As a member-level user in a multi-seat VipeCloud account, your experience is similar to an admin’s, but there are a few key differences—especially when it comes to shared content. This guide walks you through how to navigate your account efficiently and collaborate with your team.
What You’ll Learn:
🔹 Teams & Sharing: How admins share content with individuals vs. teams
🔹 Templates: Using shared templates, copying them for personal use, and understanding admin-managed content
🔹 Contacts: What’s yours vs. what’s shared, and how filter views work
🔹 Merge Tags: Ensuring your personal details (like name and title) are correctly displayed in shared templates
🔹 Settings & Signature: Where to update your personal details for templates and emails
Transcript
Transcript
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hello everybody my name is Drew and I'm
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going to be walking you
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through being a member level user in a
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multi-seed account so in other words
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where you are not the admin of your
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account and what we're really going to
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be focusing on here especially is being
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a member level user in an account where
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you're admin shares things with you and
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so we're going to be helping you to just
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understand how you how things are shared
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with you and how to interact with them
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um and I guess basically where that line
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is drawn between like somebody else's
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account and and yours and so in
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particular we're going to be talking
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about uh teams and how those work with
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sharing and what it's like with an admin
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that's sharing things with a team that
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you are on like a team of other
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users templates and where you can find
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your shared uh the templates that have
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been shared with you and and just how
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you can use those and then we're
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additionally going to be talking about
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contacts and um what what are your
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contacts and also how admins can share
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contacts with you and a couple of other
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just settings as well that are relevant
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for users in accounts like the one that
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you're
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in so let's jump over
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and start start walking through
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these so first of all I think it's
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useful to know how you can just even
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tell what kinds of teams you are on um
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and so you're able to find that in your
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settings in the bottom left corner of
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the
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navigation and right here you can see
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your teams and click on that and in this
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particular case I can see that I'm on
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the marketing team and I'm also on the
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sales team and I can even see the update
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date there too so that kind of tells me
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like when I was added uh to these
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particular teams or at least where when
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the teams also might have been updated
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uh as
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well and uh next let's go to uh
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templates so I'm going to be looking at
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email templates in particular
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but other template types work basically
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the same
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way so I'm clicking on communication
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right here I'm clicking on
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templates and so what's really relevant
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here is this toggle right here of my
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templates vers versus shared with me
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when I click on my templates I'm able to
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see all the templates that I have either
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created myself or that I have copied
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into my account or that my admin is
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copied into my account so we're g to
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talk about some of those lad things
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because creating a new template it's
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very straightforward you just go here to
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hit that create button and we've got
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other arttic or other videos that go
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into the details of creating
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templates but when I go over here to
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shared with me these are going to be the
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templates that my admin has shared with
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me and I can see that there's a folder
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that has been shared with me
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and I can click into that
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folder and see all those templates that
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are in that
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folder so then let's click into one of
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these
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templates and you're going to see right
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up here at the top it says heads up
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you're not the owner of this template
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but you can copy it into your personal
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templates and so what this means is that
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this template in its current state is
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still basically owned by the Admin in
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fact it it is owned by them and what
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that means is that if that admin if the
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admin makes any changes to this template
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they're going to reflect into in what we
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see right here and that's actually a
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good thing like if your admin wants to
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be able to actively manage these things
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and have it have a particular template
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that has been crafted by them that's
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shared into your entire team then that
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is perfect for that scenario but if you
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want to kind of take ownership of this
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and maybe modify it for your for your
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own purposes all you have to do is hit
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that button at the very top there that
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says copy email template into personal
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templates one click and now a copy has
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been made this has not affected the
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original so you're not changing anything
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that belongs to your admin you are free
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to make this
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copy and then addit this template as you
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might
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need so
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hit
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save and there we go I just made this
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copy right here of this email 3 but I go
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into to share it with me into that
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folder and this is still here uh as it
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always has been so the admin can still
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make changes to this you'll still
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receive those changes and then you could
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maybe make a new copy if uh if
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needed also it's important to note that
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just because I might not own these
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templates certainly doesn't mean I can't
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use that's the whole point in sharing
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them so I'm still able to make I'm still
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able to use these templates right here I
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can go over here and hit send and fire
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it off to a contact or to a contact
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list but I but um I just can't make
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changes to it unless I
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first uh copy it into my own uh into my
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templates one other thing I I just want
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to show you here quickly too is in that
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shared with me page you'll see right
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here all teams I'm also able to select
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things that are only shared to certain
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teams from here and you're going to see
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this throughout the
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account all right another thing too just
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like how I was able to copy a a template
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that the admin has shared with me into
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my own templates your admin can
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basically do that too except skipping
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the whole sharing with you process as
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well so um your admin might just simply
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copy something into your account and
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you'll see uh in parentheses kind of
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like what was automatically added to
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these it'll say copy in there so if you
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see something that's been shared with
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you by your admin um or copied into your
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account uh by your admin uh that is
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what's going on there
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so um your admin
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also might allow you to share content
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with the teams that you're
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on and uh so this is great for
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collaboration and it'll work exactly the
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same way as if your admin had been
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sharing things with you and let's uh
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let's do that with one of these right
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here so I'm going to hit that little
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check box next to the email template go
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up to where it says one
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selected and I'm going to hit share with
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teams and I've been enabled like I've
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been allowed these teams that I'm on
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have sharing enabled within them so I'm
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going to share this with the marketing
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team I'm going to hit
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okay and we're able to see right here
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shared with marketing team so that's a
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nice visual indicator where I'm able to
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see that this is a template that I'm
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working with that is also visible to the
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entire
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team and you are of course able to turn
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that off as well actually I need to do
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that over I need to go do that from the
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template actually so I'm going to go up
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there edit folders and
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sharing and then I can
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deselect the sharing right
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there and there we go now that is no
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longer shared with the team
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and
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also so as we established templates are
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easily uh shared with teams the same is
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true for Content so things like logos
