My review of Clickfunnels vs LeadPages is going to give the blogger, affiliate marketer, ecom store owner and marketer a clue about whether these marketing tools are ideal for their business.

Hands up, if you would rather know what the deal is, before spending money and time trying to learn something that does not meet your expectation?

Well as a user of both marketing tools, I hope that I will be able to give you a clear picture of the features of these products and whether they are the right fit for your business

I know there are a ton of Clickfunnels vs Leadpages reviews, but I had not seen any, that specifically answers to who the user is.

Which is why I decided to take a different route and provide a review for each specific business owner.

I will be making this review as unbiased as possible. After all I do have certain gripes about both Clickfunnels and LeadPages that I’d like you to know about.

If you’d like to skip to my review based on what kind of business owner you are, be sure to use the navigation menu below.

Without any further delay, let’s get right to it.

Here is what you will learn in this blog post:

• What is Clickfunnels?
• What is LeadPages?
• Clickfunnels vs LeadPages features
• Who is Clickfunnels vs LeadPages for?
• Clickfunnels vs LeadPages for affiliate marketing? Bottom line.
• ClickFunnels vs LeadPages for bloggers? Bottom line.
• ClickFunnels vs LeadPages for physical or digital products? Bottom line.
• ClickFunnels vs LeadPages for ecommerce? Bottom line.
• ClickFunnels vs LeadPages for network marketers? Bottom line.
• ClickFunnels vs LeadPages for local businesses? Bottom line.
• How to build a funnel on ClickFunnels or LeadPages?

What is Clickfunnels?

I have so many people come to me and say they’d like to build a clickfunnel. Let me set the record straight by clarifying that Clickfunnels is the name of a product or more specifically an online software.

Just like Microsoft Word or Powerpoint, it is a product or online software that helps you build a sales funnel.

A sales funnel is a series of web pages dedicated to the promotion of a particular product or products that helps the business owner achieve a desired goal.

That goal may be a sale, lead generation, booking a consultation or call or whatever objective you may have.

It is different from your traditional website because it does not have features like external or internal links, navigation menus, etc.

In this regard, the funnel is the ideal marketing tool because it helps to keep the user (your target audience) focused on the main objective of the funnel.

The owner of the Clickfunnels product is Russel Bronson.

What is LeadPages?

LeadPages was designed as a lead generation software but it can also be used as a sales funnel.

That is because LeadPages also allows you to build sales pages that help you generate sales of products.

So just like Clickfunnels, you can use the LeadPages software to also generate leads, sales, consultation bookings or calls.

When you first get to the LeadPages home page, if your goal is to sell a product, you may be wondering whether LeadPages is the right product for you, since their focus is more on the lead generation aspect.

Don’t worry because you can take payments with this online platform as well which means that you can sell a product if you want to.

When compared to Clickfunnels, notice how Clickfunnels immediately addresses this, by pointing out almost everything that can be done with the Clickfunnels software.

ClickFunnels vs LeadPages Features

Rather than write a paragraph about the features in each of these online software, I decided to create a table setting out the main features so you can easily get an overview and comparison of each one.

I will then go into the specifics of each feature so you can learn a little bit more about it.

Mobile Friendly Templates

Both Clickfunnels and LeadPages have mobile friendly templates.

However, if I were to pick one for easy mobile responsiveness, my vote would go to LeadPages.

That is because, with Clickfunnels even though their pages can convert to mobile, you must manually adjust your text for mobile viewers, before publishing.

What I mean is, if on desktop you have used a font size of 32px, with Clickfunnels you want to make sure that the text is down-sized for mobile.

If you do not take this additional step the text will also appear large on mobile. Clickfunnels have catered to this by adding a mobile text button in their editor.

The difference with LeadPages however, is that the text and images are automatically down-sized for mobile.

Drag and Drop Interface

Designing a lead page or funnel is simple with their drag and drop interface.

No coding is necessary which makes Clickfunnels and LeadPages easy for amateurs who have no coding or design skill.

To build a page with Clickfunnels, you can either use one of their pre-designed templates and drag and drop any additional elements that you want to the page.

