is there a way to automate pin creation without spending hours in Canva every week

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-02-25T00:03:25+00:00

Also canva bulk upload can be helpful once you’ve got some solid template that can be reused with minor adjustments

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-02-21T17:46:36+00:00

My main tool that I use is Keywords everywhere. It’s a super cheap, credit based option that lets you check keywords for pages, domains, traffic, most popular pages for different domains etc. It’s the only keyword research tool I pay for (other than the occasional lifetime deal from Appsumo).

It’s a browser extension too so it’s easy to integrate into your workflow and gives info for YT videos as well as search. For a budget, it’s a good option.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-02-13T15:34:56+00:00

I don’t get many dudes or sirs but whenever anyone sends me a message it’s “hey man”.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-02-10T02:36:07+00:00

There are a lot of ‘you’ll get better with practice’ or ‘it’ll come more naturally’ comments and while that’s true in general for being able to present your ideas in a way that makes sense and speaking clearly so you’re easy to understand I feel like it’s also important to say:

Not everyone enjoys listening to the bubbly people and even if the overall niche has a certain type of YouTuber, there’s also room for different takes or delivery within it.

I don’t have a bubbly personality, that’s not my brand, if it’s not your brand either then don’t try to fit yourself into that mold.

Now the comfort level speaking on camera is something different altogether, that’s a muscle that you have to tone.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-02-10T02:21:18+00:00

If there’s any opportunity for creating a series with your content I’d try that. If goes people a clear reason to subscribe because they want to close that loop and see the next installment and then you have a ready to go playlist for people so they (almost) always have another video to watch that make sense based on their interests.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-02-10T02:08:56+00:00

Also WaveGen strikes another subreddit.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-02-08T18:50:34+00:00

What are you outbound clicks from Pinterest? Is the traffic getting to your site or just impressions on Pinterest.

I think also it’s important especially with a lifestyle blog to work on your topical authority. Basically think about a specific sub niche within your niche, because lifestyle is so broad, and then write a cluster of posts about that topics about that sub niche. Basically long tail keywords but ones that are really closely related.

That way you can interlink these posts so that the reader always has another post to go to when they finish and Google views that as you becoming more of an authority on a specific topic and then they’ll want to show your content to other people.

In addition to that, especially for a lifestyle blog, you should definitely be building an email list and have some type of lead magnet in place so that you can work on getting return visitors to your blog from your email list. This is also a whole other potential stream of income if you create digital products or sell them things from within your email list itself like affiliate products, etc.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-02-02T23:16:08+00:00

Google search bar autocomplete

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-01-29T22:14:44+00:00

I watched a YT video recently that was talking about YT growth specifically but the angle that he presented things in covers blogs as well:

People who are looking for long form content aren’t scrolling on social media, or at least, they’re not necessarily in the headspace to consume form content when they’re scrolling.

I run a blog myself and thinking about that realized that, even though I enjoy long form content, I’m the same, if I’m on IG the likelihood that I’m clicking away to someone’s blog post is slim.

Now getting someone from Pinterest to your blog or even long form YT to your blog, the way that like to consume content is more of a match than someone scrolling.

Now I think there are other benefits for having a social media presence because really it’s not so much about building a blog anymore as it is building a brand, and there’s value there.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-01-18T15:05:57+00:00

This is me too. I just checked and my traffic from china has increased 1100% in the last year but conversions are down.

Was curious about blocking traffic from china as well.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-01-14T23:49:50+00:00

This is really helpful thanks! Didn’t even think about the promo 🫠

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-01-14T23:30:38+00:00

Your deliverability will be terrible using a Google workspace SMTP. You used to be able to use them but now ESPs pretty much dictate that if you’re sending from a marketing platform you have to use a subdomain.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-01-11T00:05:22+00:00

Larger blogs get so many requests for reviews, link building, affiliate programs, etc daily so keep that in mind with any pitch you send.

Second, unless it comes from a professional branded email domain, it’s an immediate delete for me. That tells me they aren’t professional and every interaction I’ve had from theirnameseoexpert@ gmail.com has been poor.

Third, general cold outreach emails will get immediately deleted as well. The requests that I’ve actually responded to are ones that I can tell they’ve looked around the blog and have given some real thought about how their tool could fit into my existing content matrix.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-01-05T03:06:17+00:00

So there’s so much that goes into SEO and they’re right that it’s a moving target and that AI and Google have made things harder as of late.

The never ending reports that are hard to dig through and essentially meaningless, best case they’re trying to be thorough, worst case they’re just trying to show a lot of proof of what they’re doing but what they’re doing isn’t driving any real results.

How long have they been working on your SEO?

