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Alright. Welcome.

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If this is your first time joining us, I am Jason there on the left, and we have David Rockland, the digital strategist, and so much more here at Brilliant Directories.

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We have a super webinar for you guys.

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David, thank you for taking the time to join us and setting up the tip of the week, for this webinar as well.

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Yeah. So glad to be back with everybody for another webinar Wednesday.

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Really looking forward to this tip of the week.

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I think it might be one of the most useful ones we've ever done.

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If not useful, at least fun to play with. So, we'll see how that goes.

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We are streaming live on YouTube. So to our friends in YouTube land,

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welcome to the webinar.

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Also, one of the benefits of streaming live on YouTube, the replay will be available immediately after, and we will post it in the Brilliant Directories

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Facebook group. If you're not a member, we invite you to join us there.

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You can go to brilliantdirectories.com

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forward slash facebook and click on that blue join button. It's a very active group.

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I think we're just close to surpassing 12,000 members.

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Lots of people asking questions, receiving help, sharing ideas. I'm in there myself,

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and, yeah, we definitely invite everyone to join us there. And we do

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definitely invite everyone to join us there. And we do see a few new names and faces out there.

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Alan, welcome to the webinar, also Daisy. So just a little bit about webinar Wednesday.

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You know, week after week, we're pushing new updates into the Brilliant Directories platform.

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Some of them are small patch fixes and things like that, but some of them are actually useful features that can help you grow your community a bit quicker.

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

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convert visitors to members, identifying revenue opportunities.

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In this case, we're gonna talk about, in the tip of the week, how to publish and promote content on your site.

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So if you have questions about your site in any of these topics or anything at all, we should have plenty of time for some q and a, a little towards the end of the webinar.

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So just hang in there with us, and we'll be sure to get to as many questions as we can today.

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Alright. My favorite part of the webinar, we actually have a pretty feature rich,

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lab update slide here.

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I'll breeze through this list because we have a really extensive tip of the week.

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I'd say it's intermediate level.

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So I'll brush through this, and we'll take a question or two about this slide, and then we'll head on over to the tip of the week.

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So related to search, if you're using the InstaLoad

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search results add on, this allows members to,

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see more results on a search results page without going to, like, page two or page three of the results.

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Up until now, the user had to click the button to get the additional results, but it would keep them on the same web page, which saves a lot of time.

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Now there is a true auto and infinite scrolling setting that you can enable.

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I would recommend it for mobile especially if you have a lot of content on your site.

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This will help reduce bounce rates, keep people scrolling in the search results of your page a bit more, and feed them with more content without having to wait for different web pages to reload.

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So first, let me share the add on here, and then I'll show you where the setting is.

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There's a video on here on how it works just so you have some reference.

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So let me show you how it currently works.

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This is just our, webinar demo site here.

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So if we scroll down to the blog articles, we're showing five at a time.

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This is the button here that's always been here with the add on.

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So instead of seeing page one, two, three, or four, we just click this button

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and we get more results.

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Now here is the advanced setting that you can enable. We'll go to settings, advanced settings,

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and I'm gonna search for insta load,

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and here it is. I'll copy this setting name into the chat as well, and I'll show you how it works.

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So by default it's going to be load more results only when the button is clicked because that's how it always works.

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Now you can auto load more results when that button autumn is in the view of the user's screen, so the user doesn't actually have to click on the button, just the button has to enter the viewport of the screen.

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And you can do this on all devices or just on mobile, so you might wanna just reserve this for when people are scrolling your site on mobile.

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I'll go ahead and enable this on all monitors so we can see how it works on my desktop here. Okay.

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Great. Let's go back to this page and refresh it, and we're gonna I'm gonna scroll down.

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We're gonna notice the button at the bottom here. I'm not gonna click on it.

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And after just a second or two, it will automatically

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load more results.

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So this really creates that good experience like on Twitter or or other social media platforms.

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They just keep the user,

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going through the posts, that are available on the site.

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So if you're using this, you might want to just use this on mobile but it is also very helpful for the user on desktop as well.

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Alright next up, and this is a shout out to the Facebook community,

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your brand colors are now saved and available in the text editor

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color pickers.

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Not all the brand colors, but the key colors from your design settings are now available in your color pickers, and I'll show you where they are and where you can expect to see them.

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And this is useful so if you're creating landing pages and you want to use similar colors without having to color copy copy and paste those color codes over and over again,

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this could give you a helping hand. So let's go to the design settings real quick,

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and we will the colors that it uses are nine colors.

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the six button colors that you've defined here, so those will be available in the color picker.

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In addition to that, it's going to use the background of your main menu bar as another color.

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So there's six buttons, main menu background would be seven.

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And then your main website design, it's gonna also provide your body background color and your body font color.

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So effectively there's nine custom colors that are gonna show in the color picker.

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And we can see these colors here that should actually be available here if I click here, we can see these nine colors available here and they will be available throughout the entire admin area.

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Now there are two two types of color picker pickers in the admin.

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There's this one and there's the one in the text editor.

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So let's go to the text editor real quick, and we can just edit any page.

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Perfect. I'll just click on the text color here. So the nine colors are actually down here.

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So when the in the text editor, it comes with a set of default colors, but the last nine here are those nine that I just mentioned that correspond to the colors in your design settings.

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So if you need to grab a color quick that corresponds to your branding,

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you can do so now in the color pickers. This next one also thank you to the community.

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It actually wasn't as easy as it sounds, but we now have WebP image support throughout the entire platform.

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The hardest part here was for member profile photo uploads because that requires cropping and WebP images,

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don't exactly behave the same as JPEGs or PNGs.

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But now member profile images, member logos,

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and post, your members can utilize and upload WebP images and it'll maintain the WebP

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file format after it's uploaded as well. So,

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this effectively gives us, full support of WebP images throughout the entire software.

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And if you're not using WebP, it basically helps you they're very lightweight images.

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I should share if if you have been using JPEGs and PNGs throughout your site, we did do a blog, I mean, a tip of the week

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on how to use ImageKit,

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which is they have I would recommend signing up. I think since we did this,

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it was a free plan which was plenty

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of of file size. Let me share this here. We do mention here I'll share this blog article

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actually I do recommend everyone utilize this on your bd site. It'll just help it load faster.

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The images are from a CDN,

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so they will load quicker for users globally etc etc.

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Alright, so WebP image support throughout the platform.

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This next one is big if you're using smart list and you're using webhooks.

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Now you can continuously

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sync your smart list with webhooks either hourly, daily,

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weekly, or monthly.

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That one's gonna require it's a kind of a higher level for people who are are marketers and managing lists and alternate CRMs

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and things like that, but let me just quickly show you, where you would see that. Okay. Great.

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I'll just show you here.

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So when you have a webhook set up for a smart list, you'll then have these options here.

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And basically when you have a smart list, you basically have a set of data for a bunch of members

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or a bunch of leads or a bunch of reviews on your site, and with this, you can send all that data for every single member who's a part of that smart list out to a third party platform.

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Maybe you wanna send an entire list to Mailchimp because you like sending emails through Mailchimp.

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Before this, it was just a one time sync, so you'd have to manually come back and then resend all the people who are now part of this list to the to the webhook.

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Now you can schedule daily or weekly or monthly. Let's see here. Weekly or monthly,

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and you can rest assured that whoever enters this smart list, because it's dynamic,

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that data will be ported over to the new platform to to the alternate platform via the webhook.

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And also just wanted to make a reminder about the BD help bot in case you haven't noticed it.

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This little light bulb here in the corner,

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super helpful.

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It's still learning and it's getting better every day,

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but you can ask it set up questions, where do I edit questions, things like that.

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I've seen its reliability is about, like, 70% right now. We're working on some of the fuzzy answers,

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but it's also excellent in helping you create content.

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I saw someone ask, like, what is the tallest

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building

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in the world?

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So it's not gonna answer trivia questions.

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It's gonna it's gonna refuse that, but let me give you a tip.

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You can tell it, I'm writing an article

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on the tallest

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building in the world.

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Can you give me

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some ideas?

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When you tell it that you need content,

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it will it will freely respond back to you with either full articles, outlines,

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topic ideas, email content,

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SEO content for, you know, meta descriptions and things like that, social shares,

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etcetera etcetera.

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So, we can see here just asking it a trivia question, it's it's gonna kind of refuse the answer, but if we can pose it as we need help with our BD site or we need content or an article, it's gonna answer.

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So just a pro tip for you there, and this should help you work a lot quicker in your admin area.

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Okay. This next one is related to retention.

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So we've all seen that unsubscribe link at the bottom of the BD emails that go out, and

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link at the bottom of the b d emails that go out, and the page that it links people to up until now has been a system hard coded page.

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You couldn't, edit it, add some fluffy text, maybe,

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sway them away from unsubscribing,

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give them another option,

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from your marketing emails that is.

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But now you can the unsubscribe page is a static page and you can edit it just like any other static web page in your web page builder.

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Let me show you where you can enable that.

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On new sites moving forward, it'll be already in the web page builder section.

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However, even on this demo site, let's see here, You wanna go to install new updates.

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This is good to check from time to time.

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Also, there isn't it's not used too often, but you'll see this one,

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email unsubscribe page installer, and this will install the page on your site.

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It'll turn it from a hard coded system page

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to a live page in your tech, your web page builder.

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So if we go to the web page builder now, we should and let me search for unsubscribe.

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There it is. Unsubscribe page. Let's check it out.

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So here is the unsubscribe page it took us to, and we can now edit it just like the web page builder.

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So so we can say, you know, don't leave,

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stay with us,

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or whatever. Let me just quickly save that, and we should see a title on the page now.

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So we have that now. You can decorate it.

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Some people put crying cats or images that are kind of cheeky and playful to sway people from unsubscribing.

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And again, this would be unsubscribing from

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the marketing emails that you send from the newsletter of your site.

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Transactional emails like billing and things like that, they would probably still get those through the BD system because those those are transactional emails.

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It's a different classification of email. Alright.

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And also we did mention this in the previous webinar.

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Just wanted to remind you now in the web page builder, you can hide cells and tables, table cells on mobile tablet and or desktop, just giving you a bit more control

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over what, shows on mobile versus,

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desktop and tablet. Let me quickly show you that here. We have a web page open.

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I'm just gonna create a table here with,

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three cells, put some text in here.

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So the option here, the bottom one with the star, table style,

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you have options hide on mobile, hide on tablet, hide on desktop.

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So if you want to create a table that is just designed for desktop view,

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then you can hide this on mobile

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and hide it on tablet.

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You can choose multiple of them, or you can even choose hide on desktop as well.

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And then you can create an alternate table or cell that only loads on mobile or tablet.

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So just a little bit more design control over,

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how things look on different devices.

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And coming up, we have a big one for you guys I'm going to announce.

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So if you're stuck with us so far, thank you. You're gonna be excited about this.

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First of all, the ability to optimize file names and alt tags of the post images and photo album images your members upload.

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Right now it creates a system file name.

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Some people want a little bit more granular control to modify those to really edge things for Google Images.

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More so now Google Images does reference the context around an image to know what that image is or the alt tag, which usually matches the post title.

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However, you will soon have that ability to also edit the file names of those images.

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And this next one here, we are giving,

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access. We found a way to,

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integrate with a stock photo site,

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directly and provided directly in the BD admin area.

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We should see a release by the end of next week, so we'll have, this live and it will be available to all BD users in the admin area.

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Let me show you an example of what this will look like. So

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first, we're adding it to the media manager, and then we'll be adding it into the text editor.

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So while you're creating in pages and stuff, you'll be able to access

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the stock photos.

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In the media manager, let me take a breath for myself,

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we'll go to photos by Pexels.

