In reality, most are either really crappy or pretty poor at what they are supposed to do for you.
The price isn’t a determination of how good they are either.
Whichever funnel builder you may have, you probably already know its limitations, and they all have them.
Sometimes you can work around those limitations, and sometimes you have to live with them.
I have accounts with multiple funnel builders.
Some I’ve paid for, some I got free access, and some I pay for monthly.
Most of those accounts don’t see me from one year to the next because they are too hard to do anything useful with.
I use Convertri for most of my funnels because it’s a great platform.
I can create pretty much any page I want, import any page I want, and it builds pages that load really, really fast.
But, it still has limitations.
It doesn’t integrate fully with all the autoresponders I use, forcing me to retain an account that I would rather close and stop paying for.
I can’t set up a drip sequence in Convertri easily, it can be done, but it’s a real pain to do.
It does integrate very well with ProductDyno, which is expensive, but that product does do drip sequences really well.
What ProductDyno doesn’t do well is allow you to edit the pages and get the layout how you want.
Plus, ProductDyno is not a reliable platform.
Every time they upgrade, something breaks, and things don’t work for a day or a week while they sort it out.
I tried Clickfunnels and Groove, both of them are very poor in page building and loading speed despite the recent fluff about how good they are.
I had a paid account with NewZenler that I have downgraded to free because their emails don’t get good delivery, and there are elements of their pages that I cannot customise.
There are others that I won’t mention because they don’t deserve it.
After using all of these tools, I now know what I need in a page building platform, and I assume you will also need these things now or later.
You can make money building your pages and funnels in many of these, but it’s not only about building the pages or funnels.
It’s about making it easier for you.
Having more tools at your disposal to simplify your online activities.
Seamlessly integrating those tools, so things just work.
Getting your emails delivered.
Being able to get paid and paying your affiliates.
Delivering your product in secure ways, setting up drip campaigns that work.
Flexibility with page creation using templates or building from scratch.
Being able to identify which subscribers are buyers and which are not easily.
Not being charged for the same subscriber multiple times because they happen to be in multiple lists, but still being able to segment them and email them separately.
I’m happy to report that I have found a page/funnel builder that does all this and more.
It’s still pretty new and not getting the promotion it deserves, mainly because the commissions paid to affiliates are relatively low.
Unlike Groove, where the commissions are extraordinary.
Did you think all that promotion to get Groove for free was because those promoting thought it was a great platform?
Not so.
They thought the commissions were great when those who joined for free discovered that some of the stuff they needed to make the funnels work was on the other side of an expensive paywall.
However, this one gives you full access for free to test it out thoroughly before you commit.
Yes, there are limitations to your free account.
Still, you can build a fully functioning funnel, take payment, deliver the product, recruit affiliates, build a subscriber list and email them with a sequence or broadcasts.
I have not seen anything like this available for free.
… you don’t have to pay for any software to make them.
I’ll give you the link in a moment, but first, let me talk about why they are so hot now.
Flip books are enhanced PDFs.
Basically, they allow the reader to turn the pages rather than scroll down, so it looks more like an actual book than a word document.
I’m a bit of a Luddite regarding some of these so-called enhancements.
I use a saying that my family have become very, very tired of me repeating.
“Because I can, not because I should.”
This phrase, for me, encapsulates many of the silly things that programmers, and other people, do to ‘improve’ a product or website.
MIT had a saying that reflects similar sentiments.
They used to say that no program is complete until it can send emails.
There is no reason not to create a flip book while the end-users think they are better than a standard PDF, but there is also no good reason to buy a tool to do that when there is a free one that will do the job as well or better.
My favourite graphics tool will create images, videos, and flip books.
In 1989 David Bendah was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine.
The article’s title was David Bendah, The Prince of Get Rich Quick.
I’ll give you a link to the article in a bit, but first, let’s dig out some gold that’s still relevant in 2022 for Internet Marketers.
David Bendah sold ‘Get Rich Quick’ books by mail order from his company Lion Publishing.
He had over 80 titles and spent a million a year on ads, profitably.
First nugget:- he didn’t worry about making a profit from the initial sales because he knew that he would make “back door profits” from further the sales to the same person.
Second nugget:- he knew most people wouldn’t use the information he provided, but that wasn’t his problem.
Third nugget:- he shares his story of ‘rags-to-riches’ which increases the empathy people have with him and improves sales.
Fourth nugget:- test marketing is crucial for success.
