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Welcome To Your
RYMP Academy Website Solution:
We are excited to collaborate with ShinePages to provide custom-tailored, plug & play website templates (exclusively for Rock Your Massage Practice Academy students) that can be quickly and easily customized to your specific business and brand.
The best time to get started on your website is in WEEK 5 - after you have worked to hone in your niche, your name and your offerings. This will make the website launch process easier and quicker!
The websites available to you from ShinePages are designed to set you up for success and follow the teachings and lessons included in RYMP in terms of best practices for your online presence.
Ready to Rock Your Massage Practice AND Your Website? Let's Get Started!
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xo - Rebecca
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What's Included In This RYMP + ShinePages Collab?
Templates, Tutorials and Tech Support!
Website Templates:
These premium Website Templates were built exclusively for RYMP Academy students and are fully customizable for your business and your brand. All follow the lessons you’ve been learning throughout the RYMP program and come with everything you need to launch your website quickly.
Each Template Includes:
- Professionally designed Website Pages: Home, About, Scheduling, Rates & Services, Contact, Shop & Blog.
- Optional built-in Booking system
- Lead Capture forms and pages to offer gift certificates/vouchers, newsletter signups. lead magnet delivery etc.
- Payment processing with Stripe, PayPal & others
- Full blogging platform
- Easy SEO updating
- and more!
(NOTE: You'll choose your starter template on the next page, after registering for your free 14-day ShinePages trial. All are FULLY customizable)
Training & Tutorials:
Along with your choice of template you will get simple, step-by-step tutorials to quickly and easily customize your template for your own business.
You'll learn how to swap out placeholder images and copy for your own, edit your pages and change colors, fonts and logo to match your own.
In addition, you'll be guided step by step on how to set your page SEO, add new products and of course, connect your domain and LAUNCH!
The goal is to make you feel EMPOWERED - not only will you have a gorgeous website, but you'll also know how to make changes, edits and updates into the future as your business changes and grows. All with excellent support along the way!
Tech Support:
As your template is built on the ShinePages platform, you'll not only get easy drag-and-drop building & editing tools, blazing fast pages and the flexibility to add sales funnels or online courses in the future - you'll ALSO get friendly and helpful tech support as you build!
Support Includes:
- Regular live training sessions just for Rock Your Massage Practice Academy Students
- LiveChat Support
- Full KnowledgeBase with guides and video tutorials
- Support email
- Access to private ShinePages users Facebook group
Get Started!
You'll be "registering" for two things:
1) Website Training Portal
To get started - you'll first sign up for the Website Training Portal - a series of video tutorials that will walk you step by step thru the process of learning to customize your template yourself.
It will ALSO bring you to your RYMP/ShinePages Dashboard page - a great page to bookmark. From the Dashboard you'll be able to request an extension of your trial, access your discounted rate, submit questions for the Wednesday calls and more.
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2) ShinePages Builder
After becoming a member of the "Training Portal" in Step 1- you will have the option to select your website and load it into the ShinePages Builder.
When you do this - you will see another registration screen. Feel free to use the same name, email and password for each registration - just know that they are different and you'll log into each separately.
Once you register for the builder, the template you chose will automatically load and appear in your builder - and you'll have access to simple drag-and-drop tools to customize it to your business.
It's time to Shine, online!
Get started for free!
As an RYMP Academy Student you get:
4Your choice of 5 exclusive RYMP Website Templates
Step-by-step tutorial videos to customize & launch your site
Live training workshops and Q&A sessions just for you
Extended ShinePages trial period (we will extend your trial as often as needed up to 4 months to get you ready to launch)
Special "unpublished" discounted-rate hosting plan. Either choose the "RYMP SPARK Basic" plan ($204/annually or $22/monthly) OR take 25% off our published plans for your first year.
In addition, your ShinePages plan includes:
Access to an easy-to-use, flexible, drag-and-drop builder and editor to customize your template.
Secure website hosting, backups, SSL Certificate, system-provided domain name and the ability to connect your own custom domain.
Option to add an online appointment calendar, additional products, sales funnels, pop-ups & more**
**Would require upgrade from the unpublished RYMP pricing plan to one of the published ShinePages plans. RYMP discount could be applied.
ON WEEK 5 AND READY TO GET STARTED?
Step 1: Sign Up As A RYMP Web Training Portal Member
Note: You'll sign up separately for the ShinePages builder in a next step. Make it easy & use the same email and password for both!
New accounts are reviewed by the administrator. We will send you an email once your account is approved.
Initial FAQs:
Answers to more questions area available via the videos in the Website Training Portal. Register using the form below on this page.
How do I register for a website?
Great question! There are actually 2 different things you will be registering for:
1) The Website Training Portal
This is where you will be able to first SELECT YOUR WEBSITE to start and then get access to the WEBSITE TRAINING VIDEOS. You sign up for this by filling out the form at the bottom of this page: https://shinepages.com/rymp
2) The ShinePages Builder
This is where you will actually use tools to customize the website to your biz and brand. You will be prompted to register for the ShinePages builder when you select a website template.
Our recommendation is to use the same email and password for BOTH registrations to help keep things easy for you!
How Do I Get Access to the RYMP Website Templates?
Click the link above in the box that says "Start Here", "Select a Template". This will take you to a page showing the 3 website options. From that page you can view each of the live website examples and click a button to select the template you want.
Note that you will then be prompted to Register for ShinePages. Our recommendation is to use the same name, email and password that you used to log into the Website Training Portal.
