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Welcome to Webinar Wednesday. If this is your first time joining us, welcome.

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I am Jason Darr on the left, and we are lucky to be joined by David Rocklin.

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We say he's the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directories, but he is so much more.

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

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So glad to be back with you for another webinar Wednesday.

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I know a lot of you here are for one specific thing.

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So this webinar, it's gonna be a lot of fun and really looking forward to the rest of it here.

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Absolutely. Absolutely.

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We are streaming live on YouTube, so hello out there in YouTube land.

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If you're not subscribed to the BD YouTube YouTube channel, I highly recommend it.

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You could take a moment right now. Go to brilliantdirectories.com/youtube

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and you can click on the subscribe button.

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It's a great way to get notified as soon as new webinars are released there, tips of the week,

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featured tutorials, and tons more.

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And after the webinar, we will be sharing the replay, the YouTube replay in the Brilliant Directories Facebook group.

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So if you wanted to recap something that we went over, quickly or you wanted to just follow-up again on it, it will be available in the Facebook group.

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You can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com

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forward slash facebook.

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It's a great community there. Lots of positive energy.

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People are busy working on their BD websites, helping each other, asking questions,

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and it's great to, to see all the activity there. I'm in there myself.

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Just a great group.

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And if you ever need a pick me up or you're kinda stuck, it's a great place to kinda get some inspiration.

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So definitely look forward to seeing you guys in there. And woah.

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David, what is what is this slide here? We didn't talk about this slide. Is this really happening?

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This is happening. Alright. Oh, we'll make it happen.

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But before we get into the fun contest giveaways,

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we have some fun BD Lab updates to share with you guys.

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We'll try to breeze through these as quickly as possible, but I promise you, there are a few gems here to get excited about.

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I'll start at the top there. Emails for, emojis for email templates are now live for everybody.

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I'll show you a quick example.

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This is we'll probably do a separate webinar just on,

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how to best utilize emojis, how not to overuse emojis and email templates best practices. But,

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just putting emojis in your subject lines will improve your open rates,

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and this could be from,

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monthly email newsletters that you send to the immediate welcome email that new sign ups receive on your website.

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So I'm just gonna quickly show you where you can edit this and we'll probably do again another tip of the week dedicated,

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to emails and email templates.

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So if we go to the admin area here and if we go to the emails section, I'm on our demo site here

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for the webinar. I'll go to email templates

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and we'll just do a new email template here. I just wanna show you where this is.

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So you can edit one of your emails. You could start adding this.

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So you'll notice two things when you're in this area.

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One is for the subject line, you'll see this little button here

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and, you can click on it and you'll get a list of

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emojis. Now there are, I think, thousands of emojis or, you know, hundreds and hundreds.

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We've only kept the emojis in this list that will work on Android phones, Samsungs, and Apple devices.

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So we can have the most reliability.

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If an emoji doesn't work with the device, sometimes it doesn't show or sometimes it'll show, like, several question marks in a row.

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So there are a ton of emojis here and we filtered it so you would have minimum errors when using emojis in your subject line.

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So and also at the top here as you use emojis, it'll save your last six here.

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So if you have some favorites that you use, you can certainly do so here.

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So there's also a quick search here that you can use. So you can search for things like wave.

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I typed in wave and the hand went away and I realized why because that's called waving.

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Same thing with the smile.

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When you search for smile,

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then you're just left with the cat but if you search for smiling,

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you see more of these. So you'll get familiar with the search. You don't have to use the search.

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You can also just continue to scroll till you find

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your favorite

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and you can do things like welcome

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to the network.

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And just a quick tip, if you ever wanted to include their name,

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or other variables of the user, if you scroll down here, we're gonna be improving this just a bit more, but there are some member variable names here.

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So if you wanted to grab their first name,

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you could do this and do a comma first name and it'll say welcome to the network, John.

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And just as a bonus here, not only in the subject line are there emojis, but also in the body.

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So if you wanted to, you know, start here with, let's just grab one of these blocks actually.

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welcome to

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to the clip and

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we can add an emoji into here. So let's put this cursor,

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if it wants to let me, grab this and we can do the heart thing right there.

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The good news here are that emojis are now available

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email templates both for subject line and for the body.

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So I would recommend coming back and at least updating your subject lines and just maybe putting a positive emoji or something exciting

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that could catch someone's attention.

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You'll get more open rates that way and probably strike they help strike a little bit of an emotional connection with your alright.

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This next one is also graphic related. A few weeks ago, we

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opened up the doors so that you can search stock photos in the admin area.

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Everybody has access to that. We can actually use it in the email templates here.

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Let's put an image in here.

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We we did connect with a new stock photo library.

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We started with Pexels and now you can also search pixabay.

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So if you're not even familiar with this, you can now search stock photos here.

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Let's search Pexels first. We'll look for trees

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and you don't have to scour the internet anymore. You can get images right from here

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also three different sizes. So just depending on the space and you wanna save

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save size and stuff like that. Let me try this again.

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I think this demo site for the webinar is just a little finicky here. Let's see.

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We should get on the round two here. There we go.

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And then let me show you what's cool about Pixabay. So Pexels is photographs.

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It's always gonna be photographs, real still life photographs.

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What's cool about Pixabay

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is that you can search graphics.

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So you can search for like start button. It also has photographs as well.

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But here we can see we are getting some icons.

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Some are cooler than others, some are cheesier than others, but you can search icons and graphics.

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So if we search for, for example, tree vector or tree graphic,

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we can see we get more kinda graphics

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as opposed to just real still photography,

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And this could be used for your blog and things like that or wherever it makes sense that you would prefer a graphic

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as opposed to a real still life image.

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Also with this, you can search for other types of graphics like join button.

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So maybe you're creating a landing page and you don't wanna use the

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kind of the buttons you can create in the text editor, but you wanna use an image,

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as your button, you can certainly do that as well.

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So you can get creative with what you're searching,

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but this is now available

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in the admin area. And for the front end, there is an add on. So if you wanted to do this for,

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for your blog posts and have access to stock photos as you're creating blog posts on the front end, you can get the stock photo library and both

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Pixabay and Pexels

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will be available with that with the add on. Let me show you a quick example here.

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Here's an example of, logged in on the front end as a member and we wanna create, an article here.

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So if we come in and click on library, we can see Pexels or Pixabay.

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Let's search Pixabay and let's look for island.

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And we can see here the photographs as an example, but if I type in island icon, I guess we'll search,

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we see different graphics.

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So they can be a little bit more playful than the real still life images and this just quadrupled

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the number of photos you have access to, in your admin area and on the front end. Okay.

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This next one is coming soon.

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Also graphic related. We are adding

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Giphy as a stock photo library,

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in the same manner. This is not yet released.

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I'm really excited about this one and let me show you, what you'll be able to do.

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I have it on a test site here.

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Here we go.

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So this is on a test site right now, but Giphy is kinda what you're used to if you're on an iPhone and you're sending, you know, gifts to your friends back and forth as you're sending,

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text messages.

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You'll be able to search. So let's do that together. So when this is released,

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you'll have a third graph, photo library here called Giphy library,

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and we can search for things like what's up. And let's take a look at that.

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And we can see here, we we can add these. I think these will be awesome in blog posts.

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People do it to keep their, articles more interesting, to keep people's interest.

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Also in emails, people like to put these to kind of get people's attention.

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You can then have the emoji in the subject line and put an animated GIF somewhere in the body or the start of the email, and you're sure to make someone smile or get the attention of the reader a bit more.

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this also has access to millions and millions of photos. You just have to search your keyword here.

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Let's search for dogs just for fun. And I think this does support the orientation as well.

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Let's look for horizontal. Yep. There we go. And these are more horizontal.

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So based on the space you want to fill the graphic, you can find the orientation that you need.

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So, this should be released next week.

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Super excited about that, but tons of new ways to add graphics to both your content and your emails.

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This next one here, not too much to show,

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the Google maps API that's used on BD websites. We found several ways to optimize,

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its usage and we found a 30% reduction in overall savings.

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Google Maps, as you know, helps you do location searches on your site and it is based on resource usage.

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Google Maps does give everybody $200 in credit every month.

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So busier sites may have, you know, a small bill that you're paying based on that.

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So you should start seeing a 30% overall savings with that.

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And we continue to keep our eye on things like that to kind of optimize things for all BD users.

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Next one up here is for digital products. If you're selling digital products to your users,

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be anything, ebooks that they can buy, additional services they could buy.

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Up until now, if they bought it, you could send them a confirmation email or send them to a confirmation page.

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But after their purchase, they were unable to kind of find out how to get back to those,

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confirmation pages that may have had the resources in them or instructions on how to access the resource.

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So now if you did assign a confirmation page or email

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to a digital product,

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the buyer will now see this and I have a picture.

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They will see it in their member dashboard when they're looking at their,

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transaction history of payments they've made on your site.

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In the actions drop down, they'll have these three options here.

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They can go back to the product page.

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So if the if the item is still published and active, that link will be there.

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So maybe they can repurchase

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or they just wanna reread what that product included.

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And if the digital product had a confirmation page or a confirmation email pinned to it, the page will send them to the confirmation page so they can maybe get the resources again or read the instructions again.

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And for the confirmation email, it doesn't resend them an email, but they'll get a pop up on the screen with with the email that was sent to them so they could reread it again in case there are critical instructions on how to utilize the digital product

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that they purchased. And this is live and active now. Alright. Almost here at the end.

