Brilliant Directories Review & Guide 🚀 Launch Your Online Community or Directory Website Josh Pocock

All right what's going on everybody Josh pocock here founder and CEO of Executives tried in today's video we're going to be looking at a tool called brilliant directories create your own membership sites and business directories let's dive right into it [Music] all right so here is the brilliant directory's website making a living off of brilliant director's website you can see testimonials launch your online community local city guide business directory member Community real estate listing themes uh local classified ads browse directory

Themes so we can go ahead browse to the directory themes we can see business search directory lead capture theme city guide theme local Yellow Pages themes member Community themes school club directory classified ads theme real estate listings theme so a bunch of different ones all right so you can see here own your Market with powerful membership features build membership plans recurring subscriptions manage membership lists self-service profiles ad staff accounts capture and sell leads sell banner ads logs track refunds past due

Dates send email newsletters fully integrated SEO include PDF downloads 100 mobile friendly promote events and news job post job listings list classified ads publish products and Deals alright so let's take a look at their pricing so that is so you can actually sync this with uh your data with over 5000 apps PayPal stripe Google Drive slack Google means Google Sheets Infinity Facebook you know a bunch of different ones powerful web hooks make it easily to integrate turbocharged membership themes unlimited possibilities

One powerful platform all right uh generate revenue from members who uses business directories associations business owners clubs and groups and more a few case studies testimonials and yeah so if we go over here we can look at some of the themes uh here is the features um but let's take a look at two things and then we'll Dive Right In so the pricing so if I view pricing plans you'll see this is their pricing so we have uh manage 100 000

Members with any plan increase any time so launch your membership theme today at 145 bucks per month uh this is 950 bucks per year and this one right here is 14.50 pay once and own it for life um you can try demo so there's a lifetime website uh right here this is the yearly plan this is their uh monthly plan as you can see here all the features I'm not going to read through all of them but there's a bunch right

Now there is multi-site discounts so personally I'd probably go with something like this now to be honest I may even check back as well on um Boxing Day see if they have any sales um but yeah so get three lifetime websites plus 30 savings on add-ons for life don't waste your time and money or wasting time for promos um so yeah you can get it for 1950 bucks for three lifetime websites then only 450 for each additional website uh that's 65

Off each website for life always receive 30 off add-ons and additional services so it depends right it really depends if this honestly this is kind of a pricier tool so if uh if you don't like need something like this or if it's you know if you're not going to be able to monetize something like this or whatever or like Leverage it to improve your business or service then it may not be for you but it is a pretty unique and cool

Tool in my opinion um so far I haven't really done much with it I've really just been setting it up but opposed from other things I get to build your own custom directory or even just to host it on WordPress there's a little bit more on management I would say okay so anyways that's pretty much it let's go to their add-ons real quick and then we'll dive in so they have 75 plus supercharged directory theme add-ons so there's a bunch here

That you can actually use these ones I believe so there's free ones and premium ones so I think these ones are the free ones and these ones are the premium ones so there's a bunch but uh yeah so let's actually dive into the tools so before I dive in I'll show you currently what site we're using it on so we're using it on stride staff.com [Music] So currently right now for stride staff like we have so stride staff is like a

Um you know um what we use to place Filipino workers in our our clients businesses to help them with uh different tasks admin tasks uh prospecting tasks really anything you know appointment setting a bunch of different things and uh so you know this isn't fully set up yet this is kind of something that I thought would be cool that's why I got brilliant directory so I'll see if I decide to you know keep on building this out and using it because

It is taking a little it does still take like to be honest it does it's not the easiest thing to use at least for me there is a bit of a learning curve like I mean it some people like they say it's easier than a lot of stuff and it is kind of like it is kind of simple but you know if you really want to customize that's what I say like if you want it really customized then it is a

Bit little bit more you know you have to do a bit more things right um it is yeah so that uh we'll we'll get into it in just a second but yeah so right now this is just the template um job board listing thing so uh I wanted ideally two search boxes I message support and Set uh asked if I how I would go about doing that they gave me like some somewhat of a workaround it's not really working though and

