Kajabi vs. the Simple Page Builder: Vic Strizheus on When to Upgrade

At some point building a business online stops being about one landing page. You have a course to house, a membership area to manage, maybe an entire product launch to run, and stitching together five separate tools starts to feel like its own part time job. Vic Strizheus hits this exact moment in the training when he switches from the lighter page builders he has already shown you to the platform he uses for the bigger jobs: Kajabi.

He is direct about where this one sits. It is the most expensive tool he covers in this whole section of the course, starting around ninety nine a month and climbing from there depending on what you need. He is just as direct about why he still shows it to you. Some of the pages you have already seen elsewhere in this training, the ones he pointed to in earlier videos, were built and hosted entirely inside Kajabi.

What does Kajabi do that a simple page builder doesn’t?

Landing pages are almost a side feature here. Kajabi is built to run an entire launch: membership sites, membership portals, course delivery, the whole back end of a real info product business, all under one login. Vic is careful about who this is actually for. If your only goal right now is a handful of capture pages, his advice is to stay with something lighter, Megaphone or Leadpages, and save Kajabi for when you are ready to manage more than a page or two. If you are building toward a membership site or a full course platform, this is the one worth looking at seriously.

He walks through the funnel and template section of his own account to show what is available, then stops short of a full click by click tutorial, telling you plainly that going deeper would not be useful yet for most people at this stage of the course. What he does instead is bigger picture: he tells you how he actually decides which tool to use for which job.

• For a simple capture page or two, he points you back toward Megaphone or Leadpages, including the free option if you are just getting started.
• For anything that includes a membership area or a portal your customers log back into repeatedly, Kajabi is the one he reaches for.
• For an entire product launch running on one platform, Kajabi again, since it can carry the whole thing without needing a separate tool for each piece.

Why does he insist on only teaching what he actually does?

This is the line he keeps returning to across the whole course, and he repeats a version of it again here.

i am the only thing i’m going to teach you right here in this course is what what i personally do you know what’s working for me i’m not going to teach you from theory

It sounds like a small point, but it changes what this lesson is actually for. He is not ranking every page builder on the market or trying to talk you into the most expensive option. He is telling you which tool he personally has logged into, which pages he personally built with it, and letting you decide if your business is at the stage where that tool makes sense for you too. As he puts it later in the same breath, “i cannot teach you something that i have no clue about”, and that rule is why this entire module walks through real software instead of a slide describing options in the abstract.

What actually matters more than which platform you choose?

He closes the lesson by pulling back from the tools entirely. Creating a landing page, he says, is the easy part, a piece of cake with any of these platforms. The part worth spending real time on is the strategy underneath it, the psychology of what goes on the page and why someone actually opts in, along with knowing how to track and optimize what you build once it is live, which is exactly where the training goes next.

So treat this lesson as a decision point, not a shopping list. Match the tool to the size of the job in front of you right now, not the job you hope to have in a year, and put the time you save on tool research into the actual page itself.

The full session walks through Kajabi’s funnel builder and templates on screen and sets up the tracking lesson that follows. Watch it in full, free, when you Create your free account.

The full session transcript follows below.

Transcript

Now, Kajabi is another really, really awesome platform that you can use. I use it myself. I love it. I think it’s great. I think it’s really, really awesome. It creates a lot more than just, you know, landing pages and sales pages and all that. Kajabi is, is a platform that’s being used by a lot of the, some of the biggest name marketers out there in the internet marketing space, and, you know, info marketers, just because of the, you know, the platform is very robust. You can create the entire, you can run the entire launch on a, could jive a platform, you know, it’s got membership sites, it’s got membership portals, it’s got a lot of stuff inside here, okay. Now, naturally, is going to be a little more expensive, so this is the most expensive out of all the platform’s that I showed you so far. I think it starts out at like 90, let’s take a look at here real quick, it starts out at ninety nine a month and goes up to 299 a month, potentially even more if you get used to it, get to 90 details and stuff. Yeah, I appreciate all that, amazing, too crazy, but it’s, it’s a, no, nonetheless. I just wanted to show you this, because again, I don’t know where you are, you know, in your level of, as a marketer, this is something that you might want to check out, right? So, these landing pages, check out, check it out, okay, these landing pages right here. This one, the one that I showed you in one of the previous videos, right, obviously, if you’re watching this in order, then this one right here and this one, these were all created in Kajabi, okay. So these are all hosted and created by using the Kajabi platform. Pretty cool stuff, I like it, okay. So, you know, let me show you a couple of things here they have. When we go to funnels, and let’s say we wanted to, you know, create a landing page, again, I’m not gonna give you a full tutorial on this, my friend, just because I don’t think it’s gonna be relevant for a lot of the new people who watching this. If you want to check it out there, I’m gonna put a link below this video for you to check out Kajabi. It’s good if you, you know, if you’re gonna do a little bit more than just create a landing page, right. But here are some of the templates they got here, as you can see, okay, for landing pages. Now, Kajabi is really known for the portals, right, like membership portals, to where if you want to run an entire membership site, you can use Kajabi. And this would be a really good place to go to. If you just want to stick with creating landing pages, I would suggest go back to Megaphone, right, or, or Leadpages, or, you know, ELPP, and just use any one of those software’s. Of course, you know, if you got ELPP for free, you don’t have to pay a, you know, anything for it. You know, the Leadpages and Megaphone and Kajabi, this, these are all paid services and paid platforms, okay. So, but again, I just wanted to show you and let you know that it’s there available for you, my friend. I’m not showing you something I’m not using, in you know. I am, the only thing I’m going to teach you right here in this course is what, what I personally do, you know, what’s working for me. I’m not going to teach you from theory. I’m not going to teach you from something that I, you know, something about that, about something I heard from somebody, right. I’m going to teach you based on what I am personally doing, because I cannot teach you something that I have no clue about. Does that make sense? And so, hopefully you will appreciate that, my friend. Uh, we are, you know, we’re, we’re getting close to the end, so hopefully, you know, you’re seeing how everything can come together, right, different platforms you can use to create your capture pages. Again, we’ve covered a lot about the strategy and, and, and just coming up, you know, with hooks, and I showed you a lot of examples. Hopefully this will get your mind start, you know, to start working, right. Uh, hopefully you will start to think about your own promotions and your own, you know, leads up your paso pieces. I hope they brings something that you will try to understand completely out to everyone. That’s great, I appreciate it, my friend, I really appreciate, depending on Wily magnets, and, and your own hooks that you can create inside of your, you know, whatever it is that you want to promote, right. Let this marinate a little bit, you know, maybe you want to go over these videos, or some of these videos, a couple times, right, to hopefully, you know, sometimes, sometimes when we go through the information twice or three times, right, we just understand it that much better. So, make sense. So creating a landing page is nothing, you know, listen, this piece of cake, you can use any one of these platforms, they will all work fantastically awesome for you, okay. The really, really what you need to be focusing on, and just really getting this one thing, very, really understanding, is this strategy, you know, the psychology, what do you put on the landing page. How do you, also just probably as important, is optimization, which I’m going to show you how I do that myself in the next video. You, okay, so why don’t we go ahead and, and, and pause this video for now, and then in the next video I’m going to walk you through tracking and optimization. I’m gonna show you exactly how I track and optimize my pages myself. Alright, we’ll see you there.