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Why is Clickfunnels in The Trusted Directory?
Clickfunnels is hands-down the most hyped digital marketing product out there. It’s loyal community exhibit a near cult-like fervor and it’s regular live events fill vast arenas with screaming, clapping, idolizing fans.
But don’t let this put you off.
While it’s true there are many who may have made one too many trips to the Kool-aid stand, at it’s heart Clickfunnels is a remarkable software suite that is changing the way thousands of new businesses make money online, and multiplying the web profits of existing businesses, 5, 10 and 20x.
Simple to use after a short initial learning curve and with a highly active very helpful community, Clickfunnels is the platform of choice for people wanting to maximize results, whether selling services and products, collecting leads or indeed any form of web promotion that benefits from rapid build and launch, easy optimization and a solid, reliable and proven process. In short, the hype is backed up with results.
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About Clickfunnels
Clickfunnels provides an easy to use drag-and-drop interface for rapidly building effective web sales pages where a “funnel” guides prospects towards doing what the business owner requires.
Proven across hundreds of industries, these funnels produce better sales figures and higher order values time and time again when compared with static websites – and the success of Clickfunnels users is reflected in their 2-Comma Club – a growing roster of hundreds of business owners who have made over $1m in sales (often multiple times) using their funnels. Although Clickfunnels is free to start, there are a number of add-ons which can make it dramatically more effective, running to a monthly total fee of between $97 and $247, so be aware of these costs when signing up for free.
From the Clickfunnels website:
ClickFunnels Is A Website And Sales Funnel Builder For Entrepreneurs. Yes, ClickFunnels was created so that entrepreneurs like you, who aren’t programmers and who don’t know how to code, can easily build beautiful pages inside of a sales funnel, to grow your company online!
Create beautiful pages and funnels that are pre-designed to walk your traffic through each step of the sales process, and convert them from “visitors” into actual paying customers who benefit from your products…
Clickfunnels Review: Why We Like Clickfunnels
Clickfunnels plays a key role in some of our marketing activities and as such there are members of the Scam Report team who use Clickfunnels daily. There’s a reason we do – and that reason is simple. Clickfunnels works.
Any paid promotion we run or when any new episode of Scam Report TV goes live, there’s a 95% chance that Clickfunnels is powering the web pages where visitors arrive. If it’s not immediately used to create that page, then we guarantee that the next page visitors land on will be running on Clickfunnels.
Why do we use Clickfunnels for paid promotion?
It comes down to control, because with a “funnel” we’re able to create a natural intuitive journey for our visitors. They arrive on our landing page and there’s typically two options: 1/ click to carry out a beneficial action, whether that’s watch a video or fill in a form – or 2/ leave the site. On the next stage there will be two options, do something specific, or leave – and so on until the visitor gets exactly what they came for. (If they do leave all is not lost, clickfunnels has a solution for that too)
With a regular web page such as the one you’re on right now – you have 50+ options as to what to do next and so you could easily end up someplace else and forget about your original intent – learning about Clickfunnels. Regular web pages are by their very nature distracting.
Another key advantage of Clickfunnels compared to our usual website production method is when we want to test several versions of a page for layout, the written copy, design or colors – our team can quickly with some easy drag-and-drop editing, test and analyze user results to ensure we end up with a landing page that’s both easy to use, quick to load – and gets the results we want. We’re able to run all versions at once and then focus on the one with best results.
For our new staff with little or no prior experience of web design and coding, they are able to have a good looking page set up and live within minutes and can fall back on a huge library of pre-built and thoroughly tested templates to really hit the ground running.
If you’re new to web design or even if you’ve a long track record, there’s just no simpler or more powerful way to be able to rapidly launch and test an idea, product or offer with near immediate feedback.
Clickfunnels integrates easily with email autoresponders and has one built in, plays nice with e-commerce, has solutions on-board for affiliate promotion and can even help you write page copy, headlines and other sales elements that converts with an incredibly clever AI called FunnelScripts, written by award-winning copywriters.
