{"id":544,"date":"2014-06-24T05:08:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T05:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/?page_id=544"},"modified":"2014-06-24T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:02:50","slug":"infusionsoft-alternative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/infusionsoft-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Infusionsoft Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the page for you if you&#8217;re looking for Infusionsoft Alternatives. Perhaps the kickstarter fee of $2,000 is too much at the moment; you want to just consider other options aside from Infusionsoft; or you heard the Infusionsoft is really confusing and you just want something that&#8217;s simple to use.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go through the different players in the market starting from the lower pricing point and then going up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_64 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/infusionsoft-alternative\/#Low_End\" title=\"Low End\">Low End<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/infusionsoft-alternative\/#Medium_End\" title=\"Medium End\">Medium End<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/infusionsoft-alternative\/#Higher_End\" title=\"Higher End\">Higher End<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Low_End\"><\/span>Low End<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At the lower end (which doesn&#8217;t allow much automation), you have the following email service providers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GetResponse<\/li>\n<li>Aweber<\/li>\n<li>Mailchimp<\/li>\n<li>MadMimi<\/li>\n<li>iContact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These providers generally range from free to $50 per month (unless you have 10,000+ contacts).<\/p>\n<p>If you all you need to do is send monthly newsletters, implement a simple autoresponder sequence, then any of the companies listed above will more than suffice.<\/p>\n<p>I personally prefer <a href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/get-response\">GetResponse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another player in the market which I didn&#8217;t hear about until a year ago is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activecampaign.com\/?_r=72IJY2SN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ActiveCampaign<\/a>. They allow some marketing automation which is pretty cool and they&#8217;re priced on the lower end. They&#8217;ve got some work to do though on reporting stats but otherwise, a fairly good service to use.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Medium_End\"><\/span>Medium End<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is Infusionsoft&#8217;s sweet spot &#8212; small business, speakers, coaches, consultants, real estate agents. Under 10 employees, under a few millions dollars in revenue. People that have outgrown their painful Aweber + 1Shoppingcart bandage solution and want to start automating their business.<\/p>\n<p>The only real alternative in this space here is <a href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/oap\">Ontraport<\/a>. Compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/infusionsoft-reviews\/\">Infusionsoft<\/a>, they provide a great value proposition (there&#8217;s no $2,000 kickstarter fee).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of capabilities, <a href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/oap\">Ontraport<\/a> feels like it would be 5 years behind. But the truth is that after having gone to <a href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/icon14-takeaway\/\">Infusioncon<\/a>, most users aren&#8217;t taking advantage of the advanced capabilities of Infusionsoft <em>anyway<\/em>. I&#8217;d say 80% of the Infusionsoft users I met could use any of the email service providers I&#8217;ve listed on the lower end and achieve the same results.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately if you think that you&#8217;ll actually use and benefit from Infusionsoft&#8217;s capabilities, then go with Infusionsoft. You can read my <a href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/infusionsoft-reviews\/\">Infusionsoft Review<\/a> to get an idea of what kind of automation benefits you can get. To make the most out of Infusionsoft, you&#8217;ll need to dedicate time to get around the learning curve or pay someone else to implement for you. If you take the latter route, realistically you&#8217;d be looking at a total initial cost of much more than $2,000 (the kickstarter fee) if the consultant has any idea what he\/she is doing.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you don&#8217;t want to fork over the time and money, <a href=\"https:\/\/ruizhidong.com\/oap\">Ontraport<\/a> is a reasonable alternative.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Higher_End\"><\/span>Higher End<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On the higher end, the main players in the market are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marketo<\/li>\n<li>Eloqua<\/li>\n<li>Pardot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These guys target mid to enterprise level companies for marketing automation. Marketo is making a good bit of headway after Eloqua got acquired by Oracle.<\/p>\n<p>Other mentions: Hubspot, Act On<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the page for you if you&#8217;re looking for Infusionsoft Alternatives. Perhaps the kickstarter fee of $2,000 is too much at the moment; you want to just consider other options aside from Infusionsoft; or you heard the Infusionsoft is really confusing and you just want something that&#8217;s simple to use. 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