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Collecting leads and offering appointments is a great way to utilize your TimeTrade account to connect with your prospects faster and close more deals. In this Google Hangout, we are going to talk about creating simple HTML contact forms you can use on your website or blog that will email you the lead information and offer the prospect an opportunity to book a meeting with you all while carrying their information over to the booking process so they don’t have to fill out two forms.  Download our email script and form example and follow along with the video!

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Requirements:
A TimeTrade Account
A Website
FTP/ Web Upload Access to your Website
HTML Noob Skills

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Cancelling and rescheduling meetings can be a nightmare.  In part with our release of TimeTrade 6, we have a new hassle free way for anyone to cancel or reschedule any meetings they book with you.  When someone books a meeting with you, they will receive a confirmation email giving them the opportunity to cancel or reschedule a meeting.  They will also have this option in the calendar invite they add to their personal calendar!  Both options will bring your user to their confirmed meeting online where they will have the option to cancel their meeting, or reschedule to a new available time on your calendar.  Users will be able to list a reason for the rescheduling and you will receive an email notifying you of the update.  Remember this is a new feature included with our new TimeTrade 6 update.  If you haven’t switched over yet, click here to learn how!

The best part is you don’t have to do anything!  TimeTrade will update your calendar with the cancelation or new meeting and free up your time for someone else to book with you.  No manual updates, or running around trying to get a new time for your meeting.  All of this is part of the new TimeTrade Click To Schedule Interface available now!

Click here to learn more about hassle-free canceling and rescheduling.

Click here to learn about TimeTrade 6 and our new OneMobile Technology.

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Today we are creating personal booking pages you can use to enhance your booking experience. Using a personal booking page gives you the opportunity to customize the look and feel of the page you send to your prospects and clients to book times with you.  We have two templates for you to work with.  One is a stand alone HTML page you can just upload to your website, and the other is great to add to your Blog when you have limited creative resources from your CMS.

Remember to watch the video and download our templates to get you started.

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Join us this Friday at 1PM EST as we introduce a new training series to go beyond the class room and talk about real life scenarios you can use TimeTrade to help boost your productivity.  This will be a live roundtable and I encourage you to join the discussion.

During this session we will be covering easy ways you can use your TimeTrade links through your emails and website along with introducing our new Button Builder!

We will be using Google+ Hangouts where you can join to ask me questions on ways you can use TimeTrade.  It won’t be perfect and we’re going to run into problems, but thats the point!  We’re all here to learn and the best way to learn is to dive in.

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Due to hurricane Sandy, we have decided to move the webinar to Thursday Nov. 1st @ 1PM EDT.

“…if a company can respond to a lead within 5 minutes of it being generated, versus waiting even 30 minutes, the odds of contacting the person at that company are 100 times higher. More importantly, if a company responds in the same 5 minutes, the odds of  qualifying that person are 21 times higher. And by qualifying we mean setting an appointment to enter the sales process.” – insidesales.com

Very surprising to see that the average response time was over 34 hours and that 44% had no contact attempt.  We’re very happy to hear that we had a call time of 2 minutes and 26 seconds landing us in 14th place.  I know 14th doesn’t sound all that great, but just making this list is a fantastic win!  Check out the whole article from Ken Krogue of insidesales.com here…

Join TimeTrade at 2PM EDT on August 15th as we host Jamie Shanks, a sales expert on Social Selling & Sales 2.0. Jamie will walk us through his proven tips and tricks for using LinkedIn as a sales prospecting machine and generating more business.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Unlock the Prospecting Power of LinkedIn Groups

• Use Timing to Your Advantage in LinkedIn Signal

• Capture Followers of Your Customers

We have a lot of clients that offer consulting services, whether they are Life Coaches, Career Coaches, Business Consultants, or Personal Trainers, that need a way to not only schedule meetings with clients by using a Click-To-Schedule button, but to bill them as well.  By using Paypal to accept payments from your clients, you can properly charge your clients for your services, and then offer times for them to book with you!

