ClickFunnels Review – Best Marketing Automation Tool? – part 2
There’s no doubt about it. ClickFunnels is one of the best and most popular marketing automation tools on the market. Many entrepreneurs use it for their lead generation efforts.
If you’re only beginning to look into marketing automation tools today and have come across it, you’re probably wondering why it’s so popular and why even experts love it.
It offers a whole lot of benefits, features, and even knowledge for entrepreneurs of all levels. You don’t necessarily have to be techy to use it, although you’ll need to dedicate some time to learn it.
The great thing about it is, ClickFunnels offers a free trial so you can test it out and see if it’s something that would work great for your business.
Before you hit the free trial button, make sure to spend some time watching or reading our posts about it (we have quite a few!) to help you make the most of your free trial. Today, you will learn the following:
- The best way to test all its features
- Hidden tools and features you should definitely check out to maximize your use of this tool
- Reasons to check out their affiliate program
- Where to find training videos, books, and other amazing educational content pieces to help you with marketing automation
- How to engage with the amazing community of ClickFunnels
It is more than just a marketing software. Take it for a test run and discover why many brands trust it for building and growing their businesses.
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“Welcome, Freedom Hero!
We are continuing the series on ClickFunnels so you can see different aspects of it and have enough information to be able to decide yourself…
…if it is the best marketing automation tool specifically for you. In the previous episodes, we talked about 15 important things to check BEFORE and DURING your ClickFunnels trial.
And in this episode, you’ll find out about 5 more essential things. Including the hidden golden nuggets, and the best way to get the most out of the free trial.
My name is Istvan Bujdoso and this is The 47 Marketing Show.
Just a quick reminder, before we carry on with the review, as I’m doing this review, I try to step into the shoes of an entrepreneur who has recently started exploring marketing…
… who wants to keep things simple, and wants to get more marketing done in less time WITHOUT needing to be technical.
Okay, let’s continue where we left off in the previous episode.
Number 16: The Test. The best way to get the most out of your trial is to actually test the tool and the related elements. Set yourself a small goal that you want to achieve during the test.
And work on that to have a more real experience. Besides testing the software, test 1-2 relevant trainings that can help you to achieve your test goal.
In case of any new software, it’s a good idea to test the support and the community as well. Ask them questions and see how much they help you.
When it comes to ClickFunnels, a good small goal can be “setting up a funnel”. And in the following demo I’ll show you how to do that.
Okay, let’s start setting up a funnel. Let’s say, the goal is to get some leads for your business. So, we will go into that direction. There is one thing that we need to prepare before we do this.
So, let’s go to the Follow-up Funnels, Email List. In a few minutes, you will see why we are doing this step. So, let’s create a new email list.
Just simply set a name for it and create a new list and leads. And here, you will be able to see the subscribers, the people, the leads who opted in. Let’s go to ClickFunnels.
And there’s a menu called “Build funnel.” Let’s start with this.
There are two ways to build a funnel. One of them is it’s actually creating a custom funnel.
But as you’re new to the process, I recommend you start with the super easy way and just follow the step-by-step guide. As you can see, you can choose a goal.
You want to collect email addresses so you build your list or sell your products or host a webinar. In our case, let’s go for building a list to get leads. Let’s choose this one.
Then you set a name, simply, let’s name it as “Lead Funnel.” Just for the test. As you can see, there’s a bit of information here that how it’s going to look like a landing page…
…and a thank you page. When you click on the Build Funnel button, it will take for a moment to load those steps.
As you can see, it’s created two steps, one of them is the opt-in where people will land, and the thank you page. In a moment, we’ll go through those two steps.
A bit above this, there is a Launch Checklist that you can open if you need a bit of extra help. It gives you a list of things to do to launch this funnel.
There, a couple of tabs on the top, these steps what we are looking at right now. In a moment, I will explain everything here.
There is a Stats menu where you will be able to see how many people opted in and on what days and dates. There is a Contacts tab where you will be able to see the people who opted in.