If you are starting from the beginning though you must understand how a Clickfunnel page is designed.

Each of their pages are made up of sections, rows and elements.

Each page starts with a section which is identified by the colour green, which contains a row identified by the colour blue and a row contains an element, identified by the colour orange.

The elements are your content boxes and it is from the content boxes that you can design your page.

LeadPages has a similar construction however to start designing your page, you only need to add a section then drag and drop your content.

So once again in terms of ease, LeadPages wins making it easier for the user to build their pages effortlessly.

Pop-Up Lead Boxes

If you do not want to create a sales funnel but still want a place to convert your visitors into leads from your website or blog, you can create pop up lead boxes with both Clickfunnels and LeadPages.

Clickfunnels refer to these lead boxes as Clickpops.

Once created you are given code to embed the box onto a website or blog that you own.

Such pop up box can be added to your website as a link or an image which when clicked, causes the box to pop open. If you’d like the box to appear automatically such as on time or on exit then you can configure the settings to generate these actions.

LeadPages refer to these boxes as lead boxes. They essentially operate in the same way as Clickfunnels’ clickpops do.

LeadPages’ lead boxes can be embedded by a link, button or image. They can also appear on time and on exit.

Payment Integration

The two most popular payment gateways, Stripe and Paypal, can be used with both Clickfunnels and LeadPages, however PayPal does not integrate with either.

What this means is that when used, PayPal does not fully become part of Clickfunnels or LeadPages, so when payments are made, Clickfunnels or LeadPages’ automated features do not activate.

For example, when integrated with Stripe and a payment is made by a user, Clickfunnels or LeadPages would redirect to a thank you page within the funnel and if set up, will store the buyer’s details in their database.

When PayPal is used however, this does not happen. Whilst there are work-arounds, it is something you must be conscious of, if you want to use any buyer data from the platforms.

Clickfunnels goes a step further and integrates with and allows access to other payment options. Sadly LeadPages only stops at Stripe and PayPal.

Finally if you wish to use payment gateways with LeadPages, you must upgrade to a Pro or Advanced account which is $79/month when paid monthly ($48/month when paid annually) for the Pro and $321/month when paid monthly ($199/month when paid annually) for the Advanced.

Tracking Codes

One of the most important elements of your funnel, especially when you are using paid advertising, is tracking.

If you are using paid ad campaigns like Facebook ads, Google Adwords or any other platform, you are able to add your tracking codes or pixels to both Clickfunnels and LeadPages.

It is very easy to add, all you do is copy and paste the code into a section provided by the platforms.

A/B Testing

Both Clickfunnels and LeadPages allow you to perform split tests on your landing pages and funnels.

When setting up the split tests, they are both easy to implement for either of the platforms.

All you do is create your control, which is the first variation of your page. Then create a variation which is a variation of your control page.

Both Clickfunnels and LeadPages will take note of the conversions that you are testing and let you know which one is performing better.

You can then mark whichever page has the better conversions as the winner of the split test.

This is great if you want to see what type of factors affect your visitors and helps you improve the overall performance of your campaign.

Marketing Tools Integrations

Clickfunnels and LeadPages integrates with many other marketing tools to make your marketing efforts seamless.

Here is a full list of all the integrations that Clickfunnels has.

Here is a full list of all the integrations that LeadPages has.

If the marketing tool that you are looking for is not on the lists, then you can safely assume that it does not integrate but you can use the Zapier tool to help you connect one tool to the other.

Zapier is a web-based service that allows you to perform integrations with many different applications.   

Campaign Analytics

One thing I like about Clickfunnels and LeadPages is that it provides reporting on the performance of your campaign.

So you can see how a funnel or landing page that you created is performing and helps you make important decisions for your campaign.

Depending on how many pages there are in your funnel, Clickfunnels provides analytics for every page of the funnel.

The difference with LeadPages however is that several pages can make up a funnel which needs to be pieced together.

In that regard you must piece together your analytics for each page – so you do not get one global oversight like Clickfunnels provides.

This makes it a little more difficult to judge the overall performance of your funnel if several pages make up your funnel with LeadPages.

