But if we go to the membership plans,

816
00:57:11.525 --> 00:57:12.025
and

817
00:57:12.485 --> 00:57:15.045
okay we have nine members in membership plan one.

818
00:57:15.045 --> 00:57:19.220
So you edit the membership plans and you can choose which ones are

819
00:57:19.520 --> 00:57:22.020
protected. So if we go to, I think it's

820
00:57:22.560 --> 00:57:23.380
search visibility,

821
00:57:23.920 --> 00:57:26.500
and when you again when you have the members only add on,

822
00:57:26.800 --> 00:57:32.035
you can choose which if their profile page so you can protect all their information here.

823
00:57:32.035 --> 00:57:33.335
So I'll just save that.

824
00:57:33.795 --> 00:57:37.955
So they might a visitor might see them in the search results, but when they get to

825
00:57:38.675 --> 00:57:40.215
and let's log out here

826
00:57:40.675 --> 00:57:46.089
and let's go back to a search and then I'll we can limited view of the results. But Right.

827
00:57:46.089 --> 00:57:48.010
So so I see For the Right. Exactly.

828
00:57:48.010 --> 00:57:57.690
So I see that the results here, but it's it's saying this content is for members only or I see the send a message button, but when I click it, it says this content is for members only.

829
00:57:57.690 --> 00:58:01.425
And, again, you can modify this message. This is the most basic type of message,

830
00:58:01.905 --> 00:58:04.885
but that's probably another way to do it. Okay.

831
00:58:05.265 --> 00:58:05.905
Well, I'm sorry.

832
00:58:05.905 --> 00:58:13.685
I didn't mean to take that much time, but the other, hopefully, very quick question is that once they get into that search page,

833
00:58:14.705 --> 00:58:15.925
as is right now,

834
00:58:16.410 --> 00:58:17.230
I imported

835
00:58:17.530 --> 00:58:20.349
a ridiculous amount of categories, I think,

836
00:58:20.809 --> 00:58:25.049
and it's like a never ending scroll on the page. Is there a way to kinda, like,

837
00:58:25.609 --> 00:58:31.470
I don't know what it's called, accordion file it or something so that it doesn't do an endless scroll to the bottom of the page?

838
00:58:31.835 --> 00:58:34.714
Can we see the can I see your site real quick? Is it possible? Yeah.

839
00:58:34.714 --> 00:58:37.934
It's, I I typed it in, but it's bluehoop.com.

840
00:58:38.154 --> 00:58:39.375
Okay. I see here.

841
00:58:40.714 --> 00:58:42.474
Bluehoop.com.

842
00:58:42.474 --> 00:58:43.934
Cool name. Thanks.

843
00:58:44.234 --> 00:58:46.654
Yeah. Let's just click the search button here.

844
00:58:47.820 --> 00:58:51.120
Do you see that? The filter by category section.

845
00:58:51.820 --> 00:58:52.320
So

846
00:58:52.620 --> 00:58:53.120
it's

847
00:58:53.420 --> 00:58:54.880
extensive, I feel like.

848
00:58:55.660 --> 00:58:58.700
Yes. Let me let me help you out here. Okay.

849
00:58:58.700 --> 00:59:05.734
I can we can actually well, I it's I guess it's subjective what people might wanna do, but, let me just help you out here.

850
00:59:05.955 --> 00:59:07.474
Alright. So what it's gonna do is,

851
00:59:08.035 --> 00:59:09.655
it's gonna have a max

852
00:59:10.435 --> 00:59:13.734
height of 300 pixels. I think 400 would be fine.

853
00:59:14.115 --> 00:59:16.775
And, let me add this for you,

854
00:59:17.140 --> 00:59:19.160
and that should be a little bit more manageable.

855
00:59:19.619 --> 00:59:21.000
Oh, thank you.

856
00:59:21.619 --> 00:59:22.920
Yeah. The I mean,

857
00:59:23.300 --> 00:59:26.840
when using that, it's good to it's when you have a lot, you have a lot.

