Hey everyone!
Jason here, digital marketing consultant.
And I can already feel the hate comments coming, but pump the brakes because we're going to
talk about the top five reasons ClickFunnels stinks, and it might not be for you links
in the description to some other videos that walk through ClickFunnels versus other solutions
like Optimize press, Lead pages, Thrive themes, and Builderall, Kartra, Kajabi.
So here we're just going to be negative.
Talk about the top five reason.
Number five, I won't be going back to click funnels comes down to the page building experience.
Now, when it comes to putting together your, into all of your pages, without having to
touch a lick of HTML, ClickFunnels checks the box, passes with flying colors.
However, there were three things that were made it fall short compared to other solutions
like thrive themes, lead pages and Get response.
So the first thing ClickFunnels doesn't win on when compared to those other three has
to do with the load speed.
The application is very slow and we get into reason number three.
You'll see why I actually, that's the reason why, part of the reason why I decided not
to go back to click funnels, but it's just going to take you a lot longer to build your
funnels and pages and click funnels for the loading perspective when compared to those
other solutions.
Now, when it comes to actually building the pages compared to Thrive themes and Lead pages,
I didn't find the building experience all that much more enjoyable or easy.
I constantly found myself having to click out of an element and then re-click an element.
So I could actually select what I wanted.
And then Number three comes down to mobile versus desktop.
So ClickFunnels does allow you to say whether or not an element should show up a mobile
desktop or both and then it also allows you to change the font size on mobile.
Cause obviously if you have a giant headline, you don't want that same font size on the
tiny little mobile screen, where it falls short though, is being able to change the
size, the positioning of elements, and sizing of some elements manually when it comes to
your mobile device.
So with something like Thrive themes in your mobile preview, you're able to move out, change
the way elements are spaced out, something you can't do in ClickFunnels.
So it's responsive.
It will fit on the mobile device, but you might have some awkward gaps.
Now, reason number four ClickFunnels falls short has to do with the webinar features
or lack thereof, so ClickFunnels, let's just get this out of the way.
It's not a webinar software.
If you want to do webinars, StealthSeminar Ever Webinar, or even Webinar Ninja, if you're
doing live webinars is a good place to start.
If you want to use click funnels for webinars, you need to be aware that it's pretty much
just a video on a page where people cannot skip and it auto plays.
That's, it that's pretty much what ClickFunnels is going to be calling a webinar.
Now what's nice though.
Something that, EverWebinar has not done yet, which they need to do, but ClickFunnels has
is that they actually allow you to put a message on top of your webinar video for evergreen
webinars, where it says click for audio, which is really important because most browsers
now like Chrome and Safari, which are kind of the two big ones, actually block either
block auto play depending upon what you're using or if they will block the audio.
So you need something to pop up in front of your video to say, “Hey, click, click for
audio, click for audio.”
But in terms of actually trying to trick people into thinking it's a webinar, it's obvious
it's just a video on a page that someone can't skip through and can't go back when the page
loads and the video starts auto-playing.
Now that's just me.
I think that's just a poor user experience.
And it doesn't make a lot of sense, especially if it's a sales message, like you don't want
people missing the first 30 to 30 seconds because they had to figure out like, Oh, I
need to click.
And then it starts playing.
And so that's just reason.
Number four, ClickFunnels falls short, if you're doing webinars.
Now, reason number three is the main reason we decided not to go back to click funnels.
And that is, I'm just going to call this turtle funnels because it's so slow.
I mean, I mentioned it when we were talking about the page building experience, the backend,
that's fine.
I have to wait an extra five to 10 seconds for the page to load before I edit something.
That's cool.
I'm okay with that.
What I'm not okay with is asking potential customers and leads to wait an extra second
or two for the page to load.
Now we had a client that had a really great sales page, but we were finding that people
were bouncing off the sales page a lot when we put it together inside of ClickFunnels.
So after a lot of trial and error and just brainstorming sessions on like, “What the
heck, what is the same page?”
Like “Why is it not working?”
It's the same, same traffic, same page.
Why is it not working inside of ClickFunnels versus what we were using before?
And we found that the page speed was really slow.
So we did everything we needed to optimize it.
We optimize the images.
We even took out images.
We even took out video embedded videos.
We took out CSS.
Like we stripped everything we could to make this pages fast as possible.
Still took two seconds, two and a half seconds to load at like here at home with my high
speed internet connection.
And then on mobile, don't even get me started on that.
So in terms of page speed, something that a page builder like ClickFunnels is supposed
to deliver to you, it just falls flat on its face.
And it's really frustrating because part of the reason that you want a page builder like
click funnels is because it's supposed to be faster than what you can do on WordPress.
But because of what's going on the backend, you're severely handcuffed, when it comes
to how fast you can make the pages go.
Now, reason number two ClickFunnels might not be for you comes down to template selection
in short, if you like having a lot of templates then ClickFunnels, isn't for you.
So for fun, I went through the software and just looked at the main pages that I was using
and said, “Okay, well, over the past three-ish years, how many new templates have they added?”
Well, based on this chart, they've added about 180 new templates and 95 are the same.
Now something that was frustrating with these new templates is number one.
You have to go through their onboarding sequence to get them.
They're not in your account by default.
So when you first set up your click funnels account, they'll essentially ask you to watch
25 minutes of Russell Brunson explaining what funnels are, which is good training, if you
don't know what funnels are, but if you do know what funnels are, it's super annoying
to sit there and go like, “I have to wait here 25 minutes so I can get the templates
that should just be included in the software anyway.”
Okay.
I'm done complaining.
And once you go through that 25 minutes, get them, but then also you'll find that a lot
of those templates are very, very similar.