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And this next one is pretty big

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regarding Zapier and soon we will update others such as Pabbly and Integrately, but for Zapier, now brilliant directories can be used as a trigger.

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Up until now, you would have to use webhooks as the brilliant directory's trigger, which is a universal way to send data out to other sources,

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but now you can use triggers.

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So anytime there's a a new post on your site or a new member on your site, it can initiate the Zapier workflow as a trigger.

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Also a small perk for that, the webhooks

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functionality in Zapier does require a paid account,

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whereas the triggers,

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don't necessarily require a paid account.

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But again, depending how much usage you're how much how much you're using Zapier and and the workflows and tasks, you might already have a paid account.

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Let me quickly show you, how this works. And if you're not familiar with Zapier,

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it's a way to send your BD data out to other CRMs and other platforms

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that you may be using in your business stack. So let's go to

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Zapier here,

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and the trigger is what starts the entire workflow. Up until now, you would have to choose webhooks

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and then tie in your BD webhooks to Zapier. It's just the universal way to do it.

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But now you can search for brilliant directories

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and you'll see the trigger there.

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And what you can do is

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right now you can get new leads that are created on your site, new posts that are created on your site, or new users that are created on your site.

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So what you do is you choose one of those events and then you will you connect your site.

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And again, this can warrant an entire tip of the week tutorial on how to do this, but then you ask it to search for a specific value

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that would represent a new item,

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for a user in this case or a post.

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And then from there, anytime a new post or member or lead are created on your site, it it does the whole windfall of the workflow,

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like sending the data to other third party platforms. So that's live now too.

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It does warrant its own tutorial and tip of the week.

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This is fresh hot off the press, but that now is available in Zapier and that is pretty exciting.

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And then lastly, tons of speed and optimization updates were pushed in the platform.

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We're edging to push those page speed scores higher and higher,

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and the benchmarks are high on BD.

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But as you use a site, you know, images and assets get added to a site.

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And it's not the most important thing, but it's good to stay on top of it.

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And if you ever feel like your scores are low or they could be better, email the support team and we'll take a quick look at your site and we'll see very if there's something low hanging fruit that we can optimize for you.

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Maybe there's there's an extra large image that doesn't need to be so large on your homepage

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and things like that. But thank you guys for all the suggestions.

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A lot of these updates come from the Facebook group.

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And I know I went through those very quickly, but if there are any comments or questions about these

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features, please raise your hand. We can take a comment or question or two.

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Let's see if anybody has their hands up here. Dwayne's got a hand up. Yeah.

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The same fix with Pabbly, the triggers.

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And as we as that develops further, we'll definitely let you guys know as well. Alright.

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Thank you there, Duane, for that question.

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But without further ado, let's get to the fun stuff.

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One of the the main event here, we have a few fun giveaways to give out.

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We do we have an iPad to give away.

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We've got some Amazon gift cards to give away.

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We have some lifetime website plans to give away, and we have some great news.

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We have one more thing to give away. Let's take a look at

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the Facebook post that started it all in this group.

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There was an iPad giveaway and we did promise that if we hit over 700

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we would select two winners to each win an iPad,

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and we did have technically 771

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comments.

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What we did is we kind of used the we we got everyone's name isolated here.

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I'll just scroll down so everybody can see. It goes on and on and on.

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So we took all these names here

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and we removed for duplicates.

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There were a few duplicates. There were a few comments from myself.

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People were asking questions, so there were some comments from Jason there.

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So in the end, we landed on 656

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commenters. We're still gonna go ahead with the double

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iPad giveaway.

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So without further ado, what we're gonna do is we're gonna copy all these names and what we've done is we've pasted them into this tool.

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We've used it in previous giveaways.

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I'll do it just again here. We'll do a control c. This is a fun tool. It's called wheel of names.

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You don't have to do it with 600

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You could do it with just four people if you need to, but we're gonna paste them all in there.

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And what we're gonna do is we're gonna spin the wheel and whatever the slides are, I'm gonna go back to the the slides that I had.

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Whatever slides we're on, that's going to be the prize

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and it's gonna be one prize per person.

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So we'll remove the name as we continue spinning the wheel. What we'll do is

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the first one is going to be for the iPad and

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I hope,

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whoever it is,

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we're gonna root for you. So what we'll do is we'll go ahead and click to spin the wheel

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and let's see who the winner of the first iPad is here.

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it is spinning.

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Alright. Is it gonna be

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yellow, red, or blue?

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Alright. Jerry Lynn, congratulations.

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Super happy for you. Let let's save this here in a little notepad.

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Congratulations.

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If you're not on the webinar, we will definitely

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we've we've sent internationally before so wherever we can mail an iPad, we will

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do so.

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Alright. Let's see what the next prize is here.

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This next one is for a $150

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Amazon gift card. Also a great prize especially during the holiday season here.

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So let's give the wheel a spin and see who our lucky winner will be for a $150

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Amazon

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gift card.

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We got DT here, Dennis. You guys know him. Alright.

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Doctor Stephanie Jones, congratulations.

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You are the winner of

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a $150

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Amazon gift card and we will be contacting you on Facebook for that.

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So put your name there and we'll do one fifty.

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Alright. This is lots of fun. Let's see what the next prize is here, guys.

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Alright. This is a lifetime

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website plan giveaway,

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that is

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equivalent to let's actually go there together to the BD site. That is equivalent to the $14.50

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lifetime website plan here.

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So what we'll do is we'll come back to the wheel and ends. We'll remove the doctor,

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and we will spin the wheel. Raise your hand if you want to win a lifetime

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website. Let's see

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who is going to get this one.

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Alright.

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Russell Prisco.

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Alright, Russell. Super happy for you.

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Roger's raising his hand there.

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Alright. Let's put your name down here. We'll contact you after

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the webinar and make sure we get your site delivered to you.

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Alright. Let's see here. What's the next one going to be?

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Okay.

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Free iPad.

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Let's go.

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Okay. We're doing two this time. Let's remove Russell from here.

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And this is for the second iPad Air. Let's spin the wheel here.

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I wish everybody could win here, but let's see who the winner is going to be.

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It's landing on yellow, John

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John. Alleburton.

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John. We're super happy for you,

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and we're happy for everyone and thankful for everyone who participated.

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We are not done just yet, so don't

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leave just yet. Let's remove John from here,

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and let's see what the next prize is here.

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Okay. We got another Amazon

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gift card here.

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So let's see who needs

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some new paper towels?

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Let's spin this wheel here, guys.

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Well, they got stuff better than paper towels on there. But let's see.

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$1.50

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for the Amazon gift card. George.

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Congratulations,

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George. Super happy for you there.

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And we'll put that here.

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And I think we got more prizes, guys, so stay tuned here. Let's see what the next one is.

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Alright.

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Another lifetime

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website giveaway.

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Alright. Let's remove George here from the list.

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This is lots of fun, guys. Alright.

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Let's spin this wheel. I think this is the last

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prize for the spin here.

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Let's see what it's landing on. Is that red or blue? Looks like yellow.

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Be part of the moment.

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Let's see. They are in the Facebook group. Let's we can search for them right here.

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Here they are. Be part of the moment.

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So, yeah, we can, we'll hit you up, and we'll get in contact with you.

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let's see here. This is a lifetime

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website.

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Alright, guys. So, yeah, that's pretty huge.

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Two iPads given away, two lifetime websites, and two $150

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Amazon gift cards. We will reach out to the winners,

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shortly after the webinar within and, hopefully, we can get your prizes to you as soon as possible.

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Thank you everyone who participated in the contest.

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It's lots of fun to see the excitement and the engagement,

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in there and also for the possibility of winning that iPad.

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I was happy we were able to double it up. That kinda increased everyone's chances,

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for the win. That was fun, and let's, switch gears a little bit.

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We don't have a tip of the week today in lieu of the contest giveaway.

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However, we are here to help you with your website. So we can do a q and a session now.

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If you have any questions about your site, if you need any assistance, if we could help you troubleshoot something, we're always happy to give it a a quick stab.

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And, I see, actually, one of our winners is here. It was Stephanie, actually.

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Let's try you one more time. Stephanie, are you with us there? Yes, ma'am. Can you hear me?

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I hope you can hear me. I can hear you now. Is this you, doctor Stephanie Jones?

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Yes. It is. It's

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me. Congratulations.

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It's good you're on the webinar too.

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Thank you. I appreciate it because I actually own seven directories. So this is really nice.

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Awesome. Awesome.

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What's your question?

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Okay.

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So my question is I was looking in the Facebook group where people were talking about growing their directories

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Google and APIs or Google My Business or something.

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I actually organically

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get people. Right? So

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it's not the thousand people a day like some people. And I I get people to the free plan.

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I have one premium plan,

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and I I get about 200 people a week who are double opting in, all of that.

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How do you convert them to paying members? I send emails. My open rate

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I do the 1,000

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I I just don't understand how people are converting

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I can I'm gonna share an article with you that we have in our blog. This is, this is a good one.

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It's 15 ups upsells and easy upgrades your members can buy.

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It's basically some things that you can sell. So

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sometimes the move is not necessarily

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upgrading their plan, but maybe they just want, like, a one time exposure on your home page.

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We we talk about different things in this in this video here, so I'm just gonna go ahead and share this in the chat.

