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Alright let's dive right into it let's save some time from everyone we got an awesome webinar and if this is your first time joining us welcome

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

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David, thanks for taking the time to join us in today's webinar.

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Hey, everybody. Glad to be back for another webinar.

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We've got a really good tip of the week coming up. Really looking forward to this one. Absolutely.

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It is going to be a fun and it's it's been an exciting last few weeks here at at BD.

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and hit on that blue join button.

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All are welcome. And if you're not familiar with that group, it's a great way to get alternative

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support from fellow BDers.

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You can ask how to questions, strategy questions,

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see how other people are working on their site or implementing certain features.

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So it's a great way to grow and learn,

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about the platform.

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And

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also something fun happening this month in the Facebook group.

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It's not all just business in there.

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We have a free iPad giveaway that we're doing this month in November.

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I think the last one we did was back in July.

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That was tons of fun.

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And, again, hello out there to some of the new names and faces out there.

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Felipe,

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Leo,

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Lisa, and Mark, good to see you here. Just a little bit about webinar Wednesday.

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We push a lot of updates week after week in into the platform.

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Also, Also, thanks to you guys for your suggestions, your support tickets,

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your feature suggestions.

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And in the webinars, what we try to do is

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highlight some of the newer features that can help you grow your community a bit quicker.

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So we cover topics like increasing traffic,

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converting visitors to members, creating content, publishing and promoting content.

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That's actually gonna be part of the tip of the week today. So if you have questions,

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on any of these topics regarding your own website or any questions at all, we'll do our best to get to as many questions as we can in today's webinar,

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in just a few moments.

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But before we do that, let's dive into some of the lab updates, some of the noteworthy

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updates that were pushed into the platform,

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just over the last week or two,

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and we'll start there at the top. Let me see if Steven is on the webinar here.

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He asked about this one last time. I think that's the Steven. But

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smart list now,

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you can now create individual webhooks

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for specific smart lists, forms, and posts.

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Prior to this, if you're using webhooks with your smart list, it would group all the smart list types together

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and send all that data into the webhook. I'll quickly show you

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where this is.

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If we head on over to the admin area here and go to developer hub, and under webhooks,

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what you can do now is you can create a new webhook. Just look for that plus button there.

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And what's good now is you can

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if you have custom forms on your site, like if you have a landing page and you're capturing,

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email addresses and things like that, those are custom forms. You can create webhooks for those.

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Also for your in different post features like events, jobs, properties.

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So anytime a member creates or updates,

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a post, you can create individual smart lists to I mean, webhooks to send that data out.

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individual smart lists for the that data to get synced and sent with the webhook.

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So that is now available.

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If you're using webhooks and smart list, this should be quite useful for you.

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This next one here is related to the member's dashboard.

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I'll go there real quick. Now you have an option in the membership plan settings

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to display the member's recent transaction history.

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Let me show you what that looks like first. So,

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in the member's dashboard here, there is a new module that you can just turn on or off, and it will just show a stream of the member's paid, recently paid transactions

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on, your website. It could be for digital products, leads, their membership plan.

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It just shows three or four here, I guess, four in this case.

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And if they click view all, it will take them to the same link that the billing information goes to so they can see the full transaction history.

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Let me show you where this setting is.

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If we navigate to the admin area, again, it's under membership plans, so you can enable it per membership plan level.

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And we'll just go ahead and edit membership plan one.

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And this will be under the member's dashboard tab.

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And if we scroll down here under dashboard display settings, it's the newest one here, show recent transactions module.

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So, actually, I think this would be more useful than the QR code if you guys have the QR code

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enabled there,

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but it's up to you. You can choose what you want to enable and disable here. All right.

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This next one is related to the member's account status. So members can be active, inactive,

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There is a new one called incomplete.

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a few cases where members were signing up, specifically for paid

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and those members were being set as active,

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we've corrected that.

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And through this process, we've created a new account status called incomplete.

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payment on a membership plan sign up.

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If there's any glitch or whatever might happen, their Internet went in and out, they refresh the page,

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and you,

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will also receive a failed transaction email that always went out an an email to the admin owner when there are failed membership plan sign ups so you can be proactive, maybe follow-up with the member,

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based on their email address that they entered and so forth.

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But let me show you where this status is.

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If you go to search members

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and if we go to, account status here, we'll see a new one called incomplete.

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Now, again, this is going to be used by the system,

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paid membership plan sign ups,

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you know, something doesn't complete properly,

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during that process, they'll be set as incomplete.

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But this is an alternate status that you could use,

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for other things as well if you need to kind of group or segment members, in other certain ways.

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This status is now available for you to use, as well. Alright.

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This next one here is related both to digital products and coupon codes.

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So with the digital products add on, it allows you to create additional services,

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that you can sell to your members,

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and you can create coupon codes.

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So maybe you're selling SEO services, marketing services, you're gonna sell an email blast or boost,

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or in person services that you're offering your members.

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You do have the ability to clone post types.

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So a lot of people clone their blog post type, and use and call it something else and use it for another type of,

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type of content they wanna publish. So people were cloning

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their digital product post types, but weren't able to create

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coupons

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for coupon codes for those cloned digital product post types.

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Now you can do do that, so it's working as expected. So you can get really granular,

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with creating coupon codes for just about anything that you're selling through your

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website, including if you've cloned the digital products post type and called it something else.

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We've seen people clone it for to sell workshops,

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and other things like that, tickets and so on and so forth. Alright.

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This next one also kind of related to finance.

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You now have the ability to search transactions

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by the product name or keyword. I'll show you why that's, kind of helpful here.

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If we go to the finance tab in the transaction history,

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this is a demo site.

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There are no transactions on it, but I should be able to explain what's happening here.

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So this is the new field here, search product name.

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And prior to this, you were able to search based on membership plan and how much revenue that membership plan

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has generated for you or just searching the transaction history for people who are,

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signed up to that membership plan.

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But again, if you're selling digital products and you're looking for a specific name of a product in your transaction history, again, maybe you sold a workshop,

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Those are not membership plans and we're not showing in this dropdown. So now you could search for,

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workshop if that was the name of the post for the digital product.

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You can search for digital products in general.

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Anything that's part of the name of the product that they purchased,

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you could now search for here, including leads,

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pay per post.

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You were not able to search for those prior, but now you can search for, all those individual and alternate transactions.

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Or if you have a group of membership plans

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and you just wanna search a partial name, so you just wanna search the word plan and it'll find all products that have the name plan in the name.

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So that gives you a little bit more broader search than selecting just one membership plan as the product to search transactions for.

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For. And lastly, here, we did push, additional speed optimizations into the front end of websites,

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just ticking the needle a few points on the page speed scoring.

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It's just an ongoing, maintenance thing that we do at this point.

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The benchmarks for most BD sites are pretty quick. If you ever notice your sites going

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scoring a bit lower, it might be because you've added maybe larger images there or, some tracking codes.

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You know, Facebook has pixels, HubSpot,

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analytics, Google Tag Manager.

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All these can contribute to slower page load times, but there are ways to remedy that based on where you're loading those scripts on your page and so forth.

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So BD team is here to kinda help and we can give a quick overview of maybe what might be some of those issues, but we definitely want everyone's sites to be nice and speedy.

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And some updates coming soon. A lot of you are using Zapier and Pabbly,

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to create workflow integrations between BD and other platforms.

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Up until now, when you're sending data out of your BD site and wanting to send it to a third party platform using Zapier, you would utilize the webhooks.

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We are creating dedicated triggers,

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so that you can actually set select brilliant directories as the trigger to initiate the workflow.

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One pro about that is the webhooks in Zapier is a premium feature.

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They want you to have a paid plan, in Zapier, but with the triggers,

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you don't need a paid premium plan, to utilize that.

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So this will just be an additional way to port out your data, to export your data out of your BD site and transfer and insure it with other platforms that you use.

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In addition to that, this one actually came up. A lot of people are excited for it.

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The profile tabs,

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the ability to scroll excessive tabs on mobile and desktop instead of stacking the tabs on the member's profile page one on top of each other, That should be released, I'd say, before November 20.

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It's going through its final QA. A few more checks, so we'll should have that released this month.

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And lastly here, the digital products,

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ability for members to revisit their confirmation pages and the emails they received after they purchase

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digital products for you.

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So maybe there was critical information in an email and they lost it, or there were additional steps after purchase on a confirmation page after they purchase a digital product, they'll be able to revisit that.

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Right now, they can't, and they're kind of at a stalemate. They purchase something.

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They don't know how to reaccess it.

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So this should help both with the support you're providing your members and,

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provide a bit more comfort to members who might need to kind of access this information again.

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In addition to that, we have lots of cards on our list here, in the development side.

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So speed, security, API, webhooks, and tons of quality of life features.

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I think in the next,

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the the next upcoming months, we've been working on it slowly, but we'll put a little bit more emphasis on it.

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It's just working on the text editor, just making it a bit more intuitive when you're clicking,

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and dragging things, and and so forth.

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So, we're just gonna put a little more focus on that, just make it a little more fluid and just reduce a little bit of aggravation some of you may be feeling,

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when you click around and it's not getting exactly pixel perfect the way that you want it. So,

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these are some of the amazing updates. Thanks to you guys.

