We designed the Live Stream feature of Mavenseed to be your perfect Youtube Companion tool. Letting YouTube do what they do best, with Mavenseed filling in the gaps to grow your business.

Creating a New Live Stream

To get started you'll need to have an active YouTube account and the Live Event's watch URL handy. If you're not sure how to set this up, head over here to learn more. If you don't have a YouTube Stream URL ready, click the link below the field to create a manual one.

Login to your Mavenseed Site Admin, click on Content then Live Streams and then the New Live Stream button in the upper right hand corner.

1. Title: Descriptive title of your live stream,

2. Short description: text to be displayed underneath the thumbnail of your live stream,

3. Starts and Ends: This is displayed to your customers, does not actually start/stop your stream.

4. Click Schedule & Continue.

5. You'll be brought to the live stream page to fill in more details.

Understanding Live Stream Statuses

• Draft: By default all new Live Streams on Mavenseed are set to draft. Draft posts are not visible to the public allowing you time to edit your stream before Scheduling,

• Scheduled: This status will publish the Live Stream to your Mavenseed site. Enabling it to show up publicly and be searched. In this status members will be able to RSVP for the Live Stream.

• Live: This turns off the ability to RSVP, and displays a link to your YouTube Watch URL for your members to click on and visit. Note this does not email or notify your members, instead keeping that within your control with your MailChimp account.

• Archived: When the Live Stream is complete, grab the recorded version and upload it via the Media tab so members whom may have missed the stream may view it.

• Title: This is the Title of your Course displayed on the site.

• Slug: This is editable just below your title. It's the URL of your live stream.

• Excerpt: Think of this as your elevator pitch. A brief paragraph summarizing what your course is all about. The excerpt is typically displayed alongside the course thumbnail

• Start and Stop Time: While this does not affect the actual status of a live stream, it is there for informational purposes only to your members.

• Categories: You may optionally categorize your course. If no categories are present in the drop-down, set them up here.

• Tags: If you're leaning on the Global Search, adding tags will great help the chances your customers can find what their looking for on your site.

• Live Stream Image: This is your feature image that best represents what you'll be covering in your Live Stream

Offering paid or free access to your YouTube Live streams via Mavenseed is a great way to leverage your existing audiences while building a community around your brand.

By default all of your products can be purchased individually. Additionally you may create a subscription offering. Enabling customers to subscribe to your site at a recurring period to retain access to your content.

On the Selling Options page you may choose to Enable Free Access to your Live Stream or adjust your selling options: price, single purchase or bundled, and whether or not to include in the MavenFeed.

1. Price: Choose the price you'd like to sell this piece of content individually. If you're not sure what to price it out as, email us at support@mavenseed.com and we'll do our best to assist.

2. Product Type:

   1. Single Purchase: Meaning you're selling this product as an individual product

   2. Bundle Purchase: You can create bundles of digital content. Choosing Bundle will reveal the bundle menu where you can attach other products created within your site.

Content Accessible only with a Subscription?

Check this box if you're not interested in selling your product individually through your Mavenseed site. Instead of an Add to Cart, logged out, not subscribed members will see a Subscribe button.

For members which are subscribed, they will see a View button when logged in and active.

Add product to a subscription plan

After you've decided to sell the product, added a price and saved it. You'll have the ability to also assign the product to an existing subscription plan directly from the sell tab on the product.

Show in the Mavenfeed?

One of the most challenging things about starting an online business is distribution, and growing the audience to distribute to. We've created Mavenfeed as an opportunity to increase awareness of your hard work. Checking the box will populate your product publicly in this feed. https://mavenseed.com/feed

Within the Media tab, you're able to update your Youtube Stream URL and upload your recorded live stream once it has ended.

How is Archived Media Displayed?

With the stream status in Archived, this will update your Live Stream Content page to display a video. This video can be uploaded here via the Media tab and displayed to those who could not make the live version of your stream.

Archived Live streams are displayed publicly on your site, and are searchable. Learn more about statuses here.

With Mavenseed Live Streams, clearly see who has RSVP'd for your Live Event. With the ability to email them before and after the stream taking place with your MailChimp account.

The RSVP tab will display a list of members whom have said they'd like to be notified about your Live Stream. Members who purchase through the cart and subscribe form the Live Stream page will be auto RSVP'd.

When Mailchimp is integrated

Members who RSVP will receive two tags and automatically get added to your Mailchimp connected audience. This enables you to quickly segment this cohort within Mailchimp.

The two tags are:

1. stream-rsvp

2. stream-First10CharactersOfStreamSlug