Are you a consultant, a freelancer or maybe you’re just trying to find more leads and enabling people to quickly and professionally book time in your calendar? Well, in today’s video, I’m gon na reveal you whatever you require to know to use Calendly Hey there everybody, Scott Friesen here at Simpletivity, assisting you to get more done and delight in less stress. And I’ve utilized Calendly for a while now. It is a fast and really easy tool to permit people who have an interest in my company and in my work to book time with me. So I wan na reveal you how to get things begun. So we’re gon na get things started by entering into our menu, into our account as soon as you’ve signed up with Calendly. And one of the top places that you’re gon na wan na go is up here to your account. Because really everything is based around your relationship with Calendly and your calendar, and we desire to go to calendar connections. The first thing that you’re gon na wan na do is make sure that you add one or more calendar accounts. This not only allows Calendly to book those visits straight to your calendar but it also permits Calendly.
to examine other reservations that you may have going on. And what I mean by this, is things beyond just Calendly visits however things that are happening perhaps in your personal life or other conferences that come up as a part of your day. Down below here, you can likewise look for conflicts. You can utilize numerous calendars to check for disputes more than just the one that you have actually chosen up here and you can also define which calendar to include those consultations to. This is definitely gon na be your really first stop to make sure that you have your calendar connections set up properly. Simply choose add calendar account here and you can confirm with any calendar service consisting of Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. Next up, we wan na stay with our account settings this time we’re gon na go to account account settings and I just wan na encourage you to upload an image. So if this is meetings or consultations that people are going to be scheduling with you, I suggest that you put your nice profile picture here together with your name and perhaps a welcome message just when they arrive on your beginning page. Next step, you likewise wan na make a quick stop at the branding page to include your company logo design or some other image that you want to include here. And last but not least, we can click on the my link.
You’re gon na wan na put the name of your business or perhaps it’s your full name. I’ve got two occasions presently that individuals can select from and when they click on one of those events, they are also gon na see my branding here. We gon na choose that new event type, which is gon na open up a brand-new screen.
Let’s say create for individually. On this screen, the first thing that we require to do is offer it an event name. Now remember, this is more than just your reference. This is what individuals are gon na be seen when they arrive on your Calendly page. So I’m simply gon na call this one, Consulting with Scott, actually basic here. I can determine, oop, Fulfilling with Scott. Let’s keep that therein. Our second step is to add a location and you can see we can inform our users upfront, is this an in person conference, a phone call or is it gon na be a particular conferencing conference such as utilizing Google Meet, Zoom, GoToMeeting or perhaps something custom-made, something that’s not even listed here. In our example, I’m gon na choose call in this case. And in many cases, depending upon the option that you select, you might have some extra options waiting for you. For instance, do I wan na pick if I will call my guest in this case, it’s gon na need the person who’s booking that time to note their phone number. I need to understand who I’m calling or I can pick this alternative, my guest needs to call me. In this case, I can include my desired contact number here and the terrific thing with Calendly is that it’s not going to display this number up until they have booked the appointment. If somebody is considering scheduling time with me, it’s not as if they’re gon na see my phone number or my dial in number right away, it’s just after they have actually booked the time will this number be exposed. However in this case, I’m gon na say, I will call my guests ’cause I’m gon na ask to provide their telephone number. I’m gon na say update, that’s gon na conserve that option here. If you have several occasions that you’re gon na be offering to your users, down below we can add a description which is something you do not wan na neglect specifically. I’m simply gon na state, this is a meeting with Scott for a consulting session, something like that, just something so they can distinguish what this occasion is about compared to perhaps some of the other occasions that I have readily available. And after that simply below the description, we have our occasion link. Now we already talked briefly about having your domain name or your organization name or maybe your complete name to get them to your main Calendly page however this is something that you can share in addition, a separate URL. In this case again, you wan na try make it as particular as possible. So perhaps I’m gon na state, satisfying Scott, something like that, something that’s so easy for me to determine however likewise if I just copy and paste this link, they know what they’re getting too.
Now as soon as we struck next, we’re gon na get to the nuts and bolts of our event. By opening this app, you’re gon na see a lot of