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And before we move on to the tip of the week, I'm gonna lower everyone's hands.

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If you have a comment or a question on this slide on these topics here, feel free to raise your hand.

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We can take a question or two and, and then move on to the tip. Alright. Steven, I got you here.

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Alright. Can you hear me now? Yes, sir. How are you? Great. How how are you doing? Pretty good.

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I think you were the one at the that was asking about the smart lists

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last webinar. Yeah. You were. I apologize. I'm glad to see it. I appreciate it.

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Thank you so much for incorporating that. Absolutely. Definitely a great addition.

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Alright. Yeah. And thank you for the suggestion.

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We did push it up the list after you mentioned in the previous webinar.

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Great. Great. And, so quick question.

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Just one quick question regarding the coming soon, the Zapier, the new trigger.

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Is does that also apply to Pavly, or is it just Zapier?

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So we're gonna we're gonna, we're gonna get our beach, beachhead with Zapier and get it working there.

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And, normally, what our protocol has been is after things are working smoothly in in Zapier, we then we have contacts at Pabbly and Integrately.

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So then we kinda just kinda domino affected and relay them, ask them to update things on their end as well there.

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On Zapier, we do the updates ourself, but in Pabbly and Integrately, they they like to do the updates on their end for us.

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Okay. That's it. Alright. Thank you for the question. Good stuff there.

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Alright. I don't see any more hands up here.

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So, yeah, with that, we will move on to the tip of the week.

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David, if it's alright with you, I'll I'll pass over, today's tip of the week to you, and we can take it from there.

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Absolutely. So we've got a brand new add on, the stock photo library for posts add on.

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Over the last few weeks, we started rolling out a new feature for,

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all website admins. We're in the back end admin area. You've got access to the stock photo

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library. There's over 3,000,000

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And so, in the admin area, you're able to access this, for example, like when you're editing a web page.

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However, with this add on, what it does is it extends access to the stock photo library to your members as well.

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So, when they're, for example, publishing posts on your website, they can quickly and easily find and insert,

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stock photos directly into their posts, really just skyrocketing the value of, the content that's being published

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to your website. Yeah. And what's exciting about this is we started with this.

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Everyone's still and will always have access to these stock photos in the admin area and moving forward.

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As David mentioned this is an extension of that for the front end of your site when you're creating things like blog posts

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or anything where you're using the text editor on the front end of your sites.

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from the front end of your website, from like the member's perspective.

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But before we do that, just giving you a brief overview of the key features

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of this stock photo library for post add on. So your members would now have access

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there's over 3,000,000 stock photos that should be growing as time goes on.

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So they don't have to go to some third party website. They don't have to have a subscription

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or purchase specific stock photos.

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They'll just be able to open up the library, search for exactly what kind of photo they're looking for, and then with just one or two clicks be able to, to insert the images they want into the content that they're creating on your website.

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So you can enable access to the stock photo library either for individual members, if you only wanted specific, maybe a handful of members to have access to this.

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And you can also enable access to the stock photo library for all of the members within specific membership plans.

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So you can either enable this for individual members or on a membership plan basis.

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Before we dive into checking out some of the settings and some of the more benefits with this, we wanted to give you an idea of what this is and what it looks like on the front end when it's enabled on the front end of your website.

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So let's do a quick, setup. Let's write an article, and let's access some of these photos.

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stock photo add ons. We'll just close this bar here. So let's create a community article.

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So just very quickly, what you're gonna see when this is enabled is when you want to insert an image, you're going to have and again, we're on the front end of the website, not the admin.

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your you and your members can have this Pexels,

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And I'll just search for island,

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and we can see we get a ton of island images here.

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horizontal, vertical, or

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And I love using it with the chat GPT add on that we have because it can quickly spin an article with you and then you can marry it together

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with some quality imagery.

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I couldn't resist. So I do have a little bit of a prompt here that I wanted to use,

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spin up an article.

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This says write 500 words in the tone of a health magazine, use bullet lists, the benefits of hiking on weekends for heart health and longevity.

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I'll even add the word for seniors here just so it's even more specific.

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Specific articles are a lot better than broad articles.

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The more specific, the better.

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Speak from the perspective of how humans used to be more active, etcetera.

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this is always a good for content,

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this is always a good thing to add at the end right as if you're Quillbot or Grammarly to avoid AI detection.

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What that does is it helps chat GPT create a more humanized touch

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with its output, but this should work pretty well for this case.

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I don't wanna get too much into the chat GPT of it. We're gonna focus on the images.

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So let's have it write an article. Let's see if that's gonna work here.

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I just put the prompt here, highlighted it and click the button. And there we go.

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We do have an article here and it did get cut off mid sentence. You can just say finish

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writing. It does remember what it was doing, and it should be able to just piece these two together.

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After this, we'll add some images, there we go, that's the end of the article.

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So I'm just going to get rid of,

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finish writing, and I'm going to connect these two. So I wrote this article here,

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and we can go ahead and remove the response.

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And we can see here, The Hidden Treasure of A Pathway to Heart Health and Longevity.

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an image right here at the top, actually. So we'll go here, search for images,

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and type hiking,

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and we'll do a horizontal one here. Perfect.

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And we get all these amazing images. We'll just select this one here, we'll use a large one.

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And there we go.

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And we can come down here rediscovering our natural rhythm, the rise of sedentary lifestyles, that's another section in this article.

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sat on laptop. Let's see what we get with that, right?

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Sedentary lifestyle, we're just sitting at the computer all day. Hopefully

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we're all going out for walks.

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Let's put this one here. You can also choose the size, small, medium, or large.

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So a large image is 1,200 pixels, a medium is six fifty and a small is three fifty.

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So again, if, you should choose the size for the space you're using, if it's just a small thumbnail in the corner of the page, you might wanna use the small size.

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we'll just align this to the right

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And that should be good right there. And I'll just put an extra paragraph here. Perfect.

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I'll go ahead and save these changes for now.

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There we go. We didn't have to search the Internet.

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They're royalty free, so you don't have to pay for them.

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And what's cool is if you have the VIP add ons club, you have this on your site.

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We'll show you how to enable it in just a second.

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But we can see here it turns the plain text into kinda a more decorated

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I won't take too long doing that. We'll make them bold and

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wanna make them H2s,

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save the changes one more time.

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And one more thing here, what I'd like to do is we did use it with chat GPT,

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we use the pixels, but also if you have the pre made elements, which everyone does, especially for your blog posts,

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you can always drag those in here

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I kinda like these ones. So if you want people to to do something specific, you can.

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You can put a title, some text, and a button going to a signup page or an offer or something,

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that you're advertising or advertising for someone else.

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What's cool is you can click on an image and click on the replace button.

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is right there. You can obviously drag an image in, use a URL or now we can use pixels. So,

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let's search for happy hiking.

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we'll insert it. Images are so high quality, I love it.

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I don't wanna

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say too much of what's coming down the line, but just a sneak peek is you'll soon be able to select these stock photo libraries as the featured image.

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Right now, it is still from the computer.

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And then we are looking to team up with other stock photo libraries, so we could turn your 3,000,000

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very soon. But what we have here is already super powerful.

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I don't want to discount that, in any way. So let's just save this here,

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And we can see here we're just adding images, and everybody is happy.

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Dave, I'll pass things over back to you here about the benefits of having high quality images in your in your posts.

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So I think for the most part, most of these benefits are probably pretty self evident, but, the biggest one being the perceived value, not just of the content itself, but of our website and membership offerings and everything else as a whole,

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when the content that's being published to our website,

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is accompanied by these really high quality

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and relevant photos.

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Again, you know, this is really useful,

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if you're allowing your members to publish content on your website because instead of just publishing

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a bunch of text as a post, they can now really easily, really quickly

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find relevant and always high quality stock photos and insert those into their posts.

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So this also does help to increase engagement by capturing more attention and encouraging

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your website visitors to stay on the page a little bit longer.

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Again, you're probably probably more likely to stay on a web page if there's some high quality

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relevant images rather than just a long block of text. And, that also helps with readability.

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Breaking up long pieces of text

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using images

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makes the text and the post itself much more scannable and easier to read at a glance.

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It can also help boost the emotional appeal.

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It's a lot easier to appeal to website visitors, to your readers,

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through visual cues

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and and relevant images.

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So being able to quickly find and insert relevant images will help,

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connect better on a deeper level with your audience.

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It could also potentially help with a lower bounce rate,

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if visitors are more likely to then explore other content on your website, if they see that seemingly a lot of time and effort has been put into

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creating these, these posts and pieces of content, they might be more likely to see what other content you have on your website.

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It can also help with social sharing.

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I think we're all pretty familiar with, the types of posts that typically gain a lot of traction

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So being able to quickly find and insert these high quality relevant photos could potentially help with social sharing of, the posts that have been published to your website.

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It would also make it more likely that the members who are publishing these posts on your website,

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would be more inclined to share the posts on their own social media when they know that it's so easy and quick to add some graphics and images to their content.

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And then lastly, increased credibility.

