I have been looking so long for a to-do app which can collect tasks from multiple project management software into one view. And this is exactly what Sunsama does. But there is one big problem with Sunsama, let’s dive in.

Now this is the platform Sunsama where you have a quick overview of what’s going on the next four days. Of course, depending on your screen size, but this is what I really like. You can plan your day and when the day is over, Sunsama even lets you reflect about your day. But it’s very simple as you know it from other to do apps. We can easily add tasks here.

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Features of Sunsama

We can see the tasks we have created already here. We can add comments, notes, you can even make channels. Here I have YouTube as a channel, I have my own website as a channel and then work. And then based on these channels you can see that each task has a specific channel and these tasks I can either say it’s done. I can say that I need to schedule this one on the calendar.

I can snooze it or last but not least, I can say approximately how long would this take? So let’s say this one will take 15 minutes. What I can then do is that I can put it on my calendar, so it will be part of my calendar, so I know when I need to focus on this specific task. So if I click on my calendar over here, you can see right now I have some different elements that I need to do, but otherwise then I can actually plan my calendar with the tasks here. So over here, if I click on Sunsama then we have the task here.

Then I can drag it over and say I want to focus on this at 03:00 p.m. And now it’s added to my calendar and there is an integration to my Google Calendar, so I will see it on all of my devices. I can easily, of course, delete it again from my calendar if I want to. But now it’s linked on my calendar, so I know when to focus on this one, and you can do that with all of your tasks. And the problem that that solves is that you will never take on more tasks that you know that you can finish on a specific day.

So let’s say you take in five tasks but two of them take 4 hours each. Then the rest of the task is just not possible for you to do within one day. Of course if you work more than 8 hours then it’s possible, but sometimes the task just prolongs each other and other elements comes in and interfere during the day. So I really like that this is a way for you never to promise more than you can manage to do in one day. That’s just one of the problems that this solves.

Another problem is that it pulls in tasks from multiple project management software. So over here, I have added an integration to Trello. So within Trello right now I’m just using this board as an example and here you have all the different tasks. I can take these tasks, and then I can move them over here to say that on Wednesday I need to focus on this specific reading time progress bar. And here is the cool feature.

In my automations, I can see down here that when I complete this specific task I need to move it to the next column in Trello. So I don’t even have to spend time on signing in to Trello, going into the board, finding the specific tasks and then manually moving it from column A to column B. This is done automatically within Sunsama and this is how you just pull in tasks from all of your different project management software. On the plus down here, you can see that we can add GitHub, we can add Jira, Asana, even Todoist and then Outlook as an email. Right now I have added Gmail as my email, so I can even pull in my emails from my current inbox and say that on Tuesday I need to focus on this specific email.

So you can see over here, for instance, I have this one here logins to mails. This one comes directly from my email, so I know that, okay today I need to focus on this specific email, and then I can complete it and then go to my email and answer it. Of course, that automation is not there yet. Then we can also work with objectives.

So you can set weekly objectives stating that you want to achieve something specific this week. Maybe it’s a project that you have that you want to finish this week. You can split it up into multiple tasks over the week and then in here you can always follow your objective to see how it’s going on the progress bar. Are you on the right path or do you maybe need to change a bit? Maybe remove some other tasks which are right now in the way of you finishing your objectives.

This can also be used for setting weekly goals. The possibilities are really endless with weekly objectives. Then we have our backlog and that I really like about Sunsama. So let’s say that I have an idea that I want to do something, but I don’t know a specific time that I want to do this on. Then I can just add it to my backlog. So when I plan my week out I just pull the task from my backlog to for instance, Tuesday here and then on Tuesday I need to focus on this task, I really like that.

A different thing could be that. Let’s say that I’m working on a task today, but I’m still missing some parts. Instead of just keeping on postponing it, then just move it to the backlog and wait until you have all the features that you really need. Then there’s also an archive, and you can search within all of your tasks. Here you can only see just updates from Sunsama about what is happening and that is the main functionality of Sunsama.

It seems very simple, but it’s just so useful when you start working on it, especially over here with all the different channels you can use, and you can even integrate it to Slack. So here you can see all the integrations to your workspace and there is of course Outlook, Calendar, Gmail, Outlook as I’ve just shown you. But they do also have Slack, so Slack can easily share your daily plan. You can also share your reflections if you want your reflections to be on Slack. Then here I can add all the members for this specific workspace and here you can set the Privacy customisation, and you can even email in tasks. So if you’re sitting in your email, and you get an idea, or you just have a task you need to get done then you just email into this specific email right here then the task will be added today.

Otherwise, you do also have a backlog email, so it will be added to your backlog, so you can just add it whenever you have time, and you want to. That is the integration into the workspace. When you work more with Sunsama they do also have analytics showing the amount of tasks you have finished, how it’s going on a daily breakdown and Furthermore, so that’s just small analytics. It’s not so useful now I would really like to see if we get some insights on how we can improve our work via the analytics to see okay when you work on this specific way or when you plan your day ahead then you usually finish all of your tasks instead of planning it the same day.

Then we do also have rituals and I really like these rituals because they help you not only plan your day and your week, but also help you reflect on your day and your week. So here I have the ritual of planning today. So as I’ve shown you already the weekly objectives would be here, and this is again to highlight what you need to focus on. Otherwise, you can add your Trello over here to pull in tasks. We do also have a backlog and an archive.

If you have archived any tasks right now, I have not archived any tasks, but if you think that these are fine, then you can fill them into your calendar. So you can see as soon as I say add one event, it changes to the calendar, and now I can start adding these tasks to my calendar. Personally I don’t like to add it to my calendar because then often other tasks just come in and interfere, and then I feel that I’m behind instead of I just have a list where I start from the top, and then I just work my way down. That’s how it personally works best for me.

Maybe it will work better for you if you add it to your calendar. Now going to the next step here, We can also plan next week, we can plan tomorrow, but we can also just keep it as it is and then just plan one day at a time. And when you are ready, and you think the amount of tasks is good, you have planned your calendar, then you just press looks good. And now you can see that you have your daily planning right here.

And then I can either post it to Slack or I can just get started on my plan. That is one way of planning your day. You can also plan your entire week. So first you see here that we saw last week. I did not use this one last week.

So there’s not really anything, but it just shows you an overview of what you have gone. Here you can see that we can start planning this week. So first we build out some objectives. I have here the YouTube video release. I will add that as an objective, and then I will go to the next one.

So right now my weekly plan is to release this YouTube video. I will then press done. So now I have a planned for the entire week and the focus of this week is to release a YouTube video. Now what I want to show you, which I really like, is the daily shutdown. Here you can see the amount of time you have spent on your tasks, what tasks you have finished already and what tasks you haven’t finished.

So if I press next here then you can see that we have our daily shutdown. Here you talk about how was your day, what did you learn about yourself working on these tasks? What do you need to improve for tomorrow? So here we just write some nonsense, and then we can wrap it up. I’m not going to press wrap up now because the day today is not finished.

But that’s just a great way for you to be able to go back to see how much you have improved. Another thing, we can maybe combine this with the analytics to say that okay, on every Tuesday when you make this task you don’t feel so good about it. This thing is going over and over again. Maybe you need to outsource this specific task. That could be a fascinating feature.

But overall, that is what I want to show you within Sunsama. Now I want to talk about the big problem there is with Sunsama.

Sunsama Pricing

Now to the pricing of Sunsama and this is where we see the big problem because Sunsama costs $20 per user that you add to your account and that’s a lot when we compare it to the alternatives TickTick and ClickUp. Even with ClickUp and TickTick, you can use it completely free. However, Sunsama they don’t really believe in free users, and they have got this pricing question so many times that they decided to make a pricing manifesto. Within this pricing manifesto they talk about that they don’t believe in free users, they only believe in people who want to invest in their product, so they can invest back to the users and deliver this premium product that they are talking about. But personally I don’t think they’re there yet, and I don’t think that the current product is worth the $20.

But when it all comes down to pricing compared to features, it is whether it’s worth it for you or for me, when it is, we need to invest in this product. In their pricing manifesto they mentioned that this product costs $1 per day to use. So, if you believe that this product will save you one dollar per day, it is worth it. It’s as simple as that. And personally for me, it saves me a lot of time, so it’s definitely worth it.

But when you compare it to the alternatives then you really have to think whether it’s worth it or not because you do get some more compatibility and some more features within Sunsama. However, is it enough? That is really the question. Let me know in the comment section below. What do you think of the pricing?

Future of Sunsama

Now I couldn’t find the roadmap for Sunsama and I do not think they have one, but they have a long list of features requested by the users and I sorted all of these by the amount of votes they got and here integrations is a huge pinpoint for them. They’re working on integrations to iCalendar. So if we’re using iOS, macOS and everything within the Apple environment then we can finally integrate our calendar into Sunsama. Then they are also working on adding more integrations to other project management software. So if you’re using Monday.com or even a third project management software then you can also take all of those tasks and put them into Sunsama to plan your day.

Pros & Cons using Sunsama

I really like using Sunsama, but I wish they would add the iCalendar integration and just lower the price to allow more people to come in and give feedback. With that being said, I really like their daily workflow the way that I can reflect on my day and the integrations and design overall.

Last thoughts on Sunsama

Sunsama is really a product of the future I have been looking for so long after a product we can collect tasks from multiple project management software into one view and the fact that I can even collect my emails, soon my reminders and just everything in my environment into one view makes it so much easier for me and I’ll just continue to save time using Sunsama and that is why I want to give Sunsama four and a half stars. They are just almost a perfect product with some small floors.

Thank you so much for reading. Let’s catch up on the next one.

Do you know your SEO competitors? This is TrueRanker and TrueRanker has one of the most interesting competitor modules for SEO. Let’s check it out.

Now we’re inside TrueRanker and in the menu out here there are two main elements I want to show you before I show you the WordPress plugin. The first is projects and the second is an SEO Analyser. Let’s just dive into the project here. I have set up my own website. I’ve added a bunch of keywords.

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Features of TrueRanker

So it’s starting to track those different keywords. And these keywords come primarily from Google Search Console, but they also come from the database of TrueRanker. So here you can see our overview of the different keywords. We can see the position I’m on. We can see the latest change both in the number of rankings that I took up but also in the date.

We can see my best ranking. That’s of course only within the amount of time that they have been tracking my rankings. Then we can see the approximate search volume and this is from Google searches. Then we can see the CPC and a lot more here. So what’s interesting is that we can click on any of these different keywords, and then we can get an overview of our competitors.

