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That's really a preference. Perhaps your clients are so used to using Zoom that they don't want to use the Kajabi built-in camera. BUT, you do have the option of letting Zoom go.

You can also send emails and segment your email list inside Kajabi. You could certainly let Mailchimp go but if you just love it so much, you could integrate the two platforms together.

Kajabi does have a built-in scheduler so if you wish, you can release Calendly as well. Alternatively, you can make Calendly work with Kajabi. Personally, I love some of the features of Calendly so much that I've integrated it into the Kajabi platform.

The Kajabi platform has email marketing capabilities, but Kajabi the company does not perform any marketing on your behalf.

If your plan is to offer hundreds of courses, Kajabi may not be the right fit for you. The maximum plan possible has a limit of 100 products.

When your goal is to give your course or coaching program away for free, Kajabi would not likely be a good fit because of its price point.

Have more than 100,000 emails to import into Kajabi? That won't work either since that is the max number of emails it can hold. From there, you can continue to use the Kajabi platform but an outside email marketing service will need to be integrated.

Kajabi is designed for offering online courses, memberships, coaching programs, digital downloads, and a community forum. If you plan on selling tangible products, this platform may not be your best choice.

Kajabi is designed for offering online courses, memberships, coaching programs, digital downloads, and community forums.

Payments can be full pay, payment plan, ongoing subscription, and free/paid trials with optional set-up fee.

Yes, you can provide Google with information to suggest your page with an image, title and description, a different one for each landing page. Each page also has the ability to block itself from search (such as when creating a thank you for your purchase page).

As well, each image has the ability to provide a description for SEO purposes. 

The best website SEO, however, comes from blogging. Your blog can include images, a video, audio, and/or text. It's highly suggested to create a weekly blog post using material from your YouTube channel, podcast, or classic blog with the use of keywords.

Yes!

Kajabi easily connects with Stripe for accepting credit cards, Google Pay, After Pay, and Apple Pay.

You also have the option of adding PayPal.

You keep 100% of your income minus the Stripe or PayPal fee (under 3%).

For offers under $4,000, After Pay charges 6% but in exchange, you receive all the money upfront and they chase after anyone who defaults on their payment.

Excellent!

You can filter to send only emails to those who have purchased, have not purchased, filled out a form, all customers, recently added contacts, those that clicked or did not click on a recent email, completed an assessment, registered to an event, used a coupon code...and more.

Yes, you can do 1:1 coaching right inside Kajabi using your computer/mobile camera. 

Group coaching or going live to record course videos weekly can also be performed inside Kajabi. The community feature also has the ability for Meetups which has a feel similar to Zoom with a chat area.

Live webinars, however, will need to be done over Zoom as live videos are only available for viewing behind a firewall. Your students/clients would have to log in to access the live video. If you're interested in setting up an evergreen webinar, that can simply be done by uploading your pre-recorded video onto a landing page.

Yes, Kajabi is an app available in the Apple Store or on Google Play. Your student/client would download the app then log in just like they would on desktop version.

It is a Kajabi branded app, however. Kajabi does have an upgrade to a private app of your own starting at $89 a month.

It's difficult to know which plan to get when you haven't yet launched your program.

My suggestion is to start out with the Basic plan then move up as you progress. At the Basic level, you can have up to 10,000 email contacts, unlimited website pages, three products (course, coaching program, and/or community) and 1000 paying customers, 

It's one-click to upgrade your subscription instantly and just as easy to downgrade by emailing support.

It's really just a preference. If you've built a really amazing website, there's no need to migrate it over. You can just use Kajabi to house your program and community, send emails, and collect payments. It will seamlessly integrate into your current site. 

Your sales page can be either built on your current website with the Buy Now buttons linking to Kajabi checkout, or choose to build a sales page on Kajabi.

Of course if you did end up migrating your website over to Kajabi, it would save you having to pay for 2 websites. At the same time, it's an additional cost of money or time to move your site over. As you can see, it's really just a preference on what works best for your business.

There's really no reason to use Mailchimp anymore once you have Kajabi.

With Kajabi, you can automate, tag, segment, and see click rates just as you did over on Mailchimp. It would be easier to manage if all your email contacts were on Kajabi.

If you chose to integrate Mailchimp with Kajabi, you would need a third party app such as Zapier to connect the two platforms.

It's your choice to purchase a template and build your new Kajabi website that way. Almost any template can be recreated right in Kajabi. Templates are not necessary, just a preference.

In summary, it's a choice on whether you'd like to pay for a template, pay for someone to recreate the template for you, or take time to learn how to use the platform and build it all yourself.

Even the least techy person can upload their program into Kajabi.

Courses are broken down by Module and Lessons. A module is like the title of a group of lessons and includes a thumbnail. A lesson has a title, an area for one video or one audio, a thumbnail, and an area for PDF downloads. Quizzes can be optionally added at the end of a module.

Your course can be available all at once, dripped out one module per week or month, or locked by the lessons prior, meaning that a student is unable to progress to the next lesson until the prior module is marked complete.

Yes, inside the course upload area is the ability to design a quiz with multiple choice, short answer, or file upload. You can choose whether the quiz is graded or not graded and what that passing grade needs to be for the student to move onto the next lesson. 