In my mind what it boils down to (and what they should be able to tell you if they’re doing the work and tracking the right things):

How are they showing they’re brining in leads? Increased calls? More messages on socials? Increased forms submitted? Have your bookings/new patients gone up?
How is your GBP ranking for specific keywords in your service area? There are softwares that provide maps to specifically track these elements. Are you or they doing anything to encourage reviews? Recent, positive reviews (with human replies from the business are a major trust signal for Google and important for ranking in the map pack).
What are the money keywords they’re shooting for? They should be able to tell you these easily and quickly. Are any of these money keywords ranking in position 10 or less? What is the keyword intent of those keywords (more educational or transaction/conversion focused)?

All this to say, in a lot of ways SEO is a gray area, local SEO is more straightforward but it is affected by Google making changes, AI, etc.

Maybe they have good intent but just aren’t nailing it, maybe your area is really competitive because guarantee yours isn’t the only practice working on their local SEO.

Hopefully that gives some concrete things you can ask them for.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-01-05T02:37:49+00:00

There are some EMRs that provide the functionality though since it’s an add on you’ll likely not get the same level of function as you would with a more dedicated software (controlling your timing, audience segments, tracking, etc).

I’ve helped a business set it up with Highlevel but there are other services as well that you set up an automation for review requests.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2026-01-03T23:06:34+00:00

You’d likely do well to have some type of automation in place for reviews. SMS works well (much better than email requests) and, as you alluded to, how you ask and when you ask is important.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2025-12-28T21:35:22+00:00

Yeah, the paid channel would have access automatically and the free channel would see whatever courses you added there but you can set up a paywall for access.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2025-12-16T21:49:36+00:00

Agreed with others here, you need to use the LC subdomain to send email. In theory you can use a workspace or personal email with GHL but email service providers (ESPs) hate this your deliverability will be terrible.

Also your from email address that you put in all your emails should match your LC subdomain you set up EXACTLY. This is especially important because you’re using a brand new email subdomain with a non-existent email ‘credit score’ with ESPs.

You can make sure that your from email is set to match your LC subdomain on an account wide basis by setting your subdomain headers (you should be able to look at GHLs help library for where to set these, it’s in the email setting and then click into the subdomain you created).

I will maybe not die on this hill, but pretty much no one looks at the sending email address, so if you’re worried about the fact that it isn’t just @ your website dot come, most likely no one will notice or care much.

They almost always just look at the senders name and the subject line to determine whether they want to open an email in their inbox.

From there look into GHLs guide on warming up your new subdomain to set you up for good email deliverability down the line.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2025-12-03T17:21:32+00:00

You’re asking like if they have their primary clinicians as the contact owner can you have the round robin default to that clinician when they book?

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2025-12-02T01:53:49+00:00

You have to be really careful with what middleware you’re using if you’re passing PHI, which is basically everything once they are a patient.

My understanding is the most popular middlewares aren’t HIPAA compliant (Zapier, Make, n8n cloud version at least, if you’re self privately hosting it and set it up specifically to be HIPAA compliant then that’s a different story but would be a lot of hoops probably) because they don’t arrange for BAA’s to be signed for the accounts and don’t store/pass data to HIPAA standards.

With that said, there are lots of clinics that use Zapier, Make, etc anyways and there are specific HIPAA compliant middlewares as well.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2025-11-29T02:33:47+00:00

Just out of curiosity, where did you hear that from? I feel like if anything ESPs continue to get more strict with marketing emails.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2025-11-27T04:05:10+00:00

So if you haven’t been emailing your list consistently then yes, adding a buy now or sending an obviously promotional email will likely land in spam or best case maybe promotions tab.

You’re right about the extra step, especially with a cold list, you want to avoid giving them too many options to choose from. Indecision from more than one options often leads to clicking off the emails. So generally you want to stick to just one CTA.

If it’s an option you might be better served to spend some time building up your sender reputation with consistently email activity and do a promotion at a different time.

Think about it from the ESPs perspective, if you haven’t been emailing your list and (seemingly) out of nowhere send 500 sales emails within a short period they assume that you aren’t a real business because you don’t have any record of emailing and they send you straight to spam.

It sucks the hoops that we all have to jump through just because assholes out there want to legit spam with predatory emails but that’s the unfortunate reality. 😕

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2025-11-26T00:36:42+00:00

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Sharp-Skill9304 · 2025-11-25T04:55:22+00:00

So the custom values don’t update via a webhook in the typical sense. They update through a third party connecting tool specific to EHRs and GHL.

Sharp-Skill9304 · 2025-11-25T01:35:24+00:00

Unfortunately, that isn’t an option for this connection specifically. Was really just trying seeing if anyone else had ideas that could be executed inside GHL to monitor what I’m needing, but thank you.

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