So you can see here that this is my competitors more or less for this specific review. And these competitors I can basically copy and paste into my competitor analysis, so I can track how it’s going with them compared to myself. And what I can even do is that I can analyse their websites. So right now I have analysed DroidCrunch right here, and it has 57% in the score and this is the SEO Analyser which is used for this. So if I go to the analysis right here you can see that this specific URL scores 57 and just the number by itself doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it’s explained down here why it’s not higher.

So here you can see that the size of the page is a bit too large. They do not use their title length and their meta description is correct. They do not use their headings correctly. The ratio of the page content to page code is incorrect. They’re great at using their keywords.

So their keyword density is great. And then you can see the different points down here as well. So every time I analyse a website, all of these points here are run on that specific website. So I can see what is this website doing great.

And I can get inspired by this in order to make my own score, of course, increase. But let’s try and go back to our project here where we have our keywords. Over here, what you need to note is whether we are ranking on a Snippet or our entire website. So here you can see that I’m actually ranking on both a knowledge card and a featured Snippet. What I would like to see is a screenshot of the actual time that I was ranked number three on this specific keyword just to see how it looked and whether it was incorrect or not. But overall, this is great and, again, you can see that we can analyse all of these pages and this is the overview of your keywords.

Right now I have of course imported my keywords from Google Search Console and that’s why right now we have only these two keywords and these two keywords I can easily add to track as a desktop keyword or as a mobile keyword. I usually track desktop keywords just to begin with to avoid any confusion. But now I have added it, and it is constantly updated. So if I come back in 3 hours and check, then there will maybe be some new keywords that I can track. So I really like that about this.

We do also have keyword suggestions within the tool. So right now the keywords they suggested to begin with, I have added all of them, but I can also change here the country. Let’s change it to be United Kingdom for instance. Still there are no keywords because I’m just tracking all the keywords. But this is really an interesting feature.

Let me know in the comment section below What do you do in order to find specific keywords you want to rank for? Because this is a great way of doing it. We can also share our project, and we can, of course, export it to CSV if we want to work with it within Microsoft Excel or a third programme. We can also add Tags, and we can update specific rankings if you feel the ranking is incorrect, and you want the newest ranking, otherwise it happens automatically within the system.

Here, as well, we can filter our different keywords. Right now I have only chosen the United States. We can filter devices, by tags and URLs as well.

Moving on to adding keywords. This is basically just adding a specific keyword. You can either do it by file a CSV or text file. You can type them in manually, and then you set the different settings for this specific keyword. Now what you can also do is that you can go down to keyword suggestions. This is what I’ve just shown you both from Google Search Console which we see down here under Keyword Suggestions.

Again, the two keywords here are pulled directly from Google Search Console, so those two you can use in order to find the keywords you want to rank for. Before we jump into the competitor module, I just want to show you the visibility index. This is pulled directly from Sistrix, and this shows you how visible you are on Google. So right now I have a visibility score very low 0.0047, and here I can calculate my visibility index. Right now it’s for Denmark, so we can try and change it for the United States and see if it increases.

It does not at all. It’s just zero here. So this is a great way to see whether your articles are shown more on Google or they’re decreasing. It’s just important that you keep monitoring this. But now let’s jump into what we’ve all been waiting for the competitor module.

In here, I have added two competitors at the moment and what we can do right now is that we can compare the keywords I’m tracking how the competitors are ranking on these keywords and a lot of these keywords I’m ranking very well on up here we can get an overview of the average rank, the amount of keywords I’m ranking on the position one to three, position four to ten, and position eleven to 100. So up here I’m doing very well. If we want more information, we can dive down here where we can still see the volume, the device and the location. But what I really like about this module is, if I click edit competitors, you can see that TrueRanker themselves has analysed my website.

They know what my website is about and that’s why they are now showing me different websites that I can add as competitors. I don’t even have to look for these and overall the results are great. These two I’ve just added they are competitors to me 100%, but ActiveCollab is more of a product. So, overall, it’s great results. So let’s just add these competitors, and I’ll accept here. And immediately you will see that it has added competitors.

It already knows, all the rankings for these competitors. And if I scroll up here, you can see that the average rank for me is still higher than those that I added. But GetApp.com is ranking higher in the one to three position. So maybe I should take a look at those articles to see what they do differently on those specific pieces of content. Overall, that is the competitor module.

And with the features coming up, it will be so useful and interesting to see what we can do to pull out even more insights from our competitors. Now I want to show you the WordPress plugin.

So here is the plugin, and it’s a simplified way of seeing your keywords. Here we can again see our different keywords in the different positions, and then we can add new keywords as well. We can also here see the overview of all of our keywords, the position, how it’s changing. And again, the snippets out here. And if I click, we get even more insights to see how I was ranking some days ago.

Who is ranking above me, who’s ranking below me? Of course, we always need to look at those who are ranking above us to see what they do differently in order to rank above us and what we can do to snatch that position from them for us to be the number one spot. So the WordPress plugin is just a great way for you to not leave the WordPress environment if you just want to add a keyword. But I would really like to see this integrated a lot more into WordPress. Maybe to analyse our pages, our content, maybe to automatically add the keywords we have already set within the plugin that we’re using for SEO optimisation for our WordPress page.

And there are a lot more possibilities they can do to make this plugin even more useful. But I think it’s a great start, and I’m really hoping to see more integrations and a better flow of data from WordPress to TrueRanker.

Alternatives to TrueRanker

TrueRanker comes in at a very great pricing point, especially when we compare it to the alternatives and the alternatives, as I see it, are Authoritas and Nozzle. All these three products combined would be a great product, but these three products remind a lot of each other. However, there are smaller minor details about these different products that differs. And the thing about TrueRanker is especially their competitor module because not only do you compare yourself to your competitors, you can also find competitors through this module and this we don’t see within neither Authoritas nor Nozzle. So, I think when we see the future of TrueRanker, develop some of these features into the competitor analysis and make it even more elaborate, it will be an even more useful tool.

Future of TrueRanker

Now I took a look at the roadmap for TrueRanker, and they don’t have so many features planned yet. However, they have a lot of features up for discussion with their users. I want to mention four things that I noticed which will really increase the value of TrueRanker as a product. And the first thing I noticed was a more elaborate integration to Google Search Console, so we can see more statistics, because right now we can only pull keywords which are also useful, but with these statistics it will be even better. Then they are also working on a Google Analytics integration and all the data we have within Google Analytics will make it easier for us to make decisions and to make data driven decisions on our SEO marketing. Now, further I saw that they are working on a backlinks monitor and these backlinks monitors are always interesting because Ahrefs has the biggest backlink database and that has taken a lot of time to build up.

So, by TrueRanker starting now, they are a bit behind compared to Ahrefs, but hopefully they can pull in a database and start building up their own. Lastly, the competitor module, they will even build it out further. So we can not only compare the competitors to each other based on keywords, but we can also compare them based on the amount of time it takes to load a website, the amount of text there is on a website and a lot more different factors and all of these factors will make it possible for us to find an industry standard but also to see how we are laying in the bunch of our competitors compared on multiple metrics.

Pros & Cons using TrueRanker

Now, even though TrueRanker is a great product, there are still some elements they need to work on. First is the UX sometimes it’s a little difficult to navigate around the platform. Second, I’m missing integrations to both Google Analytics and Google Search Console, but this is coming as I just mentioned in the future section before.

Now, what makes TrueRanker stand out from the competition is definitely the keyword suggestions, both the ones they have within the product but also the ones coming from Google Search Console. And then, of course, the competitor analysis module which I have already mentioned.

My experience using TrueRanker

We have talked a lot about the competitor module within TrueRanker, and it is a great module, but one thing I want to highlight as well is the SEO Analyser. Via the Analyser, you can check your own website on a lot of different points, and you can as well check your competitors websites to see what is the industry standard for different websites. How do they rank and so much more that you can get out of this tool and that’s why I want to give TrueRanker four stars. Thank you so much for reading. Let’s catch up on the next one.

So I’ve been using Google Analytics, but there is one major issue in Google Analytics, which has made me look for other products. The major issue within Google Analytics is that they make it so difficult to measure conversions, and that’s why we see products like Plerdy pop up.

Plerdy is a platform a lot like Google Analytics, but they do also have some extra modules. And I’ve been using Plerdy for some time now in order not only to test it out, but also to see whether it can replace Google Analytics 100%. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Plerdy together and test it out.

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We’re now inside Plerdy on the dashboard here where you get a quick overview of the different elements that Plerdy can offer you. On the dashboard we have the integrations from Google Analytics and Google Search console. Up in the menu here we have the different modules that we have access to. One thing that I will already tell you now is that if you decide to try out Plerdy, then do it in Google Chrome because within Safari, I’ve really experienced a lot of bugs and issues, but it is still a great product, and I will show you why now. Moving on to the first module, which is Heatmaps in here we have different categories like clicks, clicks in percentage and so much more in the menu up here.

First, when I saw this, I was a little bit confused because if we scroll down here, you can see that there’s been one image click. There’s been a click on text five times other tags one time, and of course, the links over here, but this is the information you get just within the platform.

So right now you have no idea what they have actually clicked on. In order to see that you have to open up the URL and this is where it gets very interesting because now you will see their UX tool and the UX tool is used to show you what has been clicked on, what has been highlighted and so much more so over here you can see that we have the clicks, and right now it’s just showing clicks overall where we have clicked and where the visitors has clicked.

So you can see that there’s been one click on the blog link, one click on this specific text, three clicks on this button, which is good. Let’s scroll down a bit here. No more clicks down here.

It would be great to have an overview of all of the clicks, so I don’t have to specifically look for them in the specific sections, but this will also do. Now what we can change is we can see clicks in percentage as well. So you can see now the website is divided into sections to see how many have seen this specific section and how many has clicked on this section and section five here 22.7% has clicked based on who has seen it. That’s a high percentage. We can also see the same with scroll depth, here we can see how far down people actually scroll.

So here you can see that 100% sees region one, and then they start to fall off with 56%, 56%, still 56% and so on down here you can see when we go further down, it’s 50%, and then it’s 44% down here. So all of these different metrics you can easily just turn on and off in order to see what is happening on your website. Now we can also change to SEO up here because here we can see what words are used the most on this website. And if we want to see the specific word, we just click on it and then it will be highlighted.

So you can see that it is highlighted here, down here and up here as well.

And that’s how it is for all of the words. And then we get some text statistics down here where we can see the characters, the total words, the number of unique words, and a lot more. We can also highlight the stop words and we can highlight the number of unique words as well. So here you can see that all of these words are unique and that is the UX tool extremely powerful. And you can get some great insights from this tool.

Now let’s go back to the platform here because up here you can see that we have the same metrics that we can see. I can even press on traffic here to see that all of my traffic is coming from direct traffic. You can also see if you have organic, referrals, social media traffic from Ads, and from UTM’s. But these up here are just metrics, it is still within the HeatMaps module that we see this, and you can see some of the graphs are changing.