What we are going to do is embed your online availability on the thank you page your clients will see once they have made a payment to you.  Here are the requirements:

• A TimeTrade account and working Activity
• A Paypall Business account
• Ability to edit HTML of website
• A Thank You page when the purchase is finished.

First Login to your Paypal account.  Then go to your “Merchant Services” tab and then select “Customize My Buyers’ Experience.”

On the next page you will want to select “Edit” under the “Auto Return” options.

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This page is where you can customize the buying experience once the transaction is finished in Paypal.  When they submit their payment, they will be redirected to this ‘Thank You” page you can completely customize.  On this page you will want to set “Auto Return” to “ON” under the “Auto Return for Website Payments.”

Then just below that you will want to paste the URL to your thank you page in the “Return URL” field.  Finally, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click save!

Please Note:  There are strict guidelines on required messages you need to display on your thank you page per the orders of Paypal.  They include messages on the order being completed and that you must reference the email they will receive from Paypal upon completion of the transaction.  Please review their required terms and conditions of the thank you redirect pages.

Now on your thank you page you will want to add your calendar so people can book with you.  First you need to find your activity link.  You can find it by logging into http://my.timedriver.com and selecting the Activity you want to share.  Copy the activity link and paste it into the code below!

<iframe src=https://my.timedriver.com/GY4JM?sh=1 frameborder=”0” width=”750” height=”525”>

Now when people finish their purchase they will be brought to your thank you page where they can book a meeting with you.

Thats it, you’re done!  For more instructions and other options on embedding your online availability on your calendar please visit this post on Embedding TimeTrade Calendars on your Personal Website.

Please note this walk-through is dependent on 3rd party solutions and the support on this post is provided “as-is,” without any express or implied warranty.

Online Appointment Scheduling is one of the best ways to connect with prospects and ending the Calling, Chasing, and Waiting game we all find ourselves playing.  Adding a”Click-To-Schedule” button to your Facebook page is a great way to engage your leads who are interested right now through social media!  Here is how you can add a “Click-To-Schedule” button to your Facebook page.

Before continuing you will have already setup or have:

• A Facebook Page you are an Administrator of (Kind of Obvious)
• A TimeTrade Account
• A Recurring Activity & Activity Link

First, we need to install custom pages to your Facebook page.  We used WooBox custom tabs which are free.  Click here to install Woobox tabs. From this page you will see a big button that says “Install Custom Tabs.”  CLICK IT!  It will then ask you which page you want to add the custom tabs to.  Select the page you want to add the Click-To-Schedule Button on.

Once it’s installed you will be brought back to your Facebook page.  You will now see a new tab in your page titled “Welcome” with spotlights.  If you have a lot of tabs you may need to expand to see the new tab. Click it and you will be able to select Settings of the new tab.

Next you have a lot of options to edit on the page.  The main options you are going to want to change are:

• Tab Image
• Page Source (Set to HTML)
• Tab Name

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First set the tab image.  If you would like, you can use our custom “Click-To-Schedule” button by right clicking and saving the image to your computer.

Next you want to embed your calendar.  Get your activity link by logging into TimeTrade and selecting the activity you want to share.  You will then get the option to copy the link for that activity.

Replace the source URL (eg. https://www.timetrade.com/book/xxxxx) with your activity link

<iframe src=https://www.timetrade.com/book/XXXXX width=”850″ height=”600″ frameborder=”0″>

Please note, you many need to manually type this out for it to render correctly on your page

Now just set your Page Title to what you would like it to be and once you save it you can review.

Interested in Online Appointment Scheduling?  Learn more about TimeTrade and how to start a Free Trial by clicking here!

One last step.  If your new custom tab isn’t listed in the top 4 tabs you can move it up there.  Select to edit the tabs on your page and hover over the Click-To-Schedule tab you just created.  You should see an icon of a pencil show to edit it.  Form that menu you can replace any other tab position with this one.

Now you are done!  You should now see your new custom tab with the image you had set.  This will now click through to your online calendar where people can book with you right from Facebook.

Need a “Click-To-Schedule” call to action?  Right click and save this image:

Please note this walk-through is dependent on 3rd party solutions and the support on this post is provided “as-is,” without any express or implied warranty.