Mark Ridsdill Smith - George Kao Courses

Mark Ridsdill Smith

🔤 ABC

I support people who don’t have gardens to grow lots of food in a small space.

I’m inspired by how growing in the middle of the city can help us to eat more fresh organic food, enjoy nature on our doorstep, connect with our local community and recycle our food waste.

Active 3d ago Joined 10 Mar 2023 Newcastle upon Tyne (GMT+00:00) London

Dipanshu Rawal 🌱 Conversation Starter 🔤 ABC

Nov 3 06:18am in 2024 ABC Masterheart Misc.

The course experience is best with simplero

Hi @George Kao

Just signed up for "Frameworks" course and the way it's delivered via YT unlisted playlist... it's not a pleasant experience.

Any chance you'd be putting this on native simplero backend?

Likewise, the previous version of simplero was way better experience for consuming your courses, than the newer version. Not sure if I have the option to switch back now.

Thought of mentioning the feedback here :)

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Mark Ridsdill Smith 🔤 ABC

I'm also finding the previous version of Simplero a better experience - it feels like they are putting a lot of energy into changing things but not making them much better, sometimes worse. Not a great combo.

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4d ago

George Kao Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

@Mark Ridsdill Smith @Dipanshu Rawal definitely would love to know more specific feedback re: what you liked about the previous Simplero experience! I'm glad to be friends with the CEO so I can help influence the resulting product. Let me know specifics and I'll pass it along 🙏🏼

3d ago

Mark Ridsdill Smith 🔤 ABC

@George Kao I find it hard to put into words but the main things are that the font seems smaller and harder to see (perhaps I can enlarge this?) and the overall design feels a bit cold (and I can no longer customise it by adding a background image). There is nothing badly wrong with it - but I can't see how it improves on the old design in any significant way. However, the main problem with it from my perspective is that I have to relearn how to use it and I also have to introduce the change to the people who've bought my courses, many of whom will be confused by it. This would be fine if there were obvious improvements, but I don't see them. We have enough change going on as it is, and we don't need unnecessary ones.

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3d ago

Jackie Johansen 🔤 ABC

Sep 27 02:29pm in 2024 ABC Masterheart Misc.

Substack Wisdom to Share

Hi ABC community, I'm inspired to start playing with Substack (thanks @Ginny Branden for the nudge to check it out!). I'm curious if others, who have been on there for a while, may have any words of wisdom for newbies getting started. Seems like such a cool corner of the internet!

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Mark Ridsdill Smith 🔤 ABC

Following. I plan to start playing with Substack too.

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1mo ago

Mark Ridsdill Smith 🔤 ABC

Sep 19 04:00am in 2024 ABC Masterheart ❓ Questions

Crossposting guidelines

How and when I should best crosspost videos and blog posts in 2024? Back in the day I used to, for example, put links to my blog posts on Facebook and they were usually pretty popular with lots of people sharing them. If I do that these days, not only does Facebook's algorithm show these posts to very few people, it also seems to downgrade the reach of my subsequent posts, even those without links. (I'm not interested in being a slave to the Facebook algorithm, but I do want to avoid doing stuf…

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George Kao Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

Here's my response -- let me know if it helps and any follow up Qs!

cc: @Ginny Branden @Christine Weddle @Emily Miller @Cynthia Killion

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2mo ago

Mark Ridsdill Smith 🔤 ABC

@George Kao thanks for this George, very helpful to have your insights into this.

1mo ago

Mike Wang 🔤 ABC

Aug 5 11:55am in 2024 ABC Masterheart ❓ Questions

Simplero-related question re: Products

Hi George,

Quick question. After our last check-in during a Q&A call, I really liked the idea of hosting my shorter, framework intro course (5-day challenge) in Simplero (to get people onto the platform).

I'm currently on the "Starter" tier, which allows for 5 products. Thanks for championing getting that raised from 1 -> 5 :)

I'm currently already using all 5 product slots. My Inner Foundation Series is comprised of 4 courses. And my 5th product is an "all-in-one" bundle.

If you were me, wha…

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Mark Ridsdill Smith 🔤 ABC

@Mike Wang this is not a helpful answer to your question, but just to share that I’m also trying to work out how to keep to five products in Simplero as the price jump is so high. I also like your idea of offering a small course to get people into the Simplero system!

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3mo ago

Aurora Meneghello 🔤 ABC

Mar 18 03:41pm in 2024 ABC Masterheart ❓ Questions

Terms and Privacy Policy

Hello

@George Kao and everyone in the community!
I delivered my first FTA webinar, recorded it, created a mini course with it, set up my courses website to accept payment...and then realized I need to add some terms and conditions + privacy policy.

Do you have any templates or suggestions how to go about this? A couple of years ago I hired an attorney that sent me such a long document with possibilities, it was more of a headache. So curious how everyone here handles it.

The store will be open to the public, so it won't be anymore a site just for my clients...

Thank you in advance for all your help!

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George Kao Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

@Aurora Meneghello congrats on all this! 🙌🏾

I keep terms & privacy incredibly simple, and have for years, and have had zero troubles:

https://www.georgekao.com/terms

https://www.georgekao.com/privacy

Of course you are welcome to copy / borrow anything you see on either page!

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8mo ago

Mark Ridsdill Smith 🔤 ABC

@George Kao I'm so glad you do this, it so refreshing. Most other privacy and terms statements drive me nuts with their lengthy clauses and impenetrable legal language - I actually think it is bordering on immoral for companies to communicate with their customers in such an opaque way.

I think I borrowed from your wording heavily when I wrote mine, I did it quickly and probably need to come back to it.

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8mo ago