I’ve had plenty of time to test landing page builders over the last few years and now it’s time to put the two biggest to the test!

I’ve created multiple businesses online and one of these two stands out when it comes to an all in one online business builder.

Can you guess what one?

Don’t worry I’ll tell you soon!

It’s simple really, I test everything and I’m a simple man who likes things that just work and make me money….

That’s not too much to ask right?

Let’s get down to business with this Clickfunnels review, oh and Leadpages

Quick Summary: ClickFunnels Vs LeadPages

Now before we move on I’m not saying ClickFunnels is the way you should go because you and I both have different businesses, However, I’m writing this detailed comparison you can decide.

This review examines the features, benefits, and limitations of two online software providers. Both provide the tools to create effective landing pages which you can use to collect leads and generate sales.

Sales pages, Landing pages, and sales funnels are the fundamental staples allowing online business owners to take their efforts to the next level.

Choosing the right sales funnel solution could make a world of difference in ROI and the amount of profits you earn for yourself or your clients.

Let’s uncover which sales funnel service is better, ClickFunnels or Leadpages?

What’s ClickFunnels?

ClickFunnel was designed by Russell Brunson and he’s generated millions online using his own software.

ClickFunnels is an all-in-one sales funnel software that provides you with a shopping cart, Email service, autoresponder and much more.

It’s one of the most powerful funnel solutions on the market, right now.

With ClickFunnels, you can do a lot more with your landing page. Consider it a marketing page that allows you to have complete control over the desired outcome (i.e. boosting conversion or increasing sales).

The great thing about ClickFunnels is that you can connect your email marketing into their system and take advantage of their autoresponder for follow ups and newsletter emails.

This saves you money because then you don’t have to use services like MailChimp or Aweber, you can keep it all together and manage it.

This headline on their website says it all right?

That’s exactly what ClickFunnels is about.

Helping struggling entrepreneurs all the way up to expert entrepreneurs and anyone in between!

What ClickFunels Is All About

ClickFunnels use a simple drag and drop editor allowing you to set up a landing page or sales page exactly as you want it. If you don’t want to use their templates, you can design a page entirely on your own.

Now, this is where ClickFunnels sets themselves apart and becomes the ultimate go to service online business owners or entrepreneurs as we sometimes call our selves.

Analytics

ClickFunnels allows you to incorporate your retargeting and tracking code into your pages.

They provide you with all the details about your pages and visitors so you can learn how well they perform.

Analytics are important but there are lots of other important feature this ClickFunnels review is about to lay out for you.

Shopping Cart

Are you using Shopify or another online e-commerce shopping cart? With ClickFunnels, you don’t have to.

ClickFunnels allows you to track and generate sales directly from the pages you create.

Tracking customers, sending follow up emails, upsell notifications, can all be managed and controlled here.

This is by far one of the best features!

This saves you having to use sites like ClickBank and Zaxaa that cost you more.

You can integrate Stripe as well and that’s free!

Memberships

With Clickfunnels membership sites you can create courses!

You can jump in and create your own course and start selling it by using some of the other features they offer.

This is something I love because I can have everything in one software, I don’t need to use other platforms for me memberships.

Backpack

I just love this feature!

This feature is uniquely offered by ClickFunnels and it is the reason why they stand out when it comes to sales funnel solutions.

If you’re reading this ClickFunnel review this is something you will love about the platform!

If you’re an affiliate marketer, using ClickFunnels’ BackPack affiliate marketing management platform allows you to monitor your affiliate network.

Let’s say you have a product or service. Instead of spending large amounts of money on copywriting and advertising, you can set up your own affiliate marketing system.

Affiliate marketing is a performance based style of marketing where you pay a commission based on every sale made of your product or service.

ClickFunnels makes this easy to track with BackPack. This tool makes it easy to setup your affiliate program and integrates within your funnel and email automation.

Using BackPack is a great way to save your marketing budget while effectively promoting your products and services.

ClickFunnels just did a video explaining how to set this up.

ClickFunnels Actionetics

If you’re using ClickFunnels you can integrate your email marketing programs or ditch them altogether.

Actionetics is ClickFunnels email marketing tool. This is a smart piece of software that you can use to create and send automated emails.

It also has the ability to act and react based on certain actions taken in your funnels.

However, it’s not designed for email alone and can be integrated with Twilio to send SMS.

Actionetics allows you to communicate your business with an array of features that connect you to your target audience.

Using Actionetics allows you to cut back on the amount of 3rd party services by concentrating your efforts on one. (saving you money)

ClickFunnels makes importing your contacts seamless and setting up autoresponders can be done in a few clicks.

Once you have crafted your email autoresponder, you can put them to work right away.

In addition to having multiple email templates, you can also design a fully custom email and personalize them for specific purposes.

Who’s Behind ClickFunnels?

