Are you a consultant, a freelancer or maybe you’re just trying to find more leads and enabling individuals to quickly and expertly book time in your calendar? Well, in today’s video, I’m gon na show you everything you need to understand to use Calendly Hey there everybody, Scott Friesen here at Simpletivity, helping you to get more done and take pleasure in less stress. And I have actually utilized Calendly for a while now. It is a fast and extremely simple tool to enable individuals who have an interest in my business and in my work to book time with me. I wan na reveal you how to get things started. So we’re gon na get things started by going into our menu, into our account when you have actually registered with Calendly. And one of the first places that you’re gon na wan na go is up here to your account. And we want to go to calendar connections since truly everything is based around your relationship with Calendly and your calendar. The very first thing that you’re gon na wan na do is make sure that you add one or more calendar accounts. This not just permits Calendly to book those appointments straight to your calendar however it likewise enables Calendly.
And what I imply by this, is things beyond just Calendly appointments but things that are occurring possibly in your personal life or other conferences that come up as a part of your day. This is absolutely gon na be your really first stop to make sure that you have your calendar connections set up properly. Next up, we wan na remain with our account settings this time we’re gon na go to account account settings and I just wan na motivate you to publish an image.
Now this is probably more important than you believe. You’re gon na wan na put the name of your organization or possibly it’s your complete name. However remember, this is the URL that you are gon na be sharing with users. This is what you can link from your website or your social networks accounts or you can just copy and paste this and give it to people directly so that they can land on your Calendly page. All right, when you’ve been finished with your account settings, let’s go back to the home screen. I simply wan na reveal you where a few of those modifications happen. I’m gon na click on my link here simply to reveal you where this shows up. This is the initial landing page where people are gon na see my profile image, my name and that welcome message. I have actually got two occasions presently that people can select from and when they click among those events, they are also gon na see my branding here. This is where the logo design enters into play. Now let’s move on to the events themselves and how can you set up one or more occasions so that it’s as easy for your potential leads or for your clients to come in here and book time with you. Let’s go back to our menu within our account screen here. And this is actually our main page here on the house screen where you can add and modify existing occasions. I have actually got 2 events that I’m utilizing at the moment but let’s go and produce a brand-new occasion from scratch. We gon na select that new event type, which is gon na open up a brand-new screen. We’ve got 2 choices here, we can either produce an one-on-one conference or a group meeting. Now a group conference lets multiple invitees meet with you at a single time. This may be fantastic for an instructor or if you are offering a group webinar or something along those lines here. In a lot of cases, the bulk of people are using Calendly for individually conference.
In this case, I’m gon na say, I will call my guests ’cause I’m gon na ask them to offer their phone number. I’m gon na say update, that’s gon na save that option here. I’m just gon na say, this is a conference with Scott for a consulting session, something like that, simply something so they can distinguish what this occasion is about compared to possibly some of the other occasions that I have readily available.
And finally, we can pick a various color. This is really handy if you have multiple occasions, I’m gon na select red in this case so it stands out from the other occasions that I’ve currently produced. Now as soon as we struck next, we’re gon na get to the nuts and bolts of our occasion. When can individuals book this occasion, in this menu screen called. By opening this app, you’re gon na see a lot of