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Just kind of as a whole packaging this all up. Overall,

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being able to insert these these images directly into the post and allowing the members to do it will make your content definitely look more authoritative

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and trustworthy.

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Again, if you know we're just comparing

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with high quality relevant images throughout

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to a post that's either entirely text or maybe only has like one featured image, we'd be much more likely to just immediately kind of intuitively

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trust and attribute more credibility

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to the piece of content that has those high quality images

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accompanying the text. Also, the benefit to us is our time.

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And also usually for stock photos, there are free resources out there, but our time to go leave leave the website, search, come back, or download it to your computer then upload it to the text editor.

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It just cuts out so much so many steps and so much save time.

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It should just allow all of us to create content a lot quicker on our sites and focus on other aspects of our business,

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effectively helping us grow our communities a lot quicker.

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So, this is just another one of those quality of life features that can help us all move at ninja speed now, moving forward when it comes to content.

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Alright. So let's get into the settings.

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First thing you wanna do is go to your advanced settings and search for for for well enabled stock photo library.

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which of your Froella editors because there's different ones with different settings.

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If you just want to access it for yourself, the website owner, you can tick tick all of these, but then only give yourself access.

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We'll talk about it in the next slide.

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That is the super admin one that's for you guys.

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But in my opinion, just go ahead and check them all, and then you can choose individual members or membership plans that would then have access to it in all three of their versions of the text editor.

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So let me show you where that is together. We can go to

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settings, advanced settings,

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and I'm just gonna search for stock.

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There we go. It's the first one there. Froella enable stock photos.

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So I've gone ahead and checked all three of these. That's the first thing everyone,

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should do. After we've done that, we have two choices.

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give entire membership plans.

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can have access to the stock photo library when they're creating posts in the text editor.

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membership plan settings under the finance section.

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So let's go there together and let's go to membership plans.

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They're paying the most per month.

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It's a perk for being a higher tiered member, and we advertise that with one of the benefits of the plan is that you have access to stock photos when you're creating posts.

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So, we are editing membership plan one.

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And, again, we can just search for stock photo again here or just the word stock, and we see that it gets filtered,

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and we can enable free stock images in text editor.

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membership plans.

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Let's say you only wanna give this a la carte to specific members, you can do that in the quick edit pop up when you're viewing your members in the admin area.

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to grant this to. Maybe you're selling this as a perk,

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via digital products. Someone paid,

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you know, $30 or something, for access to this, and then you wanna go ahead and and give them the access they paid for.

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00:30:20.255 --> 00:30:21.955
So you can come to the quick edit.

435
00:30:22.330 --> 00:30:24.110
And under the listing settings,

436
00:30:24.570 --> 00:30:30.030
when you have the add on here, it will be here, enable free stock images and text editor.

437
00:30:30.330 --> 00:30:32.910
And it tells you what their membership plan setting is.

438
00:30:33.290 --> 00:30:37.925
So it's already set to yes for his membership plan, but maybe we wanna revoke it for this person.

439
00:30:37.925 --> 00:30:39.765
So we could set this to no.

440
00:30:39.765 --> 00:30:47.125
So although all the other members in in this membership plan would get it, maybe we revoke it for this individual member, for whatever reason.

441
00:30:47.125 --> 00:30:49.545
That probably won't be the case. It'll probably be the inverse.

442
00:30:49.845 --> 00:30:52.905
We're gonna grant access to this specific member,

443
00:30:53.419 --> 00:30:57.200
And basically, this setting will override the membership plan setting,

444
00:30:57.500 --> 00:31:00.720
and give this member access or revoke access

445
00:31:01.100 --> 00:31:03.280
based on the yes or no here.

446
00:31:03.660 --> 00:31:06.665
So that's basically it. That's all you need to do.

447
00:31:06.665 --> 00:31:13.245
And when the members are accessing their text editors in their member dashboard to create posts or their about me section,

448
00:31:13.865 --> 00:31:16.525
or wherever they are already allowed to add images,

449
00:31:16.825 --> 00:31:19.005
they will also get that extra pixels

450
00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:22.000
option there to search the stock photo library.

451
00:31:22.460 --> 00:31:25.920
And here are just a few, bonus tips here as we mentioned before.

452
00:31:26.460 --> 00:31:28.720
You can create a digital product,

453
00:31:29.100 --> 00:31:32.800
or service, whatever you wanna call it, and upsell this as a feature to members.

454
00:31:32.865 --> 00:31:39.125
If your site is very content heavy and you have a lot of user generated content and members are creating posts,

455
00:31:39.505 --> 00:31:40.005
articles,

456
00:31:40.545 --> 00:31:47.330
coupons, events, what have you, you can sell this as an extra perk that they can unlock for their text editors, or

457
00:31:47.630 --> 00:31:51.010
you can grant it as an incentive for your higher tiered plans.

458
00:31:51.550 --> 00:32:00.865
So members at your premium level can go ahead and grant them access, and that would be a reason for other members to want to upgrade, just another carrot that you can provide.

459
00:32:01.085 --> 00:32:13.380
Or the alternative is just give this to all your members and encourage them to just start creating content on your site and having fun, and just turn it into a positive update for your community and make a newsletter announcement

460
00:32:14.660 --> 00:32:19.160
that now you can access stock photos and tell them that you went through lots of work to get it done, and,

461
00:32:20.420 --> 00:32:21.860
they'll be appreciative and happy.

462
00:32:21.860 --> 00:32:27.960
And that's one of the cool things about the BD updates are you can pass that along as information to your community

463
00:32:28.285 --> 00:32:29.965
of the updates you provided,

464
00:32:30.285 --> 00:32:33.085
to them and for them, and they will love you for it.

465
00:32:33.085 --> 00:32:39.085
And as mentioned before, I love using this in conjunction with the content blocks and the chat g p t.

466
00:32:39.085 --> 00:32:44.410
You can see how quickly we spun up an article about the benefits of hiking, then just decorating it with images.

467
00:32:44.710 --> 00:32:50.390
And not just images, but we can with the content blocks, we can insert calls to action for different offers.

468
00:32:50.390 --> 00:32:55.210
Maybe you have an ebook you're offering. It's a great way to, insert that into the article.

469
00:32:55.695 --> 00:33:00.335
I can't resist. I just wanna share one more thing that's cool about the text editor here.

470
00:33:00.335 --> 00:33:05.215
Just, again, I like to share some of the ideas here. So here's that article that we were working on.

471
00:33:05.215 --> 00:33:08.654
Again, it's about hiking and seniors and the benefits and all that stuff.

472
00:33:08.654 --> 00:33:10.274
You know, at the end of the article,

473
00:33:10.900 --> 00:33:11.559
we could

474
00:33:11.940 --> 00:33:14.440
do, let's get a content block here

475
00:33:14.820 --> 00:33:15.320
and

476
00:33:16.100 --> 00:33:21.080
let's just get let me find something good here. The the the this one here,

477
00:33:21.380 --> 00:33:26.505
the three the list of three here. And I'm gonna do something different. I'm going to actually say,

478
00:33:27.445 --> 00:33:27.945
recommended

479
00:33:29.044 --> 00:33:29.544
hiking

480
00:33:30.085 --> 00:33:30.585
gear.

481
00:33:30.965 --> 00:33:35.065
And I couldn't resist. Let's go to Amazon and search for,

482
00:33:36.164 --> 00:33:37.065
hiking gear.

483
00:33:37.365 --> 00:33:43.220
I'll show you why. And this is just fun to do. In case you don't know, there's another plugin with

484
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:44.900
the toolbar,

485
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:46.580
the text editor.

486
00:33:47.120 --> 00:33:50.980
And let's just search for three items here, walkie talkies,

487
00:33:51.600 --> 00:33:52.740
hiking poles,

488
00:33:53.360 --> 00:33:53.860
and

489
00:33:54.775 --> 00:33:58.155
these gloves here. So I'm just gonna take this link here.

490
00:33:58.615 --> 00:34:03.595
And actually, what I'm gonna do is just I'm just gonna get rid of this.

491
00:34:04.055 --> 00:34:06.455
And we do have something with Embed.

492
00:34:06.455 --> 00:34:11.420
Ly, where if you have an embedly, you just need everyone has it also and it's in the advanced settings.

493
00:34:11.420 --> 00:34:13.040
You just need to enable it.

494
00:34:13.179 --> 00:34:18.460
And you can put a URL from basically anywhere on the Internet, and it's pretty smart.

495
00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:21.120
I hope this doesn't backfire on me. There we go.

496
00:34:21.465 --> 00:34:23.565
And it does you're it's basically

497
00:34:23.945 --> 00:34:28.605
checks the URL and finds out what's it could be an article. In this case, it's a product,

498
00:34:29.065 --> 00:34:33.705
and it kinda gets the information from the page there and then it links to it.

499
00:34:33.705 --> 00:34:36.045
So let's get a couple more things here

500
00:34:36.590 --> 00:34:37.090
and

501
00:34:37.469 --> 00:34:39.010
we'll go ahead and delete this,

502
00:34:39.390 --> 00:34:39.890
and

503
00:34:40.350 --> 00:34:41.570
we'll delete the text.

