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0:02
All right. Welcome, welcome everybody. How's everybody doing? Everybody doing good, awesome. I see Bobby, Bobby. One second, let me get my camera ready, because I told you I was gonna be on camera for you, I right, give me one second, guys. Just getting things set up. If you guys have questions, I think everybody knows the drill, but bottom of the Google Meet window, you'll see that little hand icon. If you click that, that lets you raise your hand. So, if you guys want to go ahead and do that, and then start getting in order. Here, I'm just about ready for Bobby. All right, cool. Let me get my chat going, and boom, there we are. I'm here, Bobby. All right, okay. We got actions. Do it. I don't think that's your actual name, but go ahead and unmute, please, and ask your question.
1:24
Okay, my name is Barbara.
1:26
Barbara, welcome.
1:28
So I just purchased the Smart AI,
1:32
okay? Perfect,
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and went to join the community, etc. And what I was looking for is is instructions, so I've seen the tutorials, I see all of that, but what I don't see is quote the basic stuff where I would load the product on my domain or my where my stuff is hosted, so that's that's what I'm looking for. So I don't have any other questions, except that.
1:59
Okay. All right. Well, let me get you first. Let me get you this link here. This is our help link. Oh, it looks like Rachika already dropped it in, but I'll drop it as well. So that's this site, the help dot smart directory.ai website. This has all of our tutorials, basically everything from a to Z directory wise to get your directory setup is in here.
2:24
Okay, yeah, I did. I did go to the help, that's you know, I did read that in the introduction email, so I went there. But do you think I could find it? Yeah, not copy paste all of this, guys, and then have a look.
2:39
Let's see the one that, okay, so the quick start guide is that first tab at the very top, the
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snapshot.
2:51
Let's see, does it say snapshot? No, I don't see it. So the link that I just shared with you, the help dot smart directory.ai
3:01
Okay, so that's the bottom one that I see, I think.
3:05
Yes,
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yeah. Install, install. Okay, perfect. Awesome. Thank you.
3:11
What I'm looking for is domains. I was just going to see if I can't find a direct link for you, custom domain. Here we go. Okay, I'm going to drop this link in the chat as well, so that's the same site. It's just it's a section under website, the custom domain section, and that video and those instructions that'll walk you through getting your domain connected to your site.
3:39
Okay, perfect. Thank you very much. You guys, Lisa, I'll get started now. I'm kind of floundering here,
3:45
Jason. On that same topic, this is Anne. Is that link that Rashika shared the current snapshot, because I know they've done some updates on it fairly recently, because it says that link says march 5. Open it up, the snapshot that's on the page says last updated march 5,
4:05
then that's then that's the most updated one. Yes.
4:08
Okay. Thank you.
4:09
Yeah, that's the page that we use every time, and yeah, you'll see if there's an updated snapshot, we'll just adjust the date on that page.
4:19
Okay, perfect. Thank you. Whatever
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the date is, it's listed there. Yep, that's going to be it. And then one more thing, though. Let me just share this with you, Barbara and Anne, and anybody else here. Just bring this over here, I Okay, let me share my screen. Okay, can everybody see that? So this is that help, help dot smart directory.ai
4:56
Yes, yeah, that's where that's where I was, and that's where I was getting. Customized theme. Well, I haven't got it loaded yet, so that's where I was. Huh?
5:04
Okay. Well, what I want to do, I'm just going to kind of explain how this this help article works, and how all these sections are laid out. So, right here, if you just click on quick start, this is where you want to start. This is your starting point. Okay. Over here on the right-hand side, everything's broken up into three phases, so you've got phase one, phase two, and phase three down here, and if you follow each one of these, this will take you from start to finish getting your site set up. Okay,
5:33
something on your screen, Jason, all we see is the original customized theme, nothing's changing now.
5:44
It's, oh, you know what, I guess I'm showing a person,
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even.
5:49
Yeah, hang on one second. Here, that was.. I've got it pulled up in two places, that's why we close that, I Okay, that's moving now, right? When I move my mouse, yeah, okay, we're on the right pace. Okay, this is what I was showing over here. So, phase one, phase two, phase three. Under each one of these phases, there's several different sections listed. Right, if we expand any one of these, there's going to be multiple lessons inside of here, but these are the these are the three sections that I was referring to. This is what you want to follow to get through setting up your directory from start to finish. Over on the left hand side, you can see the same sections, so customize, right, which is right here, phase one, customize, here's customize, and there's two tabs underneath customize, there's website, which there's several sections underneath that, and then there's emails, and there's several sections underneath the email tab, okay, again, this is all under customized, so if I go back to quick start, and that's part of phase one, and then phase two, the customized emails, I guess they didn't, that is laid out a little wonky. Sorry, guys, I thought that they fixed that. Okay, so here, that this is supposed to be phase two, right here, this email section operate is phase three, so operate, and you can see under operate here all those, all the tabs that are underneath operate. Each one has a video, or most have a video, I would say. And then everyone usually has some sort of like a screenshot and step by step instructions walking you through the process. If we go back up here, there's that operate section. So, basically, you'll start here. You can read through this quick start guide, and you're going to go through this tab, this tab, and then everything in here under operate, and that will get you from start to finish. Is that helpful?
8:00
Just to clarify, now is that after I get it loaded on the on the system?
8:05
Yes. Yep, yep. So, did you do you already have an existing high-level account? Barbara,
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no, I don't. I chose to. I, I just joined, so I just went to directly. I didn't do the high level.
8:22
Oh, okay. Well, then you have an easy, an even easier path, because if you go that way, we actually load it for you.
8:30
Oh, okay.
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Yeah, so you don't even have to worry about loading the app. The app will be pre-loaded for you. Okay.
8:38
Okay, I will go through all of that stuff, and then I'm sure I'll have questions.
8:41
Yep, that's what we're here for. So we're here every Tuesday, noon Eastern, usually for about two hours.
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Okay. All right,
8:49
Barbara, are you, are you talking about having it independent of high level? Because I know that's what Tom was talking about on the last webinar, that you, you could install it outside of High Level.
9:00
Yes,
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so I don't know if that's the same thing that you're talking about, Jason.
9:07
Yeah, so there's two. There, the old way, the way that we, you know, originally sold SD AI as an app. We instructed everyone to go and purchase their own high-level account if they didn't have one already, and then purchase SD AI, and install the app. What, what Tom released in the new webinar was, we've created a new program where you, you basically essentially just purchase SD AI, and we, we give you a sub account under the SDAI high level account,
9:43
so it's still on high level. It's not, it's still on high
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level, it's just on ours. Like, you, you don't have control over it, and you get a single instance, a single sub account under our account. And we did that just to make it easier for people, because some people don't. Want to use high level for the rest of their business, maybe they're, or they're not using it currently. They just want to set up a directory, so this was a way that we could easily get people to use the directory and use it in their business that didn't already have high level or didn't want to use high level to begin with, and it's it saves you guys money too, so it's it's one less cost. So before you know, we instructed everybody you had to go through high level first and and you had to pay them at least $97 a month. Now it's just one charge versus two.
