6 Ways to use COMMENTS inside your MV

In this weeks podcast episode I deliver some cool strategies for you, around how you can use the new comments feature inside MemberVault. This includes creating your own YouTube Style page and A Facebook community inside MV. I know, MEGA right? Use the comment section below to tell me if these are great ideas or not! Or TELL me about how you are using comments inside of your MV. I cant wait to hear about them.

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6 ways to use our new comments feature (and hint: the last one is how you can use it to replace your FB group).

1. If you want to get a lot of engagement going. Turn comments on at the end of each module in your product as a way to engage with your people, AND a way for them to engage with each other.

2. If you don't want to manage a lot of engagement, but you want to open up a feedback loop in a product. Turn comments on at the very END of the product, i.e. the last lesson to enable your clients to share feedback/testimonials.

3. If you want to give people a chance to engage with you on your free content. Turn comments on for your blog posts to allow your community to engage with you. Note, people need to be logged in to leave comments on your blog post, so if you're worried about spam...don't! This is a much more curated blog comment experience.

4. If you're running something live -- use comments to bring that product to life. If you have a product that you want a lot of engagement on, during a set period, like a challenge, group program, webinar replay during a launch, or a summit...this is where comments can really shine. Add comments throughout the product (and you can even combine it with quiz questions for a balance of public/private conversations).

5. If you want to add more perceived value to your content based products. In the podcast episode, Remi called this "turning it into YouTube" but truly you can use this for any product that has static content, whether it's video or worksheets. Comments will instantly make that content feel more "alive" and valuable. Just be sure to set expectations at the start, i.e. will you be replying, or is it mainly for people to engage with each other.

6. If you're tired of having your community on FB. Create a brand new product in your MV, and create modules that would emulate your FB group post topics. I'm a big fan of this idea for the right business/business owner -- because it'll be a much more curated, controlled community experience. There's a lot more to talk about if you want to go this route -- from how to organize the experience in MV, and how to remind people to engage with that content.

Listen to the full episode for more detail about each of the above options! And drop a comment with which one you're thinking of using first. 🙌

Ready to start playing with the new comments feature, but not sure where to start? Here's a resource guide for you. 👌

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FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Remi Oduyemi  

Why hello friends. It's Remi here your friendly user success Lead here at member vault, how the heck are you? So I'm really trying to keep my energy and my voice that really calm pace, because I get very, very excited easily. And today I'm talking about something that I'm really, really excited about. And I'm trying not to give that high pitched squealing voice to you in your ear holes, because nobody needs to hear that. But I can't promise my voice won't get higher. And my speed inflection get a little bit more crazier as we go along. Because I'm super, super excited about what I'm talking about today, which is comments. So unless you've been living under a rock, and you haven't seen, you haven't seen all of the collaborative messages and emails and everything going out about the new comments feature that member vault has rolled out, then I don't know what to tell you, my friend. But comments are here. And they are amazing. And in this episode, I'm going to be sharing with you six ideas, or six different ways that you can use comments inside of your member vault. So go grab yourself a pen and a piece of paper and your favorite notebook. Because we are going in.

So firstly, let's start with the fact that comments are here. And to the end user, it may just look like oh, wow, there's this thing at the bottom of a page that just says comments and a box and you can just type anything, and hit one button. And there you go. Very simple comments, right? Easy. But let me tell you, this has been a labor of love. And Mike has been working so hard behind the scenes, to be able to embed this and integrate this into the MemberVault platform and to bring this to the community. Now what might look simple on the front end has been incredibly difficult to bring together on the back end. But what Mike has done is, it's a bit like building a house, right, you've got to lay the foundations first. And so what Mike has done, even though we've rolled out a minimum viable product right now, what he's actually done is he has sort of laid the foundations for what is to come, and all the amazing community features that we can now add onto the top of what we have already built into member vault. So be prepared, buckle up, because there is more coming, more and more exciting stuff that we can add to this. But I already think what we have is super, super exciting. I mean, I'm gonna go out there on a limb and say, I'm just gonna say it haven't even run this past Erina Mike. So I'm just gonna say, I actually think we are already at a point where if you wanted to get rid of your Facebook community group, and bring it over into MemberVault, that you can do that right now. And at the end of this podcast, it's going to be my last thing I share with you, I'm gonna share with you how you can use member vault to run a Facebook community style group here on the platform, so stay to the end, because I am going to share with you exactly how I think you can do that right now.

Alright, so I've got six, I've got six suggestions for you six different strategies and ways and ideas that you can use.

