Christo: Hi there! On this video tip, I want to share a way~ a scheduling tool actually, and a way to make your week more organised. So a bit of a scheduling tip. So this is really beneficial if you have people booking in with you for meetings, or maybe they book in to do podcasts with you, or booking for sales calls, or booking for… kind of training calls, or anything where people you know~ you want to share a calendar link; and an approach to doing that that will save you time. So the first thing is the tool to use that I’ve found we’ve used all sorts of different scheduling tools that link~ integrate with our calendars and things and we’ve found one that’s wicked cool which is called TidyCal. I’ll share the link here in the notes. TidyCal — what this one does for you is it only costs on this link below $29 for life. You don’t get locked into the recurring, with a lot of scheduling tools we’ve tried you know, Calendly, and all these different tools where we’re paying a recurring fee every single month. It’s super cool. I shared it with one of my team members and she is very strict… the one that’s hard to get things passed. It has to be very professional, and very good. And here’s what she said… She said, “Love it, Christo! Good call on the TidyCal, so schmick”. So the benefits of this one are: no monthly payments, you can add your branding, of course, very easily, so you can fully brand it. It’s super easy to set up, you can add unlimited events, it integrates with all of the different calendars. Like if you’re using Google calendar, or whatever you use, and also Zoom, so you can have it automatically… you know, someone schedules a time with you, it automatically sets up a zoom meeting in the calendar booking, so really easy to do. You can link to a custom thank you pages, so you can send people anywhere after they’ve booked in with you, send them to an information page or maybe a page where you want them to prepare things for the meeting or something like that. And you can link to a general page where you set up your profile and you might have all different styles of meetings, like people might book you for let’s say an introductory call, or an information session, or a podcast, or something like that, and you can have a general page with all your different meeting types where they can select and go through you know to book one of these styles of meetings with you, or you can send them directly to that page, just share the podcast bookings link with people who are going to be podcast guests or whatever style of meeting; sales meetings, to prospects. And a little tip in general to save time—when you do book your week, a good way to do it is you open up meetings, so you can basically say, you know you’re not available Saturday, Sunday, and like as typical, and maybe nine to five, and half an hour slots on Monday to Friday. But what a good way to go is to start from the middle of the week out, we found it saves us so much time. If you have a lot of meetings, or if you have team members that have a lot of meetings, or you just know someone else that has a lot of meetings, share this with them because you start from Wednesday, you might do Wednesday, you might do Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, if you have a lot of bookings you open up those days, and you have your time slots available. People can book them in, and then once they’re filled up or almost pretty much full, only then do you open you know, Monday, or open up Friday. But for most, you probably get away with just opening two days, like do Wednesday and Thursday, or whatever days work for you. Just have those so then the Friday’s clear to do whatever you need to do, you know, get to the weekend or the Monday, you can get work on content creation or other things in your business. But it’s a good way to kind of work from the middle out, and just force because it makes people book into those slots. They’ll always find a time that works for him or they’ll book the week after, so you’re not forever kind of going from one call then, an hour break then another call in half an hour, then now, and it’s hard to get anything done when it works like that. So start from the middle of the week, and work your way out like that. So there you go. Cool tip and a cool tool—TidyCal. And you need to use the link below, otherwise, you’re going to go and find it on Google, and it’s going to cost you way more so it’s only on special on that link below. So click through the link you can grab it, it’s 29 bucks and you’ve got it for life. We’re using it we love it. It’s not something we’re just recommending you know for the sake of it. We actually use it, we actually love it. So click through on that link. Any other questions, get in touch with the team here at Basic Bananas. See you soon!