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This is not released yet, it's coming soon, and it'll be available to everyone in the admin.

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in the design settings just quickly. So let's take a look at the homepage of this site real quick.

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really high quality, really beautiful pictures.

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We're gonna make it available to everyone in the admin, and then we're gonna explore if we can use it on the front end of sites as well.

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In addition to that, the last one here, digital products, and I know this was a mouthful but these are really great updates for you guys.

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The digital products, when a customer purchases a digital product from your site right now,

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after the purchase, they can't really get back to their confirmation email or the success page after their purchase, which probably has the useful links and information

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related to that digital product or service and what they should do next, or links to these specialized pages that they now have access to on your site.

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in their payment history, they will be able to, when it's a digital product,

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or more easily go to that products page if it's still published on your site, potentially for a repeat purchase if they wanna repeat purchase the product, or if they just want to revisit what that product was about in the first place.

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So that's coming soon as well.

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We have a lot of big updates,

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quality of life features, new releases like this this, the stock photo coming through.

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It's gonna make things a lot better for you guys.

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And big shout out to you guys because most of these updates, as we always say, are from the support tickets you create, suggestions in the Facebook group, and more.

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And I kinda feel bad, David, because this was a huge a lot of lab updates, and we have a big tip of the week as well.

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I think we'll skip the questions for this because we have a lot to cover in the tip of the week, and I think we need all the time,

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we'll we'll keep things moving.

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using ChatGPT

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and AI automation to basically effectively create content for you on your website.

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Yeah. We've talked about member spotlight articles

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in several previous tips of the week, going into detail about what they should include,

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and how you can go about providing them to your members, potentially selling them to your members.

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But up until now, it's really always been a manual process or a process that you would have to outsource to a copywriter

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or a freelancer, something like that.

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automatically for your members.

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And then really the only manual effort that would need to be put in on your part would be just reviewing the output from chat gpt.

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Make sure everything looks accurate and looks

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So, this should be a pretty exciting, at the very least, somewhat interesting,

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tip of the week to follow along with. And it's pretty easy to set up as well.

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Once it's set up, it's kind of set it and forget it.

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And also about this, if you can grasp what we're the concept of what we're covering here, it's gonna just help with how you create

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web content altogether.

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Whether it's your brilliant directory site or another website property you have, this is gonna be super helpful for you to just understand and how we're doing this and that know that you can do this too.

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the steps for setting up the workflow automation,

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just quickly go over the benefits of spotlight articles and what they are in case you aren't familiar with spotlight articles.

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just an article on your website that highlights

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a specific member within your directory or your community.

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indexed within Google, Bing, other search engines, the better.

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If you have some prominent members within your community on your website and somebody's

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your article on your website about them can also show up in those in those, search results.

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individual professionals or businesses.

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other than their own.

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in that they can share this additional content on your website,

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on their own social media channels or also,

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link to it on their website.

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a group or something like that, you can also utilize these spotlight articles to recognize achievements of your individual members.

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individual members within your community. You can provide these for free.

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So there are some ways to monetize this as well.

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And also we're talking about spotlight articles but really what we're gonna show you today, and we see this a lot in the Facebook group, somebody uploads, you know, 5,000 business listings to their site, their claimable listings now, but those pages aren't getting indexed because basically they're

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it's not meaningful content. It's what Google considers thin or duplicate content.

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You know, it's the business name, their phone number, and their address.

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one method where you can effectively

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add unique content to those thin pages and help more pages of your site

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rank in Google search results.

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Like I mentioned, we have talked about spotlight articles in some previous tips of the week.

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This was one in particular where we went into quite a bit of detail

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in what should be included within your spotlight articles, and also how you can go about selling them to your members and using it as an additional revenue

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stream. Now, we can go ahead and see a quick demo. See how this works in practice

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before, we show the the actual automation workflow and how to set it up. Yeah.

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We're gonna show you how it works first.

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I'm gonna show you the slides that are upcoming.

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Just to let you guys know, this is more intermediate advanced.

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We've heard a lot in the Facebook group.

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Some people want to go down the rabbit hole and figure out how to do this for their sites. Just

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a sneak peek. We're gonna get to this afterwards, but these are some of the steps which we'll cover.

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But let's quickly see how this works.

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I think, David, the best way to do it may be to just sign up as a member to our demo site and see what we're talking about here.

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I think so. Let's do that. And also one quick note.

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content generated by AI. They've recently kind of reversed

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that and updated their helpful content

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content generated by AI, it's viewed the same as if it was written by a human.

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Just as long as it's accurate and useful information, that's really all Google cares about.

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Absolutely. And also, it could just not be a Google Play.

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You're just for visitors of your site or the content you're creating that make your members feel special, in this example, spotlight articles,

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there's inherent benefits of that as well to the actual user experience

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of visitors coming to your site and actually seeing content rather than really landing on on thin pages regardless if Google's gonna still choose to rank those pages or not.

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And also, David, I've read, yeah, Google definitely values AI content.

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They just want it to be meaningful content that somebody is receiving.

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So that's based on the types of inputs you give it, and the outputs that it's gonna provide to you and what and how you can

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integrate that into your website. A human touch at the end really goes a long way.

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let's sign up as a free member to this site.

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David, I'm gonna you shout out,

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the name of the business and and the name and everything. Let me just quickly

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make an email address here to sign up to this site.

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All right we're signing up as a local business listing on this site and I'm a lazy local business listing, I'm only going to put the bare bones information.

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I just want to see my name on a website like this. So

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let's go ahead and add the basic information.

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And, David, you just shout it out, and I'll go ahead and type it in here, what things are gonna be.

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Let's do home remodel, and,

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Bill. Last name, how about we do Smith?

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Any phone number would be fine. Company name, since this is a home remodel, how about we do,

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Bill's Home Remodeling?

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Okay. And the position?

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I think Bill is the founder.

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Founder, okay. Founder and owner we'll say. All right let me just write a quick short description

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Main Street and we'll do Detroit.

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Okay we'll do Detroit, Texas.

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and so on. We'll stop right there

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I am in admin view that's why we're seeing this but let me save the changes

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Member will not see that. So the member just saved their information

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It's checking to see if an article was previously written about this member using just this information.

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And what it's going to do it's going to use the data points that Bill Smith entered in here very basic information and we've asked it to utilize ChatGPT

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repost it on our website. So if we go to latest news now,

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we now have an article called spotlight article Bill's home remodeling from Detroit, Texas.

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used, and even at the end we've included calls to action that link to their,

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their website home page, and so we can ask it to do other things as well link back to the profile

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modify them a bit, you you know, change it up a bit.

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dressing it up, and then of course you can send the good news to the member,

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on that they've been featured in on your site, share it on social media, etcetera etcetera.

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So David, where should we go from here? Because I wanna do this the right way.

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Should we get into the steps now on how we accomplish this?

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Yeah. Let's do it. And the first step would be customizing

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the member contact details form in the BD admin.

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So let's go to the admin area, and the first thing we're gonna do we saw that hidden field that I added, the spotlight article.

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form. So if we go to contact, this is the form

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00:29:40.155 --> 00:29:43.195
that I customized in this case listing contact details.

434
00:29:43.195 --> 00:29:48.815
It was a default form and we customized it for the site, and we only did one thing to this

435
00:29:49.210 --> 00:29:51.470
to this form. We went all the way to the bottom

436
00:29:51.930 --> 00:29:58.670
and we added we clicked add a new field under the submit button and we just created a single line text field.

437
00:29:58.810 --> 00:30:03.390
The key here is when you click this cog, we want it to be an admin only field, meaning

438
00:30:03.745 --> 00:30:07.924
the member will never see this field when they're logged into the front end of your site.

439
00:30:08.225 --> 00:30:18.750
Only when you the admin visit the site using this orange button or logging in as the member from the admin area where we have that blue that black sidebar on the left, only you will see this field.

440
00:30:18.750 --> 00:30:23.549
But, this will hide this field. We called it spotlight article. You can call it whatever you want.

441
00:30:23.549 --> 00:30:31.890
We're gonna save a value of one to this after chat g p t writes an article the first time so we know not to write an article multiple times

442
00:30:32.465 --> 00:30:34.805
about the same business or member. So,

443
00:30:35.345 --> 00:30:37.445
step one here was to customize

444
00:30:37.905 --> 00:30:41.925
that listing contact details member field, add one field at the bottom,

445
00:30:42.305 --> 00:30:46.085
we called it spotlight article, and make it admin only.

446
00:30:46.650 --> 00:30:50.110
Perfect. The next thing we did, and this will work with Pabbly,

447
00:30:50.490 --> 00:30:55.230
Zapier, or Integrately, those are kind of the three big, integration platforms,

448
00:30:55.930 --> 00:30:58.190
which really just make things point and click.

449
00:30:58.650 --> 00:31:03.545
We're sending when the member fills out that data of that form, we're sending it via a webhook.

450
00:31:03.545 --> 00:31:10.025
Basically a webhook means when this form is filled out, send the data out of my website and we're sending it to Zapier.

451
00:31:10.025 --> 00:31:14.585
So we're going to create a zap and we're going to do a webhook trigger.

452
00:31:14.585 --> 00:31:18.910
So this is what I created in Zapier. This is the order that we did it.

453
00:31:18.910 --> 00:31:22.210
We did we catch the webhook, we'll recreate this for you guys.

454
00:31:22.350 --> 00:31:28.850
Then we said only continue if the member has entered a few key pieces of information like their company,

455
00:31:29.215 --> 00:31:29.955
their name,

456
00:31:30.415 --> 00:31:35.135
their address, you can you can modify the if statement, only continue if.

457
00:31:35.135 --> 00:31:37.475
You can add more layers on there if you want,

458
00:31:37.855 --> 00:31:39.535
or you can keep it as light as you want.

459
00:31:39.535 --> 00:31:45.530
And also that value of one that we're saving in that spotlight article, we're doing that at the very end here.

460
00:31:45.530 --> 00:31:50.670
I'll talk about that. It's not gonna continue if we've already written an article about that member.

461
00:31:50.970 --> 00:31:53.790
The next thing we do is all the data that was in the webhook,

462
00:31:54.330 --> 00:31:55.950
we spin it in chat gpts.

463
00:31:56.090 --> 00:32:00.105
We say these are the data points, and we have the the input you should give it.

464
00:32:00.105 --> 00:32:04.505
We'll we'll share that with you guys. We say, ChatGPT, here are the data points.

465
00:32:04.505 --> 00:32:07.804
You're an SEO writer for a business directory site.

466
00:32:08.105 --> 00:32:14.419
Write an article about this business using only these data points and do not make any information up, etcetera etcetera.

467
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:15.779
After ChatGPT

468
00:32:16.159 --> 00:32:17.220
creates that article,

469
00:32:17.600 --> 00:32:21.460
we are creating a blog post on our Brilliant Directories website.

470
00:32:21.840 --> 00:32:28.965
And after we create the blog post, we are updating that user with a value of one that we've written a spotlight article about them.

471
00:32:28.965 --> 00:32:36.585
So we're just saving that that number one so later when it comes back to this step, if that member comes back and resaves this form over and over again,

472
00:32:36.885 --> 00:32:38.105
it's not gonna create

473
00:32:38.645 --> 00:32:40.805
articles over and over again for that member.

474
00:32:40.805 --> 00:32:49.200
So creating the post based on chat gpt's article output and then updating the user with the value of one so we don't recreate articles.

475
00:32:49.820 --> 00:32:54.480
Let's, let's quickly recreate it from scratch, David. I'll keep this open on the side here.

476
00:32:54.539 --> 00:32:55.919
Let's duplicate this

477
00:32:56.265 --> 00:33:00.825
because I think if people can do this properly, it it'll be a lot of high value.

