Wouldn't it be awesome if you can send
customized concert tickets with their name and their image?
That is possible.
Or maybe start an email campaign which each of the individuals received
an email with a customized image with their company name, their logo,
and all that that is possible with this automation.
What I'm going to show you is how to connect Switchboard.
So you don't think it's complicated, because on this video,
I'm going to show you how easy it actually is for this automation.
I'm going to use Pabbly Connect,
which has a really great free version that you can actually use also.
So let me show you what the deal is
with Switchboard Canvas and how to actually set it up.
So let's go jump over to my desktop right now.
What's up, everyone?
My name is George, and this is SaaS Master.
This is the deal that I'm talking about.
And it starts off at $69 for the lifetime deal.
And the whole idea of this is to create
a base template of an image with text that can be customized with variables
using an automation system like I mentioned before.
Don't get worried. I'm going to show you how to set it up.
Now, let me show you really quickly what the $69 deal gets you.
And it's over here on the plans.
So you get up to 5000 API calls per month.
So that means that you can create 5000 of these images in case it's one variable.
If it's more variables, well, you got to deduct those from the API calls.
You Canva create two image sizes per call.
I mean, don't worry about that limit,
because you can replicate this on the automation that I'm going to show
you to kind of evade that because you can create another API call and create more
variables of the image size, 25 images per batch.
And Batch creates 25 rows from Air table.
So if you are using an air table, it could create up to 25 rows.
If you have 100 rows, well, it's only going to create 25 of those.
Okay. So if you need more limits,
you Canva jump into license tier two or license tier three.
And if you guys want to grab that deal, the link will be provided
in the description, which helps me out with a small Commission.
Okay, so let me show you Switchboard.
Cabbage is super easy to set up.
It's not complicated at all.
The thing that's going to take you
the most time is actually creating a nice template to use.
But once you create it, you create the automation and you're good to go.
Everything is automated.
So the template library is this one right here.
And I think this is one of the biggest
weak points of Switchboard Canvas is that they have not enough templates.
Basically, there's five, seven, 8910, eleven templates, which is not enough.
They need to dedicate some time to create some really nice templates.
So we can use these well more easily.
But again, you Canva use any graphic
designer software and import your image so you can create your templates.
I am going to use any one of these.
Let me choose one of these because I want to show you how easy this is.
I'll select this one.
Yes, I'll use that.
It's going to open up the Canva so I can work.
You can open up the design on Canva.
If you have an account there, all you have to do is sign up,
sign in and you can work from there and it'll import that image.
In this case, I'm not logged in and I
don't use Canva, I use Credo and I use Glorify, I use other image softwares.
But in this case, we are not going to go
fancy because I don't want this video to take a long time.
But the concept, you're going to get it really easily.
Okay.
So each one of these elements that is right here has an API name,
which we're going to use those a bit in our automation.
If I add another image,
other text or a rectangle, that's what they have available right now.
It's going to add one of these API names
which we can later use to customize our automation.
So in this case, this piece of text, we can customize it.
So if this would work to be a company name and I'll just name this company name.
Okay.
And this right here, I'm actually going to change the API name
also company so I can locate it easily over here.
I'm going to name this
job title because that's a form that I created and I'll just put CEO.
Obviously these are going to be replaced with the automation.
And what else did I add on my form?
So this is the form that I'm going to use the name.
Okay.
So in this case, I'm going to add another piece of text.
Here we go.
And I'm going to name this name and I'll just say name for this.
It's going to be a big piece of text and I
didn't add an image uploader, but you'll get the idea.
Okay, so we have three elements that are
going to be switched with the automation that I create.
What is this going to mean for you?
Let's just say that you are selling concert tickets.
Well, we want these variables to be changed.
We want their name and the company name
and their job title and that's going to be added to the template.
Obviously, this is not a nice template.
You create a really nice one, a really nice looking badge and it's going
to automatically update variables with the name, whatever you add to it.
Okay. That's the concept of this.
You're going to use this for email marketing.
Also, you can switch up the variables so it works for that.
Okay.
So another weak point that I find on switchboard is the lack of elements.
So right now we can only add image text and rectangles.
So it's not a complete image designer.
I would recommend design on Canva Trello
glorify something really nice and then just add the variables here,
which is going to be the image and the text, all the rest.
I would create it on an image editor which is basically made for that.
Okay. This is made for the automation.
The API calls.
So once you have a nice looking template,
you align the things that you are going to place them.
In this case, I'll put it right here.
And the next thing I want to show you is
the automation really quickly, you can upload your own text.
So font.
I mean, for example,
I'm using the font family over here, which is these that they have available,
but I can upload my own font, which is really important because, well,
most of us don't like the fonts that come in stock.
So you can add your own.
And these are the settings that we have right here.
Background color, highlighted color, background height.
That's the kind of thing I mean,
nothing really fancy, nothing that I would really be hyped about.
Okay, so let's just say that I have my image ready, my template.
Super cool.
And I'm going to get started with my automation.
So this is what I'm going to use.
It's called Pabbly Connect and it's similar to Zapier.
Zapier.
If you're going to use that, you can also use Zapier again.
But I'm going to show you how to do it
on Pabbly Connect because, well, this is what I use for automation.
They have a really nice free plan in case
you guys want to use that or if you want to go to the pay plan.
