 All right, Remy, thank you for asking about the business systems technology that I recommend. And let's talk through these different things, websites, scheduling, payment processor, et cetera. Right now you're using Squarespace, which is highly popular and you're not super happy with the user interface. I agree, I've tried Squarespace several times and even though they have great designs, I never, I'm always baffled by how come they make their user interface so small to update certain things. And it's just not, it's just not pleasant to use. It's a little bit techie, which is surprising to me because Squarespace is so popular with the masses. I guess people just kind of suck it up and deal with the weird user interface to have the nice designs. An alternative to Squarespace to look into is wix.com. Of course, also very popular. I also think it's kind of a pain in the butt to use because it's a little bit too much to do. It's not streamlined enough in my opinion. And then one that I actually have, I haven't tried myself, but I've seen clients try it and they seem to have good experience with it, including Moitza here. Thank you for mentioning it. It's strikingly, strikingly.com. I think it is strikingly.com. Just double check here. Yep, that's the one. And so Moitza mentions that I've been using it for four years, heard about it from Seth Godin and still enjoys using it. You know, the user interface is pleasant. I agree. I sort of helped my wife set up a strikingly website. I mean, she was doing most of the work. I was kind of looking over her shoulder and it seemed pretty easy to use. So definitely would recommend strikingly as a possible option. Now, of course WordPress is the dominant player in the web hosting platform space. And I've always been annoyed by WordPress because of all the complications that come with it in terms of security and plugins and the compatibility of plugins. And I just feel like it's a really clunky overall ecosystem to use. Yes, it has tons and tons of support, obviously. If you have the budget to pay for a WordPress person, developer, webmaster to work with you, then maybe that's great because it's very flexible. But as a solopreneur, most of us are who are here and watching this, WordPress is just a pain in the butt in my opinion. So if I were just to pick a low-cost web platform, I would probably just go with strikingly today. Now, having said that, what do I use right now? Well, I just went away for, I used Weebly for like 12 years, for the vast majority of the lifetime my business, building my business, it has been Weebly. But Weebly was bought by Square a couple of years ago and their development completely stopped. It's so disappointing. They stopped innovating at all. So I just recently went away from Weebly. I couldn't wait to do it. Finally did. And I'm happy now to be with Simplero. Now, I have a whole, let's see, a whole blog post about why I chose Simplero. It's not cheap. So those of you who are interested in, I think the WWW will work, I gotta do my own domain name at some point. Let me see if this works. Yeah, it goes to my Facebook post where I analyze Simplero versus Kajabi, Zendler, Katra, Podia. Podia is another up and coming one. That's really easy to make a website and course platform. So Podia is kind of worth looking into as something that's really pleasant to use as well. But I didn't analyze all of these options. And I by far, well, not by far, the Simplero etched out in several important areas. And now that I've been using Simplero very actively for four months, I love it. I'm Simplero for life now. The team at Simplero is amazing. The founder, I feel like I personally know him now. And I have made probably 30 feature requests for Simplero and they've implemented like a dozen of mine. Just in the last four months, it's really amazing. And I feel like I have a bit of an, gratefully, a bit of an end to the founder because I can like tweet him personally and he replies back to me. And so I feel like, I have a high of high hopes for Simplero's future. And Simplero basically integrates everything for me, integrates a website, mailing list, course platform, affiliate software, and a CRM, contact client database and all this stuff instead of a spreadsheet. I'm now using Simplero to track all my client stuff. So the only thing Simplero doesn't have is scheduling. So we should talk about that next. Now, the reason why I'm not just openly recommending Simplero to everyone and why am I saying strikingly is because Simplero is not cheap. I don't know what the strikingly price is, but you can look it up. It's gonna be much cheaper than Simplero. Simplero right now, what I'm paying, I mean, Simplero is cheapest. It's like 70 bucks a month, something like that. Gives you a website and one single course. You can't make more than one course at that price point. It jumps up to like 150 or 125, something like that per month. Anyway, you could check out some players price at this point and see what it is. Reason why I have found it's so incredibly worthwhile is because I sell multiple courses and everything is integrated. I can look at one screen to see you, what activity you've done in my courses, what emails you've opened from me, what emails you've clicked, what things you've bought from me, all of the client notes that you have, it's all on one screen and it's the finances, everything's integrated. It's amazing. I'm like, I can't believe I didn't go for it. I should have gone with Simplero probably in my second year of business. I wish I did because all that data would have been all integrated by this point. I had to stitch together PayPal, Stripe. I was gonna say scheduling is again, something Simplero doesn't yet do, but I can use Zapier to connect the scheduling anyway. Long story short, Simplero is not for someone who is like trying to save money, but it's for someone who's like looking to the future. I wanna integrate everything. And it's been so worthwhile. I wish I recommended it earlier and I wish I did it in my second year of business. So I feel like if you're making more than, I'm just gonna say $1,000 a month or $2,000 a month, certainly. If you're making more than $2,000 a month in your business, I would highly recommend really looking into Simplero to say I'm going to make more than this going forward. If that's a plan, then it's gonna just simplify everything for you. So in terms of, oh, thank you. Moetsha mentioned in the chat, Simplero, sorry, Stripe me right now, it's just $20 a month. It paid monthly. So I bet if annually it's even less, right? So yeah, super, I mean, way lower cost than Simplero. And in terms of the website stuff, it's the few times I've used WordPress for blogging, Simplero is just like that. They kind of built themselves on that kind of user interface model and I think it's easier to use than WordPress. It's very, everything is very straight-line in Simplero and they thought of everything like SEO stuff if you want to, but it's optional. You could do redirects easily. Everything's very, I just, I'm