Udemy vs Kajabi: With the other platforms listed below, you have access to your students and their emails, but with Udemy, you do not “own” your students and cannot market other courses, services, or products to them. You have little control over your course on this platform. Kajabi is a business platform while Udemy is a course marketplace. It does not cost anything to upload a course to Udemy, but they will take a 50% commission on each course you sell. Kajabi does not charge any transaction fees on sales, but you will have to use a payment processing platform of either Stripe or PayPal for credit card transactions.

Squarespace vs Kajabi: Both platforms can be used to make professionally branded websites, but Kajabi is designed for delivering course content, while Squarespace is not. With Squarespace, your course would be hidden behind a password-protected page, but each student would receive the same password to access the material. If someone shares a password, then you have to change it for everyone, a terrible design for an online course with hundreds of students.

WordPress vs Kajabi: The Kajabi platform has focus on course creation and marketing. WordPress on the other hand does not have a single target focus. Anyone can create any type of site in WordPress if they understand the hundreds of extensions and plugins available, meaning it can be difficult for the average user to set up, configure, and use in everyday business. WordPress is basically a complex website building tool that comes free, but with all the add-ons, it ends up costing as much as a paid website builder already made for courses.

MailChimp vs Kajabi: MailChimp is an email marketing platform while Kajabi is an all-in-one business platform. MailChimp does not have course building tools, but is instead designed to be integrated into other platforms. MailChimp can be integrated into Kajabi, but Kajabi can also replace MailChimp because of its built-in email marketing capabilities.

Teachable vs Kajabi: If you want to do everything yourself, this is an easy platform to learn as it’s not tech heavy, but at the same time, it’s not brand customizable. This platform is more for amateur course creators that do not plan to create a business from their course. Kajabi allows for the creation of an entire website with blogs, course listings, product pages, landing pages, opt-ins and more while the Teachable website is much simpler. For example, Teachable does have landing page creation, but the selection is limited to one semi-customizable template.

Kajabi: While the other platforms are only a space to house your video course, Kajabi is an all-in-one platform to include your email campaigns, online course, blog and basically replaces your current website.

Additional Kajabi features:

• Create a unique and professional website with your branding colors, fonts and logo
• Generate automated marketing emails that are sent daily or weekly as you choose
• Ability to offer special coupons and discounts
• Send automated abandoned cart emails to give your lead another chance to buy
• Set up pricing tiers for your course to sell with and without coaching services
• Create monthly recurring membership subscriptions
• Offer your course for a one-time fee, set up a payment plan, or consider a subscription
• Set up your course to be available all at once or just one lesson per day or week
• One click to check the progress of your students to see where they're getting stuck
• End of lesson graded quizzes and homework assignments
• Set up your marketing emails on autopilot and personalize them with your audience's name

You're ready to move to the next stage once each milestone is complete.

• Release imposter syndrome of not being experienced/expert enough >>
• Willing to go forth and take risks, especially when facing difficult obstacles
• Understand your success is inevitable and that all failures are merely learning lessons in your business growth process
• Release perfectionism or your coaching/consulting program will never launch; done is better than perfect
• Willing to dedicate time each day or week to getting the business up and running starting first as a side job, later optionally moving into full-time 
• Aware that it will never be the "right" time to start a new business

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You're ready to move to the next stage once each milestone is complete.

• Receive numerous testimonials that your coaching methodology works
• Describe who is your target market and where they're at right now
• Get clear on how your target market defines "success" 
• Design repeatable processes to make it easier for others to replicate success in your coaching program
• Define your niche and what makes you stand out from your competitors

You're ready to move to the next stage once each milestone is complete.

• Design a professional website with Home, About, Services & Contact pages
• Use AI to create an assortment of brand images to enhance your website
• Produce a thoughtful freebie PDF or mini course that your audience desires
• Create high converting website opt-in page to trade audience emails for freebie
• Set up an email welcome sequence (5 to 10 emails) to guide toward your "join the waitlist" paid offer
• Receive an honest review of your email sequence copy and opt-in page

You're ready to move to the next stage once each milestone is complete.

• Understand the difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactic
  
• Choose 1-2 platforms your target market frequents and plan to post regularly
• Design a marketing strategy with organic and borrowed audience tactics
• Craft a 30-day repeatable social media posting and implementation strategy
• Consider collaborations from a borrowed audience - podcast guest, guest blogging, speaking, social media collaboration

You're ready to move to the next stage once each milestone is complete.

• Understand all the parts and flow of a high converting sales page
• Write copy for the sales page that shows an understanding of your audience
• Choose a sales mechanism for your launch that's appropriate for offer price point
• Craft a clear plan and implementation strategy for your launch including dates
• Design a sales email sequence from cart open to close

• Provide a clear and tangible promise of your program's transformation
• Outline the path a student or client will take to move from point A (where they are now) to point B (where they want to be and where your program will take them)
• Design each lesson in your program to move the student through milestones
• Complete filming (unless program is live) along with accompanying handouts
• Complete the first cohort in the program so you can  understand what could be improved for the next launch

You're ready to move to the next stage once each milestone is complete.

• Map out 5 to 10 buckets of content topics as they relate to your audience
• Design a 12-month marketing strategy for social media using topics above
• Craft an implementation strategy for the above 12 months of social posting
• Create a plan to increase website search engine optimization
• Choose a regular content posting platform for weekly blog, YouTube video, or podcast
• Sketch a template for sending weekly or twice monthly emails of value to your list
• Outline an implementation strategy for weekly content posting and weekly emails
• Implement appropriate email sales sequences using segmenting