478
00:33:00.825 --> 00:33:04.605
So we'll try to do it quickly, and remember, you can always watch the replay at your own speed.

479
00:33:05.065 --> 00:33:09.385
But let's create this from scratch, and we'll just kind of, reference this, David.

480
00:33:09.385 --> 00:33:11.565
We'll go back and forth with this to keep us

481
00:33:12.040 --> 00:33:13.580
on the straight and narrow with that.

482
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:20.860
So we're gonna create a Zap, and they've recently modified their, their layout here, but what we're gonna do is webhook

483
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:23.020
and webhooks by Zapier.

484
00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:29.165
And we see here on the left hand side, the event will be catch a hook, basically catch the data coming in.

485
00:33:29.465 --> 00:33:32.605
We'll continue. We don't need a child key, we'll hit continue,

486
00:33:32.985 --> 00:33:36.605
and it's gonna it gives us this URL. So we're gonna copy this URL,

487
00:33:36.985 --> 00:33:40.925
and what we want to do is go to our developer hub

488
00:33:41.290 --> 00:33:41.790
webhooks

489
00:33:42.570 --> 00:33:49.390
and search for, in this case we're doing that contact details form that the member fills out, this one here, the member profile forms.

490
00:33:49.530 --> 00:33:50.650
This is my old URL.

491
00:33:50.650 --> 00:33:54.670
I'll delete that and I'll paste it with the new one from the zap and save the changes.

492
00:33:55.024 --> 00:33:59.284
And you also want to make sure enable webhook is set to on when you do this.

493
00:33:59.745 --> 00:34:00.404
That's right.

494
00:34:00.705 --> 00:34:05.524
Also, actually very important step is you want to do this with a test member first,

495
00:34:06.065 --> 00:34:10.679
and you want to log in as the admin and save that value of one.

496
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:19.500
That custom field that we added to the form, the spotlight article, in order for Zapier to know that that form field exists, we need to save it for one member

497
00:34:19.875 --> 00:34:22.375
first. So I'm just going to go ahead and log in

498
00:34:22.675 --> 00:34:23.895
as a member here

499
00:34:24.275 --> 00:34:27.735
and this could be a sample member in this case we'll go to basic information

500
00:34:28.195 --> 00:34:34.135
and I'll scroll down again this is that admin sidebar here this is going to allow us to see the admin only fields

501
00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:39.400
here. So we have spotlight article. We wanna save a value here. So do it on a test member.

502
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:42.699
That way when we go to Zapier, this custom field is gonna be

503
00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:47.339
available to select there. Let me just choose a couple of the things.

504
00:34:47.560 --> 00:34:50.235
I think that was an important step as well. Okay.

505
00:34:50.614 --> 00:34:53.975
So we did we did a webhook. We actually saved that field.

506
00:34:53.975 --> 00:34:59.095
So now we can test the trigger because we did technically save a member there. And here it is here.

507
00:34:59.095 --> 00:35:04.520
That was that test, Jason h. That's right. Let's go back and check it out here. Basic information

508
00:35:05.220 --> 00:35:10.120
yep jason h j j phone number is 555 so it did capture that information

509
00:35:10.900 --> 00:35:14.040
and we will continue here so we're good the webhook's working.

510
00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:19.345
The next action is going to be only continue if so we're going to do a filter

511
00:35:19.964 --> 00:35:23.425
only continue if and we're going to do a few things.

512
00:35:23.964 --> 00:35:25.984
So that spotlight field

513
00:35:26.444 --> 00:35:29.345
only continue if the spotlight field choose condition

514
00:35:29.980 --> 00:35:33.420
does not exist meaning there's no value saved in it for that member.

515
00:35:33.420 --> 00:35:37.420
We haven't saved the one yet for it. So this member is of is,

516
00:35:37.820 --> 00:35:41.200
okay to write an article about. So and

517
00:35:41.660 --> 00:35:47.655
this is where we can only do it for members who have filled out, you know, more comprehensive information.

518
00:35:48.275 --> 00:35:52.215
So we can say the first name and we'll go to just the first name exists

519
00:35:52.915 --> 00:35:54.615
here exists is at the bottom

520
00:35:54.915 --> 00:35:57.655
and we can say company name exists

521
00:35:58.779 --> 00:36:00.000
so company name

522
00:36:00.619 --> 00:36:01.119
exists

523
00:36:01.740 --> 00:36:05.579
and so on and so forth. So we can say city name exists.

524
00:36:05.579 --> 00:36:12.140
So this way we're writing articles about members who have probably written or filled out the majority of those fields.

525
00:36:12.140 --> 00:36:16.245
And you can educate your members during the welcome email process to,

526
00:36:16.705 --> 00:36:19.205
if they want an article written about them to complete

527
00:36:19.665 --> 00:36:21.505
at all the fields that are there,

528
00:36:21.985 --> 00:36:28.490
or or figure out a way to kind of share that information with them about how they can get qualified to have a spotlight article written

529
00:36:29.750 --> 00:36:30.086
about them.

530
00:36:30.086 --> 00:36:36.090
And this will encourage more people to complete their profiles rather than kind of halfway filling out their information.

531
00:36:36.390 --> 00:36:42.170
So again, you can continue down here and make as many fields as you want required from that contact,

532
00:36:42.815 --> 00:36:46.434
contact information form. I'll just do one more here and do state,

533
00:36:46.974 --> 00:36:49.795
and we'll do, state long name.

534
00:36:50.174 --> 00:36:52.035
Okay. So we'll stop it there.

535
00:36:52.414 --> 00:36:58.520
Okay. Great. So let's see. Your Zap would not have continued for this test if this was because,

536
00:36:59.060 --> 00:37:04.580
I didn't have I already had a spotlight article one because I manually set that, but just showing for this test.

537
00:37:04.580 --> 00:37:09.960
But now we can continue here, and the next thing we're gonna do is the conversation with ChatGPT.

538
00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:11.800
So let's type ChatGPT.

539
00:37:12.735 --> 00:37:14.115
Now you have to have a ChatGPT,

540
00:37:15.295 --> 00:37:20.255
account and not the one where you chat with it online. You want your OpenAI account.

541
00:37:20.255 --> 00:37:21.155
You go to ChatGPT,

542
00:37:21.455 --> 00:37:25.620
and we've already connected our account in in Zapier with our API key,

543
00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:29.320
and we'll continue here. So choose an event, it's conversation.

544
00:37:29.460 --> 00:37:31.640
So we're going to do conversation as the event

545
00:37:31.940 --> 00:37:32.840
and we'll continue.

546
00:37:33.220 --> 00:37:36.360
We're account we're connected to in our account, we'll continue here.

547
00:37:36.900 --> 00:37:37.400
And

548
00:37:37.715 --> 00:37:40.455
the user message. So we actually have,

549
00:37:40.915 --> 00:37:41.895
some things here.

550
00:37:42.435 --> 00:37:47.735
We'll sit we'll share this prompt with you. So there's two things you need, the instructions

551
00:37:48.915 --> 00:37:50.775
over here, assistant instructions.

552
00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:54.860
We've written some instructions here it says you are an SEO copywriter

553
00:37:55.560 --> 00:38:02.060
etcetera, I will provide you with information about a specific person or business, you will create a spotlight article etcetera etcetera

554
00:38:02.680 --> 00:38:08.165
and then we we tell it some things like you will leverage the name, company name, location,

555
00:38:08.705 --> 00:38:09.765
all data points,

556
00:38:10.385 --> 00:38:12.885
and to create a 500 word SEO friendly

557
00:38:13.185 --> 00:38:18.965
diverse bio of the business in a positive light without inventing false statements about the business.

558
00:38:19.430 --> 00:38:22.810
We've also told it to include subheadings and titles

559
00:38:23.190 --> 00:38:26.570
and also to use HTML tags such as paragraphs,

560
00:38:26.950 --> 00:38:28.970
h two headings, h three headings,

561
00:38:29.430 --> 00:38:32.410
uls and lis are bullet lists, and a's are links.

562
00:38:32.984 --> 00:38:38.125
So this way it can create the article and it'll be styled up nicely in your blog.

563
00:38:38.424 --> 00:38:47.964
And then we say always start articles with two intro paragraphs because sometimes it wants to start with a a heading and that doesn't look good in the article, so we're telling it to start with two paragraphs.

564
00:38:48.740 --> 00:38:51.079
And just a bit more, about the structure,

565
00:38:51.380 --> 00:38:52.839
this article is for SEO,

566
00:38:53.220 --> 00:38:55.960
use the company's name and location generously,

567
00:38:56.900 --> 00:38:59.880
etcetera. So we're gonna paste this as the

568
00:39:00.420 --> 00:39:01.559
assistant instructions.

569
00:39:02.415 --> 00:39:02.915
Perfect.

570
00:39:03.375 --> 00:39:08.435
Then we have to give it our first input. So our first input is going to be,

571
00:39:09.055 --> 00:39:09.795
the business

572
00:39:10.415 --> 00:39:14.495
information. So I'll show you quickly how to do a easy way to do that.

573
00:39:14.495 --> 00:39:18.470
Let me paste this in the chat as well. This is a big piece of text here.

574
00:39:19.010 --> 00:39:19.510
Okay.

575
00:39:19.890 --> 00:39:21.270
And we'll come back here.

576
00:39:21.650 --> 00:39:24.230
So the the AI has its instructions.

577
00:39:24.530 --> 00:39:29.250
Then what we wanna do is the user message, that's our first message when it's chatting with it.

578
00:39:29.250 --> 00:39:30.710
So we're gonna say

579
00:39:31.235 --> 00:39:34.935
first business to write about. Let me see if I can just copy this here.

580
00:39:35.235 --> 00:39:39.335
First business to write about, and then it uses all the shortcode values

581
00:39:39.635 --> 00:39:40.135
from

582
00:39:40.595 --> 00:39:42.135
the webhook data points.

583
00:39:42.675 --> 00:39:45.955
I don't think my copy and paste works in this case because they're from another,

584
00:39:47.130 --> 00:39:51.549
another thing, but let me just share this with you guys and show you what you will do.

585
00:39:51.849 --> 00:39:55.390
And the more data points you could feed it in your initial response,

586
00:39:55.930 --> 00:39:59.069
the better because it will have more data to write about.

587
00:39:59.555 --> 00:40:05.415
So let's just clear these out and quickly add them back in. So if we click on name,

588
00:40:05.795 --> 00:40:10.915
and if we scroll down here again, the UI in this new Zapier thing is not good, but let's just work around it.

589
00:40:10.915 --> 00:40:11.655
So name,

590
00:40:12.035 --> 00:40:17.850
we wanna do the cache webhook. So first name, and we'll put a space, and we'll do last name.

591
00:40:18.150 --> 00:40:21.030
Perfect. Company name. Yeah. The other ones were yellow.

592
00:40:21.030 --> 00:40:25.190
See, these are white because it was each you gotta do it for your own site. So company

593
00:40:25.830 --> 00:40:31.765
and this is gonna be this is our what we're telling chat g p t the first time saying this is the first business to write about.

594
00:40:32.145 --> 00:40:34.965
The position so again we can just go through this exercise

595
00:40:35.505 --> 00:40:37.765
and map the data points

596
00:40:38.385 --> 00:40:39.745
of the first input.

597
00:40:39.745 --> 00:40:47.760
What I'm gonna do is I'm going to delete all these because you need to do it for your own, but I am going to copy this here and again you can do

598
00:40:48.060 --> 00:40:50.880
put this with a colon and then the data point value.

599
00:40:51.260 --> 00:40:52.720
So let's paste this

600
00:40:53.099 --> 00:40:56.320
over here and that that I just pasted in the chat

601
00:40:56.825 --> 00:41:01.164
is your user message but make sure that you are adding the variables

602
00:41:01.785 --> 00:41:02.924
from the webhook.