This is like it is kind of like for me I don't know I played I haven't played around with it recently I played around with it a bit when I first got it set this up and uh you know like it has some cool features but I don't know maybe maybe I just need to get more used to it it is it's kind of you know I don't know it's still kind of it's not completely user or like beginner friendly I'd

Say I'm not a beginner but just like for some because even for me as like someone that's you know experienced with this stuff it's kind of difficult to do certain things and customizations so definitely for a beginner it may be a little bit challenging so they gave me a little work around that really hasn't uh really worked the best but they also um you know let me know that you can hire a specialized uh what do you call Specialized uh brilliant

Directories like developer code or whatever to help do some custom code and stuff anyways so here's what it looks like in the back end I'm logged into the admin side of things so I can go see all websites I only have one site right here um so I got it launch your website so you can add a new website here's the admin portal they have some quick start guides here go into it so here we have general settings uh Design Elements

Connect domain payment Gateway spam protection and Google Maps so I did I think I did these three steps I haven't connected payment Gateway yet or anything like that um here you can see your members database so view members add new members um edit member plans view member Revenue web pages and posts so view web pages create web pages manage posts medium manager and then toolbox meet menu manager sidebar manager form manager custom code widgets so if I go here there's a

Lot of stuff that's the one thing so I'm not going to be able to go through each and every one like a header menu this is something I think I need to change all jobs job category okay I didn't even know where to change this so at least I found out where to change this I'm still learning like as you'll see I'm learning stuff as I go through here um so yeah this is the drop down menu you can see here

So yeah it's kind of simple in that regard you can add the the title um the the URL open a new window add Rel nofollow um and when you item code menu items settings as you can see link title text inline attribution outer inline attribution a bunch of different stuff right if you're gonna do some CSS on it or whatever you can copy the short code okay pricing page menu footer menu menu uh header mini mini nav login page links you

Know default menus footer menu login page sign up buttons main menu okay so there's that we have four manager foreign so different forms here blog articles classified coupons digital products a bunch of them actually right here uh so that's the thing they come you can plug into themes so it's easy to get set up if you were to do this all from scratch it would be probably really hard the themes make it a bit easier but it also like there's so

Much stuff um that it does take a little bit of time to go through everything and plus to be honest for me it was like I was getting kind of confused like not confused but I was just like uh there's so much that's that's kind of it right so it does take a bit of time uh sidebar manager so member profile page all this stuff here widget manager customize widgets so here's some content actions copy short code um preview shortcode yeah

So so I'm not really like really I'm definitely not I wouldn't say I'm a developer or anything I know a bit of code but um emails so form inboxes compose email email templates send newsletters email accounts view contacts so you can do all that within here which is pretty cool I think these would just be sample ones you full inquiry yeah so Finance so membership plans transaction history coupon codes payment settings interactions remember leads member reviews post comments private chats contact

Content web page builder manage posts edit post settings SEO templates media manager my members search members member category smart list dashboard go to dashboard manage add-ons activity tracker visit my website refresh uh live website settings general settings design settings domain manager admin accounts text labels advanced settings and then developer hub haven't even been here yet image settings at the maximum dimensions for remember image uploads robots files web hooks generate API key cpanel dashboard that's interesting um HT access file mySQL database

Pulling this up over here so that's cool uh welcome to your new Hosting account cpanel is here to help we got the cpanel I'm not pulling it's on my other screen right now I don't want to pull it up because there's some info I definitely don't want to show in here but I'm gonna switch your Troopers here so that's cool um that's that's one cool thing though is that they give you like actual admin access to a lot of these things

It's not just like a cookie cutter you know thing that's meant for complete beginners um where you don't get access to that's that's one that's one good thing yeah even though it's a bit you know like I said it's not beginner friendly but you can like I mean it somewhat is beginner friendly but there's a lot of stuff you can do some advanced stuff and customization which is actually potentially good in the long run right so so yeah my SQL database