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Thank you. I'll

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give you another thing you can do. Another thing that you can do is go ahead and proactively

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other members in your site. Just handpick them and feature them in some way or capacity.

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And that way, you can use that as an example

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when you are trying to ask other members to upgrade their accounts by actually showing them something tangible.

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And the handpicked member is gonna feel awesome about it, and then now you also have an example of what other people can expect,

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with an upgraded plan as well.

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And then in in addition to that, I I don't know what's on your side if if you wanna visit your site together.

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Oh.

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Do you mind if we check out your site?

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Sure. It's the businessminded.com.

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Let's take a look here.

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I'm so nervous. Oh my gosh.

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So, you know, the front end of your site, you you're with the directory, you have a marketplace.

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You have the people who are being listed and then the people who come to the site to find

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the resources. Those could be the businesses.

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So you're you're really managing a market a marketplace of two different,

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audiences.

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So this says products and businesses at your fingertips. What does that what does that mean?

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Online marketplace for women entrepreneurs. Oh, this is a little small.

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I think that's a huge

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fantastic niche that you're in here.

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You might want to

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reiterate that somewhere here in your main title.

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I don't wanna get into the full design, like, top to bottom of what you can change,

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but your your mission is very clear.

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part of what you're selling is exposure for the business, but you also want to get them behind your mission,

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and that's an incentive for them to join in of itself.

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in in

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in your,

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you know, text and copy around

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the site,

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it's obviously

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an online marketplace for women entrepreneurs. You wanna

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reiterate that, and we should see in our mission here somewhere. Okay. Okay.

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We want we this is a mission,

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you know, focused,

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cause here.

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It's not a nonprofit, but you have you know, you're you're trying to do some good for a very specific demographic here.

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And I see here this this always a free profile plan.

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That's good. It takes you right there.

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Yeah. I would just I would just outline some more benefits and perks.

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Where can I see the upgraded plan option? Or 50%. It was the you just passed it.

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It's in the menu bar.

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Spit right there. The all acts. Got you. Okay. So, again, I'm I, I'm a little confused here.

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It says unparalleled

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marketing.

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It says a marketplace for women entrepreneur joint ex exposure, traffic, credibility, and customers.

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I

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I would talk to the audience more like, are you,

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you know, a female entrepreneur,

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or are you, you know, a woman owned biz I don't know what the right vernacular is, but

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the unparalleled marketing should come after you've addressed who your audience is and what their pain point might be Okay.

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In your copy.

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So I think you have everything right here.

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I think we just need to put another emotional layer on top of it and also talking to your audience

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so they could so they could identify better. And then that's just the top layer.

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And then with your with your plans here,

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I I have not I have nothing wrong with the, with taking people directly to the free plan,

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and in the welcome emails and things like that, letting them know that they could get increased exposure and things like that.

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Okay. But just from the start here, I I had a hard time

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putting the pieces to like, am I gonna join your site and promote my services here?

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Is that what I'm doing as a female entrepreneur?

455
00:28:19.660 --> 00:28:19.900
Okay.

456
00:28:19.900 --> 00:28:26.160
And then it's it's to create, like, a network of female entrepreneurs to not only get online exposure, but maybe find,

457
00:28:26.495 --> 00:28:34.095
like, a, like, like, a referral network almost with the members who are part of the site or just visitor traffic to get exposure from

458
00:28:34.655 --> 00:28:35.395
It's really

459
00:28:35.775 --> 00:28:39.715
I have it so that like, I drive traffic organically myself.

460
00:28:40.130 --> 00:28:42.710
So I drive traffic to the site

461
00:28:43.170 --> 00:28:45.430
and to the businesses according to the categories.

462
00:28:45.970 --> 00:28:47.990
So it's really for businesses to

463
00:28:48.290 --> 00:28:48.790
register

464
00:28:49.570 --> 00:28:50.710
and get exposure,

465
00:28:51.090 --> 00:28:53.990
and I give them hacks on how to get more.

466
00:28:54.315 --> 00:28:54.815
Okay.

467
00:28:55.195 --> 00:29:02.335
So so last and the last point I'm gonna say is, so this is not just a directory of of women to find,

468
00:29:03.274 --> 00:29:05.455
businesses or services from women entrepreneurs.

469
00:29:05.835 --> 00:29:08.014
It's a community of women entrepreneurs.

470
00:29:08.715 --> 00:29:09.215
So

471
00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:19.340
you can also play play that card as well where by joining the site, you're not only supporting a site that supports women, but you're also becoming a member of the community.

472
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:25.179
And then the free plan, of course, you wanna give them limited access to certain resources and visibility.

473
00:29:25.695 --> 00:29:32.434
And then the since you're only having a free and paid plan paid plan, which is a really good strategy as well because it's very easy to decide,

474
00:29:32.975 --> 00:29:33.794
go go,

475
00:29:35.215 --> 00:29:38.914
go all out for the paid plan and just make it like a huge irresistible

476
00:29:39.215 --> 00:29:42.340
list of why they would wanna be part of the paid plan.

477
00:29:42.340 --> 00:29:48.660
And the basic plan is just basically gives them their foot in the door and allows them to become and and come up with a name for it.

478
00:29:48.660 --> 00:29:52.340
Don't call it a basic member. What did you call it here? You called it

479
00:29:53.295 --> 00:29:57.955
Always free. Always free plan. No. No. But instead of a a always free profile,

480
00:29:58.415 --> 00:30:03.635
call it like a almost like nonprofit naming, like they're they're they're joining

481
00:30:04.175 --> 00:30:09.850
they're becoming a a certain level of membership, like entry level, but that's also a bad word for this.

482
00:30:09.850 --> 00:30:14.830
Something like entry level membership, but give it a nice nice word that fits with your branding

483
00:30:15.130 --> 00:30:18.809
and then give the paid plan so they feel like they have something tangible.

484
00:30:18.809 --> 00:30:22.990
So when you name your plan name something that resonates with the brand itself,

485
00:30:23.375 --> 00:30:30.995
it's it's a it's a bit more tangible for for the user, and they want to aspire towards that plan's name because of the plan's name.

486
00:30:31.295 --> 00:30:33.235
Okay. So that was a mouthful.

487
00:30:34.175 --> 00:30:38.929
But those are some quick tips that I could that I just had for you here. Well, thank you.

488
00:30:38.929 --> 00:30:40.870
I appreciate it. Thank you so much.

489
00:30:41.250 --> 00:30:44.529
You're welcome. And join us in a future webinar if you make any changes.

490
00:30:44.529 --> 00:30:47.649
We'd love to see the progress you made on it. Oh, I absolutely will.

491
00:30:47.649 --> 00:30:50.665
Well, I'll leave screen that's in the Facebook group for you. Alright.

492
00:30:50.665 --> 00:30:54.765
And congratulations on the iPad. That's awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome.

493
00:30:54.825 --> 00:30:59.405
Alright. Good stuff there from Stephanie. Great site, great mission, great focus.

494
00:30:59.705 --> 00:31:01.005
We just wanna remember

495
00:31:01.305 --> 00:31:12.360
who our audience is and that the website is talking to the audience and making a compelling and irresistible offer, not just to join the site but wanna participate in the website's mission and why they should.

496
00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:19.115
So give your members a reason to care, I guess, is is the takeaway from from my advice here for Stephanie.

497
00:31:19.575 --> 00:31:22.635
Alright. Great question there and thank you for sharing your site.

498
00:31:22.775 --> 00:31:26.455
If you have any questions about your site, now is the time you can raise your hand.

499
00:31:26.455 --> 00:31:31.690
We could take a look at your site or you can just ask a general question here. I see Jean

500
00:31:32.150 --> 00:31:32.650
Michel,

501
00:31:33.110 --> 00:31:36.090
has raised his hand and put it down quickly. No worries.

502
00:31:36.470 --> 00:31:38.090
Oh, there we go, Jean Michel.

503
00:31:38.549 --> 00:31:42.650
Hello, Jason. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. How are you today? Where are you calling from?

504
00:31:42.875 --> 00:31:44.495
I'm calling from Kebex today.

505
00:31:44.795 --> 00:31:47.055
Okay. And what's your question for us today?

506
00:31:47.435 --> 00:31:54.415
So, I just start, building my, website, and, I have still, some issues about the translation.

507
00:31:55.910 --> 00:31:57.690
For example, in the menus,

508
00:31:58.790 --> 00:31:59.530
I I

509
00:31:59.910 --> 00:32:01.530
for example, I classified,

510
00:32:02.790 --> 00:32:03.290
so

511
00:32:03.670 --> 00:32:05.370
I could change the

512
00:32:06.070 --> 00:32:06.730
to French,

513
00:32:07.294 --> 00:32:07.794
but

514
00:32:08.174 --> 00:32:08.895
then there's,

515
00:32:09.615 --> 00:32:14.595
some stuff that I don't know where to go to to to change, like, some translation.

516
00:32:14.815 --> 00:32:21.315
So I was wondering if there was a easy way in the admin to look for words in English to

517
00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:23.340
change it to the correct language.

518
00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:24.360
So,

519
00:32:24.760 --> 00:32:27.340
I have good news good good news for you.

520
00:32:28.040 --> 00:32:31.100
Are you going word by word and changing what you see manually

521
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:32.380
into French?

522
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:34.275
Yes. Okay.