603
00:41:03.384 --> 00:41:06.924
So first name again, I'm not going to go through all of them but,

604
00:41:07.305 --> 00:41:08.684
that is what you would

605
00:41:09.090 --> 00:41:11.190
And that's all you have to do for ChatGPT.

606
00:41:12.130 --> 00:41:13.750
So we can just continue

607
00:41:14.370 --> 00:41:18.150
if it lets us get out of this. Let's see what it's asking us for. Continue.

608
00:41:18.770 --> 00:41:21.030
Perfect. So ChatGPT is done now.

609
00:41:21.215 --> 00:41:28.415
We've given it its AI instructions, and then we give it our first input, which is this is the business to write about, and it's gonna be dynamic.

610
00:41:28.415 --> 00:41:32.755
Every time a business saves their information, that's the data that it's going to write about.

611
00:41:32.895 --> 00:41:36.900
And then the next thing we're gonna do is create a post in the brilliant directory's website.

612
00:41:36.900 --> 00:41:38.440
So we have another action.

613
00:41:38.820 --> 00:41:40.440
I'm gonna select brilliant directories,

614
00:41:41.140 --> 00:41:43.220
and this is always fun. Great.

615
00:41:43.220 --> 00:41:47.380
Shout out to the BD dev team, for this, integration you guys have created.

616
00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:49.560
So we're gonna create posts. Super easy.

617
00:41:49.895 --> 00:41:52.795
And then continue. It's hooked up to our BD site.

618
00:41:53.095 --> 00:41:55.194
We're gonna do our webinar demo site,

619
00:41:55.575 --> 00:41:58.315
and it will just connect in a second and we'll continue.

620
00:41:58.694 --> 00:42:01.675
So now we're going to create a post based on the ChatGPT

621
00:42:02.135 --> 00:42:02.635
output.

622
00:42:03.210 --> 00:42:07.369
So here we go. Create post, and we get a drop down list of all our post types.

623
00:42:07.369 --> 00:42:12.990
So in this case, we're doing a blog article post. Now also what you can do is if you create a field

624
00:42:13.450 --> 00:42:17.070
in the for the member, another hidden admin field,

625
00:42:17.615 --> 00:42:20.494
you could add this to the member's profile page.

626
00:42:20.494 --> 00:42:28.494
So if you're if you've imported claimable listings, instead of creating this as blog post, add this content to the member's profile page instead.

627
00:42:28.494 --> 00:42:31.075
You can update the user instead of creating a post.

628
00:42:31.690 --> 00:42:35.790
But here we go. So choose blog article type. You do need the post author.

629
00:42:36.170 --> 00:42:41.950
So in our case, you put the the member ID on your site. I'll show you that in a second. If we go to

630
00:42:42.250 --> 00:42:46.190
our demo site here and if we look for the admin blog contributor,

631
00:42:47.045 --> 00:42:49.865
that's who's going to be the author of these blog articles,

632
00:42:50.405 --> 00:42:53.305
and his member ID is three. So,

633
00:42:53.685 --> 00:42:57.145
we'll continue with that. That's why post author user ID is three.

634
00:42:57.205 --> 00:42:59.205
Publish status, this is what we're referring to.

635
00:42:59.205 --> 00:43:04.880
You might want to set these to draft as first because you want that human touch added to them, adding images,

636
00:43:05.260 --> 00:43:07.119
more internal or external links,

637
00:43:07.420 --> 00:43:10.319
and maybe modifying some of the output text that ChatCBT

638
00:43:10.700 --> 00:43:11.359
has created,

639
00:43:11.900 --> 00:43:16.235
or you can set it to publish. It just depends how comfortable you are with what the output is,

640
00:43:16.635 --> 00:43:21.615
and how you're what you're doing on your site. So in our example, we'll just set it as published.

641
00:43:22.155 --> 00:43:26.655
And the post title, we can create the title. So we've been doing a spotlight

642
00:43:27.275 --> 00:43:27.775
member,

643
00:43:28.315 --> 00:43:28.815
and

644
00:43:29.170 --> 00:43:30.390
you can create another

645
00:43:30.770 --> 00:43:35.270
chat gpt to output a title for said article and then use that as the value.

646
00:43:35.650 --> 00:43:40.550
In this case, we'll do spotlight member. We'll use our webhook. We'll do the company name,

647
00:43:41.490 --> 00:43:42.710
and their location

648
00:43:43.010 --> 00:43:43.510
from,

649
00:43:43.985 --> 00:43:45.125
and we'll do the city

650
00:43:45.585 --> 00:43:46.085
comma

651
00:43:46.385 --> 00:43:47.125
the state.

652
00:43:47.505 --> 00:43:50.625
So that's going to be kind of a uniform title for these articles.

653
00:43:50.625 --> 00:43:55.605
Again you can do another chat gpt spin and then use that value for the article title,

654
00:43:55.985 --> 00:43:57.765
maybe make things a little more diverse.

655
00:43:58.460 --> 00:44:03.760
Okay. And then the post content is going to be our conversation chat GPT output.

656
00:44:04.299 --> 00:44:07.359
Looks like I didn't complete that step. Let's go complete that step.

657
00:44:07.660 --> 00:44:10.880
We need to test the step. And what we're going to use

658
00:44:11.545 --> 00:44:15.465
our user message was first business to write about name, JSON, etc.

659
00:44:15.465 --> 00:44:17.405
If it's missing data, it's missing data.

660
00:44:18.105 --> 00:44:21.165
But let's see if we can write an output for this.

661
00:44:21.465 --> 00:44:22.445
And it's thinking.

662
00:44:22.905 --> 00:44:26.205
Okay, there we go. Looks like it's done. Let's see if it outputted an article,

663
00:44:26.680 --> 00:44:30.360
and it did. And the value of this chat gpt let me scroll up again.

664
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:34.700
The UI in Zapier is horrible for this. I don't know why they recently did this, but here

665
00:44:35.080 --> 00:44:36.680
it is the content from it.

666
00:44:36.680 --> 00:44:41.375
So it starts here in a p tag, Jason is an exceptional individual, etcetera, etcetera.

667
00:44:41.375 --> 00:44:44.355
This is the article here. So let's continue and go back

668
00:44:45.055 --> 00:44:45.615
to our,

669
00:44:46.095 --> 00:44:50.275
we could skip the test now. I think we can go back to our creating post,

670
00:44:50.895 --> 00:44:55.715
and the post content will be the chat g p t, and what we want is

671
00:44:56.230 --> 00:45:01.290
the here, the reply. So look for reply. We can see the p tag it starts there. That is the article.

672
00:45:01.350 --> 00:45:05.610
So that's what the post content is going to be is the reply from chat gpt,

673
00:45:06.230 --> 00:45:07.110
and we're done.

674
00:45:07.110 --> 00:45:12.025
Unless you wanna add more post featured images and things like that, you could ask post tags.

675
00:45:12.325 --> 00:45:16.905
If you wanna create a comma separated list of the person's first name, last name, their location,

676
00:45:17.445 --> 00:45:20.105
things like that, you can obviously add tags to the post,

677
00:45:20.484 --> 00:45:22.505
but we'll keep it simple. We'll just continue,

678
00:45:23.060 --> 00:45:24.760
and we're gonna do one more step.

679
00:45:25.060 --> 00:45:26.680
This is the important step

680
00:45:26.980 --> 00:45:29.720
so that we don't get multiple articles written

681
00:45:30.260 --> 00:45:34.359
on the same user. So we're gonna do another action which is Brilliant Directories,

682
00:45:35.075 --> 00:45:40.775
and this was the reason we added that spotlight article form field and customized that form.

683
00:45:41.075 --> 00:45:44.935
So right now we're going to do an event. We're gonna update the user,

684
00:45:45.395 --> 00:45:48.890
and we only care about one thing here or two things.

685
00:45:48.950 --> 00:45:55.349
One is attributing it to the user's ID, and that's based on the webhook, the original webhook data.

686
00:45:55.349 --> 00:45:57.450
So we're gonna go to custom in this case,

687
00:45:57.829 --> 00:45:58.890
the catch webhook,

688
00:45:59.190 --> 00:46:00.890
and we're gonna search for user.

689
00:46:01.445 --> 00:46:04.665
User ID in this case was one ninety three created. Okay.

690
00:46:04.965 --> 00:46:06.025
Just want it once.

691
00:46:06.565 --> 00:46:13.925
And the last thing we want, and the reason we have to save that once on a sample member is so we can see that spotlight article field here.

692
00:46:13.925 --> 00:46:15.945
We wanna set this to one.

693
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:25.120
So after it goes through this once, we're going to save a value of one and we know in our this step here only continue if there's no value saved for this field.

694
00:46:25.120 --> 00:46:29.700
So we're not going to get multiple articles written about the same person. So we'll click continue

695
00:46:30.345 --> 00:46:33.165
and we can test the step and we're done.

696
00:46:33.225 --> 00:46:40.125
I know we did a lot of explanation and there was a lot of it's a little finicky here with that new UI that they have, but we are now ready to

697
00:46:40.505 --> 00:46:44.365
create articles as soon as members sign up to our site.

698
00:46:44.600 --> 00:46:47.340
Now some things you can do, I'll go back here

699
00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:50.440
to the slides. These were the actions here.

700
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:55.500
Again, I pretty much went step by step as much as I could. Hopefully, some most of it was clear.

701
00:46:55.640 --> 00:46:57.505
So just some bonus tips. Yeah.

702
00:46:57.505 --> 00:47:02.785
So you'll most likely want to review the output that was generated by chat g p t.

703
00:47:02.785 --> 00:47:04.805
Just make sure everything's accurate,

704
00:47:05.505 --> 00:47:10.005
and that it includes all of the information and details that you want it to.

705
00:47:10.065 --> 00:47:17.230
A good thing to do with this is to set the default post status when you're setting up the workflow in Zapier.

706
00:47:17.450 --> 00:47:21.070
Set that to draft and not publish. So it'll still automatically

707
00:47:21.610 --> 00:47:26.190
create the article and you can access it when you log in and

708
00:47:26.650 --> 00:47:31.365
and view the article. It just won't be published, so it won't be live on your website immediately.

709
00:47:32.145 --> 00:47:37.685
You'll also probably want to include some additional details that might have been left out,

710
00:47:38.065 --> 00:47:38.885
by ChattGPT.

711
00:47:39.630 --> 00:47:43.390
This ultimately depends on the information that it's provided with.

712
00:47:43.390 --> 00:47:45.170
So, maybe you'll want to add some additional

713
00:47:45.549 --> 00:47:47.329
fields to the form that you're using.

714
00:47:47.869 --> 00:47:52.210
But when you go back and take a look at the article that ChatGPT

715
00:47:52.510 --> 00:47:56.075
generates, you might want to add some images or embed some videos,

716
00:47:56.615 --> 00:47:57.595
about the member.

717
00:47:58.055 --> 00:47:59.675
If it's a professional

718
00:48:00.135 --> 00:48:11.490
individual or a business, you might want to grab a review from their profile on your site or maybe a testimonial from their own website or another review site and add that in to the article.

719
00:48:11.710 --> 00:48:14.049
Also, add in some relevant calls to action.

720
00:48:14.270 --> 00:48:22.210
This will depend on the overall purpose of your website, but if it's a business directory maybe you want to include some calls to action within the article itself

721
00:48:22.510 --> 00:48:23.650
directing readers

722
00:48:24.705 --> 00:48:26.405
to leave a message or contact

723
00:48:26.785 --> 00:48:28.005
the specific member.

