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Alright, gang. Well, welcome again to another edition of Webinar Wednesday.

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Great to be with everyone here today.

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If this is your first time joining us and I do see a new few names out there, welcome.

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I am Jason there on the left.

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And as always, we're lucky to be joined by David Rockland, the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directories

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and so much more. David, thank you for taking the time to join us on this webinar. Hey, everybody.

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So glad to be back with you for another webinar after a couple weeks off.

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We've got a great tip of the week, feature that we've been teasing for a while now that's officially released.

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So really looking forward to this one here. Awesome. And we are streaming on YouTube live.

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I recommend subscribing to the Brilliant Directories YouTube channel. You can take a moment.

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Go to brilliantdirectories.com/youtube.

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It's a great way to get notified as soon as the webinar replays are available, tips of the week, feature tutorials, and more.

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And one of the best parts about streaming on YouTube Live is the replay is immediately available afterwards,

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and we'll post the link to that replay in the Facebook group.

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You can join us at brilliantdirectories.com/facebook.

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And I have to say that group's been popping recently.

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A lot of really good constructive conversations happening in there.

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So if you're not, a member of that group, all are welcome.

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I'm in there myself, so I look forward to seeing you in there.

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And also, if you have a Brilliant Directories site, download the free Brilliant Directories mobile app.

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You can get it on the App Store or Google Play. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/apple

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app or Google app and, download it to your phone or tablet.

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I have some links up here in the App Store.

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And it's a pretty simple app, but you can get notified and or stay up to date with your site as soon as you get a new member sign up, as soon as a new payment comes in, and we'll be adding more functionality

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in the future.

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So great way to stay up to date, with your BD site on the go, and it is a free app that everybody can download.

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And just a little bit about Webinar Wednesday for those of you joining us for the first time.

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I see, Biggie here. Biggie Fraley, nice to see you there.

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Webinar Wednesday is a great way for us to share some of the newer updates and features released into the platform.

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We're pushing new updates and fixes and and and things like that week after week.

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A lot of them are thanks to you guys, the BD community, for your suggestions and feedback and also finding and discovering things.

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So thank you for that.

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And we'll cover topics in webinar Wednesday about, like increasing website traffic, converting visitors to members, identifying revenue opportunities.

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Actually, today's tip of the week will is a hybrid that can kind of benefit some of all of these things that we're seeing on the list here.

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But if you have any questions on these topics or anything else about your BD site or membership site, please save them.

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We should have plenty of time today for a good q and a session, after the tip of the week.

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And just right before diving into the tip of the week, we have a few noteworthy updates to share with you guys.

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The first at the top of the list, I think this is super helpful, in your forms inbox, so, like, people who fill out your contact us form or subscribe to your newsletter,

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they all get saved in your, what's called, the forms inbox.

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People who fill out the forms and the submissions go there. You can create smart lists,

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so then you can email market to, like, all your newsletter subscribers and things like that.

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However, there was one little, thing that we needed to add.

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There's two different types of statuses for the inquiries.

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It's like a new inquiry, and when you're done looking at it, you can set it to archived.

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If you wanted to send email newsletters to, like, your newsletter list, you'd have to create a smart list for both the new and the archived

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statuses. Now you can just create one. I'll show you a quick,

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a a quick demo of where that is.

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If we go to our dashboard and the forms inbox,

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over here, it was it always starts on new inquiries, so you could see your newest inquiries first.

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And if you didn't know, you can sort or filter by the form, that was filled out.

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So as you add more custom forms on your site, maybe it's an application, a contest form, you can come here and simply,

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filter the inquiries based on the form that was submitted.

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So, here is the new, newsletter sign up form. And you can see here there's nothing here

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because it's not a new inquiry anymore.

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I have archived this one because I don't wanna see it in my main,

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inbox here.

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But what we have here is a new status called any status. This was missing, and this is what's new.

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So what you can do is set this to any status. So whether you've archived it or it's a new inquiry,

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and when it's any status, you just need to create one smart list

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for the form here, and that should take care of everything.

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You don't need to have two separate smart lists and then email both of the smart lists when you are sending an email,

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in the send newsletter section. So, just a little quality of life setting right there.

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If you guys are using these lists and these and and targeting people by forms,

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I would recommend maybe coming and reorganizing

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your smart list and just creating a smart list with any status,

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plus the, the form that you're looking to target that was filled out. Alright.

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This next one is, we've introduced stock photos, for posts and member profiles,

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in the last few months.

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Now you can enable stock photos for the profile

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cover image. For member profiles, the cover image is an add on, but now you can also enable

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members to choose from stock photos instead of having to upload their own photo.

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Of course, they can still continue to upload their own photo.

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So let me just take a quick step back, and I'll share a link to the add on, and then I'll show you where the settings are, because I know many of you have the VIP add ons club and might be already utilizing this on your site.

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So, this is the profile cover, photo add on. It lets the member,

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this is a crude image here, but it lets the member, add kinda like a a hero image

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above their profile that represents their brand or business.

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And what you can do now when you have this add on is go to your advanced settings,

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and it it's not enabled by default. So just search for stock search stock photos.

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And these are the, the FURLA editors.

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It's just basically enabling stock photos for certain types of actions.

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So if your members are able to upload profile cover photos, you've given them that privilege.

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from, the, the stock photo libraries that are available.

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We can go and do that together now that that's enabled.

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And I actually I think I did it as a sample on this side, but we can go through the most on this profile.

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imported business listing, and I went ahead. It's a pet it's pet adoption.

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and if we go to profile photo,

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and we can change their cover photo, And we'll see this here, stock photos up here.

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Of course, they can choose one. So we can just search for pets and, want a horizontal orientation.

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So this is a fun one here. We'll go ahead and download this kidneys here.

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And the member can further edit it however they seem to see fit.

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And, again, you can let your members know about this. They'll appreciate it.

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Sometimes it's hard for them to come up with something that represents their brand, but it's probably easier to just find, like, an image that represents what the brand stands for.

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So it might help them save a step instead of scouring the Internet themselves trying to find something for their profile hero section.

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So that is available now. And this is just a small update, the ShareASale affiliate tracking tool.

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If you're not using it, you don't need to worry about this one, but they had updated, their code base.

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They wanted to include, different tracking IDs. That's been updated within the BD system.

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So if you were using the ShareASale,

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affiliate tracking, it should continue to work as expected.

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This next one here is related to exporting data from your site.

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A few months ago, we created an option or we, we allowed the system to remember,

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the fields you wanted to export when you were exporting member data so you don't have to keep,

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selecting or check marking your preferred export fields.

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This same logic now works when you're exporting posts from your site.

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If you didn't know, you can export posts from your site just like you can export your members.

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Let me show you this here. If you go to manage posts,

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and it's based on the post type you're looking at. So, this was a demo site.

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So if we wanted to, for example, our blog articles,

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we could do so here.

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And it will remember the fields, that you want to export.

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So let's actually uncheck everything and just keep these. And I'll just do a quick export.

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Okay. Great. So now, if I pop this open again, I'll even refresh the page here.

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And if all goes well, it should remember,

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those fields. Let's go back to website blog articles,

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And we see here it's remembered that I really didn't have anything selected.

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So, just something simple. Again, another quality of life update.

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So if you're doing a lot of imports or exports of your data, this should help you get the type of, the the records that you need from that data.

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Are these next two here, the email filter that we're seeing and the auto bios, they are related to the instant business data tool that we recently released a few weeks ago.

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Now you can filter, for businesses that have an email address

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on file.

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I would say that we're gonna trust that those emails work, but this you know, there's gonna be, maybe some errors sometimes, but it is going to prioritize

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finding records that have an actual email address on file.

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And this next one here, I think, is even huger or bigger.

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The system is auto generating bios, utilizing the business's information for the imported records.

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they will have a unique blurb of content that's been humanized

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and generated for that listing.

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This will give those listings a higher chance in ranking in Google as opposed to being flagged as duplicate content because, basically, it's the same business data, you know, name, phone phone number, company, and things like that.

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There's nothing too unique on it.

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But with the humanized and auto generated bios, this should help with Google rankings and actually give those pages a fighting chance and some SEO meat for for Google to kinda bite on.

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So as opposed to just being flagged as duplicate content.

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So, that's released, and that's already part of the instant business data.

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We'll cover that in the tip of the week today.

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And then coming soon, we are introducing a new,

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stock photo library specifically for icons. I think I have them lined up here. Let me get this here.

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It's from, an integration called the Noun Project. So they have millions of icons.

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So if you're gonna create landing pages, I'll just put the word search.

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You can use this in your page designs and search.

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You'll have access to all their image icons that they have.

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And what I like about this, we're going to first release access to the stock photo library just like the other stock photo libraries,

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but they do allow for changing the color of the icon.

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So we're going to for this tool, when you're using it in a phase two, this isn't released yet at all, but it's coming soon.

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We're also going to enable the ability to choose the color of the icon just so you can match,

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what you're trying to do with your branding and what's happening on that specific page or if the icon's going against the darker or lighter background.

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So, this is pretty exciting and should help, expand

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our abilities to create, more rich, landing pages with some good, quality images, specifically icon images.

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So that's just a handful of updates, coming down the line or and also recently released.

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Why don't we take a pause here? I will lower everyone's hands.

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If you have a question or comment about,

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these new and upcoming features,

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We'd love to hear, your feedback or just some ideas you have or if you have any specific questions about these updates, and then we'll move on to the tip of the week.

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So, we'll just wait a moment and see if anyone has their hands up.

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And if not, we can, move forward with the tip of the week. Alright. We got good friend, Wilf, here.

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You know what? I just wanna say,

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you guys are lights out. You're it's just exciting and fantastic,

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all of the innovations

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that you continuously bring to the table. So I just wanted to say thank you for that.

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It's very exciting. Appreciate it.

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The specific question I have, and I and I know I don't wanna go too far down a rabbit hole here, but just so like recently, I'd like to start,

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offering an affiliate opportunity. And so I just wanted to ask, should I go and explore ShareASale?

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Is that the best way to set up affiliates with this site? And that's pretty much my question.

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I think there are some better,

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ShareASale was just for for, like, more from a a while ago. There was,

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fewer players, in the market as far as affiliate solutions. Now there are a lot more,

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and I think there were others that ShareASale seems to be very good also for, like, if you're selling physical products and goods.

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Also, if it could work for again, it has worked for, like, directory and membership websites as well.

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There are some other Post Affiliate Pro, is also good.

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It's called Post Affiliate Pro, and we are exploring a couple other native integrations,

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I think, with Tapfiliate.

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But you can explore affiliate programs, and I would go based on two things,

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simplicity,

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because you generally, we don't need things that are too complicated with with, regards to affiliate programs.

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We'd need, like, a nice referral system and reward system.

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So I would Google some some, for affiliate program software.

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Also, ask it in the Facebook group, Wolf.

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I have a few off the top of my head that I've been exploring and checking out.

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So simplicity and the second thing would be their pricing.

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You know, based on your the pricing of your website, some of these affiliate tools may may not make sense because they're too expensive.

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You're not even doing, like, that much revenue as an example to wanna use those more expensive affiliate programs.

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So you might wanna look for a more inexpensive

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or cheaper or ones that might have freemium models until you reach a certain threshold. So,

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this would be a good question to ask in the Facebook group, Wolf. Thank you. Alright.

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Good stuff there. I'll lower everyone's hands.

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We're gonna have plenty of time for some q and a in just a bit.

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We'll move on over to the tip of the week.

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And, yeah, this is it's gone through a little bit of a beta stage, the last month or so.

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And after some feedback, it's in a really solid place now.

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We have the instant business data surf service

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allowing you to find and import business listings to your, website.

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David, if it's alright, I can pass over the reins to you and kind of guide us through some of the available features and what this tool is really all about.

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Yeah. Absolutely. So as Jason mentioned, this tool has been out for a little bit now.

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We've been teasing it in the last couple webinars,

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but we feel that it's about time now to do a deep dive on the instant business data tool, kind of tell you what it's all about, show you actually how it works, how fast and easy it is to find businesses, import them into your website.

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So diving right in, what is the instant business data tool?

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It allows you to instantly populate your Brilliant Directories website with business listings.