523
00:32:34.975 --> 00:32:40.115
We don't have every language yet in the world but French is one of the standard languages

524
00:32:40.495 --> 00:32:41.715
you can switch to

525
00:32:42.015 --> 00:32:46.260
and all the default text or the majority of the default text around the site

526
00:32:46.660 --> 00:32:50.040
will change to French, and I'll show you an example there. So,

527
00:32:51.060 --> 00:32:55.620
for example, here's the admin dashboard. There's lots of default text here. Right?

528
00:32:55.620 --> 00:32:58.600
All these little words, status, join, billing information.

529
00:32:59.215 --> 00:33:03.715
What I would recommend is you do this and and your name is Kyushan, Jean Michel?

530
00:33:04.175 --> 00:33:05.935
Yeah. Jean Michel. Jean Michel.

531
00:33:05.935 --> 00:33:13.860
So if you go to your general settings and you might want to watch the replay if I'm going a little quickly here and I hope crossing my fingers this works, here in the webinar.

532
00:33:13.860 --> 00:33:15.400
So if you go to general settings,

533
00:33:15.940 --> 00:33:17.080
go to localization.

534
00:33:17.940 --> 00:33:20.120
I'm gonna switch the language to French

535
00:33:20.660 --> 00:33:24.260
and French is one of the languages we can switch text labels.

536
00:33:24.260 --> 00:33:27.560
We have English, French, Spanish, and German, four languages.

537
00:33:28.100 --> 00:33:29.000
Beyond those

538
00:33:29.434 --> 00:33:33.535
normally then for other languages, you you would just manually change the text yourself,

539
00:33:34.715 --> 00:33:38.175
and usually that, you know, it takes a little bit of time, but it's not impossible.

540
00:33:38.235 --> 00:33:41.695
So let me just save the changes here, French, and click this,

541
00:33:41.995 --> 00:33:42.975
and let me just

542
00:33:43.399 --> 00:33:47.580
do this one more time. I'm gonna refresh the cache also so it just happens a bit quicker.

543
00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:50.139
So I'm gonna open a new tab here.

544
00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:50.940
Okay.

545
00:33:51.399 --> 00:33:55.395
So we can see here all these words. I'm gonna show you how to do these in a second.

546
00:33:55.475 --> 00:34:00.615
We can see a lot of these words are now translated into French. It may not be exactly,

547
00:34:01.715 --> 00:34:02.215
the

548
00:34:02.515 --> 00:34:05.235
specific language you want, but, we did have,

549
00:34:05.795 --> 00:34:10.455
someone, from the French dialect do this for us. So now we can see a lot all the text,

550
00:34:11.030 --> 00:34:11.770
is changed

551
00:34:12.550 --> 00:34:14.409
here. These here are post types.

552
00:34:14.869 --> 00:34:16.889
So for to do these ones,

553
00:34:17.349 --> 00:34:19.449
we would go to my content,

554
00:34:19.909 --> 00:34:21.050
edit post settings,

555
00:34:21.750 --> 00:34:28.125
and we want to change the names of the post types. So in this example, community article coupon,

556
00:34:28.665 --> 00:34:32.445
you would come here and we can I'll just do one of them. Coupon.

557
00:34:32.984 --> 00:34:34.525
You edit the post type

558
00:34:34.824 --> 00:34:36.025
and here is the name.

559
00:34:36.025 --> 00:34:39.885
I'm not I don't know the word for coupon in French, but I'm just gonna put French coupon.

560
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:41.099
And if we

561
00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:45.239
refresh, whatever you had put for the post type, this should say French coupon now.

562
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:49.659
So you would it would be whatever you wanna call it in French or, you know, things like that.

563
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:51.339
Also, for your main menu,

564
00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:54.139
this because it's not a text label,

565
00:34:54.474 --> 00:35:01.675
you can go so you would do your posts, edit post types and also what I did in general settings and then your menus.

566
00:35:01.675 --> 00:35:03.055
So we would go to toolbox,

567
00:35:03.835 --> 00:35:04.734
menu manager

568
00:35:05.194 --> 00:35:10.500
and really you have your main menu and your footer menu so you can come here and customize these.

569
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:12.960
And, of course, you would wanna change this anyway.

570
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:17.280
You you probably don't even wanna use the the, you know, the five links in the main menu.

571
00:35:17.600 --> 00:35:21.140
So you can change this from home to, you know, your language

572
00:35:21.485 --> 00:35:25.005
and that will take care of probably 99% of the language on your site.

573
00:35:25.005 --> 00:35:31.745
And in addition to that, you can further change the text labels to be more on brand with the way you wanna call certain things.

574
00:35:32.205 --> 00:35:36.625
But that would be a quicker way, Jean Michel, to translate your site into French.

575
00:35:37.260 --> 00:35:39.440
Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.

576
00:35:39.980 --> 00:35:41.040
Good question there.

577
00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:46.460
Let me unmute Jean Michel. And we have our good friend Lisa here. Let me unmute you.

578
00:35:46.460 --> 00:35:51.435
Lisa, you may need to unmute your mic. How are you today? Good. Can you hear me? Loud and clear.

579
00:35:51.435 --> 00:35:55.615
Where are you calling in from? K. Great. From Michigan. Nice and cold and snowy.

580
00:35:55.915 --> 00:35:58.895
Yes. Yes. I know. I know. What's your question for us today?

581
00:35:59.355 --> 00:36:01.695
Yeah. For the post listings,

582
00:36:02.075 --> 00:36:03.790
is it possible to,

583
00:36:04.650 --> 00:36:06.270
change, like, the SEO

584
00:36:06.570 --> 00:36:07.630
for each post?

585
00:36:08.250 --> 00:36:13.390
For instance, I post different events and post listings, and I would like to be able to

586
00:36:13.850 --> 00:36:15.710
get more traction to the postings

587
00:36:16.010 --> 00:36:16.910
for those events.

588
00:36:17.335 --> 00:36:18.075
Is that possible?

589
00:36:18.695 --> 00:36:22.235
Yeah. Can you can let me go to this site here.

590
00:36:23.255 --> 00:36:23.755
Let's,

591
00:36:25.335 --> 00:36:27.835
let's go to an event post here, and

592
00:36:28.135 --> 00:36:30.955
maybe I can give you some better context here. So,

593
00:36:31.335 --> 00:36:32.315
here's a post

594
00:36:33.359 --> 00:36:34.740
for tour of Los Angeles.

595
00:36:35.279 --> 00:36:40.180
Okay. So we could see here now a lot of this thing stuff is gonna be in French, which is fine.

596
00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:45.700
We can enjoy that. So here's an event listing. So here, let me show you real quick what you can do.

597
00:36:46.125 --> 00:36:49.585
So if we come here and do the show widgets here, let me oops.

598
00:36:49.965 --> 00:36:53.725
Give me one moment. Let me go here to events. Just a moment.

599
00:36:53.725 --> 00:36:56.945
Let me I'm trying to get that bar here on the side. There we go.

600
00:36:57.245 --> 00:37:02.400
So what you could do is you could edit the SEO template. So get this admin bar here.

601
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:04.180
So click on the visit website,

602
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:05.940
area here.

603
00:37:06.080 --> 00:37:17.015
Now is it just for one event you wanna change the SEO or, like, create a template so they all use the same model, like the name of the event, the location, it's all part of the meta information in the SEO.

604
00:37:17.474 --> 00:37:19.575
No. That's a good question. I'm not quite sure.

605
00:37:20.194 --> 00:37:25.974
Okay. But each each event's different. So but I just I noticed that, you know, I'm getting

606
00:37:26.275 --> 00:37:30.615
good traction, but I really wanna be able to, you know, get noticed

607
00:37:31.380 --> 00:37:31.880
through,

608
00:37:32.339 --> 00:37:35.079
search engines. And I'm noticing the traction,

609
00:37:36.740 --> 00:37:37.640
then the traffic

610
00:37:38.260 --> 00:37:41.079
through the website, but I'm not seeing it through,

611
00:37:41.779 --> 00:37:42.680
the search engines.

612
00:37:43.059 --> 00:37:43.515
Gotcha.

613
00:37:44.474 --> 00:37:49.694
Okay. So what you can do so first, we have to know where you're starting from. So just so you know,

614
00:37:51.275 --> 00:37:55.454
the the metadata that Google needs to read is is here.

615
00:37:56.010 --> 00:38:00.270
So we have a title. We have the description. It's all and it's all dynamically generated

616
00:38:00.570 --> 00:38:03.550
from the post itself, like, the event post,

617
00:38:04.250 --> 00:38:05.470
as we can see here.

618
00:38:05.770 --> 00:38:07.630
If you wanted to further enhance,

619
00:38:08.645 --> 00:38:10.585
if you go to SEO templates,

620
00:38:11.365 --> 00:38:14.325
and this is this will be a model for all your posts.

621
00:38:14.325 --> 00:38:18.905
This again, I I don't wanna go too quickly here, but we can customize this SEO template.

622
00:38:19.365 --> 00:38:21.125
And this is variable based.

623
00:38:21.125 --> 00:38:26.960
So basically, what it's doing, it's it's using the post title and it's feeding it to the search engines.

624
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:30.180
It's it's indicating to the search engines what this page,

625
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:31.440
is about.

626
00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:37.505
And the reason this is template based is this is the template for if you have a hundred event postings,

627
00:38:37.805 --> 00:38:41.505
it just takes care of filling in the blanks for the SEO here.

628
00:38:44.204 --> 00:38:45.585
That makes sense so far?