724
00:48:28.305 --> 00:48:38.165
And then also, depending on what information you're providing the ChatGPT and the article that it's creating, you might find some places where you can insert some internal or even external

725
00:48:38.750 --> 00:48:39.250
links

726
00:48:39.710 --> 00:48:40.930
into, the article.

727
00:48:41.309 --> 00:48:45.010
You might also want to set a delay in the Zapier

728
00:48:45.390 --> 00:48:46.609
automation workflow

729
00:48:46.910 --> 00:48:48.609
so that the article isn't

730
00:48:48.910 --> 00:48:49.410
created

731
00:48:49.710 --> 00:48:50.210
immediately.

732
00:48:50.990 --> 00:48:52.369
If you're going to be

733
00:48:52.725 --> 00:48:53.225
automatically

734
00:48:53.525 --> 00:48:54.985
publishing these articles

735
00:48:55.525 --> 00:49:00.345
by adding, you know, maybe a three, four, five day delay between when the,

736
00:49:00.725 --> 00:49:10.360
member submits, completes that contact details form, and when the article is actually published, that can, make it seem like, you know, some actual

737
00:49:10.740 --> 00:49:12.180
human work went into,

738
00:49:12.580 --> 00:49:18.135
crafting the article and add some value to it that way. And then, what you might also want to do,

739
00:49:18.615 --> 00:49:20.155
is include an action

740
00:49:20.455 --> 00:49:21.275
to automatically

741
00:49:21.575 --> 00:49:34.110
notify your member, automatically send them an email, letting them know that, a spotlight article has been published about them and include a link so that they can quickly access and view the article published on your site.

742
00:49:34.110 --> 00:49:38.290
Yeah. I like the three points here, setting it to draft mode, giving it the human touch,

743
00:49:38.590 --> 00:49:44.370
and then emailing the member or having Zapier email the member, sending it to Lay in Zapier before it does all this.

744
00:49:44.750 --> 00:49:47.665
And then, of course, now you have content for newsletters,

745
00:49:48.045 --> 00:49:48.865
social media,

746
00:49:49.245 --> 00:49:53.665
your site for Google, and it's really all done automatically for you as members

747
00:49:54.045 --> 00:49:58.260
join your site. And also again, you don't have to save this as a blog post.

748
00:49:58.660 --> 00:50:06.920
You could resave it as an updated field in the member's profile so this extra content shows up on their profile page.

749
00:50:07.220 --> 00:50:10.820
And also in addition to this, it doesn't have to be for all your members.

750
00:50:10.820 --> 00:50:17.194
This can be a boost or an up sell that you sell to premium members, and you just need to tell them how to do it.

751
00:50:17.194 --> 00:50:20.815
If they're if they've already filled out the information and they were a free member,

752
00:50:21.115 --> 00:50:27.800
have them upgrade to be a premium member and just hit that save button again on their contact details form, and the article would get created,

753
00:50:28.180 --> 00:50:29.160
on their behalf.

754
00:50:29.620 --> 00:50:33.640
I know it was a little technical. We went down the rabbit hole a bit. Hopefully, it wasn't

755
00:50:34.020 --> 00:50:35.080
too complicated.

756
00:50:35.140 --> 00:50:42.525
It was within the realm of, what majority of us can or or need to do, to do it, but it is technically repurposing

757
00:50:43.225 --> 00:50:47.805
data that's being inputted into your BD website, bare bones data might I say.

758
00:50:47.945 --> 00:50:50.345
Having ChatGPT it up and,

759
00:50:50.665 --> 00:50:51.705
kinda make it,

760
00:50:52.025 --> 00:50:52.525
into

761
00:50:52.839 --> 00:50:57.180
a conceptual article and then reposting it to your BD website.

762
00:50:57.559 --> 00:50:59.500
With that said, I know that was a mouthful,

763
00:51:00.040 --> 00:51:03.960
not that we covered here. What we can do now is open it up to q and a.

764
00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:05.445
We can cover the tip of the week,

765
00:51:06.005 --> 00:51:10.325
some of the lab updates, or any questions you have about your BD website.

766
00:51:10.325 --> 00:51:14.585
So feel free to raise your hand. We have time for a good number of q and a's here.

767
00:51:14.645 --> 00:51:20.090
We got our good friend Brian here. Brian, how you doing? Pretty good. And you? Pretty good.

768
00:51:20.410 --> 00:51:21.870
I just had a quick question.

769
00:51:22.490 --> 00:51:27.610
I don't know if it's possible for you guys to do the, like, an update on this or whatever, but,

770
00:51:28.090 --> 00:51:29.630
you know the events calendar

771
00:51:30.170 --> 00:51:30.670
page?

772
00:51:31.130 --> 00:51:31.630
Yes.

773
00:51:32.175 --> 00:51:36.675
So, like, when you're on the events calendar, it shows, like, a bunch of events and everything.

774
00:51:37.855 --> 00:51:40.595
But it'd be nice if there was a widget

775
00:51:41.055 --> 00:51:45.795
that you could do in the sidebar that would like, you know, how you can do it by keyword

776
00:51:46.175 --> 00:51:46.675
or,

777
00:51:47.750 --> 00:51:52.970
like location or something like that. So, like, if you have, like, say a nationwide

778
00:51:53.589 --> 00:51:55.290
website It's a good suggestion.

779
00:51:56.150 --> 00:51:58.950
Do you know where I'm going with this? Yeah.

780
00:51:58.950 --> 00:52:05.815
Basically filtering the category based on either a keyword or, I mean filtering the calendar based on a category or keyword potentially.

781
00:52:06.355 --> 00:52:11.415
Yeah, and actually location would be good too because like say you have events

782
00:52:11.955 --> 00:52:13.415
like in California,

783
00:52:13.715 --> 00:52:14.215
Nevada,

784
00:52:16.220 --> 00:52:18.319
Houston, Texas, etcetera, etcetera,

785
00:52:19.099 --> 00:52:20.079
you may wanna

786
00:52:20.700 --> 00:52:23.599
only go to an event in a certain area. Right?

787
00:52:23.900 --> 00:52:24.400
Absolutely.

788
00:52:25.579 --> 00:52:32.115
You know, we can I I I think I think it may be possible we have a better handle on that events calendar integration?

789
00:52:32.815 --> 00:52:36.835
So definitely we'll share it with the team. Cool. Thank you so much. Thank you.

790
00:52:36.974 --> 00:52:40.335
Good suggestion there for Brian. Brian, always good suggestions. I gotta say, oh, man.

791
00:52:40.335 --> 00:52:44.500
Thank you so much. Yeah. We got our good friend, Wilf, here. How are you doing, Wilf? Hey.

792
00:52:44.500 --> 00:52:49.240
I'm I'm great. Thank you, Jason. Yeah. You guys are doing an outstanding job. So much value here.

793
00:52:50.340 --> 00:52:56.359
My question, it it might be very remedial for this call, but I'm working on a site. I'm, going

794
00:52:56.805 --> 00:52:57.305
full

795
00:52:57.685 --> 00:52:58.185
bore

796
00:52:58.565 --> 00:53:00.825
and I'm really kind of having trouble with,

797
00:53:01.365 --> 00:53:04.185
let's say my featured member or my premium member.

798
00:53:04.565 --> 00:53:06.025
So it's a local business

799
00:53:06.645 --> 00:53:10.025
and I would like their profile to look top notch.

800
00:53:10.470 --> 00:53:14.570
So I'm just is this something we could go through to get my settings in order?

801
00:53:15.109 --> 00:53:19.369
I have a couple point and click settings that can kind of make that profile,

802
00:53:20.230 --> 00:53:26.795
maybe look a little different than the other profiles in in some cases or maybe just make your profiles look a little more stand out.

803
00:53:27.115 --> 00:53:28.734
I can show you some of those settings.

804
00:53:29.115 --> 00:53:34.734
Okay. That would be great. Okay. Great. Let's, we could we could just stick on this demo site here.

805
00:53:35.674 --> 00:53:40.095
Let me just go to search members. Let me find a member. We'll go to their profile page,

806
00:53:40.510 --> 00:53:40.750
and,

807
00:53:41.310 --> 00:53:45.650
we'll just go someone who's got, like, at least a profile photo. Let me just search here.

808
00:53:46.030 --> 00:53:46.530
And

809
00:53:47.870 --> 00:53:50.830
how many members? Not a lot on this site. Let me find someone in the admin here.

810
00:53:50.830 --> 00:53:52.450
Let me go to the last member.

811
00:53:52.855 --> 00:53:53.515
And we

812
00:53:53.895 --> 00:53:57.355
have somebody here I can use. Just give me one more moment.

813
00:53:57.895 --> 00:54:02.775
I have that sample, I think her name's Lisa. This is the this is the just the demo site here.

814
00:54:02.775 --> 00:54:07.115
Here it is. So let's look at this profile page. We'll do a little before and after.

815
00:54:07.510 --> 00:54:09.610
So this is kind of what we're used to here.

816
00:54:10.390 --> 00:54:12.630
Profile here, a sidebar here.

817
00:54:12.630 --> 00:54:16.570
Let's go to the design settings and just see a couple things we can do differently.

818
00:54:16.950 --> 00:54:19.770
And also let's look at the membership plan here.

819
00:54:20.105 --> 00:54:23.085
So in the design settings under member profile pages,

820
00:54:23.944 --> 00:54:25.145
one thing you can do,

821
00:54:25.464 --> 00:54:27.964
which which I think is is good,

822
00:54:28.345 --> 00:54:34.444
the profile header, I'd like to do full width. I'll just show you why. It kinda just kinda showcases

823
00:54:35.260 --> 00:54:40.240
the member a bit more at the top there so you get that full width look.

824
00:54:41.100 --> 00:54:46.140
And then I would recommend maybe the, the profile cover at the top there.

825
00:54:46.140 --> 00:54:47.520
Are you familiar with that?

826
00:54:47.865 --> 00:54:48.365
No.

827
00:54:48.665 --> 00:54:52.605
Okay. Let me see if this site has the, the cover photo.

828
00:54:53.065 --> 00:54:53.305
Yeah.

829
00:54:53.305 --> 00:54:57.945
The, profile cover photo, it is it's an add on, but I'll show you what it allows your members to do.

830
00:54:57.945 --> 00:55:00.905
Let me go to the Brilliant Directories site. I'll share that link with you.

831
00:55:00.905 --> 00:55:04.255
If you have the VIP add ons club, you have it already.

832
00:55:04.255 --> 00:55:09.301
So let me just share this profile cover, and we'll add a cover photo for this person.

833
00:55:09.301 --> 00:55:14.347
I put it in the chat there. So Lisa Jones. Okay. What does this person do?

834
00:55:14.347 --> 00:55:17.485
Let's say this person is an architect. So let's actually

835
00:55:18.425 --> 00:55:19.325
get an image

836
00:55:21.065 --> 00:55:23.405
and let's log in as this member also.

837
00:55:24.185 --> 00:55:27.245
So they should be able to add now a cover photo

838
00:55:27.625 --> 00:55:30.365
right here cover photo so let me find

839
00:55:30.980 --> 00:55:33.160
you know, a photo of a house or something,

840
00:55:33.539 --> 00:55:34.440
modern home

841
00:55:34.819 --> 00:55:35.319
architect.

842
00:55:35.779 --> 00:55:39.960
And we'll just grab an image real quick for this example. Yeah. This is fine.

843
00:55:40.099 --> 00:55:43.299
And of course, it could have their name company name on it too.

844
00:55:43.299 --> 00:55:46.520
It doesn't have to just be a just a photo by itself.

845
00:55:47.115 --> 00:55:50.975
Okay. And let's upload a cover photo. Should have that there.

