How Tungle Has Changed My Appointment Scheduling...
It’s no secret that I love geeky gadgety things and I love spending as little time possible doing things I don’t have to do. So, when I stumbled across Tunglealmost a year ago (or maybe it’s been over a year!) I fell in love instantly.
If you haven’t yet seen Tungle, it’s a socially slanted automated appointment scheduling system that integrates with your existing calendar. For me, I useGoogle Calendar to schedule all of my appointments and I needed something that integrated flawlessly with Google Calendar. I didn’t want to have to update the third party calendaring system with my availability but rather update it right within my own calendar. I also did not want to spend time going back and forth with prospects.
Tungle changed everything for me. First of all, it’s free which makes the program that much sweeter but second of all, the people behind Tungle just “get it”… They understand what we want and they understand where we’re at. The social connection inside of Tungle is fantastic. Let me take you on a tour of it!
Here is the Tungle.me page – the most powerful part of Tungle. This page allows you to setup a custom place for people to come and view your availability and schedule appointments with you. If you want to view this in real-time, you can check out my live Tungle page at http://www.tungle.me/ErinBlaskie.
As you can see, people can view my real-time availability, connect with me via my social networks, view a photo of me so they know who they are booking the appointment with as well as have access to my contact information very easily.
Once people land here, they can drag and drop their own availability in the spaces available. They can then request a meeting with me in those time blocks that they are also free in! If the user is also a Tungle user, the service is even neater because it automatically pairs up the two calendars to show the user’s availability as well as mine in an overlay.
Now, when I want people to schedule a meeting, they can come here and do that and the times get sent to me in an e-mail request. The e-mail request looks like this:
Once I confirm the time I want out of the times the user has chosen, an e-mail is auto-generated to them letting them know that the meeting is confirmed.
The entire process being this streamlined has saved me a TON of time in scheduling. I would encourage everyone I know to sign up and get your Tunglepages setup! If you want help, my team would be happy to assist you! Just send us an e-mail and we’ll send you a quote!
Just as we discussed with e-commerce, many virtual assistants don’t focus any effort on list building or list management. In fact, many virtual assistants don’t even DO list building let alone focus effort onto it. If you have an online business, which all virtual assistants do, list building is going to be a crucial part of growing your business and converting clients.
Scheduling free consultations or client calls is an inevitable and large part of being a virtual assistant. In this space, I previously had paid options. These paid services would offer openings in my calendar but I always seemed to have syncing issues, use issues on the client’s end or just general dissatisfaction with how the service looked and worked.
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