There is a Settings tab which has —from these exact things like the name of the funnel which we’ve already set…
…and more advanced settings throughout things like connecting to other apps like Gmail and different other apps. These are more advanced settings.
For now, for the test, let’s focus on specifically for the test. Just two things I want to mention. One of them is the domain name.
So, by default, your funnel will be available under the Clickfunnels domain name. At the moment, we are not able to see that. Later on I will show you.
First, we will need to choose this and then we will see the domain.
Anyway, by default, the domain is going to be a subdomain of Clickfunnels. And if you want to change it to your own brand, own business, then you can select here the domain.
There’s a link here, you can open it and add new domains. So, just click on it and there are two options.
One of them is registering a new domain via Clickfunnels and the other option is using an existing domain name that you already have.
Whichever you choose, there are easy steps to follow. In this demo, we’re not going to go into that deeper but you know where you can do that.
And the other one is the head tracking code where you can add Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel and similar tracking codes…
…and what you add here is going to be added to each step of the funnel. Those are two notes.
Let’s move on to the to opt-in step. So, basically, this is the Opt-in steps panel. Here’s the opt-in.
As you can see, you have many options to choose from. Many pre-designed opt-in pages that you can choose from.
Anything that you like, you can just move your mouse over it and there’s a preview button and you can actually check it out in a bigger screen. Let’s say this is not what we want to choose.
So just scroll down and just go through it and let’s see. This looks like something of your imagination, for example. Then you can preview it.
Okay, this looks like something that you can imagine. Then the next step that you will need to do is select the template. This button.
It takes a few seconds that opt-in page is going to be imported into your account and it’s set up.
What you need to do here is basically, simply, click on the Edit Page button and it will open a really simple and intuitive editor where you can change anything.
If you move your mouse around over the elements, things are going to pop up. Even here, as you can see, there’s a green panel. This shows a section.
And if you click on the gear icon, you can set things on the section. For example, let’s say, I want to change the padding, the gap that is on the top in this section.
You can just move this and it simply changes right away. As you move your mouse around, the blue ones are rows in this area.
Again, you can click on the settings icon and you can easily change things around and it shows right away.
With the smallest elements on the page are the elements that shows with an orange border. Here, as well you can simply —With the elements, usually, you can do two things.
If it’s text, then you can click into it and you can edit the text. Simply as you would edit it in a Word document. You can highlight and you can just underline things or cross and use these.
And beside that, there is a gear icon, settings icon as well where you can change things. You can change font sizes, you can change the color of the text and many other options.
There is an advanced tab as well where you can change things. You can set border and similar things. When you want to move around things, it’s really simple.
You can just grab and move things around easily. Just drag and drop it and simple to move things around as you wish.
Also, if you don’t like elements, you can delete it in a moment. I’ll show you that as well. You can add sections, rows and elements. Let’s say we want to add a new section to the top.
And simply add a new row and say, two columns. When you add a new element, it will show up a site panel…
…and you have many options from headlines, paragraphs, bullet point list, images, videos and many other options that you can choose from and add it. Let’s say a headline.
I’m just going to drag and drop it here. It’s not visible so we can click on the settings and change the color to white. So, now, it’s visible.
Other side, let’s see, once you add an image, just simply click on it and it shows up. Click on the settings icon and you can select an image.
You can upload your own image or you have the option to search for new images on Pixabay or or IconFinder or UnSplash and just import them. For now, we’re going to use this image.
As you can see, it’s really simple. With the columns, you can resize them easily. With the image as well, you have settings. You can set links and you can set maximum size for it.
If you don’t like an element and you don’t need it anymore, when you move your mouse around, you can see sections and the rows and the elements…
…all of them has this delete icon so you can simply remove any of them as you wish. Just like that, you can change colors, you can change anything on the page that you want to.
There is another section, the Settings, where you can set some general settings, the fonts the backgrounds…
…some advanced settings like custom CSS, custom design, tracking codes, you can set SEO meta data. Again, this is the more advanced spot but still really simple and easy to use.
