Are you a specialist, a freelancer or perhaps you’re simply searching for more leads and permitting individuals to quickly and expertly book time in your calendar? Well, in today’s video, I’m gon na show you whatever you require to know to utilize Calendly Hey there everybody, Scott Friesen here at Simpletivity, helping you to get more done and delight in less stress. And I have actually used Calendly for a while now. It is a really simple and fast tool to permit people who are interested in my service and in my work to book time with me. So I wan na show you how to get things started. So we’re gon na get things started by entering into our menu, into our account when you’ve joined Calendly. And among the top places that you’re gon na wan na go is up here to your account. And we want to go to calendar connections due to the fact that 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 allows Calendly to book those appointments straight to your calendar but it also enables Calendly.
And what I indicate by this, is things beyond just Calendly visits however things that are occurring possibly in your individual 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 correctly. Next up, we wan na stay with our account settings this time we’re gon na go to account account settings and I simply wan na encourage you to publish an image.
Now this is probably more vital than you believe. In many cases, you’re gon na wan na put the name of your service or possibly it’s your full name. But keep in mind, this is the URL that you are gon na be showing users. This is what you can connect from your site or your social media accounts or you can just copy and paste this and give it to people straight so that they can land on your Calendly page. All right, when you have actually been finished with your account settings, let’s return to the house screen. I just wan na reveal you where some of those changes happen. I’m gon na click my link here just to show you where this appears. This is the preliminary landing page where individuals are gon na see my profile image, my name and that welcome message. I have actually got two events presently that individuals can choose from and when they click on among those occasions, they are likewise gon na see my branding here. This is where the logo enters play. Today let’s proceed to the occasions themselves and how can you establish several occasions so that it’s as easy for your prospective leads or for your customers to come in here and book time with you. Let’s go back to our menu within our account screen here. And this is truly our main page here on the house screen where you can include and edit existing events. I’ve got two occasions that I’m utilizing at the moment but let’s go and create a brand-new event from scratch. We gon na choose that brand-new event type, which is gon na open up a brand-new screen. We’ve got two options here, we can either develop an individually conference or a group conference. Now a group meeting lets multiple invitees consult with you at a single time. This might be great for an instructor or if you are supplying a group webinar or something along those lines here. In many cases, the majority of people are utilizing Calendly for individually conference.
Let’s state produce for one-on-one. On this screen, the first thing that we require to do is provide it an occasion name. Now remember, this is more than simply your recommendation. This is what individuals are gon na be seen when they arrive on your Calendly page. I’m simply gon na call this one, Meeting with Scott, really simple here. So I can identify, oop, Consulting with Scott. Let’s keep that therein. Our second action is to include an area and you can see we can tell our users upfront, is this a face to face meeting, a call or is it gon na be a particular conferencing meeting such as using Google Meet, Zoom, GoToMeeting or perhaps something custom-made, something that’s not even noted here. In our example, I’m gon na select phone call in this case. And in many cases, depending on the choice that you pick, you might have some additional options awaiting you. Do I wan na select if I will call my guest in this case, it’s gon na require the individual who’s scheduling that time to note their phone number. I need to know who I’m calling or I can choose this alternative, my invitee needs to call me. In this case, I can include my desired contact number here and the fantastic thing with Calendly is that it’s not going to display this number until they have actually scheduled the appointment. If somebody is thinking about 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 only after they’ve scheduled the time will this number be revealed. However in this case, I’m gon na say, I will call my invitees ’cause I’m gon na ask them to supply their contact number. I’m gon na state upgrade, that’s gon na conserve that option here. If you have multiple occasions that you’re gon na be offering to your users, down below we can add a description which is something you don’t wan na neglect specifically. So I’m simply gon na state, this is a conference with Scott for a consulting session, something like that, just something so they can separate what this occasion is about compared to possibly a few of the other events that I have offered. And after that simply listed below the description, we have our occasion link. Now we currently talked briefly about having your domain or your organization name or maybe your complete name to get them to your primary Calendly page however this is something that you can share in addition, a separate URL. So in this case again, you wan na attempt make it as specific as possible. So possibly I’m gon na state, fulfilling Scott, something like that, something that’s so easy for me to determine however also if I simply paste this link and copy, they know what they’re getting too.
And last but not least, we can choose a various color. This is extremely practical if you have multiple occasions, I’m gon na choose red in this case just so it stands apart from the other events that I have actually currently developed. Now when we struck next, we’re gon na get to the nuts and bolts of our occasion. In this menu screen called when can individuals book this event. So by opening this app, you’re gon na see a great deal of