- In this video, I'm gonna show you
how to use guides in a Facebook group.
By the end, you'll know how to better organize your content
and make it easy for your members to find things quickly.
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My name is Jerry Potter.
Yes, it rhymes with the boy wizard.
And in this video,
I'm gonna show you how to use guides in Facebook groups.
I'm gonna show you not only how to use them
to organize your content,
but also give you some tips on the types of content
you can organize in groups.
And I wanna show you another organization tool
that's in Facebook groups that I don't see anybody using
and Facebook doesn't really talk about.
So I'm gonna share my screen now
and walk through all of this with you step-by-step.
So I'm showing you this in our free
Five Minute Social Media Community Facebook group,
where I don't actually have any guides yet.
So you'll be able to see it from the beginning.
So I look here on the menu.
You'll see, even under more,
there is nothing that says guides.
So if that's the way yours is set up,
the first thing you need to do is go into Settings
and then depending on your group type,
so go down here under Add Extra Features.
If your group type is set to General,
you probably won't have them turned on by default.
If you have social learning, you probably will.
But the rest of these,
you wouldn't have them turned on by default.
But all I have to do here since I have a general group,
come down here and you'll see Guides.
Again, under Add Extra Features,
organize posts by subject to help people learn new things.
I'm going to click Add.
Now it just took me to my guide section,
which you can see here on the menu,
but I'm actually go back to my settings here
and show you one other part.
This is turned off by default.
You may or may not want it on.
You can allow members to track their progress.
So if I put five lessons in here,
then you can basically have each member say,
"Okay, I've seen this one and mark it as done."
So then that they come back later,
they know what they've seen and haven't seen.
So that is turned on by default.
I just wanted you to know it was there in case you felt like
it shouldn't be for whatever your use of guides is.
So if I go back to the Guides page here
by clicking it on the menu and you can see,
there is nothing here.
I can click Start A Guide and you can have multiple guides
and I'll show you another group I have with a bunch
of guides in it here in a second
so you can see how they all look.
But you can have multiple guides.
First thing you want to put down
is the subject of the guide.
So this could be, for me,
it could be Instagram Trainings and everything could be
there about Instagram trainings.
Or this could be Module One,
if you were doing a course, for example,
in a Facebook group.
Then you can add a guide description if you want to,
it's completely optional.
It would go there.
Hit Save.
Now it shows up here over on the left,
and this is what people will see.
Everything that goes inside of a guide is an actual post.
So if you were uploading a new lesson here,
you could click Create Post, give it a title,
write something, add a video, a GIF, whatever you want,
just like normal.
I'm not going to show you how to post 'em
on your Facebook group.
You've already learned how to do that hopefully.
And alternatively,
you can pick any post that's already done.
So for example, I can take this post right here,
I'm gonna click on the timestamp,
cause that's gonna take me specifically to that post
instead of the whole feed of posts.
And now I can click this little three dot menu
and it says, Add Posts to Guide.
I do that.
Choose the guide that I want it to go under.
So this will go under Module One.
And then I might call this Lesson One, for example.
And I hit Save.
So if your content is already in your group,
you can just go through and add each post
to the appropriate place.
So now you can see here's Module One and there's Lesson One,
and then it just becomes this post.
So that every time I add another lesson,
it's gonna show up in here.
And now in jumping over to this other group,
where I actually have guides built out
for my Profitable Pages and Profiles Workshop.
And so you can see the first guide is
Profitable Pages and Profiles.
And so this is the actual workshop that people watch.
Then I have specific breakdowns.
So this was about setting up your pages and profiles
on different social networks to convert more sales.
And so inside of here,
you see there's one for Facebook business page,
Facebook profile, Instagram, LinkedIn.
So these were specific trainings.
So that was Guide Two then Guide Three
was the live Q and A's that we did.
And then Guide Four is where I was putting the bonuses.
Now I want to show you another way that you can do this.
If I didn't want, like for example,
you can see the newest one gets added on top.
So I've got Q and A 3, 2, 1,
I can go through and I can reorder the posts here,
after I clicked on those three dots.