846
00:55:51.275 --> 00:55:55.855
I'll show you two more things that you can do as well after this. So we'll just confirm this one.

847
00:55:56.075 --> 00:56:01.530
Okay. Great. Let's refresh the page a bit. So you can you can modify it so it's not so tall.

848
00:56:01.610 --> 00:56:04.190
It forces it to be a little more skinnier and narrow.

849
00:56:04.410 --> 00:56:09.950
But kind of now that they've put a this is a little too tall to be honest, but they've put a cover image here.

850
00:56:10.810 --> 00:56:15.850
And then one more thing you can do if these are premium members, and I've seen this a lot,

851
00:56:16.835 --> 00:56:17.875
and let me clear this.

852
00:56:17.875 --> 00:56:22.515
What you can do on their profile pages is actually hide the header of the website.

853
00:56:22.515 --> 00:56:25.634
I don't know if that's something you wanna do, but just so you know it's an option.

854
00:56:25.634 --> 00:56:29.095
You can hide the website header and the website footer,

855
00:56:29.555 --> 00:56:30.375
which effectively

856
00:56:30.994 --> 00:56:34.740
makes kinda like this was not a good image to choose. It was too tall, but,

857
00:56:35.060 --> 00:56:40.280
which effectively makes it like their own web page for themselves. And I've seen a lot of,

858
00:56:41.620 --> 00:56:42.920
websites that do this

859
00:56:43.380 --> 00:56:51.295
educate the client on how to mirror this URL on their own if they don't have a website and and their profile page becomes their website effectively.

860
00:56:52.555 --> 00:56:54.255
So A question about that. So

861
00:56:55.355 --> 00:56:59.295
a visitor or user navigating the website seeing this profile,

862
00:56:59.835 --> 00:57:04.930
not knowing the business, trying to evaluate if they would wanna reach out to the business, What are your thoughts?

863
00:57:04.930 --> 00:57:08.470
What are the pros and cons to eliminating the header and the footer?

864
00:57:08.610 --> 00:57:10.950
So I get it from the advertiser perspective.

865
00:57:11.650 --> 00:57:12.870
That's very valuable.

866
00:57:13.970 --> 00:57:17.110
Just your thought on from a user perspective

867
00:57:17.625 --> 00:57:19.885
because because they lose their navigation now.

868
00:57:20.505 --> 00:57:22.905
So there is a there is,

869
00:57:24.185 --> 00:57:26.125
you can keep the breadcrumb up here.

870
00:57:26.505 --> 00:57:32.845
And what you may wanna do in that case because they're gonna they're gonna find this member based on the search results.

871
00:57:33.549 --> 00:57:39.650
So what you may wanna do is update this so every time the view listing is clicked on, it maybe opens in a new tab.

872
00:57:40.029 --> 00:57:48.049
So that way, they kinda still have the search results page open, but every time they click on a profile, it's going to be its stand alone page.

873
00:57:48.245 --> 00:57:50.585
Yeah I like that that's a good idea. Okay

874
00:57:51.285 --> 00:57:58.425
I wish I chose a better image this wasn't good for the example but you kind of get the idea here and again these are very like boilerplate profile pages.

875
00:57:59.205 --> 00:58:07.809
I know Ryan Sullivan, he's on in the webinar, he's he's one of the marketplace partners, he's done an amazing job with some if you need to do further customization on profile pages.

876
00:58:07.950 --> 00:58:09.650
Okay thank you. You're welcome.

877
00:58:09.950 --> 00:58:15.230
And guys, Wolf's been with BD for a very long time so it's really nice and refreshing to see you back here in the webinars.

878
00:58:15.230 --> 00:58:18.805
Wolf, good chatting with you. Alright. We can see Dave here. Dave's got his hand up.

879
00:58:18.805 --> 00:58:23.077
Let me unmute your mic, Dave. Make sure you're unmuted as well on your end, Dave. Hi.

880
00:58:23.077 --> 00:58:24.485
Where are y'all from?

881
00:58:25.045 --> 00:58:26.185
San Diego, California.

882
00:58:26.725 --> 00:58:30.690
Alright. We're here in Los Angeles. What's your question for us today? Just up the road. Alright.

883
00:58:30.930 --> 00:58:31.170
Events.

884
00:58:31.170 --> 00:58:37.250
So along the lines of what the other gentleman was asking about, I didn't realize that wasn't something that was already inaily there.

885
00:58:37.250 --> 00:58:37.750
So

886
00:58:38.050 --> 00:58:43.510
be good to see that happen when it happens in terms of the ability to filter out by by location.

887
00:58:44.735 --> 00:58:46.915
Over and above that, in terms of,

888
00:58:47.695 --> 00:58:50.675
setting up a couple things here. First off,

889
00:58:50.975 --> 00:58:54.595
bringing in or scraping data to create event pages.

890
00:58:56.070 --> 00:58:56.230
Yeah.

891
00:58:56.230 --> 00:59:01.290
I've brought this, up with you guys a couple times in terms of just scraping data and bringing it in, and that creates a

892
00:59:01.670 --> 00:59:03.530
blog profile. Is that right?

893
00:59:03.830 --> 00:59:04.070
Yes.

894
00:59:04.070 --> 00:59:09.910
So if you're scraping data, you're probably saving it to, like, a Google Sheet or an Excel or CSV file.

895
00:59:09.910 --> 00:59:14.995
Correct? Right. So what you can do is you can you can use Zapier if you wanna automate it.

896
00:59:14.995 --> 00:59:17.795
If I'm I'm not too familiar with coding with the API directly.

897
00:59:17.795 --> 00:59:21.715
That's why tools like Zapier or Pavly are helpful. Yeah. You you can.

898
00:59:21.715 --> 00:59:25.640
Do you want me to quickly show you what you would do? Yeah that'd be great that'd be awesome.

899
00:59:25.640 --> 00:59:28.220
Yeah let me let me just quickly show you the

900
00:59:28.599 --> 00:59:30.460
the the the gist of it.

901
00:59:30.839 --> 00:59:33.339
So what you would do let's go back to Zapier

902
00:59:34.119 --> 00:59:35.980
and let's see we have

903
00:59:36.965 --> 00:59:40.905
we have some tests here, so we can do it here. Let me edit one of these,

904
00:59:41.285 --> 00:59:42.745
and let me zoom in here.

905
00:59:44.165 --> 00:59:46.105
So what you'll do basically is

906
00:59:46.645 --> 00:59:54.000
you can use so you're adding you can do it a one time, or you can if you're scraping and you're constantly adding scrapes to a Google Sheet,

907
00:59:54.860 --> 00:59:59.900
if you're gonna do it like dynamically do it, otherwise, you can just import directly into your site.

908
00:59:59.900 --> 01:00:01.660
I'll show you that as well. I kind of skipped that step.

909
01:00:01.660 --> 01:00:08.415
But if you're gonna be doing it dynamically and adding new scraped records to a Google Sheet, which would be like the continuous way to do it.

910
01:00:08.575 --> 01:00:14.595
So every time there's a new spreadsheet row, what you can do is you add a step, and we'll do brilliant directories,

911
01:00:15.055 --> 01:00:18.275
kind of like how we created the blog article in today's tip of the week.

912
01:00:18.495 --> 01:00:22.675
We're going to create a post. Let me see here. Create a post,

913
01:00:23.135 --> 01:00:23.635
and

914
01:00:24.290 --> 01:00:35.750
when this pops up you're gonna connect your site of course right okay then it's gonna say choose post type so what we're gonna want to select is the events post type and then from here we're just gonna map the information

915
01:00:36.530 --> 01:00:39.030
the category the tags I think it goes

916
01:00:40.145 --> 01:00:41.685
if you scroll down further

917
01:00:42.465 --> 01:00:43.665
Okay. So that's good to know.

918
01:00:43.665 --> 01:00:50.545
I didn't realize there's a specific event post type and so by doing this I can actually use this to create the event post.

919
01:00:50.545 --> 01:00:54.580
That's great. Let me let me help you out with one more thing. If you go to manage posts,

920
01:00:55.600 --> 01:00:58.880
by the way, a lab update, you're gonna be able to export your post soon.

921
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:03.700
Right now, you can import posts. You'll be able to export your post soon as well in a CSV format.

922
01:01:03.954 --> 01:01:04.194
Cool.

923
01:01:04.194 --> 01:01:08.355
And it'll be in a format where if you export it, you can directly import it right back to your site.

924
01:01:08.355 --> 01:01:11.335
So, you can import posts. Let me click on this.

925
01:01:11.395 --> 01:01:20.599
So if you just have the CSV file or the Excel file, let me share this view import guide for you and I'll put this in the chat how to import post via csv.

926
01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:25.500
So an event is a post so this kind of talks about that right here events. Okay.

927
01:01:25.799 --> 01:01:32.885
Let me share this with you as well and I think there's a sample import template file so if you're scraping your event data,

928
01:01:33.285 --> 01:01:38.905
you just have to map, like, post title, post content, etcetera etcetera. If you scroll down here,

929
01:01:39.285 --> 01:01:39.925
I think yeah.

930
01:01:39.925 --> 01:01:45.599
At the bottom of this article are some sample import templates so you can utilize those running to an issue issue with that by the way.

931
01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:47.140
Jason, is this Jason talking?

932
01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:48.480
Yes. Okay.

933
01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:53.140
We ran into an issue with that where we found out that some of the fields for whatever reason

934
01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:57.279
in the example up above aren't showing up in the template down below.

935
01:01:57.279 --> 01:02:01.494
So is that something we need to figure out for ourselves or what?

936
01:02:01.954 --> 01:02:05.255
If if it's a valid form field in your events form,

937
01:02:05.555 --> 01:02:08.755
you can use it as a column heading in your import file.

938
01:02:08.755 --> 01:02:13.770
So sometimes people have custom fields, but if you're saying there's some, like, missing default fields, we,

939
01:02:14.650 --> 01:02:16.250
we can add them to to these,

940
01:02:16.970 --> 01:02:20.970
to these template files. But Okay. Let me show you Like I said, we went to go try and do that.

941
01:02:20.970 --> 01:02:22.190
It was like, wait a minute.

942
01:02:22.650 --> 01:02:27.850
Your templates were missing certain fields that were looks like they're supposed to be, like you said, default fields.

943
01:02:27.850 --> 01:02:28.905
So we were just curious

944
01:02:30.905 --> 01:02:32.425
about that. Let me guide you on that. So if you come to this is also good information.

945
01:02:32.425 --> 01:02:33.965
If you come to your form manager,

946
01:02:34.585 --> 01:02:38.045
search for your events form, you can edit it. And, basically,

947
01:02:38.905 --> 01:02:42.869
effectively, these are all the fields that are that correspond to an event post.

948
01:02:42.869 --> 01:02:44.490
Like post expiration

949
01:02:49.910 --> 01:02:54.809
date, post there's just a bunch of fields here. These are all your fields for events here.

950
01:02:55.175 --> 01:02:58.695
Okay. That's for event related posts basically. Got it. Right.

951
01:02:58.695 --> 01:03:02.315
If you come to the form manager and look at the feature events form,

952
01:03:02.855 --> 01:03:07.275
the fields here, the database variables are what you want at the top of your column heading.

953
01:03:07.575 --> 01:03:10.890
Those are our column names basically. Got it. Yes. Yes. Precisely.

954
01:03:11.510 --> 01:03:13.690
Okay. And then in terms of

955
01:03:14.070 --> 01:03:18.330
event listings, is the event like template the best

956
01:03:18.869 --> 01:03:22.650
option for us, for those that are trying to run event directories?

957
01:03:23.395 --> 01:03:27.495
I mean you're going to be posting events that have start dates and end times, right?