504
00:34:41.870 --> 00:34:45.489
Oops. We don't wanna paste that there. Do this here, the URL.

505
00:34:46.030 --> 00:34:50.590
And let's see if this grabs it. Actually, I haven't tested this before. Let's see.

506
00:34:50.590 --> 00:34:54.725
This one kinda went away. Yeah. Yeah. It's a little finicky here. I didn't test this before.

507
00:34:54.725 --> 00:34:59.845
I should have. But let me just try one more here, and then we'll move on, to the q and a section.

508
00:34:59.845 --> 00:35:04.885
Let me save the changes. It might be there. I think it's just phantom hidden real quick. Let's see.

509
00:35:04.885 --> 00:35:08.290
Yeah. Yeah. There we go. So we have recommended gear. We can make this a bit larger,

510
00:35:08.590 --> 00:35:11.730
and we have these these two here. We could add a third one. So,

511
00:35:12.110 --> 00:35:14.030
you know, we quickly created an article.

512
00:35:14.270 --> 00:35:20.925
If you have an Amazon link, maybe you do it this way, but make the button link the link to the product with your Amazon affiliate referral link.

513
00:35:21.085 --> 00:35:25.185
Doesn't have to be Amazon. Just giving you guys some creative ideas on how you can kind of

514
00:35:25.485 --> 00:35:27.105
add more to your articles,

515
00:35:27.485 --> 00:35:29.425
beyond just the text, there.

516
00:35:30.045 --> 00:35:31.725
And that was just a quick way to do that.

517
00:35:31.725 --> 00:35:35.190
Let me just show you where that embedly setting is since I did mention it.

518
00:35:35.349 --> 00:35:38.410
If you go to your advanced settings and search for embedly,

519
00:35:39.270 --> 00:35:39.910
same way,

520
00:35:40.310 --> 00:35:43.609
you just choose which text editors you want embedly

521
00:35:43.910 --> 00:35:48.869
to work on, and then you'll have that this extra embed URL option here.

522
00:35:48.869 --> 00:35:51.224
Again, it works great for news, tweets,

523
00:35:51.685 --> 00:35:55.605
Instagram posts. There's lots of things tools that it works with.

524
00:35:55.845 --> 00:36:02.505
That way that way you can just kinda embed stuff into the blog article without doing any comp complicated embed coding.

525
00:36:02.645 --> 00:36:03.704
And with that,

526
00:36:04.310 --> 00:36:06.869
we can move on to the questions and answers.

527
00:36:06.869 --> 00:36:12.150
I hope you guys enjoyed that tip of the week here, and we have plenty of time today to get to your questions.

528
00:36:12.150 --> 00:36:18.090
So if you have a comment, if you need help with your site, this is a great chance to use the raise your hand feature,

529
00:36:18.455 --> 00:36:19.495
and, we'll see,

530
00:36:19.815 --> 00:36:21.035
if we can help you guys.

531
00:36:21.495 --> 00:36:24.795
And I see Rich has already got his hand up here. How are you doing, Rich?

532
00:36:25.255 --> 00:36:29.435
Great, Jason. How's it going? I'm going great. Thank you so much. What's your question for us today?

533
00:36:29.895 --> 00:36:33.869
Got some rapid fire questions here for you. Okay. Real quick here.

534
00:36:33.869 --> 00:36:37.970
So, yeah, the stock photos, I know you covered it before, but that's it's pretty amazing.

535
00:36:39.070 --> 00:36:44.930
I've actually already, while you were talking, upgraded our rockstar paid members to, to include the stock photos,

536
00:36:45.630 --> 00:36:47.010
in their membership plan.

537
00:36:47.310 --> 00:36:47.810
So,

538
00:36:48.485 --> 00:36:51.305
what about stock videos? Is that anything in the pipeline?

539
00:36:52.805 --> 00:36:56.185
You know, we're looking at since you're asking, we're looking at,

540
00:36:57.125 --> 00:37:00.585
integrating with another solution called Pixabay as well.

541
00:37:00.885 --> 00:37:02.665
Let me just quickly search here.

542
00:37:03.530 --> 00:37:04.990
What we like about Pixabay

543
00:37:05.290 --> 00:37:09.550
Pixabay is it has images. More importantly, it has illustrations and vectors.

544
00:37:09.690 --> 00:37:13.470
So if you search for, for example let me just show you download button.

545
00:37:13.930 --> 00:37:16.510
You see, it has icons and graphics too.

546
00:37:16.734 --> 00:37:22.115
So that can kinda that's why we we we're gonna target them next. They do have videos,

547
00:37:22.494 --> 00:37:22.994
however,

548
00:37:24.095 --> 00:37:28.494
and GIFs as well. So I think we're gonna start with the illustrations and vectors with them.

549
00:37:28.494 --> 00:37:32.115
If we were gonna get videos from a stock library, it would be theirs.

550
00:37:33.250 --> 00:37:38.230
I don't I don't even know. Let's let's just search for running. Right? Basic word there.

551
00:37:39.250 --> 00:37:40.930
So if we come here and look at it

552
00:37:41.730 --> 00:37:44.549
okay. So what would you do with a video like this in

553
00:37:44.930 --> 00:37:47.589
in in, like, a in the text area in the text editor?

554
00:37:47.970 --> 00:37:49.785
I I mean, videos are very,

555
00:37:50.744 --> 00:37:51.244
engaging

556
00:37:51.865 --> 00:37:55.145
and for SEO as well as, you know, maintaining your your,

557
00:37:55.625 --> 00:37:56.744
people to keep on the site.

558
00:37:56.744 --> 00:38:00.525
So, you know, whatever the topic is, people like watching videos, I guess. Yeah. Gotcha.

559
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:04.859
Okay. Yeah. I think they're just like mo

560
00:38:05.720 --> 00:38:08.860
like b roll. Like, what b roll is. Yeah. Like Exactly.

561
00:38:09.160 --> 00:38:11.340
Yeah. Yeah. So kinda like okay.

562
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:15.974
Yeah. But if we were gonna explore it, it would be with Pixabay. They're next on our list.

563
00:38:15.974 --> 00:38:19.515
We're gonna start with their illustrations and vectors first to make those available,

564
00:38:20.055 --> 00:38:23.434
and then we can explore other media types as well. Okay.

565
00:38:23.734 --> 00:38:24.295
And then,

566
00:38:25.815 --> 00:38:28.795
real quick. For the stock photos to make an announcement,

567
00:38:29.660 --> 00:38:40.700
to our members or whatever, is there any you know, I guess we could use chat g p t or whatever, but I don't know if you have any bullet points or, you know, on the site we could extrapolate from there to kind of explain the value proposition.

568
00:38:40.700 --> 00:38:40.860
Or

569
00:38:41.675 --> 00:38:41.915
Yeah.

570
00:38:41.915 --> 00:38:49.535
So I guess a a good question would be first is, like, what type of content are your are your members posting right now, to

571
00:38:49.835 --> 00:38:51.535
like, with their with their profiles?

572
00:38:51.994 --> 00:38:53.355
Are they events? Are they

573
00:38:54.075 --> 00:38:55.375
yeah. Events and articles

574
00:38:55.809 --> 00:38:57.250
is the primary thing. But,

575
00:38:57.809 --> 00:39:00.930
Yeah. I would I would just on that. We kinda create it. Yeah. Yeah.

576
00:39:00.930 --> 00:39:04.770
I would I mean, I think it like, I think David David covered it pretty much.

577
00:39:04.770 --> 00:39:06.390
It's just enriching their,

578
00:39:06.770 --> 00:39:10.390
their articles, making eye candy more appealing. Right.

579
00:39:11.315 --> 00:39:14.915
And then, obviously, it's right at yeah. Yeah. Click candy.

580
00:39:14.915 --> 00:39:18.935
It's right at their it's right at their fingertips as well, so they don't have to,

581
00:39:20.035 --> 00:39:20.755
go anywhere else.

582
00:39:20.755 --> 00:39:28.010
Also, it it can build their confidence in creating posts because sometimes they they might be at a lack of words and and an image can say so much more.

583
00:39:28.010 --> 00:39:37.515
So if they're promoting an event or a concert, they could get a stock photo of people having a good time at a concert, and that could just elevate that the post that they're creating so much more.

584
00:39:37.835 --> 00:39:38.575
Yeah. Absolutely.

585
00:39:38.635 --> 00:39:43.934
And the last question, I think you already covered it, so maybe you just have a link to it for, you know, previous webinar

586
00:39:44.394 --> 00:39:45.535
or content. But,

587
00:39:46.795 --> 00:39:52.095
early on, we did the claim listing, you know, feature, and we created these e, emails.

588
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:55.220
And within the email, there was a, like, an embedded

589
00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:59.300
direct link, right, to, like, what we had auto populated

590
00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:00.980
on their claim listing,

591
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:02.180
you know, page.

592
00:40:02.560 --> 00:40:08.525
But it's been so long ago, I can't really recall how we ended up creating those emails, if if you know what I'm saying.

593
00:40:08.525 --> 00:40:14.765
So, like, you know, we had a CVS or, you know, CSV file, and we sent out a large email out.