Here’s what you need to know about ClickFunnels. This company was developed by Russell Brunson and an incredible team of designers.

Now I know I mentioned this at the start but…

Russell has been selling online since his earlier college years where he uncovered and profited from various online selling techniques.

He’s sold millions of dollars worth of services and products from his basement and his company.

ClickFunnels makes use of the sales funnels methods he has mastered and used repeatedly to deliver his online success.

I don’t know about you but I would rather use a software that’s backed by someone who actually makes million from using it himself.

He looks like a fun guy right?

He’s also the author of DotComSecrets, one of the top selling business books in the world. He actually gives it away for free!

Now in this review, I don’t want to use Russell as an object to make up your mind on what platform you should use.

I know he’s a fun guy but you still need to choose that platform that’s right for you.

ClickFunnels Page Design

Now one of the best features of this entire platform is that fact that it’s so easy to create the pages and connect all the dots. I really wanted to highlight this inside the review.

With a comprehensive database of premade templates, it makes it super easy to get started and set up pages within minutes.

They also have a marketplace where you can get free or paid templates off other users.

Don’t worry the ClickFunnels software comes with a HUGE variety of templates already built in for free.

Creating Webinar Funnels

This good stuff just keeps coming!

You can go out there and create webinar funnels all withing the ClickFunnels platform.

If you know anything about webinars you know that they suck to setup usually! Not with this system.

A webinar is when you create a presentation to sell a product and you can do all of this and manage it in one single place.

Pros And Cons of Using ClickFunels

Well, it wouldn’t be a review without the classic Pros and Cons now would it

What’s LeadPages?

LeadPages is a fully customizable landing page builder dedicated toward capturing emails.

With Leadpages, you can design a page any way you want using the templates they provide.

You can set up webinars, email collection, lead magnets, squeeze pages, and thank you pages.

If you are using other services for your email marketing, you can integrate them with your Leadpages.

Overall, the primary focus of LeadPages allows you to collect emails. They have recently partnered with some companies like Stripe to incorporate sales being made directly from the page.

LeadPages Features

Leadpages is an introductory level service for business owners to start collecting contacts for those who may be interested in their products and services. Here are a few of the features of Leadpages:

Sending Lead Magnets

Lead magnets are a form of digital giveaway (i.e. an ebook, coupon, video, or free seminar) that can be accessed by someone once they provide their email.

You can set up a landing page with Leadpages using a subscriber box or opt-in box.

Once you collect the email, the link to your content or offer will be provided (through your email service provider or a thank you page).

Sales Pages

There are 350+ templates to choose from and you can use them to design your own sales pages.

Use these to create long sales pages detailing the features and benefits of your product or service. Sales pages are great for closing a deal and processing a sale transaction.

Squeeze Pages

A squeeze page is used to get a prospective customer to take a specific action like registering, signing up, or even buying something.

These pages provide a piece of content (i.e. a YouTube video or text) and a desired action.

Thank You Pages

Thank you pages are a common courtesy after someone has signed up or purchased a product.

You can also incorporate an upsell to capture a customer’s committed, buy-in mentality.

Leadpages has templates that can direct new customers to a new squeeze page or landing page and generate more revenue.

Pop-up Sign-up

If you’re looking for a smart way to capture a lead, pop ups are the way to do it.

You can create this on an existing content page and set a trigger using a link or graphic on your page.

A/B Testing

Having the ability to test variations of your pages allows you to optimize your efforts and increase returns.

Changing text, colors, images, font size and more could be the micro tweaks needed to bring a boost in performance.

Leadpages allows you to test these variations and serves different versions to visitors while tracking it all.

Email Integration

If you’re using services like Aweber, Mailchimp and other email marketing platforms, you can integrate your email system into Leadpages.

Let me be real for a second.

Is that it? I mean to me it just sounds like another landing page builder and that’s exactly what it is.

Just another landing page builder.

Don’t get me wrong this is just my opinion and obviously, this will be all some people need but it could be so much more and it’s just not.

(Page Design) ClickFunnels Vs LeadPages

Leadpages has been a longstanding leader as a landing page provider. Their templates are well recognized and used by many marketers across the web.

ClickFunnels is a new player in the field. They are backed by the marketing powerhouses of Russell Bronson and with their innovative approach and all-in-one capabilities, it wouldn’t be a surprise if ClickFunnels soon dominated the market.

ClickFunnel Page Design

ClickFunnel offers you the ability not just to use templates, but also to build an entire page from scratch.

The templates provided by ClickFunnels allow you to make squeeze (opt-in) pages, sales pages, webinar pages and membership pages.

It includes a few clever editor functions like their drag and drop function.

You can design FAQ elements, styled list elements and more. They have a wide range of styling options so you can ensure your brand and image is recognized.

Here’s a feature that is often lacking in many funnel builders and that’s customization of the email capture form. When building your funnels it’s important to have a range of capture pages.