10:41
I think it was just a little confusing the way Tom described it. It, it sounded like a freestanding, like a WordPress install that you could put somewhere else outside of high level. I think that's the confusion was.
10:51
Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, I'm not sure why, but why, why, why he described it in that way. But no, it's, it is, it is a high-level agency account owned by SDAI, and we're pre-loading the app into every sub account that we give you guys, so it's already installed, all ready to go.
11:18
Cool. Any other questions on that
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application, and any other
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questions on that? Barbara,
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no, that's good. Now I got it, it's in there. Okay,
11:28
good, awesome. Right, Bobby.
11:34
Well, I don't really have a question at the moment, but I just wanted to brag on Jason, and is it Sherita? How do you say her name,
11:47
Wa Chica,
11:48
or Ishika? She helped yesterday get everything straightened out, man.
11:52
Oh, nice.
11:53
It is, you know, I've been floating around this high-level thing for a while now, trying to do my sign company and different things, I've never been in a program that has this much support and this much help. I just, you know, I don't know if the new people here just realizes what they got, and I just want to brag a little bit.
12:17
Nice, awesome, Bobby. I'm so excited for you. I know that you were, you had a little bit of trouble, so
12:26
and just about ready to quit. I have the question. If I did have a question, this is just an opinion type question. I'm talking to a guy I've hired VAs, and none of them, just they just, no common sense. I mean, I know what this is capable of, and I know what High Level's capable of, and I kind of could direct people, but they can't even do stuff, simple stuff. VAs are crappy, most of them, and so I just, you know, went through three of them, and paying people to do stuff. I run into the guy, I posted something, and he, he will go in with me on a percentage basis, like a partner, and but he wants us to use, you know, my, my high level, which I wanted to anyway, and like a 4060 split, and then if he does something, and in there that he does it all, closes it, builds it, everything he wants 80% Do you think that's a fair deal?
13:43
So let me get this straight. So he, he's basically going to be the engine behind your business, right? Like, he's going to be, he's going to be the infrastructure. You're, you're kind of the sales end,
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yeah.
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You're, you're the one out there shaking hands, kissing babies, making relationships, right? right, and then you're bringing it back to him, and he's executing on the back end, correct? Yeah,
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he's kind of wanting 5050 on everything except what he does when he closes the deal. He, I don't talk to the people at all. He wants 80% I'm trying to get him to go 4060 and 75 and he's wanting 80 and 5050 Is
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he local to you?
14:30
No, that's a sad part. He's in another country, but he's got a lot of stuff on fiber, and he knows the program, he says, and you know he talks a good game. I don't know. He's got good testimonials.
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Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's like, what? So he's going to, he's going to do his own type of sales outreach. And then anyone that he closes, so what's the incentive for him then to bring it under your umbrella? I guess that's yeah, that's
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that's my challenge, that's my.. if we're going to split and we're going to work as a team, it's like he's motivated to do his own and not work as much on, you know, our team stuff,
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right?
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Splitting his, and he's on fiber, so he's probably going to work with other customers too. So I'm a little bit, I'm a little bit hesitant, you know.
15:35
I would be too. I don't know if that sounds like the right partnership. I'll be honest with you, yeah, I don't think I would probably do that type of deal. What you need is just somebody who knows the system, who's willing to, like, when you sign a client, you know, execute and basically get the work done, whatever it is that you need done, right? I don't think you need to muddy the waters with someone who's also going to be doing sales, and then wants to do some sort of commission split with you on that side of things. You just need the infrastructure, you need help behind the scenes, technically to get these sub accounts set up correctly, and that's what you need.
16:15
Yeah, that the hard part about that is it's probably better for me to pay for that, but I've tried that. I worked with an agency that said they're all high-level certified people, but this kid was, I mean, asking to do a chat bot, and he couldn't even get that right. I want to put an ABR in front of it, so you have to push one to talk, and he just ignored me. He didn't listen to detail. I need somebody that's really detailed. Maybe I know this is just my observation, but women are more detailed than men, at least in my opinion. I'd love to have somebody that just wants to work in the back end,
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right?
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You know, but that is
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there.
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Go ahead. Is
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there a specific service, like I mean, you mentioned chat bot, but is there, like, is that what you want to kind of lead with? Is there a specific service that you might want to lead with?
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Well, my whole, my big plan is to sell the directories to sign shops, and then after that would be take their database and put it in the directory and help them start selling services, high level services to their customer base, and doing either they've got the technology guy, just sign them up on high level with the link, and if they don't want to fool with it, you know, I got my guy that would say I'm not, they would basically introduce the services in their directory, like you know Tom represents it, and then we would actually do the service for them, and they would think that they're doing it, we just be the fulfillment side of it, and split the commission with them, and that first step would be to find out if the sign shops are even open to that idea.
18:29
Yeah, I mean, I know you've mentioned the sign shop idea before. I love that idea. I think that's fantastic. I think you should really lean into that, honestly. I mean, that's where you've got, what is it 30 years or something of experience. I mean, Bobby, that's huge. I mean, nobody else.. that's a..
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I just got to get there.
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Yeah,
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I'm using the local directory for.. am I been my stumbling block as I started promoting it, and my son, he's. he's. I don't know. He acts like he's 80. He don't believe in anything, anything that's new. And, oh, you're bugging my customers, you're bugging my customers. So that's it mentally set me back, because I'm thinking, well, are all sign shops gonna be like that? I'm not like that.
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Yeah, but
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you know, and so he made me stop sending emails out to his customers, which were my customers. I gave him.
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Oh man,
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at the end of this today, if you got time after everybody's questions, I'd like to show you something I did, and ask AI, and see, see if you can look at this. Awesome,
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of course, 100% Yeah, we'll circle back around.
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Okay,
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definitely. All right. And
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as we were talking about chat bots, I thought about this a while ago with that front-facing chat bot on the website at. Yourself, is there a way to put an A B split on that to say, are you a consumer or are you a business owner, so that they get totally different conversations, because you know there can be both coming to that site,
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right?
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Is there a way to make it a split chat bot?
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Yeah, so essentially it would be the same chat bot, you're not actually splitting it into two chat bots, but the way that I would probably lay that out specifically, if you want to give, if you want to train the bot on real detailed information around both consumer and business, is that would be your prompting question, right? That would be the first question that the bot asks, and then the back end, you can do two separate knowledge bases.
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Okay, that's that's really what you know. Have a startup question. Are you looking for a local business, or are you looking to list your business here?
