Okay so here is the new Google Calendar Scheduling Tool. Now this is all as of
April 2022 so let's take a tour and see what's in there.
Okay, so you can set up a recurring appointment. You use this Create button on the left
and you can really set aside a few times. Now if you want to set aside some appointment times just
for a limited time-just for the next week or two-then you can certainly do that and you can
also share a booking page which is quite a simple page but I'll show you anyway. Let's have a look.
So we're going to create here…oh I know! I forgot to tell you. We've got to do this here. We're
going to go into Settings first. This button here up the top. Settings down there. Settings.
And then we want to go down to Appointment Schedules and you need to check this button.
So we used to have Appointment Slots but now we've got Appointment Schedules. So I'm going
to click on this and that automatically saves after you have clicked on it.
Okay. Great. So, next, let's now let's go and create an appointment schedule here.
And what we're going to do is I'm going to have it a time to do a YouTube channel review.
Okay and I'm going to allow 30 minutes for that. I'm going to make make it available. Let me
do it just on Monday mornings. I'm going to cancel this one and say unavailable all day.
Just for this particular thing and then Thursdays. I'll make it Thursday afternoon as well. Okay.
So it's quite an easy interface to use which is really nice. I like that. I'm going to and
if you wanted to make a second time during the day you could certainly do that. Make it I'll be
available from three till four p.m. This is my local time now. How long in advance are people
allowed to book times? I'm going to click on this. I could say straight away from now
or else I'll say “no. It's going to be only for a period of time, for the next month, for the
next two weeks, whatever.” Okay and then how far in advance can they actually make this booking?
So you probably don't want to have too far in advance because you don't really know what's going
to be happening in your life in two months’ time but you can reduce this down. Whatever you want.
How many…how long before the appointment. I mean, are you happy for them to book an appointment
two hours beforehand, or do you want to make it 12 hours? Once again, nice and easy to change these
things which is good. Going to next. Now this is maybe not so good. I'm just going to change this
to YouTube channel review booking page. Photo and name. So this is really pretty ordinary, I think.
This is just going to be your Google account photo and name and that's it.
So there's nothing in there that can allow you to add a website or anything like that,
or a questionnaire, the location of conference. This is another problem here. Google Meet but if
you wanted to use Zoom then what you're going to need to do is go “None- to be specified later.”
And then what I would actually do is not even put it in the location because Google Maps
tends to open it up as a location itself. Where are we going to find Zoom,
you know? When you're in google maps. So what I would do is actually put it in here,
include your Zoom link, okay? And you can have a bit of an agenda there. “We’ll meet over Zoom”,
log in using this link. Okay. And then you'll you can get that link from your Zoom meeting.
Now you might ask some questions. Don't want to make it too hard for them but what you can do
here ask them their first name, last name and email address. And these are required fields.
Let me just add an item here and I could say phone number and I'm going to say that's required. Or
maybe I don't care. And then I might add another item here which will be a custom item, which will
be “how long have you had your channel?” Okay. And so that's just another way of really helping
them to qualify themselves. And I might even include that in the description here. “Here's
what we're going to cover. Have YouTube Studio open so that we can have a look at your channel.”
And then confirmations and reminders which is good as well. We can have a calendar invitation
turns up in the calendar and an email reminder as well. So I'm going to click save there
and so that's the booking page. And then people will open the booking page
and when they do that they can see when I am available. I left Friday completely available but
remember I made it for Mondays 9 a.m till 10:30 a.m. I didn't show you before but you can change
the meeting length to 30 minute appointments or to 45 or to custom time; whatever time suits you.
And so people will book the time that they want to to meet me (3 p.m.) they'll put in their number,
that's optional. “How long have you had your channel?” I'm going to say 2 years
and then go “Book”. So it's a quite a nice interface. You really have to use the description
to make it a little bit more interesting but it's quite a nice interface to use and so you
can simply allow people to book a time with you using this Google Calendar Appointment Schedule.