Which of These 15 Thrive Symbols Examples (+ Bonus Templates) Is Right for Your Online Business?

Recently, we released our new Symbols Feature for Thrive Architect.

The Symbols Feature is a design component that allows you to have multiple synchronized instances of a “thing” you design for your website.

What’s that mean exactly? Modifying one instance of a Symbol will automatically update all the other instances of that Symbol – instantly – across your site.

If you run an affiliate marketing website, the Symbols Feature is just what you've been waiting for.

Here's some ways you can start using Symbols as an affiliate marketer right now:

If you're an affiliate marketer, you monetize your site by recommending products to earn sales commissions for every visitor that buys via your partnership links.

Because of that, I know you have affiliate links for recommended products sprinkled all over your site.

But what if you need to change a product recommendation or update it with a more current offer? In the old days, you'd have to comb through your entire site to find all those product plugs and modify them one-by-one. But with Symbols, now you can change just one instance of your recommended product "banner" and all the rest will update.

Many you use sidebar widgets or in-line content boxes to showcase your Top 3 Products, Recommendations or Revenue Generating Content in an easy to see place.

With Symbols, you can easily create these profitable affiliate tools and then update them whenever you need. One modification of a particular Symbols instance will change all others across your site. 

It just goes without saying that if you're marketing affiliate links, you must disclose that information to your audience.

A Disclaimer and Discloser Links Symbol will help make sure your disclosure information or links to those specialty pages are always up-to-date across all of your website. 

As a coach or consultant, you're constantly giving talks, holding events and giving out your contact info to capture new clients.

How can the Thrive Architect Symbols feature help make all that much simpler for you? Let's see...

How about turning your all important contact information contact box into a Symbol?

Should your phone number, email or work address ever change, you can make a single modification and the info will update across your site!

If your site uses a dedicated "Contact" page, then you can deploy Symbols like internal "Contact Me" ads to give visitors an easy way to come find you.

Should the link change, you want to modify the design of "Contact Me" element or you need to modify the Call-To-Action entirely, just modify one instance of your Symbol and you're good to go!

If you want to include your coaching or consultant biography box on your landing pages, event pages or sales pages, why not use the Symbols feature to keep your picture and elevator pitch current?

And once you've invested some time and effort into making that look nice, you could even take your Bio Box Symbol and add it to the end of every blog post instead of using your current WordPress theme's article author box.

And if your website has a staff of writers (like Thrive Themes now does), you can even build a multi-author Bio Box Symbol like the one shown below. If your writing staff changes, you have a one-stop-shop to make the necessary changes.

Pretty simple, right?

I've met many online coaches who now use Facebook Groups as a way to provide an additional perk as well as create community with their inner circle of clients.

The Symbols feature offers a way to help promote your Facebook tribe on your own site to advertise one of the perks of following you is gaining access to a whole group of like-minded people.

As the size of your group grows, you can easily reflect that social proof through a simple modification of your websites "Join My Facebook Group" Symbol:

Coaches and consultants offer their services through live trainings or intense bootcamps all the time.

The thing is that the dates, locations and times of those events are constantly changing as well.

With the Symbols feature, you'll never have to worry about littering your website with out of date promotions for live trainings...

Just a single info update to the last version of your "Live Training" Symbol will have all your blog posts, landing pages, and opt-in forms operating as current ads for your next event.

That means get to spend your time doing more productive and profitable things—like helping clients.

Guess what? The new Thrive Architect Symbols Feature also works great for Authors and Professional Speakers.

Here's why...

Much like the coach's "Live Training" Symbol we just discussed, you can create Symbols for your upcoming speaking gig and then modify it for all your future events as well.

Update the venue name, address, location, date, link to tickets, Google Map and any other details you want to include.

If you publish traditional books, eBooks or have a podcast, Symbols offer a great way to give all visitors to your website a way to buy or download your most recent release.

This can be especially helpful if you publish a new blog post article every time you release a new podcast episode (like the ActiveGrowth Podcast does) or new book chapter (like Andy Weir did writing his New York Times Best Selling sci-fi novel "The Martian").

If you employ a drip-feed release strategy like this for certain kinds of content, you can then maintain a single call-to-action Symbols template within all of those articles. 

If you ever need to modify that CTA to make it current, just change one instance of the Symbol and each of your many "episode" posts will automatically update.

Webinars are still a go to engagement tool not just for speakers, but for most online businesses, so why not use Symbols to maintain a single Webinar sign-up template?

Update the copy, CTA buttons and links for next webinar on a dedicated webinar Symbols template and your entire website will get a refreshed promotion for your upcoming live stream.

When it comes to being an Author or Speaker, your product is often selling the person behind the book... you.

That's why you want to maintain a well-designed and current About Me section that can be updated with relevant info as you get more book releases or major presentations under your belt.

And what if your website monetizes itself through selling online courses or other digital/physical products?

As you may have guessed, there's definitely some Symbols use cases for you too!

If you offer a money back guarantee, then Symbols could be useful for you across all your sales pages.

Let's say that you start by offering a 15 Day Money Back Guarantee, but later decide it would be a more competitive offer to bump that trial period up to 30 days.

If you decided to save your guarantee template as a Symbol, you can simply change it on one sales page, then all the rest do the same.

Ooo-da-la-li! The new Thrive Themes Pricing Table element!

Not only do you now have the power of a pricing table toggle switch (everybody looooves that feature) and fully customizable design, but you can also be clever and save them as Symbols!

That means if your pricing ever changes, you can easily modify the prices on one sales page with a single click and all the others will do the same.

Does your online business ever have holiday promotions, Black Friday sales (although we never do...), or summer discounts?

It would be a shame to create an element promoting such a sale on certain pages only for it to go stale after its expiration date.

By making such promotions a Symbol, you can make all your seasonal promotions evergreen across your website with a single click.

Did you notice all those catchy looking Symbols templates we used throughout this article?

Well, guess what? They're all yours!

That means you have absolutely no excuse not to go deploy at least one of the Symbols use cases we discussed above on your website.

You can access each of the examples you saw in this post as a new "Styled Box" template in the Thrive Cloud (assuming you're already a Thrive Architect user).

Just insert a "Styled Box" element into your content, search for the template you want by typing its name (the subheading listed directly above it in this article), and then save it as a Symbol.

Have any questions about Symbols or maybe some other use cases you'd like to share? Let us know in the comments below!