858
00:59:27.380 --> 00:59:27.880
Yeah.

859
00:59:28.020 --> 00:59:35.675
But that's why the I guess if you're gonna do dynamic you might wanna switch to just this the regular search filter where people search one category at a time.

860
00:59:35.915 --> 00:59:38.895
But if if that's what you want, that's that's fine as well.

861
00:59:39.755 --> 00:59:42.655
But let me add this in here. So what I'm gonna do

862
00:59:43.115 --> 00:59:47.215
is in your Is there a way to easily do that instead of having to

863
00:59:47.799 --> 00:59:49.660
delete everything and redo it?

864
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:51.799
Yeah. Yeah. You could you could just,

865
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:55.180
yeah, you can just change the the search module here,

866
00:59:55.720 --> 00:59:56.539
on the sidebar.

867
00:59:57.240 --> 01:00:05.295
Let me just I I'd like to show you because I think it's also important to show other people as well, but let me just show you where you would view that because cause you might think you're you're stuck with that.

868
01:00:05.295 --> 01:00:05.795
So,

869
01:00:06.655 --> 01:00:08.655
this is the member's search results sidebar.

870
01:00:08.655 --> 01:00:11.955
So it's either gonna be in one of two places under edit post settings.

871
01:00:12.575 --> 01:00:14.595
We'll go back to the listings again.

872
01:00:14.975 --> 01:00:15.475
And

873
01:00:16.160 --> 01:00:20.820
so edit post settings, listings, search results design, and then additional settings.

874
01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:23.520
And let's see what you have here for these,

875
01:00:24.560 --> 01:00:28.800
search module to use. So you're actually not using these here. So I didn't use no.

876
01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:33.955
I didn't put them in yet. Yes. So It's it's I added it in. I imported it, but I didn't,

877
01:00:34.515 --> 01:00:38.515
apply any settings yet. That's that's fine. So you have it directly in the sidebar.

878
01:00:38.515 --> 01:00:41.675
So if we go to the sidebar manager, otherwise, you would choose Okay.

879
01:00:42.195 --> 01:00:45.210
You would choose this the search module you want here,

880
01:00:45.930 --> 01:00:48.670
but I think you have it here, member search results.

881
01:00:49.450 --> 01:00:49.950
And

882
01:00:50.410 --> 01:00:56.089
you have the dynamic category filter, but if we search for, and it's the sub and sub sub.

883
01:00:56.089 --> 01:00:57.710
So if we search for sub,

884
01:00:58.385 --> 01:01:02.724
here we go. So you're doing do you want the location search as well or just categories?

885
01:01:04.625 --> 01:01:08.645
Location search would be good because it's just for within a county.

886
01:01:08.785 --> 01:01:14.270
So So I'm gonna I'm gonna remove the dynamic category filtering. Let's remove the dynamic.

887
01:01:14.270 --> 01:01:18.030
We can add that back. K. And then you do have another search module here.

888
01:01:18.030 --> 01:01:19.410
So it might be search module.

889
01:01:19.710 --> 01:01:22.850
It might be redundant to have two there. Yes. Okay.

890
01:01:23.390 --> 01:01:23.890
K.

891
01:01:24.190 --> 01:01:30.895
And we can then save that. There we go. And let's refresh this. So what's nice about this is,

892
01:01:31.755 --> 01:01:33.115
find Rockland business directories.

893
01:01:33.115 --> 01:01:37.055
Now you could do specializing in, and it's nicely organized here.

894
01:01:37.355 --> 01:01:39.935
And if there's a sub if there's a subcategory

895
01:01:40.315 --> 01:01:42.175
where we can see, for example,

896
01:01:43.290 --> 01:01:47.530
attorney lawyers have a subcategory. So if someone did type in attorney

897
01:01:47.930 --> 01:01:48.430
oops.

898
01:01:48.890 --> 01:01:51.230
Oops. I guess let's see here.