629
00:38:46.125 --> 00:38:46.625
Yeah.

630
00:38:47.005 --> 00:38:49.905
Okay. Yeah. It it does. I mean, it's so

631
00:38:50.330 --> 00:38:55.370
I've got different areas, not just, you know, there's events and then there's, you know, education center,

632
00:38:55.770 --> 00:38:57.690
and there's all these different post listings.

633
00:38:57.690 --> 00:39:03.150
So would it carry through all the posts or can this be specific to events?

634
00:39:03.755 --> 00:39:06.655
It cure this is gonna curate through all the posts,

635
00:39:08.155 --> 00:39:18.495
and what like, what kind of information do you want, for example, in the in the because you could put any of the post variables in here and if it exists with the post, it'll show in the in the metadata.

636
00:39:19.299 --> 00:39:20.039
So generally,

637
00:39:20.420 --> 00:39:25.720
what you want is, like, the post title. You can also do a the location here,

638
00:39:26.339 --> 00:39:27.559
if you wanted to.

639
00:39:28.020 --> 00:39:34.359
The date and name, so that would say, like, event or coupon or, you know, things like that.

640
00:39:34.985 --> 00:39:37.325
And then, of course, you could do things like location,

641
00:39:39.065 --> 00:39:42.845
and basically, the the things that people would Google to find that event.

642
00:39:43.625 --> 00:39:46.185
The full name is the person who who created the event.

643
00:39:46.185 --> 00:39:52.180
So if it's one of your members publishing the event, you can then you could say that's why it says events by,

644
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:53.460
you know, Jason,

645
00:39:54.240 --> 00:39:56.339
you know, or the business name. Mhmm.

646
00:39:57.119 --> 00:39:57.619
Okay.

647
00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:00.579
So if we come here, let's look at the metadata again.

648
00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:03.380
We could see event.

649
00:40:03.845 --> 00:40:06.505
Let's see one more time here. Let's go here.

650
00:40:06.885 --> 00:40:09.944
So the title is tour of Los Angeles Celebrity

651
00:40:10.484 --> 00:40:10.984
Homes.

652
00:40:11.684 --> 00:40:15.365
It says event posted by sample member three on my new website.

653
00:40:15.365 --> 00:40:17.444
So that's the name of the member event posted by.

654
00:40:17.444 --> 00:40:19.970
It looks like the description here is missing the title.

655
00:40:20.270 --> 00:40:21.810
So what we can do here

656
00:40:22.270 --> 00:40:27.170
is put the title here, and here's the meta description. So if you wanted to enhance it further,

657
00:40:27.550 --> 00:40:30.530
you could put you could reiterate the title in the description.

658
00:40:31.150 --> 00:40:31.970
Save this.

659
00:40:34.964 --> 00:40:39.365
And if we look now so I've just kinda modified the SEO templates for the post.

660
00:40:39.365 --> 00:40:40.825
And if the description

661
00:40:41.125 --> 00:40:44.744
the description here, it's gonna have the title in it now again.

662
00:40:45.765 --> 00:40:46.665
Share demo.

663
00:40:46.770 --> 00:40:52.390
So now the description includes the title, which and then it says event posted by sample member.

664
00:40:52.450 --> 00:40:57.030
And you can you can move these variables to the title or the description.

665
00:40:57.090 --> 00:40:58.310
Those are the most important.

666
00:40:58.610 --> 00:41:00.630
Keywords don't matter that much,

667
00:41:01.164 --> 00:41:01.664
anymore.

668
00:41:03.565 --> 00:41:07.025
And then let me share one more thing with you because we're talking about specific

669
00:41:07.644 --> 00:41:11.644
posts, like a specific event and optimizing the SEO for that. Mhmm.

670
00:41:11.644 --> 00:41:17.270
But you can also and this is actually really important to do. Let me find this for you.

671
00:41:18.530 --> 00:41:20.790
I have a video that shows you how to

672
00:41:21.090 --> 00:41:22.390
enhance the events

673
00:41:22.850 --> 00:41:25.190
the search results on your site. So,

674
00:41:25.730 --> 00:41:26.950
if you want to

675
00:41:27.410 --> 00:41:34.165
if you have events in a certain area like events in Los Angeles, you can add additional SEO content to further bolster,

676
00:41:35.025 --> 00:41:39.045
the the the rich content on that site and help that page rank

677
00:41:39.425 --> 00:41:44.805
on in, search engines like Google. Let me share this with you. Adding custom content,

678
00:41:45.740 --> 00:41:51.339
banners and SEO value to search results pages. And this applies to your post as well.

679
00:41:52.619 --> 00:41:54.640
I would recommend watching this video.

680
00:41:55.980 --> 00:41:57.040
Great. Thank you.

681
00:41:57.515 --> 00:41:59.855
You're welcome. That was a long answer. In short,

682
00:42:00.235 --> 00:42:05.475
you can, yeah, add the variables to the, the SEO template there, Lisa. And Right.

683
00:42:05.595 --> 00:42:08.735
Feel free to ask in the Facebook group, if you need additional assistance.

684
00:42:09.035 --> 00:42:13.220
Thank you. You're welcome. Alright. Good question there. David, I think that warrants,

685
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:14.900
a tip of the week,

686
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:19.440
how to bolster and enhance SEO of different pages of this site.

687
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:24.340
The default SEO that's created with BD sites, the titles, descriptions, they're pretty good.

688
00:42:24.645 --> 00:42:30.665
But when you have a stronger focus on your site, you really wanna make sure other certain keywords are,

689
00:42:31.045 --> 00:42:42.500
on some of those specific pages and what variables are available to use so that you can create combinations that not only read well, when the variables are printed to the actual text that they represent,

690
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:47.839
but also, again, boost up SEO even further. Alright. We got some more hands up here.

691
00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:51.140
We got a good friend, Steven. Steven with a v.

692
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.045
Yeah. Can you hear me? Loud and clear. Where are you calling in from?

693
00:42:55.744 --> 00:43:00.625
Calling in from Miami, Florida. Alright. Alright. And what's your question for us today? Yeah.

694
00:43:00.625 --> 00:43:06.625
The question is, it's a little technical. So I I do a lot of blog articles, and I use Pabbly to,

695
00:43:07.630 --> 00:43:12.609
get those blog articles on Facebook and various other platforms. So do the whole integration thing.

696
00:43:12.910 --> 00:43:14.770
And sometimes what happens is,

697
00:43:15.550 --> 00:43:22.530
so so the way it works, of course, is, you know, is, publish the blog article and then it automatically gets posted on Facebook and those other platforms.

698
00:43:22.965 --> 00:43:23.625
But sometimes,

699
00:43:24.005 --> 00:43:29.465
I would go back maybe a couple weeks later and enhance the article or make a change in the article.

700
00:43:29.845 --> 00:43:35.465
And I and I wanna be able to have it repost it again through Pabbly on the various platforms,

701
00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:37.079
but it doesn't do that.

702
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:42.299
It it only reposts it if you would create a brand new blog article and almost

703
00:43:42.680 --> 00:43:47.559
poured everything into that into that new blog article. You can't just save it again and repost it.

704
00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:51.500
So I guess the question is, how how can I is there a way for me to easily

705
00:43:52.135 --> 00:43:52.955
resave it

706
00:43:53.255 --> 00:43:54.235
so that everything

707
00:43:54.855 --> 00:43:55.355
gets,

708
00:43:55.735 --> 00:43:56.715
you know, resent

709
00:43:57.175 --> 00:44:00.315
to through Pabbly or to the various articles? Does that make sense?

710
00:44:00.695 --> 00:44:04.555
Yeah. You know, I'm almost I would have to play around with it to see. Okay.

711
00:44:05.900 --> 00:44:11.760
I'm almost curious if you save it as draft mode and save it and then resave it in publish

712
00:44:12.060 --> 00:44:12.560
status,

713
00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:16.240
if that might trigger it. You're obviously using the webhooks. Right?

714
00:44:16.780 --> 00:44:19.120
No. No. No. I'm using no. No. I'm using RSS.

715
00:44:19.575 --> 00:44:22.095
Because because the problem with the webhooks is it doesn't bring Okay.

716
00:44:22.615 --> 00:44:27.755
It doesn't bring over the image. So I'm using RSS. Okay. If you're using the RSS,

717
00:44:29.734 --> 00:44:32.234
changing the publish date to a more recent

718
00:44:32.740 --> 00:44:37.880
publish date because let me show you what the RSS does. Okay? And the RSS feed is basically

719
00:44:38.580 --> 00:44:43.300
a copy of what's on your search results page. So let me, let me go here real quick.

720
00:44:43.300 --> 00:44:47.160
Let me open up Google Chrome here because it can read the RSS feed.

721
00:44:47.235 --> 00:44:51.875
So if I come here to the events and I go to so we just have one event here. Right?

722
00:44:51.875 --> 00:44:55.495
This is maybe not the best example, but I think I do forward slash

723
00:44:56.275 --> 00:44:59.415
RSS. I forget what it is. Yeah. There we go. So

724
00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:04.820
it's only gonna find what's on the first page of your search results page.

725
00:45:05.120 --> 00:45:09.940
That's how it Mhmm. So maybe if you change the date to, like, the current date,

726
00:45:10.240 --> 00:45:16.395
it might pick it up because it then will be a new post in the RSS feed. How do I change the date?

