Do you want to create your own social media community, but you just don't want
to rely on Facebook, groups, LinkedIn, Twitter, and all those other social media
accounts where you're just competing with a bunch of groups.
Well, this community creator is called
Beam, and in this video I will will be making a review.
So I will be talking about what I like and dislike about it.
Now, if you're looking for something simple that's easy to set up,
Beam might be the deal for you, but if you're looking for something
to fine tune with a lot of settings and just make something really
customizable, then this deal might not be for you.
So what I'm going to do in this video is we're going to jump on it.
I'm going to show you how to set it up and how it actually looks and works.
So let's go jump over to my desktop right now.
All right. So I first want to talk about the deals
going on right now because it starts off at $79 for the lifetime deal.
So that means you pay once and use forever.
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do consider using that link in the description.
Now, what I like about it is
that for the $79, you get unlimited users and you get unlimited storage.
So that means you can have as many friends or clients or whatever you want to use
your community for without having those limits.
The limits that do come into play are
these for $79, you are tied to the professional plan.
You have community level 51 integration,
one professional community and up to three months and admins team access two.
Okay, I would recommend at least
the double code, which is the premium plan,
so it jumps to the next plan and you're tied to whatever update that plan has.
So premium plan 158 and community level up
to 100, up to three integrations, one premium community,
unlimited mods and admins team access to three, and you get custom Gramifications
so that's not available on the single code.
So I recommend double code.
At least if you're interested in this, you get all these options available up
to ten codes, which is pretty much expensive, but you get more limits.
Okay, let's jump into the actual platform.
Let's go first with the settings.
Is it hard to set up and it actually is
not super easy to set up because it's not so complex.
It's a pretty simple platform.
So you get an overview.
First of members activity, active members and new members.
In this case, it's just one because
obviously it's just a demo video statistics.
Let's go to statistics.
All right, let's wait for that to open. There we go.
This is what we're going to do.
Total Members New members, Active Members members visits average time
spent on the platform top members in this case, it's just one.
I created a member called Danny Lopez and the retention rate member activity,
platform distribution, OS distribution and member information.
Right. So we get all that info.
Next is we have subscription.
This is not included in the deal, and that's something I wish they do included.
So if you want to create a type of paid
subscription to join the community, that's going to cost you an extra,
and that's going to be a monthly or yearly price.
It's not going to be on a lifetime deal.
And there's also code management.
Next thing we have is the platform settings.
Like I mentioned before, it's super easy to set up.
And that's something I like the cons about it is that it's simple.
So first off, we need to name our community,
which I just called it SaaS Community, the Beam domain.
In this case I called it Sasmaster Beam GG.
Again, you can use your own custom domain, which is something I would recommend.
You don't want to send someone to Sasmaster Beam GG.
You want to send something nice like sasmastercommunity.
Com.
I don't know whatever you want to use it for the tagline.
I'm using the default one, the short description just by default.
We can edit these the custom domain if we want to set that up.
The Privacy statement.
In this case it's just default Privacy statement.
I haven't added anything to it. Again.
Terms and rules. We can change those the branding settings.
You only get two settings, which is the icon and the platform cover.
Let me show you the platform how it actually looks.
This is the cover on the top and this is the icon.
So pretty simple in that sense.
You don't get other customizations for that, apart from design colors.
So these are the design colors.
What you want to use it for your branding
color, which is red, pink, purple, blue and other shades of colors.
You don't have a custom color selected.
You have to choose one of those.
And right now there's only light mode, but dark mode is coming and light out.
Also mode coming out.
These aren't ready yet.
And next thing we have is the user reactions.
We can customize these right now. By default.
These are the ones that are available, but we can change the icon for these
and change what it says in case you want to use it for something else.
Post categories.
So these are the default categories.
And I can add more to these sub forums if
you want to create forums to separate categories in type of forum.
Well, you can create those also.
And the platform visibility.
Is it going to be public or private only members see content.
Those are the settings for the platform.
Now let's go jump over to the platform to show you how it actually looks.
This is the platform.
Pretty simple and straightforward. On the top.
We saw the cover obviously add something nice.
I just added something so you kind of see what you can add.
On the left.
We have our logo and we have the forums right here.
I created these forums and it separates.
I would use it as categories and you can separate your post through there.
You have a search option here and we have
the option to view Hot image, new and new post.
If I want to create a new post, these are my options.
Here we go. I can create a submitted post.
It could be a text image or a poll.
I can write a title where I want to put it in which community which is intended for.
Like I said, you can use it as categories
and is it going to be general Q and A or idea?
Remember, we can set those up.
We can change this and make it more customizable in that sense.
We can drop in the image.
Here the text that we want to add
for the description and we have all these settings available.
You can post anonymously if you like.
Now I mentioned that I would say what I
don't like and that's something that I wish we had an option to remove these if
we don't want to allow users to post anonymously.
So you want to have that option to allow or not to allow.
And once you're done, you submit and it's going to look something like this.
I just made a test post.
This is me posting.
It was 3 hours ago.
Here's my handle.
Danny Lopez. There's the image.
I've added some heading, some description.
I've added some reactions I can upload, download and comment if I like.
Now, if I want to comment, it's not going to open it up as Facebook.
You comment and it stays on the same page.
This one opens up the page and you comment here.
I wish they kept it in the same section,
so it just comments in the same place, but it doesn't do it that way.
So something I dislike, we can have the options to edit and delete.
Since I am the user who posted this, I am not viewing this as the admin.
This is an actual user.
And next we have information about my profile for that to open.
And there's things that it makes us incentivize.
For example, we're viewing here that we're
in level one and there's 30 levels and there's things that you know what?
If I see this, it makes me want to post more.
And that's the idea people posting,
commenting and sharing and all that makes this level go up.
You have details as joined, a browsing from birthday, the badges.
So for example, there's badges for a nice reaction, highly aggregate.
And there are several things for different badges and statistics for my profile.
It's one submission reply submitted, a vote received and reactions received.
So that's what we see on profile. Okay.
But basically that is beam like I mentioned before.
It's a simple platform.
If you're looking to create a community that's easy to set up and easy to manage
because it's just simple, straightforward people are going to jump
in and they're going to start posting, commenting and reacting.
This is the way to go.
But if you're looking for something more
customizable, more complex, then I'm surely that this won't be
the deal for you unless you want to wait for them to implement more features.
But as of now, this is what you're going to get.
The price.
It's a good price point because it's a lifetime deal.
I mean, you're paying once for this and you're getting it.
I think it's pretty sweet deal for that.
So like I recommended before, at least the double quote.
That's what I would get if I intend to have a community.
And if this is what you like, something simple.
Well, there you go.
That is beam.
If you guys want to grab that deal, the link will be in description.
It helps me out with a small Commission, and it helps me out make these videos.
I thank you all for watching. My name is George.
This is SaaS Master, and I'll see you guys later.