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Kit's (formerly ConvertKit) popularity among bloggers and content creators is credited to the platform’s ability to remove the complications behind email marketing. The software provides a seamless experience that ensures they can focus on creating content that their audience will appreciate. Kit’s interface is simple and comes equipped with simple design forms and landing pages that truly convert.
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| Segment |
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
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The tutorials and chat/email help are Great! Every time I ask a question, the representative responds quickly, with detailed information, AND includes links to additional resources, usually their very clear, step-by-step tutorials that include pictures and sometimes automations that you can copy and paste into your own account.
I haven't found anything I dislike yet - oh, I changed my web hosting and had to re-authenticate my domain to be able to send my broadcasts. This was a small speedbump but tech support and tutorials gave me all the information to complete that process quickly.
I like using ConvertKit so it's helping me enjoy writing emails and communications to my list. I LOVE the automations - the graphic interface allows me to clearly map out a series of steps. The tagging system is great for me. I have a few special interest groups and about once a quarter, I email my list and ask the members to pick their preferred interests by clicking a link, and then they're automatically tagged! (Well, they're tagged because I set up the integration following the tutorial!!) Also, A/B testing of headlines is super easy to use. I was always confounded by that but the way ConvertKit works it makes it really easy to see which headline gets the best open rates and response rates.
It's a great and simple tool that has helped me to create marketing campaigns super easily and with a high level of security and professional outlook
Is possible the paid plan might be a bit too expensive to my taste
Faster and well-tracked campaigns
Handy FAQs to solve how-to steps and on-time Custome Service chat support to answer questions about the products inside Convertkit, unlike another counterpart which provides a bot or delayed response.
The pricing is much expensive compared to Mailchimp and other marketing landing tool. If the user subscription is lowered, say $20 per month up to 1000 subscribers....
It is a great Automation builder with its user-friendly navigation templates to follow and build your form using custom fields readily available for easy usage and completion.
As a digital marketer, I have used a wide range of email marketing services and here is why I belive Convertkit is #1. Almost every other email marketing service has the same flaw: they attempt to be a 1-stop shop. Meaning they dilute their main service with alternate features. A jack-of-all-trades but a master of none. Convertkit simply hyper focuses on email and getting you the most in-depth data, making them the master of email marketing.
The downside of having a service that solely specializes in email means that you will have to integrate with a large number of additional services to complete your marketing system.
They provide very in-depth data and tracking regarding behavior, actions and reporting for email campaigns, automation and broadcasts.
The tagging feature is really great because we've been able to keep customers separated based on purchase or what they've signed up for. This way we can better target our emails. The automations/rules was a big game changer. Through that, we've automated so much in our business, which has saved our assistant a lot of time to be doing other important tasks for us. All around an excellent product. I can't imagine running a business without it anymore.
I would like it if more other products naturally integrated with Converkit so we didn't need to use a service like Zapier so much. It seems most other services naturally integrate with mailchimp or constant contact, maybe because those companies are bigger? I'm hoping as Convertkit grows, there will be a lot more native integrations.
It is helping us better organize our customers so they get the most relevant emails for their problem. It is helping us automate our business and better collect information from customers, which is helping us know our customer better.
- GDPR compliant privacy-focused tool - Offers forms & landing pages to collect subscribers - Simple & purpose oriented landing pages - User-friendly UI - Easy email import & migration
- Sends email to subscribers to confirm their subscription - Though it's free to start but becomes expensive as your list grows - Not offer to create landing pages from scratch - URL of the landing pages are so wired they could have had a separate domain for this
Convertkit helps me build relationships with my audience in the form of an email as well as generate leads for my business. It saved me more hours by simplifying my email marketing efforts.
I enjoyed the weekly training Convertkit offered to their community whereas, with ActiveCampaign, I enjoy the monthly calls with an account manager to help optimize the CRM system.
I did not like the cost per subscriber as the email list was projected to grow. I would have liked to have more monthly calls to talk about some of the issues that come up with optimizing the list.
At this time I am no longer using Convertkit. However, I still use their lead magnets to help optimize my website traffic and provide great content for my clients.
Email management and landing page builder
Nothing so far as all benefits are good.
Ability to send email timeiusly with no hassle. It has helped me with skill development through free webinars hosted by convertkit and the newsletters that they send has been of help
The Simplicity of using the Software and various opportunities to segregate users based on the funnel journey or our email engagements. However, what I love with this software is the email open rate which is always on a good note which means most of our emails are ending up in Inbox or Promotion folders. The creation f segmentation and usage of tags is also the best thing which I have used multiple times while using the software. Creating automation with convertkit is very very easy
Yeah, there is only one disadvantage in segmentation. Convertkit will count a user from the date of subscription, If he purchased a product on a specific month while creating segments and trying to segregate the particular month users It won't consider the user from the date of purchase, It will segregate based on the data of the user joined one. In the creator pro plan, there is a solution for it.
Email Reach is the biggest problem convertkit had helped us in solving, we found a lot of our emails are ending in inbox and also we have seen a clear difference in email open rate from day 1 itself. Email automation based on the funnel journey is one of the features which also reduced the lot of manual work. Also, the best thing with the convertkit is we are open to doing experimentation without disturbing the existing templates or setup which is also a good feature.
It's simple, straightforward, and incredibly user-friendly. It has a ton of functionality for no cost whatsoever and allows you to create multiple different assets for your business on the same platform rather than signing into 5 different ones!
I don't love that my forms and landing pages have a weird domain name because it's hosted on Convert Kit, but it's a small price to pay for a good program. Plus you don't really see the URLs when it's a "click the link" kind of situation
They're really helping with my lack of website-building knowledge. I never thought it'd be so simple to create a landing page or form for my customers, but it was absolutely easy to do... and even kind of fun!