727
00:45:16.395 --> 00:45:20.895
And how would I You should be able to change the publish date of of your post,

728
00:45:21.195 --> 00:45:26.395
whatever it might be. Let me see here. Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah. Let let's do it together real quick.

729
00:45:26.635 --> 00:45:28.735
Alright. Let me see if I can log in here.

730
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:32.119
I actually actually, I can tell you I can tell you the answer.

731
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:39.740
That that doesn't work because at least it didn't work for me because I've done that where because I whenever I update it, I do update the publish date so it looks fresh and everything.

732
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:44.875
And then when I save it, it it doesn't redo it. The only the only time that it re

733
00:45:45.175 --> 00:45:48.955
publishes it through Pabbly is if I were to create a brand new,

734
00:45:49.815 --> 00:45:56.155
web article or post article. You know, I do that plus sign on the, where it says, plus new website

735
00:45:56.589 --> 00:46:00.050
article or whatever, and then create it from scratch.

736
00:46:00.510 --> 00:46:05.089
That's when it does it, but it doesn't do it when I just simply change the date and save it. Gotcha.

737
00:46:05.150 --> 00:46:06.190
You know, you might

738
00:46:06.589 --> 00:46:09.230
RSS is a very, like, static way to do it.

739
00:46:09.869 --> 00:46:12.290
You might wanna try the webhooks method.

740
00:46:14.005 --> 00:46:16.645
Let's Yeah. The problem with the webhooks the I I know how to do it.

741
00:46:16.645 --> 00:46:18.245
The problem with the webhooks I don't wanna get too technical.

742
00:46:18.245 --> 00:46:23.525
I know this is sort of a q and a, but the problem with the webhooks is that it doesn't port over the image, though.

743
00:46:23.525 --> 00:46:31.520
The nice thing that you guys included not long ago was through the RSS is to be able to bring over the image to through Pabbly into Facebook or whatever.

744
00:46:31.520 --> 00:46:35.280
It's But the webhook doesn't do that, I don't think. It it does. It should.

745
00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:38.400
It it does and it should. And if it doesn't, email the support team.

746
00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:40.660
But to my knowledge, it it does.

747
00:46:41.495 --> 00:46:46.475
It has the post the the the featured image of that post in a URL format,

748
00:46:47.255 --> 00:46:50.075
and that's the same thing that's included in the RSS feed.

749
00:46:50.375 --> 00:46:56.395
So, yeah, with that, I would give the web and then every time the post is saved and then Mhmm.

750
00:46:56.670 --> 00:46:58.770
It should send it with the webhook, I think.

751
00:46:58.829 --> 00:47:01.550
You got me you threw me off with the RS set when you said the RSS.

752
00:47:01.550 --> 00:47:09.615
I was assuming you were doing webhook, but I think every time you save it with the webhook, it will send that data every time through the webhook.

753
00:47:09.755 --> 00:47:14.395
And then you can add filters, like, only if it's a published status because it's gonna send it every time.

754
00:47:14.395 --> 00:47:18.155
Because ours says it will only show it if it's unpublished. It's not gonna show it.

755
00:47:18.155 --> 00:47:21.215
So you might wanna add a filter that only if publish

756
00:47:21.835 --> 00:47:24.415
equals one, then do the rest of the workflow.

757
00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:30.300
Got it. Okay. Good. So webhook filter if it's published and then the rest of your workflow.

758
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:34.860
Got it. Perfect. Thank you. Alright. Alright. You're welcome. Thank you for the question. Alright.

759
00:47:35.240 --> 00:47:38.920
Let's see some more hands up here. Great. Always great questions from you, Steven, actually.

760
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:40.545
Thank you for that. We got Jerome

761
00:47:41.005 --> 00:47:43.885
here. Alright. Jerome, you're self muted there. You just unmute your microphone.

762
00:47:43.885 --> 00:47:49.165
We should be able to hear you. Okay. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. How are you today? Awesome. Yeah.

763
00:47:49.165 --> 00:47:50.145
Great. Thank you.

764
00:47:50.445 --> 00:47:50.845
Very good,

765
00:47:51.565 --> 00:47:52.925
improvements you guys are making.

766
00:47:52.925 --> 00:47:56.890
It's great to see that, and you're always doing that, and we appreciate it so much.

767
00:47:56.950 --> 00:48:02.549
Appreciate appreciate you. Thank you. Yeah. So, two quick questions. And, it's okay.

768
00:48:02.549 --> 00:48:05.049
I can do this through an email too to you, but,

769
00:48:05.349 --> 00:48:07.130
have you guys considered implementing

770
00:48:07.430 --> 00:48:09.609
a more intuitive map feature,

771
00:48:10.235 --> 00:48:12.155
particularly, like, for mobile users,

772
00:48:12.555 --> 00:48:17.935
using the website, similar to, like, user friendly maps offered by, like, Google and Yelp

773
00:48:18.235 --> 00:48:21.535
where, you know, the basic usage of the platform allows,

774
00:48:22.155 --> 00:48:26.060
businesses to show up on a map, you know, instead of in that listing mode.

775
00:48:26.060 --> 00:48:27.520
You know, let people toggle

776
00:48:27.900 --> 00:48:33.580
between a list or a map view a little bit more. Have you considered that? I'm with you.

777
00:48:33.580 --> 00:48:38.875
I think you should be able to do that. If we come here let me just quickly search.

778
00:48:38.875 --> 00:48:41.695
This is our demo site here. Let me just search Los Angeles

779
00:48:42.155 --> 00:48:42.895
for members.

780
00:48:43.755 --> 00:48:46.575
And if you I know grid view doesn't work on

781
00:48:47.115 --> 00:48:53.440
mobile, but if you toggle because it's such a small space, but you should be able to have a little icon here

782
00:48:53.820 --> 00:48:55.339
and see the map view

783
00:48:56.060 --> 00:48:56.560
Mhmm.

784
00:48:57.339 --> 00:48:58.720
On mobile here.

785
00:48:59.180 --> 00:49:00.480
I think it does

786
00:49:00.859 --> 00:49:04.320
this, yeah, this does require let me send you the link here.

787
00:49:04.695 --> 00:49:06.955
But, yeah, it should it should exist there.

788
00:49:07.735 --> 00:49:10.075
If you don't have it, you may need

789
00:49:11.095 --> 00:49:13.915
the map view icon. Let me see where that is.

790
00:49:14.295 --> 00:49:16.635
Google Maps in your search results here,

791
00:49:17.250 --> 00:49:19.750
and this would take care of that for you.

792
00:49:20.050 --> 00:49:20.550
And

793
00:49:20.930 --> 00:49:21.990
if you have it,

794
00:49:22.690 --> 00:49:26.370
can we check your site to see if you have it real quick? Would you like me to do that for you?

795
00:49:26.370 --> 00:49:27.670
What's your site's name?

796
00:49:28.050 --> 00:49:29.830
Citybyapp.com.

797
00:49:29.970 --> 00:49:36.365
Okay. Actually, guys, I need to introduce everyone to Jerome. I sorry. I didn't Jerome is

798
00:49:36.665 --> 00:49:38.445
one of the original BD

799
00:49:38.984 --> 00:49:40.585
b d ers here with us.

800
00:49:41.464 --> 00:49:45.244
I didn't recognize your last name there for a second, but now I see. Oh.

801
00:49:45.830 --> 00:49:48.410
How many years have you been with BD now? Twenty

802
00:49:48.950 --> 00:49:51.450
fifteen, I think I started. Quite a while. Yeah.

803
00:49:51.910 --> 00:49:54.470
I'm glad that you're on the webinar here with us. Yeah.

804
00:49:55.190 --> 00:49:55.690
So,

805
00:49:56.070 --> 00:49:58.490
yeah, your your site is you have some customizations

806
00:49:58.790 --> 00:50:03.375
on your site there. Right? Let me see here. So if we come here, I searched Los Angeles.

807
00:50:04.155 --> 00:50:06.494
Should have the map view. Yeah. Right here.

808
00:50:06.954 --> 00:50:09.915
So we are so there is a toggle here for map view.

809
00:50:09.915 --> 00:50:12.555
You could modify this and make it a little bit more

810
00:50:13.270 --> 00:50:17.110
you you could say, like, map view or right now, it's just like icon based.

811
00:50:17.110 --> 00:50:22.330
Usually, that's enough as an indicator, but you could put the words map view into this icon.

812
00:50:23.030 --> 00:50:29.405
And at that way, people kind of have a better indicator as to what this what this icon can do. Yeah.

813
00:50:29.405 --> 00:50:33.165
Yeah. See how it grabbed, like, you know, the whole country. Like, you know what I mean?

814
00:50:33.165 --> 00:50:35.244
Where it just kinda grabs your So in it

815
00:50:36.365 --> 00:50:40.224
yeah. So in this case, so if we come here to the to the demo example,

816
00:50:41.559 --> 00:50:48.380
it's only people in Los Angeles, but you have one member who's who's somewhere else but serves Los Angeles as well.

817
00:50:48.520 --> 00:50:52.460
That's why they're showing up here. So this this city by app is probably nationwide.

818
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:53.980
Exactly.

819
00:50:54.595 --> 00:50:56.915
And then what the map view is doing is trying to,

820
00:50:57.475 --> 00:50:59.075
include everyone in its view.

821
00:50:59.075 --> 00:51:03.635
But as you can see here in the demo, it's really it's focused really here's Universal Studios here.