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So in the UI for this, you can search for businesses based on a variety of criteria, but generally you're going to be selecting the business category,

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the location of these businesses, and then there's a few other criteria that we'll get into.

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And again, we'll show you in practice in a demo in just a few minutes here.

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more naturally sounding,

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for these imported business listings. So it's not just thin content pages. It doesn't just include,

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the business name, some of their contact information, and that's it.

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for existing websites, new websites, it works great with the claimable business listings

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add on as

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on your website.

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And And then one additional benefit, because there's a lot of data providers out there where you can buy a list of business contact information from.

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this has an enormous cost saving.

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It's really not even comparable to, what you would find with some of the other online data providers.

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settings with this, which again, we'll get into, is you can choose to only find business listings, business records that have been updated within the past thirty days.

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that you're getting from the instant business data tool is as up to date as possible.

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It's like a one and done kind of thing because you can search.

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Also, some of the data providers, they make you sign these weird contracts and stuff because as we were going trying to find, sources, we encountered that

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ourselves. Yeah. That's a great point with the time savings.

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Really, it's just a few quick steps. We'll go into, these steps in, just a minute here.

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I believe it's the next slide, actually.

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But you'll see really how quick and easy it is to find these businesses and get the listings imported directly into your website.

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But first, going over to some of the more common use cases.

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the instant business data tool would best be used for these scenarios.

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So the first one, like we mentioned, populating a website, whether it's a new or existing BD website, you can quickly fill your site with those business listings, helping to make it appear a little bit more established

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and seasoned so that when users conduct a search on your website, they're more likely to be presented with search results rather than empty search result pages.

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Also, like I mentioned, claimable business listings, you can use this with the claimable business listings add on so you can pre populate your website with listings that you find, in the instant business data tool.

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maybe add photos, publish some content, upsell them to a paid membership plan potentially.

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potential business leads by searching

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business categories and locations. And then you can reach out to those businesses for

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partnerships or sales opportunities or for whatever other purpose

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you might have in mind. And then the last thing here is exporting

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this business data for other uses.

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maybe marketing platform or any other platform,

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utilizing this tool and then export that list and then import it, say, into a marketing,

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to really create some more dedicated, more in-depth marketing campaigns,

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for whatever your specific purpose might be. And so here's really how it works.

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It's actually a lot simpler than this slide makes it seem, which is already pretty simple, but it's really just two steps.

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you select the location of the businesses, and this doesn't just have to be in The United States.

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an email address, a phone number and or a website URL for the business.

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And then as I mentioned, there's also an option to select whether or not these, business records were updated within the last thirty days or not.

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So once you do that, you'll be presented with a number of business records that match your research criteria,

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and then you can select to import them. And there's a few settings that go along,

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set a status for them. If these, members, these businesses will be active or inactive.

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just to keep better track of them in the back end in the admin area.

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And that's really it. After that, you just click the import button and it's all done for you.

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After that, you click the button, the businesses automatically get imported into your website, the listings get created, as well as that more humanized, natural sounding AI generated bio for these businesses.

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you know, our sales team chats with a lot of people interested in starting directories.

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Or, you know, do I have to add data so my site looks seasoned before I start marketing my members?

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So now you can kinda hit the ground running. You you don't need 10,000,000

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You just need enough to, in my opinion, make the site feel that it's established, it's seasoned.

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And I'll show you some tips and strategies on how to achieve that beyond,

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just the importing the listings here.

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And and what you said, David, that this should just be two steps.

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It reminds me of, like, a instant cup of coffee.

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Step three should just be sip and enjoy.

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works. I have shared a link,

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to that. And just because you guys are on the webinar as well,

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this month,

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we're dropping just because it's like the big grand,

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grand reveal of this now.

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or whatever you need. It'll drop whatever the prices are in half.

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half. So I shared that link there.

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So let's do this. Let's see this tool in action.

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And where you'll find this tool, and I know some of you are already familiar with this, as you go to the business data link under my members.

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And, again, up here,

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you know, again, we're dealing with data, aggregated data.

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some inaccuracies

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and things like that. But for the most part, it is striving, and finding accurate data.

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So over here when you get to this page, you have your filters here, and there's over 4,000

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categories that you can search business data with.

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And the more preferred attributes we see down here, that you want, to for the system to try to include, it'll find a smaller sample.

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you can uncheck these and not require these preferred attributes, and it will find

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more business records. So show you an example of what that looks like.

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that should be one here.

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a restaurant might also be a coffee shop, but it might not be its primary category.

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It's everything is still on point. But if we search for coffee shop with the primary category

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Primary category. We'll just search all of The United States.

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with the primary category as coffee shop. If we go to related, we're gonna see more results.

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the system to include, we should see even more results. Now we have 95,000

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you know, the updated, you know, in the last thirty days and all that stuff is not that important.

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of the records have been updated in the last thirty days. And updated means they may have come back.

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something small. So just means that they logged in to make an adjustment.

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But let's see this in action now. Let's also do one more thing.

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So there's 89 coffee shops in Los Angeles where we have the an email address, phone number, website URL.

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searches that I wanna do. So let's just import five right now.

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And these are the settings David was sharing. We can assign them a membership plan.

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Their status, if they're gonna be active or not active, maybe for some reason we wanna add them but not have them found publicly on the site just yet.

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attributing a internal tag for them.

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In this case, I'll just create a new top level category.

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And we'll go ahead. It's gonna ask us to confirm the import.

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And it's gonna take time, especially with larger volumes. It's it's relatively quick.

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But once it starts the import, it's going to scour and look for logos.

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your site. So let's just give this a second. And you can also close this page.

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It'll continue working. So if you have, like, 25,000

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I know that it did get most of them already even though it shows that they're in queue.

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Great. This is processing.

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Looks like it's processing for the logo still. Yep. It's finding the logos. Okay.

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It said task complete. Let me hard refresh this page here.

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Okay. Great. So, it got some it wasn't able to get some profile photos here. That's okay, though.

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Paris Baggette. So it's created a listing for it. Let's go to view profile,

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this is now a coffee shop in Los Angeles.

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You have it on your site, and it's created this really nice bio using the information that was available.

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And, yeah, this should have a stronger chance of ranking,

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It also funny enough, it it, counted McDonald's and, I guess, McCafe.

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It counted that as a coffee shop, but, this is just one example here.

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Now to take this to the next level and I'm actually gonna do a category I like searching as pets.

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So if you're gonna do let's do this together here.

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You type in pet.

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moving services.

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And if you were gonna do this in one region, like or a state like California, you can basically have your directory set up and seasoned,

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let's just look at, pet care services.

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Let's actually open it up to not Los Angeles City. Let me put The United States here. Okay.

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Four twenty found here. I'm gonna import five of these,

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and I'm gonna show you what I'd like to do with these to kind of as you're adding them to your site.

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So let's add them to membership plan one. We'll create a top level category if it doesn't exist.

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and I'm gonna edit membership plan one.

428
00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:35.799
And there is the add on to highlight members in the search results.

429
00:30:35.835 --> 00:30:38.174
So we can go to search visibility here.

430
00:30:38.635 --> 00:30:43.215
And I'm gonna wanna highlight these members, and I want the text to say featured

431
00:30:43.595 --> 00:30:47.534
with this with this green text here. And we'll hit save changes.

432
00:30:50.670 --> 00:30:53.330
Let's see if this import is just about done. And

433
00:30:55.870 --> 00:30:59.090
I'm gonna look at this this round of pet adoption services.

434
00:30:59.390 --> 00:31:01.090
And what I'm gonna do is

435
00:31:01.710 --> 00:31:03.170
add the next round,

436
00:31:03.805 --> 00:31:07.185
to membership plan two without the featured badge.

437
00:31:08.045 --> 00:31:12.545
So here we have this one got the profile image, created a blurb of text here.

438
00:31:12.685 --> 00:31:15.025
And if we go to pet adoption services,

439
00:31:15.325 --> 00:31:17.585
we can see here these guys are featured.

440
00:31:18.980 --> 00:31:21.480
These are some other ones that I imported before.

441
00:31:22.020 --> 00:31:28.120
But what you can do is you can import five of them to your highest tiered plan or so and give them this badge.

442
00:31:28.500 --> 00:31:31.560
But then come back here and do the exact same search,

443
00:31:33.145 --> 00:31:34.924
you know, import another five,

444
00:31:36.585 --> 00:31:41.165
and assign them to another membership plan like membership plan two that may not have

445
00:31:41.625 --> 00:31:44.845
that badge on them. So adding this variation

446
00:31:45.145 --> 00:31:46.125
to your site,

447
00:31:46.745 --> 00:31:49.670
can help show that it's not just imported list.

448
00:31:49.670 --> 00:31:58.070
There's something there's something unique or different happening on the site because some of the members are appear to be featured on your site.

449
00:31:58.070 --> 00:32:00.410
So, we can let it import this.

450
00:32:01.375 --> 00:32:06.035
And this was just from a previous import I did. But if I refresh this page now

451
00:32:08.174 --> 00:32:12.015
and there's a ton of feature. But we see here, these are the ones that are not featured here.

452
00:32:12.015 --> 00:32:23.490
So if you just had featured, like, three or four of them, so they stay bubbled at the top, and then the rest of them were, like, membership plan two, and they were claimable listings, you know, claim this listing and things like that.

453
00:32:23.630 --> 00:32:28.370
Now you or and make some of them not claimable listing or, you know, just add some variation

454
00:32:29.125 --> 00:32:31.465
as you're importing batches of listings.

455
00:32:32.005 --> 00:32:37.924
It can make it seem more than you've just added data to your site. We're gonna check out that.

456
00:32:37.924 --> 00:32:39.445
I just got some messages from my team.

457
00:32:39.445 --> 00:32:44.085
They're looking into that city search, issue that we saw here. Always on the webinars. It's great.

458
00:32:44.085 --> 00:32:44.700
It's fine.

459
00:32:45.260 --> 00:32:49.120
But, David, am I missing anything else here that I should mention about this tool for now?

460
00:32:50.059 --> 00:32:51.580
I think so far, it's great.

461
00:32:51.580 --> 00:32:59.200
But if people use this tool and they use up all 100 of the free credits, how would you go about adding additional credits?

462
00:32:59.915 --> 00:33:00.415
Gotcha.

463
00:33:00.875 --> 00:33:01.934
Okay. So

464
00:33:02.235 --> 00:33:05.855
yeah. You can click this button here to add import credits.

465
00:33:06.155 --> 00:33:08.415
You'll be presented with, the options,

466
00:33:08.955 --> 00:33:09.775
to do so.

467
00:33:10.235 --> 00:33:13.320
And then, again, you just follow it here. But don't just do that.

468
00:33:13.320 --> 00:33:15.500
Like, here, if you're gonna do the 10,000 records,

469
00:33:16.760 --> 00:33:21.100
let's go. What was the promo? Get credits. You can use the promo code get credits.

470
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:23.960
And it literally just takes off 50% here for the month.

471
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:28.315
So if you want you know, if you're thinking about doing this for your site, I think, like, 5,000 is plenty,

472
00:33:28.615 --> 00:33:31.915
especially for a local site or a site in a specific niche.

473
00:33:32.535 --> 00:33:34.395
And, again, it's gonna help with your SEO.

474
00:33:34.615 --> 00:33:37.995
It's gonna help with visitors coming to your site and having a better experience.

475
00:33:38.535 --> 00:33:47.279
And when you show the site off to people, you know, you can have more diverse categories actually filled with members rather than waiting for members to come and join your site,

476
00:33:47.659 --> 00:33:52.559
manually, which is the second part of this is once it's seasoned, then you could start your marketing.

477
00:33:52.860 --> 00:33:57.505
And like I said, you can show people you know, we have Adonis Peck Grooming is featured.

478
00:33:57.505 --> 00:34:02.005
You should be featured when you're doing your real marketing to real people out in the world.

479
00:34:02.705 --> 00:34:06.965
So those are just some tips there for you. Anything else we should cover here, David?

480
00:34:07.025 --> 00:34:09.815
I think that covers it. It's really a well rounded tool.

481
00:34:09.815 --> 00:34:15.380
It makes it super easy to add data to your website, make it look a little bit more established.

