TDLR: If you have a few dimes to spare, please drop some coins in the Tip Jar, I’m trying to raise a few hundred bucks quickly. Why? Read below.
Hello everyone!
So a few announcements and a quick poll. First of all, after deciding to develop Wholistic News and Wholistic Healing, we are moving forward on a number of initiatives and I need your help. (And before I drone on, thank you to everyone who has already helped! Much appreciated)
First, I’m getting a new directory set up for alternative health practitioners, similar to this one for energy healers, but more focused on medical freedom advocates, but articulated in such a way as to hopefully avoid SEO penalization, so that we can easily find integrative doctors and cool Substacks and whatnot. It’s almost done but I need to fix a few more things. If you are upgraded to any Wholistic publication,1 you will get a silver upgrade (so you can post events) for free.
Second, I’d like to host some online networking events along the same lines, and have invested in some software (Remo) to do this. While I have other community/video conferencing software, Remo has breakout tables where you can speak to a smaller group of people while also enabling a presentation for all attendees…the idea would be to host online networking events and even invite speakers like an in-person networking club. Paid subscribers to any Wholistic publication will get free access to all events, everyone else can pay a reasonable one-time fee (in part to keep trolls out).
To do this, I bought Tier 2 of Remo on a special lifetime deal and would like to get Tier 3 for more capacity (length of event and attendees) but they put the deal up for only a week and my credit cards are shot and Tier 3 an extra $500. This software normally costs $380/month, so paying this one-time upfront is really cost-effective and the software is terrific. I realize inflation sucks so I don’t expect much, but if you can upgrade to a paid subscription or throw a few coins in the Tip Jar…if I get enough in the next day or so, I’ll purchase Tier 3 and if I don’t get enough I need it anyway so thank you.
Whether I get Tier 3 or not, we WILL have some networking events, and I would like to get an idea of when is the best time. Substack only gives me 5 options for every poll, so the following options are based on East Coast time.
I am in talks with some other Substackers about bringing in their paid subscribers to these events as well so we can cross-pollinate.
That’s all for now, thanks for reading! THANK YOU!
PS We are also be opening up the Wholistic Clinic to a few more practitioners, the cost is $25/month to get listed and there is a profit sharing agreement, but you also get chat software you can use on your own website. Please note we’re not getting a ton of clinic clients right now so don’t do this expecting to get a bunch of clients from it immediately. But if you are interested, here is the application form.
Each Wholistic publication has a separate upgraded membership. Wholistic (the original) is more analysis and commentary, Wholistic News offers health-related news stories, and Wholistic Healing offers informational how-to articles, herbal monographs, classes, and more. You don’t need to subscribe to all three to get access to Wholistic Perks that are shared across all publications. Some membership have additional benefits that are tied to the publication, such as access to archives for Wholistic and access to video classes on Wholistic Healing.