899
01:01:51.530 --> 01:01:52.430
Food products.

900
01:01:53.130 --> 01:01:53.850
Yes. That was

901
01:01:54.570 --> 01:01:56.750
let's see. Some of these don't have sub subcategories.

902
01:01:57.735 --> 01:01:59.835
There we go. Restaurants has sub subcategories.

903
01:02:00.215 --> 01:02:01.755
So it does have it available.

904
01:02:02.055 --> 01:02:06.235
So then Ethiopian. This might be a little nicer because you have so many categories.

905
01:02:06.855 --> 01:02:11.275
The the dynamic category filter probably works well with maybe 10 to 20 categories.

906
01:02:11.859 --> 01:02:14.599
Otherwise, it's just hard for people to read what they're filtering out.

907
01:02:14.900 --> 01:02:18.980
Okay. And does this affect the the way the home page looks at all? No.

908
01:02:18.980 --> 01:02:22.900
This is just the sidebar on the on the The sidebar. Okay. Yeah.

909
01:02:22.900 --> 01:02:28.105
I'd recommend this one to stick with this one. Okay. Okay? Thank you. Thank you for your questions.

910
01:02:28.245 --> 01:02:31.045
Sure. Alright. I see a lot of hands came up here. Sorry, guys.

911
01:02:31.045 --> 01:02:35.125
That took a little longer, but I think it was helpful to to review. I got Karen. I got you, Karen.

912
01:02:35.125 --> 01:02:36.345
Let me unmute you.

913
01:02:36.725 --> 01:02:39.760
Hello. How are you? Good, Karen. How are you?

914
01:02:40.619 --> 01:02:45.599
So I'm this is referring back to something you touched on before with the previous

915
01:02:46.140 --> 01:02:46.640
chat,

916
01:02:47.099 --> 01:02:47.599
where,

917
01:02:49.020 --> 01:02:49.680
it was

918
01:02:50.060 --> 01:02:50.560
restricting

919
01:02:51.535 --> 01:02:52.195
the posts,

920
01:02:52.495 --> 01:02:53.715
like, members' posts,

921
01:02:54.335 --> 01:02:59.475
and where it prompts the user to create an account or log in to view the content.

922
01:02:59.935 --> 01:03:01.075
How do you customize

923
01:03:01.375 --> 01:03:03.955
what they they you said you can customize it

924
01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:04.780
wording,

925
01:03:06.040 --> 01:03:07.880
the click head of login or whatever.

926
01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:12.220
How do you where do you find that to customize that that message that they get?

927
01:03:12.520 --> 01:03:17.180
Absolutely. Let's do that together on our sample demo site here. Just a moment.

928
01:03:17.575 --> 01:03:22.315
Great. Thank you. A quick example of that. I think that would also be a good value for everyone.

929
01:03:23.095 --> 01:03:27.195
Let me just get my bearings and go head back to the our little demo site here.

930
01:03:27.575 --> 01:03:28.555
Okay. Great.

931
01:03:28.935 --> 01:03:30.715
So let's, let's protect

932
01:03:31.350 --> 01:03:33.030
the some section of this site first.

933
01:03:33.030 --> 01:03:38.790
I'll just I'll just do the member search results page very quickly, and then we can, we can view it together.

934
01:03:38.790 --> 01:03:42.410
So let's protect that and save it and close these windows.

935
01:03:43.445 --> 01:03:46.985
Okay. Great. So let's head on over to the search now page.

936
01:03:47.365 --> 01:03:50.725
And I assume that it would be this this message here that pops up.

937
01:03:50.725 --> 01:03:53.945
Would that be the same regardless of whether you were protecting

938
01:03:54.965 --> 01:03:56.430
search results or,

939
01:03:57.390 --> 01:04:00.849
at at member level that you're protecting the post

940
01:04:01.230 --> 01:04:01.730
content

941
01:04:02.109 --> 01:04:04.450
Correct. So for that member yep. Great.

