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You put a lot of work into creating the perfect brand.

Meal Garden is designed to make it easy for you to ensure it accurately reflects all that hard work.

With Meal Garden, your brand will be front-and-center for your clients: digitally and through PDFs.

In this article (and video), you'll learn the key steps to lining up your Meal Garden with your brand, which includes:

To access your settings, click on the avatar/profile in the upper right-hand corner of your screen.

The next screen you see will have three sections; the right navigation pane, which you can use to switch between the different categories, the left content pain, where you will add or change content and content tabs, which are used to organize similar content in the content window, providing a little more clarity for what you're working on.

This section includes your profile, your about page, and your login details.

Similar to any of your professional or social media profiles, you create a profile in Meal Garden so that people know who they are interacting with.

Your profile includes:

You can also include a display name, which will replace your first and last name when displayed.

Where your profile is displayed

Your headshot, banner, and name are displayed at the top of the recommendations page when your clients access their custom portals.

In addition, your profile includes a brief bio, which you can enter on the next tab, labeled 'about'.

The about tab includes two fields:

1) A field to create (or copy-and-paste) your bio and,

2) A video link - if you'd like to add a video

You can change your email address and your password here.

If you'd like, you can also connect Meal Garden with one of your social accounts, so you don't have to worry about your password.

If you haven't set up or aren't planning on setting up a website you can use Meal Garden as your main digital landing page.

The home page includes your profile and any content that you'd like to share with visitors or potential customers.

This is where you can update your billing information and download any previous receipts.

If you're going to sell content through Meal Garden this is where you connect your Stripe account and set up any promo codes.

You can use promo codes to provide discounts to specific members, or pieces of content.

You can also use promo codes to offer trial access to your subscription programs.

To create a promo code, click on the 'create' button at the bottom of the screen and then fill in the details.

Some of the things you can add to a promo code:

For subscriptions or reoccurring payments, you can include:

There are two tabs in settings:

Here you can set your preferred measurements and your time zone. These will be the defaults for you and your clients.

Use this setting if you are focused on a specific condition or type of issue. You can set up the default search within Meal Garden to reflect those parameters.

This is where you design your customer-facing Meal Garden.

In Meal Garden, you can:

You'll find two tabs here:

This is the page that all your members will see the first time they log in.

You can add an image and/or any text you'd like to appear above the sign-up details.

To preview your sign-up page, just click on the Sign Up Links button at the bottom of the screen and then copy the 'Client Sign-Up' (direct link) into your browser.

Open up a private or incognito window in your browser (go to the top of your browser, click on File and then click on 'new private or new incognito) and you'll see what your clients see before they log in.

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If you don't make any changes to the sign-up page, this is what your members will see (your graphics and colors)

The tokens you can use are:

Below is a list of the basic auto-emails you'll have access to in Meal Garden.

You can update both the message and the subject line for each email.

You can set up default settings for your portal, which can be modified for each client member if necessary.

Default settings simplify the set-up process for new members or clients and provide a consistent experience for no-touch members or clients (sign-ups that come directly from referrals or your digital marketing efforts)

Below is a list of settings that you can control in the portal:

You can control what content people have access to:

You can also hide the following fields from your clients/members.

If you want this to be different than your default.

Turn off the chat if you've already got a chat system.

By default, if a client hasn't logged into Meal Garden in the last 14 days, they will be automatically logged out.

Use this field to shorten or increase this interval.

Here you can set up a default cover page image and description for all your content.

This way, you won't have to add a page to each piece of content you create.

Once you've set it up, you can click on the 'preview page' on the action bar at the bottom of the screen to see what it looks like.

At the very bottom of the settings screen, you'll see three categories that provide advanced functionality and personalization.

When you click 'create goals' you'll launch the form above. From here, you can set the nutrients you'd like to view and their associated goals.

Once you've set your goals, you can add a name in the top right-hand corner and click 'submit' to save the goal set.

Once it's saved, you can add it to any meal plan.

To delete goal sets, click and drag them down and a garbage can will appear.

You can also create and manage your own tags in Meal Garden.

You can add a description to each tag and the summary screen provides a count of the number of times a particular tag has been used.

Content categories are used to group tags. Think of lifestyles or conditions.

To create a content category, click on 'create'. You can add a description, and an image and then associate the tag with any existing tags.

You can delete content categories by clicking and dragging them to the bottom of the screen, where a garbage can will appear.

Check your watch, if this didn't take less than five minutes, send me an email at jeff.lougheed@mealgarden.com and let me know where you got stuck.

Your next step is setting up your preferences.

Now that you've mastered Recipes keep going, and get familiar with the other great aspects of Meal Garden.

Everything you need to know about: