- [Instructor] Well how cool is this, free scheduling tool
for your business.
Offered to Facebook business pages,
appointments on Facebook.
This is pretty interesting.
Manage your appointments and schedule for free
from your page.
So it's a freebie.
You don't have to use a lot of external tools
that you got to pay for.
Let your customers find and book online anytime, wow.
Use automated appointment reminders to reduce no shows.
That's pretty interesting.
So I got the notification on my Facebook page,
you wanna check yours, and then just click
to start the process.
And so let's begin it, start set up.
So of course we want to turn our followers into customers,
whoever's on our page or anyone that visits
and just visits our page.
We now schedule and share our availability calendars
that possibly have set up in Google calendar
or other calendar programs.
That we know are good times that say end of the day,
your business wants to make yourself available
for leads that can just you know, contact you
and then book an appointment, or a start up meeting
or some sort of consultation.
So you'd have to set your time zone first.
It says that mine is EST here in Ontario Canada.
So change that if necessary, number one.
I'm gonna say no to Sunday, and no to Saturday also.
My main availabilities here are, let's see.
So appointments wise, I like, like most businesses
have specific times that they'd be open to setting meetings.
And honestly, I like my 2:00 to 4:00 PM.
I think that's good possibility.
And for each of the days of the week,
so I'm gonna do that.
And actually I'm gonna clip some of the other ones,
cause most like, I manage my times that I'd make
with my clients based on the priority
or the type of meeting that it's set up.
And I really don't like to book up my Mondays,
and I don't, Tuesday sometimes,
Fridays can get a little hairy.
That's usually the end of the day that I have time,
but Thursday, Wednesday, yeah that's pretty good.
I think I'd actually go to four here,
and yeah, I do a lot of five o'clock meetings
with clients that day in five or six, even on these days.
I think these are a good range
and at least we can start the conversation,
and then I can set that up.
So let's do that.
So adjust your preferences for confirming appointments.
So appointment approval,
manually approve appointment before they're confirm.
Absolutely, then I can actually say,
and reference my Google calendar and then come back
and say, yay or nay.
I mean, can we make it this time instead?
It's just a, to me this is like a gateway.
Just another opportunity, a bridge to, leads that, you know
use social to contact businesses.
Control how soon and how far in advance people
can schedule appointments with you.
Advanced bookings, I'm gonna say let's turn it on
for a second.
When's the soonest people within the hour.
See that is something I think so.
I think yeah, I could say that.
Yeah within the hour, if they contact
and they really need to speak.
I really do like to open up my calendar if I can
and break up my day to day tasks.
Sync to Google calendar,
appointments booked on your page will show
on your Google calendar automatically.
Events on your Google calendar won't be available
to book on Facebook.
So events on your Google calendar
won't be, that's fantastic.
I mean, that means that I can sync, to my primary account
and I can go from there, and that's pretty amazing.
So now anyone that books, will automatically show up
over in my area, so I could just, you know,
I've got a lot of different things,
so I could just go, client meeting
and I have that already set sort of thing,
with various kind of smattering of other things.
And so you can Google that now it'll show up
once I do confirm.
Once again appointments booked on your page will show up
in your Google calendar automatically.
So it'll pop in.
So that's pretty cool, but I still have to approve it.
So it won't immediately show up there,
which is a really good thing.
So let's go a little further here,
and see when to start time display?
Select the length of time available time slots.
I usually go, it's actually a minute or an hour
that I go for usually.
So I book for that and I just lock it in
and then I get leftover whenever I want.
So I'm gonna go next now.
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I'm just baking it into the page, this is pretty awesome.
So I hope this helps, how to use this appointment calendar.
There other calendar based widgets out there.
Review your service, make sure your services menu is updated
with the right today's pricing photos, of course.
So I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna check.
Yes, targeted Facebook ads,
Facebook posting, offering web design and development.
What else is going on?
Internet marketing, the whole smattering of services.
So yes absolutely, they're all set.
Appointments are set, book now button is on.
Hey, that's pretty neat.
Maybe that'll go beside send a message.
Reminders, send customers on Facebook.
Automatic reminder me of message on the day
before the appointment.
That's pretty good.
So let's go, let's see, try it yourself.
Neat, so you could book with one of these services
Say I wanted, yeah and then I'd go through it.
Targeted Facebook ad.
And choose the day, the time and then, that's neat.
And then they'd have to fill out their phone number,
and the appointment notes.
And then when you tap request appointment Gem Webb.
My team will see your public info and we contact you.
That's pretty awesome.
So that's in a nutshell, boom bada bing.
I think it's pretty fantastic.
Let's go view the calendar, and see what's going on here
and see what it looks like on the calender.
So of course you'll be able to see this calendar
over in nuggets, your Google calendar
and it's gonna import one item
and it's gonna put it under my client leads,
and then it'll show up over there.
But this is, I guess is just specifically for Facebook.
So Facebook has a calendar now, so that's pretty amazing.
And you've got a whole bunch of things,
requests, inbox here, appointment settings,
you can update anything.
And then you can kind of manage your schedule.
So they're trying to get a business management within here
for lead generation and management.
That's pretty fantastic,
thank you very much Facebook.
Really appreciate, if anyone has any questions, let us know.
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