But now let’s move on to the second module, which is forms and feedback. In here you can build forms. You can even ask for NPS on your website. You can display statistics and so much more. But let’s try and build a form because then I want to show you down here you can see how you can ask for feedback.

So let’s make a form where you can ask for feedback on your website. Here we have the overall design over to the right and to the left is where you change everything. So you can see the description here is in a different language. I will just write give me some feedback. Then we can edit the form elements.

We can change the buttons. We can change the name of the comment field. This means that we can actually enable a comment field so we can ask for even more comments. So for the button I would say give feedback and everything is changed live.

So you can see over here, it has now changed. And if I click on something, we get what do you feel that way. Going further down, we can see what it looks like when they have given feedback. This one I think I will change for feedback, and then we can see some different elements.

If you want to add benefits to the website, that means that if they fill out the form and they need an e-paper, we can redirect them to the e-paper after and then of course we can also change some CSS about this form. We can change the background colour with transparency, some background colour, the form colour, and we can add some shadow. Now the display rules is where you choose when and how and where this specific form should be shown. Here it’s basically an on off button where you choose whether the design should be as it is or it should be minimised.

I will not minimise this one. However, I will choose where it should be shown, and it should be shown after 1 second, and it should repeat it maybe after 30 days because then they give some feedback, and then we have 30 days to fix whatever they have given us in the feedback if it’s negative feedback, you can also choose a hot selector. This means that if they click on a specific button then this feedback opens, and then you can work with scroll down here. Then we do also have traffic groups that you can choose to not show it on mobile.

You can choose to filter on countries on the OS and the user behaviour and now to the funny part where we choose where to show it. So you can choose to show it on the entire website, only a specific page on your website or by language. You can also make global rules for all of your templates and the last one is location. Where do we want to show this feedback? We can choose to show it in the middle of your website, in the sides or in the corners.

Everything is up for grabs here and the last part is settings where we just activate the form.

We can also archive it, of course choose whether we want to show the close button, and we can choose if we want to show the form after closing. So now the form should be on the website. So let’s try and go back to the website here and refresh maybe right now because we have the UX tool it will not show the popup form, but let’s see. It does actually show it. So over here we have the form we just built together, and I will choose the smiley here, and I will say this is great, and then I will give the feedback, so you can see thank you your feedback has been sent. That was what I just wrote before. So now I shouldn’t get this pop up until 30 days from now. So let’s try and go back to the platform and then see this specific lead which means that it should be in here. So let’s try and refresh this specific page.

All right, it is in here in the feedback section. So down here you can see the type of voting we got and the comment that they added. And I can see over here that I have viewed this one. I have acted on it.

So now it’s done. And that’s great. We can also see some display statistics. We can see traffic sources, countries, and you can even work on their API integration if you want to send out mails via MailChimp, Sendpulse, Unisender, and so much, many more integrations here. Really powerful and easy to use. You can also use this to make signups for your newsletter.

You can use it for endless possibilities. But let’s move on to the SEO checker. This is another great module within Plerdy, because here they scan our website for on page analysis SEO. So you can see down here I can press check, and then it will then scan my website and check the entire thing. And when it’s done scanning, then you can see over here.

I get at 75%, so that’s good. But still there’s room for improvement. So let’s open the SEO audit report and see. So right here it says that I have two H1s that I need to fix.

But other than that, my SEO audit looks fine. I have checkmarks all the way down. Let’s try and see the content analysis, and this is on the front page. And there’s not so much content, but down here you can see that we have a warning status here. That’s because I do not know, actually.

And this is also one of the issues with Plerdy. I’m really missing some explanations to what these numbers mean. What does this status mean? Because if I Scroll further down, you can see our top word is affiliate, and it doesn’t make sense to me that I have this status here because this should be a positive thing. So here I think I’m missing a little bit explanation about why it is that this status belongs to this word.

But let’s move on to the relevance, because here you can see that we have our title, description and H1 content. And here you can see that our top words are not used in the description. So we should definitely work on that. And links is not so important, not important. This one is important, and it’s also shown the entire way and the rest is not important either.

But these two words are not showing in the description, and this is the description up here. So we should definitely work that in. Then we have duplicates right now, I do not have any duplicate titles or descriptions, and then our SEO health score. So this is basically an overall health score of your website. So here you can see again, I need to remove so I only have one H1.

Down here you can see that the first key is not present in my description, and we have some other elements we need to work on down here. So this is a great way to make sure that your website is on an SEO standpoint on-page SEO 100% optimised and this you can do for all of your pages and the content analysis and relevance you can see here is what I just showed you. They just opened the same pop up here, but just on a different tab.

Great module.

So now let’s move on to the Google Search Console. This is just a short overview of how it’s going with your Google search, so it’s basically just pulling data from Google Search and showing you in here. It’s not giving you any recommendations o how to improve. It is just showing you what you can also see within Google Search Console. So at the moment it’s not so powerful, but hopefully it will be in the future.

Now the second last module I want to show you is the conversions. The conversions is both great and bad at the same time. It’s great because it’s a lot easier to set up conversions compared to Google Analytics, but still it is not as easy as I would like it to. They already have the UX tool, and it’s already showing on the website.

So why isn’t that integrated with the conversion module? Imagine the UX tool that you just saw before? Try to imagine that we via that can click on the specific buttons and then we can show what conversions we want to measure. So over here in the UX tool, I could have an add conversion button and then I could click on the button that I want to measure conversions on. That would make it so much easier.

But there’s no doubt that already now it’s a lot easier than using Google Analytics because we just add the class here of the button, and then we give it an event name, and it even synchronises with Google Analytics, so we can see it in there. But they can still make this a lot easier. Over here in the goals/events, we can see the results we can see on this specific page 13 has clicked on the goal that I have just set up. And what I really like about Plerdy is that they save all the data all the time.

So let’s say that you start to measure all of your data with Plerdy, but you forget to set up your goals. That’s not a problem at all. Even if you set up the conversions after two, three, four weeks, then Plerdy still have the data and can show you historically who has converted and who has clicked on this specific element that you’re tracking. That’s a great benefit. Now we can also set up funnels here if you want to.

Let’s say that you’re running a marketing campaign, and you need a funnel to check how it’s going with the marketing performance of your campaign. This is where you do it. So in here you will add a specific URL, and this is the way you can do it right now, you can only add URLs.

You cannot add click elements or that they have to read a specific page for a certain amount of time. You can only track URLs. I would like to be able to track not only form submissions, but also click on buttons. And that’s the same if we go back to setting up goals and events, I really want to track form submissions, because if I just track click on a button and the form is not submitted, then it will count as a conversion within Plerdy.

But it’s not actually a conversion. Moving back to the conversion funnels here, we will see our results. In the sales performance in here we will see, of course, the performance of our sale. And if you’re running with macro conversions, you can add that as well in here. A macro conversion can be a newsletter sign up.

It’s mainly secondary conversions. But again, this is a great module with great potential. Now the last module I just want to briefly show you is recording, because as you know, from Hotjar, we can actually record all of our visitors in here. So right now I have set up recording and I have activated it. So in here we can again set up the goals and events, and we can see the list of video sessions.

Right now. There has not been any, and it’s been taking a little bit of time setting this up. So let’s try and make a recording. So I’m just on the website here, and then I’m just trying to scroll a little bit. I’ll click on the blog here just to move around.

And then I’m hoping that it’s recording this right now. So let’s just stop here and then let’s try and go back to the platform. I will try and refresh the page, go to the list of video sessions, and it’s still not recorded. Maybe it will take a little bit of time, but in here again, like we know from Hot Yard, you will see your recordings, and you will see what the users are doing on your website. And this is extremely powerful for you to optimise your website.

Another thing that I also want to say about the Heatmaps is that you need to look for people clicking on text that is not links, because that means that they think it’s a link. And then maybe you should actually change it to a link because that will increase not only your SEO, but it will also increase the way the users use your website.

Plerdy pricing

Now the pricing can be a little bit confusing. That is because you have single modules you can choose, or you can choose the all in one model. And the all in one model gives you a lot more value when you compare the pricing. That is because the page views is what you need to look at, and the single models cost $15 for the cheapest plan, whereas you can get all the different modules in the all in one package for only $23. So my personal recommendation to you is to choose the all in one.

Now, one thing I do not understand about this pricing is why they split it up like this, because if we compare it to the alternative Hotjar and even Google Analytics.

Now Google Analytics is free, but Hotjar has two plans, and they have made it very simple, and I would really like to see Plerdy do this as well.

Future of Plerdy

Now, the future of Plerdy looks interesting. The first element they are working on is dashboard recommendations, where you will get recommendations on what to improve, to increase your conversions and to improve your SEO. The second point is pop-up forms. They do already have pop up forms in the platform, but they’re working on adding more templates so we can again increase our conversions because that is what Plerdy is about. The third point they’re working on is A/B testing, so we can try out different types of campaigns to see what performs the best.

And what’s most important about A/B campaigns is that we can compare them to each other. The fourth thing they’re working on is a better integration in their entire system, because right now they have a lot of different modules, but they don’t really talk together. Now one thing I would really like to see is a better Safari support and just more descriptions on the different points, because with Plerdy, we work a lot with data, so we need descriptions of what the different data points are about.

Pros & Cons using Plerdy

Now, the pros and cons of using Plerdy. Starting with the pros, you get a beautiful design, you get a feature packed product to a low price. You get a powerful UX tool, and you get extensive measurements. Whereas for the cons, I’m missing more data explanations. I’m missing more visuals and I would like a more user-friendly way to set up conversions.

My experience using Plerdy

I think Google Analytics is a great software, but they do also have their cons, and that’s why Plerdy is such a great alternative because Plerdy has all the modules we need, and it’s easy to set up the conversions. I think I will give Plerdy four stars for being a great tool, but they still have some cons they need to work on. Thank you so much for watching. Let’s catch up on the next one.

As I mentioned in my previous video where I looked back in 2021 to find the biggest trends of software. Then we had the biggest trend, which was AI copywriting software. Ever since they released GPT-3 back in January in 2021. We have seen a lot of products coming out within the AI copywriting industry, and some products were early because they were allowed within the closed beta and others came a little bit later when it was opened up for everyone to use. Now in this video, I want to go through the five biggest AI copywriting software we have seen in the industry and those who has had the biggest impact in the industry.
So let’s just dive in.

