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Why I Chose Circle.so for my Community Platform (Instead of Discord or Facebook Groups)

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Looking for a platform for your online community? This is my experience using Circle.so for the past year.
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For the past year I've been using Circle.so as the community platform for my membership program, Redeeming Productivity Academy. Here's why I picked Circle.so, some of my favorite features, and a few reasons Circle.so might make a good platform for your online community.
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0:00 Introduction
2:29 Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Platforms
4:02 Who Uses Circle
5:15 The Interface
6:25 Managing Spaces
7:47 Live Video
8:22 The App
8:52 Paywalls
9:49 Integrations
11:12 Platform Risk
12:41 Is Circle Right for You?
13:43 Try Circle Free
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14 авг 2024

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@reagantrose Год назад

Try Circle.so free for 14 days: try.circle.so/yclozv5a5v12

@YungL.i.X. Год назад

This video is phenomenal man. I run a online personal training company and I'm finally ready to start making sales. I had a really hard time choosing between discord and facebook but Circle is definitely looking pretty good.

@reagantrose Год назад

I've now been on it for well over a year. It's only gotten better!

@Dejuanw Год назад

i do the same thing man we should talk and bounce iseas off of eachother

@ayelety1309 2 года назад

Great video, really helped me make a decision to use Circle (I will use your link because I appreciate your input). Thanks and blessings.

@reagantrose 2 года назад

So glad you found it helpful! Thanks, Ayelet!

@kevmaguire Месяц назад

This is a great video. I run a community for dads and I want to make sure that folks aren't constantly being interrupted by their phones when they want to spend time with their kids. I was going to go for Discord, and your video convinced me otherwise.

@reagantrose Месяц назад

glad you found it helpful! Yours sounds like a great community.

@CH_1 Год назад

That a/synchronous distinction & graphic just unlocked the whole thing for me - conceptually, I was missing that Helpful, thanks!

@user-gy4qi4oz2o 8 месяцев назад

Great review thanks! I watched a few, this was by far the most helpful.

@reagantrose 8 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@enaeva_ 2 года назад

This video is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for doing the comparison between Circle and Discord and FB. Just one question: I think I read somewhere that you need to connect Stripe, in order to use the Paywalls feature. Is that correct?

@saroshzeeshan9440 Год назад

Amazing comparisons and intro for Circle. Thank you so much. I have a question here: Please share few differences of discourse and circle?

@jackiewallace8516 7 месяцев назад

This was funny… and… kept my interest. Nice editing! The movie clips and jazz music appealed to my ADHD 😂

@IdeasdeNaco 3 месяца назад

Thank you for your review and perspective!!! Random question, but who edits your videos? I was cracking up, especially with the Obi Wan Kenobi bit as Facebook and the algo. Hahaha!

@reagantrose 3 месяца назад

Haha, thanks! I actually edit them myself. Glad you liked it!

@soulworkwithjustine Год назад

Thanks so much! Super informative! Is there an option for emailing through the platform?

@pedrofmonteiro 9 месяцев назад

I gave up when i saw the price...

@julierainbowwingz2094 Год назад

Informative video , thanks! Can you share more about how you set up the membership? What do they get every month? And, is it possible to have live video’s behind a paywall?

@kovacsbalint3317 10 месяцев назад

Hello! Thank you so much for this video it was really helpful I want to host my new course and make a community on Cirlce, but I have a few important questions. In my program, there will be a personal trainer who will host a big group live Q&A once a week. My first question would be: I see that you can add moderators in circle but can that moderator start lives with the group? Second: Can a moderator privately upsell to a customer to become his private student? Third: Can you call/video call members of the community inside privately? I hope there is a solution for these two things because I really like the platform.

@chrisdawkins7620 Год назад

Nice video, brother. I'll happilly use your AFF link to set up a Circle account.

@reagantrose Год назад

Appreciate that, Chris!

@theholistic360coach 5 месяцев назад

Excellent video!

@CRAIGCMEE Год назад

Nice Work Regan

@reagantrose Год назад

Thanks!

@Jay_Teacher Год назад

Excellent, thoughtful review

@essenyc Год назад

Thank you- so helpful!

@dankurlapski4370 Год назад

What is difference between Circle and Slack? They seem to both have capacity for channels, posts, emoji's, both have an app, both can have open and closed channels - does circle have capacity to store a video library for members? Thank you!

@reagantrose Год назад

Hey Dan! The main difference is that slack is focused on real-time chat, whereas Circle is focused on making posts sort of like a facebook group. But Circle also lets you do live video calls, host videos on the platform, even create courses right on there. In my group for example, I’ve got like 7 fully-featured courses that used to be on Teachable but now I just have it all on Circle. I feel like if you’re going for something more informal, a slack or Discord channel are good. But Circle lets you build a bit more structure and really caters to people who want to want to serve their members with a library of resources as well as a community.