So let's hop into number one. So the first thing I want to start with is to say that comments, you can use comments on MemberVault pages, MemberVault, blog, MemberVault products, MemberVault. Modules and member vault lessons, right. And all of them except for blog, you can turn on and off and play and play around with when you want them to show up. Right. So what I mean by that is you can have a module with let's say five lessons in it, but only two of those lessons might have comments turned on. You can decide how many modules have it on how many lessons, how many products and how many pages. But with blogs, you get one option, it's either on or off, and it's on or off for all of your blogs. Or it's not right, so it's either all on or it's all off. Whereas with the others, you can pick and choose when you want comments to show up for your people. So suggestion number one is that you think really strategically about where you might want to be using comments inside of your products. So suggestion number one is that you might want to place comments or turn comments on, at the end of a module, right? So let's say you have a program or a course. And let's say you've got five modules inside of your course. Perhaps at the end of each module, you turn on comments in the very last lesson. As a way to engage with your users and for your users to engage with each other, right? So you turn on comments at the very end of each module. And you might ask questions around how they found it. Where did they struggle? You could get some immediate feedback, did they love this module? Did they did they really find this module hard? So you might want to do that at the end of each module, so that you are keeping the community involved, you're giving them an outlet to give you some immediate feedback, but it also allows other people who are going through that module or through that course with you to be able to talk with one another. So that might be the first place that you want to turn on comments. The second suggestion, you might be thinking, Oh, my God, I don't want comments at the end of each module. For me Remi, that might be a bit too much. And if that's too much for you, or perhaps you have made a decision that this is going to be something you're selling whereby you don't want to be spending your time answering comments, you know, they've bought something might be self study where they don't get any of you time included in that, then you might want to turn on.

So this is suggestion number two, is that you might want to turn on comments at the very end of the course or the program, right? So not each module, like suggestion one. But perhaps you might just want to turn comments on at the very, very last lesson of the last module of your program, what your calls, so your workshop, to enable your community to talk to each other, perhaps you do want feedback, perhaps you want testimonials. And so perhaps you turn the comments on at the very last, the very last leg before they are done with your course, perhaps that's where you might turn it on. So that was suggestion number two, to turn on comments at the end of a course or a program, or use it to ask for feedback, or testimonials.

It's number three, number three suggestion is, you can turn on comments at the bottom of your blog. Now blogs are very commonly known to have a piece of content at the top, you know, an image, some content and then at the bottom of the page, a comment section. So this is something that you might see on WordPress and other blogging sites. So you might want to set up your blog inside of MemberVault with comments. And you go into the settings and you turn it on and your comments will be on for ALL of your blogs. You can't pick and choose between which ones will have comments at this point, who knows that might be a rollout that happens in the future. But right now, blogs are either on or off and comments at the bottom, I would suggest you turn them on as a great community feature. Also people have to be logged in. So you know there's there's that, in terms of it's not just anybody off the internet can leave comments on your blogs, it will be people who have created a profile and have logged in who can then leave comments for you at the bottom of your blog.

Suggestion number four. Now, do you run a challenge? Are you thinking about running a challenge? Or do you run a summit or thinking about running a summit? Again, these type of products that you create inside of MemberVault, like a five day challenge or a three day challenge or a three day Summit, right? Would be a brilliant product for turning on comments, to allow your guests to, you know, feedback on each day of the challenge or to feedback on each speaker that they just listened to or what they loved and what they resonated with. And allowing that community of people who are all there for a challenge or are all there for summit already engage and talk to each other. So turning on comments inside of a product that is running a challenge or Summit is an absolutely genius way to really engage your community. So that was suggestion number four.

Number five, is gonna be a really simple one. Do you want to turn your member vault into what feels like a YouTube page maybe. So let's say you have a product where you post videos right or inside of your free hub if you've set yourself up with a free hub, a free resource hub where people can come and get your free lead magnets or your free videos that you're giving away, right? And sometimes your lead magnet might be like a five day video challenge or video series or whatever it is right. But every time you post a video into a lesson, if you turn on and enable comments for that lesson. So let's picture this right the user will land on the lesson and the video will Be the first thing that they see. And then when you turn on comments, they will then get comments underneath, very much like going to a YouTube page, right? It's a video with a comment section underneath, and you can create that yourself inside of MemberVault. So I'm talking here about sometimes, you know, when you're teaching somebody something, or you're taking them for a course, or a program or structure or way to do things, there may not be a lot of text on the page, there may not be any PDFs to download, it may just be watch this video, right? Watch this video, and then go and take the action. And you can now add comments underneath that in a similar style to YouTube. So that people can feed back to you, and you can respond to them, as well. So that was suggestion number five, which was turn your MV into YouTube. All right, that was a bit of a stretch, but you know what I mean.