Here is what that looks like.

WordPress Plugin

If you have a WordPress website or blog you can integrate both Clickfunnels and LeadPages with their respective plugins.

This will allow you to use either Clickfunnels or LeadPages funnels or pages directly on your website or blog so that it looks as though the funnel or page is part of your website or blog.

This is just another way of directing visitors from your website or blog to your funnel or landing page but instead of going to a Clickfunnel or LeadPages domain, the users remain at your website or blog’s domain but still see your funnel or landing page.

That’s a pretty cool feature.

To see what this looks like for Clickfunnels you can take a look at Barbie Figueroa’s video where she explains how to marry Clickfunnels with your WordPress website.

To see what this looks like for LeadPages you can take a look at Inside Marketing Hero’s video.

Lead Notifications

LeadPages notifies you when you have generated a lead through one of your landing pages.

This is a great feature if you have many lead pages and you want to keep track of which one is helping you acquire leads.

It is not a major feature in my opinion as I am not too concerned about lead notifications but for those who want to know, you can receive these notifications directly to your email inbox.

Clickfunnels does not have this feature.

As I mentioned it is not a significant feature to have as you will have many emails notifying you of leads when you can simply log into the platform to check how the lead page is doing.

Dedicated Support

Clickfunnels and LeadPages both have support available but one is definitely a winner out of the two.

LeadPages offers phone, live chat and email ticket support. They also have a library of support documents in case you need any help and want to do it yourself.

Phone support is however only available with LeadPages Advanced package.

Clickfunnels only offers email ticket support. So if you have an urgent matter, then you’re pretty much screwed. You will need to submit your ticket and then wait for their support team to respond.

Usually responses can take a few hours and up to a day.

Email Autoresponder Integration

One important function of the funnel and lead page is the ability to capture leads and place them directly in your chosen email autoresponder.

Don’t yet have an email autoresponder? Here’s one that I reviewed that I currently use and recommend. 

Clickfunnels and LeadPages integrate with many email autoresponders and allows you to connect to them easily.

Here are all Clickfunnels’ email integrations.

Here are all LeadPages’ email integrations.

Once again, if you do not see your email service provider on the list, you can always use Zapier to integrate, provided Zapier allows the connection.

Sub Accounts

If you have a team working with you, you can assign them manager accounts where they have their own sub account and can work on projects for you.

This helps so you won’t have to give the worker, access to your username and password since doing so makes it very risky for you as the account holder since they can access your account settings and do anything with it.

LeadPages offers sub accounts only with their Advanced plan. That means you have to shell out a whopping $321/month or $199/month billed annually for this benefit. With their Advanced plan you get 5 sub accounts.

I noticed that Clickfunnels does have the feature but it appears non-functional.

Even when I searched for literature on the topic there was none.

I will assume that maybe it is a feature they intend to install in the future but not right now.

SEO Friendly Pages

Clickfunnels and LeadPages allow you to optimise your landing pages and funnels for SEO (search engine optimisation).

Although they both allow you to implement some on-page SEO I wouldn’t solely rely on this feature to help your landing pages or funnels show up in the search engines.

There are other things that you can do such as:

• Having your own domain and URL and including a keyword in that domain/URL.
• Use keywords in your funnel or landing page that you’d like to rank for
• Build a content map to help your funnel and landing pages align to the visitors needs and desires. Don’t just create a funnel for the sake of. Keep your visitor’s desires in mind.

In this Clickfunnels blog you can learn more about how to implement SEO into your funnel and landing pages. 

Web Hosting

The great thing about both Clickfunnels and LeadPages is that they provide their own web hosting.

So when you purchase a package with either platform, you do not have to look for separate hosting.

Both Clickfunnels and LeadPages host your funnels and landing pages on their servers. The only thing though is that when you host your funnels and landing pages with them, you must take on their domain.

For example, if you build a funnel with Clickfunnels, then your domain will be www.yourdomain.clickfunnels.com. If you build a landing page with LeadPages, your domain will be www.yourdomain.lpages.co.