958
01:03:27.875 --> 01:03:43.320
Yeah, these are all different events in different place, you know, in different cities and whatnot that want to, you know, be able to have the start date and, maybe a registration link and whatever else, you know, on their on their field, you know, on that information within their particular

959
01:03:43.860 --> 01:03:49.300
post in this case, I'm I'm basically That is that's the best that's the best post type to use in that case.

960
01:03:49.300 --> 01:03:49.800
Yes.

961
01:03:50.180 --> 01:03:53.795
Okay. And then the overall template for the the

962
01:03:54.095 --> 01:03:58.895
the website build that we're using, the event one is probably the best option for that right now.

963
01:03:58.895 --> 01:03:59.714
Is that correct?

964
01:04:00.095 --> 01:04:01.714
So you're referring to the themes?

965
01:04:02.175 --> 01:04:03.694
Actually themes. Sorry.

966
01:04:03.694 --> 01:04:07.635
So so really the themes are just like a starter for the home page effectively.

967
01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:16.720
So, I mean, it's not hard to just put the event search as the call to action in the hero section of the home page and then stream event categories and such.

968
01:04:16.720 --> 01:04:23.460
So even if you started with the standard template, it's just a few clicks to kinda make it, like, a event focused on the home page.

969
01:04:24.855 --> 01:04:33.995
So it's just really how it's however comfortable you are with the design settings because very quickly, you can shift the focus of the home page from, like, a classifieds to an event search website.

970
01:04:34.535 --> 01:04:37.415
I follow you. Okay. Okay. Alright. That's good to know.

971
01:04:37.415 --> 01:04:40.790
But, oh, and can you finish showing the I know it's I'm sorry.

972
01:04:40.790 --> 01:04:45.290
I'm taking up too much time, but Okay. Can you finish showing how the Zapier method works also

973
01:04:45.830 --> 01:04:46.570
for the automation?

974
01:04:46.950 --> 01:04:49.770
Yeah. So so, basically, you have a a Google Sheet,

975
01:04:50.470 --> 01:04:55.915
and then every time there's a new row, we want to create the post in Brilliant directory.

976
01:04:55.915 --> 01:05:00.575
So you would basically create an event post, and you just map out your information here.

977
01:05:00.635 --> 01:05:04.315
I mean, these are these are like your column headings. Yeah. Exactly. Right.

978
01:05:04.315 --> 01:05:06.975
And then once the Zap is ready, then it will literally

979
01:05:07.329 --> 01:05:09.030
every time there's a new new addition,

980
01:05:09.569 --> 01:05:12.069
it'll fire off and go create that post automatically.

981
01:05:12.690 --> 01:05:16.930
Exactly. So and then again, if you you can set the post status to published or draft.

982
01:05:16.930 --> 01:05:19.750
So if you feel you need, like, human intervention or moderation,

983
01:05:20.210 --> 01:05:27.995
you can have them added to your site into draft mode, and then you and your team can kind of, like, just inspect them to make sure that before they're set to publish.

984
01:05:27.995 --> 01:05:32.255
But, if you're comfortable with it and and the integrity of what's being added,

985
01:05:32.555 --> 01:05:36.575
to the spreadsheet is good, you can if you're comfortable, you can set it to publish automatically.

986
01:05:37.059 --> 01:05:37.880
That's amazing.

987
01:05:38.180 --> 01:05:42.500
Alright, guys. Thank you again for what everything you're doing. It's amazing. Hey. Appreciate you.

988
01:05:42.500 --> 01:05:45.460
Yeah. Look. Excited. Join us in another webinar. Show us what you've done with that.

989
01:05:45.460 --> 01:05:49.140
Excited to see it. Alright. We got Jim here. Jim, thank you for your patience there.

990
01:05:49.140 --> 01:05:54.095
Let me unmute your microphone. How are you doing, Jim? Good. Good. Thank you. Now I I wanna third

991
01:05:54.555 --> 01:05:58.095
everybody else's thing. I'm also putting together an events centric

992
01:05:58.475 --> 01:06:00.735
site. Okay. So anything we can do with events,

993
01:06:01.035 --> 01:06:01.695
the better.

994
01:06:02.075 --> 01:06:05.035
Okay. Might just have a quick question. You mentioned in the,

995
01:06:05.515 --> 01:06:08.250
first part of the section about syncing,

996
01:06:09.110 --> 01:06:10.570
smart lists. I am

997
01:06:10.950 --> 01:06:16.090
I'm assuming that when you sync the when the sync actually happens on a daily basis or whatever,

998
01:06:16.390 --> 01:06:21.135
that it's only syncing new entries from the previous since the previous time I synced?

999
01:06:21.535 --> 01:06:25.235
No. It will sync the entire list all over again.

1000
01:06:26.815 --> 01:06:29.395
So, you know, if you're syncing with, like, Mailchimp

1001
01:06:30.015 --> 01:06:30.515
and

1002
01:06:30.895 --> 01:06:35.635
you're adding those people into Mailchimp, even if there's duplicates, Mailchimp won't add the duplicates.

1003
01:06:35.695 --> 01:06:37.100
It'll just add new people,

1004
01:06:37.640 --> 01:06:41.100
even though it's sending all the data. But it's sending all the data,

1005
01:06:41.560 --> 01:06:42.760
each time. Okay.

1006
01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:47.240
I always think it was for some personal endpoints that I'm gonna be setting up, so that's good to know.

1007
01:06:47.240 --> 01:06:48.860
Alright. That was my only question.

1008
01:06:49.295 --> 01:06:52.255
Okay. Oh, that's that's actually a great great use case for it. Yeah.

1009
01:06:52.255 --> 01:06:57.135
So if you're if you're gonna be updating pieces of data, it'll it'll fill in the the the missing blanks.

1010
01:06:57.135 --> 01:06:59.395
Is that kinda what you're doing? Kinda.

1011
01:06:59.695 --> 01:07:03.475
Yeah. If they Okay. If they add more stuff in or if I just get a new entry,

1012
01:07:04.280 --> 01:07:06.140
you know, I just need to put the new person

1013
01:07:06.440 --> 01:07:08.200
in to another database that I'm working on.

1014
01:07:08.200 --> 01:07:10.920
So That's a great you know, I didn't even think about that use case.

1015
01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:14.140
That's actually probably the most useful use case for for that syncing.

1016
01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:14.940
Okay?

1017
01:07:15.560 --> 01:07:16.619
Anything else, Jim?

1018
01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:17.160
No.

1019
01:07:17.160 --> 01:07:22.965
Just to say that the the stuff you guys posted about the, creating the articles, that's just gold.

1020
01:07:23.185 --> 01:07:23.925
That's gold.

1021
01:07:24.385 --> 01:07:26.725
I know. It's it's fun. Definitely look into that.

1022
01:07:27.425 --> 01:07:30.225
Alright. Well, if you have questions, feel free to ask in the Facebook group.

1023
01:07:30.225 --> 01:07:33.365
We'll we'll be monitoring that. Alright. Thanks, Jason. You're welcome.

1024
01:07:33.710 --> 01:07:36.609
Good stuff there from Jim. Let's see who else got their hands up here.

1025
01:07:37.069 --> 01:07:39.009
Theresa. I'm gonna call on you, Theresa.

1026
01:07:39.470 --> 01:07:43.650
Hey. How are you today? I'm well, Jason. Thank you so much. So

1027
01:07:44.109 --> 01:07:45.089
on my website,

1028
01:07:45.630 --> 01:07:50.285
there are some banner ads location and but I don't know where they go.

1029
01:07:50.505 --> 01:07:54.525
Can you help me figure that that out? Sure. What's your website? Let's take a look.

1030
01:07:54.905 --> 01:07:56.605
Notarytoday.pro.

1031
01:07:56.985 --> 01:07:59.790
Okay. Notarytoday.com.

1032
01:07:59.790 --> 01:08:04.633
Great name, by the way. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

1033
01:08:04.633 --> 01:08:04.872
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

1034
01:08:04.872 --> 01:08:05.490
No. No. No. No. No. No

1035
01:08:13.665 --> 01:08:15.105
but I started to do it manually.

1036
01:08:15.105 --> 01:08:19.285
And I thought you went through it and I joined late where we can have it done automatically.

1037
01:08:19.984 --> 01:08:24.645
I have to look at that and see how I can automate that. First of all, I love your colors.

1038
01:08:24.865 --> 01:08:28.484
Nice and bright. But let's talk about the Google Ads here. So,

1039
01:08:29.280 --> 01:08:33.760
what is your question is, why are the ads showing, or how are you controlling it?

1040
01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:39.380
How do you control it? Well, like today, I just got an ad buy. You see that ad right there? Yes.

1041
01:08:39.439 --> 01:08:45.895
That's an ad buy that I just added onto the site today. But if you go to my, banner ad section

1042
01:08:46.434 --> 01:08:46.934
Okay.

1043
01:08:48.034 --> 01:08:49.574
And they cite in there.

1044
01:08:50.194 --> 01:08:53.734
Right. Okay. So the side banner, that one

1045
01:08:54.114 --> 01:08:56.454
Okay. How do I make that interchangeable?

1046
01:08:58.069 --> 01:08:58.569
Interchangeable

1047
01:08:59.109 --> 01:09:03.130
as no. More like if I can add, like, multiple ads frequency

1048
01:09:03.829 --> 01:09:06.789
so it flashes, like, maybe when you change page. Or

1049
01:09:07.670 --> 01:09:09.929
Sure. So you can you can actually do,

1050
01:09:10.630 --> 01:09:11.609
a couple things.

1051
01:09:13.614 --> 01:09:15.554
Let's let's take a look at it.

1052
01:09:16.654 --> 01:09:20.034
Let me let me let me backtrack. So you can do a few things,

1053
01:09:20.335 --> 01:09:27.135
rotating banner ad, brilliant directories. Okay. So so you could you could add a rotating banner ad.

1054
01:09:27.135 --> 01:09:28.514
We have steps here,

1055
01:09:29.599 --> 01:09:30.159
on what to do

1056
01:09:31.599 --> 01:09:43.785
actually pretty good step by step on what to do and if we scroll down there's like some tells you what to do here and you just have to choose the link and the image that you want the intervals to change we have it's coded here

1057
01:09:44.165 --> 01:09:47.865
step by step. Let me share this link. However, this might be a little too,

1058
01:09:48.484 --> 01:09:48.984
cumbersome.

1059
01:09:49.765 --> 01:09:51.465
Let me for me.

1060
01:09:52.005 --> 01:09:53.765
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I agree.

1061
01:09:55.670 --> 01:09:57.510
So that's that would be a rotating banner.

1062
01:09:57.510 --> 01:10:01.989
So, like, every ten seconds, it would slide or whatever the interval is to the next banner.

1063
01:10:01.989 --> 01:10:06.969
But what you're saying is you would want, you know, on every page load, a different banner

1064
01:10:07.590 --> 01:10:08.090
shows.

1065
01:10:08.715 --> 01:10:11.375
Not necessarily, but but it to be interchangeable.

1066
01:10:12.315 --> 01:10:16.175
To be inter so maybe on if you want to show a different sidebar

1067
01:10:16.875 --> 01:10:18.255
on different pages,

1068
01:10:19.195 --> 01:10:24.340
let me share this other article with you. Oh, okay. I didn't know we could do that. We have that.

1069
01:10:24.640 --> 01:10:30.720
So, like, a lot of people, they have their sidebar banners, but then they'll like, the let let's say California lawyers.

1070
01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:33.540
They there's a search results page for California lawyers.

1071
01:10:34.114 --> 01:10:41.655
They have a whole different sidebar for there and they're selling ad spots to lawyers in California who wanna be featured in the sidebar.

1072
01:10:41.875 --> 01:10:42.375
Gotcha.