594
00:40:14.765 --> 00:40:16.145
And then every

595
00:40:16.780 --> 00:40:19.920
person it was personalized. So, like, you know, we had already

596
00:40:20.700 --> 00:40:23.760
all of the content that we had, you know, extrapolated.

597
00:40:23.900 --> 00:40:29.775
And then within the email, they could just click and it would go right to their specific list of all that.

598
00:40:29.795 --> 00:40:33.775
This has it right here. This is protocol. Let me share this article with you.

599
00:40:34.075 --> 00:40:37.995
I figured you had it somewhere. But Yeah. It's I just shared the blog article link here.

600
00:40:37.995 --> 00:40:42.795
There's there's three of them, but this seem this is what you're after, the protocol website URL file name.

601
00:40:42.795 --> 00:40:44.335
These are the variables to have,

602
00:40:45.230 --> 00:40:49.650
when you're sending it through the through the b d admin to them. Okay. And

603
00:40:50.030 --> 00:40:53.329
and last, just you already covered, but I was switching screens to the Embedly.

604
00:40:53.710 --> 00:40:55.069
How do we activate that?

605
00:40:55.390 --> 00:41:01.795
Can you illustrate that one one last time, and then that's last of my questions because So when you were explaining it, I was switching over back and forth.

606
00:41:01.795 --> 00:41:05.494
So All you need to do is do the advanced setting in this case, and it'll be available.

607
00:41:05.875 --> 00:41:09.875
Alright. Thanks, man. Hey, guys. They're crushing it as always. Yeah. Thank you.

608
00:41:09.875 --> 00:41:14.190
Appreciate it very much. Thanks, Rich. Absolutely. Take care. Alright. Good stuff there from Rich.

609
00:41:14.510 --> 00:41:18.510
Do you see our friend Wilf here? I'm gonna unmute you here. Wilf, how you doing? Hey Jason.

610
00:41:18.510 --> 00:41:21.330
How are you? Pretty good. Pretty good. How's it going there? Fantastic.

611
00:41:21.470 --> 00:41:24.450
Every day above ground is a good day for me so I agree.

612
00:41:24.990 --> 00:41:28.485
Once again, you guys are knocking it out of the park and I appreciate it so much.

613
00:41:28.885 --> 00:41:33.445
Okay so I kind of I do have a large list of questions but I'm not going to bother.

614
00:41:33.445 --> 00:41:37.365
If there's time at the end of the call maybe I can circle back. Okay thank you.

615
00:41:37.365 --> 00:41:40.025
But it's kind of a two headed monster right now so

616
00:41:40.325 --> 00:41:41.865
I'm getting one site established

617
00:41:42.750 --> 00:41:46.130
and I'm getting tricked up a bit on my locations,

618
00:41:46.750 --> 00:41:47.250
settings

619
00:41:47.950 --> 00:41:49.650
and then also concerning

620
00:41:50.110 --> 00:41:52.290
members and member sub accounts.

621
00:41:52.830 --> 00:41:53.330
And

622
00:41:53.790 --> 00:41:56.770
as part of that going back to the first part, locations,

623
00:41:57.595 --> 00:42:02.175
it's you know understanding how to set up max locations and so forth.

624
00:42:02.875 --> 00:42:03.195
So

625
00:42:03.675 --> 00:42:05.135
Absolutely. Yeah. Okay.

626
00:42:05.915 --> 00:42:11.135
So let me let me, just backtrack a bit. So we're on the same page here.

627
00:42:11.510 --> 00:42:13.829
So with the locations, it sounds,

628
00:42:14.710 --> 00:42:18.869
you're using the multi location listings you're referring to? Yeah.

629
00:42:18.869 --> 00:42:22.490
So if you look at my site and you were to search for

630
00:42:23.190 --> 00:42:23.849
a business,

631
00:42:24.315 --> 00:42:24.815
Right.

632
00:42:25.115 --> 00:42:29.135
That are in all sorts of geo areas show up in the search results

633
00:42:29.675 --> 00:42:35.214
and and so if I want it to be a little more granular, so let's say somebody's in Chicago and they're looking for

634
00:42:35.595 --> 00:42:38.895
a Chicago related business, they're seeing in the search results

635
00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:41.500
businesses that are in Florida, California,

636
00:42:42.680 --> 00:42:43.740
Boston, etcetera.

637
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:45.580
Okay. So so

638
00:42:46.040 --> 00:42:49.080
when when a member selects let me help you out here a bit.

639
00:42:49.080 --> 00:42:51.660
Let me let me let me stay on this site here. Okay?

640
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:56.974
Give me one moment. Do do you wanna go to my actual site? Sure. Sure. That might be helpful.

641
00:42:56.974 --> 00:42:58.595
What's the what's the name of the site?

642
00:42:59.055 --> 00:43:01.234
Cosmeticspas.com.

643
00:43:01.615 --> 00:43:06.994
Alright. Just a moment here. Alright. Apologize for that delay. Alright. So we're at your site here,

644
00:43:07.350 --> 00:43:09.530
and let's go to a membership plan.

645
00:43:10.070 --> 00:43:13.610
And who have you granted access to select multiple

646
00:43:13.990 --> 00:43:16.890
locations as an example? I would be the MedSpa premium.

647
00:43:17.270 --> 00:43:19.770
MedSpa premium. Okay. So

648
00:43:20.115 --> 00:43:22.055
the benefit of this is is,

649
00:43:22.995 --> 00:43:23.655
this is

650
00:43:24.195 --> 00:43:28.515
because let's say I'm a gas station. Right? Let's just say that. So I'm a gas station.

651
00:43:28.515 --> 00:43:30.055
If I have different locations,

652
00:43:30.595 --> 00:43:33.720
I don't necessarily want to use this feature that you're talking about.

653
00:43:33.720 --> 00:43:35.820
I wanna use the other one that you mentioned,

654
00:43:36.680 --> 00:43:41.000
which is the the subaccounts one, which that's a nickname for it.

655
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:44.940
But the multi member manager so if I own multiple gas stations,

656
00:43:45.720 --> 00:43:46.700
this one here,

657
00:43:47.065 --> 00:43:50.985
multi member manager, I'm the owner of five different gas stations.

658
00:43:50.985 --> 00:43:56.285
I want a profile or a listing for each individual gas station which has its own address

659
00:43:56.585 --> 00:43:58.205
and has its own phone number,

660
00:43:59.225 --> 00:44:00.365
etcetera, etcetera.

661
00:44:01.610 --> 00:44:07.450
So that would be a use case for the multi member manager. For the multi location listings is

662
00:44:07.930 --> 00:44:09.230
let's say I'm a California

663
00:44:09.530 --> 00:44:12.910
home appraiser, just as as an example here. And,

664
00:44:13.530 --> 00:44:18.205
I not only do California, but I I also travel to Nevada to do appraisals too.

665
00:44:18.205 --> 00:44:21.085
I don't have an office in Nevada, but I I do travel there.

666
00:44:21.085 --> 00:44:25.505
I'm certified to do home appraisals in Nevada. So with the multi location listings,

667
00:44:26.205 --> 00:44:32.040
I can have my my office address part of my listing profile, and then I can choose additional

668
00:44:32.740 --> 00:44:33.240
locations

669
00:44:33.619 --> 00:44:40.359
around the world whether it be and and I can choose the region type, a ZIP code, a city, a county, or a state.

670
00:44:40.740 --> 00:44:42.680
The more broad you give your members,

671
00:44:42.980 --> 00:44:46.405
regions to choose, the more visibility they're gonna have on your site.

672
00:44:46.405 --> 00:44:50.744
If you let them choose an entire state, they'll show up for any search location

673
00:44:51.125 --> 00:44:57.625
for that entire state. So that's a that's a big deal to give to members. So with your cosmetic spas,

674
00:44:58.890 --> 00:44:59.630
are these

675
00:45:00.010 --> 00:45:07.230
again, are they are they individual physical locations that they have or are they locations that serve or are trying to reach,

676
00:45:08.569 --> 00:45:10.109
people in nearby areas?

677
00:45:10.655 --> 00:45:12.355
So it's it's two things,

678
00:45:12.734 --> 00:45:13.714
really. So,

679
00:45:14.655 --> 00:45:17.875
we have individual spas that have one location

680
00:45:18.335 --> 00:45:19.714
and then we also have,

681
00:45:20.095 --> 00:45:25.875
small chains. So this the small chains would fit under the members in in the sub accounts.

682
00:45:26.095 --> 00:45:30.369
So I'm having a little bit of trouble with that. I've got one profile set up setting.

683
00:45:30.750 --> 00:45:31.329
Okay. Perfect.

684
00:45:32.109 --> 00:45:34.450
But the other thing is that yeah. No. These are,

685
00:45:35.230 --> 00:45:39.925
what I would refer to your location types as are service areas.

686
00:45:40.065 --> 00:45:45.845
So I get what you're saying, your your business may be domiciled in one spot but you have

687
00:45:46.305 --> 00:45:47.845
service areas that are contiguous

688
00:45:48.625 --> 00:45:49.285
to that.

689
00:45:49.745 --> 00:45:50.325
Right. Exactly.