482
00:34:15.380 --> 00:34:22.420
I think that was a great tip of featuring a handful of them, even if maybe they you've already reached out to them, they haven't responded yet.

483
00:34:22.420 --> 00:34:31.025
Still featuring them is just another thing that makes, makes this and makes your website look like it's a little more active than it might actually be.

484
00:34:31.085 --> 00:34:36.770
I agree. I agree. So, yep, with that, what we can do is move on to the q and a session.

485
00:34:37.469 --> 00:34:38.110
Let me see.

486
00:34:38.110 --> 00:34:41.790
You can raise your hands if you wanna ask questions about anything we covered here today.

487
00:34:41.790 --> 00:34:47.710
Or if you need some help with your site, we can always do the five minute test, three minute test, and see if we can help you out here.

488
00:34:47.710 --> 00:34:50.770
Alright. We have our good friend, Arlana. Let me unmute you there.

489
00:34:51.074 --> 00:34:54.214
Alright. That is amazing. I I think that's fantastic

490
00:34:54.594 --> 00:35:00.755
for getting a really strong foundation for the site. That's amazing. Thank you for that. Of course.

491
00:35:00.755 --> 00:35:01.734
I agree as well.

492
00:35:02.755 --> 00:35:07.309
My question is about something that you showed there, and that is the the featured

493
00:35:07.609 --> 00:35:08.109
banner

494
00:35:08.809 --> 00:35:14.410
on them. I don't know that I've ever used that before or how to access it. Got it.

495
00:35:14.410 --> 00:35:17.895
So it's one of the add ons. If you have the VIP add ons club, you have it.

496
00:35:18.055 --> 00:35:20.055
It's a very simple tool, not too fancy.

497
00:35:20.055 --> 00:35:25.335
It's highlight member results, and it's based on the membership plan that a member is part of.

498
00:35:25.575 --> 00:35:31.380
I just shared a link there, and I'll just go back to the settings here to show you, kind of how it works once you have it.

499
00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:36.119
So, you know, if you have your highest tiered plans, you wanna maybe give them a special badge.

500
00:35:36.420 --> 00:35:40.759
So search visibility, it's gonna be under membership plans, search visibility.

501
00:35:40.819 --> 00:35:45.700
And if you scroll down, you have this little module here, and you can turn it on or off.

502
00:35:45.700 --> 00:35:50.994
You can choose the color you want the border to be so you can match, you know, the branding or colors of your website.

503
00:35:51.135 --> 00:35:54.255
Also, the text color, if you want. And then you can change the text.

504
00:35:54.255 --> 00:35:56.755
So you can do things like, you know, verified

505
00:35:57.295 --> 00:35:57.795
or

506
00:35:58.655 --> 00:35:59.155
trusted

507
00:36:00.015 --> 00:36:00.515
or,

508
00:36:01.135 --> 00:36:01.795
you know,

509
00:36:02.210 --> 00:36:08.470
responds quick, you know, whatever it might responds fast, whatever whatever whatever fits in this in this space here.

510
00:36:08.690 --> 00:36:14.390
Another thing you can do if you have more text because this when you do this kinda like sash here, it's it's kinda limited.

511
00:36:14.605 --> 00:36:18.465
You can also put the text above the photo, and that does allow for,

512
00:36:19.805 --> 00:36:21.245
you know, more text.

513
00:36:21.245 --> 00:36:26.145
You know, I'll just suggest if they're just sponsored, if they're just paying to be featured at the top, you can say sponsored,

514
00:36:27.839 --> 00:36:29.920
and things like that. So, really, it's up to you.

515
00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:35.619
You can even also just do without the text and just put, like, a a highlight banner just so they stand out a bit more,

516
00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:37.380
from the rest of the results.

517
00:36:38.160 --> 00:36:47.105
And then lastly, yeah, you can put, like, a border radius if you want it to be kinda a little rounded there and also the border width if you want it to, you know, be a little beefier as well.

518
00:36:47.105 --> 00:36:50.884
So just a way to give them a little bit more attention in your search results.

519
00:36:51.424 --> 00:36:54.039
Yeah. I I think that's awesome. It really does stand out.

520
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:58.599
I know I was using before the verified listing thing, which I really think is,

521
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:04.039
you know, that's important when, people are looking for that they're qualified leads. Right?

522
00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:07.734
And, I think that's Right. Yeah. That really stands out. So yeah.

523
00:37:07.734 --> 00:37:09.895
That I shared a link with you there. I agree with you.

524
00:37:09.895 --> 00:37:15.835
And it's a nice touch, and it's something you can offer to your higher tiered members or perhaps it's just the special

525
00:37:16.135 --> 00:37:18.795
membership plan that they have to, like, pay for the month.

526
00:37:18.855 --> 00:37:26.840
And it's like you only do one spot per category or something, so you can create, like, a limited supply kind of thing and then charge accordingly for that.

527
00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:31.260
So you would link it to, the a membership level or Correct. Individually?

528
00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:36.915
It would be linked to a membership plan. So that all the members of that plan would have this. Yeah.

529
00:37:37.135 --> 00:37:42.435
And so if you want to change what it said at the top, that would be also within that plan.

530
00:37:42.494 --> 00:37:48.275
Otherwise, these would all be able to be verified members, or can you do those individually once they're in this highlighted?

531
00:37:48.815 --> 00:37:51.750
Right now, it would just be for the but that's a good suggestion.

532
00:37:51.750 --> 00:37:54.890
It would be for the group of mem for the entire group of members.

533
00:37:55.590 --> 00:38:01.770
So you could do you could just call out their their plan, like silver silver member or whatever your membership plan is.

534
00:38:01.990 --> 00:38:03.770
And just the fact that they're highlighted,

535
00:38:04.070 --> 00:38:06.125
you know, should should get more attention.

536
00:38:06.185 --> 00:38:12.185
When when visitors are searching, they're usually gonna click on those those at the top there or what they what's standing out the most.

537
00:38:12.185 --> 00:38:12.345
Yeah.

538
00:38:12.345 --> 00:38:20.205
I was just thinking with the featured member, if they're not gonna stay a featured member month to month to month, then you've gotta switch them around to a to a different plan.

539
00:38:20.420 --> 00:38:21.220
You you would.

540
00:38:21.220 --> 00:38:26.520
So that if if you're gonna be offering it, like, as a premium service or, like, a onetime monthly boost,

541
00:38:26.900 --> 00:38:34.665
you know, you would you would collect their payment probably with the digital products and services tool, and then you can, you know, you can shuffle them around as needed.

542
00:38:34.665 --> 00:38:38.265
Yeah. But I I hear what you're saying. That's a good suggestion. Let me make a note of that.

543
00:38:38.265 --> 00:38:43.085
So I think at least the ability because we we we could do that. Ability

544
00:38:43.625 --> 00:38:44.365
to customize

545
00:38:44.825 --> 00:38:45.645
the featured,

546
00:38:46.665 --> 00:38:47.130
text

547
00:38:47.930 --> 00:38:48.670
per member

548
00:38:48.970 --> 00:38:52.349
when they have this enabled for the membership plan. I got you.

549
00:38:52.650 --> 00:38:57.529
Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. Great question and great suggestion there too.

550
00:38:57.529 --> 00:38:58.170
I like that one.

551
00:38:58.170 --> 00:39:04.525
You know, one thing I think we might have overlooked, we got a question from Ken over on YouTube asking if the business,

552
00:39:04.985 --> 00:39:11.085
data, the instant business data tool is already available in the admin area. It is. If you go to

553
00:39:11.465 --> 00:39:13.790
my members and then business data,

554
00:39:14.090 --> 00:39:17.850
that's where you can find this tool in your website's admin area. Correct.

555
00:39:17.850 --> 00:39:20.330
That'll be under my members. It's the last link here.

556
00:39:20.330 --> 00:39:23.630
There's a little star next to it, and it says business data here.

557
00:39:23.930 --> 00:39:27.950
Alright. I see a new name here. Biggie is the name. Let me unmute your mic. Biggie?

558
00:39:29.265 --> 00:39:30.785
Just a few quick questions.

559
00:39:30.785 --> 00:39:36.145
I'm still, brand new to Brilliant Directory, and I hope I got approved in the Facebook group.

560
00:39:36.145 --> 00:39:37.605
I haven't checked back yet.

561
00:39:37.905 --> 00:39:43.540
You know, on your website, Brilliant Directories, you have these different themes that one can demo.

562
00:39:43.600 --> 00:39:49.540
And I really like the all in one. But within the software, the admin panel, if you will,

563
00:39:50.160 --> 00:39:53.760
there isn't actually where I can apply a theme. Right?

564
00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:57.700
I found the color settings that I can change for the site.

565
00:39:58.355 --> 00:39:59.494
But if you feel like

566
00:39:59.795 --> 00:40:03.255
Yeah. There there is. Allow me to show you. So under design settings

567
00:40:03.714 --> 00:40:05.815
so if you go to the home page

568
00:40:06.115 --> 00:40:09.655
tab, it's a little buried up here because it's not something, you would change

569
00:40:10.220 --> 00:40:12.799
quite often after you've established it the first time.

570
00:40:12.940 --> 00:40:16.079
But the last module is change homepage theme,

571
00:40:16.380 --> 00:40:21.440
and you can so if you need to change the starting point of of the or the focus of your site,

572
00:40:21.819 --> 00:40:26.464
you can do so down here. And, you can click the all in one, click activate.

573
00:40:26.684 --> 00:40:29.724
And then if you want just the home page look, you can do that.

574
00:40:29.724 --> 00:40:35.585
If you also want that main menu that you're seeing, because sometimes people spend a lot of time customizing their main menu already.

575
00:40:35.805 --> 00:40:38.400
So that's why it's a secondary option here if you wanna,

576
00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:40.640
update the main menu as well.

577
00:40:40.640 --> 00:40:46.500
So just if you really want the the whole enchilada of one of those themes, just checkbox both of these here.

578
00:40:47.359 --> 00:40:53.059
And I can still take over the main menu, but then go in and just, like, remove the coupon.

579
00:40:53.605 --> 00:40:59.525
Right? Yes. Yes. You can further modify it. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Starting with that menu.

580
00:40:59.525 --> 00:41:02.745
That is fantastic. Yeah. I totally overlooked that option.

581
00:41:03.205 --> 00:41:04.985
So that's super helpful.

582
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:06.560
Thank you.

583
00:41:07.120 --> 00:41:19.540
Another quickie, speaking of the home page, again, I haven't really looked, but I assume I can fully customize it as to where I could put in my own custom code sections or blocks

584
00:41:19.875 --> 00:41:22.615
while still utilizing, you know, Brilliant directory

585
00:41:23.395 --> 00:41:28.455
modules or content blocks, whatever you may call them, on the home page. Is that correct?

586
00:41:28.755 --> 00:41:34.935
Yes. What I would recommend doing in that case is, in the home page tab here, additional sections.

587
00:41:35.349 --> 00:41:39.849
And you can have you can stream different sections, you know, cascaded down your homepage.

588
00:41:40.230 --> 00:41:42.569
And I'll just add a quick section here.

589
00:41:42.630 --> 00:41:46.490
And what you can do is there are 10 options for custom content.

590
00:41:46.630 --> 00:41:51.185
So this can be any type of code or whatever you want to have in this order.

591
00:41:51.185 --> 00:41:57.445
So you can chain you can drag and drop the orders of these if you wanted this to be at the top, or you can remove whatever you don't want.

592
00:41:57.505 --> 00:41:59.205
But when you click on edit settings,

593
00:41:59.745 --> 00:42:02.325
effectively, you get the add the text editor.

594
00:42:02.785 --> 00:42:06.005
You can use your own code. You can use our premade blocks,

595
00:42:06.710 --> 00:42:11.450
and you can basically have custom code on your home page, whatever you need.

596
00:42:12.789 --> 00:42:17.849
That is perfect. Everything I would dream of. Now you just said it has up to 10,

597
00:42:18.789 --> 00:42:20.410
content section. Is that

598
00:42:20.925 --> 00:42:24.385
10 possible ones for the homepage or 10

599
00:42:24.765 --> 00:42:25.585
site wide?