As you can see, title description, keyword. You can set a social image, this is the image when you share the link of this page.
Then Facebook, Twitter, for example, they pull in this image and it’s more outstanding on social media which is great.
There is an integration. Basically, what happens here, with that, people are going to opt-in, they will type in their email address…
…and obviously, when they type in their email address, that email address needs to go somewhere which is the email list.
And if you remember, we created an email list a bit earlier in this demo. In settings integrations, let’s set this to select…
…If you’re using platinum plan of Clickfunnels, then you will see this Clickfunnels Internal (Actionetics) that you can use. And Action, let’s see, “Add to List.” List to Add, “Leads.”
This is the list that we created and just by selecting, you choose that is connected.
And now, let’s save this one. Once you change around things and you like it, you can preview it with this button and it will show the way that people are going to see it.
When people click on it, this shows up this form where you can type in there. In a moment, we’ll test this. For now, I’m going to close this one and let’s go back.
You can click on the exit because the next thing that we need to do is actually prepare the thank you page. The thank you page is the page that people will see after the opt-in.
And just like with the opt-in page, you have many options that you can select from. You can scroll down, look it through, preview it.
Let’s say, in our case, on the landing page on the opt-in page, we said that they’re going to fill in their email address, that they’re going to get a video…
… and let’s say, your goal is to get the leads to watch your video. And then, after watching the video to get them to call you. For example, this page can be a good option or this one.
For now, let’s use this one and just simply select that template. And, here, again, edit the page. Look at these pages as fundamentals.
It may not going to be exactly the way you want it to be but the editor is so easy to use to move around things…
…and change text like “Congratulations,” maybe you want to say “Thank you,” instead and you can simply change it and edit images, change the logos, the text.
The video, for example, Settings again. From YouTube, all you need is paste in a YouTube URL here and that video is going to show up in this in this element.
Just like on the opt-in page, you can move things around, change things, delete things. It’s really simple. Once you have done that, simply save it.
You can preview it as well to make sure of that, that it looks the way you want it to look like. After that, the last thing I want to show you is to actually test it.
Once you edited the opt-in page, the thank you page and it looks like the way you want it to look like, then go back to the opt-in page.
There is a button here, with that one, you can open this this funnel. As you can see, this is how it looks like. Simply test it. Let’s test it.
Just like a user would, click here, and would fill in the details, fill in the email address here. Normally, it would just show up like this. Your best email address, they fill it in.
When they click on this button, it’s going to take them to the thank you page, what we set up and they can watch video, they can call you. It’s that simple.
As you can see, it is really simple to set up a funnel. It’s relatively simple and easy.
Obviously, it requires some of your time to learn it. But it’s just like everything else in life, every new things, it requires some learning curve.
As you can see, in just about like 10 to 20 minutes, easily, you can put something together. It requires some time to get used to it…
…but it’s relatively easy and simple even if you are not technical. Okay, so this is it for the demo.
For now, let’s get back to the review.
Number 17: Hidden Golden Nuggets. With a bit deeper research and asking the community…
…sometimes you can find quite amazing hidden golden nuggets in the universe of a marketing tool. In case of ClickFunnels, here are a few examples.
On the dashboard of the tool, there’s a kind of hidden panel, because pretty much everything else stands out more on that page. so it’s easy to miss it.
And that panel is called FunnelFlix Training, with links that take you to a full-blown streaming service, which is included in your ClickFunnels plan.
To give you an idea why that is so cool. You can watch full trainings by Russell Brunson, Frank Kern, Dan Kennedy, Ryan Deiss, Tony Robbins, and a lot more experts.
People normally pay for those courses individually a lot of money, but you get access to them included in ClickFunnels.
And some of these trainings are even exclusive and only available on FunnelFlix. The normal ClickFunnels plan includes some of the trainings, while the platinum plan includes ALL of them.
And a warning about FunnelFlix, it can be highly addictive, and you can end up binge watching a lot of great marketing videos in one go.
