I started my account with updating.ai on Sept. 8. Today I'm seeing ChatGPT as my #1 traffic source (and Gemini at #6). That was fast!

Hey Everyone, I'm sending this late night and making the post before we have to wake up super early and I forget or don't have time to post this as we run out the door to the airport. Something kind of ODD happened to me last week, and I though I'd share a surprising L I took and how we shook it off quickly and turned it into a W. We recently helped a franchise client in the massage and facial industry generate over 100 reviews in just 60 days using our system. Sounds like a huge win, right? But here’s the curveball: they canceled. Not because the system didn’t work — it worked too well. But their internal service and operations didn’t match the reputation we helped them build. 🔎 Here’s what happened: - The reviews flooded in. - Their visibility skyrocketed. - But their star rating stayed flat… because the customer experience didn’t improve. 👀 What we learned: - You can generate attention and traffic with reviews. - But you can’t paper over a broken process. - A review system is only as powerful as the experience it reflects. ⚙️ What we’ve changed: We now set stronger expectations with clients from day one: “Our system drives reviews. Your job is to earn 5 stars.” That simple shift has made all the difference. Compound that with our Review Rush strategy that is taking off this summer 🚀🚀🚀 ( I typed these and put them in not AI, but it did add the others lol ) and I quickly shook it off and moved on. And while I was here I started to document things and instead of keeping it internal, I stopped recording and decided to carve out some time and record the simple process of our Review Rush strategy and how you can close 10 new clients in 10 days. WANT ACCESS? If you want a deal on it the program type "RUSH" in the comments below and I will hook you guys up later this week at a special rate JUST for this Skool group! IMPORTANT NOTES - I recorded the training for you in the early mornings on vacation here in Mexico City while my family slept, or on rainy days, so it's going to be delivered a little different than usual.

I like to record webinars and online presentations so I can watch them offline. I use SnagIt plus a free tool called Handbrake. I've been using Camtasia and SnagIt for years. I used Camtasia a lot for making screen recordings of presentations, but at one point they added that ability into SnagIt, which is a lot easier to use. It does some really basic editing as well. Something helpful to know about how video encoding work: It takes a screenshot and uses that as something called a "key frame" and saves it. Then it takes successive screenshots and computes the differences and saves them instead. For things like filming people and events live, or like what you'd see in a TV show, if the camera is still and there's motion in the scene limited to just a small part, then the differences between each frame are fairly small until the camera's angle changes, and you end up with a decent amount of compression. For online presentations, like most webinars these days, unless the person has their face in a little bubble, the screen doesn't change AT ALL for quite a while -- dozens if not hundreds of key frames -- which means there's NO CHANGE between the key frames. Even with a headshot in a bubble, the changes from frame to frame are minimal. I was on a webinar the other day and they had around two dozen slides and took an hour to go through them. SnagIt doesn't not optimize anything, and its videos end up quite bloated for this purpose. It tends to create videos that are around 15MB per minute, which isn't that unusual. So an hour long presentation can be around 1GB in length. Note that MP4 has a sound track attached to it that's usually encoded as MP3, and it's highly compressed already. The audio for an hour long presentation can be only 100k or less. So we're just talking about the VIDEO part of the file here. Anyway, most screen recording tools don't know what sort of thing they're dealing with, and they're tuned to do a good job for whatever you might throw at them.

Hello @Jeff Schwerdt and @Dave Calafiore I was wondering what your thoughts are on asking for their name + email + cell number to get the "full report?" I know that asking for only the email it's a smaller ask but if we are speaking at an event and there is a team of people from a plumbing company and when we go to call them back - who are we going to ask for to speak with to know who it was that pulled the report? Can we add something simple such as: In order to get your personalized report sent to you right away, please add your First Name, email, and cell number. Just a thought..... 👍

Anyone else get an email about the Google Maps Platform? In summary, what is google saying? Pay for the service now? Thanks.