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Rose Aslan
@rsaslan

My name is Rose Aslan and I am a Californian who moved to Istanbul, Turkey, 2 years ago. Istanbul is my happy place and I still can’t believe I get to live here while pursuing a business that supports other women make deep life changes.


Until recently, I was a tenured associate professor of relig…


Active 1y ago Joined 2 Nov 2022 (GMT+03:00) Istanbul

Writing for Readers Workshop

Taking George's advice on this one, and announcing it before I start working on it!

I'm going to be hosting a workshop-style webinar on turning a wall-of text into something more accessible for the reader. 

I'm playing with the idea that "copywriting" is an intimidating concept, like a class we missed in high school and now we don't know how to approach it....and we know we're supposed to be writing in a particular way to get sales.  

But really, the more I think about t, the more wrong that …



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This looks great! I might not be able to attend the entire time as it’s bedtime for my little one during that time but will try to come.

Transcripts for lessons

I’m wondering where I can find text transcripts of the lessons or if they’re available. I am a visual learner in general. That being said, I learn content from courses in two ways- the primary way is listening to videos while at the gym, then if there are lessons that have detailed slides I use the computer. But if I need to use the computer to go through all the lessons my progress is slower, and I noticed I’m much more likely to complete courses and get more out of them if there are multipl…



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FYI @George Kao , Zoom creates basic transcripts when you record there. I run my transcripts through Grammarly and they're good to go. Basically free since I already subscribe to both services. I too am a reader and would love the transcription of the lessons!. 

Requesting feedback for my new rolling membership program

Hi George et al.


I brought this up in our small group call the other day and am sharing the basics for my membership program here and would love feedback:


The Rahma Collective


$55 if you pay by the month

$47 if you pay 6 months in advance

(I feel good with these numbers for a limited number of people and then I'll raise the price)

FB group w/ Whatsapp option


3 calls a month:


-Check in/community call (1 hr)

-Embodiment/breathwork/mindfulness session (30-45 min)

-live group coaching (ask p…


Trying to streamline business subscription services

Hi George et al,

I realize I have far too many subscriptions for business-related services, some of which seem to overlap. I am going to list them out here with the cost and would love to hear your solutions/suggestions for streamlining some of these expenses.  Do they seem like too many? thanks so much!

The must-have subscriptions, but I’d love to know if there are cheaper ways to do this:

Google domains: $12/year


Google workspace: $12/month


Grammarly: $72/year, I use it for everything



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Oh, Linktree could be replaced by a page on your site. For example, I just have a gif and a pile of buttons, you can make it as fancy or simple as you'd like. 

(Example: https://sonjathegrey.com/hello/ )

And if you're a data tracker type, you can always use whatever tracker you might have elsewhere (like Google Analytics or whatnot).

RA

@Sonja Amundson linktree is to easy to use, I can try to update on mailerlite, but tbh I haven't updated my website in ages, I hardly ever touch it. I wish there was an easier way to do this.

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@Sonja Amundson thanks that I'd appreciate it! I don't really look at the analytics page much I mainly just like how user friendly it is compared to Mailerlite landing pages. 

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Hi @George Kao , so I asked mailerlite about what would happen if I canceled google workspace and this is what they said: 


We highly recommend authenticating your domain to maximize deliverability. So if you cancel your google workspace, I believe that will also cancel the DNS so that can affect your deliverability. We highly recommend keeping your domain email address.

AG

Unless you're needing to save a lot of photos and docs forever, I was able to run the operations, HR & finance side of my former business with free Dropbox, and without having to upgrade Google storage (so just using the base rate and storage included in the workspace). One of the keys for me was cleaning out my email every 6 months or so. Rather than saving 20 years of emails, I would clean out sent messages, trash, inbox to just keep the last year or so of emails, plus any important ones that I wanted to keep forever. 

And, then cleaning out files from Dropbox and Google Drive occasionally if you start to run out. 

Again, if we're talking about photos or other high file size items, doing this on the free version of things, or what's included in a basic subscription probably isn't possible. 

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@Amie Garcia thanks, I do have a lot of photos and docs I don't want to delete, especially photos, I see them as a way to keep a journal/memories of my life, so I don't really delete many photos or videos.  So I will have to continue paying, but the question is how to keep downsizing? Just got down to icloud and google drive, eliminated dropbox and will keep working at it.