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1. AI Copywriting 1: Rytr
2. AI Copywriting 2: ClosersCopy
3. AI Copywriting 3: Conversion.ai
4. AI Copywriting 4: Nichesss
5. AI Copywriting 5: Peppertype

AI Copywriting 1: Rytr

Now, the first product I want to talk about is Rytr. Rytr was not necessarily the first product to be in the AI copywriting industry, but they’re definitely established and they have made a huge impact on the industry because first of all, they were announced as Appsumo’s product of the year, and not only did they get a tonne of reviews, but also a tonne of users. And all of these users gave feedback to Rytr and Rytr could then develop their product in the right direction. And when you use Rytr today you can really see that they have spent a tonne of time on developing their product optimising and fine tuning it.

Now Rytr is mainly for short form content. I do know that they are working on a long form content editor and with the quality we see from Rytr, it will be so interesting to see what they can come up with because as many of you know, we do have a limitation on GPT-3, which means that we can only generate a certain amount of characters, which is around 300 or 400 characters. This means that we cannot generate an entire article. We can only generate sections of an article and then put it together in order to get a full article.

But Rytr has not released a long form content editor yet at least as far as I know.

So this will be so interesting to see when they do release it.

Rytr

Rytr is a simple yet powerful AI Copywriting platform. I went through all of their functionality.

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AI Copywriting 2: ClosersCopy

Now the second product I want to mention is ClosersCopy. Normally a lot of these AI copywriting software. They go through a platform called AppSumo, but ClosersCopy took their own approach.

They marketed their own product via Facebook and Google to get the product out in the consumer’s hands to get a tonne of feedback. And the founder, Nico is a very cool guy and I have had a conversation with him where I got some insights within Closers Copy, which you can also see in my review of Closers Copy. But Closers Copy is the perfect tool for long form content. It’s mainly made to produce great articles or blog posts. You can also use it for short form content, but it’s mainly for producing great long form content, and you can see just from the get go when you get into the product.

It is just a long form page you get where you can just produce content based on some small keywords. Then you build an outline, and then you build your entire article. I’m really intrigued to see how ClosersCopy will develop their product in 2022.

ClosersCopy

ClosersCopy is mainly for long – form content. It produces great content.

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AI Copywriting 3: Conversion.ai

Now the third product I want to mention is Conversion.ai. This is mainly the biggest AI copywriting software in the industry and that is because they have been able to purchase smaller players in the market in order to establish themselves and create a great product. So they do have both the long form content and the short form content. I have not been able to play that much around with Conversion.ai, but from what I have seen, they produce great content and it seems like a very professional setup in order to generate both great content but also useful content.

So this will also be interesting to see whether they will continue to purchase smaller players in the market or they will start to fine tune their own products, develop their own product and just continue to deliver the best possible product that they can.

AI Copywriting 4: Nichesss

Now the fourth product I want to mention is Nichesss. Nichesss was one of the first products we saw within the AI copywriting industry and the founder Malcolm, he has really been interacting with the users, the users of Nichesss in order to just deliver the best product. But I think this is also a great example that you don’t have to listen to everything the users are saying because often they mentioned a very niche idea. So you really have to take all of this feedback into account and then figure out what of this feedback has been most requested.

But Malcolm in his Facebook group he has really been interacting. He has been commenting.

He has really been there for the users in order for him to create the best Nichesss that he can. And we can really see today if we see away from the design that the content that Nichesss create is just fantastic. It’s really one of my favourite products in order to generate short form content. He does also have a long form content editor, but this I don’t feel I have got the best results with yet. However, I do feel that in the future, especially here in 2022 we will see great results from this long form editor, so it will be great to see Malcolm continue his journey with Nichesss and just to deliver the best possible version of Nichesss that he can.

Nichesss

Nichesss was one of the first AI Copywriting software in the market.

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AI Copywriting 5: Peppertype

Now the last product I want to mention is PepperType. PepperType is a product that came in, in the mid process of the year, and they are actually delivering great results with their product. It’s mainly meant for short form content and their results are great. I have also reviewed PepperType in order to test out all of their features and overall the results were great.

They have great design, it’s easy to use, the UX is fantastic, so overall, PepperType is a great product. If you want short form content, and you need it for social media, whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, but you can also make it for Idea generation, blog post titles and so on. What I do really hope to see from PepperType in 2022 is the Long Form Content Editor. Maybe they’re waiting for GPT-4 to be released, but I do hope they will start to develop it in 2022, so we will see what they can deliver with GPT-3 for a long Form editor because it’s really easy to see that the AI copywriting industry is going in that direction.

If you do not have the Long Form Content editor, you’re slowly playing yourself out as a player in the industry, whereas when you can deliver great results with a Long Form content editor, you’re definitely in there in the mix, fighting to be the number one in the AI copywriting industry. That was the five products I believe has had the biggest impact on the AI copywriting industry in 2021.

Peppertype

Peppertype is a beautifully designed platform which allows you to generate great content.

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It’s a new year. New software is coming. Thank you so much to all of my followers and viewers. 2021 has really been an interesting year for the software industry. We have seen so many different types of products, whether it’s the AI industry, whether it’s the email or something third. And today I will go through the five biggest trends that I have seen in 2021, and then I will end the video talking about what I expect for 2022.

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1. Software Trend 5: Speech to Text
2. Software Trend 4: Churning Lifetime Customers
3. Software Trend 3: No coding platforms
4. Software Trend 2: Email marketing software
5. Software Trend 1: AI Copywriting
6. My predictions for Software Trends in 2022

Software Trend 5: Speech to Text

But let’s just dive into the first trend, which is speech to text and the other way around. We have seen products like Happy Scribe, Listenr, Blog audio and Speechelo, and so many more where they make it possible to convert text to speech and speech to text.

This means that I can easily transcribe my YouTube videos and make an article talking about the YouTube video I have just made. This is powered by AI, and we will see a lot more of these types of products. Of course, they can still be fine tuned, but this is the fifth biggest trend that I have seen in 2021 and it really makes the life easier.

Software Trend 4: Churning Lifetime Customers

Now the fourth trend that I have seen is lifetime deals churning their lifetime customers. We have seen it with BCAST and we’ve seen it with Botstar.

We have also seen it with other products, but these two were the most defined products. What they did was that they basically went out and they told their Lifetime customers that they could no longer support them because it was too expensive for them. This means that they wanted to try and convert their Lifetime Deal users over to subscription users, and it was really great to see how the entire community came together and was fighting this because it’s really not okay to do. When you offer a Lifetime deal, it is for the lifetime of the software.

If the company is closing down, there’s nothing we can do. But if it’s because they are not creating enough revenue, then the Lifetime users is really the last place they should go, because the Lifetime users, they just bring so much value to the product.

All of the feedback that they give is really defining the product for the actual subscription users. So I’m really happy to see that all of this was turned around both by AppSumo, but mainly by all of the Lifetime users coming together as one unit and fighting this. So we would not lose the product. So I really hope that the software deals who were thinking about doing this will find another solution.

Software Trend 3: No coding platforms

The third trend we have seen in 2021 is no coding platforms.

This means that you can build an entire product with zero coding knowledge. This means that we will also see many more types of different products because you can easily take an idea and turn it into a product with no coding knowledge, and this takes a few weeks to do. But this also means that we see a lower quality in the products coming out and more and more of the products they’re closing down faster. And what these products also need to think about is that in the end, if they get a success, they need to convert their entire code base into actual code because otherwise it will just be too expensive running on these no coding platforms.

But it’s a great way to test out an idea to see whether it has value behind it.

Software Trend 2: Email marketing software

The second biggest trend in 2021 is email marketing software. We have seen so many different types of alternatives to Activecampaign. Up until the beginning of 2020, ActiveCampaign was just the number one in the industry. But in 2021 we have seen products like EnCharge, Kirim.email and Inbox really popping up surfacing and trying to fight for the number one spot in the email marketing software. Of course we have had software like MailChimp, SendGrid and so on for a long time, but ActiveCampaign they differ on all of the integrations they have and their flow builder.

This means that you can easily build email marketing drip campaigns, you can integrate to numerous other platforms and so much more with Active Campaign, and this is what both Encharge, Kirim.email and Inbox is trying to do. They’re just doing it at a much easier plan, and it’s really interesting because the competition in the industry basically means that we get better products. So I hope to see many more products and of course these products will establish themselves and just create better features.

Software Trend 1: AI Copywriting

Now the biggest trend in 2021 is AI copywriting software.

GPT-3 was released in a closed beta in the beginning of 2021 and a lot of founders grabbed this opportunity to create a great product for us to generate text because these AI copywriting tools are great for SEO, they’re great for generating ideas and even generating blog posts.

The best blog post I have seen coming out is from Frase.io. But if we take for the more short form content, for instance, if you need to do social media posting, if you just need an introduction to a blog post or something similar, then Nichesss and ConversionAI they’re really great products. Nichesss was one of the first ones servicing and establishing themselves as an AI copywriting tool. Whereas ConversionAI, which is the number one in the industry, they took a different approach buying small players to make themselves the number one player in the industry.

It’s really interesting to see what will happen in 2022 with all of these products because it is limited how much they can improve their self using GPT-3 before GPT-4 is being released.

Now the last AI copywriting software I just want to mention is Rytr. Rytr was awarded the best product of 2021 on AppSumo. This means that it was not only one of the most sold products, but it was also one of the best products, both on the UX part, but also on the features. They generated great content and the features were easy to use and they just met the user need.

My Predictions for Software Trends in 2022

Now for 2022, I am really excited to see what will happen in the software industry. I have four predictions I think will happen and the first one I really hope will happen is GPT-4.

Right now the release date is set to 1 January 2023, but I do hope that they will release it in a closed beta in the end of 2022. So we can see even better products like Nichesss, ConversionAI and in the same sense, I hope that they are allowed to take on the GPT-4 and just elaborate their products to make them even better. It will really be interesting to see.

Furthermore, SEO is still a hot subject in 2022. It’s a great revenue stream or at least to create some traffic to your website.

So I think we will see even more SEO products and we will see products like Frase.io create better features to be able to generate better blog posts and better articles, so we can rank higher on Google. And overall, I think we will also see more AI incorporated into SEO so we can not only generate content, but we can also analyse our page and compare to all of the competitors out there. It’s really an interesting year for SEO.

Another trend for 2021 is short form content. We’ve seen it both within TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, and this is something that’s really here to stay.

It’s so popular and it’s a huge subject in the industry. So I think in 2022 we will really see some products being able to support this. And we’ve seen products like Wave.video and Invideo where they make it possible to create videos for Twitter and for Facebook and even Pinterest. But we cannot create these portrait videos as easy as we do with TikTok and YouTube. So I think if there is a product out there that will make it possible to create these short form content videos to add a lot of filters, a lot of small things to the video to make it special.

Then this product will really excel in 2022 because the short form content is here to stay.