942
01:04:04.589 --> 01:04:09.515
So keep in mind that it'll be a generic protected page message for the website.

943
01:04:09.655 --> 01:04:13.275
So keep that in mind. So so it's universe more universal.

944
01:04:13.655 --> 01:04:15.515
So there's a couple things we can do.

945
01:04:16.375 --> 01:04:20.795
The first thing we can do is we can just change the text and I'm gonna show you,

946
01:04:21.560 --> 01:04:25.560
what we can do just doing that and then I'll show you how we can edit the widget real quick.

947
01:04:25.560 --> 01:04:27.980
So we'll do show text labels here.

948
01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:28.780
Okay.

949
01:04:29.080 --> 01:04:36.780
And we can see kind of the sentence is made up of of a few different text labels everywhere it breaks orange yellow is its own text label.

950
01:04:38.325 --> 01:04:43.625
Okay. And we have this little pop up down here, which is helpful. So we can search for things.

951
01:04:44.725 --> 01:04:48.585
This content is four and then it says members only. So

952
01:04:48.885 --> 01:04:49.385
this,

953
01:04:49.845 --> 01:04:55.000
oops, this content is four. So if I wanted just like a long You can you can change it.

954
01:04:55.000 --> 01:05:00.619
Now let's say you don't you don't want the break because you wanna put something longer, we could just delete this part here.

955
01:05:01.079 --> 01:05:06.725
We can save that and just give it a second to look. So now it says members only, right?

956
01:05:06.725 --> 01:05:09.785
Let's just let's get rid of the text labels just as an example.

957
01:05:09.925 --> 01:05:13.065
So it just says mem it doesn't say this content is for,

958
01:05:13.445 --> 01:05:15.225
it's a little more concise here.

959
01:05:15.445 --> 01:05:22.190
But let's say now we can just put a longer singular message here and let me take it a step further for you as well.

960
01:05:22.330 --> 01:05:25.390
Let me show you the extent of what you can add here actually.

961
01:05:26.250 --> 01:05:31.470
Let's go to YouTube real quick, and we can all see what Jason is watching on YouTube.

962
01:05:31.885 --> 01:05:34.685
Let's see what comes up and let's grab some embed code here.

963
01:05:34.685 --> 01:05:37.185
We'll take the, here we go, calm night jazz.

964
01:05:37.645 --> 01:05:43.745
And we're gonna copy the embed code and you can see where we're going with this already and we'll just copy that.

965
01:05:44.205 --> 01:05:44.705
And

966
01:05:45.050 --> 01:05:47.869
the reason I wanna show this is the text labels

967
01:05:48.490 --> 01:05:53.230
don't Oops. I got rid of it. The text labels don't only just support text.

968
01:05:53.290 --> 01:05:57.630
You can actually put a widget inside of there or render a form.

969
01:05:57.690 --> 01:06:03.805
So if you wanted a form there, I think the previous Nadia wanted a or I forgot who it was, but wanted a form there.

970
01:06:04.025 --> 01:06:05.645
So if we search for members

971
01:06:06.265 --> 01:06:06.765
only,

972
01:06:07.305 --> 01:06:09.325
let's have it find that. There we go.

973
01:06:10.025 --> 01:06:11.145
So we can do,

974
01:06:11.465 --> 01:06:13.405
we'll just delete this and put a video.

975
01:06:14.070 --> 01:06:15.370
Well, that's my son.

976
01:06:16.070 --> 01:06:18.890
Let's let's cross our fingers here and see what happens.

977
01:06:19.430 --> 01:06:22.250
And there we have the the video here. So,

978
01:06:23.350 --> 01:06:26.730
I'll just leave it at that for now, but here you can see.

979
01:06:27.305 --> 01:06:30.665
You're right. We can have a video. It can be a it doesn't have to be a YouTube video.