600
00:42:26.685 --> 00:42:29.965
This that's just for streaming down the homepage in addition to the

601
00:42:30.765 --> 00:42:31.165
Well

602
00:42:31.645 --> 00:42:35.040
And 10 is a lot, actually, because if you're gonna have that many, you you could

603
00:42:37.040 --> 00:42:40.260
just put all the content into one and just make it a one one big long one. But if you need to

604
00:42:40.640 --> 00:42:52.615
if you need to split up, like, the default ones and then add a custom one and then another default one that we offer, like streaming your blog articles, then a custom one, It should be 10 should suffice, plenty that from what we've seen.

605
00:42:52.755 --> 00:42:53.815
That is amazing.

606
00:42:54.355 --> 00:42:55.175
Thank you.

607
00:42:55.635 --> 00:43:00.435
Okay. And then I think the last one I'm probably gonna take to the Facebook group.

608
00:43:00.435 --> 00:43:06.710
I'm expecting some content on that there, but I'm just gonna, ask you real quick, and I don't think there's a quick answer.

609
00:43:06.710 --> 00:43:10.010
But if I want to really lean heavy on

610
00:43:10.310 --> 00:43:12.970
blogging and SEO for traffic generation,

611
00:43:13.430 --> 00:43:18.464
are there a lot of people that have actually rather use WordPress on a subdomain

612
00:43:19.005 --> 00:43:20.865
and kind of link the two,

613
00:43:21.165 --> 00:43:23.665
or what's your experience and recommendation?

614
00:43:24.765 --> 00:43:29.744
So with SEO, a lot of it the the the huge underlying thing first is,

615
00:43:30.204 --> 00:43:32.160
how seasoned the domain is.

616
00:43:32.240 --> 00:43:38.339
If you're connecting a fresh domain, you're really starting with a blank slate, and it does take some months.

617
00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:40.240
And this is good advice for everyone.

618
00:43:40.240 --> 00:43:48.194
So I always recommend connecting your domain name as quickly as possible and just put a few keywords on your homepage while you're trying to figure out the rest of your project.

619
00:43:48.575 --> 00:43:55.555
Because it takes about three to six months before Google starts trusting your site and establishing your site in their indexes.

620
00:43:56.095 --> 00:44:00.994
So the sooner we can get that ball rolling, the sooner your s your your SEO journey,

621
00:44:01.730 --> 00:44:04.950
is going to begin to start ranking your site in Google.

622
00:44:05.410 --> 00:44:10.950
And Google does put a lot of weight on the amount of time a domain has been online.

623
00:44:11.970 --> 00:44:15.109
It just they just trust those domains a lot more.

624
00:44:15.695 --> 00:44:21.395
So to your question about should you use a subdomain for the blog and and keep the directory separate?

625
00:44:21.695 --> 00:44:24.815
If you're starting fresh, you could have them both on the same.

626
00:44:25.055 --> 00:44:28.950
If you have an established blog, I would keep it like a WordPress blog.

627
00:44:29.030 --> 00:44:33.050
I'd keep that and run your directory site separately and just interlink

628
00:44:33.589 --> 00:44:38.070
to each other because I wouldn't change your blog. You don't wanna lose existing traffic.

629
00:44:38.070 --> 00:44:39.849
It's very dicey and very risky,

630
00:44:40.470 --> 00:44:42.650
to change an existing website.

631
00:44:43.605 --> 00:44:48.345
So that that would just be my my tips some of my tips for those. So thank you for those questions.

632
00:44:48.805 --> 00:44:53.705
Alright. Let's go all the way to New Zealand to our friend, Colette, here. How you doing, Colette?

633
00:44:53.925 --> 00:44:58.425
Hi, Jason. How are you? Good. Good. Thanks for joining us today. Good. No worries.

634
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:00.140
I've got a couple of quick questions.

635
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:02.700
The first one is about the credits.

636
00:45:03.240 --> 00:45:08.700
I like the idea of finding more businesses, but I do have quite a well established website already.

637
00:45:09.160 --> 00:45:14.694
So if I did do that, what I'd ideally like is to have these businesses

638
00:45:15.154 --> 00:45:18.615
separate where I could send an email with a URL

639
00:45:19.234 --> 00:45:23.394
link to what their profile would look like, and then they can claim that or something.

640
00:45:23.394 --> 00:45:25.650
So not necessarily searchable or not,

641
00:45:26.289 --> 00:45:29.809
on the site already. Is there a way of doing that? Yeah.

642
00:45:29.809 --> 00:45:34.549
You could do a couple things with the settings. Let's go to membership plan settings together.

643
00:45:34.609 --> 00:45:37.665
And I'm gonna share something else with you as well right after I do this.

644
00:45:37.665 --> 00:45:40.385
So let's say we set up one of these listings.

645
00:45:40.385 --> 00:45:43.265
So we're going to want to do two things just as a mock up here.

646
00:45:43.265 --> 00:45:46.005
So you're going to want to set the account type to claim listing.

647
00:45:46.625 --> 00:45:48.965
And what we can do under search visibility,

648
00:45:49.985 --> 00:45:54.680
you could do, are these members searchable on the website? And you can say no.

649
00:45:55.060 --> 00:45:57.700
And this will just exclude them from the search results.

650
00:45:57.700 --> 00:46:00.680
They will still have a profile page on the site.

651
00:46:01.060 --> 00:46:04.340
So the profile page will exist, but they won't be found in the search results.

652
00:46:04.340 --> 00:46:06.200
So that takes care of your first issue.

653
00:46:06.625 --> 00:46:12.725
The second thing I would do is, if you wanted to take it a step further, is hide the profile page from search engines.

654
00:46:12.865 --> 00:46:19.605
Basically, this is gonna tell Bing and Google not to index the profile pages so they won't be found in Google search results,

655
00:46:20.210 --> 00:46:22.869
only if you go to the profile page directly.

656
00:46:23.010 --> 00:46:27.510
So, basically, the only way to find it is if you know the direct link to that profile.

657
00:46:28.130 --> 00:46:32.115
So there's a low chance that they're gonna be found by visitors or by Google.

658
00:46:32.675 --> 00:46:34.615
And once these two things are set,

659
00:46:35.475 --> 00:46:38.935
not searchable on the website and hide from profile pages,

660
00:46:39.235 --> 00:46:42.855
when you're going to send your email to them and we'll go to

661
00:46:43.795 --> 00:46:47.250
email templates here. So you're I mean, you're going to send a newsletter to them.

662
00:46:47.330 --> 00:46:51.590
I have a couple templates that you can use, Colette. Let me go to the brewing directories website.

663
00:46:53.010 --> 00:46:55.910
And I'll share this link, nameable listings.

664
00:46:57.330 --> 00:46:59.750
And we have one. Here's the invite email.

665
00:47:00.155 --> 00:47:06.335
So here is like, hey. We've added you to our site. Why don't you, you know, join officially?

666
00:47:06.635 --> 00:47:12.175
And here we have exactly if you copied this into the email template, Colette, this is the variable.

667
00:47:12.315 --> 00:47:16.860
So when like, you know, hello first name and then, you know, this is the link you click on.

668
00:47:16.860 --> 00:47:21.500
So this will link them directly to the listing here. Let me share this article with you.

669
00:47:21.500 --> 00:47:25.040
And I think there's four sample email templates, you know,

670
00:47:25.420 --> 00:47:28.555
you know, to to to encourage them to claim the listing.

671
00:47:28.555 --> 00:47:32.255
But you can choose any angle you want, you know, when you're reaching out to these businesses.

672
00:47:32.315 --> 00:47:34.555
But I just shared this, this,

673
00:47:35.035 --> 00:47:36.575
with you in the chat there.

674
00:47:37.515 --> 00:47:38.015
Awesome.

675
00:47:38.635 --> 00:47:43.250
Thank you. That's that's perfect. That would be exactly what I'd want. Alright. Perfect.

676
00:47:43.250 --> 00:47:44.310
Great question there.

677
00:47:44.770 --> 00:47:46.290
And one other quick question.

678
00:47:46.290 --> 00:47:51.270
The cover photo for member's profile, is there an option to hide it on mobile?

679
00:47:51.890 --> 00:47:54.950
Is there an option to hide it on mobile?

680
00:47:55.855 --> 00:48:00.515
I don't think so, but that would be good. I'm all about mobile speed stuff. So,

681
00:48:01.695 --> 00:48:03.075
option to hide.

682
00:48:03.935 --> 00:48:08.355
Hover photo on. That would be an advanced setting because it would just be a site wide thing.

683
00:48:08.930 --> 00:48:11.810
A referral on mobile devices. I'll make a note of that.

684
00:48:12.290 --> 00:48:14.230
If you wanted to do that right now,

685
00:48:14.770 --> 00:48:16.690
ask it in the Facebook group if you'd like.

686
00:48:16.690 --> 00:48:22.610
I can give you a snippet of code that will that will do that for you, in the meantime, if you're interested in doing that.

687
00:48:22.610 --> 00:48:26.265
Perfect. Thanks very much, Jason. You're welcome. Thank you. Good questions.

688
00:48:26.725 --> 00:48:29.685
Alright. We got Bill here. Let me unmute you here, Bill. Hey, Jason.

689
00:48:30.005 --> 00:48:32.565
Thanks for taking my call or taking my message here.

690
00:48:32.565 --> 00:48:36.805
But I have a I have more of a I need your input or, like, a fresh set of eyes on Yeah.

691
00:48:36.965 --> 00:48:41.819
On my on my directory. So I have just a little context. It's a chiropractic directory.

692
00:48:41.819 --> 00:48:44.000
I offer a free level now for a paid level.

693
00:48:44.460 --> 00:48:49.740
The free level doesn't give a whole lot of contact information for the viewer that's looking for a doctor.

694
00:48:49.740 --> 00:48:55.535
And then the level two has got a lot of bells and whistles, a lot of touch points for visitors connect with that doctor.

695
00:48:55.675 --> 00:49:02.974
So I'm hoping you can look at it and maybe give me some ideas of how to make the level two even better so I can move

696
00:49:03.515 --> 00:49:08.640
the I have a thousand people on my directory and I've got 200 that are paying me and 800 that are not.

697
00:49:08.640 --> 00:49:10.799
I want to move them to that next level.

698
00:49:10.799 --> 00:49:15.080
So, I'm hoping you guys can look at it and maybe make some suggestions or recommendations. Joshua L.

699
00:49:15.080 --> 00:49:17.420
(zero twenty seven:thirty seven): Sure. Yeah. What's the site name? Joshua L.

700
00:49:17.420 --> 00:49:20.019
(zero twenty seven:thirty seven): It's uppercervicalcare.com.

701
00:49:20.765 --> 00:49:22.785
If you go there, if you do a search for

702
00:49:24.365 --> 00:49:28.685
Pompano Beach, Florida, that'll kind of show you the two levels of,

703
00:49:29.805 --> 00:49:30.305
membership.

704
00:49:31.565 --> 00:49:32.545
Doctor. All right.

705
00:49:34.700 --> 00:49:36.640
Spell that city name for me, Pompano.

706
00:49:37.099 --> 00:49:37.599
Pompano

707
00:49:39.420 --> 00:49:42.880
Beach, Florida. Doctor. Got it. All right. All right. So,

708
00:49:43.420 --> 00:49:45.740
I've only got three doctors there.

709
00:49:45.740 --> 00:49:51.905
So, when they come up These top two guys, they're paid levels, and the third one is a free level.

710
00:49:52.444 --> 00:49:54.065
Actually, keep going down. So

711
00:49:55.645 --> 00:49:57.744
yeah. Okay. So if you go to Michael Cohen,

712
00:49:59.165 --> 00:50:01.020
just to kinda show any one of those guys. Yeah.

713
00:50:01.020 --> 00:50:06.080
We'll go to him and if you look at his profile, you see that there's not a whole lot of contact information.

714
00:50:06.300 --> 00:50:11.200
The only way that a visitor can communicate with that doctor is to fill out a contact form.

715
00:50:11.500 --> 00:50:17.085
And then once they do that, then I sell them that lead for $25 and it displays your contact information.

716
00:50:17.705 --> 00:50:21.005
So that's one way. And then the level two,

717
00:50:21.545 --> 00:50:24.685
if you go back and just go to the top, go to Dan,

718
00:50:24.985 --> 00:50:25.805
Dan Halsley.