It's not like you have one and two, it's more like one and 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, in terms of the
variations of what's done on the pages.
So if you like a lot of templates, ClickFunnels might not be for you.
Of all the solutions I've looked at Lead pages actually has the largest library of templates.
Actually, it's overwhelming how many templates they have.
But if you like having tons of template solutions, Lead pages might be for you instead of ClickFunnels.
Of course you can always just build your pages from scratch.
That's possible too, with the click funnels builder, but I'm guessing that you want to
save some time and actually use templates.
Now, reason number one, ClickFunnels might not be for you a little asterisk here.
This is going to be based upon my personal opinion.
This isn't exactly fact, but I think there's a huge disconnect between ClickFunnels marketing,
and who ClickFunnels is not for sure and who ClickFunnels is for.
So I want to go through that and then actually go through some pricing to show you that ClickFunnels
pricing actually is reasonable.
I was actually very surprised that was actually going to be reason.
Number one, one, cause it was last time, but ClickFunnels is actually come out on top when
it comes to pricing.
We'll get to that in a little bit though.
ClickFunnels is for businesses who are established already making money and ideally 3k more a
month.
ClickFunnels is not for, even though a lot of their marketing is targeted towards these
people who are new to online marketing, just getting started with their business or making
less than 3k a month.
It just doesn't make sense to pay a hundred dollars a month, for a sales funnel software
if you're just getting started.
Because there's a lot of free software out there that allows you to build a funnel for
free I'll link up in the description to a video that walks you through exactly how to
do that.
And they're significantly less solutions that allow you to grow your email list and collect
payments.
Now, if you want to be fancy and have upsell and downsell sequences, then yes, you'll need
something like ClickFunnels or Kartra or even Thrivecart, which I'll get to in a second.
But in short, if you're new, you're a new entrepreneur, new creator, new business owner,
ClickFunnels does not make sense in the context of everything that you have to pay for and
everything that you need to do.
And this is based upon my experience and the experience of our clients and students.
We have a lot of clients who are in ClickFunnels, but they were making way, way more than 3k
a month.
And the thousands of dollars they pay.
Cause they, they actually pay for $300 a month versus just the 100 is just a drop in the
bucket compared to their ad spend and everything else that they're doing.
And it makes sense because they just have so many different funnels and they actually
have enough traffic for the complexity and makes sense.
But when you're just starting out, you don't have the amount of traffic views, subscribers,
leads coming in.
That makes sense for all of the advanced features, you get inside ClickFunnels, it's just overkill
and you're paying for something that you don't actually need.
And so the reason that you hear a lot of people talking about ClickFunnels and saying “ClickFunnels
is great for beginners” is because of their affiliate commissions, right?
ClickFunnels has a great affiliate program.
People get paid $40 a month lifetime for as long as whoever they signed up continues to
use the software.
So there's a lot of incentive for people to just tell users who are not ready for ClickFunnels,
just, just buy ClickFunnels because you should buy the software for the business you want
to have, not the business you have now.
I think that's the dumbest advice I've ever heard when it comes to starting and growing
an online business.
So when it comes to price, here's a quick breakdown of how ClickFunnels compares to
the other solutions.
At $97 a month.
ClickFunnels comes in at the second, most expensive right out of the gate.
Now at the bottom here, I've included Thrive Cart and Thrive Themes.
This is a WordPress and a software as a service based solution.
And it's the least expensive on this list longterm.
So if you're a complete beginner and you're looking for a solution, that's going to give
you all of the functions of click.
Most of the functions of ClickFunnels without the price tag, that would be the combination
for you.
Now the annual pricing column is based upon the discounts these softwares give you, if
you purchase the annual plan.
And as you can see with Thrive cart and Thrive themes, it's $820 your first year.
But after that, it's just 198 bucks a year because Thrive cart is a onetime $600 fee.
Now looking at the annual prices here, you can see ClickFunnels is again, the second
most expensive, however things drastically change.
When we start looking at contact limits, because something that ClickFunnels does not do is
charge you based upon the number of contacts that you have with their $97 a month plan.
I recommend having an autoresponder, but I know a lot of people just want their autoresponder
connected to their, sales funnel software even though I don't recommend doing that at
all, because then that's just all your eggs in one basket.
That's not, that's not good business practices, but anyway, when it comes to Kartra all of
a sudden, as soon as you have 2,500 subscribers, you're paying $150 a month for their software,
which is absolutely insane, when you realize that at $150 a month, you could have Kajabi
and Kajabi is better than Kartra.
It's much more proven.
And there's just so many awesome features in so many things you can do with Kajabi versus
Kartra and ClickFunnels.
Kajabi is worth that higher price point.
If you already have a business, you better be doing way more than 3k a month to justify
paying for Kajabi.
Now, when it comes to Get response, it's great in the beginning, but all of a sudden, as
soon as you have 5,000 subscribers, you're paying just as much as ClickFunnels.
And as soon as you pass 5,000 subscribers, now you're actually going to wind up paying
more than ClickFunnels.
So ClickFunnels looks expensive on the outset when you're looking at just comparing pricing
tables, but keep in mind, as you grow, ClickFunnels is not going to increase in price.
And of course that's a great news for you, if you're in the camp that I think ClickFunnels
makes sense for, but if you're not in the camp, ClickFunnels make sense for, then you
can go ahead and you can start off with and Get response or a combination of a WordPress
based solution and then always upgrade to ClickFunnels later.
So thank you so much for watching.
I sincerely hope you got some value out of this video.
And if you think all of these reasons are complete bunk and I'm just full of it, go
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