This can look ugly if you are promoting your funnel or landing page and you may prefer to have your page align with your brand.

For that reason you can always use their domain assignment feature so you can replace their domains with your own.

Looking for cheap domains? Try Namecheap, Godaddy or Bluehost.

Domain Assignment

Clickfunnels and LeadPages both help you assign a custom domain to your funnels and landing pages making it more personal and branded to you.

I would strongly recommend that when starting on either Clickfunnels or LeadPages that you purchase a custom domain and connect it to Clickfunnels or LeadPages.

That way it is easier for your audience to find your funnels and landing pages and helps you create an identity for you, instead of one affiliated with the Clickfunnels or LeadPages domains.

Whilst you can purchase a separate domain from places like Godaddy, Namecheap or Bluehost, Clickfunnels allows you to claim a domain for free directly from their company for first time users.

If you have already claimed the domain then you can buy it at the retail price of $20 annually.

Customised HTML

What if you have an application, form, display banner or miscellaneous item that you want to install on your website using HTML?

Well both Clickfunnels and LeadPages have HTML elements that you can add to your funnel and landing pages to easily add these items to your pages.

For example, on a landing page that I designed with LeadPages to promote an affiliate product, I was easily able to add this gif banner to my page through their HTML feature.

So instead of adding an image and linking the image to your affiliate product, you can select the html code for the banner that your affiliate manager will provide to you and embed it on your page.

You can find the HTML widget in your LeadPages widget area.

The same for Clickfunnels. You can add the HTML element to your pages from your Clickfunnels editor.

Digital Asset Delivery

If you do not have an email autoresponder which you can use for delivery of digital products, or you have no place to host your documents, LeadPages and Clickfunnels digital assets delivery feature, allow you to store your documents on their platform and enable delivery when a user takes a specific action.

For example if you have a lead magnet that you want delivered to a lead when they opt in to a funnel, you must first add your digital asset to Clickfunnels from the digital asset menu.

Then you must set up outgoing emails so that Clickfunnels can send the email on your behalf.

Finally you must add the digital asset to the page where the opt in is being performed. This will be your opt in page.

LeadPages makes this process a lot easier for us.

To add your digital asset to LeadPages and have it delivered to your lead you only need to add the digital asset to the opt in page settings and LeadPages takes care of the rest.

There is no need to upload the digital asset and then select it on different pages. There is also no need to setup email SMTP settings for outgoing emails.

Adding a digital asset in LeadPages is a one-step process therefore eliminating the time and confusion that you get with Clickfunnels.

One Click Upsells

If you sell your own products or have an ecommerce store, the one click upsell feature is a great tool to help you increase the average order value of each order placed in your funnel and increase conversions.

Whilst I have never used LeadPages one click upsell feature (so I cannot say how easy or difficult the process is), they do have instructions on how to integrate this feature into a funnel you are managing.

The instructions look pretty simple, but when I read through them I do not like the technicality of the instruction.

It may be simple if you follow along slowly and take your time. If you do struggle to implement an upsell into your LeadPages funnel you can always fall back on the LeadPages support team for help.

Clickfunnels is a very simple process. You only need to drag and drop an upsell page into your funnel, design your page, add your product and that’s it.

You do not need to worry about any configuration.

Clickfunnels does all the hard work for you, so everything works smoothly.

Membership Areas

One special feature that Clickfunnels has, which is not integrated with LeadPages are membership sites.

A membership site allows you to house digital products such as a video library, ebooks or courses where free or paid members can get access via a username and password.

At one point LeadPages did offer a Wishlist membership site to Annual Pro members back in 2014 but it looks like this has been discontinued.

In any event, even if you no longer have access to this product with LeadPages you can always connect a LeadPages sales page to Wishlist separately if you want to.

Wishlist is a WordPress plugin so you must have a WordPress site to use this product.

Click this link to download your Wishlist plugin here.

Clickfunnels though has membership site features integrated into it so if you think you may want to create a membership site where your paying customers can get access to your products then you may want to consider Clickfunnels over LeadPages.

Affiliate Center

Clickfunnels helps you to offer affiliate commissions to affiliates for a product that you are selling.