Um anyways so let's go to dashboard and let's take a look at some of these options real quick I don't want to make this video too long but so general settings so let's begin I think I did all this well I did do all this already so we'll go through some of it again so General so you can change your website name your website phone number uh industry name profession name professional um default website email email domain website status so you

Can change that live mode or staging mode search engine visibility require user content to store data DPR Express sign up membership plan default email signature all right save changes then we have brand images so you can upload your website your our logo your favicon default member photo Google Map pin drop verified member and icon member badge icon a bunch of different icons social media you can add your social media right here localization primary country uh website for time format all that

Good stuff currency search settings so what it looks like when someone does a search do does it require complete profiles to do a search you know all that stuff there integration so block spam keywords of these ones right here you can add more uh Google analytics Google Maps recaptcha Google recaptcha Google recapture secret key twilio sendgrid Google developers and Facebook developers uh private member chat messages affiliate program Integrations so you can do uh share a sale affiliate ID or post affiliate

Pro URL so that's all pretty cool now let's go back to dashboard the second thing is I believe design settings yep design elements here you go here colors and styling all right so this is where you can do mess around with the actual colors pretty much so main design and do the fonts the the size of the fonts the the net like the headers the all that stuff you know footer display colors main menu design button colors profile Pages or member

Profile pages search results Pages sidebar alignment content box and backgrounds website announcements messages save changes you can customize the home page to the hero title text right here search box collection search box design Hello background um image and all that stuff search title font there we go and now here's where you can actually change your theme so warning enhancing enabling a homepage scene will update and override your current homepage design and website colors so I'm not going to do that obviously

But there's a bunch of different ones you can use that will allow you to kind of accelerate the development of your site all right color sets see here's our some pre-made preset color sets that you can just use quickly to change your whole website colors and stuff here's like a yellow pages one there's a bunch of different ones right this is nice red on black okay so you can go ahead and use that if you need to manage Banner advertisements so

If you want to advertise and then custom CSS you can add custom CSS additional head CSS footer code I haven't done any of that any of that yet thank you um let's see and then connect domain so here's where you can connect your domain pretty self-explanatory I'm not gonna go through it connect payment Gateway this is where you can connect stripe authorize.net blue PayPal uh you know but all these ones right um so that's pretty cool and then spam protection Google

Maps so that's that's pretty much it what you need to know to get started um you can create web pages manage posts so you can actually do posts like if I go where is it um posts uh let me just see content so web page builder so here's you'll see your pages so you can go ahead so I gotta go to the pricing page edit and I can actually edit the pricing page here I can add individual elements uh basic content

Blocks like so um and I could you know I have some formatting options here so let's see okay um hey drop shins you can you know display settings you can change that position left wide left slim a bunch of different stuff you can customize now manage posts this will be like blog posts I think that's what it is yeah yeah here it is a blog post add some uh some some ones already just a couple but uh yeah you can create

Blog posts here like so there you have it here's what it kind of looks like that has comments and stuff conversation so that's pretty cool um I'm just realizing I wonder okay well I'll worry about that later um so yeah you can do a bunch of stuff here there's like I said there's a lot to do there's a lot of different options edit post settings go settings SEO templates all right different SEO templates um media manager so guys there's a bunch

Of different stuff like there's so much I can't go through it in one video but uh you know that's pretty much brilliant directories there's a lot more to this tool but that's just a basic overview if you want this tool if you want to check it out I'll leave a link in the description it's not for everybody but uh it could potentially help you out so um if you're someone that has wants a bunch of directories or membership sites like this

And you like this then I would suggest getting the the uh the the three uh these are the three sites the three sites for whatever for 1950 but uh it really depends so that's pretty much it guys um make sure to let me know your thoughts in the comments down below about brilliant directories if you have any questions definitely let me know um and uh yeah make sure to if you like type of uh these type of videos make sure to

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Exact discount uh just check in the description below once I am doing the description I'll I'll put beside it like okay this is like whatever it is 10 or whatever percent off and uh so I'll have to double check and I'll I'll update update that in the description but it is a discounted code so you should actually get a discount off the pricing that I went over so um if you do decide to buy it buy it through that discount link

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