Now the last thing I think we will see in 2022 is more AI tools, not only GPT-4 to generate content, but prediction, because with AI, we can train the algorithms to predict so much data we can make them predict social media posts. We can make them predict how a marketing campaign will perform, and so much more because 2021 has really been a data year for AI and the more data we have, the easier it is for AI to predict all of the performance for the different campaigns, for text, even for blog post on SEO.

So I think this is really an interesting subject as well, but that is my predictions for 2022.

Please let me know in the comments section down below. What do you think will happen in 2022 and which of these trends do you agree with? Thank you so much for watching. Let’s catch up on the next one.

I have previously reviewed AdYouNeed a platform to manage your Facebook ads and Google ads. Now using AdYouNeed I was really missing a creative tool to help me build converting ads, it’s now here. AdYouNeed has just build AdCreative, which is an AI platform helping you to build converting ads.
So without further Ado, let’s dive into AdCreative and set up some ads.

We are now inside Adcreative.ai and I have already set up my brand Kolekti here. I have integrated with both my Google Ads and my Facebook ads. So by clicking on my brand, you can see that we have one project here also called Kolekti.io. Here we can create a new project if we want to or we can reuse this one. Each project has some text that it varies on.

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1. Features of AdCreative
2. AdCreative pricing
3. Alternatives to AdCreative
4. Future of AdCreative
5. Pros & Cons using AdCreative
6. My experience using AdCreative

Features of AdCreative

So overall, the design here is very modern, but it can be overwhelming, which you will see a little bit later. But let’s just dive into the project I have already created. So here you can see that we have a lot of different types of Ad Creatives already generated because I have already filled in some information. Up here we can change the font to use the font that you use yourself as your brand. Furthermore, we can also change the colours, which I will show you a little bit later.

So by clicking on the edit project here we have the colours down here, but we do also have the text up here. And this is the text which is displayed on all of your different Ad Creatives. So here I have signed up for beta as my call to action. Then I do have a description and I have two titles. If I press save and render it will then rerender everything, and you can see the process down here.

And what’s interesting about these Ad Creatives is that for each of these Ad Creatives, they get a score. So you can see they are sorted right now after the score up here, 97 out of 100 is the highest right now. And this is the AI recommendation. Now, the AI recommendation up here is still learning and still being trained, but it is basically telling you what type of Ad Creative will perform best. This is really interesting, and I can see a very bright future for this specific feature, because if we can integrate Google Ads, and they can integrate Google Analytics and pull data from both Facebook Ads, Analytics and Google Ads to see what performs best, then they will be able to use that data to really tell what Ad Creative is performing.

So that’s a really interesting thing.

And as we scroll down here, you can see all the different templates. So the AI part is not of generating content and it’s not of generating the actual template because the templates are like they are. You can see you get the same templates over and over again. Of course depending on the text, then the AI recommendation changes. Otherwise it is more or less the same.

We can see that we have a lot of different great templates right now, and they are constantly adding more templates that we can use. And what’s interesting is that we can actually take all of these templates, transfer them to Facebook and then A/B test on them. So let’s say that I like the first three ad creatives here. Then I will select them. I will go up to download, and then I will press push to Facebook.

Now it will push it over to Facebook as you can see down here sending successful, and I will then be able to set it up on my Facebook ad account. And then I’ll be able to A/B test to see what type of Ad Creative works the best. You do also notice the image in the background. So if I press edit project here, we do also see that the post size is 1080 by 1080, and in the future that will also be possible to change. But down here we can see that the image is supposed to be here.

And when we set up a new project which I will show you just in a moment, you can also see that we can add an image. So let’s go back to projects and set up a new project. Here you can see that we can choose either a post size or a story size. And then over here we will be able to see an example. I would just go with the post size and continue.

So here you can see again, we need to enter the different text that we also saw before and for your call to action you can also change the icon here. They have a lot of great icons that you can use. So when you have filled out your campaign, you press save and continue. And here you have some very interesting elements.

You can either choose to use the background remover where you upload an image or you choose from the library. So you can remove the background or you can go back to the image search engine. And in here we can search for a specific image. So I just searched for computer and I will then click on this picture here. I will then resize and use this image.

So now I have the image ready. And as you just saw, I used the image search engine. Now I will press create post. I will just call this project YouTube video, and I’ll press save and generate. So now we will get a lot of example, as we just saw before on how AdCreative creates the best type of Ad Creatives for us.

While it generates all of these Ad Creatives, I just want to show you the integrations. Because inside the integrations you can see we have Facebook ads and Google Ads working right now. Then by December 30, we will get Google Analytics and AdYouNeed integration and in January they will come Zapier here and SyncSpider. So this is the integrations which they have right now and which are planned into the future. And I’m really excited to see the Google Analytics and I do really hope that they will utilise all of this data to make the AI recommendation perform even better.

But let’s go back to the project we just created.

Go to the YouTube video here and then here you can see that it’s completely different because now we have another colour, we have another text font and we just have different examples. So if I go up and I change the font, you can see it’s as easy as I just click on the railway for instance, and then I press regenerate. Then it will regenerate all of my ad creatives with the new fonts. It does take a little bit of time, but you can see it in real time here and now it’s done.

And if I do not like this specific colour here, I can press edit project. Down here as you just saw before as well we can change the colours to what we want. I want a little bit more dark tone and you can see that it changes in real time. When I press save and render it will then rerender all of the Ad Creatives for now. I’ll just keep this as it is. And as I just mentioned before, when we select specific Ad Creatives here, then we can go up and download, and we can send it to Facebook.

We can also push it to Google, and we can download them if we want to upload them somewhere ourselves. So if you are running TikTok ads and you want a specific ad in here, then this is the way of doing it by downloading it and then uploading it manually. Of course you will most likely use a video, but it’s just an example. They are also working on a white label solution, and soon we will also see a dark mode of AdCreative, but that is the platform AdCreative.

AdCreative pricing

Now the pricing does show that this is an expensive product. You do also get the AI part, but they have three plans and the cheapest plan is just not worth it. However, the medium plan does give you some benefits and then they have the unlimited plan. And I would advise you to go with the unlimited plan because this allows you to run multiple tests and basically A/B test all of your different Ad Creatives and campaigns. So if you are in for that, the unlimited plan is a perfect fit for you.

But you can also start with the medium plan to test out the platform, and you do also get 100 Ad Creatives that you can use.

Alternatives to AdCreative

Now the alternatives to AdCreatives is Celtra and Marpipe and both of these products are way ahead of AdCreative. AdCreative has recently been released, which means that it is still a bit buggy. It does not have an editor to basically edit all of your ads, and just overall, the feature set within AdCreative is nothing compared to both Marpipe and Celtra.

AdYouNeed

AdYouNeed is the parent company to AdCreative, these 2 products plays perfect together.

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Future of AdCreative

Now, as this is a new product, the roadmap is really packed with features. First off, they’re working on integrations to Google Analytics, Zapier here and even AdYouNeed. So we can really combine the two products together. Then they are adding more templates for us to A/B test on. They are adding language support and last, but not least, they’re adding more sizes so we can start to run video ads and just general Facebook ads.

Pros & Cons using AdCreative

Now, after using AdCreative, I want to share my pros and cons with you. Starting with the pros, you can customise your brands on both fonts and colours. You do get AI recommendation, and you get brand profiles, whereas for the cons, it’s still a new product, so it’s a bit buggy. And even though the design is modern, it can be overwhelming.

My experience using AdCreative

AdCreative is the newest product from AdYouNeed. And as it’s still a new product, it does require more work. Overall, I will give AdCreative three stars. It’s really a great way to generate a lot of Ad Creative ideas in one go. Thank you so much for watching.

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Have you ever wondered how AI and social media play together? With today’s Product Showcase, you can plan out your social media posting utilising AI for both content and to generate hashtags. Today’s Product Showcase is FeedHive, a simple social media scheduler with a powerful back-end. So without further Ado, let’s dive into FeedHive and set up some social media posts.

We are now inside FeedHive and here you can see already the design is very modern. It reminds me a lot of Missinglettr, but this dashboard here gives you a quick overview of your posting. You can get inspired, you can see your plan, upcoming posts, and then they have some suggested readings because they do also have a blog where it is that they teach you what they know about social media posting. But let’s just jump right in and create our first post. So this is the composer.

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And the first time I used this, I got a little bit confused because you can see that we get some inspirations down here where they basically generate content for us. So here’s an idea where it says share insights from a conversation you had lately. If I press use inspiration, it doesn’t only add what it says in the box. It adds a lot more so you can add your own content to this so you can see that it added: I had a discussion with a friend about X lately and at some point he pointed out that X, that one honestly got me thinking.

So this one is a little bit needs to be removed. But overall, that’s a template we can use so we can start to fill out our own content here. And as I am right now posting for Twitter, you can see we have our max down here, and when it is that we just start to fill out, you can see over here we have a live preview. And even when I add a link, then we do also get the overview over here how it will look. So in this preview they are showing exactly how it will look on Twitter.

Of course, the retweets and the likes we would just like to have. But that’s for another time. But down here you can see we have again the Get inspiration. We have use template, and then we can generate hashtags. So if I just remove this text here, and I look for some inspiration for a giveaway. Now I did find something here announce the giveaway as people to like and follow to participate.

Let’s use this inspiration. So just be aware that when we use inspiration, whatever you have written already will be completely deleted. Now, one thing I would like to see is being able to write and search in the inspiration. So if I want to do a post about a specific product or about how my day was, then I would like to be able to search within the inspiration and then get inspired by what it is that the AI tells me. But for now let’s use this one.

So let’s say that my giveaway is live, go check it out and if you like it, share it with your friends and I added a link so you can see again in the preview over here. So right now we have used the inspiration. We have not used the template. A template you can basically add yourself. So when it is that you add a template, then you can reuse it.

So on the dots here we can save it as a template and then it will lay down here so you can see right now we have a template that we can reuse or we can just use again now. Because what we can also do is that we can add a subtweet, and when I do add a subtweet, it is also shown over here in the preview. So whatever you do on the left side will be replicated on the right side of how users will see it. But for now let’s just remove this sub tweet and then generate some hashtags.

And these hashtags are also generated via AI. So right now we got the Giveaway hashtag.

That sounds great. Optinly review also sounds great. Email marketing actually do also sound great and email list as well, so you can see it has now added the hashtags both over here but also on the left side. So right now I think this post is great and I’m ready to schedule it. So over here in this scheduler we can either pick a time, post it now or we can plan it.