(Yes, you will register twice - once for the Website Training Portal and once for the ShinePages builder)
Upon registration your template of choice will be loaded into your ShinePages builder where you can customize to your business and brand, using simple editing tools and following along with the videos within the Website Training Portal.
When & Where should I buy my domain name?
Once you have decided upon your business niche and have finalized your name, it's a good idea to ensure you can secure a domain name to match.
While you can purchase your domain from any domain registrar (domains.com, google domains, godaddy.com, etc.) we like and recommend NameCheap as a domain registrar.
Go to NameCheap (or your domain registrar of choice) and search for the name you want. We recommend buying your exact business name with a .com ending whenever possible. Ie: oakparktherapeuticmassage.com.
You can go ahead and purchase your domain name in order to "hold it" for you while you customize your website.
Note that you do NOT need to actually connect your domain to your website until you are ready to launch your site. Therefore, while you may purchase your domain name within the first few weeks of the academy, you will most likely not do anything with it until several weeks later.
P.s. - if you already own your domain name - great! No need to do anything. You will be able to point that domain name to the new website you create on ShinePages in 2 easy steps. Those steps are outlined for you within the Website Training Portal.
Should I purchase other domain names?
If you have a DBA, if you have other names for your business or if there is a chance that someone could find you (either by mistake or on purpose) using a similar name - it may make sense to purchase additional "close to your name" domains, if it is within your budget to do so.
This is more of a marketing decision than anything else, for example if your ACTUAL domain for your website will be: oakparktherapeuticmassage.com but you know that many people in the area abbreviate "oak park" to OP - you may also want to purchase: optherapeuticmassage.com if it is available.
Another idea is to buy the "mis-spellings" of your domain name - such as: oakparktheraputicmassage.com (if you think that people might have a hard time typing any part of your name)
IMPORTANT: You will not actually be building sites for these different domains, but instead you can go into the settings of your domain (within NameCheap or wherever you purchased your domain) and "Forward" these "alternate" domain names to your actual domain name - the one that is actually connected to your website.
Again, this is not a necessity, but for the relatively low cost of a domain name ($8-15 a year) it may be worth your peace of mind knowing that no other business will own those other domains that are "similar" to yours in any way.
Do I need to purchase an SSL Certificate or additional protection for my Domain
Short answer, no. :) With your ShinePages site, an SSL certificate is included.
And you shouldn't need to purchase additional security or protection for your domain name. While some domain registrar's promote the "full privacy and protection" plan - we do not believe it is fully necessary and the threat of piracy of a domain name is very, very low.
Should my domain name match my business name exactly?
Whenever you can purchase the exact business name as a domain name with a .com extension - that is ideal.
However, sometimes your name is already taken OR you want to purchase additional domains in order to forward "common search" phrases for your domain name or "misspellings" of your domain name in order to FORWARD them to the correct, real domain name.
If your exact business name does not have a matching domain name because someone is already using it for THEIR website - we recommend changing up your domain name slightly to differentiate and not cause confusion. You might add the name of your area to the domain name or abbreviating part of your domain name -or adding a word like "practice" or "therapy".
We do not recommend using a different extension (ie: .co, .rehab, .net) if an existing website is already out there with yourexactname.com. However, you COULD purchase a different extension of that domain and FORWARD it to your actual domain name.
If you have questions about your exact name and what you could tweak about it to secure a domain name that works for your business, be sure to ask in the group or on one of calls.
How Do I Set Up My Business Email?
Just like you purchase domain name hosting (typically for a year or more at a time), you also need to purchase business email hosting. This looks like yourname@yourdomainname.com and shows others that you are a legitimate business.
Typically your business email will be yourname@yourdomain.com, admin@, hello@, or support@.
One option for purchasing a business email address is thru Google Workspace (formerly G Suite).
Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email for your business and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.
Many people like that everything is connected and in one place with Google Workspace. You also will need a google email address (either a paid business email or a free google email) in order to set up a Google My Business business listing, Google Analytics & Google Search Console.
Here is a link to sign up for Google Workspace:
https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html
*Another option if you do not want or need all that the Google Workspace offers or are having issues with it and you'd like a cheaper option, you can purchase your business email hosting thru your domain registrar. For example - NameCheap.com offers inexpensive business email hosting.
NOTE: If you DO decide to go with a non-google business email - you should ALSO set up a basic, free Gmail email address ie: yourbusinessnamehere@gmail.com in order to take advantage of the Google tools I mentioned above - Analytics, Search Console, etc. This will not be an email address you publicize, rather just one you will use to get access to these tools.
Can I redirect my old website to my new one?
If you already have an existing website, you can easily transfer your domain name (or "URL) to the new site you will recreate on ShinePages in 2 simple steps. These steps are outlined in the "Connect a Domain" section of your Website Training Portal.
In terms of CONTENT - copy and images - unfortunately, there is no "one-click" way to migrate your content from one platform to another. However, we hope that you will find it simple to copy and paste text and upload photos to your new ShinePages site, making the transfer process relatively easy.
No matter where you purchased your domain name, it is simple to "disconnect" it from your old site and "connect" it to your new ShinePages site whenever you are ready to launch your site.
Please note that you do not have to transfer your domain from one site to the other until your ShinePages site is ready to launch. Your ShinePages trial can be extended to allow you plenty of time to transfer any content and get your new site customized and ready to launch.