In short it does everything an entrepreneur could possibly want in any online situation, from an easy to use a self-contained package – and all at a low monthly price.
Although we don’t feel the need to get up on a stage and scream, Clickfunnels does a lot of heavy lifting here at Scam Report and we wouldn’t be without it.
What’s in the Software?
Clickfunnels is a paid software service consisting of a range of connected applications all focused on increasing a businesses commercial success.
Tools and Materials Available Include:
- Landing Page / Sales Funnel Design
- Website Hosting
- Use of Multi-Million Dollar Templates
- Integrated Payment Systems
- A/B Testing
- Email Autoresponder
- Automated copywriting
- Affiliate Management
- Substantial Training Materials
- Ongoing Support – Official and Community
The core service is Clickfunnels’ drag-and-drop landing page and funnel builder, where users can either choose from a huge choice of pre-built templates each designed for a specific function and tested to maximize performance over millions of clicks – or they can build their own using a straightforward and foolproof interface.
All pages and funnels are created and hosted on Clickfunnels’ lightning fast and reliable web servers, with these hosting fees fully inclusive in the monthly software cost.
In addition to the included multi-million dollar templates there are hundreds of experienced funnel builders or “funnel hackers” as they are called in the community, who can sell one of their templates or will build a new funnel from scratch.
As mentioned previously, one of our favorite tools in Clickfunnels is the ability to A/B Split-Test – that is to test version A of a page with version B, on live traffic – and to make instant changes as required to ensure pages are working to their optimum best.
Although we don’t use Clickfunnels’ Email Autoresponder ourselves (we use an in-house system) this is another one of Clickfunnel’s bullet-proof integrations that business owners rave about thanks to the way everything throughout a funnel is automated, creating a seamless journey for visitors and reducing friction in any sales or lead generation process.
For those who have trouble writing compelling sales copy or even when you’re just having a blank day, Clickfunnels offers an add-on automated copy writing service called ScriptFunnels – which through a powerful AI and based upon 10’s of thousands successful sales presentations will generate copy that with little to no tweaking can sell your products or services.
The icing on the cake for people selling products or services using the Clickfunnels system is how easily affiliate promotion can be added to any sales page or funnel thanks to an integrated affiliate software called “Backpack”. Clickfunnels perhaps say it best:
Imagine Having An Entire Army Of Motivated, Commission Only Sales People Selling Your Products For You Around The Clock… (And You Don’t Pay Them ANYTHING Until AFTER They Close The Sale!)
While affiliate promotion isn’t for everyone, there’s barely a business in the world that wouldn’t prefer to pay based on results. No sale, no money – effectively de-risking their promotions with no up-front marketing costs for ads.
Finally, Clickfunnels’ training materials and support are second to none in the industry. Alongside how-to video content and written guides, their official help desk is usually fast and responsive and for people wanting immediate help 24-7 will find answers in both the official and unnofficial communities on Facebook.
Clickfunnels Review – In Conclusion
Unusually for Scam Report, Clickfunnels is a product we didn’t need to run special tests on because we use it literally every day.
Although we create most of our standard web pages using WordPress and a few with good old fashioned code, Clickfunnels is always our first choice when we want a page we can rely on to perform when it matters.
This is no exaggeration: we depend on Clickfunnels to keep Scam Report growing.
We can’t guarantee it will make you the 6 or 7 figure income enjoyed by many of it’s users but we do guarantee an easy to operate and enjoyable package that will open your eyes as to what’s possible with a website.
At the end of the day, yes it’s only software – but it’s hardly surprising that Clickfunnels has managed to achieve a cult-like status among it’s fans.
To review Clickfunnels’ we wanted to test it’s claimed ease of use, so we asked one of our shoppers with no prior experience of web design or marketing and what seems to be an average level of computer skills.
