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Mark Ridsdill Smith
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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 7d ago Joined 10 Mar 2023 Newcastle upon Tyne (GMT+00:00) London

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 :) 



MR

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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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 🙏🏼

MR

@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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@George Kao Thanks george, very helpful and the orientation videos are a great idea. Apologies if the above sounded a bit negative- wrote it at the end of a bad day! That said, I still don’t see what improvements Simplero were trying to achieve from the changes. Do you know? 

Mike Wang 🌱 Conversation Starter 🔤 ABC

Pricing for new course

If there's time on tomorrow's call, I'd love to briefly chat about pricing strategy for my new course. I think I'll finish creating it this weekend.

As far as materials, there is roughly one hour of lesson videos total, 4x 20-min guided meditations, 5x journaling worksheets, and some other minor stuff. It's meant to be a 4-week challenge. But it's evergreen, so people can really go at their own pace.

I know some coaches price their courses based on the amount of material (e.g., video runtime). …



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Hi Mike, I find pricing one of the most difficult things in the world and therefore am not well placed or qualified to offer you advice! With that in mind, here are my thoughts anyway.... 

$30 sounds very low and my worry would be that it sets a precedent / expectations for your follow up courses. One way round this might be to fix a fair, significantly higher price for it, and then offer it at discount from time to time. This would give people an opportunity to try your course at a lower price, while also making clear that the value of the course is far higher.

If you don't like the idea of offering discounts (I'm not a big fan myself) another option might be to fix the course at a higher price, and then run free (or very low cost) one off events to help promote it. 

I'm sure George will have more to say and a lot more insights into this than me! 

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!



MR

Following. I plan to start playing with Substack too. 

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

MR

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