Let me guess. You're in the process of shopping for a Highlevel Certified Admin and you found this video because you did not wanna waste your time or money. So let's get into it.

My name is Patrick Allmond and I run Stop Doing Nothing Media, a digital marketing and lead generation agency here in Oklahoma City.

And full confession, full transparency. I am a Highlevel Certified Admin, so I know the process. I know the right people that should be using Highlevel Certified Admin and the wrong business, or people who should be using certified admin. So that's what we're gonna go through today .

Please make sure you set time aside to watch this entire video so you do not waste your time. You do not waste your money hiring a Highlevel Certified Adminn that does not meet your personal or business expectations.

Step one. What does it take to get trained and certified as a high level admin?

I know this first hand because I went through it. This is what it takes to become a high level certified admin. First of all, you have to take and study the first part of the test, which is a self. Study test. What high level does on the backend is they give you lots of questions and multiple choice answers to where you have to fill them out, and you have to have a certain passing grade to take the practical test.

The high level certified admin testing process. Is divided into two pieces, the self study, , and the proxy test. People make the mistake sometimes of going in to the high level certification with no high level experience, and that's the first big mistake I see high level certified admins make you should already have.

Practical experience on the high level CRM before you go to get high level certified. I see a lot of people going and taking the test and they've only been using high level for a week or two, or they've never used it before and they just want the cool check mark by their name. So if a high level admin.

Takes the first test, the self-study test without having practical knowledge, they may be able to escape by, because it's a multiple tray question, but they will not be a very good admin because they don't have the practical hands-on experience of using the product. And how do I know this? I had a lot of experience in high level, possibly even a year of experience in the high level CRM before I ever took the test, which allowed me to blaze right through it.

If you have a high level certified admin, who doesn't have practical experience in it, then they're wasting their time and they're not gonna be very good coming out the other end. They may still get their certification, but they're not gonna be very good when it comes to strategy.

And planning what you need for your business. , So part one is the self-study test. To become a high level certified admin, you study it all, you take the test, you pass it, and then what you can do is you can schedule your proxy exam. And the proxy exam is the second part and the hardest part of getting certified.

And with the proxy exam, you schedule a date.. Sometimes it's a week or a couple of months out for me, it was a couple of months out. You schedule a proxy exam, which is you getting on Zoom with a high level staff member and they give you a test and they watch you build it real time and they critique it immediately afterwards.

And they can also give you feedback if you have questions during the proxy exam. Now the biggest thing about the proxy exam you have to remember is they're given an hour and a lot of certified admins, again, make the mistake of taking the full hour to work on the solution. The best thing you can do, and this is probably mainly for those of you who are considering certification, is for you to plan at least 40 to 45 minutes to build a solution and then another 15 to 20 minutes to test it.

Meaning that it, it's not only the building of the solution that you have, it's also the testing of the solution. So please make sure that if you're somebody who wants to get certified, you plan, 40 to 45 minutes to actually build the solution, which is gonna include forms and automations and tags and things like that. Give yourself time to also test it.

So if you take part one of the high level certification and part two, and you pass, then congratulations. You are a certified admin. , As of right now,, the cost was $97 to take that, and then $97 a month to keep it and maintain it every single month.

What do you get once you are high level certified? There are two main benefits. There's several other benefits, but there are two main benefits.

One is you get to be listed inside the high level certified directory, which is a directory of worldwide people who have various skills and high level, and you have to, , pay $97 to take the.

Test and then paying $97 to keep your to keep your certification and to stay inside the directory. You can go to the directory, you can look at people by reviews, some of which might be fake by the way. Just be aware. It works like Amazon. There are fake reviews in there and it also works by helping you find someone who may be close to you, if you want somebody in your city, if that's important to you.

If not, no big deal.

The second major benefit is you. Are added to a high level certified admin community where high level staff members put in leads from high level. People go to the high level website and there are forms there they can fill out to say, I need an coach, I need a high level certified admin to help me work on a project.

High level staff then takes that and puts that inside a private community that we have, that I'm a member on that you can scan every single day for people that put in their name. They put in their phone number and they put in the type of project that needs to be done along with the timeline.