20:52
Right. Yep,
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and the two chat box is two conversations
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to two knowledge bases, right. For each one thing to note about knowledge base, what I, what I would recommend, I don't know if Tom mentions this or not, but in my testing, my personal testing in my own agency, what I've seen is that training a bot using like a web crawler, because you know there's the web crawl option where you can train the bot. In my experience, that gives the bot a lot of additional data that sometimes can skew the bot and not have it operate correctly. So, the most accurate that I've seen is the Q&A, or just straight, like straight document information, like just dumping information into the document section, or the what is it called, the
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instructions.
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Yeah, if we go into conversation, see your knowledge base. It's sorry, I'm just trying to pull it up real quick. Rich text, so that that rich text editor, where you can just dump a bunch of text, so that, and the the files or the FAQs seem to be more accurate.
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Okay,
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so that's what I would do, especially if you're going to separate it and have two knowledge bases. I would focus on that stuff. I would, I would use the web crawler sparingly. I wouldn't, wouldn't go all in on that,
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right? Yeah, unless you're doing it for the individual businesses, then it can crawl their own website.
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Even so, even again, this is my own personal experience. Even that. So, what happens with web crawling is that all the metadata that's included in the site, all the HTML, so like your headers, footers, all the code behind the scenes that gets crawled and that gets indexed for the bot, which a lot of that stuff is like it doesn't need it, so it's like all this extra information that's just kind of floating around on the back end, and so again, I've seen the I've seen bots be more accurate when I just structure it with the basic FAQ section, as well as like rich text or files,
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so if you're setting it up for one of the local businesses on their listing, and they don't have that kind of a setup on their website. You have to create that first, and then basically have them do a Q and A to then their bot. Essentially, it's not
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that hard. So, what I would, I do personally, I use like chat, or I'll use Claude, and I'll say, 'Hey, go scrape this client's website, give me, you know, go through all the data, formulate the data into a file that I can then use to train a chat bot, and it'll go and pull all the content out of the site and format it in a way that I can, I can then upload it into high level, and then additionally I'll tell it, you know, go through the site based on the industry that they're in, based on this on the services that they provide, come up with, you know, 50 Q and A answers that are appropriate to their business, and then you can hand that off over to the business owner and say, "Hey, does you know, are these answers appropriate for your business? Does this all make sense? Cool, we're going to use this to train your bot,
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okay? You're not, you're not expecting the go high level web search to do that. You're doing it, you're still.. I'm doing it
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myself,
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but you're formatting it on the back end.
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Yeah, I used to do.. I like full transparency. I used to use it, that would.. because that's the easy button. You just dump in a website, hit crawl, and go, right? But what I found over testing over the last couple of months is that it is not as accurate, and so I've stopped doing that way now. If I need to get something up and running, because I want to, like, run a demo or show something to somebody real quick, of course, I'll just use the web crawler, because it's easy, it's fast, but if somebody's paying me for the service. I'm going to go the extra step, and I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to go through what I just described.
25:04
Okay. Perfect. Thank you.
25:06
Yep. No problem, Alex. Alex, you hear
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you? Yes, yes, I'm there. I was looking for my headphones, but I guess I'll do without them. No worries. Can you hear me?
25:29
Yeah, I can hear you just fine.
25:30
Okay, cool. Um, yeah, big enigma on my side. Let me share the screen with you, so all my premium listings don't show their emails when you click on the profiles,
25:58
okay. Normally they should be showing, should be showing above links here, right. However, I think your screens share. I don't think you're sharing just yet. There, Alex, gotcha. Hold on, let me see.
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Entire screen, screen number two. Share, see something. Nope, still don't see my screen,
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not yet.
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You can now put your, okay, try again. Sometimes it takes a couple tries.
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I think it's looks like it's starting to work.
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Yeah,
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there we go.
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Yeah, okay.
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Yep.
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Switch tabs here. Can you see this profile?
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Yes, we see it. Yep,
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science profile. Okay, so yeah, normally the emails should be showing right between, like, here links or above, right here, right on the get more information box here, as you can see here on my free plan, people, the email show email address show, hold on right here, right, no problem there, that's people who are
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on
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they're on the free plan, but whoever is on the premium plan, nothing's showing in terms of email, it's not a mystery.
28:17
Alex, Jason, I think this needs to be enabled from the pricing plans options that we enable
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from the price in the plan section. Yeah, the pricing plan section.
28:34
Yes.
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Okay, so I need to go
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to go high level,
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right? Okay, let me just add that here.
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When that loads, just go go ahead and click on SD AI
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right,
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and then go into your plan section.
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Everything's in slow motion. I'm in the country, probably slow too. You also
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have 50 tabs open up there.
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Yeah, that's that's the minimal. Usually I have 200 crazy. Oh, yeah, I closed them like this, but it's an epidemic.
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Yeah, it still slows it
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down.
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Okay, plans.
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Yep, go ahead and click on plans there.
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Okay, and
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then let's click on your premium, the pro.
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Okay, and I go here. No, yep. And then click
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next,
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next,
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and then go. Of a currency, there we go, yep, it's right in here. So this is going to show you everything that's enabled or disabled.
30:07
Okay, and why do I have two columns are included? Show,
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so sometimes you don't want to show in the in the actual list. Some people wanted the option to hide
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it. Okay,
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that's it right there. Yep, if you hit,
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don't you love those solutions when they're just one button away?
30:31
That's pretty nice. Makes my job easier. Yeah, right. Let's go double check and just make sure that that did it
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smart, but that's another story. Yeah, so say it's saved on saved, right? So I'm just gonna refresh, or just go
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here.
31:02
Bingo. Thank you so much. You made my day. I can now take the day off. It's been good. There you go. All right. Thank you, Jason. Thank you. Okay.
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Perfect.
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You're welcome.
31:22
Right. right, guys. More questions, comments? Anybody struggling with anything doesn't have to be SDAI, could be business related, could be strategy, packaging, pricing, anything you guys want to talk about, I'm happy to discuss.
31:44
I'm totally locked out of mine. I don't know that this is the proper forum, but it says payment failed, and you know, payment shouldn't have failed, shouldn't have even charged me again. I paid 99 on the 17th, and then I upgraded to the ultimate, I mean, the unlimited on the 20th, and paid 299 and then I got charged dollars randomly. I don't know why, and then I tried to log in yesterday, and it says your account is suspended.
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Are you Kim? Are you on your own high-level instance, or are you underneath SDAI?
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Underneath SDAI.
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Oh, you are. That's interesting, Rachika. Can do you already have a ticket going, Kim?
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Yes. Well, I don't know ticket number, but I did email help at Smart Director, calm Chica,
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can you pull up Kim's ticket and see what's going on? Let's see if we can't expedite
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your situation.
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So, Kim, you said your account is paused, and he recently paid 99 and then you paid 299
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right? And then I paid $10 for some reason I got charged $10
33:10
Okay, and replied to you as well, and okay, so the latest note that I have from the team is that it is canceled.