690
00:45:50.945 --> 00:45:52.325
So I get that but

691
00:45:53.300 --> 00:45:55.740
so that's why. Just looking for clarity on

692
00:45:56.180 --> 00:46:00.760
should I be using a multi location function because these are fixed retail locations

693
00:46:01.540 --> 00:46:07.480
where the customer comes to them? I would I think in this case, you want the multi member manager.

694
00:46:07.985 --> 00:46:12.165
So if if one cosmetic spa has multi shouldn't be using both?

695
00:46:12.625 --> 00:46:15.205
You can be using both. I'm gonna explain to you how.

696
00:46:15.585 --> 00:46:15.985
So,

697
00:46:16.625 --> 00:46:19.425
what you can do is have the multi member manager.

698
00:46:19.425 --> 00:46:23.125
So one cosmetic spa can also list their additional locations,

699
00:46:23.550 --> 00:46:25.970
their additional brick and mortars, we'll call them.

700
00:46:26.510 --> 00:46:28.930
So they have an address. They have separate phone numbers,

701
00:46:29.630 --> 00:46:30.130
etcetera.

702
00:46:30.830 --> 00:46:41.625
And then in addition to that, to add another layer of visibility to them, what I would recommend doing is and let me go here to the membership plan under search visibility.

703
00:46:42.325 --> 00:46:45.225
What would be a good balance is because this is local,

704
00:46:46.325 --> 00:46:48.185
under here, under multi locations,

705
00:46:48.560 --> 00:46:52.660
I would maybe allow them to select additional ZIP codes and cities

706
00:46:53.359 --> 00:46:55.359
and encourage them to be nearby.

707
00:46:55.359 --> 00:47:07.955
They're not they're gonna wanna attract people in nearby ZIP codes and cities, so maybe their location is a specific ZIP code, but maybe they can select up to 10 additional cities and ZIP codes that where they wanna attract users from,

708
00:47:08.575 --> 00:47:13.155
that they might not otherwise be found for unless they selected them here.

709
00:47:13.215 --> 00:47:15.315
That would be the best use case because

710
00:47:15.615 --> 00:47:17.315
giving someone like a a

711
00:47:17.790 --> 00:47:19.010
cosmetic spa

712
00:47:19.390 --> 00:47:19.890
countrywide

713
00:47:20.430 --> 00:47:23.810
visibility really doesn't make sense again because it's a local brick and mortar.

714
00:47:23.950 --> 00:47:26.290
Sounds nice in theory, but it's not really relevant.

715
00:47:27.150 --> 00:47:29.570
So you might I would limit it to city and zip

716
00:47:30.635 --> 00:47:33.855
and then allow them to select up to 10 or or something meaningful,

717
00:47:34.555 --> 00:47:36.715
so they feel like they're getting additional exposure.

718
00:47:36.715 --> 00:47:40.095
That's the whole point of this is the member feels that they're getting additional visibility,

719
00:47:40.635 --> 00:47:48.640
whereas the lower tiered members wouldn't have this and they would just be found for their initial location that they're listed in, not these additional alternate regions.

720
00:47:49.180 --> 00:47:52.880
So given this setting, could this be why on the front end of the website,

721
00:47:53.500 --> 00:47:54.640
the search results

722
00:47:54.940 --> 00:47:57.280
for a given location are showing

723
00:47:58.445 --> 00:48:00.225
results for multiple locations.

724
00:48:00.925 --> 00:48:05.105
Yes. And it should say how that person who's in Florida

725
00:48:05.405 --> 00:48:08.545
got found in a Chicago search. It should say

726
00:48:08.845 --> 00:48:10.065
in the search results,

727
00:48:11.240 --> 00:48:11.740
like,

728
00:48:12.040 --> 00:48:17.900
they're they're showing up in a Chicago search because they selected Illinois as a state they serve.

729
00:48:18.200 --> 00:48:18.700
Right?

730
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:23.240
It should say serves Illinois in that case or something that complements Chicago.

731
00:48:23.240 --> 00:48:27.145
There should be context on the search results page. If you're not seeing that context,

732
00:48:28.565 --> 00:48:29.065
let

733
00:48:29.445 --> 00:48:32.265
the let the support team know because we did do an update

734
00:48:32.565 --> 00:48:42.109
a few months ago where it does show that context, where it does show the service area they selected, which triggered them to show up in a search that is not their main address

735
00:48:42.730 --> 00:48:47.789
a location search that's not their main address. Okay. I'm wondering if I should use county as well.

736
00:48:48.089 --> 00:48:48.650
Yeah. County

737
00:48:49.369 --> 00:48:52.990
some states have larger counties than others, but, it just depends.

738
00:48:54.075 --> 00:48:58.475
But I think you'd be okay with with one at least ZIP code for sure. City is fine.

739
00:48:58.475 --> 00:49:00.875
If you wanna extend it to county, that would be fine as well.

740
00:49:00.875 --> 00:49:02.975
Maybe if you extend it to county, you limit,

741
00:49:03.355 --> 00:49:04.415
what they can choose.

742
00:49:05.195 --> 00:49:06.235
But you could play with these.

743
00:49:06.235 --> 00:49:11.900
But, again, this is great because it provides additional exposure to your members and that's what they're paying for to be on your site.

744
00:49:12.200 --> 00:49:12.700
Okay.

745
00:49:13.240 --> 00:49:13.740
Alright.

746
00:49:14.040 --> 00:49:17.020
So then on the the member sub account,

747
00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:20.200
you mentioned I could use both.

748
00:49:20.200 --> 00:49:23.740
So given the like, essentially what you're saying by me checking these boxes,

749
00:49:24.575 --> 00:49:26.194
I now have some locations

750
00:49:26.654 --> 00:49:29.555
setting like service areas for Right. Location,

751
00:49:30.174 --> 00:49:35.295
but then I can also be using the member and the member sub accounts. That's that's right.

752
00:49:35.295 --> 00:49:38.035
So a member can have a a brick and mortar location,

753
00:49:38.500 --> 00:49:40.440
select some service areas nearby,

754
00:49:40.820 --> 00:49:41.800
create a subaccount

755
00:49:42.180 --> 00:49:49.320
at an alternate brick and mortar mortar location, and select some service areas for that alternate one and and continue on like that.

756
00:49:49.780 --> 00:49:51.080
I see. Okay.

757
00:49:51.535 --> 00:49:56.115
Okay. That that that's a bit of a breakthrough. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah. No worries there.

758
00:49:56.335 --> 00:50:00.575
Alright. Good stuff there, Will Wolf. Excuse me. Alright. We got Theresa here.

759
00:50:00.575 --> 00:50:05.660
Always good questions from Theresa. I've unmuted your microphone there. Okay. Can you hear me now?

760
00:50:05.660 --> 00:50:10.380
We can hear you. How are you doing today? I'm well. Thank you. How are you? Very good. Very good.

761
00:50:10.380 --> 00:50:13.279
Where are you calling in from? I'm calling you from Conshohocken

762
00:50:13.579 --> 00:50:14.240
in Pennsylvania,

763
00:50:14.619 --> 00:50:17.200
outside of, Philadelphia, Montgomery County.

764
00:50:17.635 --> 00:50:22.695
Alright. Alright. What's your question for us today? So my site is notarytoday.pro.

765
00:50:23.075 --> 00:50:23.575
Okay.

766
00:50:23.955 --> 00:50:26.675
And one of the problems that I have is,

767
00:50:27.715 --> 00:50:30.035
I would like to if you go there

768
00:50:30.595 --> 00:50:31.495
There we go.

769
00:50:31.860 --> 00:50:34.680
Okay. And you see where if I click on find a notary

770
00:50:35.460 --> 00:50:41.800
Yes. I it is a search result that comes up. But I would like to be to have that go to a page,

771
00:50:42.420 --> 00:50:48.295
and on that page is the search. I have a search module option. Like, if you see where it says,

772
00:50:48.934 --> 00:50:58.154
right above the the navigation bar where it has the the the search option there, can I put that on the page right here as opposed to the results?

773
00:50:58.620 --> 00:51:01.600
So that they would have the option to search either by page,

774
00:51:01.980 --> 00:51:05.600
by city code, and then I wanted to be able to search by category?

775
00:51:06.220 --> 00:51:10.300
Yeah. You can actually do something here. Let me let me help you out.

776
00:51:10.300 --> 00:51:13.520
Let me see what you're using currently in your sidebar search,

777
00:51:13.825 --> 00:51:15.125
if you're using anything.

778
00:51:15.585 --> 00:51:20.705
So what we can do is we can you wanna create an intermediary page, it sounds like. Right?

779
00:51:20.705 --> 00:51:25.905
So they click on it and then yeah. Okay. Let's do that together. That'll be nice and easy.

780
00:51:25.905 --> 00:51:27.285
I'm not gonna make it complicated.

781
00:51:27.345 --> 00:51:31.910
I'm gonna give you the basics of it, and then you can you it looks like your site is very well decorated.

782
00:51:31.910 --> 00:51:33.369
Great job on it, by the way.

