Hey everyone!
Jason here, digital marketing consultant.
And are there sales funnels, softwares that are just never worth it?
Whether it comes to the price, the company's business practices, or maybe a combination
of both, you'll see in number four.
There'll be links in the description to a video that walks you through the sales funnel
softwares that I do recommend here.
We're going to be all negative.
Try to save you some money, time, energy, and let's go ahead and jump in.
Number one is Builderall.
Now, when you go to Builderall website, it looks too good to be true.
And that's pretty much because it is it just 30 or 50 dollars a month.
They pretty much promised to give you everything.
Something that funnel softwares that are a hundred or 150 dollars a month do.
And the reason that you see so many people promoting Builderall is this page.
Because Builderall is a network marketing company that is disguised as a software, as
a service.
Really the whole business model is about getting people to sign up, to Builderall and then
sign up other people on Builderall who don't know that Builderall all is not actually a
good sales funnel solution.
So no one who really cares about you and your business and your marketing is going to tell
you to use Builderall.
Because the software itself is not that good.
And it may look great because it's only 30 or 50 bucks a month and you go, “Well, why
all the features look great?”
Well, quality matters when it comes to what the software can actually do.
And once you jump into the page building interfaces, and once you try to actually use the software,
you're going to find it.
There are a ton of bugs.
The pages are ridiculously slow at times.
And even the interface building is ridiculously slow at times.
And if you're on a budget and Builderall looks great, then you should be looking at WordPress.
I'm going to go through some WordPress based funnels that are very inexpensive and will
give you a lot more control when compared to Builderall that's all in one solution where
you're pretty much putting all your eggs in one basket.
You definitely don't want to do that.
Now number two, on our list is actually OptimizePress.
Now OptimizePress there's 2.0, which is being, which has been pretty much phased out.
And then we have the new and improved 3.0 and well, 3.0 is awesome.
The problem is that OptimizePress the company itself has a propensity to have this huge
gargantuan gap, between the old software and the release of the new software.
I had this problem with OptimizePress 1.0 way back in 2012 and way back this year in
April of 2019, where essentially I was on 1.0 and 2.0, the pages stopped working cause
they stopped supporting it because they were working on the next version.
But there was such a gap that we actually had to move our entire sales funnels to a
different solution, thrive themes.
I'll get to in a second, instead of sticky with OptimizePress, because they were so focused
on building the new solution that they stopped supporting the old one and the old stuff stopped
working, which you know is great because you get 3.0, but, just know that it's a company
with a proven history of twice abandoning their old software to work on the new software.
And you can't run a business waiting on a bunch of developers to create the new one.
When the current one doesn't work.
Now, number three on our list is actually Teachable.
And to help us illustrate why teachable is way overpriced.
We're going to be using this pricing table, comparing teachable to click funnels and then
a WordPress space solution and Kajabi.
So there are a couple of different reasons why people like teachable typically it's because
that it is a course platform that allows you to collect payments, even though there's no
upsells and down sells.
And essentially deliver your course.
And it includes video hosting, which is, can be a pretty big deal because it saves you
a couple hundred dollars a year from paying for Vimeo.
However, at $99 a year, when you compare what you can do with teachable, with what you can
do with ClickFunnels, all of a sudden, it actually makes no sense to be paying a hundred
dollars a month to teachable.
The only reason that you'd want to use teachable is if you're in some sort of corporate setting
or you absolutely need to be providing quizzes and certifications for your course, I think
teachable is great.
But if you don't check either of those three boxes needing quizzes, needing certifications,
or you're in a corporate setting, then ClickFunnels or a WordPress based solution is going to
make a whole lot more sense.
Because with ClickFunnels, you actually do have the ability to make basic membership
websites.
It's nothing compared to teachable, but very basic membership websites.
And actually the interfaces are very, very similar because teachable, you can't modify
how your course looks all that much.
And then if you're on a tight budget for less than half the price, you can use something
called thrive themes in conjunction with MemberPress on a WordPress site and actually have a fully
functioning funnel where you're not going to have upsells and down sells sequences like
you will with ClickFunnels, but you'll be able to set up all of your membership sites
and pages that you need.