You get complete control over the optin style of the form.

After getting set up, you can browse through their top converting pages and quickly set one up for your products or services.

LeadPages Page Design

Leadpages have been the main provider of landing pages on the web. They have sure proof templates and they continually update their database with more pages all the time.

They have a good range of templates and they continually update their database with more pages all the time.

You can sort them based on conversion rates too.

Leadpages also uses a drag and drop page builder with HTML design capability. What it lacks though is the ability to add a shopping cart or an automated email response (you’ll need a third party to perform that one).

What it lacks though is the ability to add a shopping cart or an automated email response (you’ll need a third party to perform that one).

There are a few things to point out about the design capabilities of ClickFunnels and Leadpages.

With ClickFunnels, you only have access to a certain amount of pages and funnels if you start at the $97 per month plan.

If you went with Leadpages, you get complete access to all their templates at $37 per month.

But there is a catch… If you use LeadPages you need 3rd party apps and they can cost you well over $200 extra a month depending on what ones you use.

Ease of Page Editing

Even though LeadPages are constantly updating their landing page templates, they are still being used over and over again.

When certain designs start to saturate the marketplace, the common folk will be quick to figure out what this is, yet another, opt in trying to squeeze a sale.

Conversion rates will start to drop.

Without any question, templates have their place but ClickFunnels provides you with complete creative control.

If you’re looking to stand out and perhaps design an original and high converting page, ClickFunnels is the way to go.

You can use one of their templates as a base and use their editing tools to make some extensive changes to meet your exact needs.

With ClickFunnels, you can add taglines, popups, copy, video, optins, testimonials, footers and more.

Keep in mind that the entire design which includes the color and style can be completely customized.

Using the platforms gives you the opportunity to set yourself apart if you’re in an increasingly crowded niche with pages being built on the fly to capture a lead and generate a sale.

Who Has The Best Support?

When you’re new to a platform, having the right support available makes setup easy and the learning curve small.

Here are the big differences in support provided by both ClickFunnels and LeadPages.

When you’re starting with ClickFunnels, you have access to regular email support.

If you’re looking for something more, like phone support or priority template requests, that is only provided to Enterprise members.

One thing ClickFunnels is a HUGE facebook where you can ask for help. LeadPages doesn’t.

Leadpages offer a little more support than ClickFunnels.

If you get their standard plan you receive email support, their pro plan provides live chat and the advanced plan receive all this and phone support (as well as a 1-on-1 call to get started).

However, something to note is that the live chat is only available if you sign up to the more expensive yearly plans.

If you’re paying month to month, you’ll have email support, much like ClickFunnels

Comparing The Price

Both Leadpages and ClickFunnels offer a no lock-in month to month payment plan.

You can also save if you choose to go for their yearly subscription.

Also, both LeadPages and ClickFunnels offer a 14 day free trial so you can test out their platform.

If you choose a yearly subscription with Click Funnels pricing, you can save $194 for their funnel builder only or $567 for the entire ClickFunnels Suite.

Leadpages also offers a saving with any of their annual plans (note: the advanced plan is only available for a yearly subscription).

Both companies offer a range of access to their services at significantly different price points.

Why Is It So Much Fun?

One of these platforms is really fun to be Involved with.

Can you guess what one?

If you guessed ClickFunnels you would be right.

Apart from the awesome Facebook group they have they also have a club called the “2 comma club”

It’s simple, It’s a full marketing funnel platform. LeadPages is just a landing page builder.

This is a secret club of people who have created a million dollars using ClickFunnels!

How cool is that!

Not only that they love creating awesome promotion videos and I love it.

Check this one out…

Final Thoughts

Look, I’m not going to sugar coat this, if you came this far you know I love ClickFunnels but that’s because it’s the perfect business solution for me.

Is it the right solution for you? Well, that depends on your goal.

If you just want to make simple landing pages and pay extra for an email service then maybe LeadPages is right for you.

If you want an all in one online business solution the ClickFunnel is right for you.

At the end of the day, it comes down to money right?

Sure ClickFunnels is a bit more expensive but it has WAY MORE that comes with it plus you don’t need to pay extra for any 3rd party apps.

It’s a pure investment because it will be making you back that money anyway.

I also love the fact that it was created by someone who was a real business owner before he even created it. He did the grind like we did and he created the perfect software to make his like easier now he is offering it to us.

Russell (the founder of ClickFunnels) also uploads tons of Facebook live videos in his Facebook Group so it just feels different being with them…

Feels like family I guess…. feels good.

Trying to start a business? Need to collect leads? need to create a webinar funnel? If so then hands down my recommendation would be ClickFunnels.

ClickFunnels is a complete marketing funnel package and LeadPages is not, so it depends on what you want to achieve.

That’s not to say that I think LeadPages is not right for you because it might be but at the end of the day ClickFunnels is an overall complete package.

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