980
01:06:30.665 --> 01:06:33.565
Some people don't like that because it has, like, links to other,

981
01:06:33.945 --> 01:06:38.925
videos at the end, but it can be a Vimeo. And, again, you can render a form here,

982
01:06:39.385 --> 01:06:42.270
or whatever you want. Wow. That's good. Excellent.

983
01:06:42.650 --> 01:06:43.150
Okay.

984
01:06:43.609 --> 01:06:47.470
So I hope that kinda gave you some ideas on on the direction you can go with that.

985
01:06:47.849 --> 01:06:51.930
Brilliant. Yeah. No. That's perfect. Thank you. You're welcome. Good questions. Thank you, Karen.

986
01:06:51.930 --> 01:06:52.430
Alright.

987
01:06:53.049 --> 01:06:54.829
Let's scroll back down here.

988
01:06:55.164 --> 01:06:57.984
Alright. Vincent, I got you unmuted here. How you doing?

989
01:06:58.285 --> 01:07:00.785
Hey. Long time no see. Yeah, buddy. How you doing?

990
01:07:01.085 --> 01:07:04.365
Hey. I'm I'm ready to get back in the saddle with I've got a,

991
01:07:05.164 --> 01:07:09.424
well, I've been using the sites, but now I'm I I'm getting a lot more serious about

992
01:07:11.040 --> 01:07:13.940
trying to do things with them. I've got a client that,

993
01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:17.220
wants the, the form fill.

994
01:07:17.600 --> 01:07:20.100
Like, when they fill out the form, they want it to go

995
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:23.060
through, like, a webhook or something to their CRM,

996
01:07:23.495 --> 01:07:26.155
and I saw how you were talking about the webhook earlier.

997
01:07:26.695 --> 01:07:31.735
Yeah. I have a demo that I can share with you that we did in a previous webinar tip of the week.

998
01:07:31.735 --> 01:07:33.515
I'll share that link with you. Great.

999
01:07:33.975 --> 01:07:36.075
The same concept should apply for,

1000
01:07:36.740 --> 01:07:37.559
any form

1001
01:07:37.859 --> 01:07:38.180
and,

1002
01:07:39.140 --> 01:07:43.240
any platform you're sending the webhook the data to via the web webhook.

1003
01:07:43.619 --> 01:07:44.980
I think we did it with the Mailchimp.

1004
01:07:44.980 --> 01:07:49.319
You you know, are you using, Mailchimp, or what was the other one that you mentioned? Zapier?

1005
01:07:50.145 --> 01:07:55.525
Right. So we we use Zapier as the conduit as as the way to,

1006
01:07:56.785 --> 01:08:00.725
capture the webhook and then send it to any platform we desire.

1007
01:08:00.785 --> 01:08:03.365
There's other solutions like Pabbly as well.

1008
01:08:05.330 --> 01:08:06.150
Some some solutions

1009
01:08:06.690 --> 01:08:09.990
can accept webhooks on their own, but these tools make it incredibly

1010
01:08:10.290 --> 01:08:10.790
simple.

1011
01:08:12.130 --> 01:08:17.670
So I think it was yeah. Sync your brilliant directory's data with Mailchimp. Let me just check here.

1012
01:08:18.085 --> 01:08:22.404
Yeah. Let's send b d data to Mailchimp adding a webhook and and all that good stuff.

1013
01:08:22.404 --> 01:08:23.604
So let me share this link.

1014
01:08:23.604 --> 01:08:31.704
And if you have additional if this video doesn't cover everything that you need help with, you can ask in the Facebook group, Vincent, or or the support team as well.

1015
01:08:31.939 --> 01:08:35.560
Thank you so much. Yeah. And then also, I want that Zapier one too.

1016
01:08:36.020 --> 01:08:39.219
I'll, oh, there it is right there. Zapier API. Yeah.

1017
01:08:39.219 --> 01:08:43.699
The other thing is I one of you one real quick, your thoughts on the chat g p,

1018
01:08:44.179 --> 01:08:47.719
t thing. I I use it to all the time,

1019
01:08:48.154 --> 01:08:54.015
but I take the code and I put it into note, you know, and then I clear out any code behind it.