33:34
Oh, yeah, that's another thing.
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Yeah, so somehow like we can't find the ticket where maybe you requested for the cancelation, but your account got canceled, so I think
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canceled two days after I started it. I have no idea why I didn't know it was canceled. Yeah, and I didn't. Yeah, so
33:54
Tim is Tim has decided maybe they were, I think they are waiting for your response, if you want to keep it, or if you want to just cancel it. So, you're saying that you want to keep it, right?
34:09
Well, yeah, I wanted somebody to explain to me, because in two meetings I asked the question about if I sell these directories, what will they be able to do with it? You know, will they be able to email, will they be able to do all of the stuff you know to operate a directory, and they said yes. And then I found out that no, they won't be able to do all that, and I should just
34:32
let's, yeah, let's go through all your questions first. So, let's start with that one. So, Who told you that you can't, that they won't be able to email or use the directory if you sold it.
34:43
Tom said that, but you know he had first said yes, because I asked the question in the chat, and he answered it live. And then on another video, a different day, asked the same question, because I still wasn't clear, and he said no. What you need to do is do affiliate, you know. If you want to do that, you know the people that you sell a directory to are not going to have the same access, you know, they're not gonna be able to email people, and I don't know, it still is not clear to me. I don't understand, you know, if I sell
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what he means here, like the people you sell this to maybe they'll not get the kind of support that you are getting, or they'll not be able to maybe email us,
35:28
that makes sense, but I'm
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sure if that is what Tom meant. Yeah, well,
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if I could just talk to someone and get it all explained to me, then I'll decide, you know, whether or not it's best to keep the unlimited, but I just don't have a clear understanding of it, and I don't know why it got canceled, and I can't access it all day yesterday, and I can't get in today. What's going on?
35:55
So, let me, Rachika, because I don't know the answer to this question on the unlimited plan, did Tom give an option for unlimited underneath SDAI in the SDAI agency account? He did okay, so if somebody purchases unlimited underneath SDAI, they just need to request, like, and anytime they sign a new client, they request a new sub account, we generate it for them and give them access. Got it? Cool. Okay, so
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soon as someone cancel their subscription, all the accounts will be paused.
36:39
Got it? That makes a lot of sense. Okay, and then there, there still is the option, if you have your own high-level agency, you can still, you can also purchase the unlimited, correct?
36:51
Yes, we give the license keys,
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we just give the license key away.
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Perfect.
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Okay, just wanted to clarify that. So, Kim, this is not really a question of SDI. This is a question of high level, and the answer is 100% yes. So every sub account that's generated inside High Level can send and receive email. It can also, we can also set up phone numbers under that sub account. Every sub account operates as its own kind of entity, a siloed entity, right, for a, for a company that company could be your business, that could be a client's business, right, but every sub account operates independently of another sub account, so what, what the, the deal is, is 299 that gives you, if you're going to stay underneath our account, will anytime you sign a new client, we just basically spin up a new sub account for you and attach it to your, we attach it to your user, and then you're able to access it. Now, the only question, Rachika, maybe, and this is something I didn't think about until right now, is if she has users, will she be able to, will she, she be able to add her client as a user to that sub account, which I know is possible inside High Level. Just want to make sure that we're not restricting that, which I don't think we should or would
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under SDI, like under Smart Directory. Yeah, right. No, we are not restricting.
38:22
Okay, okay. Yes,
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see their account and, and do stuff on behalf of them,
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100% Yes, yes.
38:31
Okay, that's different than I understood them. Okay. Well, that's yeah,
38:36
that's the way sub accounts operate inside high level. That's outside of us, that's not us, that's just how high level operates, so all the communication, all communication for any business happens within a sub account under high level, right? So, what we're saying is our deal is 299 unlimited installs of directories, whether that's under us or whether you have your own high-level account, and it's under you. If it's under you, we just give you the license keys, so you can install the app. If it's under us, we just give you another sub account. The app is pre-installed, so it's the same thing.
39:14
Okay. Gotcha. Thank you. Someone will be back about my suspension, hopefully.
39:21
Yeah, or we'll little.. let's finish the question. Do you have any other questions? Anything else that you need clarified? Because I want to make sure that you, you feel comfortable, you get your questions answered.
39:31
I mean, I feel like, yeah, as long as when I sell someone the directory, they'll be able to do the same things I'm able to do, pretty much, right?
39:40
That's correct. Yeah, because every new sub account you can connect a brand new domain to it, you can connect a brand new email account to it. So emails can come from, you know, that business.com It can come, you know, it can be connected to theirs. All the branding can be updated every instance. It's going to be a brand. And it's a brand new install, so it's like every, you get to customize everything to that business.
40:05
Okay, okay. Then I think I'm good. Thank you,
40:10
Jason Kim. Yes, sorry to interrupt. I just have one question, Kim. Like, which plan do you want to continue with, like 99 or 299
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The 299
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299 Okay, so I'll inform the team, and maybe you will get a reply from our side on that same ticket.
40:27
Okay, and
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we will fix it inside of the accounts.
40:30
Okay, great. Thank you. Yeah, thank you.
40:33
Awesome. Yeah, Bobby, I'm
40:36
just on that subject. The way I understood is that we could not actually sell the directories to other people, we could manage, we could set as many people up as we want, and we manage it with their stuff in it, but we couldn't sell the directory, we would have to give them an affiliate and let them buy the directory. I mean, that's the way I understood it. Is at one time he said, 'No, we don't. You can't sell the directory because we own them. You can only, you can manage as many directories as you want, but you can't sell them.
41:19
Okay, hang on, I'm going to get, I'm going to get Cameron on the line right now. We're going to get to the bottom of this right now, because I
41:27
don't pee on the parade.
41:30
I want to find out exactly what's going on here. Okay, so give me one sec, let me message him, I seem
42:00
like they're a thin line about that you're still selling them, but you got to manage them. It's under your own,
42:10
yeah, which puts a big damper on meaning unlimited, because I don't want to be managing everybody's business.
42:19
Do you want to populate the directory, then give it to someone, or just from scratch give them the license to use it.
42:29
I can do some population because I have a lead scraper, but I don't want to, you know, be responsible for maintaining it, and you know, setting up their segments and emailing and all that,
42:52
yeah, because you could charge a good fee if you build it, you bring in hundreds of listings, and then you sell that to someone to run it,
43:08
yeah. Okay, I just sent him a message, so hopefully he's usually pretty quick. We'll, I'll keep this Slack open, we'll, we'll try to get to the bottom of this. In the past, as I remember, because we have talked about this in our private meetings, because this has come up in past calls where there are agencies that want to white label SD AI and sell it as their own software, basically saying, hey, we want to white label, just like we white label high level, we want to white label SDAI, and then sell it. That is not an option, and I know that the team said that that's probably not going to become an option, just because there's a lot more involved there. But as I remember the conversation, Cameron, I remember Cameron saying, even though it's, you can't white label it, you can certainly resell it,
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like
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you're not gonna be able to hide the fact that it is still SD AI, and any one of your customers could go around you, you know, go get their own high-level account, go install SDAI, and set it all up themselves, but that's not really what they're buying, they're buying, you're the expert in SDAI, you know how to set it up, you know how to operate it, that's what they're paying for, and that's the way I understood it. So
44:33
that may be what I heard too, just the idea that white label was not available, maybe that's what,
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right?