719
00:50:26.585 --> 00:50:27.725
If you go to him,

720
00:50:29.109 --> 00:50:32.970
there's been a whole lot of more there's a lot more touch points for people to get a hold of them.

721
00:50:33.830 --> 00:50:35.369
So and I've got

722
00:50:37.510 --> 00:50:43.575
if if you go if you scroll down on Dan's, you'll see that the the practice name is there, the social links,

723
00:50:43.974 --> 00:50:45.994
the about me, the bio, and I've got

724
00:50:46.535 --> 00:50:48.635
Google Play for the ID, the feed and some reviews.

725
00:50:50.214 --> 00:50:50.714
So,

726
00:50:51.974 --> 00:50:52.474
everything

727
00:50:52.855 --> 00:50:53.355
that

728
00:50:53.815 --> 00:50:57.115
a visitor would need would be here to communicate with that doctor.

729
00:50:57.460 --> 00:51:02.168
And I'm just trying to make it what else can I potentially do to make it even better? Doctor.

730
00:51:02.168 --> 00:51:03.880
Jack Wolfson (zero fifty three:forty one): Generally,

731
00:51:04.820 --> 00:51:05.800
like with Yelp

732
00:51:06.660 --> 00:51:08.680
or Thumbtack, it is pay to play.

733
00:51:09.140 --> 00:51:12.040
They're paying for the badges. They're paying for the visibility.

734
00:51:12.635 --> 00:51:16.415
You know, they're paying for, you know, this this kind of stuff.

735
00:51:17.915 --> 00:51:18.575
You know,

736
00:51:19.355 --> 00:51:21.375
looking at it from and just to be

737
00:51:21.915 --> 00:51:24.815
for honest, like, besides the map here,

738
00:51:25.515 --> 00:51:26.734
I didn't notice

739
00:51:27.430 --> 00:51:32.330
visually, there were no cues. There was nothing drawing my eye that was too different

740
00:51:32.710 --> 00:51:35.930
between these two. The the social media links are here.

741
00:51:37.430 --> 00:51:41.690
I don't see a phone number. A phone number is is is usually key

742
00:51:42.335 --> 00:51:46.575
or more prominent buttons. We have, like, the contact now buttons down here.

743
00:51:46.575 --> 00:51:51.234
I don't wanna re you know, re redesign the page that you've created here.

744
00:51:51.615 --> 00:51:56.835
But letting if you're trying to upgrade them, they want to have the badges and the accolades.

745
00:51:57.110 --> 00:52:01.450
So, you know, having words like trusted or verified or sponsored or featured

746
00:52:01.750 --> 00:52:05.530
or some you can check Yelp and see what else they do, like certified,

747
00:52:07.110 --> 00:52:13.545
or, you know, some buzzwords that when a person comes and sees their competitor has those badges,

748
00:52:13.924 --> 00:52:16.345
they look at it and say, I need those too.

749
00:52:17.684 --> 00:52:19.384
Not only Daniel can have it,

750
00:52:19.684 --> 00:52:20.825
I want those too.

751
00:52:21.684 --> 00:52:28.680
Is there a way to put another field in there, like, above like, below his name that kinda I can add information to?

752
00:52:28.900 --> 00:52:33.540
Like, a message, a marketing message or something that the viewer might say, okay. Yeah.

753
00:52:33.540 --> 00:52:38.680
This is it it's like the phone number you said. Right? I can can I move that up in the

754
00:52:39.974 --> 00:52:44.075
in the way that it's played now, like through the form or that profile?

755
00:52:44.694 --> 00:52:48.795
I'm gonna I see you've done some modifications here. I'm gonna share

756
00:52:49.414 --> 00:52:52.440
there there are some things you can do. I'm gonna share this,

757
00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:56.380
this video that I did. Give me a second here.

758
00:52:59.240 --> 00:53:02.359
Just a little hair transfer. I did this video here. It's like fourteen minutes long.

759
00:53:02.359 --> 00:53:06.955
And basically, I'm not gonna play the whole video, but let me just go. So it takes the

760
00:53:07.295 --> 00:53:10.355
this, like, standard profile page that looks like this.

761
00:53:10.734 --> 00:53:15.395
Yeah. And what we did is at the end I'll just go to the the end part here.

762
00:53:16.174 --> 00:53:20.734
It just it just it gave him it gave him a cover photo and with some very small styling.

763
00:53:20.734 --> 00:53:24.870
Like, we kinda just made it look a little nicer with the like button. The badge was here. Right?

764
00:53:24.870 --> 00:53:28.650
Elite service. You know? Get just come up with something that makes it make sense.

765
00:53:28.870 --> 00:53:30.550
There's star ratings that are up here.

766
00:53:30.550 --> 00:53:36.915
So based on membership plan, like, you maybe, like, the the higher tiered members, it shows their star rating.

767
00:53:37.135 --> 00:53:41.214
The buttons are here, but the lower tiered plans, the buttons are not there.

768
00:53:41.214 --> 00:53:44.915
They're gonna visually see that things are missing without having to scroll.

769
00:53:44.974 --> 00:53:48.355
I think where the disconnect might be happening is that scroll thing

770
00:53:48.655 --> 00:53:52.490
where you need to scroll to see that that that this page is shorter

771
00:53:52.790 --> 00:53:53.770
than this page.

772
00:53:54.310 --> 00:53:58.150
Oh, that's cool. Yeah. If you could share that link, I'll I'll dive into that. Great.

773
00:53:58.150 --> 00:54:03.370
It should give you some at least some ideas on some actually, some of the settings you can simply turn on or off,

774
00:54:03.830 --> 00:54:04.330
without

775
00:54:05.865 --> 00:54:07.325
too much heavy lifting there.

776
00:54:07.705 --> 00:54:10.685
Alright. Cool. I appreciate it. Thank you. You're very welcome.

777
00:54:10.905 --> 00:54:14.765
The site's looking good overall, though. Good good color set and all that stuff. Looks professional.

778
00:54:15.865 --> 00:54:20.700
Alright. Let's see. I I shared that link before everyone here, the the profile design one.

779
00:54:21.020 --> 00:54:22.720
Let's see who else got their hand up here.

780
00:54:23.180 --> 00:54:27.180
Let's go with our good friend, Sheila. Hi, Jason. Thank you so much. Hey.

781
00:54:27.180 --> 00:54:30.700
I have a question around the business data. Love the software.

782
00:54:30.700 --> 00:54:33.385
I played with it when you guys first launched it.

783
00:54:33.385 --> 00:54:37.885
So one of the questions that I have is, you know the part where when you download

784
00:54:38.345 --> 00:54:39.245
the the list,

785
00:54:39.945 --> 00:54:45.325
is a user able not a user, but am I able to say I don't want

786
00:54:45.705 --> 00:54:49.660
AI, or is that just comes with it for every

787
00:54:50.200 --> 00:54:53.339
download you get? Right now, it's coming with every download.

788
00:54:53.640 --> 00:54:56.779
However, I was chatting with David prior to the webinar.

789
00:54:57.079 --> 00:55:03.339
I think one thing we're gonna do is make it a check mark setting, a checkbox setting so that you can decide on your import

790
00:55:03.765 --> 00:55:04.505
if you wanted,

791
00:55:05.045 --> 00:55:06.585
or not. However,

792
00:55:07.125 --> 00:55:09.865
but let me show you what you can do right now anyways.

793
00:55:10.565 --> 00:55:13.145
If you didn't want it, give me one moment here.

794
00:55:13.444 --> 00:55:17.765
I'm going to show you what you can do so you can just not even worry about it if you don't.

795
00:55:17.765 --> 00:55:19.320
Even though it's coming with it,

796
00:55:20.040 --> 00:55:22.380
what you can do and just a moment.

797
00:55:23.080 --> 00:55:25.500
Okay. Back to the site. Go to the membership plan.

798
00:55:26.920 --> 00:55:31.880
And under the membership plan settings, so you're going to import them to a membership plan.

799
00:55:31.880 --> 00:55:33.340
So maybe you want to create

800
00:55:33.675 --> 00:55:38.895
a new a quasi, like, claimable listing or imported listings membership plan for these guys.

801
00:55:39.275 --> 00:55:40.815
On the profile page,

802
00:55:41.355 --> 00:55:46.235
you can choose not to show the about me in one of the positions in Okay.

803
00:55:46.235 --> 00:55:48.619
So you can just go ahead and hide that,

804
00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:53.579
in the meantime, if it's, you know, critical for you that you don't want that blurb of text.

805
00:55:54.520 --> 00:55:58.380
Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Which brings me to part two.

806
00:55:59.105 --> 00:56:03.204
This may sound silly, so humor me. With the AI generated

807
00:56:03.744 --> 00:56:04.244
bios,

808
00:56:04.785 --> 00:56:06.805
do you know how is Google

809
00:56:07.184 --> 00:56:10.085
looking at that? And like I said, I know it sounds silly.

810
00:56:10.224 --> 00:56:15.540
I know Google uses AI as well, but I just wondered if every one

811
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:16.900
of the listings

812
00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:22.720
is AI generated. Does that yeah. Great question. Like, is it gonna hurt you for being AI generated?

813
00:56:22.720 --> 00:56:27.119
Like, is it gonna be frowned upon by Google? So there's there's two parts to that.

814
00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:32.535
One is without without that blurb of text, there would probably be, like, a 1%

815
00:56:32.535 --> 00:56:43.920
to 0% chance Google would index that page because it would be both duplicate content because that business information is probably on a thousand websites already, and they're not gonna index that page.

816
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:48.660
Or number two is it has thin content, which is basically it's just a name and a phone number.

817
00:56:48.799 --> 00:56:54.500
And that's not enough again, we'll we'll call it Meet for Google to bite on to want to rank that page.

818
00:56:54.640 --> 00:56:58.980
Having the AI content, we've crafted it so that it is creating a humanized

819
00:56:59.280 --> 00:56:59.780
output.

820
00:57:00.105 --> 00:57:00.925
That's subjective,

821
00:57:01.305 --> 00:57:05.965
of course, and could be debunked or discovered very easily in some cases.

822
00:57:06.185 --> 00:57:12.845
However, what we're doing is we're giving the site an additional layer of a fighting chance to get those pages to rank.

823
00:57:13.065 --> 00:57:16.410
You're not going to get the site. It's not going to get penalized site wide.

824
00:57:16.710 --> 00:57:27.675
If Google decides not to index the page because they don't like the content that's on there, we're already at at, at first at the first phase where Google probably wasn't gonna index the page in the first place.

825
00:57:27.915 --> 00:57:35.215
So basically, it's just giving the site a fighting chance to rank, some of those pages there, some of those new listings that are being added to the site.

826
00:57:35.355 --> 00:57:40.155
K. Great. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. That's a very valid question there. Thank you.

827
00:57:40.155 --> 00:57:42.415
I think it's also important to mention,

828
00:57:43.100 --> 00:57:43.600
initially

829
00:57:43.900 --> 00:57:50.080
with ChatGPT and everything, Google was a little hesitant to index pages that were clearly

830
00:57:50.380 --> 00:57:52.940
had content that was clearly AI generated, but,

831
00:57:53.260 --> 00:57:55.660
over the last several months they've updated their guidelines.

832
00:57:55.660 --> 00:58:05.994
They're totally fine with AI generated content as long as it's relevant to searches that are being done, as long as the content on the page is relevant to the headings.

833
00:58:06.055 --> 00:58:11.830
Basically, as long as the content is as relevant as possible, Google's okay with it. Absolutely.

834
00:58:12.610 --> 00:58:17.750
And, the bios, we've actually crafted it. So it's almost doing like a spotlight article,

835
00:58:18.290 --> 00:58:21.250
and reviewing the business in a complimentary manner.

836
00:58:21.250 --> 00:58:24.485
But, yeah, if you're uncomfortable with it, you can blurbed

837
00:58:30.065 --> 00:58:30.565
content,

838
00:58:31.025 --> 00:58:34.865
will be probably zero to 1%. So you're just giving yourself a fighting chance.

839
00:58:34.865 --> 00:58:40.640
And, again, these listings may not really be for Google in some cases, depending on your practice or your model.