Okay, the next hidden golden nugget is something you can’t find on their website. If you stick around for a while, use ClickFunnels and keep your eyes open…
…you’ll see these special free web classes popping up from time to time, sometimes in emails, other times in a Facebook Live or ad.
What is so special about those free web classes? First of all, you can learn some amazing actionable marketing hacks on it. Just to give you two examples of many.
“How To Ethically Steal Over $1,000,000 Worth Of ‘Funnel Hacks’ From Your Competitor, For Under $100”
And another one is. “How To Get The Exact Same Customers Who Are Going To Your Competitors’ Websites. To Start Coming To Your Funnel Instead!” And that’s not all!
Usually, those web classes offer something special at the end of the class that is not available anywhere else.
Sometimes that opportunity is to get 6 months of ClickFunnels for free, other times something else amazing.
Either you jump onto the offer at the end of the training or not, the web class delivers a ton of value for free that you can implement and benefit from it.
I’ll leave you a few links to some of those hidden, free web classes in the description. You can watch them even without a ClickFunnels trial.
Okay, the next golden nugget is something I mentioned in the previous episode as well. If you take your time, pay attention while you’re registering your free trial…
…you’ll see an option to claim a free FunnelHacker T-shirt in your size. These are a few hidden golden nuggets of many. And there’s ONE more special one I want to share with you.
In a minute, I’ll get back to that, and you’ll see why.
Number 18: Affiliate Program. Depending on your situation, this might not be a big factor in your decision when you’re choosing a marketing tool…
…but it still makes sense having a look because if you will love the software and will recommend it to others, why not benefit from it financially.
When it comes to ClickFunnels, they have a pretty impressive affiliate program with various products. For example, when somebody signs up to ClickFunnels via your affiliate link…
…you get recurring commission each month till they are using the software. Besides that, you have the affiliate opportunity to recommend various other related marketing products…
…like amazing books, summits, challenges and online courses.
By leveraging the affiliate program, you can get to the point when you get more affiliate commissions than you pay for the marketing tool.
And for those who recommend 100 active ClickFunnels customers, besides getting the monthly commission for all of them, you also get an extra $500 per month towards your dream car.
And when 200 customers sign up via your affiliate link and they are actively using the tool, then you get $1000 extra per month towards your dream car.
Plus, when you hit those numbers, you also get an award for each of them, normally on stage, on a live event, in front of thousands of entrepreneurs.
Obviously, as nowadays large live gatherings are not allowed, the winners get the award in the post.
When you register to ClickFunnels, you’re automatically added to their affiliate program. It’s an optional opportunity you can decide to use if you want to.
Either you’re only focusing on using the marketing tool or decide to recommend it to others, explore the Affiliate Dashboard that you can find under your Profile menu.
In a minute, I’ll tell you about another hidden golden nugget there. So, first you’ll see some useful information on the affiliate program like the recurring commission rates…
…the dream car contest rules, link to the ClickFunnels affiliate community, link to a free affiliate bootcamp, link to an affiliate best practices eBook, and more.
And in the top right corner of the page, you can log in to the affiliate dashboard by clicking on a button. On the Affiliate Dashboard, you’ll be able to see your earnings and other numbers.
And most importantly, below that, you can find the products you can recommend. And by clicking on the “Affiliate Tools – Get My Link” buttons along the page.
You can access relevant marketing materials and your affiliate link.
Earlier, I mentioned you to check out the affiliate area whether you want to recommend ClickFunnels or not. There are some hidden golden nuggets there.
Some of the products and courses, like the software and the books, are easy to find publicly.
But other amazing products and courses are kind of hidden from the public, and people only see those by recommendations…
…or bump into them in a random blog post, or see an advert someplace, sometimes. But inside the affiliate dashboard you have a list of ALL of those amazing courses and products.
And you can cherry-pick the most relevant ones for you, and benefit from them. Okay, let’s move on with the review.
Number 19: Beyond The Tool. Have a look around what the company does beyond the software.
It helps you to gain a wider view of the big picture and get an insight into how you can benefit more of being in the universe of that tool.