1073
01:10:42.835 --> 01:10:46.535
Let me share this. This is actually more easier to do.

1074
01:10:47.260 --> 01:10:49.440
Here add custom content banners,

1075
01:10:49.740 --> 01:10:55.360
SEO to specific search results pages. So this is more in line in what you're looking to do.

1076
01:10:55.660 --> 01:10:58.380
Let me share this and these steps are much easier here.

1077
01:10:58.380 --> 01:11:01.440
I put it in everything I'm doing I'm putting in the chat for you.

1078
01:11:02.055 --> 01:11:04.475
And then what I always like to do is,

1079
01:11:05.095 --> 01:11:07.095
I always like to ask chat g p t.

1080
01:11:07.095 --> 01:11:11.515
So I'll take your this is your ad code with your link and your product,

1081
01:11:11.815 --> 01:11:13.995
and let's just go to chat g p t

1082
01:11:14.375 --> 01:11:16.075
and start a new chat here.

1083
01:11:16.455 --> 01:11:16.955
Okay?

1084
01:11:17.630 --> 01:11:18.190
And say,

1085
01:11:18.750 --> 01:11:19.969
I am showing

1086
01:11:20.909 --> 01:11:23.170
a banner ad in my sidebar.

1087
01:11:24.909 --> 01:11:27.409
Here is the basic code,

1088
01:11:27.869 --> 01:11:29.969
but I want to show a

1089
01:11:30.270 --> 01:11:30.770
different

1090
01:11:31.735 --> 01:11:32.875
ad on

1091
01:11:33.255 --> 01:11:33.755
every

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01:11:34.135 --> 01:11:35.035
page load,

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01:11:36.215 --> 01:11:38.475
up to four different

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01:11:39.015 --> 01:11:39.515
ads.

1095
01:11:40.055 --> 01:11:42.475
Give me the code for that.

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01:11:43.094 --> 01:11:45.275
Let's see what let's see what it gives us.

1097
01:11:46.270 --> 01:11:50.050
And then you can put this into the ad spot because the ad spot supports

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01:11:50.350 --> 01:11:51.949
putting custom embed code.

1099
01:11:52.750 --> 01:11:54.210
So it kinda tells you

1100
01:11:54.750 --> 01:12:00.369
what to do here, and then you just change the the URL and probably the the corresponding image.

1101
01:12:00.905 --> 01:12:03.785
Yeah. Here's the image and thing, and it'll do it.

1102
01:12:03.785 --> 01:12:09.385
So this looks more complicated, but, really, you could I ask, like I like to ask ChatGPT for some of these things.

1103
01:12:09.385 --> 01:12:13.945
And, most of the time, it's pretty simple, but, sometimes you'll need a helping hand.

1104
01:12:13.945 --> 01:12:18.260
Like, this looks this looks a little scary and complicated. I I kinda know what to do with it, but,

1105
01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:20.580
Can you send me that, Jason?

1106
01:12:21.440 --> 01:12:25.620
Sure. Let me let me tell it to do this, use PHP instead.

1107
01:12:26.160 --> 01:12:28.240
Let's just have fun with it instead of,

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01:12:29.635 --> 01:12:31.895
JavaScript. Let's see if it if it can

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01:12:32.435 --> 01:12:34.534
certainly, using PHP is straightforward,

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01:12:34.835 --> 01:12:39.395
so this would be maybe even easier. This is your ad. This is actually even easier.

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01:12:39.395 --> 01:12:44.380
Let's see what it gives us in a second. I think I told it four units. Generate a random index.

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01:12:44.520 --> 01:12:48.380
Perfect. And the and then here you go. This is actually easier for you.

1113
01:12:48.920 --> 01:12:51.960
And then all you do is you change the URL. And let's see.

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01:12:51.960 --> 01:12:55.080
In this code, PHP will handle the random selection of the ad.

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01:12:55.080 --> 01:12:57.235
Each time the page is loaded or refreshed.

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01:12:57.235 --> 01:13:03.175
A different ad will be chosen from the ad list, and here's your ad and your image target here.

1117
01:13:03.315 --> 01:13:06.055
But yeah, there's a few ways the video that I shared with you,

1118
01:13:06.515 --> 01:13:08.855
or you can put this in a widget and

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01:13:09.310 --> 01:13:11.790
render the widget. So you what you can do is actually, I'll show you.

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01:13:11.790 --> 01:13:16.350
Let me do it with you real quick. I'll go to your widget manager. I'll I'll just do it with you.

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01:13:16.350 --> 01:13:19.730
I'll I'll save it as a widget on your site. Let me create a new widget,

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01:13:20.110 --> 01:13:22.050
and I'm gonna call it, random

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01:13:22.915 --> 01:13:23.415
sidebar

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01:13:23.875 --> 01:13:24.855
random sidebar

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01:13:25.475 --> 01:13:26.375
banner ads

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01:13:26.755 --> 01:13:28.295
and we'll paste the code here

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01:13:28.675 --> 01:13:30.455
Okay. And save the changes

1128
01:13:30.995 --> 01:13:32.535
and what we can do is

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01:13:33.555 --> 01:13:34.935
we can copy the shortcode.

1130
01:13:35.599 --> 01:13:38.880
Okay, we'll go back to your design settings. We have extra banner ad spots here.

1131
01:13:38.880 --> 01:13:40.880
I see you're using are you using all of them?

1132
01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:43.520
You're not so I don't know where to find them though, Jason.

1133
01:13:43.520 --> 01:13:48.195
I don't know where to I'll I'll show you right now. So let's say extra banner ad five.

1134
01:13:48.275 --> 01:13:49.315
This is the widget.

1135
01:13:49.315 --> 01:13:55.715
So we're gonna use custom embed code and part of your custom embed code could simply be putting that widget we created here.

1136
01:13:55.715 --> 01:13:58.755
So random sidebar banner ads. Okay.

1137
01:13:59.315 --> 01:14:05.310
And this is the widget. So what we can do is go here and we have that there, widgets and widgets.

1138
01:14:05.310 --> 01:14:06.530
Let's save the changes

1139
01:14:07.230 --> 01:14:09.230
and let's see what sidebar this is.

1140
01:14:09.230 --> 01:14:13.570
We'll do and I'm going a little quickly, but just to show you guys what's possible here.

1141
01:14:14.030 --> 01:14:16.770
So this sidebar is the member search results sidebar.

1142
01:14:17.075 --> 01:14:18.835
So let's edit, that.

1143
01:14:18.835 --> 01:14:27.235
I'll go to actions customize that that brought us to the sidebar manager clicking from the front end and I'm going to search for that bootstrap theme banner responsive five.

1144
01:14:27.235 --> 01:14:28.275
Where did I see that?

1145
01:14:28.275 --> 01:14:33.690
The extra banner at five, that's the widget name so we want to put this widget into the sidebar.

1146
01:14:34.310 --> 01:14:37.850
So here it is here I'm going to put it just at the top here tentatively.

1147
01:14:38.070 --> 01:14:42.570
Obviously we haven't created URLs and images for it but let's save the changes.

1148
01:14:43.110 --> 01:14:43.610
Okay

1149
01:14:44.175 --> 01:14:45.955
And let's refresh the page.

1150
01:14:46.815 --> 01:14:52.575
So here's the spot here. There are no valid images, but let me just copy this image link.

1151
01:14:52.575 --> 01:14:58.530
Let's put it in. This is this is fun for me, by the way. So I can see that. Yeah. That's no problem.

1152
01:14:58.590 --> 01:14:59.070
So,

1153
01:14:59.470 --> 01:15:04.190
you know, this is the the URL of where it's gonna go, and then this is the image here.

1154
01:15:04.190 --> 01:15:07.870
So you wanna put just make sure be careful between the,

1155
01:15:08.585 --> 01:15:10.764
the quotation marks and things like that.

1156
01:15:11.145 --> 01:15:14.905
Okay. I'm just gonna use the same image for all of them. Yeah. That's fine.

1157
01:15:14.985 --> 01:15:16.185
Would be where the link goes.

1158
01:15:16.185 --> 01:15:21.085
So maybe it's going to a customer site or another page on your website.

1159
01:15:21.490 --> 01:15:24.070
I'll go ahead and save it. Now we have some valid images

1160
01:15:24.690 --> 01:15:29.330
here. So we're gonna see this image twice because that's the one that I used. But now we see,

1161
01:15:29.970 --> 01:15:32.070
let's just That is awesome. Oh.

1162
01:15:32.610 --> 01:15:36.550
You see? So let's just put another image that you have in your design settings.

1163
01:15:37.635 --> 01:15:40.855
This one here, legal shield. I'll just copy that image link.

1164
01:15:41.235 --> 01:15:44.135
I'm just gonna put it for half the other images just

1165
01:15:44.514 --> 01:15:46.375
so we know we can see some variation,

1166
01:15:46.915 --> 01:15:48.295
and we'll save the changes.

1167
01:15:48.835 --> 01:15:50.934
Now if we refresh this page here,

1168
01:15:51.570 --> 01:15:55.670
okay, right now it's random so let's see if it gets the other image that we just saved.

1169
01:15:55.889 --> 01:15:58.550
Well it looks like it didn't get one of the images.

1170
01:16:00.610 --> 01:16:03.969
Yeah you want you want to have the similar size. Let's see. We're only using two.

1171
01:16:03.969 --> 01:16:07.725
It's fifty fifty if it's going to get the other image. There it is, LegalShield.

1172
01:16:08.265 --> 01:16:08.765
So,

1173
01:16:09.145 --> 01:16:14.765
again, if you have four, it's gonna randomly pick one to kind of every time on the page reload. So,

1174
01:16:15.065 --> 01:16:16.685
here you have your code here.

1175
01:16:17.785 --> 01:16:20.445
Again, just be careful inside the quotation marks.

1176
01:16:20.620 --> 01:16:26.400
Maybe save a backup of the working code, and if you screw it up, you can always just put the original code back in.

1177
01:16:26.460 --> 01:16:29.020
So maybe save this, in an alternate widget.

1178
01:16:29.020 --> 01:16:36.060
You can clone this widget and use one as your backup that you know always works and then make changes on a custom one, another custom one.

1179
01:16:36.060 --> 01:16:38.835
But, Teresa, that's, kinda how to do it.

1180
01:16:39.875 --> 01:16:43.335
I wish it was more point and click, but, you can get it done with this.

1181
01:16:43.635 --> 01:16:49.075
Awesome. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Appreciate it. Alright. Good question there.

1182
01:16:49.075 --> 01:16:53.180
And I think on that note, guys, we'll end the webinar there.

1183
01:16:53.320 --> 01:16:57.580
I thanks for those of you who stuck around with us. Glad we got to a few q and a's there.

1184
01:16:57.640 --> 01:17:00.460
David, thank you so much for putting these slides together,

1185
01:17:00.760 --> 01:17:03.500
using chat g p d to basically fill in

1186
01:17:03.885 --> 01:17:04.385
empty

1187
01:17:04.925 --> 01:17:09.025
thin pages of a site with really rich and useful content

1188
01:17:09.565 --> 01:17:11.345
using your own members data.

1189
01:17:12.365 --> 01:17:16.800
Amazing lab updates, more to come. The next webinar will be in two weeks.

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01:17:17.360 --> 01:17:19.119
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1191
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1192
01:17:22.400 --> 01:17:25.840
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1193
01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:30.900
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1194
01:17:31.255 --> 01:17:33.995
David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family,

1195
01:17:34.295 --> 01:17:37.255
it's always great to be with you here. We'll see you in two weeks.

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01:17:37.255 --> 01:17:41.515
Have a great day and a brilliant week. Much love. Take care, guys. Bye bye.