840
00:58:40.780 --> 00:58:46.400
It might just be to help the site appear seasoned to visitors, real visitors that are coming to the site.

841
00:58:46.619 --> 00:58:51.359
Alright. Let's go with Tony here. Hi. Thank you. Sure. How are you doing today, Tony? Great.

842
00:58:51.420 --> 00:58:57.695
That auto bio is awesome because I've been, you know, I've imported some and I've just been doing it manually myself.

843
00:58:57.995 --> 00:59:01.995
So that's fantastic. And you can always go and change it. Right? You can change it.

844
00:59:01.995 --> 00:59:07.410
You can modify it, after the fact. Or again, you can hide it if you want to as well. Right.

845
00:59:07.730 --> 00:59:12.530
So what I wanted to ask about is back to the featured add on type of thing.

846
00:59:12.530 --> 00:59:18.390
I was trying to figure that out because what I really wanted to do is I wanted to make one featured per subcategory,

847
00:59:19.010 --> 00:59:29.905
and then I wanted to make that one featured, say, like a seafood restaurant, and say they wanted to be featured, they would be the only one for that subcategory, but I also wanted to make them at the very top.

848
00:59:29.905 --> 00:59:31.825
Is there a way of doing that? Or

849
00:59:32.385 --> 00:59:37.610
Yes. Yes. There is. So let's let's say you're gonna be selling this special membership plan.

850
00:59:37.630 --> 00:59:41.230
It's the the featured at the top highlighted at the top membership plan.

851
00:59:41.230 --> 00:59:43.310
And they're gonna be featured at the top,

852
00:59:43.630 --> 00:59:46.130
of their subcategory that they've selected. So,

853
00:59:46.750 --> 00:59:48.290
we'll just call this, like,

854
00:59:48.590 --> 00:59:49.490
super featured

855
00:59:50.195 --> 00:59:51.335
member. Right?

856
00:59:51.955 --> 00:59:55.895
And it has its cost or whatever it might be. So under search visibility,

857
00:59:57.635 --> 01:00:00.855
what you have here is called the search results priority.

858
01:00:01.795 --> 01:00:07.039
So each membership plan, you can assign a search results priority, and they can be the same.

859
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:15.380
So if you wanted them always to be the same, like, you can set them all to one, and then it would just default to their name or the member ratings and reviews,

860
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:17.925
or whatever else is being filtered by.

861
01:00:18.325 --> 01:00:22.645
But if you want the members to be at the top, you set this to one.

862
01:00:22.645 --> 01:00:27.865
And then the other membership plans, set them to two and then three and then four,

863
01:00:28.245 --> 01:00:30.585
and your member results will be tiered.

864
01:00:31.130 --> 01:00:37.710
The the the ones that are number one will always bubble up to the top, then the number twos, then the number threes.

865
01:00:37.850 --> 01:00:40.830
So this is really a way to give your higher tiered plans,

866
01:00:41.370 --> 01:00:42.670
again, higher visibility

867
01:00:43.050 --> 01:00:47.494
in the search results because, effectively, they're paying to be higher in the results

868
01:00:48.035 --> 01:00:52.934
and present it to the visitor first. Okay. Now, how do you, parse the featured

869
01:00:53.474 --> 01:00:54.295
per category?

870
01:00:54.434 --> 01:01:01.875
Like, the sub like, if you had this one restaurant that wanted to be the featured one for seafoods, how would you make that one?

871
01:01:01.875 --> 01:01:03.690
So, So it's based on membership plan.

872
01:01:03.690 --> 01:01:07.790
So it are they do they only have one subcategory, the seafood subcategory,

873
01:01:08.170 --> 01:01:09.310
and no other subcategories?

874
01:01:10.170 --> 01:01:10.410
No.

875
01:01:10.410 --> 01:01:18.265
They might have several, but they they're paying extra just to be the top the very top one when someone clicks on seafood.

876
01:01:18.484 --> 01:01:19.365
You know? Okay.

877
01:01:19.365 --> 01:01:24.964
I would do something different instead than the search results, prior visibility, and things like that.

878
01:01:24.964 --> 01:01:28.740
You I I love this question that you asked. I would do something like this.

879
01:01:28.820 --> 01:01:30.760
Let's visit the website real quick,

880
01:01:32.340 --> 01:01:34.040
and let's go to

881
01:01:34.580 --> 01:01:39.460
the categories. I'm a I'm a share a a video we did, but let me just show you kinda how to do it.

882
01:01:39.460 --> 01:01:40.680
And let's go to architect.

883
01:01:40.755 --> 01:01:44.275
So these are just people who are these are featured because I had I set the featured.

884
01:01:44.275 --> 01:01:49.174
But let's say you wanted someone at the top of the architect category, subcategory results.

885
01:01:49.315 --> 01:01:53.255
What I would recommend is let's say someone pays you. You got someone for the seafood category.

886
01:01:53.315 --> 01:01:56.970
Right? They you can sell it as a digital service. They're going to pay for thirty days.

887
01:01:56.970 --> 01:01:58.670
They're gonna spend $200

888
01:01:58.810 --> 01:02:02.350
and be featured at the top. Yes. What you can do is create,

889
01:02:03.210 --> 01:02:07.470
take the the URL architect in this example. We'll pretend it's seafood restaurant.

890
01:02:07.930 --> 01:02:10.670
And go ahead and click on create static page.

891
01:02:13.255 --> 01:02:15.435
And we're gonna put the URL in here.

892
01:02:15.735 --> 01:02:18.395
I have a video on this too, so I'll share it afterwards.

893
01:02:18.615 --> 01:02:21.355
The page type is the member search results page.

894
01:02:21.655 --> 01:02:27.040
Mhmm. And what we can do is let's drag one of our blocks here. We'll just drag this one.

895
01:02:27.820 --> 01:02:30.320
And, well, this is even better than things. So featured,

896
01:02:31.740 --> 01:02:32.240
restaurant,

897
01:02:32.700 --> 01:02:33.520
you know, whatever.

898
01:02:33.980 --> 01:02:37.600
Basically, put their logo here, blurb, link to their profile.

899
01:02:37.820 --> 01:02:40.125
You know, you can put more buttons here.

900
01:02:40.605 --> 01:02:43.025
Effectively, what we're gonna do let me save these changes.

901
01:02:44.845 --> 01:02:46.865
We're adding some custom content

902
01:02:47.165 --> 01:02:48.225
to the architect

903
01:02:48.765 --> 01:02:53.825
category page. It could be for SEO. In this case, we're doing it to feature a member.

904
01:02:54.260 --> 01:02:56.280
So let's go to this page, view page.

905
01:02:58.740 --> 01:03:03.560
And give me so right now, it's tabbed. It's under the read more. But we have options here.

906
01:03:03.859 --> 01:03:06.359
So what we can do is under page options,

907
01:03:07.224 --> 01:03:09.005
custom HTML placement,

908
01:03:09.305 --> 01:03:11.405
let's put it above the member results

909
01:03:11.865 --> 01:03:13.405
so it'll be not in a tab.

910
01:03:13.464 --> 01:03:19.385
The sidebar, we're gonna want the same sidebar we used for everything else, member search results, left wide, whatever it might be.

911
01:03:19.385 --> 01:03:21.930
Now it's gonna look more like the Thanks.

912
01:03:22.230 --> 01:03:24.330
What we had before. Let's refresh this.

913
01:03:26.070 --> 01:03:29.690
So here, now we can feature this person on the architect

914
01:03:30.150 --> 01:03:35.505
search results page. I would take it a step further. Like, imagine this was a business here.

915
01:03:35.585 --> 01:03:38.005
What we can also do is if you wanted to not,

916
01:03:39.265 --> 01:03:42.865
not do it above the content here, what we can also do is add a hero section.

917
01:03:42.865 --> 01:03:50.160
I'm I'm sharing this because these are easy ways you can design your site so you can sell what I call visibility boosts boosts to your members.

918
01:03:50.380 --> 01:03:52.160
So if we create a hero section,

919
01:03:53.420 --> 01:03:55.340
and we'll just put an image here,

920
01:03:55.660 --> 01:03:56.320
of whatever.

921
01:03:57.100 --> 01:03:59.040
And you can say, like, featured,

922
01:03:59.820 --> 01:04:00.800
you know, featured,

923
01:04:01.660 --> 01:04:02.160
seafood

924
01:04:04.025 --> 01:04:08.265
restaurant, whatever. Excuse my spelling. I'm just going fast. And you could say,

925
01:04:08.585 --> 01:04:09.565
you know, Bill's

926
01:04:10.345 --> 01:04:10.845
Seafood.

927
01:04:12.345 --> 01:04:14.684
And what we can do is also then

928
01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:19.859
put a link and we can go to their profile page and we can say view profile.

929
01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:24.960
And again, you can add you can change things. I'm doing things really fast here.

930
01:04:24.960 --> 01:04:28.095
You can choose the color of the text and all that. I'll put white text.

931
01:04:28.734 --> 01:04:33.234
You can add an image of them. I'm just putting a background image here. Let me just save this.

932
01:04:34.815 --> 01:04:36.994
And if we go back to this page now,

933
01:04:38.255 --> 01:04:40.835
we've added a hero section to this page.

934
01:04:40.980 --> 01:04:44.820
And the hero section doesn't just have to introduce the category you're on.

935
01:04:44.820 --> 01:04:48.340
You can say featured seafood restaurant. We recommend this restaurant.

936
01:04:48.340 --> 01:04:50.359
They're five stars to view their profile.

937
01:04:50.500 --> 01:04:54.225
Now, they're really ahead of all the rest of the search results here.

938
01:04:54.545 --> 01:04:58.625
So, again, I did the the quick the the the quick way of adding content.

939
01:04:58.625 --> 01:05:02.165
But this is two ways you can add content. And I would do this way

940
01:05:02.545 --> 01:05:07.845
over the trying to mess with the membership plan settings because that isn't exactly what you're after.

941
01:05:07.905 --> 01:05:12.730
What you're after is selling a spot for a specific category, and this would be the way to do

942
01:05:13.030 --> 01:05:16.170
it. Okay. Yeah. I have I've I've created

943
01:05:16.790 --> 01:05:18.970
static pages for all the subcategories

944
01:05:19.270 --> 01:05:24.490
or, you know, that's what I'm in the process of doing so that I totally recognize all that.

945
01:05:24.695 --> 01:05:31.415
And, yeah, once you have your your design for these sections, then you're just gonna swap out the businesses as people pay you for their spots.

946
01:05:31.415 --> 01:05:33.335
So you'll just put their name, their photo.

947
01:05:33.335 --> 01:05:38.635
You'll have your little design that you're gonna use, and it'll be consistent throughout all the subcategories of your site.

948
01:05:38.855 --> 01:05:40.410
Okay. Awesome. Thank you.

949
01:05:40.970 --> 01:05:45.710
One more question. Just on the claim listing. So, like, if I I've customized

950
01:05:46.490 --> 01:05:52.510
some of the memberships, you know, and what they have, not just what they have, but I mean, the actual look and everything.

951
01:05:52.755 --> 01:05:57.335
So but if I do a claims listing, I I really kinda need to copy that membership

952
01:05:57.635 --> 01:06:00.674
so they have the same thing and then change it to claim listing.

953
01:06:00.674 --> 01:06:09.290
If I want them to see, say, this is what it looks like as a, you know, a premium, and then they claim it, that they'll have that same look all Is that right?

954
01:06:09.290 --> 01:06:10.810
Or am I missing Yeah.

955
01:06:10.810 --> 01:06:18.990
Are are you suggesting to have two active profiles on the site for the same business or just the one you like we were showing with for Colette?

956
01:06:19.370 --> 01:06:24.865
No. It's it's where I've I've already, like, made you know, brought in individual businesses.

957
01:06:25.405 --> 01:06:29.964
And, I mean, I just made them up so I can show people, hey. This is what they'll look like.

958
01:06:29.964 --> 01:06:35.565
But then if I change their membership to claim, it's gonna change their look. Yes. Yes. No.

959
01:06:35.565 --> 01:06:39.930
You have it claimed. Use the strategy which I shared with Colette. You can watch the replay.