I'm just going to drag and drop, drag and drop.
So I know I've got Q and a 1, 2, 3.
Hit Save.
You can also come back in and you can edit the Guide
from this menu.
So again, this is Guide Three.
I can again, change the name,
change the description.
Down here under each one of these,
I could remove the post from the guide.
So if I click that and you'll say, it'll ask you,
"Do you wanna remove from the group
"or just remove from the guide?"
You can remove it just from the guide.
If you didn't want it there,
or maybe you were doing an updated version.
And then the other thing that you can do with each of these
is you can make them optional.
And it just adds a little national tag there
so people know if they're trying to hurry through something,
they don't necessarily have to watch that part.
It's just there if they need it for example.
Once you've got your guide set up,
if you wanted to share it directly with, for example,
your email list, and again, if this was a private group,
they'd have to be members of the group,
but you can just come up here and click on the URL
and it'll be facebook.com/groups/ whatever your group is,
/learning_content.
You can send them directly to this page.
As far as how to organize this,
with this specific workshop, I had the main lesson as
Guide One, then the specific networks as Guide Two,
Q and A's as Guide Three,
and then the bonuses as Guide Four.
You could do the whole thing in one guide.
I might organize by categories.
If this was a different type of setup,
like I might have Facebook Trainings, Instagram Trainings.
As I showed you earlier, you might have Module 1, 2, 3,
each as its own guide.
You might even have, if you have multiple audiences,
you might have videos for this part of your audience
and videos for this part of your audience.
So lots of different ways you can organize in here
with the guides.
I want to show you one more way that you can organize things
in a Facebook group.
And I don't see a lot of people using this,
but it works really well for us.
And we actually just use this internally
at Five Minute Social Media.
So this is the Five Minutes Social Academy group,
where our paid members are.
And what we use to organize is topics.
And so you can add a topic.
Facebook recently changed them to be hashtag topics,
but you can add a topic to any post in the group.
So for example,
if I am going through and I see a question and I don't have
time to answer it right then, I will find it,
here, let's choose one.
This is not a question,
but I will click on the three dots.
I will click Edit Post Topics,
and then I will add the topic Follow-Up.
So this is one that we use.
And then I can come through once a day and answer
all of the posts that I marked as Follow-Up.
If somebody has a longer question, for example,
that we can't answer in a Facebook post,
then we answered on one of our Q and A's.
So you can see this if you can read it.
It says, "Answer on Academy QA."
So then we'll add that topic.
Once I answer it on the Q and A,
we'll change it so it says Needs Academy Replay Link,
and then somebody from my team will come and reply to
everybody that asked a question with a link to me answering
their question in case they weren't there live
for the Q and A.
And the neat thing is, once you have those set up,
I can click on any of these topics.
So for example, we're doing our next
Five Minute Social Academy, Q and A here soon.
I can click on this answer on Academy Q A here
that's on the side of my group.
And it brings up all of the questions that people have
submitted for me to answer on the next Q and A
in one place.
And then when we're on our Zoom call answering,
I pull this up, I share my screen,
and then everybody else can see the question
as I'm reading it and then answering it as opposed
to just listening to me read
cause a lot of people are very visual.
So those post topics are another way that you can organize
your content internally or externally.
The last thing I want to show you with this is, for example,
let's say this was a certain topic.
So whatever your group is about could be anything.
For mine, maybe it was, Instagram was the topic.
Well, then up here, in the address bar,
you actually have a specific URL
that you can send people to.
So in my emails, if this was,
let's say all the Instagram stuff,
I could send a link and say,
"Hey, see all of our trainings about Instagram
"in our group."
And I would send them directly to this link.
They wouldn't have to search for them.
They wouldn't have to look for the hashtag on the side,
click on it, anything like that.
So every time you have one of these topics or hashtags,
but Facebook calls them Topics and Groups, click on it
and it'll generate the specific URL up here
in the address bar that you can use.
I hope that helps you get your group organized.
And if you want to get your group more engaged
and get your group reaching more people,
we teach you how to do that inside of
Five Minutes Social Academy.
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