@BackyardSmokeMasterBBQ 4 месяца назад

Great explanation for why you chose Circle. Can you have a free and paid community simultaneously in Circle?

@reagantrose 4 месяца назад

You can! Each space has it's own permissions. So you could have a free area, and a paid area all in the same community.

@ShataraHayden Год назад

This was an amazing video! I've been looking for a platform to house my course with an added community. Have you used their online course feature?

@reagantrose Год назад

Yes! I recently moved all of my courses from Teachable to Circle. It really is excellent. There’s literally nothing I feel like I’m missing that Teachable had. Plus, having the community and the courses on the same platform is so much less confusing for users.

@nftqc4089 6 месяцев назад

Do you know where to find the API key?

@motleyassortment5512 8 месяцев назад

I have heard of Circle, but what topics can be taught in their online courses without breaking community guidelines and are their software compatible with Loom or Descript ( for exporting videos) to their website into Circles'. I am not able to research on their site.

@reagantrose 8 месяцев назад

Not sure about the community guidelines question. But many of the videos in my courses were edited with Descript and just exported at mp4s. You just upload the video files to Circle and they are hosted on their site. I’d imagine the same would be true for Loom.

@DanteTaviantzghfgh Год назад

why not use all platforms?

@DavidGARCIA-lt5hq 3 месяца назад

did you compare circle with skool and what do you think about skool ?

@reagantrose 3 месяца назад

Skool hadn't launched yet when I was evaluating different community options. So I haven't had a chance to do a deep dive on it myself. Seems like a promising options, though.

@andytlaird 4 месяца назад

Excellent Reagan - perhaps a silly question but are you still on Circle?

@reagantrose 4 месяца назад

Hey, Andy. Yes, still on it and a very happy customer!

@andytlaird 4 месяца назад

@@reagantrose You have a new subscriber

@KineticKrygs 10 месяцев назад

Great review! Just curious as to why you chose teachable to run your course when they charge a 5% transaction fee vs putting it on Circle as well.

@reagantrose 10 месяцев назад

Thanks! At the time Circle hadn’t released the courses feature yet. I’ve since moved all courses to Circle. SO much nicer having everything in one place!

@AlexGriggAnimation 8 месяцев назад

@@reagantrose how are you finding their course building platform? Are there any drawbacks from teachable?

@GGTanguera 2 месяца назад

Is it better then skool?

@PreachingforGodsGlory 2 года назад

Looks really nice. What do you know about the religious / political beliefs of the owner? Censorship is the biggest issue for Christians and conservatives choosing a platform.

@reagantrose 2 года назад

Great point. That’s a whole other piece of platform risk. I don’t know much about them. But since my community is private and the nature of it doesn’t tend to wade into controversial stuff I’m not too worried. I would recommend something self hosted like discourse if you have concerns about censorship from Big Tech in your community.

@Whatever0704 Год назад

What is the owners religious / political beliefs ?

@Love-combe Год назад

I’m looking into building a community of Christians in coffee. With a directory plus forums for various industry discussions Would this have that diectory functionality?

@Martin-ih9xr 2 года назад

Is there in Circle different language option other than english? Can I change language of interface? Thank you.

@reagantrose 2 года назад

Hey Martin. Other languages are not supported yet, unfortunately. But it is listed on the public roadmap as something they plan to add, perhaps even this year. www.notion.so/Circle-s-Public-Roadmap-05fe60f33c584d03aab886d4116db998

@TerrinhaVerde 5 месяцев назад

Hi Reagan. Thanks for sharing this. What form for payments do you use in circle? I’m facing this issue now, how to charge, where to charge etc. Thanks.

@reagantrose 5 месяцев назад

it integrates with Stripe as the payment processor. so they handle all of the credit card billing.

@TorahReading19 6 месяцев назад

I want to upload and create courses. Can I use it for courses?

@reagantrose 6 месяцев назад

Yes! This review was from before they added courses functionality. I have multiple courses on Circle now myself. It's completely replaced Teachable for me.

@Whatever0704 Год назад

Is it $39 a month ??

@tranquilathecat Год назад

Not working

@TheSEOKitchen Месяц назад

Are you still using Circle?

@reagantrose Месяц назад

Yes! And still very happy with it.

@tincan77 3 месяца назад

has circle been friendly to Christian content? That is, do they have TOS to restrict speech, enforce anti-Christian values, etc?

@reagantrose 3 месяца назад

I've had my explicitly Christian community on their platform since 2022 and have never encountered anything that's given me pause, nor heard of anyone having issues with them. They don't seem overly woke compared to other tech companies in terms of marketing or pushing certain agendas which is somewhat reassuring.