960
01:06:39.990 --> 01:06:47.530
And just make the only option they can upgrade to is the equivalent look but not claimed, like an actual searchable

961
01:06:47.910 --> 01:06:48.410
listing.

962
01:06:48.790 --> 01:06:54.454
And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna share this video we did on on best practices for claimable business listings,

963
01:06:54.914 --> 01:07:07.970
and we kinda talk about how when they're claiming their listing, you can guide them to a specific membership plan or op specific options separate than what's available to your regular visitors who wanna join your site.

964
01:07:07.970 --> 01:07:13.270
So this video actually talks about that stuff well. And, also, let let me share the other video,

965
01:07:13.970 --> 01:07:16.390
I was gonna share with you was the search,

966
01:07:17.244 --> 01:07:20.205
customizing the search results page. Here we go.

967
01:07:20.205 --> 01:07:26.445
Add custom content to search results pages, which is basically what I did, but this does a more thorough walkthrough of that.

968
01:07:26.445 --> 01:07:31.325
And, of course, you can use the custom content to be featuring one of the businesses on your site.

969
01:07:31.325 --> 01:07:32.545
That's a great strategy,

970
01:07:33.060 --> 01:07:35.960
for selling, like, boosted visibility on your site.

971
01:07:36.420 --> 01:07:41.400
Okay. Well, thank you so much. Of course. Thank you. Thank you, Tony. Great question there.

972
01:07:41.700 --> 01:07:45.620
Alright. We're gonna take a couple more questions here. We got Michael here, and I see Wilf there.

973
01:07:45.620 --> 01:07:47.880
I'll take you Wilf at the end here.

974
01:07:48.185 --> 01:07:50.125
Alright, Michael. How are you doing today?

975
01:07:50.425 --> 01:07:53.565
Yeah. Doing fine. So I had an unusual question.

976
01:07:53.785 --> 01:08:02.610
Someone asked if instead of paying for for leads one off, if they could make a deposit to have a balance on file for paying for leads.

977
01:08:02.850 --> 01:08:06.130
Yeah. What you'll want to do with that, I'm glad you brought that up.

978
01:08:06.130 --> 01:08:11.190
And this video explains it all. Let me find it here. We upgraded the digital products

979
01:08:11.570 --> 01:08:13.910
settings so that you can sell credits.

980
01:08:14.290 --> 01:08:21.125
And you can do it as such. So if someone pays you $10 in real cash, you can give them $20

981
01:08:21.125 --> 01:08:22.804
of credit balance on file.

982
01:08:22.804 --> 01:08:29.145
So you can incentivize them to actually buy credits in advance from you using the new settings here.

983
01:08:29.700 --> 01:08:33.620
And then with those credits, they can use them for their lead purchases. So,

984
01:08:33.940 --> 01:08:38.340
effectively, you know, maybe they wanna buy $500 of credits for your site.

985
01:08:38.340 --> 01:08:43.640
You can give them, like, a hundred bucks off if they do that or some kind of incentive, or it can be equal cash value.

986
01:08:44.225 --> 01:08:48.785
But this this these new settings will allow you to do that. Okay. That that helps out.

987
01:08:48.785 --> 01:08:51.925
And then is it possible instead of having the word

988
01:08:52.225 --> 01:08:57.029
claim listing to have it say activate listing or something other? Absolutely.

989
01:08:57.090 --> 01:08:58.790
So those are text labels.

990
01:08:59.330 --> 01:09:04.130
Are you familiar with how to Okay. So it's in the text labels area? Got it. Correct.

991
01:09:04.130 --> 01:09:08.290
Let's just quickly look together here under text labels. I'm just gonna search for the word claim.

992
01:09:08.290 --> 01:09:11.245
There's probably gonna be a ton of things, but, yeah, you are claiming.

993
01:09:11.304 --> 01:09:12.764
You could say you are activating

994
01:09:13.625 --> 01:09:16.045
and so on. So, yeah, activate listing.

995
01:09:17.145 --> 01:09:19.864
Activate your listing below. Activate this listing.

996
01:09:19.864 --> 01:09:26.080
So, yeah, you could just probably come here and just do a quick anything that says claim, change it to activate or or something else.

997
01:09:26.460 --> 01:09:27.420
Okay. And,

998
01:09:27.819 --> 01:09:29.279
final question. Do you envision

999
01:09:29.819 --> 01:09:31.179
some point with the,

1000
01:09:31.580 --> 01:09:32.719
business data

1001
01:09:33.020 --> 01:09:35.760
being able to search for a specific business?

1002
01:09:36.135 --> 01:09:39.115
Yeah. I think I think you mentioned that or someone mentioned that before.

1003
01:09:39.495 --> 01:09:42.295
Yeah. Potentially in the future, I'm not gonna say no to it.

1004
01:09:42.295 --> 01:09:45.895
Right now, we're gonna let it ride for a minute on on its newest release.

1005
01:09:45.895 --> 01:09:49.140
We did you saw on my demo earlier, there was a small little hiccup there.

1006
01:09:49.540 --> 01:10:00.260
So we're just gonna make sure everything is smoothed out, and then we might introduce more of those settings so you can search for I understand if you wanna search for a specific agency or company name, and then get results that way.

1007
01:10:00.260 --> 01:10:01.380
Yeah. Make makes sense.

1008
01:10:01.380 --> 01:10:06.725
And one one word of caution that, I know you've placed in in the previous webinars.

1009
01:10:06.725 --> 01:10:10.185
I just wanted to throw it out there for anybody listening for the first time.

1010
01:10:10.245 --> 01:10:12.825
Anyone who's importing bulk listings

1011
01:10:13.364 --> 01:10:15.545
and emailing from their main domain,

1012
01:10:15.970 --> 01:10:19.510
Google has become very aggressive with marking emails

1013
01:10:20.130 --> 01:10:22.790
as spam and and blacklisting a domain.

1014
01:10:22.850 --> 01:10:29.670
So really, as you've said in the past, it always makes sense to email marketing from a different platform.

1015
01:10:30.255 --> 01:10:33.475
Gotcha. And what platform do you recommend or you use?

1016
01:10:33.535 --> 01:10:39.555
I haven't been doing bulk email at all, but, I think it was something you had suggested in the past.

1017
01:10:39.775 --> 01:10:40.275
Yeah.

1018
01:10:40.655 --> 01:10:41.555
Even a subdomain,

1019
01:10:41.935 --> 01:10:43.635
is technically a different domain.

1020
01:10:44.095 --> 01:10:49.290
So you if you're if again, tread carefully when you're ever cold emailing bulk

1021
01:10:49.830 --> 01:10:52.570
recipients in bulk. I think that's a great suggestion.

1022
01:10:52.950 --> 01:10:57.930
All right. Thank you for that. And we'll go for you, Wilf here. How you doing, Wilf?

1023
01:10:58.355 --> 01:11:01.895
Hey, I'm, doing great. And again, just amazed with the value,

1024
01:11:02.995 --> 01:11:04.855
in this whole presentation. So,

1025
01:11:05.555 --> 01:11:06.295
two questions,

1026
01:11:06.835 --> 01:11:12.055
one being on the, the business import tool that you're launching or have launched.

1027
01:11:12.700 --> 01:11:14.400
What's the source of your data?

1028
01:11:14.780 --> 01:11:16.640
So we have several different sources.

1029
01:11:17.340 --> 01:11:19.920
Some of it is public. Some of it is, commercial.

1030
01:11:20.620 --> 01:11:32.175
And what we do is we aggregate when you're doing a search and compile a list of what's actually available or what meets your criteria as far as, like, updated in the last thirty days or so.

1031
01:11:32.474 --> 01:11:34.335
Okay. So it looks like sometimes

1032
01:11:34.875 --> 01:11:35.934
logos may

1033
01:11:36.235 --> 01:11:40.094
import. Sometimes maybe they don't. With the scraping, can we capture

1034
01:11:40.474 --> 01:11:45.370
links to their social media profiles? Those Those aren't available yet. We're trying to,

1035
01:11:46.070 --> 01:11:50.389
figure out a way to do that so you can get there like Facebook or Twitter and whatnot.

1036
01:11:50.389 --> 01:11:53.429
So we're exploring a path for that. Okay. Fair enough.

1037
01:11:53.429 --> 01:11:57.385
And then you were going to mention something about images. Yeah. The images are are finicky.

1038
01:11:57.385 --> 01:12:00.825
Sometimes there is an image on file, but images are correct,

1039
01:12:01.225 --> 01:12:04.844
sometimes corrupted or not not the correct image file format.

1040
01:12:05.065 --> 01:12:12.219
So even though the system kind of that's why when you I prefer clicking the preferred so it'll actually find one that has a file value for the image.

1041
01:12:12.219 --> 01:12:12.960
But sometimes

1042
01:12:13.340 --> 01:12:16.780
downloading it to the site and fetching it, it has some hiccups.

1043
01:12:16.780 --> 01:12:24.985
So that's why sometimes even when we search for the preferred attribute of an image to exist, those are cases where sometimes it might miss the mark on those.

1044
01:12:24.985 --> 01:12:25.485
But,

1045
01:12:25.785 --> 01:12:27.785
it seems to be about a 8080%

1046
01:12:27.785 --> 01:12:32.745
success rate with images from what I see, which is really good for what it's doing in bulk. Yeah.

1047
01:12:32.745 --> 01:12:34.910
No. That's great. So now,

1048
01:12:35.290 --> 01:12:36.750
with all of this in mind,

1049
01:12:37.530 --> 01:12:40.750
can you give me some advice on a site? And

1050
01:12:41.050 --> 01:12:42.270
this would be concerning

1051
01:12:42.970 --> 01:12:48.270
allowing members to post their own content. So whether it would be image gallery

1052
01:12:48.895 --> 01:12:51.395
or their own blog article content.

1053
01:12:52.014 --> 01:12:57.795
What's your guidance on how to structure, let's say, like a portal for that?

1054
01:12:58.094 --> 01:13:05.800
So with my main navigation, I have, obviously, the blog articles for the site that are uploaded by the blog admin.

1055
01:13:06.100 --> 01:13:08.760
But then if I want my users to have

1056
01:13:09.780 --> 01:13:10.920
a fairly robust

1057
01:13:11.380 --> 01:13:12.280
blog section,

1058
01:13:12.660 --> 01:13:19.475
how do I design that or configure that? So are we asking how can we make it more accessible

1059
01:13:20.015 --> 01:13:24.594
for the user when they're on the site and to encourage them to create a blog post?

1060
01:13:24.655 --> 01:13:27.555
Is that Really, I'm thinking of really,

1061
01:13:28.735 --> 01:13:30.594
like so the market

1062
01:13:30.920 --> 01:13:33.420
that I'm targeting are home services

1063
01:13:33.880 --> 01:13:34.380
contractors.

1064
01:13:34.920 --> 01:13:36.940
But the general homeowners

1065
01:13:37.560 --> 01:13:42.620
who I want to attract as viewers, because that would be the target audience of the contractors.

1066
01:13:43.405 --> 01:13:46.705
So I'm looking for more content that's useful

1067
01:13:47.165 --> 01:13:47.985
to homeowners.

1068
01:13:48.445 --> 01:13:55.425
And I see value in the contractors posting both expert content, but also they may want to showcase

1069
01:13:56.010 --> 01:13:59.710
examples of their own work through an image gallery, for example.

1070
01:13:59.850 --> 01:14:06.510
So I know we can do that from allowing members through enabling different post types for the members.

1071
01:14:06.570 --> 01:14:09.870
But what I'm wondering is how do I configure that in my navigation?

1072
01:14:10.475 --> 01:14:11.775
Like, how do I create

1073
01:14:12.235 --> 01:14:15.055
a portal or a gallery of contractor

1074
01:14:15.515 --> 01:14:16.015
content?

1075
01:14:16.555 --> 01:14:17.695
So the content

1076
01:14:18.155 --> 01:14:21.775
Okay. So you can do a few things, actually. Let me go to

1077
01:14:22.075 --> 01:14:23.880
the demo Bootstrap site here.

1078
01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:28.360
Do you want do you want to look at the actual site? Sure. Actually, that would be very helpful.