Their affiliate center is great if you believe you have a great product, but need to get the word out about it.

By setting up an affiliate center, you can have people sign up and so be able to control their access to your product as an affiliate to promote it on your behalf.

The affiliate center is only available with Clickfunnels Etison suite however, so be prepared to spend at least $297/month for this feature.

Who Is Clickfunnels vs LeadPages For?

So now that you know the main features of Clickfunnels and LeadPages, this all probably does not make sense to you, if you do not really know how each product can help you in your business.

That’s what the next section is for. Simply follow your business model and read my unbiased view as to whether Clickfunnels or LeadPages can help you.

Does Clickfunnels or LeadPages work for affiliate marketing?

As an affiliate myself, I know how important sales funnels are for building email lists and guiding traffic to your affiliate product.

Even if you do not want to build an email list and you want to promote your affiliate product with advertorial type blog posts then you can use either Clickfunnels or LeadPages for this.

Because the affiliate funnel would be a simple two step funnel then you do not need any complicated software.

Both Clickfunnels and LeadPages are perfect for this. It will be up to you to decide how much you want to spend on your marketing tool to achieve this.

To remind you, Clickfunnels is $97/month and LeadPages is $37/month. Clickfunnels offers a free 14-day trial for you to test it out to see if you like working with it. Click here to get your free 14-day trial.

LeadPages offers a free 30-day trial. Click here to claim your free trial. 

Bottom line?

I would recommend LeadPages although both Clickfunnels or LeadPages are great. 

Does Clickfunnels or LeadPages work for bloggers? 

Can Clickfunnels or LeadPages replace a blogger’s website? Yes it can, but it is not feasible and I certainly do not recommend the software for traditional blogging.

If however you want to create a one off blog post, like I did in my one blog post strategy for promoting a product, then the software is a good one.  

A blog comes with so many moving parts. You need navigation menus, the ability to post as many blog posts as you can, the ability to embed contact forms, etc; you really and truly need a conventional website.

This is why I would recommend that you use a content management site like WordPress.

If you are ready to build your blog then you can head on over to my step-by-step guide where I teach you how to build your blog using WordPress and Bluehost as your webhost.

If you already have a website or blog and you really want to use Clickfunnels or LeadPages then they can be used as a lead generation tool.

For example, you may wish to generate leads for the provision of content upgrades.

Clickfunnels and LeadPages allow you to embed code into your website where contact forms can be installed on your blog to generate leads.

In this regard Clickfunnels and LeadPages are beneficial to bloggers.

With both Clickfunnels and LeadPages you cannot add an inline contact form to your website but you can add a link or button which pops open to a contact form. Here is an example of what LeadPages looks like on my blog.

Bottom line?

Don’t use Clickfunnels or LeadPages for your blog but use them for your lead generation tools.

Click here to claim your free Clickfunnels 14-day trial. 

Click here to claim your free LeadPages 30-day trial. 

Does Clickfunnels or LeadPages work to sell physical or digital products? 

I would give this question a resounding yes. Clickfunnels and LeadPages are perfect if you want to sell a physical or digital product.

Because of price point, I use LeadPages for all my digital products – it is cost effective and achieves everything that I need, to create a great sales funnel to sell my products.

It can design great opt in pages, sales pages and has easy to implement payment and email integrations.

Although I do not use upsells in my LeadPages funnels, I cannot comment on the difference between LeadPages and Clickfunnels, but if you are looking to increase the average order value of each purchase with upsells, then you may wish to consider whether Clickfunnels or LeadPages will give you better value.

I touched on this briefly here so you can go back and read my comment.

Bottom line?

Yes both Clickfunnels and LeadPages are perfect for your own products.

Click here to claim your free Clickfunnels 14-day trial. 

Click here to claim your free LeadPages 30-day trial. 

Does Clickfunnels or LeadPages work for ecommerce? 

Typically people use ecom-dedicated platforms like Woocommerce or Shopify to sell their ecom products.

Ecom funnels are however becoming very popular especially since it can help you drive massive sales to your business by focusing on a few core products from your ecom store.

