Episode 145: Industry Tea with fitDEGREE CTO Daniel Read

What We Cover In This Episode: More on an exciting upcoming feature that facilitates internal interactions [3:06] How it will allow you to invite others through the app via chat instead of external text message [4:49] The way that the chat feature evolved [5:38] What to be aware of with the social and privacy settings from the student perspective [10:53] The admin-facing features that will give you the ability to disable or define the people in your chats [12:42] Group chat features and benefits [14:47]   Quotes: "The main use was getting to improve community features [so] that clients can talk to each other. We also get to improve the instructor/client communication, and now [chat] is this admin tool as well for the internal staff." Nick [4:38] "With inviting people, you don't have to send them a text anymore. Now when you hit the invite button, what we've done is we've made it so it'll actually pop up and ask you who you want to message internally in the fitDEGREE app, and as it sends them the invite, it'll also start a chat. So, you can talk to the person about it or send it to a group of people at once." [Dan, 4:51]    "One of our big things is we wanted to make it feel like it was a modern chat app, not like just a tack-on to an app that would feel like a lesser experience." [Dan, 6:17] "It is more than just messaging, it is fitDEGREE messaging. It is the things that matter to us, like sharing a class, and it previews your friends that are already going. That's all unique stuff that we had to build, obviously from the ground up, but people don't think about it." [Nick, 9:59] "I think it has just such great potential, because I know a lot of studios run accountability groups and or series sessions, where [customers] have to download WhatsApp, or they all have to go to Telegram or whatever other random app, and now it just lives in fitDEGREE." [Megan [17:07]   LINKS:   Prologue 2: The Story of fitDEGREE: Dan Read's Version fitDEGREE's Business Portal https://calendly.com/fitdegree/support  [email protected] https://www.instagram.com/fitdegree/ ​​https://www.instagram.com/fitspot_guru/  https://www.instagram.com/whycoachingandconsulting/  https://www.fitdegree.com/blog  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChJ5rK6zWPXjbxtUQx3ys9Q