44:40
Yeah, that makes sense.
44:43
Yeah,
44:44
but it has to be a functional directory, you know, so it kind of negates the point if you can't sell it and have it be doing the things that it's so wonderful at,
44:54
right? Right, so I. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't think that there's a problem with you. I don't remember Cameron ever mentioning there's a problem reselling SDAI. It's just the fact that we can't hide that it's, you know, there's no way for you to hide that it's SDA. So technically somebody could find out and they could go around and purchase it themselves, yeah. But the trouble to do that, I would not be worried about that whatsoever. I mean, high level is a perfect case in point. A lot of people like, they don't, you know, they know it's on high level, they have no clue how to set up their own high level account, so they would much rather just pay somebody to help them set up a high level account,
45:42
exactly. Yeah,
45:43
so
45:45
yeah, it's actually an asset, because you know, you, if you pretend it's yours, well, what's some guy going to build that high levels like 100 times 1000s of times better? I mean, there's no way you can use that as an asset, you know. These guys are adding, adding stuff to it, and doing things every week.
46:08
Yep, yep, 100% Okay. Well, we'll wait, we'll wait to hear what he says here, uh Any other questions on that, Kim? Did we clear everything up? I think so. Yeah, okay. Thank you.
46:29
Cool.
46:30
And Bobby,
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you want me to show you that that screen now? Yeah,
46:38
looks like we don't have any hands up, so yeah, let's go ahead and go for it.
46:43
Let me see if I can find it here. See, I'm thinking it's, it's in this other browser, I This is it right here. I ask, ask AI, because one of the hardest things for me was to onboard somebody
47:14
in your screen. Bobby,
47:16
you're not seeing it.
47:17
We see install the app.
47:20
Yeah, that's what we're seeing, that the help dot smart directory AI page.
47:23
Okay, let me, let me go back, let me go back and try this again.
47:46
I'd like to go back to Zoom. That's what I'd like to go back to. Yeah, yeah. So Zoom to me is just so much easier, I think.
47:54
Yeah, everybody switched
47:56
stuff that they're going to come out with the messaging thing they're working on now. Can you see this screen?
48:08
Yep, we got it.
48:10
Well, my my idea was to get custom values so that the AI studio could build the custom values into the website and build a form, so I basically just ask it this little question here, and it built it all with a couple of answers that it asked me, but it built the form, and basically the customer just fills out the form, and it fills in the custom values, and there's a prompt at the end for that. All that goes into the website too. Entire onboarding system is ready. You get in this example 32 custom values, all this stuff, and a prompt for AI Studio too. So, you've got your custom values fills in the website, so you don't have to put in their address and their name and all that stuff, you know.
49:16
Yeah,
49:17
so I was really surprised that it could do that, but I haven't really played with it yet. I just wanted to see if you know the one thing that I did try to go, I tried to go find a form, and I put in there where the form was under sites and forms, but I couldn't find it. I just wanted to know if anybody played with this, or if you have any added information, or
49:47
yeah, yeah, I've been.. are you part of the AI inner circle?
49:53
No, I don't think so. I don't think
49:56
Nick, Nick Pontes group, so I do a
49:59
lot. Was I was in that Tom, you know, they split up their systems, but I wasn't with Nick too at one time. I don't know if I am now.
50:11
I know he has a free, he's got a free group, and I think I don't know, I can't remember the exact difference between the free and the paid, but I know one of one of the differences is you don't get access to the live calls, but you do get access to our recorded calls, and so I teach in that group, I teach a class once a month, it's usually the last Thursday of every month, and we usually, I usually always teach on something AI related, and we went over Ask AI. I don't know if it was two months ago, or we may, and we touched on it, I think, last month too. But anyway, yes, I use this a lot. It's extremely powerful. It's, it's becoming more and more integrated. There's a lot of really cool things that you can do with Ask AI to help you build out funnels, workflows. One of the examples that I gave, I had it build out a an entire e-com store, I had it create the products I had to create images for all the products I had to create the actual products themselves on Stripe and a payment checkout form so that people could actually purchase the products and that was all through a prompt all through
51:36
that that would be great,
51:38
yeah, I mean it's it's extremely powerful. So, I love it. I've been experimenting with it quite, quite a bit, and I keep encouraging everybody to use it. Their high level will eventually charge for this, like every AI tool, there's token usage, there's cost associated. Right now, they're letting everyone basically use it for free in order to, for them, high level to get training data to make it better and better and better, right? Get it
52:07
better, and we, we get addicted.
52:11
Yeah,
52:14
Jason, do you know LLM this runs on?
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I don't know, I'm not sure what they're using on the back end,
52:21
us a lot for this kind of thing, and it just is amazing what it'll, it'll go out and do.
52:27
Yep,
52:28
they say somebody taught me it was Claude, but I don't know.
52:32
Yeah, it could be. It's probably one of the frontier models. I'm sure it's one of them. I don't think that it's, you know, something local, but if anybody wants, I mean, like, I could talk about AI all day long. I do a lot with AI. I run my own local LLM on my machines here at my house. I'm actually getting ready to expand and get several more machines that I'm daisy chaining together to create a super LLM here that I run locally at my house, but like, and for those, I don't know if anybody's interested, but like, if you want to go down the rabbit hole of local LLMs, look into Quen. Quen is amazing, a llama is another really good one, but there's some amazing local local LLMs that you can run on your machine, that once you download, if you have the compute power, if you have a strong enough machine that can run it, and you have the compute power for it, and you download it, it's free, it's unlimited tokens, there is no cost, the cost is the machine, the cost is your computer, that the machine that you have to buy to run it, once you, once you pay for that machine, like, you can download these models, and these models are extremely smart. They're amazing, like I said, I've got them running almost 24/7 right now, doing things for me. They're total workhorses, they're amazing. So,
53:56
hardware, do you need what? What's the cost on that?