Those are two of the main benefits. Another benefit is you're also supposed to get priority support. Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't, but that's not a really a big deal. And then possibly a fourth benefit, you can say that's a little check mark next to your name. And it's a little badge that you get to put on your website or in your marketing materials.

If you go to the bottom of our website, stop doing nothing. Dot media. You can see that Patrick Allman, certified admin is listed there at the bottom with that cool little badge they give you.

I've talked about the high level certified admin testing process now. Now let's talk a little bit about what a high level certified admin is good for and what they're not good for.

What is a high level certified admin? Good for, a high level certified admin to me , is really good for the basics of when it comes to building out your high level CRM automation and AI experience. Meaning high level certified admins are good at simple things like.

The workflow builder, or even using AI inside the workflow builder to build something. Okay? Simple workflows should be able to be knocked out by a higher level certified admin. Not a lot of conditional stuff, not a lot of strategy or vision stuff in there, but just very simple workflows.

Simple administrative tasks, adding users would be good. Maintaining opportunities or contacts would be good for a high level admin. Maybe some simple, very basic logic inside of inside of an automation would be good for high level admin. Maybe directory work or some very basic SEO work is what your high level admin should be doing.

A simple lead generation task. Building simple pages. Maybe simple landing pages, simple funnels, things like that. And then also the forms, surveys and quizzes that go along with those elements. Again, just the very basics. Not long, complicated surveys, not long, complicated quizzes that need like advanced scoring and conditional logic. A high level admin may not be the best for that. . Simple API, integrations. If you want your high level certified admin to make an API call or a webhook call, if you will, to send data to another product, a high level admin should be able to handle that. No problem whatsoever. And like I said earlier, some basic website page building, some basic webinar funnel building, and maybe some very basic funnel building. Nothing too terribly advanced. And the reason I say that is because. A lot of those things that I'm talking about require strategy and they require vision. And a entry-level Highlevel Certified Admin is probably not the best choice for that because they're oftentimes not people who are deeply in your business.

They're great for one and done kind of tasks. They're not growing with you as you grow your business. So they're really good for outsource tasks, kind of one-off tasks, but not a partner not a partner in your business. So I'm not saying that a high level certified admin is a bad thing.

Not at all. It's a great thing to have, but again, it's important to realize. What they are good at, so you don't waste your time and you don't waste your money. I've seen people hire other certified admins, not counting us, of course, where they had a much higher bar of expectation and the high level certified admin fell down on their.

Face and didn't really give them the value and the tools they needed when it comes to like their long-term strategic vision or their long-term strategy of how to get things done inside the tool. So like I just mentioned, those are some of the good things that would be good for a Highlevel Certified Admin.

If those the kind of things you need and you just need a Highlevel Certified Admin, then by all means hire the cheapest one you can find and they will knock out some basic tasks for you.

Now let's get into what a Highlevel Certified Admin. Will not be great at this is from my experience as a certified admin and my experience in working with other certified admins and just a general awareness of the market and the dms I get and the text messages I get. And then the people that come to us and hire us after they've worked with other certified high level admins.

On the problems they encountered, the communication barriers, the challenges, things like that. Oftentimes we get clients who have been through this process, had some bad choices, and they end up working with us because we kinda have a different take on this.

What are the best situations in which you want to hire a experienced Highlevel Certified Admin?

. The top one on my list is when you need strategy and when you need vision. Okay. I am a big picture guy. I love strategy topics. I love vision discussions. And I have these on Zoom, five to 10 times a week working with our clients on the big vision, the big strategy. This is me speaking about StopDoingNothing Media. We're not interested in coming into your business and just, cranking out a quick five step workflow or applying some tags or importing a hundred contacts.

We don't want to do that. We want to be a partner in your business.

So vision is another reason why. You can still hire a Highlevel Certified Admin, but if you get a very basic one, they're not going to be the best at this.

If you want your business to be completely hands off. If you wanna work with a company or a Highlevel Certified Admin that just takes over your marketing, takes over your entire tech stack and lets you worry about what you do best while they worry about what they do best.

A very basic low end certified admin person will not be great for that. Like I mentioned early on, you need someone with vision. You need somebody who's gonna plot. A multi-month or a multi-year strategy to bring your business to new pinnacles, to new heights of success. And a high level certified admin may or may not be the best choice for you.