In case of ClickFunnels, you’ll see that they do an awesome annual live event called Funnel Hacking Live.
Great speakers and even better networking opportunities with like-minded entrepreneurs. Normally, it’s a live physical event.
Due to the pandemic, temporarily it turned into a virtual event. Besides that, ClickFunnels does free marketing webinars. I mentioned those earlier.
And you can find them in the description as well. On top of that, you can pick up a lot of useful knowledge from their two podcasts, the Marketing Secrets and Funnel Hacker Radio.
Which you can find on major podcast streaming platforms for free. Check out their official YouTube channel as well, search for “Russell Brunson – ClickFunnels”.
There, you’ll also find the great marketing videos. They are pretty much active on all major social media platforms as well and providing various values.
Besides trying out the software, go and explore all those resources as well. Either you decide to keep using the tool or not, you can benefit from the podcasts, videos, etc. a lot.
And before we move onto the last step of the review, there’s one more exciting beyond-the-tool element.
They not only help entrepreneurs to succeed, they celebrate the success of the entrepreneurs with them.
Those who make $1, $10, or $100 million using Clickfunnels, they get a 2 Comma Club Award. I believe they handed out over 1,000 awards like that so far.
Okay, the last review step is…
Number 20: The Culture. From this review series, by now, you should have a good picture of the culture and universe of ClickFunnels. Just a few additional notes to it.
You can quite quickly realise, although it’s a large company, it radiates a more personal vibe with Russell Brunson as the face of the brand. He’s one of the co-founders.
When you spend some time in the universe of this tool, you’ll hear about the ways they are giving back to society. They support two major causes publicly.
One that is liberating children from modern-day slavery, and other one that is building schools and educating children in Africa. And just by using ClickFunnels, you’re part of that as well.
Because every time you make a funnel live, $1 is donated towards one of those causes. And a dollar may not seem much, but the reality is it can feed an African child for a month.
Okay, one more thing before a quick recap and conclusion.
If you spend some time in the community you can feel that it has a stronger community or tribe than most software out in the market.
I wanted to add these notes to the review and you can decide how much you factor this into your decision.
Okay, it’s time for a quick recap and conclusion. If you watched or listened to the previous two episodes and this one…
…you can see there’s a lot of great things going on around ClickFunnels all focused on helping entrepreneurs to succeed, to get more leads and online sales and grow their business.
We went through 20 strategic steps in this review series, from the things to check BEFORE the trial.
Like, how you can see if it truly gives the benefits you want if it really has the potential to work for you. and how you can avoid the pitfalls of misleading reviews…
…and why to avoid making rushed decisions based on only ONE number, the price and more.
Besides those we also covered the things to check DURING the trial. Like, what is the first and most important step to take right after starting the trial…
…and how you can see if the company really wants you to be successful and how to truly test the software and get the deepest insights of all that helps the most to make your decision…
…and how to make the best out of your trial and what the hidden golden nuggets are and more.
And now, let’s talk about the conclusion.
My opinion is, if an entrepreneur’s goal is to get more leads and customers to grow their business to keep things simple without technical hassles…
…and do all that without marketing eating up their time and life, then I believe ClickFunnels is a really great all-round solution to that.
They not only provide marketing software, they provide various ways for entrepreneurs, with any level of marketing skills, to learn the relevant successful marketing strategies.
Either somebody prefers reading, or watching videos, or a more interactive challenge format, they provide great options to choose from.
And the BIG question is, Is ClickFunnels the BEST marketing automation software specifically for you?
The simple fact is, You are the only one person who knows your current situation the best. And because of that, you’re the only person who truly can answer that important question.
In this review series, we went through a 20-step strategic review framework. Follow those simple steps, try ClickFunnels, test it yourself as well…
…and you’ll be able to truly see if it’s the BEST marketing automation tool specifically for you. I’ll leave you a link in the description to the 20-step strategic review framework…
…so you can easily follow the steps along.
And with that said, this is the end of this review series. Thank you for being here today. And let me share one last tip with you.
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