You may be hearing about Searchie more and more these days and wondering, What does Searchie actually do? A better question might be What doesn’t Searchie do? The list of capabilities and use cases are extensive and always growing.

Simply put, Searchie is a search engine for your own content. For entrepreneurs who produce large amounts of video and audio content, managing all that content can become challenging fast. Searchie allows entrepreneurs, business leaders, educators, marketers, and content creators to easily store, present, sell, and get maximum benefit from their library of content. Searchie is an online platform that provides video hosting, automated transcription, video search services, and so much more.

Are you ready? Grab a cup of coffee and I’ll give you an overview of the many things Searchie does—and the many things you can do with Searchie.

Searchie is a Video Hosting Platform

Let’s start with Searchie’s primary function: as the library that securely hosts all of your video and audio content. Users can upload their video content directly to the platform, and Searchie will automatically transcribe, add captions, and index it for easy searching and analysis. You can quickly and easily upload content directly from your computer, as well as create automations for automatic uploads of new content. For example, if you regularly host Zoom or Facebook Live sessions with your clients, you can set it up so that the video from these sessions will upload to Searchie as soon as the session ends (and, don’t forget, the transcriptions and captions auto-load). No further work on your part!

Searchie also lets you create playlists of your content, allowing you to group your content into Netflix-style playlists for your clients to binge. Searchie’s tagging feature enables you to tag a piece of content in a way that will assign it to whatever playlists you want it in and for consumption by specific audiences (such as people who’ve bought a certain offering or have completed a certain amount of your online training).

Searchie Automatically Transcribes and Captions Your Videos

If you’re producing content in any of the more than 25 languages supported by Searchie, you can have high-quality transcriptions and captions on all of your Searchie video and audio files. Searchie uses advanced speech recognition technology to transcribe audio and video content into accurate, searchable text.

This time-saving feature enables the content to be searchable (more on that in a sec) and makes it accessible for audience members who like to watch videos on silent or who may have a disability. The transcriptions can be made into downloadable files, which can be great for members of your audience who prefer to learn by reading. It’s also a great way to create a handout or ebook!

How’s this for Meta: Searchie Lets You Search

Once content has been transcribed, Searchie enables users to search for specific words or phrases within their video or audio content. This makes it easy to quickly find the exact moment/s in a video where a particular topic was discussed, or to locate a specific quote within a long recording. This feature can save you and your audience TONS of time!

Searchie Gives You and Your Clients Accessible Options

We all have unique learning styles, and many of us have limitations on how well we hear or process visual information. One of the things I love most about Searchie is how it enables you to take any video content and offer it to your clients in multiple ways to support these differences, such as a video with captions, a downloadable transcript, and an audio file. All of which are searchable, too!

Many clients find listening to content in a podcast-style playlist is convenient. Rather than being tethered to a screen, they can learn while commuting, exercising, or cleaning. This adds value to your offering and helps with retention.

Searchie Hubs are Versatile Platforms

A Searchie Hub is an easy-to-use platform, kind of like a website, that you can create using drag and drop options. What can you use Searchie Hubs for?

Lead magnets
Sales pages
Online Courses
Membership sites
Coaching portals
Online summits
Websites
Personal projects
And more!

Your Searchie Hub is simple to customize, and you can create a perfectly branded experience. You can take the user through a learning path through your content using playlists.

Oh, and you can drip content in Searchie so that your learners don’t get deluged with too much information.

You can host multiple offerings inside one Hub or you can have multiple Hubs. I’ve found that I love the freedom of being able to create as many Hubs as I’d like—that’s why Searchie’s Business Plan is the perfect level for me. If I’m testing out an idea for a new offering, I can create a Hub for it and keep it unrelated to my established offerings.

Searchie Integrations

Searchie has a handful of really useful integrations. For example, the Stripe integration makes it easy and secure to accept payments for your Searchie offerings. The integrations with Zoom and Facebook allow you to automate your uploads and free up your time.

Using Zapier, you can integrate thousands of different apps with Searchie.

Searchie Gives You Actionable Analytics

Searchie analytics are powerful tools to help you serve your clients’ needs. Searchie analyzes the activity surrounding your content, providing you valuable insights into the content's performance and audience engagement. Searchie's AI algorithms can analyze content metrics such as searches, views, watch time, and engagement, providing valuable data that can inform content creation strategies. You can learn a lot about what content your clients are hungrily consuming and what content is not as attractive to them. This can help you create more of what they’re interested in!

Create Customized Experiences with Searchie

Searchie enables you to create a bespoke, customized user experience for your clients. Using audience segmentation and Searchie’s tagging feature, you can easily set it up so your client encounters exactly the content that they’ve paid for and that’s useful to them.