1079
01:14:28.360 --> 01:14:33.719
Yeah. What's the site name? Okay. It's ontariocontractorquotes.com.

1080
01:14:33.719 --> 01:14:38.445
Okay. Let me see if I can find that. Yep. It looks like I pulled it up here. Okay.

1081
01:14:38.844 --> 01:14:44.224
So the members are publishing content. The website has its own blog, it sounds like. Right?

1082
01:14:44.364 --> 01:14:46.145
The repair and rental tips.

1083
01:14:46.844 --> 01:14:50.224
Yeah. I I so that I lost all my content.

1084
01:14:50.940 --> 01:14:55.760
That's okay. And so now I'm adding that back. But what I want is like sort of a twin

1085
01:14:56.380 --> 01:14:58.160
blog, let's say, where

1086
01:14:58.860 --> 01:15:00.239
it's composed of

1087
01:15:00.780 --> 01:15:03.680
member content, not the content I would post.

1088
01:15:04.060 --> 01:15:04.695
Of course.

1089
01:15:07.094 --> 01:15:10.875
So there's two post types that will help facilitate that.

1090
01:15:11.415 --> 01:15:17.114
What we have is, and a lot of people ask in the Facebook group, they say, What's the difference between the website blog

1091
01:15:18.135 --> 01:15:19.355
and the member articles?

1092
01:15:19.770 --> 01:15:20.130
Right?

1093
01:15:20.130 --> 01:15:28.590
So the member articles is the post type you should assign to your members, and that will be all the articles of their user generated content.

1094
01:15:28.809 --> 01:15:32.025
I don't see it here. It looks like you've modified this a bit,

1095
01:15:32.505 --> 01:15:35.485
but you have your then you have your website blog article.

1096
01:15:36.265 --> 01:15:37.965
So the URL for your,

1097
01:15:38.985 --> 01:15:41.385
let's see. Oh, you called it repair and rental box.

1098
01:15:41.385 --> 01:15:44.905
So, yeah, effectively, what you can do is clone I don't see it here.

1099
01:15:44.905 --> 01:15:47.085
What you can do is go to edit post settings,

1100
01:15:47.449 --> 01:15:50.330
and you can clone your this is,

1101
01:15:50.730 --> 01:15:54.270
repair and reno tips. So that's yours, repair and reno tips blog.

1102
01:15:54.409 --> 01:15:57.469
And then the member articles are the articles your members,

1103
01:15:58.010 --> 01:16:01.389
contribute. And just create a link to this articles page,

1104
01:16:01.755 --> 01:16:05.775
and just make sure that your members are have the privilege of posting

1105
01:16:06.155 --> 01:16:10.415
or creating posts for this post type, publishing articles for this post type.

1106
01:16:10.955 --> 01:16:13.535
And that will create two different channels of content,

1107
01:16:13.915 --> 01:16:17.719
your dedicated website company blog and then the user generated,

1108
01:16:18.500 --> 01:16:21.079
content or the articles that your members are,

1109
01:16:21.699 --> 01:16:24.739
are are creating. So I could maybe nest the,

1110
01:16:25.380 --> 01:16:30.795
member blog underneath the repair and reno tips. That would be fantastic.

1111
01:16:30.855 --> 01:16:34.375
It could be like member contributed tips, something like that.

1112
01:16:34.375 --> 01:16:38.235
And then that will be that can just link to the forward slash, like,

1113
01:16:38.615 --> 01:16:43.890
articles or whatever the whatever the URL is for the member article link member article type.

1114
01:16:44.130 --> 01:16:47.590
So so I think this is related, but then this is my final question.

1115
01:16:47.970 --> 01:16:52.610
Yes. So the other thing that I'm, like, launching is at a contractor spotlight.

1116
01:16:52.610 --> 01:16:55.350
So that's where I'll reach out to my members and say, hey.

1117
01:16:55.490 --> 01:16:58.310
And then using advice from your past webinars

1118
01:16:58.610 --> 01:16:59.510
with spotlight

1119
01:16:59.985 --> 01:17:04.005
articles and so forth, should that be How should I structure that?

1120
01:17:04.385 --> 01:17:06.785
The contractor spotlight content, in other words.

1121
01:17:06.785 --> 01:17:09.825
So the contractor spotlight is a visibility thing, right?

1122
01:17:09.825 --> 01:17:12.965
And you want to create FOMO, like fear of missing out, basically.

1123
01:17:13.745 --> 01:17:14.405
And it'll

1124
01:17:14.710 --> 01:17:18.730
entice other members to ask, how do you get how do they get a spotlight?

1125
01:17:18.949 --> 01:17:22.550
So you should have a landing page which explains what the spotlight article is.

1126
01:17:22.550 --> 01:17:27.030
I would also, you know, say that there's a schedule. So, like, you should have them fill spots.

1127
01:17:27.030 --> 01:17:29.165
So it's not just readily available.

1128
01:17:29.165 --> 01:17:35.085
So you create kinda, like, limited supply and a sense of urgency to book their spotlight article ahead of time.

1129
01:17:35.085 --> 01:17:39.885
But once you have that spotlight article written, you know, you can put it as a website banner.

1130
01:17:39.885 --> 01:17:45.599
We have the the like, an announcement bar, like, this month's spotlight member, they're gonna get, you know, super visibility,

1131
01:17:46.059 --> 01:17:49.360
you could feature them just on the homepage under your hero section.

1132
01:17:50.139 --> 01:17:50.639
Or

1133
01:17:51.099 --> 01:17:54.719
what you can do is I see you have contractor spotlight here.

1134
01:17:55.275 --> 01:17:59.535
Yeah. Well, that's where I'm in intending to add what you're describing right now.

1135
01:17:59.675 --> 01:18:04.415
You can clone you can clone the post type again for the member articles.

1136
01:18:05.035 --> 01:18:13.130
And I'm assuming the spotlight is going to be, like, a in an article format and reviewing the business in a positive light spotlight?

1137
01:18:13.510 --> 01:18:14.310
Correct. So

1138
01:18:15.030 --> 01:18:20.710
Correct. Yeah. And the one that's the most recent will be at the top. So you could say July

1139
01:18:20.710 --> 01:18:24.970
contractor spotlight or whatever however you wanna, like, structure or organize the formatting.

1140
01:18:25.455 --> 01:18:28.014
So that way, all the older spotlights remain online.

1141
01:18:28.014 --> 01:18:30.755
They feel special that they've been spotlighted in the past.

1142
01:18:30.815 --> 01:18:33.054
And if they ever wanna be at the top for,

1143
01:18:33.455 --> 01:18:36.494
the next month, they should repurchase that spotlight service.

1144
01:18:36.494 --> 01:18:45.730
And you can either just change the publish date of a previous spotlight you've done for them or create a new spotlight article covering some other information about that business.

1145
01:18:45.870 --> 01:18:49.170
Okay. That's great. What what do you think of the aesthetic of the homepage?

1146
01:18:49.230 --> 01:18:53.555
Does it like, content flow wise? And that's my final question. Sure.

1147
01:18:53.935 --> 01:18:57.235
Yeah. Overall, it's pretty simple. Connect with home

1148
01:18:58.175 --> 01:19:02.915
services pros near you. And then, yeah, you have I would put the word Ontario in here,

1149
01:19:03.455 --> 01:19:07.075
even though it's here because for SEO, you want that to be in your H1

1150
01:19:07.830 --> 01:19:09.050
to help you rank

1151
01:19:09.590 --> 01:19:10.410
a bit better.

1152
01:19:10.950 --> 01:19:12.410
So I would do that.

1153
01:19:13.990 --> 01:19:17.850
I would sprinkle the word Ontario. Yeah. You got it here, which is good.

1154
01:19:19.270 --> 01:19:21.030
Yeah. I mean, overall, it's looking good.

1155
01:19:21.030 --> 01:19:26.285
I would even this out maybe just so there isn't one lingering here because then it creates a lot of negative space.

1156
01:19:26.285 --> 01:19:30.845
But yeah. That was that was just done, the the home services, because I'm redoing my categories.

1157
01:19:30.845 --> 01:19:31.985
So I

1158
01:19:32.364 --> 01:19:36.860
like I like this here. The left and right text is always good that it goes left, right.

1159
01:19:36.860 --> 01:19:39.200
I mean, image and text, image and text.

1160
01:19:40.540 --> 01:19:44.720
Yeah. Overall, it's good. I would just edit maybe anything that you think is extra,

1161
01:19:45.340 --> 01:19:48.240
because I'll I'll show you, like, if we go to

1162
01:19:48.875 --> 01:19:53.135
American home warranty. I'm just going to, like, a home warranty website. Right?

1163
01:19:53.195 --> 01:19:56.895
It's a little different than than a thumbtack like what you're kinda do. But,

1164
01:19:57.675 --> 01:20:02.460
you know, a shorter I mean, they're, well, medium sized home page.

1165
01:20:02.540 --> 01:20:06.960
I would just cut out some extras that you don't need. Remember, it's about the the user experience.

1166
01:20:07.020 --> 01:20:10.880
So the goal is to get them to click internally on your site.

1167
01:20:10.940 --> 01:20:14.805
So you wanna present them with things that are gonna entice a click.

1168
01:20:15.445 --> 01:20:19.945
And so while it's good to include a lot of information on the homepage,

1169
01:20:20.645 --> 01:20:26.585
if it's not going to entice a click, you might want to rethink or either remove it, edit it out or,

1170
01:20:27.365 --> 01:20:29.380
you know, adjust it a bit. So,

1171
01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:33.540
those are just some tips there. These are these are good boxes here. It's nice.

1172
01:20:34.079 --> 01:20:38.239
Yeah. I think overall, it's it's going in the right direction. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's great.

1173
01:20:38.239 --> 01:20:41.440
And again, thank you so much for everything you do and your whole team.

1174
01:20:41.440 --> 01:20:45.785
Your your support team has been great responding to tickets. So thank you so much.

1175
01:20:45.925 --> 01:20:50.645
You're very welcome. Thank you for the questions, Wolf. Alright, guys. We will stop it there. Yeah.

1176
01:20:50.645 --> 01:20:54.425
The instant business data for the rest of this month, we're gonna do 50% off credits.

1177
01:20:54.885 --> 01:20:57.945
So use get credits. I'll share this link one more time here.

1178
01:20:58.630 --> 01:21:03.610
And, again, you don't need a crazy number, to be honest, even though, like, there's there's packages of 25,000.

1179
01:21:03.989 --> 01:21:15.645
You know, if you do a thousand and put, like, 10 members in a hundred, you know, a hundred different categories or whatever you wanna do, however you wanna splice it up, it can go a long way just to help the site look a bit seasoned.

1180
01:21:15.645 --> 01:21:18.465
So, David, thank you for bit for putting together the slides,

1181
01:21:19.245 --> 01:21:21.725
for this. The next webinar will be in two weeks.

1182
01:21:21.725 --> 01:21:26.225
We do have a special guest, Spencer from Brilliant Setups, will be joining us,

1183
01:21:26.605 --> 01:21:27.690
for part two,

1184
01:21:28.170 --> 01:21:32.590
of his membership website strategy sessions. Again, that will be in two weeks.

1185
01:21:32.890 --> 01:21:37.770
Again, recommend downloading the Brilliant Directories app, in the App Store or Google Play.

1186
01:21:37.770 --> 01:21:39.390
Just search for Brilliant Directories,

1187
01:21:39.845 --> 01:21:44.085
And we will post a replay. We did cover a lot in today's webinar. Thank you for all the questions.

1188
01:21:44.085 --> 01:21:49.125
It was tons of fun. We'll post a replay, the YouTube live replay in the Facebook group.

1189
01:21:49.125 --> 01:21:52.565
You can join us at brilliantdirectories.com/facebook,

1190
01:21:52.565 --> 01:21:57.170
and you can subscribe to brilliantdirectories.com/youtube.

1191
01:21:57.550 --> 01:21:58.989
David, thank you so much for today.

1192
01:21:58.989 --> 01:22:04.046
On behalf of myself, David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, we love you guys so much.

1193
01:22:04.046 --> 01:22:08.686
We'll catch you in two weeks in the next webinar. Have a great day and a brilliant week.

1194
01:22:08.686 --> 01:22:09.586
Take care, guys.