quite impressed honestly. And I know software because I've been trying many different types of software for years and I know what's frustrating and what's not. And Simplero is remarkably pleasant to use. So scheduling, let's talk about this. Calendly is the current winner. If I were starting over, I would use Calendly. Right now I'm using acuity scheduling and reason why I'm not no longer recommending acuity scheduling for people who are just starting out or people who are making the decision now. Acuity scheduling was bought by another company by Squarespace ironically, right? Acuity scheduling was bought by Squarespace and ever since they bought them, the innovation has stopped. No longer, no more new features. It's, this is the same thing with MailChimp. I was on MailChimp for 12 years. They were bought by Intuit, innovation stopped and by the time I left MailChimp, which is four months ago, even their freaking spell check was broken and had been broken for six months and they never fixed it. And I'm like, this is, you guys no longer care MailChimp. You just don't care anymore because you cashed out with Intuit and you moved on, right? And this is what happens with a lot of soccer companies. They're like, they're so innovative when they're starting out. And by the way, this is what I asked the Simplero founder because Simplero is not owned by a corporation or a board of directors. It's owned by one guy. It's one guy. So that guy is nice or evil. It all depends, right? So I really, I looked into this guy. Some of you, by the way, probably will disagree with his politics. His politics are not, you know, progressive, good progressive people like most of us here. But I feel like he really is very, he's very mindful. He's very caring of creators and he's really dedicated. I say, hey, you're not selling out, right? Nope, I'm not, I'm dedicated to this thing. You know, and he didn't say for life. You know, everyone can make it this way. But anyway, that's important, right? Like deciding on software. Calum Lee, again, who knows? They might sell out in the future. Acuity has already sold out. Acuity is still fine. I'm not moving away from it because I'm so used to it now. But Calum Lee is a good option. Okay. Recurring payments. You know, the easiest way is just to go with PayPal. I know big tech, but it's very solid. I don't know Mooncler, but if you like Mooncler, go for it, keep using it. But PayPal makes it easy to create recurring payments. And I don't know if Mooncler has to go through PayPal anyway, or if it does its own credit card processing. Stripe integration. Stripe integration, great. Yeah, awesome. So, but yeah, so it's still, you know, whether you go with Stripe, you know, has recurring payments too. It's not as obvious. It's not as easy to set up. But I've set up recurring payments for Stripe. It's not that hard either, by the way, that just directly through Stripe. You could create a subscription and blah, blah, blah. So it's doable. PayPal, though, is a bit more streamlined. Mooncler sounds good. Listserv, a mailing list. I would not recommend MailChimp anymore for the reasons I've previously mentioned. If I were starting out and someone says, all right, George, what would you choose now instead of Simplero? Because if I'm not ready to go with Simplero pricing-wise, I would recommend ConvertKit. That's sort of like the rising star right now. ConvertKit. I would have previously recommended MailerLite, okay, but MailerLite just got bought out. Just got bought out by a bigger company. I'm not, again, like I said, I don't have high. But ConvertKit, though, just got bought out. I would recommend ConvertKit because the founder, again, feels like that person, he's really committed to creators. So I would recommend looking into them. And ConvertKit has other features. I don't know much about it, but I know everyone I know who uses ConvertKit enjoys it. The only possible drawback I've heard is that someone told me when they moved from MailChimp to ConvertKit, their open rates dropped. And one possibility is that ConvertKit, maybe early on, maybe still now, I'm sure there are some kind of salesy marketers who went with ConvertKit. And I imagine if they're doing salesy marketing, people, the email list, email platforms, like Gmail, Yahoo Hotmail, Apple, et cetera, probably didn't find ConvertKit people as reputable. And so maybe the open rates. So I don't know. That's worth, I didn't do, I didn't research as recent, but it would not ConvertKit. That's interesting. ConvertKit, I hate the name. They tried to rebrand themselves several years ago to SAVA, try to be more enlightened. But people said that was cultural appropriation. So they switched back to ConvertKit. Yeah, I know. It was such a, I think it was a much better name. I was like, oh, I hope no, they switched back ConvertKit. So you might want to research open rates for ConvertKit versus other things. So if I didn't go with ConvertKit, obviously, I use Simplero now for everything, including mailing list. And my open rates went up after I switched to Simplero from Mailchimp, which is really awesome. So I would say ConvertKit, maybe Miller-like. Otherwise, I've also heard good things about as it was, is it flow, flow something? Sorry, flow desk or flow someone. And there are some other ones out there that are smaller and probably are just as fine, but you want to look at the open rates, kind of research open rates, click rates, or basically open rates. That's the thing to look up. Okay, Remy, you had asked in the chat about Simplero's payment processing. Yeah, no, they integrate perfectly with Stripe and PayPal and other things, they have other ones I hadn't ever heard of. So Stripe and PayPal are the main ones. Yeah, and it works really well. And everything's contained in the Simplero system with all the finances, so I'm really happy with that. Google Docs for everything else, I agree. Now, I also am a Google Docs, Google Sheets person, but these days the cool kids are using Notion. So if you're like still making that decision, I would recommend looking into Notion because those people who have switched to Notion love it. It just has such great reputation. It's trying to replace the Google Drive ecosystem, basically. And it makes it easier to create tables and even web pages. With what do you call it, web pages that have the bullet points that can collapse and expand. That's really cool, makes it easier to do that. Simplero has that option too. But anyway, Notion is surprisingly flexible. Yeah, people like I said, people are creating web pages with their Notion pages as well. And of course they have databases that connect and tables and spreadsheets and client notes and all that good stuff. So anyway, I think that's probably good enough for this video. Any other follow-up questions from anybody here? Well, and those of you watching the video, if you have any other sort of tech that you absolutely love and wanna recommend, go and comment below. And yeah, so I hope this helps and looking forward to the continuing discussion.