Fifth nugget:- most people won’t activate their guarantee, no matter how good it is, because they’re saving the books for a rainy day.
Sixth nugget:- you don’t have to be smart, educated, motivated, or have money to become rich. You just need one good idea.
Seventh nugget:- the titles are the key.
OK, that’s enough.
You’ll have to read the article to find the rest, but the whole piece is fascinating.
P.S. The gurus selling magic buttons on Warriorplus and JVZoo are doing the same thing David Bendah was doing back in 1989 with one difference.
Mostly their stuff doesn’t work.
They rely on people not trying the methods out and not refunding, and they are right.
I’m convinced you could sell any software you knew didn’t work and would make money.
Refund those who complain, probably less than 10%.
This is entirely unethical, probably fraudulent, and I wouldn’t do it, but I know it would sell and be profitable.
Don’t do that, OK?
Instead, create a product that does solve a problem people have.
Sell it hard using the same methods of the gurus because they work.
Alternatively, if you don’t think you have the skill to create a product like that, you could make an excellent income by outing the crap from the gurus.
This one pays very poorly, but the tasks are usually quick and easy to complete.
OK, most of these sites allow you to add up-sells to your gig to get paid better.
Explore them, and let me know how you get on.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. Yeah, I know.
I can’t count.
In my defence, I claim that Mechanical Turk barely pays enough to justify calling it a site, but it has been around for years and seems to still be popular.
If you are not looking to do any gigs for pay, these sites are a great way to outsource some of those jobs you don’t want to do.
Ahh, you spotted it, didn’t you.
You saw that there were ways to set up gigs on these sites and use Frase to help fulfil them.
Yep, you can do any of the writing gigs with A.I. assistance from Frase.
If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting the results you’ve always got.
And, if you do what everybody else is doing, you’ll get the same results they get.
When you research for a new blog post, article, video, etc., you probably do what all your competitors do and do a deep dive into the Google search results.
This means that you will get the same information that they get, with some variations based on your previous searches and location.
Your written content won’t vary from theirs enough to make your work stand out.
To rank above them in the SERPs, you’ll need to have more and better backlinks.
The better way to get a better ranking is to write better content.
That doesn’t mean more words, it means content they don’t have.
And that means better research.
Better research means start with Google but don’t deep dive.
Better research means looking at other sites.
This email was triggered by yesterday’s email about Squidoo because today I went looking for Squidoo type sites and found this article on one of them. https://wizzley.com/google-alternative/.
Try some of the sites mentioned and see what results you get.
Combine the site with searches for the questions thrown up by
, and I suspect you’ll have little trouble ranking well.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. I’m currently in self-isolation for a week due to our youngest son contracting Covid-19 and visiting before he knew he had been exposed.
I’m currently negative, but I did catch a cold from our youngest granddaughter, so I’m not in brilliant shape.
It does allow me to put in some additional work on the big project, but I’m not thinking quite as well, so there may be issues that I’ll have to fix later.
It also means that I won’t be using any of those sites now, but if I were to do that, I would grab a handful of questions, paste them into Frase and then take each question as a subtitle and research those inside Frase and externally using those sites mentioned.
Copy/paste from the articles, then rewrite them with Frase’s help.
You’ll have an original and unique article done faster than you would think possible.
That was an excellent site to build single page, single theme, sites for free.
They ranked in Google and were able to be monetised with Adsense etc.
Then a rival bought them out, or it was a mutual joining. I don’t remember which, and I can’t be bothered checking Wikipedia because it doesn’t matter.
The dominant site was Hubpages which imposed stricter rules about what and how you could make pages.
I made my first page there in 2008.
Since then, I have done almost nothing with the site for reasons I can’t explain.
I probably just got distracted by other things.
Today I had a look at what I have there and realised that I had been missing a trick with this one.
These pages rank well, and there are significant volumes of visitors on the site who will find your pages.
Yet another well-established web 2.0 site to build traffic and links.
Have a look yourself.
You may find it interesting.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. When taking advantage of these web 2.0 sites, you have to be a little careful.
Some allow you to post your content and run away.
Others require you to put a bit more effort into how you post your content.
Hubpages is one of the latter platforms.
Those that allow a post and run tend not to get you as much Google rank love as those like Hubpages do, so it is worth the additional effort.
To make sure that you’re posting quality content without spending days crafting it, I’d use Frase to assist me in getting research and content done fast.
