{"id":110,"date":"2018-05-21T15:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.129\/blog\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:41:08","slug":"configuring-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/my-business\/promoting-my-business\/configuring-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Nubilo,\u00a0 where small businesses in the service industry are saving time and finding more customers.\u00a0 If you are a small business offering domestic services such as cleaning, gardening and boiler care, then you can grow your business and your team on a platform that is designed to help your business thrive.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, let\u2019s explore your Services. \u00a0\u00a0What are they for, and how are they configured?<\/p>\n<p>The best way to attract customer through Nubilo is to create a &#8220;Service&#8221; for each service offering that your business has.\u00a0 These services should be quite specific so that they can be linked to an associated type of home asset or schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Features of services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customisable and styled from a range of templates<\/li>\n<li>Use your own images<\/li>\n<li>Service Description<\/li>\n<li>Location and Coverage Area<\/li>\n<li>Linked to a Service Catalogue<\/li>\n<li>Linked to relevant Asset and Schedule types<\/li>\n<li>Easily Browsable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your Business services are found on the \u201cBusiness Dashboard\u201d, where they are listed in the \u201cAds and Services\u201d section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Creating your service<\/h2>\n<p>To Create a Service, click the \u201c+ Service\u201d Button, and complete the simple form outlining the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Service Catalogue \u2013 Choose from a range of Service types that best represent what type of service this is.<\/li>\n<li>Display Title \u2013 Shown as the most prominent title in the banners and Service Listings, best to make this short and clear.<\/li>\n<li>Service Description \u2013 Provide more details about your service. You can always update and refine this later.<\/li>\n<li>Related Asset Type. Choose from a range of Asset Types that are applicable to this service. Ideally a maximum of 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you have added some content in each of the required fields, the \u201cCreate\u201d button will appear.\u00a0 Click Create to add your service and move to the \u201cManage your Service\u201d page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Managing your service<\/h2>\n<p>Once you have created your service you can manage it at any time and refine the content, images and associated Assets and Schedules.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the Service in the Business Dashboard to go to the \u201cManage your Service\u201d page, or when you create a new service you will be taken straight to this page too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Features of the \u201cManage your Service\u201d page:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stats<\/li>\n<li>About your Service<\/li>\n<li>Image Management<\/li>\n<li>Preview Bar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Stats<\/h2>\n<p>Stats will be a new feature on the \u201cManage your Service\u201d Page and is currently still under development. Check back soon to be able to see performance stats relating to your service.<\/p>\n<h2>About your Service<\/h2>\n<p>The \u201cAbout your Service\u201d Section is the main part of this page and is where all the configuration is done to create a great looking service to attract your customers.<\/p>\n<p>Define your Service type, title, images, associated Assets and Schedules, Search Engine Optimisation key words and more to build a strong brand page that attracts customer and offer great value.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the edit\/pen icons to edit each item and click the \u201cSave\u201d button to save the changes and update the page.<\/p>\n<p>Configure each of these elements to get the best results:<\/p>\n<p>Service Name \u2013 This is the text that will be displayed when your service is displayed in banners and tiles, as well as the main text that appears at the top of the Service Detail page.<\/p>\n<p>Main Image \u2013 This is the image that appears alongside the Service Name in Banners, tiles and is the main image on the service Detail Page.<\/p>\n<p>Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) \u2013 List the key words that best describe your service.\u00a0 This list is a comma separate list, but spaces will automatically be converted to commas for you. It\u2019s best to list about 5 key words that are used by google to help identify your service and improve your search results.<\/p>\n<p>Related Assets \u2013 Select the types of assets that relate to your service.\u00a0 Your service will be listed as a relevant service to customers who are managing these types of assets<\/p>\n<p>Short Description \u2013 The Short description appears on Banners and Tiles. Keep this brief and to the point.<\/p>\n<p>Long Description \u2013 This longer description appears on the Service Detail page and is where you can fully describe your service.<\/p>\n<p>Template \u2013 Choose from a range of templates that suit the style of your branding and the type of service you are offering. Your content is automatically adjusted to fit any template you select.<\/p>\n<p>Gallery Images \u2013 Select a range of images to display in the Service Detail page.\u00a0 The layout of these images is dependent on the chosen template.<\/p>\n<p>Location and Range \u2013 Specify the location and area of coverage of your service.\u00a0 By default, your service location is the same as your business location, but you can customise this by moving the marker to a new location and specifying a new range to create an area of coverage. Its best to tune your area of coverage to target your preferred customers and avoid competition with other providers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Image Management<\/h2>\n<p>To choose an image and associate it with your service, you first need to upload the image into your image library.\u00a0\u00a0 If you need to add a new image to the library, click the \u201cNeed to upload on image?\u201d drop down and click the \u201cChoose Files\u201d button to open an explorer to allow you to select an image from your device.<\/p>\n<p>Image are uploaded and automatically shared to your business when you upload from this page.<\/p>\n<p>Find our more about managing images in the \u201cManaging Image\u201d help page.<\/p>\n<h1>Preview Bar<\/h1>\n<p>The preview bar shows you how you service looks in both banner and tile formats, so after you make changes you can quickly review how your service appears to customers to check you are happy with the look of your service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Nubilo,\u00a0 where small businesses in the service industry are saving time and finding more customers.\u00a0 If you are a small business offering domestic services such as cleaning, gardening and boiler care, then you can grow your business and your team on a platform that is designed to help your business thrive. In this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/my-business\/promoting-my-business\/configuring-services\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Configuring Services&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/795"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nubilo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}