How to Start Kajabi And What to Set Up First

You've likely been on a Kajabi website before and didn't even notice because it looks like any other website out there. In fact, this is Kajabi website.

Here's a portfolio of clients I've worked with over the years if you'd like to see other Kajabi websites >>

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.

With email marketing, you can segment to send to only part of your list (only those who purchased an offer, only those who fill out a form, only those that signed up in the past 90 days, etc.).

Emails can be scheduled to go out into the future or they can be automated (while you're sleeping) to go out when a new client purchases your offer, fills out a form, visits a checkout page, etc.

With advanced automations, most any scenario you can think of could be made possible on the Kajabi platform.

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 will need to pay an additional fee for more contacts or integrate with an outside email marketing service provider.

Kajabi is designed for offering online courses, memberships, coaching programs, digital downloads, and 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. Payment collection can be full pay, payment plan, ongoing subscription, and free/paid trials with optional set-up fee.

Kajabi can absolutely perform well with SEO when it’s set up intentionally.

You can customize page titles, meta descriptions, and URLs, add alt text to images, and include schema markup for rich results.

Each page has sections where you can edit search data, and blog posts automatically generate sitemap entries, which helps with indexing.

You still need to optimize copy, internal links, and site structure, however. When you focus on high-quality content and keyword-friendly headlines, Kajabi sites can rank just as well as any other platform.

Yes!

Kajabi easily connects with Stripe for accepting credit cards, Google Pay, After Pay, Klarna and Apple Pay. You also have the option of adding PayPal.

You keep 100% of your income minus the Stripe or PayPal fee (around 4%). Klarna and AfterPay fees are around 6% but in exchange, you receive all the money upfront and they chase after anyone who defaults on their payment plan. 

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.

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 2500 email contacts, unlimited website pages, a community, and up to five courses or coaching programs.

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

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 paywall. 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. If you'd like your own branded app, you can upgrade to the Pro Plan and get it included in your plan.

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.