My Switch from Kajabi to Squarespace
Article Summary
Kathie “blindly” used Kajabi for 2 years in hopes of building an audience like James Wedmore, Amy Porterfield, or Graham Cochran. All of whom make $49 per month PER PERSON off their affiliate links for Kajabi! 😳
One day, in October of 2021, Kathie sent an email that was to be segmented to a special group. Kajabi had a slow bug (you know that circle at the top) and the email got sent to her ENTIRE list. For $199 per month (for 2 years), this was unacceptable.
This article is all about Kathie’s shift from expensive ass Kajabi to now complete business expenses below $199. All of these work just as great as Kajabi - if not better!
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been as of late this is it!
I recently made the switch from Kajabi to Squarespace and today’s blog post is all about why and how I did it.
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I recently made the switch from Kajabi to Squarespace and today’s blog post is all about why and how I did it.
Let’s start with the why:
The expense is definitely not worth it for me!!! Kajabi was costing me $199 per month and while it had all the bells and whistles for email marketing and course creation it simply was not what I personally needed!! The expense was too much for what I need!!
I am into content creation!!! I love blogging and Squarespace is a much better option for blogging. You can easily add items like social media, email sign-ups, videos, and more to your blog posts and Kajabi was falling short. BIG TIME!
On Kajabi I had an email that got sent to my entire list and that is where I drew the line! Yes, with Kajabi I had segmented an audience - meaning I only wanted this email to go to 10 subscribers. Kajabi had a slow glitch going on so it missed my segment and sent to the entire list. I lost about 5 subs 😞 that day and while that is not an issue for me it did piss me off because of the expense. That was unacceptable and the final straw!!! After 2+ years, 150 blog posts, and 50+ pages, and that was it for me and Kajabi!
My entire business expenses are now less than ALL of Kajabi. This means Squarespace is reasonably priced. I am using Mailer Lite as of now and it is only $10 per month or even free for less than 1,000 subs. And ALL of the analytics and SEO is 10,000 times better than Kajabi.
How I did the switch:
I have over 150 blog posts, 50 landing pages, and several course content online there. I did a switch 100% over to Squarespace. And it took me over 7 days of copying and pasting but it is complete and it feels so good!
It was not easy. I had to create new sign-up forms with Mailer Lite and make sure that they work. I moved all of my subscribers to Mailer Lite and while I have a few more weeks with Kajabi I will be emailing my list through Kajabi to make sure that everyone knows what is up! I will also be doing a podcast episode on this entire process to keep my community informed.
I lost sleep over this one: I switched my domain name. Currently, I am in the process of this.😨😨😨 It was quite scary to me but the research I have done said it will pay off. Right now, as I write this, my site is offline.😨😨😨😨 I know I will lose some. And my research shows that Squarespace has better SEO than Kajabi. I can already tell that by the way my blog is designed. Note: I had to make sure all my pages and blog posts contained the same URL structure or they could get lost.
While I am sure I lost some followers and some pages along the way what I stand to gain in the long run is worth it to me! I am super excited about what the future holds!!!🧡🧡🧡🧡
I am super pumped on this decision. You could say I am ecstatic! As mentioned in Joseph Rodrigues recent podcast episode linked right here on YouTube:
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