And here we choose where we want to post this specific post, whether we want to do it on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or if you have added another social media account. We can also organise it with labels, we can auto retweet, and we can share the draught if it’s for a client who needs to see this draft and approve it. That is also possible. But for now let’s try and plan this post when it is your plan, you need to have an available slot. And as you can see down here, there’s no available slots for this post.

Free a slot or create a new one. I have a lot of free slots right now, so it must be a mistake. But let’s just pick a time instead then. Let’s say we want to post it on Wednesday and I want to do it in the afternoon. Now when I click on the afternoon, I would love to see that they would suggest me a time where they can see based on other Giveaway posts, this is the time that they have performed better.

Of course there are multiple variables that we can put in in order to get a time which is perfect for posting on social media. But when I click afternoon multiple times, it is just choosing random times I would also like to be able to schedule my time per social media. So let’s say that my Facebook page that performs best in the afternoon, but my Twitter performs best in the morning. I would like to also be able to choose between those elements.

But right now, if I want to do that, I need to make a post for each individual social media account and then, of course, schedule it. But let’s just for now pick a time here and then what we can choose is we can choose to press schedule, but before we do so I just want to show you tools because in here we can predict our performance. So if I click on the generate results here, it will now use AI to predict how well our post will do.

So I just get the number 79, which is more than enough I think, that sounds good, and I do get a graph here, but it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me what the graph means.

And the 79, I am still a little bit in doubt of what it is based on. So let’s just go back and schedule our post here. So now the post has been scheduled and what we can do is then go to our calendar to see. So right now we have it on a weekly plan, and you see that on Tuesday one post will go out and on Wednesday the post we just created will go out.

And then we can also go to our plan. And you can see, as I just mentioned before, we have a lot of open slots, so we should be able to schedule on these postings. You can also from here click if you want to create a post on this specific slot, whether it wants to be a motivation, promotion, thread or just a tip. So let’s try with just a tip. When I click update here, it is just saved, but it was already saved.

So what this means is that in my posting I want to share a tip down here where it is Orange and over here in the green one is where I want to share a social media post, which is a motivational one. So this is just a way of seeing the different slots. Again, I would like to see that this was based on data telling me that the reason why you have a slot here is because recently this is what’s performing best, but that’s the calendar. If we go down to the post here, you can see that we have some suggestions up here where we get some ideas of what we can post.

And then down here we have all of our drafts.

We can also see our scheduled one, the history retweets. But the draft is what has just been saved but hasn’t been posted yet. And that is if you go to the compose, you just start typing here, then you can see up in the right corner it is saving, and now it’s saved as a draft. So if I go back to post you can see we have another draft laying here, for now I’ll just delete it.

Now another cool feature is the analytics. In here you can see for either the last 28 days or the last seven days. I would like to be able to control this more in the date range that I choose, but here we can see everything from likes, retweets, impressions, engagement rates, and we can even also go down and see our followers. How it is that FeedHive is predicting our followers to grow. So you can see here that I grow five followers per day.

So in theory that should be a fine growth for me, but it’s not exactly true. I do not grow five followers per day, but it is really interesting if they can tweak this and make this work, we will really get a powerful insight into how our Twitter account is growing. Further down we also have engagement rates, engagement and impressions. Then we have our top tweet when we have Tweeted and then our top labels.

So this will tell you what type of post is performing best for your target group. Really interesting. Now in the socials over here we basically just have an overview of the social media accounts we can add. So right now it’s Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. They will add TikTok and Pinterest in the future.

In the settings we can choose if we want to use a 24 hours clock. If we want to show extended calendar events, publish notifications, we can also split heat map activities. Again, auto retweet where that needs to be enabled by default. And then we can set default providers where you just per default want to share content and that is the platform FeedHive.

FeedHive pricing

Now the pricing reminds me a lot of what we see from the alternatives. It is based on the amount of social media accounts you want to attach and some minor features. If you’re just a single person, then the two first plans are perfect for you, and you can even get started completely free. Now, if you’re a team, I would advise you to go with the two more expensive plans as they fit your needs better. Overall, the entire pricing structure is just very cheap compared to the alternatives.

Alternatives to FeedHive

Now the alternatives to FeedHive, as I see it, is Radaar and Hootsuite. Of course, Hootsuite is number one in the industry. They are so large and they have so much data that they can work on. However, Radaar has social listening, which we don’t see within FeedHive and then FeedHive’s unique selling proposition is their AI. They’re using AI to generate content ideas and to generate hashtags, and they will even use it further ahead to be able to generate actual content.

Radaar

Radaar has social listening and many other great features to grow your social media presence.

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So you can see that these three alternatives put up against each other. They are differing on each of their unique elements. So if you just need a stable product where you know that everything is based on huge data sets, then Hootsuite is perfect for you. If you need social listening but still being able to plan and schedule content, then Radaar is perfect for you. But if you need hashtag generations and AI content ideas and a beautiful design where they take something very complex, put it into a simple machine, then FeedHive is the one for you.

Future of FeedHive

Now the future of FeedHive looks very interesting. First off, they’re working on a mobile app for both iOS and Android so we can have FeedHive with us wherever we go. Then they are working on improvements to the AI suggestions, so we will get better content ideas to write about. Then they are also improving the entire content template system, so we will get folder structure and just a better way of organising our entire structure for our templates. Then they are also working on a subscribe function, so we can subscribe to certain people.

Get a feed on our dashboard so we can get inspired every single day. Or if you just only want to see content from those, you will be able to see that in your feed. Last, but not least, they’re adding more social media accounts like Pinterest and TikTok, so we can broaden our social media presence even further.

Pros & Cons using FeedHive

Now, after spending some time in FeedHive, I want to share some pros and cons with you. Starting with the pros, they have a modern and elegant design. They have a powerful backend, and they have extensive analytics, whereas for the cars, the posting time is not based on data, they do not have an RSS import. I’m really missing the TikTok integration and the compose function can be a little bit difficult to figure out.

My experience using FeedHive

FeedHive have managed to do something so complex, so simple. When you use the platform, and as you just saw in the walkthrough, you get a very simple design, but very powerful features. Overall, I will give FeedHive four stars. It’s really a great design, powerful features, but with some small tweaks on the posting time and more social media integrations, we will really see a powerful competitor in the industry, but yeah, that is my review of FeedHive. I hope that you liked the video and if you did, please give it a thumbs up.

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With today’s Product Showcase, you can easily do giveaways and make sure they reach a larger audience. Today’s Product Showcase is Perkzilla a platform to run contests, giveaways, and just drive more traffic to your website. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Perkzilla and set up a giveaway.

We are now inside the platform Perkzilla on the dashboard here where we have access to all of our campaigns. You can see that they have a lot of interesting elements out here on the menu with an automation centre, a fraud analysis, analytics, and much more. We will go through all of this. But to begin with, we will set up a campaign which we will use through the entire flow.

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So when we create a campaign, we need to choose whether it’s a contest, a giveaway, whether we want to refer a friend, drive more traffic, or start a waitlist for early access. For now we will set up a giveaway, so let’s give it a name and what website this giveaway is attached to. So I’ve chosen a name and a website, and we can also choose if we want to use a dedicated landing page where all the traffic will be referred to. For now, I will not do that.

As a campaign end date, I will choose 30 of December and then let’s press continue.

So here we can set up multiple prices. So this is a campaign that can contain multiple prices within the campaign. So we can either set up delivery details where it is we choose what is the actual delivery method, whether it’s a coupon code, a delivery URL, or specific instructions. For now I will choose the coupon code.

I will write DK2021 and I will save that. Then we can also change how many can win this price by changing the amount of winners and the text over here. I will just say one winner, and then we can add multiple prices. This time I will add other instructions, and then I’ll just write sign up for now. So now in theory we should have two prices, even though it’s only showing me one.

But let’s continue up here and here we choose again whether it’s a contest where it’s based on leaderboard, whether it’s a giveaway, where it’s based on total entries, or if it’s selected randomly. So we did already choose giveaway. So you just need to choose what type of method would you use in order to choose the winner. So let’s just choose randomly in this case. And here we can customise our formula a little bit.

We can do that more later on which I will show you. But here we can choose whether we want to have a single name, whether we want to have a split name or only asking for the email. And over here we can design it a little bit by removing some labels. We can also remove the consent description and much more. I will keep it very simple as it is here with a placeholder and the consent.

And you can see we have enter to win, but let’s just move on and continue because then we will come to the actual action builder that we have here. Where it is we can choose what they can do in order to gain entries. So here you can see that if they sign up, they get ten entries, for every visitor they refer they get one entry, and for every referral they get, which means that another one they have referred is signing up. They get 100 entries and we can add more.

So by clicking on all actions here, you can see that we can add for different social medias right now.

For instance, share via Reddit. Visit our YouTube channel, check out our latest post and so on. You do need to be aware of that these down here where it says requests are not ready yet. They are going to be developed soon.

And one interesting thing is watch video time validated, so you can tell them that they need to watch your entire YouTube video before they can actually enter the giveaway. And that’s something that will really benefit you. But for now I will just add that they need to share it via Facebook, and this looks fine. We can, of course, change the description, change what it needs to be called, but I will just press save for now. So now we have four actions that they can do in order to add more entries to their chance of winning the giveaway.

And now we have our actions. You can also minimise it a little bit more if you only want to see the social sharing. But now let’s move on to the live editor because in here we can design our giveaway page. And again, I’m really impressed by the design it looks outstanding.

However, there is a little bug up here where it is that it needs to show the amount of days which is left to enter this giveaway. But this looks fine, and what we can do is we can click on the different elements, and then we can just edit them by typing in what we need to change. So if I want to write email with the dash, I just enter that if I want to change the description up here, I can do that as well. Basically, you just click on what you want to change, and then you can upload a new image.

We can also change the text down here and so much more. And what you need to be aware of is that there are multiple pages where you can change it. So this is the first page they see after they sign up, where we get a confirmation page with some text where they need to, of course, authenticate their email address. The next page here is where they welcome a first name, whoever has been referred. The next one is an overview of their own giveaway.

And there are so many pages you can change. There’s also the leaderboard here. And then there is the overview where we have the campaign and when you have multiple prices they will be listed down here. You can see that we can add another price down here that they can win. And then we also have the last one.

Where ii is that they remove themselves from the giveaway. So here, of course, you need to encourage them to enter the giveaway again. But over here we can also see how it looks on mobile, and then of course we can also change the colours.

We can change up here if we only want to work on the form. And then down here we have our campaign settings. In campaign settings, you have basic details like what’s the name and the site title, and of course, the campaign deadline, which is extremely important. Then we do also have emails. What type of emails do you want to send out?

We can also capture here where we choose whether it should be email or it should be email and name. Then we have some form settings here where we can remove the placeholder. We can remove the label and of course, the checkboxes. Then we can enter our tracking URLs. We can change the design a little bit.