822
00:51:03.635 --> 00:51:04.935
Right? Universal Hollywood.

823
00:51:05.235 --> 00:51:08.355
So it's really just focused in on the members there. But if there were

824
00:51:08.930 --> 00:51:13.990
if I did a bay bigger radius, it would have it zoomed out as well. So Right. Right.

825
00:51:14.290 --> 00:51:15.030
I understand.

826
00:51:15.410 --> 00:51:22.150
So we'd have to do some customization to probably get it to ignore, like, stuff outside the geolocation or something.

827
00:51:22.545 --> 00:51:26.785
Do you want this map? This I know this is like the listing that represents the company.

828
00:51:26.785 --> 00:51:30.724
Do you it seems like they might just be the only nationwide one. If you got rid of them,

829
00:51:31.025 --> 00:51:33.605
it might solve your problem right there. Make them nonsearchable

830
00:51:34.065 --> 00:51:35.925
or make them not nationwide,

831
00:51:36.490 --> 00:51:36.970
or something.

832
00:51:36.970 --> 00:51:43.870
And and, you know, and I'm referring a little bit more to, like, not just so much of that view, but just the the flexibility

833
00:51:44.170 --> 00:51:51.105
to be able to search for, like, types of businesses on the map and, you know, different toggling options, you know, and I know that there's

834
00:51:51.585 --> 00:51:55.605
not So another another thing I've seen people do is, especially on mobile,

835
00:51:56.065 --> 00:51:58.244
is they will put their

836
00:51:58.705 --> 00:52:00.645
their sidebar at the top.

837
00:52:01.025 --> 00:52:01.185
Oh.

838
00:52:02.065 --> 00:52:07.650
So let me show you one more thing, that you can do. Okay. I think I remember where the setting is.

839
00:52:07.650 --> 00:52:11.570
Give me one moment just to check here. I think it's under edit post set.

840
00:52:11.570 --> 00:52:14.790
I'm gonna check two places for you. This is a cool setting for everyone. So,

841
00:52:15.410 --> 00:52:15.910
generally,

842
00:52:16.210 --> 00:52:19.030
by default, if you're on mobile, and I'll just toggle mobile,

843
00:52:19.515 --> 00:52:23.115
your sidebar is gonna show after the body of the text.

844
00:52:23.115 --> 00:52:28.095
So it's gotta show somewhere like above or below. So the search then effectively becomes

845
00:52:28.555 --> 00:52:29.375
showing here.

846
00:52:30.474 --> 00:52:34.654
Just as an option for you, if we go to sidebar alignment,

847
00:52:36.030 --> 00:52:40.270
okay. It's gonna be in the the post settings. So you go to your specific post.

848
00:52:40.270 --> 00:52:42.930
So edit post settings, and let me look for listing.

849
00:52:43.390 --> 00:52:45.810
Mhmm. This is one of the more granular settings.

850
00:52:46.110 --> 00:52:49.965
You can go on the off that worldwide listing for you. Okay. Okay.

851
00:52:50.285 --> 00:52:53.885
If you go to edit post edit post settings, go to your listing type.

852
00:52:53.885 --> 00:52:57.505
That's your that's your member in this example. Go to the search results design

853
00:52:57.885 --> 00:52:58.385
tab

854
00:52:58.685 --> 00:53:02.225
and click on additional settings. Again, this is one of the more granular settings.

855
00:53:02.740 --> 00:53:08.040
And then we could see sidebar position on mobile. So you can do bottom or top. So, again,

856
00:53:08.500 --> 00:53:17.800
having it on the top obviously, you don't want your side your sidebar that's on mobile to be loaded with a ton of things where the main content is pushed down so much.

857
00:53:18.035 --> 00:53:20.375
So if you're going if you're gonna do sidebar

858
00:53:20.915 --> 00:53:22.535
on top on mobile devices,

859
00:53:23.155 --> 00:53:26.695
then the elements or widgets that you're showing in your sidebar,

860
00:53:26.995 --> 00:53:33.335
either make sure you only have one or two of them in there or do hidden excess, which is hidden on extra small screens,

861
00:53:33.770 --> 00:53:37.609
in the additional widgets there. So it doesn't take up too much real estate,

862
00:53:37.930 --> 00:53:40.349
to get to the main portion of the content.

863
00:53:41.210 --> 00:53:45.210
Another thing, Jerome. So that's another option. The top scroll up to the top.

864
00:53:45.210 --> 00:53:47.465
I wanna see where you're at one more time. Sure.

865
00:53:48.025 --> 00:53:54.045
So we're in edit post settings. We edited the listing post type, search results design tab,

866
00:53:54.505 --> 00:53:55.005
and

867
00:53:55.625 --> 00:53:57.645
second to last, your sidebar position.

868
00:53:57.945 --> 00:53:58.445
Okay.

869
00:53:58.905 --> 00:54:02.220
Another thing you can do is you do keep your search here.

870
00:54:02.220 --> 00:54:07.099
So there is a search here that the header search, you are keeping it here and it is remembering what you search.

871
00:54:07.099 --> 00:54:10.560
So it's almost like you have the search here as well always.

872
00:54:12.220 --> 00:54:12.720
So,

873
00:54:13.580 --> 00:54:19.075
you know, you might wanna do things where, again, real estate on cellular devices is is really critical.

874
00:54:19.375 --> 00:54:22.435
So I also noticed here, like, you have your website banner.

875
00:54:22.494 --> 00:54:25.315
You you might your announcement bar, you might wanna

876
00:54:25.855 --> 00:54:28.435
hide this on mobile. This is in your design settings.

877
00:54:28.815 --> 00:54:33.569
You can hide this on mobile and I'm not gonna save it, but you could set that to yes.

878
00:54:33.569 --> 00:54:38.470
And, again, what that. Yeah. You could save it. You wanna save it? Okay. Let me save that.

879
00:54:38.530 --> 00:54:40.390
And then let's take a look at it.

880
00:54:40.690 --> 00:54:41.190
And

881
00:54:41.650 --> 00:54:45.145
Yeah. Just kinda things fit a little better. Let's see. Did that save? Okay.

882
00:54:45.145 --> 00:54:47.665
It looks like maybe there was a delay. Let's try it one more time here.

883
00:54:47.665 --> 00:54:49.125
I'm assuming that's the website,

884
00:54:49.745 --> 00:54:54.545
header. I think there you go. So that's gone now. Let me just say always remember this. So so just

885
00:54:55.530 --> 00:54:59.610
so you do have the toggle here. You could you could put the text here that says map view as well.

886
00:54:59.610 --> 00:55:01.530
So there's just a little bit more of an indicator.

887
00:55:01.530 --> 00:55:05.530
You can start it on map view if that's your preference as well. I I see that. Look at that down.

888
00:55:05.530 --> 00:55:08.670
There's all these Los Angeles results here actually. Mhmm.

889
00:55:09.425 --> 00:55:12.165
And then just, you know, you might wanna hide your breadcrumbs

890
00:55:12.945 --> 00:55:16.244
on mobile as well. So just be a little bit more conscientious

891
00:55:16.545 --> 00:55:17.045
of

892
00:55:17.345 --> 00:55:21.365
elements that might be what your website looks like on mobile.

893
00:55:21.825 --> 00:55:23.685
And just one one last thing,

894
00:55:24.700 --> 00:55:33.200
you don't have to do this, but there are for those who aren't familiar, your logo takes up a lot of real estate and also another design setting that we created.

895
00:55:33.260 --> 00:55:36.240
This one, I'm I'm just gonna do it and set it right back for you.

896
00:55:36.300 --> 00:55:42.424
In the design settings under general header design, if you scroll down, there are some mobile view settings.

897
00:55:43.204 --> 00:55:44.984
And for the website logo,

898
00:55:45.285 --> 00:55:52.885
you could on mobile just choose to use your favicon, which is this icon here or a compact logo which basically shrinks your logo.

899
00:55:52.885 --> 00:55:54.744
Let me show you both of those examples.

900
00:55:55.310 --> 00:55:56.130
Okay. Great.

901
00:55:56.430 --> 00:55:58.050
And save your changes here.

902
00:55:58.430 --> 00:56:01.090
So I'll do I'll do open two screens here.

903
00:56:01.470 --> 00:56:05.970
Mhmm. And give that a second to load. I'm gonna go back to mobile view here.

904
00:56:06.430 --> 00:56:09.405
So we can see here well, something's off there, but,

905
00:56:09.965 --> 00:56:12.065
it it your logo should show

906
00:56:12.525 --> 00:56:17.585
here, at the top. Let me there might be some something you need to do, but let me do Favicon.

907
00:56:17.805 --> 00:56:18.865
That's more straightforward.

908
00:56:19.565 --> 00:56:24.000
Okay. Yeah. I'll switch it back for you so you don't have to worry about it. But let's let that

909
00:56:24.460 --> 00:56:28.320
refresh one more time. Okay. There we go. One more refresh here. Okay.

910
00:56:28.380 --> 00:56:30.000
Again, I think you have some customization.

911
00:56:30.140 --> 00:56:36.285
But what it would do is it puts your Favicon, this icon here or your logo, both of them that I chose, it puts it right here.

912
00:56:36.285 --> 00:56:39.245
So instead of your logo taking up this huge header

913
00:56:39.645 --> 00:56:44.865
Yeah. We've now we've now saved a ton of space and it gives you more of that app like feel.

