How good are you at keeping your promises? I let things fall through the cracks when I don't book
things in. I might send an email to somebody and say “oh, we could meet on Thursday.” But then,
if they're in the States, and I'm in Australia, Thursday my time is Wednesday their time and
it's really, really confusing. And the other thing is that if they need to book a time and we need to
work it out together and “what time that works for you? What time works for me?” and it's just
a lot of friction. And the more friction there is, the bigger the chance there is that things
are going to slip through the cracks. So I'm going to tell you about this software called Appointy,
which helps you to create appointments...just really to streamline those appointments. So you
can set aside some time ahead of time; a little buffer zone. A bit of buffer time to prepare.
So that if, for example, you're coming on a Zoom call, you can have your notes ready. You can have
that article that you want to send. And same thing afterwards. You don't feel like “oh, I've
got to keep this all in my head.” Or “I've got to keep taking notes. I've got to remember to do all
of this stuff.” You set aside some time after the appointment so that you can then dispatch. You can
then deal with those things straight away. “Hey, I'll send you an introduction to this person.”
And then you can do that straight away. So that you don't sort of think “oh, I meant to do that.”
And it keeps kind of niggling away at you. And you think “oh! I forgot.” So let's have a quick
look at some of Appointy's features. So here it is: appointy.com but there is a really elegant
app as well. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to run through the features really quickly.
Not going to show you even how to use it. And I should point out that I do have an affiliate
link so that if you do sign up for Appointy and then eventually you buy, if you don't buy the
...buy straight away, then that will help me out a little bit without you paying any more.
So, let's have a quick look here. With the free version is that you can obviously you can take
appointments. This is really for solo businesses with one staff member. Five services. One of the
great things here on Appointy is that it makes it really easy for you to to list your services. So,
for that matter, you may not even have a website. You may not even need a website if you want to
use Appointy, just to make it really easy for people to book a slot in. And that could be
a discovery call. You could use it if you are running a bricks and mortar business, like
a salon or something like that. You can pop it on your website. You can have a little button there
that says “hey, here's how to book a time.” Or utomatic reminders are like that. The mobile app.
I've already spoken to you about. Now, there is a limitation: 100 appointments a month,
so this is really for a very small, really a solo business. Solo consultant or something like that.
There are some more advanced options and what this really helps you do, if you've got a team, you can
have one staff member included or maybe five staff or several locations even, if that's your kind of
business. Now one thing that the free version doesn't have is the Google Calendar integration,
but once you pay, then you can have that Google Calendar integration as well.
And that can also allow you to sell things online. So that people can just book a time,
book a slot with you and pay you, and then it's all on schedule. It's all on your calendar.
They're paying in advance. All of that it's really,
really nice for that. You can look at all of the different features, at the different levels but
this really allows clients, customers to schedule time for themselves, which is really, really nice.
And you could use this for classes, for coaching, for groups, for fitness classes, that sort of
thing. Now, one thing that human beings are really not good at is the whole back and
forth and remembering all of the details. Okay? Remembering all the numbers and dates and so on.
And so, that's why the time zone conversions is really important, so the people are booking a
time. If you're servicing customers outside of your city or outside of your time zone,
then time zone conversions is really, really nice. So have a look at the product tour and it really
just depends on what kind of business you might be running. If it's appointments and staff and
things like that you want to, maybe you don't want to have back-to-back appointments because
you don't want to have-if you've got restrictions in place-you don't want to have too many people
crowded into your office or into your rooms. At the same time, good for consultants, as I say,
for classes including online online classes and just makes it really easy for people to book.
So here we are for the online classes, and this is the easiest way to schedule classes with this
scheduling software. Do the 14-day trial and there's no credit card required. The free plan,
which as I've pointed out does have some limitations on it, but the free plan is available
as well. You can use the affiliate link in the description below. If you are in a place which
has got a lot of restrictions, in terms of how many people, in terms of social distancing and
that sort of thing, then have a read of this page here because Appointy's got a lot of features that
are going to help you book those slots in, so that you don't have customers or staff
lining up and crowded around...especially if you've got to keep that distance. So
check the link in the description below and check the Appointy website to learn more.