[📕Guide] Customize your Hub's onboarding pages

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Guide Purpose

Creating a custom onboarding experience is a powerful way to explain your Hub’s layout to your members, drive deeper engagement with the right content, and create personalized journeys that resonate with your audience members from the moment they enter your Hub. You can create and configure any number of needed onboarding pages inside of any private Hub to guide your members through a custom onboarding flow. 

This guide will walk you through each step required to put together a custom onboarding experience, providing links to detailed help articles to support you every step of the way.

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How to build custom onboarding pages

1. Understand the member experience
2. Create and add your Audience Attributes
3. Record and add any onboarding videos
4. Customize your page titles and descriptions
5. Review your onboarding pages as a member
6. Take it further

Part 1 - Understand the member experience

Learn about the customer journey your members will take to onboard into your Hub.

When your audience enters your private members Hub for the first time, they'll be guided through your onboarding page, one of your Hub’s default pages. 

The onboarding page will prompt each member to complete several mandatory steps like confirming the spelling of their first and last name along with creating and confirming a password. You can also create several additional onboarding pages that are shown to members after they create a password and before they land on your site’s homepage. 

These additional onboarding pages can include a combination of Audience Attributes or Videos. You can create as many onboarding pages as you need, but we recommend keeping it tight so as to not lose the attention of your members. 

After completing the onboarding pages, your members will land on your Hub’s homepage. Members will not go through the onboarding pages every time they sign in. Next time they access the Hub’s link, they will be taken straight to the homepage.

📹This quick video will walk you through how to access your Onboarding page to edit it.

🛑NOTE: We recommend that you build out your Hub (members area) first before implementing this guide. 

Part 2 - Create and add your Audience Attributes 

Create audience attributes and add them into your Onboarding steps.

Audience attributes are questions your members answer about themselves. These attributes allow you to collect and use information about your audience that can be later used as filters in your Audience Directory or to show members personalized recommendations. 

Attributes can be created either in the Data page of your account or through the Attributes menu inside of your Hub editor. Once you create your attributes, you can add attributes as an input to a custom step inside your onboarding page. 

Audience attributes are first presented to your members during the onboarding process. This information is stored inside of each person’s profile. The profile is visible to you as the account holder, to the person who the profile belongs to, and also to other members in your Hub if you have this setting enabled. Members can update their attributes inside of their profile page, which is linked in the Account Settings default page.

You can set each attribute to be mandatory or optional to fill out. There are a few different types of attributes that you can create:

• Text attributes
• Number attributes
• Date attributes (month day and year)
• True or false attributes
• Multiple choice attributes

Examples of audience attributes that you can create include:

• A multiple choice question that allows members to indicate what topics they’re looking to learn more about
• A true or false attribute that allows members to indicate whether or not they are interested in participating in meet ups
• Text attributes where members can write a brief bio introducing themselves

Part 3 - Record and add any onboarding videos

Film and upload any onboarding videos you’d like to include.

In addition to audience attributes, you can also add individual videos into your onboarding page. We recommend including short videos only (1-4 minutes is a good length). Your members will want to complete onboarding quickly, so we don’t want to overwhelm them with too much content before they get to your homepage.

Examples of videos you could include:

• A welcome video to build excitement for your program
• A site tour video to walk your members through how to use your Hub
• A membership journey video to introduce the success path you want your members to go through to make progress

Part 4 - Customize your page titles and descriptions

Finish setting up your new onboarding pages.

Once your attributes and videos are in, take a moment to review your new onboarding page(s) and adjust the page title and description as needed. This is a great space to add context into why you’re looking to collect the information listed on your pages for your members. 

Part 5 - Review your onboarding pages as a member

Test your new onboarding pages to review your changes.

Once you’re happy with your new onboarding pages, you’ll want to complete one more check to review your changes.

You can preview your onboarding pages to see them from the front-end as your members will see them. The link for your onboarding page will be yourhubslinkhere.com/onboarding.

Check out the example in the photo below to see where you can copy and preview your onboarding page from inside your Hub editor:

Take It Further …

Congratulations! 👏You’ve now successfully designed a custom onboarding experience for your Hub. Way to go! 

Here are some next steps you can take.

• Create Segments using your attributes to personalize your Hub experience.
  Multiple choice attributes give you the information you need to show personalized content for each member. You can populate Audience Segments with attribute details to present the right content to the right people.
  
  ➡️See our webinar replay on how to personalize your Hub for more information.
  
  
• Activate a member directory in your Hub.
  Build a directory of members using a few of your audience attributes as filters. Attributes make for great connection points to help your members find like-minded people that they can reach out directly to inside your Hub.
  
  ➡️See our instructions for configuring your audience directory.