1020
01:08:54.075 --> 01:08:57.055
And then I don't use the code exact the content exactly

1021
01:08:57.995 --> 01:09:00.654
as you know, I don't take all the check I I kinda

1022
01:09:01.114 --> 01:09:02.975
add my own content to theirs.

1023
01:09:03.770 --> 01:09:08.590
But it it's been a lot of stuff where Google is kinda upset with this and calling it spam.

1024
01:09:09.529 --> 01:09:13.550
Do you think that that having the API on our site is a problem?

1025
01:09:14.489 --> 01:09:16.590
I I don't. I think the best practices,

1026
01:09:17.770 --> 01:09:18.345
I think

1027
01:09:18.825 --> 01:09:21.485
that the content that chat GPT prints

1028
01:09:21.865 --> 01:09:29.165
should be a starting point or a way to kind of figure out ideas or fill in the gaps of an idea that you've already started.

1029
01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:33.020
So if you've written an what I'm doing right now.

1030
01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:34.600
And that's exactly right.

1031
01:09:34.600 --> 01:09:44.540
But what do you think so here, like, when I get the code, I take it completely out of chat g b t, and I put it into a thing that clears all the all the code out of the background.

1032
01:09:44.895 --> 01:09:50.335
Do you think that when you're using the API and it goes straight into your word your,

1033
01:09:51.054 --> 01:09:52.994
brilliant directory site, do you think

1034
01:09:53.295 --> 01:09:58.910
is there any code in there from the Good question. No. It's plain text, so there's no code. Okay.

1035
01:09:58.910 --> 01:10:03.890
Okay. Yeah. That's why you have to that's why when it comes in, it breaks it all up.

1036
01:10:04.510 --> 01:10:08.530
I I was wondering about that. The only thing that it adds is,

1037
01:10:08.990 --> 01:10:11.410
are the line breaks, but there's no other

1038
01:10:11.985 --> 01:10:16.545
code embedded inside of the plain text that you're seeing to answer your question. Okay.

1039
01:10:16.545 --> 01:10:21.125
That's that's exactly I didn't know if I had to take it out and then put it back in.

1040
01:10:21.425 --> 01:10:21.665
No.

1041
01:10:21.665 --> 01:10:27.880
You can continue editing it and modifying it after it's after it's printed its text for you Right there in the edit.

1042
01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:29.420
Great. Lots of lots of

1043
01:10:29.880 --> 01:10:34.599
exciting things to get caught up on here. Absolutely. Yeah. Glad to hear you you're using that one.

1044
01:10:34.599 --> 01:10:38.780
It was it was a big update that that we were happy to release. Alright. Well, thanks, Vincent.

1045
01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:40.219
Good stuff there. Thank you.

1046
01:10:40.575 --> 01:10:46.015
Alright. Well, guys, thank you for another amazing webinar. I didn't even realize we went over time.

1047
01:10:46.015 --> 01:10:47.395
That's perfectly fine.

1048
01:10:47.695 --> 01:10:52.255
If we didn't get to your questions, please feel free to ask them in the Facebook group.

1049
01:10:52.255 --> 01:10:54.415
You can go to brilliantdirectories.com

1050
01:10:54.415 --> 01:10:55.715
forward / facebook,

1051
01:10:56.030 --> 01:10:59.150
and the next webinar will be in two weeks.

1052
01:10:59.150 --> 01:11:04.610
We'll post the replay in the Facebook group, in just about, twenty minutes or so.

1053
01:11:04.750 --> 01:11:06.610
And, yeah, on behalf of myself,

1054
01:11:06.937 --> 01:11:11.817
David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, it's been a pleasure being with you guys here today.

1055
01:11:11.817 --> 01:11:16.217
Thank you guys so much. Have a great day and a brilliant week. We'll catch you in the next one.

1056
01:11:16.217 --> 01:11:16.717
Cheers.