54:00
Just depends. I mean, it like you can. If you go, like one of the things that I did early on was I went to, I think I just went into chat, and I said, you know, here are all the specs of the current machine that I have. What is the, what's the best local model that I can run on these specs, and then it told me, and that's what I started experimenting with. Then I invested, I bought a, about a pretty sizable m4 Max Studio, I think I've got 128 gigs of ram and two terabytes of memory, so it's pretty large, pretty fast machine, and that one I'm able to run an even larger model, so I mean, you can keep going, like I said, you can daisy chain these things together. I've always been, I'm a Mac guy, I just, that's, I run on Mac ecosystem, I have an iPhone, like all my stuff is Mac, so it made sense for me to go that route, but there are other, you know, other things that. You can go the Nvidia route, is also like really good. The Spark is an amazing machine, so there's like there's different things that you could do, but I, what I would do is, I would just research, say, "Hey, you know, based on what I have, what's the, what's the top local model that I can run? You know, just punch in all your specs, chat will tell you exactly what what you can expect, it'll tell you how fast you know how quickly it can run all those, all those different things. And then, if you're looking to buy a new machine, then I would take those specs again, dump that into chat, and say, "Hey, this is the new machine that I'm looking at. What model can I run on this new machine? Yeah, so so, but I do a lot on Quent 3.6 that's their newest model, local model, it's amazing. I absolutely love Quen.
55:53
Cool, thanks. I just know, yeah, no problem. His hand up,
55:57
yeah, Alex, go right ahead.
55:59
Yeah, sorry, I was
56:00
going on that AI tangent. How now
56:02
you spell Quinn, by the way?
56:04
Q U or Q W E N, I believe, right? Q W E N
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by Open Claw.
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What's that
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rave? Everybody was raving about Open Claw about a month ago, and now it's kind of gone away to some, for some reason.
56:22
Yeah, so I've done a lot of experimentation with Open Claw. My favorite agent is Hermes. That's that's the agent that I love. I do a lot on Hermes.
56:37
Ever heard of it? Okay, so that's a model, or is it that, is that like
56:43
it's an agent framework similar to Open Claw? Yeah.
56:47
Oh,
56:48
gotcha.
56:48
And so it's different than Quinn.
56:52
Yes, Quinn is so like Quinn Chat, you know, Claude Manis. Those are kind of the brains, the muscle, right, open claw is kind of the layer in between, it's it's the communication layer between the models, it's the orchestration, it's like,
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okay,
57:16
think of, think of like a company structure, you've got your CEO, your CTO, your CMO, that's the structure, that's the org structure, right? That's your, that's your open claw, that's your orchestration layer. Those got those guys report, like, so everyone reports up to them, they disseminate down to the workhorse beneath them, like all the employees beneath them, and tell them what to do, right, so
57:42
Okay, I have a workflow-related question. So, I sometimes, maybe too often, I give away, let's say, a premium profile, and the way I've done this is that I would simply just click on, I want to share my screen. Share it. Am I sharing now? Not yet. Not yet. Okay. Sometimes I have to do it twice.
58:21
Should come about soon.
58:36
There you go. I think it's coming along. Yep, it looks like it's pulling up. Okay, great. So, yeah, I'm not sure I'm taking the best route to do this. So, what I would do is just sometimes I would get the person profile on LinkedIn, and they would be a great candidate to add to the directory. This is a directory for individuals, not really for companies, for AI filmmakers. Okay, so what I would do is I would click on on this here, I would be logged out, right, and I would just put all the details fill out these things with the details and build basically then go back into my system here and grab the request you know that I created myself as a free account, I would go into submissions, right, and then find it, and then say approve, and go through all that, and then even allow them, you know, virtually to become a premium profile. So I would click on premium, and there you go. I would have them as a premium, but the thing I would do is I would not want to alert them right away, so I would not put their email address, I would put my email address, and once it's built, then I would show it to them and say, hey, do you want to do you approve of this, but I would not offer them to claim it, because I would have kind of claimed it myself. I don't know if that makes sense.
1:00:31
Yep.
1:00:32
Okay, so what other route could I take so that I can show them what they would look like as a premium account, and have them claim it.
1:00:44
Yeah, so that I think the main problem here is that you're going, you're basically taking the same path that they would take, or that they should be taking, right? You're going through the front end, you just need to go through the back end. So I would go to contacts, I would add a new business that way, instead of filling out that form, it might - you would just - you'd fill it out on the contact itself, and then add the business tag, right? Nobody's claimed it that way, it'll still show up here once you add that tag, it's going to show up in your list, right? It's still toggle on premium, but it's not attached to any user.
1:01:25
Oh, okay.
1:01:28
Make sense.
1:01:29
Yeah, so then once once I fill out the form, the fields and everything, what do I do? To
1:01:38
you follow the same process, so it's literally you. Instead of going to the front end of the site and filling out that form, you're just going to go to the contacts area, click add new contact, and then go through the process, right? Get adding in all their details, right?
1:01:56
Even the their emails,
1:01:58
you can add their email, because right now you're not running the automation, so all your automations should be paused, right? Yeah, so you're, you don't have to worry about adding their, their email,
1:02:12
okay?
1:02:13
Because all your automations are paused, so I would just do that, that way it's set up correctly from the beginning, that way they can claim, because they can just click on that link, they could go there, they could hit the button to claim, and they could enter all their details.
1:02:32
Okay, like the details
1:02:37
as a consumer, right? Because they're going to claim business, it's going to create an account for them,
1:02:44
okay?
1:02:45
Right, so yeah, all you need is all you need to change is instead stop going to the front of your site to add a business,
1:02:56
yeah,
1:02:56
just don't go that route, yeah, just go into the sub account, go to the contact section, add a new contact, make sure that the business name, I mean, these are individuals, so excuse me, you can use first name with their actual first name, right? Right, do they have, because they don't have business names, right?
1:03:17
Well, sometimes they do, sometimes they do, yeah, okay, sometimes. I have to kind of make it up so that it fills out that field, but right, I guess they can do that. So, what are you saying is that I go through the back end here, the contacts page,
1:03:37
yep,
1:03:40
and I fill out like the business description, the links they got, all of that, I can put their name, and once I'm satisfied with the content, the I would just want to simulate that. Well, you can always
1:04:02
edit the, you can always edit from SD AI as well. But this is where you'll enter the, the general information to start. So you click on add contact,
1:04:13
yeah.
1:04:15
And then when you want it to show up on the directory, you'll add the business tag, remember?
1:04:20
Right.
1:04:21
Yep. so you can go through, you can get basically all the information ready to go. Maybe you're missing one or two little things, and so you don't want it to show up on the site just yet, but you could preload it. You can basically get all this information, or you could go all the way to the end, get all the info. Just don't add the business tag, and it won't show up on the site,
1:04:44
okay?
1:04:46
Until you're ready,
1:04:47
so when it's when I'm ready, how do I get again? Send them a note saying, "Hey, please, if you want to claim that that that listing, how do they get that you. Without automation, do I just send them the link or the link of the page? Yeah.
1:05:08
What you would do, so some.. there have been a couple of people that have done this. They've set up a snippet. Are you familiar with snippets?
1:05:18
Snippet is..