Gavin H –
Great company great product and great support. One word: Great
Gail M –
My whole biz runs on CF couldn’t work without it
Alison P –
Steve Larson has changed my life. I took the OFA challenge with one thing in mind and I came out with a brand new business that hadn’t even occurred to me at the outset.
I would wholeheartedly recommend anyone who’s even remotely entrepreneurial to take the OFA challenge you’ll be amazed at what you discover and just what your mind can actually do when put to the test!
N. Gaballa –
So thankful I joined the OFA, it took some vague ideas I had and has helped me make a concrete plan of action with the tools I need to get going. I cannot recommend it enough and the help in both the group and from tutorials is phenomenal
Alley A. –
One Funnel Away (OFA) Challenge has opened my mind to what can be achieved and the training has blown me away (as well as destroyed negative preconceptions I’d been holding onto!)
Edgar –
WORTH IT FOR STEPHEN’S COACHING CALL ALONE. INCREDIBLE VALUE TRAINING!!
S. Martin –
If you can commit 30 days and I mean COMMIT 30 days to the OFA you will explode the opportunities available to you. I was about to quit my marketing business due to burnout and pretty miserable results but this forced me to think of new ways to work and new angles I could take to build a near-automated funnel. 2 months later and in the middle of a lockdown I am making 5x what I did the year before and I know this is only the beginning
Giannovi –
There seems to be a lot of hate for clickfunnels at the moment but it is and always be the originator and the best funnel creator. You can do some of it on other platforms and yes a few do some of it better, but the difference with CF is the team and the market prows who use it. Watch and learn, copy (sorry not copy, funnelhack!) and mirror some of these top performing offers and you can’t help but succeed.
After that it’s a case of scaling ad spend and then duplicating another successful funnel.
I’ve gone from making $1000 on a good month and some months nothing, to having to move my business offshore so I don’t give 50% away in taxes!!
I cannot see me having done this as easily and as quickly with any other funnel platform.
Is it expensive? Yes if you have very little, but when you’ve got it working right it costs a tenth of a percent of your monthly expenses!
Graham B –
I signed up after watching a seminar on line and am working my way through all of the videos in my free trial. It seems all good so far and I’m pleased with how easy it is to make a website for my garden business
Grant W –
despite only doing my clickfunnels work in spare time (4 nights and Sundays) had my first $1000 week and if I can get this consistent or increase it then that’s a direct replacement for my salary and goodbye 50hr a week J.O.B. It’s an incredible opportunity if you find the right use for it!!
Melanie Smith –
My friend sent me a link to the Two Comma Club documentary (its about people who’ve earned in excess of a million dollars online hence the two commas)and they were all using this software called ClickFunnels. I’ve already done some work online without much success so I went on to watch several other videos on Clickfunnels getting increasingly excited as I did so and it wasn’t long before I was joining using the 2 week trial.
Once inside I wasn’t disappointed as the tools were easy to use especially thanks to the helpful guides and videos. I made some pages which were good but I didnt have a BIG idea on what to promote so I went and watched a LOT more videos all made by Clickfunnels and read 2 of their books which I found online as PDFs.
This further research really opened my eyes as what can be done with the system especially the book full of hundreds examples. I figured out what I was good at and enjoyed and it’s happily in an area where people have money and are always looking for new things to do, so over the space of a weekend I drafted out a book in my word processor and paid someone on Fiverr to make it into an attractive PDF. This was my “lead magnet”. I then expanded on that “book” to make my main product and I was ready to build a sales funnel (what they call a page that gets your email in exchange for something and then upsells you on other items).
By Tuesday I had a good looking page and I put some adverts on Facebook to get people to my page and I was surprised after a few more days I had 80 people signed up to my emails and downloaded my $7 book. And 7 of them had then bought my full book which paid for my advertising.
I wasnt in any profit but I had covered all my costs including Clickfunnels and so now all I had to do was make a good upsell and sell it to my “list” – my email subscribers who are growing all the time at no overall cost to me.
They keep saying the money is in the list so thats what I’m growing and I’d never have believed in April that by May I’d be running an online business!!