And actually you can also use create corporate accounts and grouped accounts using MemberPress.
So even there, you actually can duplicate some of the same features you get with teachable.
Now, one of the big draws with teachable of course, is that it is a hosted solution and
it's a full-fledged membership website.
So if you're not going to be happy with what ClickFunnels can do, you don't want to deal
with WordPress and money isn't an issue.
Well, I'm assuming it's not, cause you're going to pay a hundred dollars a month for
teachable.
Then actually Kajabi is going to make a whole lot more sense.
Because Kajabi has the episode down-sells of click funnels.
It actually has the ability to automate and integrate your emails with your membership
sites.
And of course it has the ability to create multiple membership websites.
And you have a tremendous amount of control as to how those membership sites work when
compared to teachable.
So on this list, just in almost every angle, you look at, it doesn't make sense for the
price.
Now the final one on our list is the Stealer and that's going to be lead pages.
And there's two reasons why lead pages comes in at number four, for the piece of software
that you could be purchasing to build your sales funnels are generated online.
And that simply comes down to the price and the fact they've actually straight up stolen
other developers, WordPress plugins, and modify them a little bit and then pretty much called
them their own.
If you want to learn more about that, I'll link in the description to a video by Adam,
over at WP crafter, where he actually goes through what they did.
They actually took some stuff that elegant themes had designed and pretty much change
it just enough, so it was like illegal and then slapped their name on it.
So it was a classic example of a big venture backed company, pretty much stepping on the
little guys and the people that elegant themes is a small team of just a couple of developers.
They really work really hard.
They really care about their customers.
And so that's just a really crummy thing to do.
So I would recommend not doing business with a business that thinks that kind of behaviour
is okay.
But if that doesn't matter to you, then let's go ahead and talk about price because when
it comes to the price lead pages is so overpriced.
It's ridiculous.
So you're going to wind up paying $79 a month.
I'm not going to be looking at their smaller plan because their smaller plan doesn't include
split testing.
So you need to pay $80 a month because you need to split test in order to improve your
landing pages.
It's just kind of a must.
It's ridiculous that you have to pay $80 just to have that split testing feature.
And at $79 a month, you're paying just $20 shy of drumroll click from host.
So I know I keep mentioning CickFunnels, but it's an easy comparison.
When you compare the $79 a month, you'd pay for lead pages and you look at what you could
get for just 20 more dollars with click funnels.
It pretty much, there's no sense, to save the $20 to use lead pages versus all the extra
features you can get with ClickFunnels, because lead pages does a really good job with having
a bunch of different templates, allowing you to split test your landing pages, grow your
email list.
And they even have a very basic checkout function.
So you can actually have a fully functioning sales funnel for $80 a month.
The problem though is when you compare it to ClickFunnels, it just $20 more a month.
All of a sudden you realize that you're giving up the ability to have upsells, you're giving
up the ability to create advanced funnel sequences.
And of course, you're giving up the ability to have a basic membership website.
And I think all of those are definitely worth just paying an extra $20 a month for.
So that doesn't four, for sales funnel builder solutions that you definitely want to avoid
Builderall just because it's a terrible piece of software.
OptimizePress not because the software is bad, but because the company has a really
bad track record of not keeping their software updated, then we have teachable, which is
just overpriced for what it provides.
And then we have lead pages because they're stolen from little people.
I just don't like doing business with those, those types of companies and the fact that
it's just overpriced when you compare it to what you could get for just $20 more a month
with ClickFunnels.
So I'm curious what you think of this list.
And if you use any of these four pieces of software, go ahead and comment below with
your counter arguments or points because your insights and experience is going to help other
people figure out which software is best for them.
Of course, if you're going to be promoting Builderall, I'm just going to give you a thumbs
down because I know you're trying to get a, an affiliate chemistry or justify promoting
a garbage piece of software.
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That's not actually the best solution.
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