1:05:22
it's essentially the email template that you can access through the conversation section of High Level, so if you go under, if you go under conversations over there on the left,
1:05:37
yeah,
1:05:40
yeah, go ahead and click on that. See, at the top, do you see the where it says snippets?
1:05:52
Yeah,
1:05:53
yeah, go ahead and click on snippets there, I and so what you can do here is in our automation we have an email that goes out that asks them to claim, right?
1:06:23
Yeah,
1:06:25
and then it pre-populates the correct link for that business. You can basically copy that entire email template, turn it into a snippet, change the text around a little bit that you want, and then this becomes available to you when you go to send emails one by one, right? You can use it's just a template that you can select.
1:06:47
Okay, and when I'm in contacts, I click on the no,
1:06:53
no, go back to conversations, go back to conversations, and then I'll show you an example, we won't actually send anything, but I'll just show you how it works. So this first person right here, is that an email that you sent them? Yeah, it looks like okay. So down at the bottom, do you see where it says type of message, little envelope next to it in the center of the screen? Go ahead and put your cursor in that box there, do Okay, go ahead and click email. Could open up a box for email. Okay, now once this loads, there it is. Okay,
1:07:42
no, no, no.
1:07:45
Now down towards the bottom, you see there's a, there's different formatting options. You've got emojis, right? So there's an option right there. Nope, one over. No snippets available. Okay, that's where it would appear. So, you have the option to create snippets that are for SMS or for email. So, what you would do is create a brand new - it's basically just a template. I don't know if you've ever used, like, canned responses in Gmail. It's this - it's the same thing that's automated answers. Yeah, yep, that's what you're doing here.
1:08:22
In other words, so I create a snippet right here. I click back on snippets.
1:08:28
Yep, I
1:08:28
say new snippet at email snippet.
1:08:35
Yep, adding the email snippet. Go and copy the email. Yeah, okay. Okay, and now you can send it one off, then you can change the text.
1:08:48
Yeah, yeah, okay,
1:08:53
nice. Okay, yeah, and that will have the claim message in there. Okay,
1:09:06
yep,
1:09:07
okay. Beautiful. Okay, appreciate that. That's going to be really helpful.
1:09:11
Awesome.
1:09:12
Thank you.
1:09:14
Yeah, no problem, Alex. Right, guys. More questions, comments, and you have something. No. Okay. All right. Anybody else do all
1:09:44
right. Thank you, so, so much. See you next week,
1:09:46
of course. Alex, no problem.
1:09:51
Yeah, I'm good. Thank you.
1:09:52
Awesome. Bye. All right, guys. Well, we're pretty early right now, but I don't want to force anybody to stick around if we don't have questions or topics or anything that people want to discuss.
1:10:15
How about the best, best method you see for outreach, like finding the leads to add to your directory. I know Nick does a lot of the Google scraping with Gemini, and that type of thing, which should be totally fine, as far as I can see.
1:10:32
Yep,
1:10:32
when people..
1:10:34
yeah, I think that's a great idea. I love, I mean, as far as like lead scraping and like building lists, I've done it all, you know. I've hired people to scrape lists together for me. I've used countless software tools. I've purchased lists in the past. Yeah, I mean, there's.. there.. I've used AI tools to generate lists. So, yeah, I mean, any.. I think I would experiment and see what you find works best, and what you get the best response rate from. The only thing that I would add to that is that no matter where you generate your list from, and these email addresses from, you always want to make sure that you're cleaning and scrubbing those lists. So run that through some sort of a verification tool for email, the one that I've been using for you years is called Never Bounce, and so I'll run it through that every single time, right? And I only send to email addresses that come back as verified. I don't send to anybody else. I know they give you several options, there's some that are unknown, other ones that are like potentially could be good emails, I don't include those, I only include the ones that come back fully verified. Yeah, Bobby,
1:11:55
could you put that so I don't forget it? Never bounce,
1:12:01
never bounce. Yeah, I'll drop a link. Let me grab
1:12:05
them. For decades, remember years ago I used to use that.
1:12:10
Yeah, they've been around for a long time.
1:12:16
Another question I got, when I want to start my, the next directory to to build a directory to approach sign shops. How do I go about that? I used to have to ask for a license. I mean, well, how do I go about that now with the new system, and I'm on the unlimited,
1:12:41
okay? But you have your own high-level account,
1:12:43
yeah,
1:12:44
right,
1:12:45
yeah.
1:12:45
So you're just going to request a new license anytime you sell it, you know.
1:12:49
Okay, that's
1:12:50
it. I'm going to start building it out, and you know, just, just like the local one, I'm going to do sign companies. I'm just going to scrape sign companies, put them on there, and start normally, like you know, claim your listing,
1:13:05
you know what you could do, Bobby. I would just reach out to support to our support team and just say, hey, I want to set up five new directories and five new sub accounts, so I'd like, you know, can you please send me five license keys, and then you can just preload them, just get the app installed, you know, kind of get the basic, get it kind of like set up the bait, just the very, very basics, so they're ready to go. So you got five of them just kind of sitting on ice, ready to go. You can start doing your prospecting, then when somebody says yes, you can just pull one of those five and go right, so you're not waiting around.
1:13:44
I
1:13:44
do that. It looks like Cameron just messaged me back too. He says, yeah, exactly what I was saying. So he says, yes, 100% we can sell directories to another business, no problem with that. The only thing we can't do is white label it, so they will know, and you will know that it's Smart Directory AI, because they'll be able to access the backend if you give them access. But yes, you can sell it all day long, you just can't white label it.
1:14:19
That's great.
1:14:20
Okay, okay.
1:14:21
Bobby, explain. Explain what you're trying to do. You said you're going to sell this to sign companies. Is this.. I
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was in the sign business for a long time, and what I.. what I've got in my local town is a directory for all kinds of service companies. You know, we. we sell signs to realtors, plumbers, roofers, all these people, they're the biggest customers of us. Well, I'm going to tell other sign companies, hey, you've already got the customers, why don't you? I'll build you a directory and show you how to approach. Them on a really nice, easy, no hard sale way to use your customer base to generate income that you're not getting right now. They're, they're buying signs, but they're, they need social media, they need chatbot, they need website, they need all these things that you can offer them, and we'll, I'll, I'll do the fulfillment and split the commission with you, or the other choices, you do all of it, and I'll just give you the affiliate links and build your directory and help you get started, and you can do all the fulfillment and make all the money, that's your choices you're
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looking for other sign company owners who are entrepreneurs and looking for multiple streams of income to set up their own directory,
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correct? Because I've been in the sign business a long time, I can tell them, you know, I can talk to them about the sign business and see if they're open to the idea of expanding their income through this, you know, other sources. My son's not available, his mind is just shut off, but I'm hoping other companies won't be,
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but
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I'm trying to do the niche thing with that, because of my past experience. If you were in the workout business for 20 years, you should work with those people. Sure,
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I work with veterinarians, and they're stingy. Being a veterinarian, it's like they have no profit margin in their business, but they also have no brain power, no memory, because they're all tied up emotionally and caseload wise and everything. Well,
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that's the reason why I wanted two offers, because mostly my son and myself, I mean, when I was running the business, you have no time to do any of that stuff, you know it's available, and I sold cars, and that was my biggest source of income, was my database, you know. I've mailed them physical letters every month, and they sent me referrals. I know it works, it's just I didn't have time to do it, and that's the, that's the leverage you got with those people, is say you don't have time to do it, I know you don't, but I'll do it for you, and I'll create some income for you,
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Bobby. You know, one thing I'd add, I don't know if you thought about, but something that I did pretty early on in my career is, so I worked with several different, like, I got my start 15 years ago in dentistry, because my dad's a dentist, so it was just an easy fit. Like, I grew up in a dental office ever since I was a little kid, you know? Like, I spent just hours and hours in a dental office, which is not the funnest place for a kid, but that's just that was my childhood, you know.