If we want to remove the banner, if you want to remove the branding, then I have to upgrade right now. We can also remove the countdown timer, and soon we can also change whether we want the end screen and so much more. So that’s really interesting. We do also have autoresponders, and we have additional settings. Now in additional settings, we have some interesting things because we can change of course, the banner, we can change the logo, and then we can change our SMTP settings. And the SMTP settings is your way of sending out emails.

So you enter your SMTP settings. The emails will be sent out via your email so everything will look like it’s coming from your system. They do also have an opt in link here you can use if you just want to share this specific form with someone who wants to enter this specific giveaway, you just need to enter the email here and then you can send it out. But that is how you set up a campaign. Now, some elements I want to show you is that they do also have integrations, so you can basically just shoot in the emails into Activecampaign if you’re using that.

They do also have Mailer light, Getresponse and so on. I’m really hoping to see Encharge in here. They do also have Analytics where you can see the amount of people signing up, how it’s going with the users and how it’s going with your giveaways and your campaigns. This is very extensive, and it will become even more extensive in the future.

And then the most interesting for me at least is their fraud centre. In here we can see if people are trying to cheat, if they are trying to invite emails that just doesn’t exist, or they are trying to create a million email addresses which are just not existing or has just been created recently. And they can see that in the fraud centre. They will, of course, block it and then they will notify you. And you can even get an email every week or every day where they tell you how it’s going with the fraud.

If there is a lot of fraud or it’s more or less. But now let’s move on to the automation centre because this is the last module I want to show you. In here we set up triggers and you can see we already have some triggers down here with a confirmation email, a welcome email. And we can change these as we just saw before with the Live editor, we can upload new image, we can change the heading here, we can change the text, this we should let’s just stay because that’s the pricing and then all of the other elements down here we can just simply change.

And then you have the different triggers up here so you can make rewards triggers, which means that when a user gets X referrals, they will receive a specific email or they will receive a reward. Then there is a notify where it is that you can notify people that they need to generate more sign ups in order to win. And then there’s inactivity. So people who are just not so active in creating sign ups and more entries, they will be able to receive this one. Then there’s motivate again just to those who maybe doesn’t put in the full effort, but you want to motivate them to put in the full effort.

This is possible with this. And then of course there is the winner, whereas you choose the winner and tell them that they have won a specific price. So up here we can choose templates. They do not have so many at the moment. And then you can choose what this trigger is.

It’s basically based on points, a random winner or a hybrid of those two. Then you choose the amount of winners, what the name is, and then you can send a preview to yourself, or you can just send it. And when you save this one, this will automatically send out for you as soon as someone reaches that point where they have won the actual reward that you have set up. And the same goes for the notify for instance.

Here you can see that the template right now is here’s a quick update and then it shows your entries, points, referrals, shares and visitors. And these designs are again very well worked through, really mature and worked through designs that are just outstanding to look at. Again over here we have the different triggers that we need to set in order for this email to be sent out. And that is how it works with all the different triggers. So you can see with this you really get a full system where you can encourage people to sign up.

You can build giveaways, you can build contests and just have the fraud analysis make sure that all of your email and your subscribers are just correct, and they’re authentic. If you are having issues getting started, they have an entire library of articles that you can just read through where you also get tips and tricks on how you run the perfect giveaway.

Perkzilla pricing

Now they have three pricing plans and most of you will go with the first one. But if you do need unlimited of everything, you can go with the last plan, which is a bit more pricey, but you do also get extra teammates, and you get sub accounts.

Alternatives to Perkzilla

Now the alternatives to Perkzilla as I see it is Upviral and Gleam.io and Perkzilla is actually in between these two. The number one as I see it is Upviral.

Upviral really has the amount of features it requires to run a giveaway where you can just spread it on multiple social media and then Gleam.io I see as number three. So Perkzilla is right in between with the amount of features they have, and as you have seen in the walkthrough, they have a lot of great features coming up and actions that you can add, so you can share it on more platforms that you can do right now.

Future of Perkzilla

Now the future of Perkzilla looks very interesting. They are working on some large modules and some small tweaks that will really benefit us. First off, they are upgrading three UX elements, the actions, the welcome screen and the social sharing, and already now I do really like the design, so it will be interesting to see what they can improve on those elements. Furthermore, they are adding CNAME for the landing pages so we can add the landing page to our own domain and talking about landing pages. They are also working on a designer, so we will get a landing page design module where we can drag and drop our landing page together to really make it match our style.

Then they are adding web hooks and more integrations so we can really add Perkzilla into our own custom set up.

Pros & Cons using Perkzilla

Now I’ve been using Perkzilla for some time now so I want to share some pros and cons with you. Starting with the pros. They have fraud analysis, they have a live editor, and they have integrations, whereas for the cons I can’t build my own landing page where I drag and drop the elements and I can’t add the campaign to my own domain.

My experience using Perkzilla

Perkzilla is one of those products that just amazes me. The way they combine a beautiful design, great UX and the amount of features they have is just outstanding to me. Overall, I will give Perkzilla four and a half stars. It’s a really mature product, but I’m still missing the landing page designer so I can drag and drop my own landing page. But, yeah, that is my review of Perkzilla. I hope that you liked the video.

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Do you need a new spark of creativity when it comes to writing? Or do you just need new ideas for videos, blog posts, and blog headlines? Then today’s product showcase might be for you. Today’s Product Showcase is WordHero, an AI Copywriting tool, providing you with ideas and content in all sorts of forms. So without further Ado, let’s dive into WordHero and create some ideas.

We are now inside WordHero, and it is a very simple platform. We have a menu up here where we have home, the editor, which is the long form editor, and then we have the history, which is the content I have already generated. But let’s just go back to home and then let’s start out by testing one of the tools. And as you know, if you’ve seen my other videos of AI copywriting tools, I always test the blog intros because that’s my comparable point where I can compare the different tools to each other.

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So let’s start out by entering a topic.

So I have now entered the topic powerful affiliate marketing software, which helps you create an overview of your affiliate programmes. And right now the AI is writing. So the speed of the writing is okay. I’ve seen it faster with both Nichesss and Peppertype, but it’s okay. So we got here three different intros we can use, and in the bottom we can give some feedback whether the introductions were great or not so good.

And this feedback is used to improve this specific tool. And what I have seen in their future roadmap is that later on they will add so we can create keywords which needs to be used in the blog introduction. If you think that’s an interesting feature, then please give this video a like. Now let’s take a look at the different blog intros.

So what we have to remember with the blog introduction is that it needs to start broad and then further down in the blog. Then we will narrow it into what the subject is about. And here we get three very broad blog introductions. And overall they’re okay. There are some elements where it is using the wrong names and some elements where it just doesn’t make 100% sense.

But when I wrote my topic, I tried to write to the affiliater and not the company doing the affiliate marketing programme, and all of the blog introductions are for the companies. So the target group for these blog introductions are not correct. So let me try and change my topic. Now I have tried to take a different approach talking about a project management software helping you manage all of your projects in one place. So this one is to a very specific target group.

So let’s see the blog introductions, again we get three blog introductions. So here we do actually see some great introductions. All of them are using the name Panta.ai, and it’s using them in the right sense. The first one is very generic and the last one is very specific.

Talking about Trello, Google Docs, how it’s using the features from there and it’s talking about you can create cards, list and you can upload files and so on. So the last one is actually talking about features, and in this case they were lucky because those features are part of the project management software. So overall, this is a great result. So it seems the blog introductions can be used if you are extremely specific with what you need. And right here the limit is actually okay because it is a topic I’m writing.

I’m not writing an entire introduction, which they need to then work on and then elaborate it. One thing I did notice is the first blog introduction here. The first sentence is exactly what I wrote. So that is a bit of a mix, but the rest is great. Now let’s try and move on and let’s try and maybe create a book title.

So we will keep the same topic as we chose before and then let’s choose that it’s a nonfiction book type. Now let’s see what type of results we get. So now we’ve got six different results and the first one is just called Panta. And then from there it is talking about AI. This is fine.

However, the name is Panta.ai, so I would like to see that being used. But overall the titles are fine. It looks like blog posts, not so much book titles, but it can be used, especially the one called The Easy Way to Manage your Projects. That really does sound like a book title.

So that’s an interesting feature. Now let’s move on and try some social media tools, because up here they have different categories that we can use. So I will try to generate some video ideas. And here I will choose YouTube where I want to create the videos. And then I need to give a short description.

I can see here that it took my nonfiction from my book title and entered into my description, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. But let’s try and make a short description. So I have now chosen the short description. All AI copywriting software combined, which is the best one? So let’s try and see the video ideas.

The video ideas are completely off. It makes no sense. The first one is a room full of people typing on their keyboards. The second one, they are all typing at the same time, but you can’t understand. And the last one, AI and human can work together in a video.

So this is a huge, huge miss. These video ideas doesn’t make sense, and it has nothing to do with the description I made. Let’s try a different description. Now I chose the description. What is the best software for email marketing?

Again, the ideas over here are completely off, except for the last one. However, the last one is just exactly what I wrote. So this tool is not very relevant and it gives very poor results. Unfortunately. So let’s move on and try one last tool.

Let’s try and generate a product review. So the name of the product I need to fill out and then what the product is about. So again, I chose Panta.ai is a project management software, helping you to create an overview of all of your projects in one place. And I did do one typo, but I can see that it worked fine. So here we do get two product reviews and they’re actually great.

I would be able to copy and paste these reviews and use if I had to review Panta.ai. Of course this is a text review, but it is still a decent output. Now one thing I want to show you is their writing tools, because in writing tools they have a grammar corrector. Now this tool is another tool where I think to myself, how can this be relevant? Because overall we can enter 200 characters.

And when do you want to copy and paste a sentence which is 200 characters or less? Often you want an entire article which is grammar corrected. So again, this is not such a relevant tool, and often we just want it up in the Chrome extension or in the Safari extension. We don’t want to copy and paste it into WordHero to see what we can change in order to achieve better grammar. So it seems like some of these tools are not as relevant or at least not working like I would like them to work, especially as we saw it now with the grammar corrector, but also with the video ideas, but they do have a lot of interesting tools like the tone changer.

I know their AIDA copywriting formula is working great.

And if I click on all you can see that they have a lot of different tools. And if you want to use the Long form editor, you can do that as well. However, the Long form editor is basically just a long piece of content that you can write with their small copy tools. So I don’t see it as a real long form editor. I just see it as a way of making it easier and more convenient to use a lot of the small tools in one article.

So if that works for you, you should definitely try it out, personally for me, I like when it’s more built in and the Long form editor works to write full length articles with an introduction, sections, headlines, an outline and a conclusion in the end.