And so number six, which is the one that I mentioned at the top of this podcast was about how you could basically import your Facebook community and create that similar community over in MemberVault using comments. So here's how I would do that, I would create a brand new product inside of MemberVault. And I would call it something like my community, or community hub, something like that, right. And then what I would do inside of that product is I would go in and I would create some modules that would emulate my Facebook group. So in my Facebook group, I post every single day. So what I would do in my MemberVault is I would create a module called something like daily posts or daily inspo. And then I would go into there. And each day I would upload, you know, an image or a video and ask my members to comment, just like I would do inside of Facebook, I'll post an image or post a video, and my users will come in and comment underneath that. So I would create a daily post or a daily inspo module, where I can post every day, and my users can come in and engage with me every single day in the comments. And I can respond back to them. So we get that engagement happening. And I'm still building that know, like and trust factor. But I'm doing it inside of my member vault, I would then look at creating a couple of other modules that would represent perhaps my Facebook guides section. So I have three or four different guide sections inside of my Facebook group. And I would simply replicate those into modules inside of my community hub, name them, whatever you could, you could literally call them guides if you want. So it might be you know, a guide to x, y, and Zed or a guide to X, Y and Zed again, right? Whatever the naming of the thing is that you want to call your guides. But you can create those guides and those sections, almost like categories, you can create those inside of your 'my community' hub.

By using modules, you might want to have a module that you call something like weekly live. So let's say you're a coach, and you go live in your Facebook group once a week, then instead of going live in your Facebook group, you you go live either on Zoom or you record your weekly live on loom, or Vimeo or wherever your muse wherever it is you recorded and you upload it into MemberVault into a weekly live session, so that your audience is still getting to see you each week. And they can they know that if they go to the weekly lives, it's going to be all videos in there and they can catch up, and they can binge on your content. And they can leave comments and still engage with you. And the good thing about MemberVault is that on the left hand navigation of your dashboard, all of your comments will show up there on the top left hand side. And when you click on the comments, it will tell you where those comments are coming from. Are they coming from the modules? Are they coming from the lessons? Are they coming from your pages? Are they coming from your blog, it will all be really clearly defined for you and easy for you to go in and respond but also really easy for you to identify which areas are working really well for you. And so if you are going to create some sort of a community hub, this is a really nice way to see which modules are really working. You know, is the daily module working or more or is it the weekly module working more and you'll be able to see by the level of engagement in the comments that are coming in to you. So I'm a great believer that if you wanted to take your Facebook community, and get them onto your member vote and have them create a free profile, and log into your community area, that this is actually possible, because you have the ability to post every day like you would, inside of a Facebook group. And they have the ability to comment exactly like they would on a Facebook group. And you can still respond to them in the same way that you would inside of a Facebook group.

So for me, it's totally possible. Let me know what you think now, I'm going to put this out on the podcast. But I'm also going to throw this up into a MemberVault blog. And I'm going to turn on the comments to make sure I can get your feedback. But come back to me. And let me know what your thoughts are on this. Is this a good idea? Is this a bad idea why this might work? While you think it might not work? I would literally love to read your comments. And you can of course, still grab me over inside of the MemberVault collaborative group. Feel free to tag me my name is Remi Oduyemi over in the collab group. And yeah, this has been my little excitable rant to give you six ideas around what you can do inside a member vote right now using comments. If there are some that are like so obvious that I'm missing out, please do leave me a comment and be like, Hey, Rem did you think about doing this? Because I may not have thought of ways that you're using comments yet. Right. And if I have to do another podcast, with more suggestions around what we can do with comments, then listen, I'm here for that. And I'm up for that. So if there are some ideas that I've not mentioned today, that you think would be really good for the community to hear about. Please do leave a comment and just let me know and go to town. There's never going to be too much you can't tell me that I won't take on board and share. And yeah, so that's a wrap for this week. I look forward to touching base with you next week. And I hope that you found this useful, and I will see you all very soon. Take care everybody. Bye.

Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Hey, hey! 👋 I’m Remi Oduyemi, the User Success Lead here at MemberVault.
You’ll hear me over on the Vault podcast, see me in the Collaborative, and also hosting special user success workshops.

Outside of MV, I work with established entrepreneurs and ambitious business owners who are ready to scale their business using simple systems and cool automations.

You can find my MV site here: https://www.onlinebusinesstemple.com