This ensures that the customer only sees the specific products that you want them to see and that they are not given an overwhelming number of options.

In my opinion, the best platform for the ecom funnel is Clickfunnels. This is because they have specific well-thought out templates designed for ecom and makes the set-up process easy.

Although LeadPages do have ecom templates they are not as sophisticated as Clickfunnels.

You can use LeadPages for a simple product sale but if you want to include multiple products and have one time offers, upsells or downsells then I would strongly recommend Clickfunnels.

Want to see what an ecom funnel looks like in Clickfunnels? Watch the video below.

Bottom line?

Clickfunnels and LeadPages work for ecommerce but I would recommend using Clickfunnels for a more streamlined and easier process.

Click here to claim your free Clickfunnels 14-day trial. 

Click here to claim your free LeadPages 30-day trial. 

Does Clickfunnels or LeadPages work for network marketers? 

Like affiliate marketing, where you do not own the product and you are promoting it, you can use Clickfunnels or LeadPages.

A two step funnel is ideal for promoting network marketing products, although some funnels can be simple – such as a lead opt in and thank you page; to more complicated – such as a lead opt in page and onboarding page.

To help you decide which platform to use you may want to consider ease of building the type of funnel and price point.

LeadPages can work very well for network marketing funnels and so you really do not need the sophisticated elements of Clickfunnels.

Bottom line?

I would recommend a simple platform like LeadPages for this type of funnel. It is up to you to decide which platform you eventually decide to use.

Click here to claim your free Clickfunnels 14-day trial. 

Click here to claim your free LeadPages 30-day trial. 

Does Clickfunnels or LeadPages work for local businesses? 

If you are a local business and you want to generate leads for services that you provide, Clickfunnels and LeadPages are great options.

As you only need a lead generation funnel then you can consider both platforms but I would recommend LeadPages, again because of its simplicity. 

If you are conscious about money spent on your marketing tools, then LeadPages is a great alternative to an expensive product like Clickfunnels.

Bottom line?

Yes Clickfunnels and LeadPages are great for local businesses but I would recommend LeadPages.

Click here to claim your free Clickfunnels 14-day trial. 

Click here to claim your free LeadPages 30-day trial. 

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A lead capture page in my view is a paramount piece of equipment and if you are not building an email list yet, then you need to check out my article, Why List Building Is Important In Your Business .

Lead capture pages have other aliases such as squeeze page, capture page, lead page, lead magnet.

When I was introduced to this marketing tool, it completely changed the course of my business.

I got introduced to automation and that was when I started getting more prospects and sales into my business without putting a lot of effort into it.

I previously spoke about the uses of capture pages and have trialled a few builders in the past year which influenced me to create this post to help you decide which of these builders is best for you.

When considering lead capture page builders you should consider the ones that will create the best conversions for you.

Most of these builders are very popular across the internet so you may have had a run in or two with them already.

My list is based on my own personal use having tried ALL of these builders throughout my online journey.

If you are just getting started then perhaps my post can help you, so let us get right to it.

In No Particular Order, The Top 4 Best Lead Capture Page Builders With Free Trial Offers That You Can Start Using Today 

1. GetResponse

GetResponse was the first lead capture page builder that I used in my business.

I actually found GetResponse for email marketing, then realised that they also had lead capture page builders so I thought – “Great! Kill two birds with one stone.”

Design

What I liked about GetResponse was its drag and drop feature and how easy it was to create the lead capture pages in a matter of minutes.

For example, you could select any template and merely customise the text to your liking or you could create a capture page from scratch with the easy-to-use drag and drop elements.

This is the most important thing that I seek out when using any piece of equipment.

Anything that causes too much overwhelm, goes out the door, in my opinion.

GetResponse had many beautiful; and I mean MANY beautiful templates that I could choose from. In fact they have over 1000 iStock free images that you can use on your own pages.

Email Marketing

I also liked the fact that I did not have to use another email marketing software to begin my autoresponder sequence. So I was able to save a few bucks here.

