Latest / MyLearningSource: For All Educators and Students / MyLearningSource Vendor Page and Benefits - MyLearningSource - Episode #5
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- What's Happening My Learning Source Vendors. That's right. This is a website put together by and funded by and also supported by vendors of homeschooling and other educational materials. Now we are doing this because we want to get one place where all homeschoolers can come to and know that they have verified vendors to be able to look through. And they're going to get workshops by the vendors. They're going to get products from the vendors. They're going to get so much information from vendors, even a social media source, which we'll go over later on or actually in what might I think was my last video. We're going to help out the homeschoolers in every way possible because we want you to come to this site so that all the vendors can come to this site. And now here's one thing to know. I don't benefit from this in the sense of financial. I benefit because I'm a vendor that's on the system. Historical Conquest. That's my company. I'm not the CEO or the creator of my learning source. This was actually a cooperative between many different vendors during COVID. And then it was put to the side when conventions opened up. We started going back to conventions. But now we see that the convention attendance are going down. And a lot of vendors are like, okay, where do we go? Because there's like thousands of places we could go and put our money. And most of the time we're gonna be wasting our money because we have homeschoolers are going everywhere. And sometimes not finding what they want. So we're giving you one place to look at to have all this information. And this is not just for vendors that are in like this site is Florida. But if you want Texas, if you want Arizona, if you want Arkansas, if you want California, those are on here. So your site, if you are a homeschooler and you're from another state, so you're not in Florida, you're in let's say Idaho, you can actually come to the site and get all this information based on your state, your actual state. So we're gonna provide you information on anything. If you have ESAs, we're gonna provide you the information on that. Graduation information, calendar invites. So if you have like, if there's an event going on at the zoo that's sponsored for homeschoolers, we want you to know about it. So we're gonna be providing those and also asking you to help us to add on to that calendar. Whether you're a co-op, whether you're an individual, or whether you're a vendor. We want you to, we want to know all these things are going on and we're gonna put in this one place so everyone can come to one place that they actually, that they trust. So let's go into a little bit more into it. So again, I am not the only vendor in here. We actually have over 300 and something vendors so far. Florida has some of the highest numbers, but we also have Arkansas that has like 80 different vendors that are sponsoring it. Now at the same time, there are free tiers. So for vendors that are coming on here, know this. You don't have to pay for it to find out if it works. Get a free tier, enjoy the free information or free customers that come in, and then join us for support. And you know, it's great. If you want to do free tier, that's fine, but there are a lot of benefits you miss out on. And if you're a paid subscriber, you're supporting this effort. You know, if I'm gonna continue to lose money on this, because we're producing it, we're just releasing this. If I'm gonna keep producing, losing money, I'm probably gonna, I would probably scrap it. But that's the thing, I'm not. There are so many vendors coming to us, so many vendors that are paying for this, so many, so much happening. And again, not one penny of that goes into my pocket or any of the other vendors pockets. No company is earning it, okay, again, minus Facebook or Google or even a convention that we market through their newsletter. All those ways, yes, we will continue to market with the money that we produce and put that into that. So vendors, your money is being used and we will be fully transparent of it. But I'm going to show you the benefits of being part of this. And I'm going to show you, I'm going to focus on one major benefit. It is the largest producer of new customers. More people looking at your site, more people coming to want to know more about you. Okay, so let's get into this. Okay, so first off, to log in, I'm going to hit right here. As a vendor, this is my customer. If I'm going to be a customer, this is how I sign in as a customer. If I'm a vendor, I would hit this, and it brings you to this page. Now I'm going to pause it because I'm going to put my information in. Okay, here we go. Now this is a very generic one. As you can see, everything's zeroed out. That's because this belongs to nobody. It's just my blank account so I can show people it. Because I personally don't want to show you how many likes or people I have coming to the site for my information. Again, I set this thing up. But at the same time, I wouldn't want anyone else to be able to see theirs as well. So we have this generic one. And in here we have, let's see, the first one, overview, gives you a snapshot of everything, including, my face is in the way, let me bring this over here, right here, active survey. So you can actually put out surveys. Now this is a paid, this is one of the benefits for a paid subscriber. If you are a paid vendor, you can actually go up here into, oh sorry, I was doing it on my other screen. Right here, active surveys. There you go. I could actually go to visitor surveys and I could create a survey that I could fish out to all the customers that come to my profile. They can see my profile and they get a survey and say, okay, I'll answer a few questions. There you go. One out of three or one out of one. It's really easy, really fast, not intimidating for the customers to go through. Plus, I'm pretty sure that a lot of the customers want to give you information because they want you to provide stuff that actually applies to them. And you can get the information on that. The audience interest, again, it's zeroed out because it's not an active account. So you can see what they're actually interested in. That's benefit number one. That's not even the top