914
00:56:45.005 --> 00:56:46.944
Let me show you one more thing,

915
00:56:47.645 --> 00:56:51.265
that I would do all that just the way you did it for right now. That's fine. Okay.

916
00:56:51.549 --> 00:56:54.269
Another thing is Go ahead. Keep going. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah.

917
00:56:54.269 --> 00:56:57.569
Another thing is, again, if we want to, you know, you have your

918
00:56:57.869 --> 00:56:59.710
your mini nav here, the,

919
00:57:00.510 --> 00:57:02.609
this this here. You can also choose,

920
00:57:03.069 --> 00:57:11.115
to hide that if you want or at least remove a couple of the items that might not be so critical on mobile, or you can add them into your,

921
00:57:11.655 --> 00:57:12.635
menu here,

922
00:57:13.335 --> 00:57:17.255
if you wanted to. But you see how this is going on three lines here? Yeah.

923
00:57:17.255 --> 00:57:20.715
You know, it could be that on mobile, we don't want the

924
00:57:21.210 --> 00:57:21.710
the,

925
00:57:22.410 --> 00:57:23.470
the Google translate,

926
00:57:24.410 --> 00:57:26.910
or maybe we don't want the contact us here,

927
00:57:27.450 --> 00:57:31.869
in the header. So I'll just show you one more thing that you can do. I'll go to toolbox,

928
00:57:32.730 --> 00:57:34.570
main menu. And again, this is really good.

929
00:57:34.570 --> 00:57:38.945
Like, people design their sites, you know, you load it with buttons and images and all that stuff.

930
00:57:38.945 --> 00:57:43.845
So if we go to the header mini nav here, you see you've added a lot of little menus here which is great.

931
00:57:44.225 --> 00:57:46.965
One thing you can do is I'll toggle this

932
00:57:47.265 --> 00:57:49.765
and I'm just gonna add a hidden access to this

933
00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:51.580
to the contact us

934
00:57:52.680 --> 00:57:53.980
and save the changes.

935
00:57:54.520 --> 00:57:55.820
And we'll come back here

936
00:57:56.200 --> 00:57:57.660
and refresh this,

937
00:57:58.040 --> 00:57:58.540
and,

938
00:57:59.560 --> 00:58:04.300
let's let's make sure that that's the menu that you're you might be using another menu there.

939
00:58:04.385 --> 00:58:07.605
But what hidden access is gonna do, it's gonna hide this menu item,

940
00:58:08.224 --> 00:58:08.964
on mobile.

941
00:58:09.425 --> 00:58:09.925
Mhmm.

942
00:58:10.385 --> 00:58:13.045
Let's see why it didn't. I think you're using another

943
00:58:13.425 --> 00:58:15.665
menu there. Let me just do it for you so you can see.

944
00:58:15.665 --> 00:58:20.000
I'll I'll feel a lot better about it if I just, took care of that one for you. Thank you.

945
00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:24.900
So let me just do a search widgets here. Let's see which menu that is exactly here.

946
00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:28.500
Alright. It's gonna tell us that is the

947
00:58:28.880 --> 00:58:30.099
Header mini nav.

948
00:58:30.560 --> 00:58:33.315
We're looking for the menu. This one, header mini nav menu.

949
00:58:33.315 --> 00:58:35.575
So let's see here if I had the right one there.

950
00:58:35.875 --> 00:58:37.255
Okay. Let's edit that.

951
00:58:37.635 --> 00:58:40.994
Oh, that's in I put it in the wrong field. That's that's my error.

952
00:58:40.994 --> 00:58:43.795
It's supposed to go here, hit an access. Okay. Now it'll work.

953
00:58:43.795 --> 00:58:46.214
So if we come back here and we refresh the page,

954
00:58:46.650 --> 00:58:48.569
we can see here now it got rid of that one.

955
00:58:48.569 --> 00:58:51.710
I'm gonna just extend it, but we could see we can get it effectively onto

956
00:58:52.170 --> 00:58:55.770
kind of three lines. Maybe you just want your get member login and get listed.

957
00:58:55.770 --> 00:59:00.089
You know, we can even get rid of the Google Translate here, but what you can see is we've slimmed down,

958
00:59:01.805 --> 00:59:05.005
you know, your the real estate that you're that you're using on your site.

959
00:59:05.005 --> 00:59:06.525
So you get more I agree with you.

960
00:59:06.525 --> 00:59:10.605
It gives you more of that app like feel while you're on the go or on the phone. Yeah.

961
00:59:10.605 --> 00:59:17.360
So I I wanted to Since you're since we're talking about this whole all this geolocation stuff, I just had one little small one more question.

962
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:21.060
I know you got other stuff. It was just related to, like, the geolocation

963
00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:22.180
of the user.

964
00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:22.560
And,

965
00:59:23.680 --> 00:59:25.620
is there other ways that we can

966
00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:29.540
identify the the user's location to load content

967
00:59:30.115 --> 00:59:33.095
based upon where they're at from maybe IP address

968
00:59:33.395 --> 00:59:41.315
rather than, you know, the traditional pop up allow access to things, you know, to their locations or things we see then.

969
00:59:41.315 --> 00:59:44.215
Yeah. I saw what you were seeing. There is an advanced setting.

970
00:59:44.650 --> 00:59:47.070
Okay. I think it it was asking

971
00:59:47.690 --> 00:59:48.190
for

972
00:59:49.050 --> 00:59:49.550
permission.

973
00:59:49.850 --> 00:59:51.230
I think there's one,

974
00:59:52.090 --> 00:59:52.890
I wanna find

975
00:59:53.290 --> 00:59:57.790
let me find this for you. There's a setting where it will just automatically go ahead.

976
00:59:58.095 --> 00:59:59.715
I need to find this for you.

977
01:00:00.095 --> 01:00:05.155
Okay. Oh, here. Prompt visitor to share their location automatically on the page.

978
01:00:05.935 --> 01:00:08.835
So if you wanted to it's it's

979
01:00:09.215 --> 01:00:14.290
it's gonna it's basically a quicker way to do it. Browsers are requiring it for more security

980
01:00:14.830 --> 01:00:19.470
for sharing location and all that stuff. The the user has to give their permission. You have it,

981
01:00:20.270 --> 01:00:24.745
off, but you might wanna turn it on. That way right away, it will prompt them like, hey.

982
01:00:24.745 --> 01:00:25.725
Share your location.

983
01:00:26.345 --> 01:00:27.965
And what I would recommend

984
01:00:28.345 --> 01:00:28.845
is

985
01:00:29.545 --> 01:00:31.085
what a lot of people are doing

986
01:00:31.385 --> 01:00:32.605
is they're using

987
01:00:33.065 --> 01:00:37.005
let me go to this add on here, the global website search.

988
01:00:37.530 --> 01:00:40.990
So what it does is let's say the user comes to the home page,

989
01:00:42.010 --> 01:00:44.490
because your site has lots of different types of content.

990
01:00:44.490 --> 01:00:47.710
It has business listings and and all this other stuff probably.

991
01:00:48.330 --> 01:00:59.434
The global website search, put this on your home page and just it'll and then pre fill their location and then have them hit the search button and it'll find all the content on your site that's from that location.

992
01:00:59.654 --> 01:01:06.250
And then they can further get more granular onto your site, but that's like a that's just like the quick way without any customization

993
01:01:06.710 --> 01:01:07.930
to kinda give someone,

994
01:01:08.790 --> 01:01:14.970
access to your entire website of what might be in their region or for a specific keyword as well.

995
01:01:15.349 --> 01:01:15.849
Mhmm.

996
01:01:16.390 --> 01:01:16.890
Okay.

997
01:01:17.349 --> 01:01:23.445
Now do you want me to revert anything, that I did here, or do you wanna just keep it as it is? Yeah.

998
01:01:23.445 --> 01:01:25.125
You could you could leave it as is right now.

999
01:01:25.125 --> 01:01:30.165
I think when when people get to us on a mobile device, they already know they're using Citi by app.

1000
01:01:30.165 --> 01:01:30.325
So

1001
01:01:30.990 --> 01:01:31.490
Okay.

1002
01:01:32.190 --> 01:01:36.370
I would email the support. I don't know why your Favicon is not showing here.

1003
01:01:37.230 --> 01:01:40.910
I could probably check later for you, but, I'll check after the webinar.

1004
01:01:40.910 --> 01:01:46.225
I'll get that showing there for you. Okay. Cool. Awesome. Good chatting with you. Hey. Thank you.

1005
01:01:46.365 --> 01:01:49.825
Alright. Good stuff there. Let's see how we're doing on time here, guys.

1006
01:01:50.605 --> 01:01:54.625
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01:01:55.085 --> 01:01:57.665
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01:01:58.240 --> 01:02:00.420
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1009
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1010
01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:08.420
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1011
01:02:09.040 --> 01:02:10.560
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1012
01:02:10.560 --> 01:02:18.895
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1013
01:02:19.115 --> 01:02:21.994
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1014
01:02:21.994 --> 01:02:25.135
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1015
01:02:25.660 --> 01:02:31.600
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1016
01:02:32.140 --> 01:02:35.040
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1017
01:02:35.340 --> 01:02:40.224
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1018
01:02:40.224 --> 01:02:44.325
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1019
01:02:44.545 --> 01:02:46.405
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1020
01:02:46.464 --> 01:02:49.845
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1021
01:02:49.905 --> 01:02:54.380
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