Mobile Responsiveness

With so many people now using their phones to access the internet, GetResponse has mobile responsive landing pages. It also allowed me to go between the desktop and mobile previews to see how my capture pages looked in real time.

Split-testing

There is a split-testing feature for lead capture pages, but I hardly used it because I remember not being able to understand how to integrate it into my marketing campaigns.

But looking at it again, you can easily set the lead capture pages you would like to test and measure the results by using the split test tool that GetResponse provides.

Sales Funnel

GetResponse loses in that it is not a sales funnel builder but then again this post is not about that. But for those marketers who wanted something for sales funnel, GetResponse is not it.

Pricing

It is a reasonably priced option starting at $15/month for a list size of 1000 contacts. They do also have a generous 30 day free trial.

Now I must say that I gave up GetResponse in my second month because the downfall of this tool was its inability to deliver emails to my leads’ inbox.

I tested emails to different email providers (Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail) and all my emails went into the spam folder.

At the time I had a list size of over 300 and not one of my emails were opened.

GetResponse’s response to my complaint was that maybe the emails were being opened but the HTML was not being loaded properly.

According to GetResponse, their software only tracks opened emails where the HTML was loaded. I was not very confident with this because it hindered my ability to properly track how well my subject lines were and how engaged my list was.

2. Clickfunnels

Clickfunnels took a little bit of time for me to get used to.

The interface was almost like “building blocks”.

So if I decided to build a capture page from scratch, I first of all had to “lay down my foundation” so to speak.

I had to place my sections first, then add my rows or columns then my elements.

This is not a drag and drop software and to be honest, was the hardest part of figuring out how to use Clickfunnels.

Once I built my capture page, connecting it to my autoresponder (I switched to Aweber) was another battle.

I had to figure out whether I should be using a submit the form, URL action or go to next page as my settings for my call to action button so that my contact could be added to my autoresponder.

Why make it so difficult for the average user hey?!

I would say, I took use of Clickfunnels Help Guide most of the time to figure things out.

If you do not like overwhelm, then Clickfunnels may not be for you.

Design

As to the design of their capture page, they are very basic and not as beautiful, or should I say, sexy as GetResponse.

Whilst there are many templates that you can use, imagery was not one of their best points.

But at the end of the day, all that matters is the conversions (number of opt-ins) that you get into your business.

Email Marketing

At their basic package level you must use another email marketing software such as GetResponse, Aweber or MailChimp, etc but at their Etison Suite premium level there is an integrated autoresponder.

So I have not opened my review of Clickfunnels with the best comments.

So why do I mark them as an awesome capture page builder?

Mobile Responsiveness

Clickfunnels is mobile responsive which is always a plus.

Split-testing 

They also have a super great split testing feature that was very easy to use. What I loved about this was that they selected the best variable to test and made it easy for you to implement. Also it was very easy to determine my winning lead capture page.

Sales Funnel

I also loved the fact that I could build out a complete website page and sales funnel with it.

Sometimes you may want to create a longer lead capture page with a bit more info.

You may also want to sell your own product and capture payment details easily.

Clickfunnels does a pretty good job at creating smooth and professional funnels and sales pages.

For your capture pages they also have features that help to create better conversions such as timer countdowns, pop ups and video input.

Pricing

Clickfunnels is on the pricier side starting at $97/month for just the basic package. With this you get 20 landing pages and 20k visits to your website. After that you will need to upgrade to the Etison Suite premium level which is $297/month.  There is however a free 14 day trial.

3. Power Lead System

I realise that the Power Lead System is not as popular as the ones I mentioned before but I found this gem by accident.

I was actually looking for an affiliate program that I could invest in, to promote.

It was only until I started looking into its full capabilities that I understood the huge potential of this system.

There are a few things that I think could be improved but for what it does, it is a pretty neat tool.

Design

The Power Lead System is like GetResponse in that you can easily create capture pages from their many templates and simply change the text. However they do not have as many templates as GetResponse. I would say about 80+ templates which is a decent number to ensure that you have variety.

The downside is that there is no drag and drop feature. If you want to keep things simple then the best way to build your capture pages will be to copy them from the existing templates.