one. That's just number one. Another thing, traffic analytics. You can see exactly how many people come to my learning source. So again, because this is a generic account, I've actually zoomed it, zeroed it out so you don't see this. If you want to see it, I can give you a snapshot. We're up to like a few thousand every day coming to our site. And so, and starting tomorrow, we're gonna be reaching out to a lot of co-ops and bringing them on as well. And these are vendors. These are people that we've contacted or had relationships with with Historical Conquest and such. And so we're putting that information out tomorrow. So we're gonna get a lot, hopefully a big flood of people coming in. But you'll see exactly what my learning source did here. So today, this week, this month, and the average daily. And then you're gonna be able to see today. Your listing profile view today. This is you. This is just you. So one day you're gonna get five. Over a week, you're gonna get 20. And over a month, you're gonna get about a hundred. So I'm not saying exactly how much you'd have, but you have an average daily here. Now what you're gonna see is when you first set up this count, you're gonna see a very low. But as you put out blogs, those blogs will get interest. And by getting interest, they will accumulate more people to view your site. This is why today I'm actually gonna show you one of the most important parts of my learning source. And how you can actually bring on more customers, more viewers that you never thought you would actually get. Or getting ahead of myself. Okay, so first off, let's go into down here. We have up here blog posts. I missed it because I was doing the survey. You go to the blog post. Now, first thing to know is this thing in orange right here. Publishes schedule two times per day. So every day at nine o'clock and at three o'clock, blogs are posted in a what's called a queue. So say you you wrote one at one o'clock this afternoon. That means you're gonna go for three o'clock. Now if there's somebody already there, that means you're gonna go to the next slot which is 9 a.m. And if someone's already there, you're gonna go to 3 p.m. So you're gonna be in a queue and they'll be released depending on how many blogs are in front of you. That way no one's swamped with a whole bunch of articles and a whole bunch of workshops and then they never get to see it. We want everyone to see it. So this is how we get our information out. Okay, so then with this, what do you do? Okay, so just to start writing your blog post, you can put it right here. Now you can also see in the queue, this is how many people are in the queue waiting to publish. This is published. No, sorry, these are your numbers. So when you get one of there, you're gonna have one there. If you get three in a queue, you're gonna have three here. Now published, this is how many you've published in the past and also these are your drafts in case you want to bring them back and be able to finish them up. And so you don't have to be filled rushed. You don't have to do this right away, but do it over time. Put some drafts in there and we'll start releasing them. Now don't release them one after another. It's great to have one or two maybe of the same company, but ultimately we want to have like a lot of other companies mixed in there and have yours come in every once in a while. So if you want to release a new blog every day, it might be pushed off for two days. Great! That gives you a little bit of buffer so that no one's seeing you over and over again and then gets bored by your information. We don't want that. We want people to see a variety. Then they come back and they want to see it. Now what happens with these blogs? Okay, so as soon as that time comes, 9 a.m., that's your blog post. Boom! It's posted up. It doesn't just stop there. It then goes out to our social media feed. So it's then funneled out to social media where other people can see it. Now here's the great thing. The one blog post each week that gets the most likes will actually get a newsletter with it written in there. So the recipients of the newsletters, those customers that have signed up to be a customer on MyLearningSource, not the vendors, the customers, they will receive an email every week. Again, this is all automated because, again, I don't get paid for this. So you're not going to pay my bills. This is automatic. A lot of these things are automatic. So the vendors put in the blogs, the workshops. If they're liked and commented on, they will get higher up in the priority to become a newsletter. Every week a new newsletter is published in a newsletter, or sorry, an article is published in a newsletter which is sent out to all the customers that are subscribing to MyLearningSource. So it's an instantaneous thing. It's going to happen based on those numbers. We don't fudge the numbers. Actually, I don't think we've had one of ours posted yet since the very beginning because we also have a cooling-off period. So if we post a great article and then the next week we post another great article that gets number one, our second one will not be put up. We have to go two weeks without being posted in our newsletter. Again, we want variety. So we want people to see new vendors coming through and getting all this information because then more likely they'll come back. And if they click on those articles, they'll come back to our site, read your article, go to your profile, maybe go to your website. In addition, by them clicking on, they'll actually increase the SEO of the website which will make us more visible to other homeschoolers. So this is why it's so important to work together. A cooperative. Now there are other cooperatives out there for like single states, but we are the only nationwide cooperative that does anything like this. And we have so many more benefits than they do for the vendors, the customers, and also schools and more. We'll get into those other more things later on. Okay, so we try to keep our videos within 10 minutes. It's about 12 minutes now. So I'm going to end this and we will go focus on another part of the great benefit of becoming part of my learning source. We will talk to you soon. Thank you so much for joining us. I hope you got something out of this. I hope you join us. It's a great benefit. I guarantee it. Thank you so much. We'll talk to you later. Take care. Bye.