783
00:51:33.670 --> 00:51:36.170
I like the colors. I'm gonna create a page here,

784
00:51:36.630 --> 00:51:37.130
and

785
00:51:37.670 --> 00:51:42.490
I'm gonna call it I'm just gonna call it search now to something very generic.

786
00:51:43.164 --> 00:51:48.285
Okay. And let me get you the, the search module that you want that you probably want to use.

787
00:51:48.285 --> 00:51:50.464
Give me one second. There's Okay.

788
00:51:50.765 --> 00:51:52.525
This is the quickest way. I know how to find it.

789
00:51:52.525 --> 00:51:55.424
We have it listed in the support documentation somewhere, but,

790
00:51:55.724 --> 00:51:59.420
I'm just gonna do the the quick way. And you said you wanna search,

791
00:51:59.819 --> 00:52:00.960
category and location?

792
00:52:01.500 --> 00:52:02.640
Search by category,

793
00:52:03.180 --> 00:52:03.680
location,

794
00:52:04.299 --> 00:52:05.039
or name.

795
00:52:05.339 --> 00:52:05.839
Name.

796
00:52:06.140 --> 00:52:10.880
Okay. Perfect. And is it just top category or top and sublevel category filters?

797
00:52:11.260 --> 00:52:11.760
Both.

798
00:52:12.195 --> 00:52:12.855
Okay. So

799
00:52:13.155 --> 00:52:14.855
Yeah. Yes. Okay. So,

800
00:52:15.395 --> 00:52:19.875
let me think what we what would be best here. I think I can get you close enough to there.

801
00:52:20.195 --> 00:52:21.575
So these are this available

802
00:52:21.955 --> 00:52:27.880
side sidebar modules. Just give me a That is cool. So what what we can do

803
00:52:28.339 --> 00:52:30.200
just let me see here.

804
00:52:30.660 --> 00:52:32.099
Yeah. What you could do is the,

805
00:52:33.059 --> 00:52:39.194
do you have sub subcategories, or does it stop at sub top sub? Top and sub. Not sub sub, though.

806
00:52:39.194 --> 00:52:42.894
Okay. No. Loop. That's fine. So what we want is the,

807
00:52:43.914 --> 00:52:47.194
let me search here. We should have a keyword for this one here.

808
00:52:47.194 --> 00:52:50.575
Let me search for top sub and location. This one here.

809
00:52:51.050 --> 00:52:55.210
Okay. Let me find that one here. Top sub and again, this is the easiest way.

810
00:52:55.210 --> 00:52:58.109
I'm just gonna get the widget name here is what I'm what I'm really doing.

811
00:52:59.130 --> 00:53:00.830
So let me see here.

812
00:53:02.010 --> 00:53:06.145
Top sub location. Here we go. This is what I want. So this is the widget name.

813
00:53:06.385 --> 00:53:08.724
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna create this intermediary

814
00:53:09.025 --> 00:53:11.765
page. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put

815
00:53:12.145 --> 00:53:14.724
a table with three cells, and I'm gonna do

816
00:53:15.105 --> 00:53:16.164
widget equals

817
00:53:16.785 --> 00:53:17.845
the widget name.

818
00:53:18.170 --> 00:53:20.830
And I'm just gonna save that for now. I'll just say

819
00:53:21.370 --> 00:53:22.350
search notaries,

820
00:53:22.970 --> 00:53:24.350
and let's save the changes.

821
00:53:24.890 --> 00:53:29.530
I'll fix the spelling for you. Okay. And we'll take a look at the page now. Okay. Great.

822
00:53:29.530 --> 00:53:33.450
So you have a page here. It's basically the sidebar search module, and you can then

823
00:53:34.305 --> 00:53:38.325
Yes. It should work if you have, let's see, attorneys.

824
00:53:38.785 --> 00:53:42.405
This should load. Yep. Criminal criminal attorney and then you could put a location

825
00:53:42.865 --> 00:53:45.825
and you have your location. So this this you can do this here.

826
00:53:45.825 --> 00:53:48.724
So what you can do here, the reason I did it with three

827
00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:53.660
three is if you wanted to grab because there are other ones here,

828
00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:58.460
the other search options here. Again, I'm just grabbing the widget name here, but,

829
00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:05.055
you you can put, like, just a keyword, like, just search by keyword and you can put that in another one of these cells here.

830
00:54:05.055 --> 00:54:09.475
Yeah. Can you go ahead and type keyword too? Let's do this. Pop it in there. Alright.

831
00:54:10.895 --> 00:54:15.375
And let me just find the keyword search module. Yeah. So that's that's this one.

832
00:54:15.375 --> 00:54:20.599
We have a documentation on on those, but this is just the quickest way I knew how to get it.

833
00:54:20.900 --> 00:54:21.400
And,

834
00:54:22.020 --> 00:54:23.160
let's just save changes.

835
00:54:23.300 --> 00:54:27.000
And what you might wanna do is maybe change it's gonna use the same title, I think.

836
00:54:27.380 --> 00:54:33.045
Yeah. So maybe you can you can use CSS to hide the title and you just here's here's my keyword now.

837
00:54:33.245 --> 00:54:34.685
Them all in one

838
00:54:35.005 --> 00:54:35.665
in one,

839
00:54:36.445 --> 00:54:40.365
You the so we don't have one with keyword in the categories just yet.

840
00:54:40.365 --> 00:54:43.485
You could kinda do a customization to sneak it in there.

841
00:54:43.485 --> 00:54:46.545
So I would just use the default ones for now. Okay.

842
00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:49.559
There there is a it's not that complicated actually.

843
00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:52.119
We're working on creating category plus keywords ones.

844
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:55.960
Do you wanna just keep the category one or do you wanna keep it? Yeah. Okay.

845
00:54:55.960 --> 00:55:00.839
And let's remove that one. Okay. Great. And again, you see how I use the table.

846
00:55:00.839 --> 00:55:03.484
It kind of creates a nice little border.

847
00:55:04.025 --> 00:55:07.085
It centers it on the page nicely, another simple strategy.

848
00:55:07.865 --> 00:55:09.724
So now if you wanted to make

849
00:55:10.025 --> 00:55:15.565
people come here, your your page is search now and you can update your design settings, Theresa.

850
00:55:15.944 --> 00:55:18.920
I'll do that with you and you should be all set

851
00:55:19.380 --> 00:55:20.020
with this,

852
00:55:20.500 --> 00:55:23.000
with this quick update here. So we'll go to home page,

853
00:55:23.540 --> 00:55:26.200
search call to action, and find a notary.

854
00:55:26.660 --> 00:55:29.700
We'll just do search now. You can always just do forward slash.

855
00:55:29.700 --> 00:55:35.244
You don't necessarily need to put the the full domain in front, but you should that one might that one might be in stages.

856
00:55:35.625 --> 00:55:37.944
Yeah. No. No worries. I'll help you out here.

857
00:55:37.944 --> 00:55:41.305
It's just kinda easier to read in this in this small space here. Okay.

858
00:55:41.305 --> 00:55:43.065
So become a notary search now.

859
00:55:43.065 --> 00:55:48.980
But you always want the forward slash and then the the rest of your Why do we have the forward slash with cc?

860
00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:54.260
Let's see where that's going on your site right now. That was there. It says branch with us.

861
00:55:54.720 --> 00:55:56.320
It says c cforward

862
00:55:56.320 --> 00:55:57.300
slash notary.

863
00:55:57.645 --> 00:55:58.785
It's going to Eventbrite.

864
00:55:59.405 --> 00:56:02.145
Oh, okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Gotcha. Oh,

865
00:56:02.605 --> 00:56:09.085
so this one, we're gonna keep the Eventbrite because only when it's your own URL to your own site, you only need to start with.

866
00:56:09.085 --> 00:56:12.080
So we're gonna keep the full Eventbrite here. Got it. Okay.

867
00:56:12.080 --> 00:56:17.060
Let's save it, and let's just make sure everything's in a good place. We'll go to the home page.

868
00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:20.100
I'll open these three up. One, two, three.

869
00:56:20.560 --> 00:56:21.860
Okay. Search notaries,

870
00:56:22.720 --> 00:56:23.220
Eventbrite,

871
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:25.915
and become a notary. Great.

872
00:56:26.295 --> 00:56:29.515
Okay. Then I have one more. Go for it, Theresa.

873
00:56:29.974 --> 00:56:32.635
Okay. So for the hero, the homepage hero,

874
00:56:33.015 --> 00:56:35.035
is there any way we can make that emotion,

875
00:56:35.415 --> 00:56:35.915
hero?

876
00:56:36.615 --> 00:56:42.340
Say that again? Are you hard to hear you in there. The the hero image that's here for the home page?

877
00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:42.920
Yes.

878
00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:48.420
Got, like, a a a motion hue a motion, like, a video of some sort. I don't know how to

879
00:56:48.720 --> 00:56:49.540
get that there.

880
00:56:50.080 --> 00:56:52.340
You can. It gets complicated,

881
00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:53.685
though. It's

882
00:56:54.165 --> 00:56:56.505
because you have to take mobile into consideration

883
00:56:57.125 --> 00:57:00.265
and what you wanna do on mobile. Do you wanna serve an image,

884
00:57:00.725 --> 00:57:04.745
and then different screen sizes. If if you get to different screen sizes,

885
00:57:06.170 --> 00:57:10.750
it might the video, you have to decide what happens at every stage. You certainly can do it.

