Hi all!
Thanks to some feedback from Zara yesterday, I thought it would be a cool idea for me to open things up and see what webinars you would like me to run! So, I thought it would be useful for me to run a poll to see what you're looking for.
Some of these webinars will be paid and some will be free. The details about this are in the poll. However, if there's a paid one, I'm doing a buy-one-get-one-free situation! If you bring someone along to join the community and they pay for the webinar, I'll add you for free!
Please select as many different options in this poll as you'd like! If there are any webinars you'd love for me to do, please do let me know in the comments! Or if there's anything there you don't understand, I'm here to explain!
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An abbreviation is a shorter version of a word or phrase.