Here’s an example: Let’s say you’re using Searchie for a coaching platform. Within this coaching platform, you’re delivering educational content, optional paid courses, one-on-one coaching calls, and group coaching calls. Each user is given tags based on the offerings they’ve bought. So if client Laura paid for the regular coaching program, she’ll see all of the educational content, archives of the group coaching calls, and an archive of her one-on-one calls with you. But client Melissa has also opted for one of your add-on courses. This will automatically populate in the Searchie Hub that she sees.

You can also use assessments during onboarding to help customize the Searchie experience. Create an assessment that new users must fill out. This assessment will trigger tags to attach to their account based on their answers—helpful input about what they already know and what they’re looking to learn. The tags created based on the results of this assessment will show them exactly the videos or playlists of content that they need—and not the content that’s old news to them. Pretty cool!

Searchie Lets You Maximize Your Content

You spend a lot of time creating your content—so you should use it to its full potential! Searchie makes it easy to slice, dice, and repurpose the ever-growing content in your Searchie Library. This helps you take the content you already have and use it again to create a new lead magnet, digital product, course, membership, or summit. No need to reupload or move things around—all you have to do is create a new Hub, add your playlist, and assign!

Searchie’s Artificial Intelligence feature allows you to make the most of your content as well. The AI can save you loads of time by taking a piece of your Searchie-hosted content and giving you suggestions for titles, short summaries (perfect for social media post captions), longer summaries (boom—your blog post just got written for you!), or even long summaries with chapters.

Searchie’s Chrome Extension Makes it Easy to Create Video

Searchie’s Chrome extension makes it easy to record video straight from your desk. I’ve created entire online courses that were filmed this way—talk about a quick and dirty way to put ideas into action! I also use it to communicate with my team. Videos created with the Chrome extension can display your computer screen, as you go through a slide deck or display other content on screen. The Chrome extension can simultaneously record and display a small video of you as you speak, which is more entertaining and effective than just a voiceover. Searchie’s Chrome extension makes it so easy to create content!

Searchie’s Onboarding And Attributes Foster Engagement

Searchie Onboarding helps your members feel at ease as they take their first tentative steps into your course or membership. When you put Searchie Onboarding to use, you create an “activated customer” that will spend 23% more with you.

Your members (or learners, if you’re running an online course) will go through onboarding as part of the checkout process. They’ll set up their password to your Searchie Hub, and then they’ll be presented with your onboarding elements. What kind of elements? The elements you add can be a video (such as a welcome video) or a question. The questions can be short-answer, multiple choice, true/false or yes/no toggles, or number or date entry.

Each answer is an attribute for this user. You can use these attributes to sort clients with similarities, such as a list of all clients within a certain US state who have a business of a similar size. An exercise coach may be able to compile a list of their clients who are postmenopausal women who have had breast cancer and want to increase their flexibility.

If you set the attributes to be publicly viewed, your members can connect with each other by searching for peers in Searchie’s Audience Directory. For example, the exercise coach would likely make questions about menopause or health history private so only the coach could see it, while allowing members to search the Audience Directory for participants in their local area or with similar training goals. This helps members find friends and support!

Searchie’s Gamification and Achievements Keeps Clients Engaged

Your clients want your offerings, but they’re also busy people who are deluged with demands on their time. How can you keep them coming back and engaging with your course or membership so you can have a real impact?

Searchie has implemented gamification options and achievement options for those learners who have a competitive streak—or who simply love to earn a gold star! Let’s face it, we all like to be recognized and rewarded! Searchie has two kinds of achievements. The first kind is a milestone achievement, which means that when the user finishes viewing a certain playlist or piece of content, an achievement is triggered. The second kind of achievement is called a manual achievement. These are triggered when your user takes certain actions that you want them to take, such as introducing themselves in the community forum or setting up their directory profile. You can also use achievements to celebrate your users for the time since they joined (“Congratulations on your first six months of membership!”), the number of searches performed, and unique logins. You can give the user a virtual high five to celebrate this achievement: a notification of their achievement will pop up in Searchie to notify them. They’ll also receive an email to let them know they have a new achievement in their user profile.

These small achievements keep online learners engaged and motivated. And that’s important, because increasing your retention by just 5% can lead to an increase in profit of 25% or more!

Searchie is THE Platform for Those Making a Living from Online Content

I could go on for days about Searchie’s ever-expanding array of features. In fact, Searchie’s development team is so responsive to feedback from the users that they are constantly developing great new features to make Searchie even more useful! I’ve never encountered a more supportive tech company—becoming a Searchie user involves joining a vibrant, helpful community.

I was so impressed with Searchie years ago that I pivoted my business to exclusively focus on helping entrepreneurs get launched on Searchie. And as time goes by, I simply fall further and further in love with Searchie as it gets better and better! I find it so satisfying to help clients create their own Hubs using my guided Searchie Hub Templates or doing it all for them in the Build My Searchie Hub VIP Experience.

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