Okay, so what I've done to get started is I've added a web hook.
This is not connected to Switchboard already.
This is just the step before it.
This is called the trigger. What is the trigger?
Well, the trigger is something you pull for something to happen.
Okay. So we are going to use this information,
this trigger to create our customized image from Switchboard.
In this case, I've connected a JotForm that I created really quickly.
So I created a JotForm and I connected it via web hook.
You can use any form builder that has web hook you can use.
I don't know if someone signs up
to WordPress to your site and you send that information to Pabbly Connect.
Well, it's going to use that information to create our next step.
Okay, so this is the information that I have from the form.
And now comes the fun part, connecting Switchboard.
Okay, so let's search for Switchboard.
Here it is, Switchboard canvas.
I am going to select him.
I'm going to create an image that's the action event that I'm going to use.
I am going to connect.
And in this case, I have previously connected.
If you haven't connected all you have to do is let me go back here.
Templates.
Okay. It's safe.
Don't worry. I'm going to view your API key.
That's the only piece of content you're
going to need for Pabbly connect to connect to Switchboard.
Okay.
So hypothetically saying you already connected your API and you're doing this,
connecting it's reading the information from switchboard.
And just like that, you are connected.
We're going to be able to view our
templates and now we're going to fill in the data that we need.
It's going to ask us for the width and height that we need.
In this case,
it's going to depend on the size that you actually need for your email marketing
campaign, for your concert ticket, for your donation,
thank you for your certificate, whatever you want to use this for.
But in this case, I'll use ten ADP by 1080p.
So I'm going to make it squared. Okay.
And in this case, I'm not going to move around the panel the image.
I didn't create a field on my form for the image, but if I did have one,
well, we can replace the image with our own shadow.
We're not going to work with that. The job title.
The job title, we are going to grab it from our variables, from our form.
Okay.
So in this case, let's locate that variable right here.
Job title.
And for the name, we're going to locate again, the name.
There it is. We're going to have the first name
and the company.
We also have a variable on our forMaster. There you go.
So now it's connected.
And everyone that fills out this form with the specific variables that they
select, it's going to update automatically and create an image.
So right now, if I run this test, go for it.
It's going to give us an image link.
Here we go.
Here's the image link right here that we're going to use.
Let me go ahead and open this up on my browser.
And there it is. It updated.
Jorge Sasmaster, CEO now that's just for my test.
Okay, now this is ready.
Let's go ahead and save this. Okay.
And the automation is on.
We're going to go into history.
In this case, we can further automate this.
And I'll show you some quick tips on that in a bit.
I want to give you a test.
So let me refresh. Nothing is happening here.
No task history.
I'm going to fill out this form
with different data and I'm going to show you the results.
Okay.
So again, we're going to say Johnny Cage from the company Mortal Kombat.
And this guy is on the accounting job title and we'll just say test@test.com
because we're not actually using that variable.
So I'm going to submit it. Here we go.
It's been submitted. It should be working.
Now sending that information via Pallid
connect to Switchboard and create that image for us.
So in our history right here.
Let's go ahead and refresh it. Here we go.
It just worked. So it created that variable.
Here's the task history just to show you what's going on.
And this is the result we just got.
Let me go ahead and copy this.
Let me show you what results we got. Here it is.
Johnny and I didn't have the last name,
but if we added there from Mortal Kombat and he's in the accounting job title.
Okay, so you can see how that updated.
You could do that with really nice looking templates to create your automations.
Now, what can you do with that?
Okay, what do I do with that link?
Well, let's go back into the automation really quickly.
In this case, we can further automate this.
We can add delays in case we don't want to send this really quickly.
We can add filters also.
So if I want to add a delay and say, hey,
you know what, after delay for minutes and I'll just say after five minutes,
let's go ahead and save this again, go ahead and save it.
Successful.
Now we can further automate this,
connecting it to something else or sending an email from here.
If I connected to Gmail.
Well, we can send an email straight from here, send an email and we can add
that link as the image and it's going to send the image.
Or we can connect to, for example,
send in Blue, which is another automation marketing email marketing system.
And we can create that and send over the template with that variable.
So it sends the image.
I mean, the options are limitless.
You can create your automations really
complex or really simple depending on what you need.
But basically you get the overall overview of what Switchboard Canvas can do.
Now, it's going to depend on you and your
creativity to decide what you're going to do with those automations.
But just like you saw there, it's easy to create the templates at the variables.
Connect on Public Connect or Zapier or Integromat, Mac or whatever you want
to use for the automation and further automated to create your task automated.
So like I mentioned before,
the most time consuming part of all is creating that nice looking template there.
Well, the next thing that comes up is creating the automation.
And once that's created well, you're good to go.
It's automated. You don't need to worry about it.
It's going to do it automatically.
Every time you make a sale, every time that someone fills out a form,
every time that someone signs up on your, I don't know, your staff,
your WordPress site, your membership site or whatever,
it's going to automatically create those images for you.
Well, there it is.
That is Switchboard Canvas.
If you guys want to grab that lifetime
deal, that link will be provided in the description.
It provides me a small Commission
which helps me out to make these videos for you guys.
Well, I thank you for watching my name is George and this is SaaS master.
I'll see you guys later. Bye.