WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:06.560 Welcome to a brand new section of the digital marketing masterclass this section is about Quora core 00:06.600 --> 00:09.710 dot com is a question and answer Web site. 00:09.720 --> 00:10.920 That's all it is. 00:10.920 --> 00:13.860 People ask questions and you can answer them. 00:14.010 --> 00:20.040 It's a great way to establish authority in whatever your niche is you can send people back to your website 00:20.070 --> 00:26.240 especially if you have high quality content or Time-Out content marketing through out this class. 00:26.240 --> 00:31.710 And if you write great blog articles or be put out good videos have great resources you can link to 00:31.710 --> 00:32.430 those. 00:32.430 --> 00:35.190 If you are answering a question that's related to those. 00:35.370 --> 00:41.760 And ultimately it just makes you a better more aware market of yourself because you can follow topics 00:41.760 --> 00:43.360 related to your industry. 00:43.560 --> 00:47.120 Keep up to date and at the same time help other people. 00:47.430 --> 00:50.950 So here we are on the home screen of Quora. 00:50.970 --> 00:55.200 It's basically a feed of questions that are related to topics of yours. 00:55.200 --> 01:00.180 So first thing you're going to have to do is sign up for an account. 01:00.480 --> 01:06.390 Once you sign up for an account it's going to ask you to answer some questions asked here about what 01:06.390 --> 01:08.440 types of topics you're interested in. 01:08.580 --> 01:13.290 You can set up your profile which you can get to by clicking your icon in the top right clicking on 01:13.290 --> 01:13.760 profile. 01:13.760 --> 01:20.370 You can add an image you can add your name a subtitle to give you a little bit more credit or a bigger 01:20.370 --> 01:21.920 credential for who you are. 01:21.930 --> 01:25.930 People might listen to you better if you have some sort of credential. 01:26.250 --> 01:32.010 And also you have a description This allows you to explain who you are but also link back to your main 01:32.010 --> 01:38.450 web site or other places that people can connect with you over on the right hand side definitely add 01:38.490 --> 01:41.850 the highlights appear along with any other credentials you have. 01:41.850 --> 01:47.160 And then under this knows about section this is really good because this will also determine what shows 01:47.160 --> 01:52.250 up in your news feed so you can add topics that you're interested in. 01:52.260 --> 01:56.070 It's best if it's related to your business and what you do. 01:56.070 --> 02:01.950 So for example if I was interested in asking answering marketing questions I would add marketing as 02:01.950 --> 02:02.860 a topic. 02:02.970 --> 02:06.630 So that's something I know a lot about movie production teaching online. 02:06.630 --> 02:12.150 You don't me passive income so you can add all of the things that you know about here and then on the 02:12.150 --> 02:16.340 left hand side you can track all the questions you've answered before. 02:16.470 --> 02:20.990 I know a lot of marketers who spend a lot of time answering questions on Quora. 02:21.030 --> 02:22.780 It's not something that I've done a lot of. 02:22.800 --> 02:25.960 But every now and then I'll pop in and answer a question. 02:26.040 --> 02:28.230 You could also ask questions if you're interested. 02:28.230 --> 02:33.160 That's a way of doing a little bit of market research or you can search for questions. 02:33.180 --> 02:37.890 So in the next video we're going to go more into what types of questions you should search for. 02:37.890 --> 02:44.220 But if you go to the home page screen you can see all the stream of questions and answer them all you 02:44.220 --> 02:48.480 have to do is click the answer button and then write your answer. 02:48.780 --> 02:52.080 So we're going to dive into how we do this properly in the next videos. 02:52.080 --> 02:57.170 But go ahead sign up for Square account get your profile set up and we'll meet you in the next lesson.