The software is very easy to use but for me I think the videos and books are most valuable because they are so inspirational and could easily apply to any system where you can build a website.
I’m yet to make a profit other than a few dollars but importantly I have a growing list of people who like and trust my message and products so far, so very hopeful and excited about the future!
Joan L –
The “Secrets” range of books are excellent grounding in how to sell on line whether you use ClickFunnels or not just good practice and ideas to borrow
Olya Popov –
I happy with Clickfunnels for making money on internet from home it easy to use even on home connect which can be poor connecting.
Wish can do offline but it work ok.
With my homeland on closed doors it life for my money when money job is dead instead and thanks to my friends in Clickfunnels and on the group FB.
Спасибо
Drew Mann –
Ive never been more thankful for having an online business than now. I couldnt have done it without Clickfunnels or if I could have it would have been so much slower than where I’m at now. Sat in my study staying in place i have immediate access to income and can grow my biz further at any moment just buy paying for more ads. I was in service industry and had I still been running my design shop we’d be closed right of now and no doubt out of work, bankrupt or worse. Thank You Clickfunnels!!!!
Sara P –
five stars for the program but no stars for the facebook group. I found the program very easy to use following the instructions and was able to get what I thought was a great looking offer built in only a few days with some back and forth on ideas. I asked in the facebook group for some advice and within about an hour I had at least 20 messages from people trying to sell me their services or sell me on training. I spoke to a few other newbies and this is their experience too. Obviously clickfunnels cant stop users messaging other users especially on a site they have no control over but man it’s annoying. Again I absolutely love the product, but not the community.
Maggie P –
I LOVE YOUR SHOPPER REPORT! Your first page is far better than where I’m at 3 weeks in and if you ever did decide to make your Madam Zelda product I’m sure I would fly off the shelves.
I have done the same as you and started with easy funnels and not making nearly as many changes as you did and have started buying clicks to see if my funnels will sell. I’ve only tested the water so far and have spent $206 including my clickfunnels cost. I got 6 bites for my free consult and 1 has booked and paid for two paid treatments with more to come so I’m already in profit by $14. My previous cost to acquire a new customer was around the $80 mark and we tend to keep customers for several years with them being worth anything from $200 to $5000. Clickfunnels is costing more so far but I think that’s down to me learning the process and also how to do facebook advertising. I think if I can get all of that running right my cost per new customer could drop below $80 with an extra advantage of being able to focus and scale my reach beyond print!
I’m very happy with everything enjoyed working through the videos and when I needed help when I accidentally deleted my work the helpdesk were great getting me back up and running in minutes.
Emily McAndrew –
The video content alone that Russell has been putting out of late is worth the cost of the service. Big changes recently as has been mentioned but it’s helping focus on priorities. A superb software, Clickfunnels has been transformative in my business scouting for distressed real estate, and the flow of business I now have would have been unimaginable to me in 2018. It’s not for everyone but if you’re in a business that needs leads, or has any form of a sales process you owe it to yourself to at least take the two week free trial.
Nina Hermanos –
I had my first $1000 day on December 7 and that’s from someone who hasn’t made a penny online in 3 years of trying and failing. I wish I’d discovered clickfunnels sooner both as a tool and as a supporting community. 2020 is going to be a big year thank you
Joy D –
I signed up for Clickfunnels last week after watching a documentary on their recent live event. I had no idea the hard work that went into putting on these shows, the planning behind it and the whole scale of what needs done to put on something like that. What shone through for me was the absolute dedication to creating futures for their customers and just the honesty that I knew there were good people.
Sure this was a polished and carefully put together film but you cant make up these emotions I saw in everyone.
So after watching it I signed up to their full suite of products figuring I had 14 days and if I’d made a big mistake I’d be covered. I went through all the steps and yeah well I was immediately hit by how much I was getting for my couple hundred bucks. A LOT.
