Are you a specialist, a freelancer or maybe you’re simply looking for more leads and allowing individuals to easily 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 Hello everybody, Scott Friesen here at Simpletivity, helping you to get more done and take pleasure in less stress. And I have actually used Calendly for a while now. It is a quick and really easy tool to allow individuals who have an interest in my organization and in my work to book time with me. I wan na reveal you how to get things begun. We’re gon na get things kicked off by going into our menu, into our account once you’ve signed up 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 due to the fact that actually whatever 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 include one or more calendar accounts. This not just enables Calendly to book those appointments directly to your calendar but it also permits Calendly.
to check other reservations that you may have going on. And what I mean by this, is things beyond just Calendly appointments but things that are occurring maybe in your individual life or other meetings that show up as a part of your day. Down below here, you can also check for conflicts. You can use numerous calendars to check for disputes more than just the one that you have actually picked up here and you can likewise specify which calendar to include those visits to. So this is absolutely gon na be your very first stop to ensure that you have your calendar connections established properly. Simply choose include calendar account here and you can validate with any calendar service including 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 visits that people are going to be scheduling with you, I recommend that you put your nice profile photo here together with your name and possibly a welcome message just when they arrive at your start page. Next step, you likewise wan na make a quick stop at the branding page to include your business logo or some other image that you would like to add here. And finally, we can click the my link.
You’re gon na wan na put the name of your organization or possibly it’s your full name. I have actually got 2 occasions presently that individuals can select from and when they click on one of those occasions, they are likewise gon na see my branding here. We gon na choose that brand-new event type, which is gon na open up a new screen.
Let’s say produce for individually. On this screen, the first thing that we need to do is give it an occasion name. Now keep in mind, this is more than just your referral. When they land on your Calendly page, this is what individuals are gon na be seen. So I’m simply gon na call this one, Consulting with Scott, truly basic here. So I can determine, oop, Consulting with Scott. Let’s keep that therein. Our 2nd action is to add a location and you can see we can inform our users upfront, is this an in person meeting, a call or is it gon na be a specific conferencing meeting such as using Google Meet, Zoom, GoToMeeting or possibly something custom, 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 upon the alternative that you pick, you may have some extra alternatives awaiting you. For example, do I wan na pick if I will call my guest in this case, it’s gon na require the individual who’s booking that time to note their phone number. I require to understand who I’m calling or I can select this choice, my invitee should call me. In this case, I can include my desired phone number here and the fantastic thing with Calendly is that it’s not going to display this number until they have actually reserved the visit. If somebody is considering reserving 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. But in this case, I’m gon na say, I will call my guests ’cause I’m gon na ask them to provide their contact number. I’m gon na say upgrade, that’s gon na conserve that choice here. If you have multiple occasions that you’re gon na be providing to your users, down listed below we can include a description which is something you do not wan na ignore particularly. So I’m simply gon na state, this is a meeting with Scott for a consulting session, something like that, simply something so they can separate what this event is about compared to maybe a few of the other occasions that I have available. And after that simply listed below the description, we have our occasion link. Now we already talked briefly about having your domain name or your business name or possibly 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, meeting Scott, something like that, something that’s so easy for me to recognize but also if I simply copy and paste this link, they know what they’re getting too.
And last but not least, we can choose a various color. This is very handy if you have multiple events, I’m gon na select red in this case so it stands out from the other events that I’ve currently developed. Now as soon as we hit next, we’re gon na get to the nuts and bolts of our occasion. In this menu screen called when can people book this event. By opening this app, you’re gon na see a lot of