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Yeah,
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and so I knew everything about, I mean, just through osmosis, you know, just listening to my dad talk about it. My dad's obsessed with it. He loves dentistry, it's his passion. So, I heard, I heard about it all the time. So, I just learned through osmosis, right? So, that was like a natural fit for me, and that's kind of how I got in on the marketing side. I started working with him, I started working with some of his friends, and then we expanded out. But anyway, where this conversation is going is, is one of the things that was the most successful for me was associations, and I kind of parlayed that after I, I stopped working in the dental industry, I still kept that going, any little niche that I decided to get into, I also got into the associations, national associations, regional associations, trade shows, those types of things. I know the sign industry has those.
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Oh, yeah,
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that, that to me, that was the best money. I'm telling everybody on this call, the best money I ever spent, hands down, is association fees, because once you go in, when you go into an association, you go to one of these trade shows or something, you're not looked at as an outsider, you're an equal, you're a vendor that understands their business, and especially you with 30 years of experience, that's the like, I can't think of a better way to, if you really want to explode this and you really want to put directories all across the country for sign companies. To me, that's the way to do it, is like, you know, don't don't worry about emailing people. I would just figure out what's the biggest associations out there that I need to join, and then become like, for me, what I did, I, you can become a guest writer, like a contributor. A lot of these associations have magazines that go out every month. They have, like, monthly newsletters, so, like, you can be a contributing contributor in there. So that's the first easy way, because they're always looking for contributors. So you can write up a little piece around marketing and around directories, and why it's so in. Important for sign companies to diversify their income streams, that that could be really easy for you to do. Then
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I've kind of, you know, now that you say it out loud, I kind of subconsciously thought that about going to trade shows, and and I was in all those things at one time, I joined all of them when I was active, but that would be great. I think that's super. I think I'll start joining them again.
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You really need to, honestly, I think again. I only speak for personal experience, like I'm not, I'm not telling you to do something I haven't done in the past. I've had great success with it, like it worked very well for me. Like, just joining those again, you're looked at as an equal, you're not like some outside marketing guy, like trying to, trying to get it in right, and look at you like, okay, this guy's in our association, he's one of us, he understands us, plus your background.
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Yeah, what
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I mean, like I was doing it in associations that I, I had never run that business before, you know what I mean? Like, I knew a lot about it, but I, I had never been in it. You know, you're the complete opposite, like you ran a sign company for a lot of
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years, yeah, several decades,
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so to me that's like you have the industry knowledge. I think you could easily become a panel expert there, and they're always looking for people, marketing people, you know, digital media people, content people, like they're always looking for that, you know, those types of contributors, so I think, yeah,
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they just don't know who to pick, because they're
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no, of course not,
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they've had so many people approach them, they want to talk to somebody that's knows what they know and can be, you know, relates to them,
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yeah, I think that would be a great way for you to go, honestly,
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okay, I would really encourage you.
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Yeah,
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cool. Yeah, let us know how it goes, because I - I'm rooting for you. I know you've talked about this for a little while, so I
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just need - I need some - I really need help in the back end, and just push this out. I need to go on and start selling, and I've held myself back so long because I was afraid that if I get a lot of response, which I expect to get some positive response that I don't, you know, I didn't want to get, get it, and then not be able to finish their directories and not be able to do the things that I need to do in the back end. Yeah, and so I kind of held myself back all this time.
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I mean, I think that's kind of the beauty, though, of our community. I wouldn't even be afraid of that, Bobby. I would just say, go for it. If you were to get into a tight situation, like all you'd have to do is jump on one of these calls on Tuesday and tell all of us, and we'll rally the troops, we'll figure out a way to help you and get it, and like, execute it, you know what I mean? Like,
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yeah,
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you've got people behind you, you know,
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that makes me feel good, and I did appreciate the help yesterday that we just deleted all those categories and started over, and we went to my, to my chamber, and just stole all their categories, and copy and paste them right in.
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There you go. That's easy. I love it. Yeah, my dad was
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great. She really, really made it in, she done a snapshot and got my workflows going, and everything.
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Yeah, whichik is awesome.
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Yeah, Jason, that'd be a good service
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offer within the Smart Directory is to have a team of technicians that you can hire out for all the members and say these are our certified registered technicians to build these directories for you.
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Yeah,
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well, man, today I gotta get going, but I really appreciate it.
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Awesome. Well, keep us posted. You know how to find me. I'm always here. I'm not going anywhere. Cool. See you, Bobby. Yeah, no problem. Anybody else? No. All right. Cool. Well, we'll go ahead and wrap up here. Thank you, guys, for showing up. We're here every Tuesday noon Eastern. Like I say, we usually we were around for about two hours. Sometimes we go over, sometimes we go a little under, like today. But we, the main point of this call is to get your questions answered, you know, talk shop, talk marketing, AI. Okay, whatever it is, whatever's top of mind, we want to get you guys the help and guidance that you need, and that's what we're here to do. We're here to support you in your journey again. Here every Tuesday, noon Eastern, we appreciate each one of you guys. If you guys have questions between now and next Tuesday, we have a phenomenal support desk. Rachika is part of that support desk. She's amazing. You've heard you saw her here today. She's here to answer questions and help you guys. So, in between these calls, we always have somebody here seven days a week, answering questions and getting getting to the bottom, whatever you guys are dealing with. So, please take advantage of that, and then if you need extended help, that's what these calls are for. So, I mean, as you saw here today, you need to deliver more context, maybe you need to show somebody exactly what's going on, need to dig into something, you've got more questions. That's what we're here to do, is we're here to help and support you guys. So, thank you all again, and we will see you guys all next Tuesday. Take care, everybody. Make it a productive week. Have a great weekend, and we'll see you soon.
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Bye.