Any editing of the capture pages, for example the images, will require editing of the HTML code. For someone who is not familiar with HTML and is not willing to learn, then this may not be for you.

Editing of the text to different fonts can be a challenge with some capture page templates. Sometimes I have had to abandon editing the capture pages and use different templates.

Email Marketing

One of the best things about the Power Lead System is that it offers you 100k contacts with an inbuilt Gmail autoresponder so you do not have to use a private email address if you do not want to. I must admit that there are issues with deliverability especially since you will not be using a private email address.

If you do not want to use their Gmail autoresponder, you can integrate GetResponse and Aweber into its platform.

Mobile Responsiveness

The Power Lead System is a mobile responsive software. Sadly it does not give you the ability to preview the mobile option from within their system.

Split-testing

There is a tracking element and you are able to use this to split test different versions of capture pages. There is no true split testing feature that allows you to easily implement this strategy.

To actually split test you will have to create two lead capture pages and then use some type of link rotator to activate this feature.

This will be at an additional cost if you use Clickmagick’s link rotator or you may use a free link rotator.

Sales Funnel

The Power Lead System allows you to build unlimited sales funnels for a smooth sales process.

You can also promote any business that you want with the Power Lead System as the backbone.

Even though there are minor hiccups, it is still a simple to use machine that gets the job done with a lot of functionality.

Pricing

The Power Lead System has a 7 day trial. Very short in my opinion and has a price tag of $53.97/month.

For all the valuable features that you get I consider that $53.97 is a great price point.

4. Leadpages

When I started using Leadpages, I did not get very far with it because I was testing out different builders and Clickfunnels caught my eye.

Design

But for the time that I used Leadpages, I can say that it offers great capture page designs but truthfully not as good as GetResponse.

They do have drag and drop features so these capture pages are quite easy to build.

And anything with drag and drop is pretty much my best friend now.

I was able to build my lead capture pages in just five minutes once I got over the hurdle of understanding what each feature stood for.

If you do not want to build a lead capture page from scratch then there are tons of templates available that you can customise to your liking.

One of my favourite things about this awesome piece of software was the “lead box” feature.

This allowed me to place a lead capture form anywhere on my website as a pop open feature so I did not have to use the lead capture page builder.

The only thing about the lead capture box is that you cannot embed it onto your website! I do not know why they do not have this since it’s really beautiful and would work well for content upgrades.

I really like the design of the lead box though. It effortlessly fit into my blog posts and having the Leadpages plugin, made it super easier to install.

If you do not want to use the plugin then you can always insert the Javascript code onto any website but remember it does not embed but pops open (actually I am still trying to find a way to embed it so if anyone knows drop me a comment below).

Email Marketing

Leadpages is not an email marketing tool, so you must integrate additional software to have regular emails going out to your list. UPDATE: They just released their Drip email marketing software which integrates with LeadPages. 

The only thing that Leadpages does however is send one automatic email to your lead once they have subscribed through the lead capture page.

A bonus is that you get unlimited traffic to your page and leads contacts.

Mobile Responsiveness

Everything about Leadpages is mobile responsive which is great.

Split-testing

At the time that I used Leadpages, there was not a split test feature so I cannot comment on the effectiveness and usability of it.

But I can see now that they have implemented this so that makes Leadpages a winner.

Sales Funnel

You can create a sales funnel builder with LeadPages. You can also create some awesome sales pages with it.

Pricing

There is a 14 day free trial and your price to use Leadpages starts at $25/month when paid annually.

Final Thoughts On All Four Builders

So let us see how all four stack up against each other.

Had GetResponse been a sales funnel builder it would have been my number one choice only because of their sexy design.

Between Clickfunnels and LeadPages, I would choose Clickfunnels because of the ease of building your sales funnel once you get the hang of how to use it.

If your sole purpose is to create lead capture pages and have an email marketing software then GetResponse may be an option for you.

Remember the downside with deliverability of their emails. I am not the only one who has had this problem. Some of my marketing friends did complain that they had issues as well.

Are there any other builders that you are using which you think should be included in this post? Drop me a comment down below and let me know your thoughts. 

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