If you ever need any kind of deep, internal, or external API integration or customization, , a high level certified admin may not be good for you. We build very advanced KPI dashboards and reports for our clients, and oftentimes a Highlevel Certified Admin, especially the new ones, don't have those skills and don't have the experience to build those kind of things.

If you need any kind of advanced data organization, I. A high level admin may not be the best for you. . I'm referring to things like advanced tagging, advanced custom field building advanced conditional logic in your workflows based on your custom fields or your tagging or even custom objects.

I personally was one of the first people to get custom objects inside the high level tool. That's a very advanced feature, something that most Highlevel Certified Admins don't know how to use. ,

If you need extra things around your marketing, not just high level things, maybe a full suite things or a full offload.

Then a high level certified admin may not be the best choice. And I'll give you some examples from some of our retainer packages. . If you need search engine optimization, then a high level certified admin may not be the choice. If you need Google ads management or Facebook ad management, or AdRoll management or retargeting, then a certified admin may not be the best choice.

If you need someone to help you blog or build content, especially in terms of helping your SEO or your search engine optimization, then a high level admin may not be the best choice. And again, I'm referring to someone who does just high level certified admin work, not a full suite or a full retainer of relationship and this is why we have taken our Highlevel Certified Admin status and wrapped things around it and bolted on things to make you. Profitable to make you stress free, to take all the automation and take all the tech work off of your hands.

So a quick recap. The best thing to hire a high level certified admin for are very basic tags very basic workflow building, very basic page or quiz building.

Not all the advanced things, and definitely not your larger monthly retainers where you need a full suite of marketing if you need a company. That you wanna meet with every month and plan out strategy, and then you walk away and they execute your marketing strategy while you're sitting on the beach drinking a margarita, then a high level certified admin, just a high level certified admin may not be the best for you.

Now that you have all this certified admin knowledge of what you should and shouldn't do. What should you do next?

Number one is I would document what you need done in extreme detail. This is something you're going to give your high level certified admin or us a high level certified admin shop when it comes to getting onto Zoom and to planning your.

Business strategy and planning and executing your vision. One of the first things that we do when somebody hires us as a high level certified admin is we say, have you documented in extreme detail what you need done in extreme detail. I don't mean things like, oh, for advanced integration. I just want my product to integrate with this other product.

You need to document what you want done in terms of when I do something in product A, something happens in product B. When I do something in Product B, something happens back in product A. In this case, product A is your Highlevel CRM . You're gonna have to document that before you even think about hiring us or about hiring a Highlevel Certified Admin.

Research. People who are very active, who create content in the high level world, the people who create content on a regular basis like this video, in my experience, are the best people to work with when it comes to high level, especially the high level certified admins that build content at the train you and then give you a ton of content for free.

Those are the ones that you wanna hire. Those are the ones who know high level in and out. They're the ones that are on the high level town halls. Those are the ones involved in beta programs. Those are the ones that have the ear of the developers. That are helping shape and guide the product and the future of high level CRM.

And again, in complete transparency, I'm one of those people. I attend town halls, I have direct tie-ins to several employees. I can DM and ask about maybe getting certain things changed or certain things adjusted on the priority list. Okay. I've gone through the high level certification process. And so I've been through that and I understand the process involved there.

Not just the very basics, but the entire deep process of getting high level certified on what you need to know before you take the tests .

If you want to talk to a high level certified admin that meets all the criteria of having a strategic vision for your company.

One who has decades of experience. Oftentimes, high level certified admins do not have a lot of business experience. Somebody could discover a high level a month ago and take the certified admin to test today and become , technically qualified to be a certified admin, but they don't have the business experience.

Under their belt to execute your vision and take the tech load and tech stack off of your shoulders. That's what we love to do here.

If you're interested in learning more about Highlevel Certified Admin or having a team execute your vision, please make sure you reach out to us. Visit the website, StopDoingNothing.Media and you can fill out the contact form.

Or you can also just text us at 405 217 4752 text. Text "Hey Patrick, I saw your high level video". we'll get on a call and figure out what you need to execute your vision and set you up for success.

I look forward to seeing you on my website or in the high level group. Take care.