886
00:57:12.090 --> 00:57:12.910
It's just

887
00:57:13.210 --> 00:57:17.850
and then you have to find the video source. Are you uploading an m p four to your No. No. No.

888
00:57:17.850 --> 00:57:20.145
We won't do that, man, Jake. Yeah.

889
00:57:20.445 --> 00:57:20.765
I know.

890
00:57:20.765 --> 00:57:25.325
I I made it sound more than it is it is we've we've seen people try to do it and it looks nice.

891
00:57:25.325 --> 00:57:27.425
I've seen more sites in the past do it,

892
00:57:28.205 --> 00:57:31.745
but also it also increases your load time on your home page. Yeah.

893
00:57:32.640 --> 00:57:35.520
And also, I'll be honest, you have a lot going on on your home page.

894
00:57:35.520 --> 00:57:40.740
You have a big main menu, three buttons. You have an add here. I think the video might just,

895
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:48.475
just being honest, it might just add even more to the to a very busy page already. Okay.

896
00:57:48.535 --> 00:57:50.875
Right now, you have a pretty good balance here.

897
00:57:51.255 --> 00:57:53.435
Video might just add add a little too much.

898
00:57:53.815 --> 00:57:58.315
Sounds good. Alright. Great looking site, though. Thank you. Thank you.

899
00:57:58.695 --> 00:58:02.235
Alright, guys. Let me just see if there's any other

900
00:58:02.900 --> 00:58:03.800
hands up.

901
00:58:04.260 --> 00:58:04.760
Okay.

902
00:58:05.060 --> 00:58:06.760
Martin, I got you here again.

903
00:58:07.140 --> 00:58:11.380
Let's try Martin again. There we go. Hi. Can you hear me? Can you hear you now, Martin?

904
00:58:11.380 --> 00:58:14.120
Glad we got a chance to get to you. Where are you calling in from?

905
00:58:14.660 --> 00:58:17.235
England. England. Thank you for staying up late with

906
00:58:18.115 --> 00:58:21.335
us. I keep asking you to be a bit early, but to no avail.

907
00:58:21.795 --> 00:58:23.175
But, I'm staying.

908
00:58:24.435 --> 00:58:26.935
Just a quick question about Pexels.

909
00:58:27.235 --> 00:58:31.350
Great asset there. I can say that's gonna be really useful putting on the front front end.

910
00:58:31.910 --> 00:58:33.610
My one question is,

911
00:58:34.150 --> 00:58:38.090
is there any way or have you got any advice or tips on how we can monitor use

912
00:58:38.550 --> 00:58:39.530
of that by

913
00:58:39.910 --> 00:58:43.210
clients? I'm just thinking about, you know, if we open the gate to that.

914
00:58:43.685 --> 00:58:48.425
They're not gonna be too bothered about optimizing images. Is there any way we can we can measure,

915
00:58:50.005 --> 00:58:51.065
or gauge,

916
00:58:52.244 --> 00:58:53.945
their use and the optimization

917
00:58:54.485 --> 00:58:59.630
of those images so it doesn't become too heavy on our sites? Just to begin with,

918
00:59:00.010 --> 00:59:03.069
I think the images coming from Pexels to begin with,

919
00:59:03.609 --> 00:59:07.869
they've already compressed and optimized them themselves before delivering them.

920
00:59:08.010 --> 00:59:10.750
They have their different sizes, the 1,200,

921
00:59:11.145 --> 00:59:12.605
six 50, and three fifty.

922
00:59:12.905 --> 00:59:16.745
So let's actually take a look at at the and I've seen those. They're they're kilobyte.

923
00:59:16.745 --> 00:59:17.885
I think the 1,200

924
00:59:17.945 --> 00:59:24.445
pixels is is somewhere close to a hundred kilobytes or so, which is right on point where a 12 where a 1,200,

925
00:59:25.130 --> 00:59:26.830
pixel image should be.

926
00:59:26.970 --> 00:59:32.990
But with regard to what you're saying, and I'm not a super expert at navigating this, but I think if you go to your cPanel

927
00:59:33.610 --> 00:59:38.750
because you can check your bandwidth usage on on your site. Let me just get rid of this.

928
00:59:40.035 --> 00:59:42.375
Let me just do a quick Google search.

929
00:59:43.234 --> 00:59:43.734
Check

930
00:59:44.275 --> 00:59:44.775
image

931
00:59:45.234 --> 00:59:45.734
bandwidth

932
00:59:46.194 --> 00:59:46.694
usage

933
00:59:47.234 --> 00:59:47.734
cPanel.

934
00:59:48.035 --> 00:59:49.575
Let me just see what they say.

935
00:59:51.714 --> 00:59:55.869
Search for bandwidth here. Let's see. I'm just I'm just going off speculation.

936
00:59:55.869 --> 00:59:58.970
It shows you your bandwidth, and maybe it shows you what,

937
00:59:59.589 --> 01:00:01.450
where the bandwidth was used from.

938
01:00:02.390 --> 01:00:03.849
So if we click here,

939
01:00:04.309 --> 01:00:08.809
can just I'm not an expert at this, but I think the answer would lie somewhere here

940
01:00:09.195 --> 01:00:13.215
in the c panel. And maybe you could search for images that have a certain extension,

941
01:00:13.675 --> 01:00:17.135
like pixels in the in the file name, I think, or something like that.

942
01:00:17.675 --> 01:00:29.500
Or if you could just you could just check image bandwidth from image usage on your site to see if it's gone up proportionally with your traffic or if it's if it's uneven and it looks unbalanced or you look for any anomalies,

943
01:00:30.200 --> 01:00:31.420
in that sense. But

944
01:00:31.720 --> 01:00:34.540
the short answer is I think the images themselves,

945
01:00:35.615 --> 01:00:36.815
come compressed from Pexels already.

946
01:00:38.414 --> 01:00:42.255
And then, of course, if your if your members are using them, that's always a plus.

947
01:00:42.255 --> 01:00:46.194
They're active users on your site. But as far as checking for nefarious

948
01:00:46.575 --> 01:00:48.755
activity from your members abusing it,

949
01:00:49.380 --> 01:00:54.119
they're they'll just be abusing it themselves because there's it's just going it's just representing,

950
01:00:54.579 --> 01:00:55.880
posts on their own profile,

951
01:00:56.260 --> 01:00:58.279
as far as their access. Yeah.

952
01:00:58.579 --> 01:01:00.200
Yeah. That's great. Okay.

953
01:01:00.819 --> 01:01:03.705
So, again, this isn't exactly where to go, but there is

954
01:01:04.105 --> 01:01:07.085
stats in cPanel somewhere on Bandwidth. They're

955
01:01:07.785 --> 01:01:12.665
they're well optimized anyways. So it's got more things in uploading their own images and and,

956
01:01:13.625 --> 01:01:16.605
from that point of view. So, yeah, it's another Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

957
01:01:17.145 --> 01:01:18.125
Pexels instead.

958
01:01:18.460 --> 01:01:19.180
A %.

959
01:01:19.180 --> 01:01:28.380
They've already removed, like, a bunch of garbage that like, metadata that's part of images sometimes that that adds bloat to the the file size of images and and and so forth.

960
01:01:28.380 --> 01:01:32.444
So, yeah, they've already compressed all that for you. Thanks a lot. You're welcome.

961
01:01:32.505 --> 01:01:35.785
Good question there from Martin. And I think on that note,

962
01:01:36.105 --> 01:01:37.244
we'll take a pause.

963
01:01:37.704 --> 01:01:40.125
And thank you guys for an amazing webinar.

964
01:01:40.424 --> 01:01:45.325
Thank you, David, for putting these slides together to introduce the new stock photo library.

965
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:50.980
The next webinar will be in two weeks. As a reminder, if you haven't already done so,

966
01:01:51.520 --> 01:01:52.020
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967
01:01:52.640 --> 01:01:54.740
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968
01:01:55.200 --> 01:01:57.460
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969
01:01:57.855 --> 01:02:00.494
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970
01:02:00.494 --> 01:02:04.275
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971
01:02:05.135 --> 01:02:05.635
The

972
01:02:06.415 --> 01:02:09.955
replay will be posted in the Facebook group in just a few moments

973
01:02:10.335 --> 01:02:13.690
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974
01:02:14.230 --> 01:02:16.490
also go to the Facebook group and you'll see

975
01:02:16.869 --> 01:02:19.849
a recap link, a replay link to this webinar.

976
01:02:20.390 --> 01:02:24.150
It's been lots of fun. Thank you guys for the questions. Thanks for sticking with us.

977
01:02:24.150 --> 01:02:27.369
Always great to meet with you guys. Next webinar is in two weeks.

978
01:02:27.825 --> 01:02:32.705
On behalf of myself, David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, we love you guys.

979
01:02:32.705 --> 01:02:37.192
Can't wait to see you in the next one. Have a great day and a brilliant week. Take care, guys.