I ran through a few templates of “funnels” and followed some tutorials and before too long I had a very good looking set of pages, my first funnel! The way of editing is very similar to a desktop publisher (Serif PagePlus) I used to use so its really just a case of dragging dropping and resizing, changing fonts and colors, very intuitive.
I played with their copywriting tool and wow it really does write compelling headlines just from a few inputs. I had found something like it free online a while back but this is a different level. I can’t imagine the thought and programming that went into this.
One small issue I got a little confused getting my website domain name to work but was very quickly (within an hour) helped with it by support and I think it was more with the people I bought the domain from that were at fault not Clickfunnels.
When I think about other systems I’ve tried to get my business on line like making websites with wordpress or adobe its so much easier I just have to concentrate on getting the right words up rather than worrying about how to code a link or make a shadow and no problems with things breaking which they did all the time on my wordpress (I gave up on adobe in a few days it was horrible).
I’m waiting until after Christmas to run adverts to my funnel and meantime will get to know the system much more over the holidays but so far it is absolutely everything they promised and more.
Mary –
I signed up for the One Funnel Away challenge in September after trying to make money online for a couple years with little real success. By mid october I’d made more from my Click Funnel than 2 years of hard work and misery with my website. The help and support I got was exactly what I needed to get over that line and this covers everything from layout copywriting and ad strategy. Absolutely incredible team both at the company and in our small challenge group. I’ve gone from being at the point of giving up to seeing a true shot at this game.
K E. –
If you get chance to do the OFA (One Funnel Away Challenge) DO IT. It’s a GAMECHANGER!! I had zero prior experience and the group I was in was super supportive getting me through and cheering me on!! $100 is best value I spent on training in all my years!
Joan W –
Excellent service. Even though I’m trained in web design I think ClickFunnels is unbeatable for rapidly testing concepts and getting hard stats on what works and what doesn’t. Out the box functionality is outstanding and for those who CAN do a little very basic coding it’s life changing.
KC –
Look behind some of the most successful businesses online today and I’m not talking bluechip I’m talking one-guy or one-gal businesses and you’ll see the site’s running on Clickfunnels. It does not get easier for fast prototyping of pages, testing variations and tweaking elements to get the best possible results. I’m in lead generation for cosmetic plastic surgeons and everything I do is in Clickfunnels. It works out the box and even with the same content does a lot better than anything I’ve tried with other platforms such as WordPress. The facebook group is for newbies and filled with noise so give that a body swerve unless you like seeing the same thing over and over but there are smaller unofficial groups that will give you more value than any 4 or even 5 figure course.
Steve –
Clickfunnels has changed my life and I can’t even imagine what I’d do without it. The editing is fast and the system is quick to learn. A little pricy in the beginning if you’re just starting out and don’t have a lot of capital. I took a while to work out my product funnel and tried to promote a few different offers before I had something that sold but this was down to me and not CF. I guess I started Clickfunnels too early in my journey and so had put 3k into it before I saw a return. Even so thats cheap for what I’ve learned and where I’m at now. They do have basic options too at less than 20 bucks a month if you dont yet have a product to sell. The facebook community is great but has gone downhill a bit recently with strict admin blocking anything negative. Again this is not on CF which continues to make me a consistent 8-10k a month now it’s set up properly. 3 comma club here I come
Chloe –
Super-easy to use even if you have no experience making websites in fact probably better if you don’t. I’m amazed how quickly a page can come together and not look like it was built by a 3 year old, ran one to promote my dog grooming service and was booked solid for 3 weeks after 2 days advertising. Got an idea for a free giveaway on the facebook group that costs me $0.78 drop-shipped from China but gives an amazing perceived value. So happy I made this decision and I don’t have to worry about where future customers are coming from, all I need to do is buckle down, shampoo and scissors in hand and make some money!
Kenny –
I’ve never had an issue with the services and would really recommend to anyone starting out. Upgrade to FunnelScripts if you can afford to it’s the whole reason I love clickfunnels so much. That alone has added a zero to my yearly earnings.