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maybe that um that are in your that are
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in your account that are usable for
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templates that you might
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make and you're able to get to your
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content now since we're in this
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communication tab content is shown as a
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related item here too but you can also
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navigate to there through the
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library uh tab in the
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sidebar and here we are in
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content and just like with
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templates you're able to see it under it
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has like a my content and also a shared
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with me toggle that you can switch
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between here so I can see that 's an
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image that I've uploaded here as my
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content but I can also go to shared with
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me and I'll be able to see any assets
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that have been shared with me by my
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admin now you're also uh it'll it'll
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work in a very similar way too when
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you're actually
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creating something that's going to be
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creating a communication like an email
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template for instance so we just quickly
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go up here and and open up a new
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email when I click on the insert image
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tab we'll see a very similar
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experience U I'm looking at my images in
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this popup up here and there's that
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image that we were looking at before and
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then I switch over here to shared with
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me and I'm able to see those shared with
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me images too and I can insert them into
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my communications
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um now
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lastly some of your templates some of
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your email templates especially
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might uh use merge tags that show your
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information and actually I'm going to
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load up an email again really quickly
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just to demonstrate this really fast so
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I'm g go to insert merge tag now this is
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like in a case of me creating the
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communication
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but you'll primarily see this in in
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email templates that have been shared
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with you and the idea is that they can
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personalize an email template across
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your entire team and maybe like you know
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insert your first name your last name
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your title and they can they can
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personalize it with your actual
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information in the email that's going to
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be sent out so let's uh just take a look
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here with you know your title and so
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this is what it would look like in that
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template um where it might have some of
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those things that are personalized to
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you and it's that your component of the
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merge tag that
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indicates what this is going to be
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pulling and so what I want to show you
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here is just how to make sure your
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account has this information to grab in
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the first place because if viip Cloud
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doesn't know what your title is and you
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have a merge tag like this in your
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template it's just going to it's not
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going to show anything at all it's just
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going to be a a blank
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title and so you're able to add this
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content by going to settings and then up
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here you got basic
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information and by the way too it's
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quite possible that your account that
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your admin will add all of this stuff
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for you automatically when they create
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your your seat but I just want to show
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this to you because I think it's it's
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relevant um for a for a user with an
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admin that's sharing things with you so
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right here is where this stuff will be
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found now first of all too uh just while
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we're looking at it it's always good to
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make sure your time zone is
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accurate because anything that's
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scheduled is going to be driven off of
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that time
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zone but under basic
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information these fields here are
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primarily used for these pezard merge
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tags especially all this stuff down
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towards the bottom here like your
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LinkedIn your title company website
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anything like that um if you're going to
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be having email templates that have your
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uh that are pulling your information
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this is where it's going to find
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it also your signature it doesn't hurt
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to make sure your signature is accurate
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and is looking the way that you want it
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to that you're going to find under
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communication and then email settings
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it's right up here at the
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top so make sure that your signature is
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looking good
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here and then hit update
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signature and then you can test these
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things too really easily by like anytime
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you're drafting an email there's going
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to be a send test to self
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button and so like right up here for
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instance send test to yourself you click
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on that once and you'll receive a test
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of this
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of the template and it's going to
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merge it's going to merge any any Fields
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there especially fields that are like
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yours like um like what we're talking
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about those will be
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merged all right now moving right
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along so we've talked about templates
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here uh nearing to finish here we're
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going to talk about uh contacts really
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quickly there's not too much to talk
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about here but what I mainly want to
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highlight is and by the way when I say
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contacts it's really going to be any
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kind of CRM items like contacts accounts
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and opportunities they're all going to
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behave the same way we're just going to
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focus on contacts
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here so your account might come loaded
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up with contacts that your admin has
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created for you and of course you can
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import contacts yourself too
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um under my contacts and like any kind
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of table like this in the system where
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it says my this is going to be
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everything that belongs to
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you and uh you also might
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have filter views that are shared with
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you by your admin and uh and so these
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filter views can be
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found just under where it says my
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contacts that drop down right up there
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it's going to display
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uh filter views that your account has
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that your admin has shared with you and
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like in this particular case we got this
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customers uh filter view that's has been
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shared with me by the Admin in this
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account now it's not displaying any
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information here but uh I just want to
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highlight uh that you might have filter
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views that are shared with you by your
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admin uh and these might have rules with
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them kind of like this whereas contact
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type is customer so this might just be
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showing all the customers that are in
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the
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CRM and in these filter views you might
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see contacts that don't belong with you
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that's up to your admin who created the
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filter View and shared it with you they
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these can be just your contacts but
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filtered like down to certain parameters
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like like in this case or they can also
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choose to have it display everybody like
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in a better are in the same team as you
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like in the sales team
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all
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right now
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um yeah actually it looks like I covered
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everything on my list so uh I hope that
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this has been helpful of course always
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feel free to reach out to us for uh for
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any assistance your admin very well
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might be able to help you with things
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especially with like what their
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intentions are behind things but also
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we're happy to help you out directly as
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well so if you're used by anything by
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all means reach out to us we'll be glad
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to help you and this button right down
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here where it says chat with the B Cloud
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success team is a great way to get a
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hold of us the AI bot in that chat
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widget will um we'll be able to give you
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answers 247 polling from our help center
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but after every response that gives you
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there's going to be a button that says
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talk to a human so you're always in
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control whether you're talking with the
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AI bot or if you're talking with a
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person um so great thank you so much