WordHero pricing

Taking a look at the pricing structure, it is very simple. You can only choose one plan, and when you choose between paying annually and monthly, you will see a huge difference. Paying monthly, you will pay $49, whereas if you choose the annually, you only pay $29 per month.

So it’s very obvious for me to see that they want to try and bind all of their customers for a year at least. One thing you do need to be aware of is their Long Form editor is not part of this monthly payment. That is an add on you need to buy later on.

Alternatives to WordHero

But comparing this to the alternatives, as I see it being Nichesss and Peppertype, then it is in between on some points. Nichesss is comparable because of the design, but Nichesss just generate better content and their long form editor seems to be further ahead.

Peppertype

Peppertype is a more refined AI copywriting software to create unique content.

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Whereas Peppertype I see as the best of these three, they have the great design, great short form copy, and great long form copy. So if you just need the best, go with Peppertype. But WordHero definitely has some interesting elements coming up very soon.

Future of WordHero

Moving on to the future of WordHero, they are working on more tools like sales copies, social media tools, and an article rewriter. Furthermore, they are adding document structure with folders and they’re adding team management so we can be able to use their platform more easily. Last but not least, they are adding a plagiarism checker, so we assure that the content that we are using is unique and not used already. Of course they are working on a lot more elements, but this is the most interesting things they are adding as I see it.

Pros & Cons using WordHero

Now, moving on to the pros and cons of using WordHero. Starting with the pros, they have a lot of great small copy tools, the output is decent and all copies are saved, whereas for the cons, it’s easy to lose the overview in the design. The Long Form editor is an addon and I feel limited on my own input.

My experience using WordHero

WordHero is still a platform in development and the fact that the Longform editor is an addon is a bit of a letdown for me. Overall, I will give WordHero three stars. Their design is a bit outdated and the output is not as great like we see it with Nichesss and Peppertype, but yeah, that is my review of WordHero. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you have any questions to WordHero or other products you would like me to review, please leave a comment down below.

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Manual processes are time consuming, and not many of us like to do them. I especially do everything I can to avoid manual processes. And luckily there are tools to help us. Today’s product showcase is Captain Data, an automation platform helping with anything from lead generation to Twitter interaction. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Captain Data and let’s set up an automation.

We are now inside the platform Captain Data here we have the overview of my workflows and it is a simple, simple platform. We have four menu points out here and then we have some resources, but the four menu points are what we need to focus on. So first off, we have integrations down here and this is where you set up your integrations because it’s important to remember that Captain Data is only an engine. You still need to feed both the input, the output and the integration. So if you want to crawl data on Google, you go to Google Custom Search, and then you need to connect your API account.

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5. Pros & Cons using Captain Data
6. My experience using Captain Data

Features of Captain Data

This means that you need to go to Google Cloud. You need to sign up for an account, set up the API, and then you can start using Captain Data. So just do remember that they do also have guides to how you do it, which you can see right here. But it is very simple. When you have set up your integrations, then we do go back to my workflows here.

Here, you can see that right now, I have four workflows set up. An interesting one is the follow Twitter account followers. I like that one. And then we have the surf Google Search and we have some other elements and I will show you also the prebuilt workflows they have.

First off, I want to show you the Twitter automation here. By clicking on the actual automation I do get a menu here, and I do get the results. So this is the history. I haven’t run this specific automation yet. Otherwise we would be able to see results, schedules and the history here, but we can just run it.

But before we do so then we need to set it up correctly. So I will just edit it, and now you can see our automation. I will just call this one very simple Twitter. And now we need to edit our accounts.

And here we are sent directly into the integrations. So I will just connect my Twitter account. I have now connected my Twitter account. I have added it to the automation, and when we scroll down here, you can see that we have something called input.

Here it has automatically added the Twitter profile URL, which is where it will go in and then follow. And then we have the parameters, the maximum number of followers we want to do. And then we have the launcher settings. Now the launcher settings we can choose to either do it now, we can do it later or we can do it repeatedly if you want to do it every Monday or every other hour.

I will just press launch for now. So right now it is launching the automation. And then this means that the automation is now running actively in the background. Now let’s try and move on to another automation I have made. This one is a little bit more simple.

It’s called a website scraper. What I do is that I just simply scrape a specific website, in this case my own website, and then it will scrape for some specific things they will look for. Here I will say that I also want the image URLs, and then I’ll press launch. So now it will go in, and then it will scrape my website, and it will find whatever elements it can find. And then it will also look for the image URLs.

Now you can see that the Twitter one is done, and that is because we did not add that many of the Twitter profiles we need to add even more Twitter profiles to make it run even further. But now let’s just wait for the crawler here to see the actual results. The crawler is now done and by clicking on it, we can see the history. So over here we have the results and by clicking on it, we can see that it did not find any emails. It did not find any Facebook URL, any images, any Instagram, or it did not find basically anything.

And on my front page I have all of these elements. I have both images. I have the YouTube url, LinkedIn url and so much more. So it’s a bit of a letdown to see that it couldn’t scrape that. It should be a fairly simple way of scraping, but it didn’t fetch that.

Now let’s try and go back to the Twitter automation here because if I just go to the new configuration, and then I enter again Twitter here choose the setup I have made. And then let’s try and add some Twitter profile URLs. So for now I have just added one URL maximum follow 1000 of these and then let’s press launch again. So now it will try to follow a maximum of 1000 followers of that account. So let’s see how that will go.

In the meantime, I want to show you the store because in here is where all of the templates are laying. At the moment, you cannot build your own workflow. So you have to use a prebuilt workflow. But with all of their integrations, they do already have a lot of great workflows. So you can get started already, and you do not have to wait because the custom workflow editor is coming very soon.

But for instance, if we want to do something with Google, let’s press on Google. Then you can see that we have these different workflows that we can choose between. We can find and push decision makers from websites to LGM audience. Or we can simply just extract data from Google and enter it into a spreadsheet. We can also find company employees with Sales Navigator and Google and so much more.

You can see they have a lot of great Google searches you can do. You can also do a very simple Google search. Now, when you see a Google search, you could also do that manually. That is correct. However, they do also have an API.

So via Captain Data’s API, you can actually use your workflows and your automations to run from your system or wherever you want to run it from. So this is a great add-on. But now let’s try and go back to the workflows here. We can see that our Twitter account here is still running at the moment, and that is great. That means that it is working.

So you can see that if I click on it right now it says it has finished and if I click on the result, it should have now outputted 1000 of the followers of this account. I’m not 100% sure if that is correct. So let’s try and go to the logs to see. So here you can see that it has processed a lot of data. So I have now refreshed, and you can see that there are some more elements running right now.

First, it has extracted all of the Twitter followers with a maximum of 1000, and it did get 1000 results. Now the next step it’s doing is that now it is following all of these Twitter profiles, and at the moment it has made six out of 400 follows just for today. Now the way this works is because I have the Chrome extension. So because I’m signed into Twitter in the browser and with the Chrome extension, then it can do this, for now we’ll just stop the job.

So it doesn’t follow more Twitter profiles. But this was great. This really works and I have checked on my Twitter profile, and it has added these follows. So that is a great automation if you want to increase your Twitter interaction or at least follow a certain amount of followers to show that you have something to share with them.

You do also have the activity overview here where you basically have an overview of all of your automations. So you can see I have run some different ones and the last one we just built together. The Twitter interaction here is also laying in here, and by clicking on it, you can see that we still get the results, and we can still cancel the job up here because it’s scheduled right now and we can see the same view as what we saw just before. Now what I want to say about Captain Data is that even though they have a great design and it’s easy to use, sometimes it can be a bit confusing.

Luckily, they do have a great onboarding over here where you can go through the different elements you can download their extension.

You can watch some videos of how you can really use Captain Data, but I do really hope that this will walkthrough gave you some idea of how you can use Captain Data for your advantage. And as you can see, even though they don’t have a custom workflow builder, they do have a lot of great prebuilt workflows that you can use right away.

Captain Data pricing

When we take a look at the pricing for Captain Data, you will immediately notice that it is a quite expensive tool and these automation tools they are expensive to use because you do have a really powerful entengineian that you can work with and these engines, they just cost a lot to maintain. So that is why the prices are like they are. However, Captain Data is actually doing it a little bit different. Often what we see with automation tools is that the pricing is based on the amount of hours that you run your automations.

But within Captain Data, you actually get the amount of tasks, so you can run, for instance, 25,000 tasks on the same plan.

That’s a big amount of tasks. Maybe this will change in the future, but right now that’s a huge benefit. However, when you do have to pick the right plan for you, you need to look at the tasks you need to try to figure out how many tasks you need to get because they differ on a lot of different parameters these different plans. So do really take a look at the tasks.

Alternatives to Captain Data

Now, the alternatives to Captain Data is Texau and Phantom Buster.

Texau I have previously reviewed, and they are ahead of Captain Data and the same with Phantom Buster. The way they are ahead is on two main elements, both within Texau and Phantom Buster. We can build our own workflows where we basically drag and drop the different elements we want to use, and then slowly we build our own workflow, whereas within Captain Data, that is not possible at the moment, we can only use prebuilt workflows right now. Another element is integrations.

Texau

Texau is a fantastic product for automating marketing processes.

watch review of texau

Within Texau and Phantom Boxer we just have a lot more integrations, and this is so important to have because integrations is just what makes up the entire product. The more integrations the more automations we can make and the more manual processes we can get rid of. So I really hope to see more integrations in the future of Captain Data and of course, a custom workflow editor, which I will talk more about just in a moment.

Future of Captain Data

When we take a look at the future of Captain Data, they have a lot of interesting elements, but there are four main things that I noticed.

First off, they are working on more extraction models so we can extract even more data from different places on the World Wide Web. Furthermore, they are also working on a custom workflow builder.

This will really open up Captain Data so we can build our own workflows and really just narrow our workflows into do exactly what we want it to do instead of using the prebuilt workflows and try to make it work with our usecases. Furthermore, they are adding LinkedIn event invites to their workflow so we can send out these invites automatically. Last, but not least, they’re working on adding more integrations to the platform. And as I’ve already mentioned, this is crucial in order to really benefit from these automation platforms.

Pros & Cons using Captain Data

Moving on to the pros and cons of using Captain Data. Starting with the pros, they have a powerful engine, your workflows really execute fast. They have a modern and easy to use design and their extraction options are outstanding. Whereas for the cons, the extraction data is not always precise. I’m missing more integrations like Reddit and Quora, and I’m missing the custom workflow editor.

My experience using Captain Data

Captain Data are great at what they’re doing at the moment. Their prebuilt workflows works great and all of their integrations are native, which is a must for these automation tools. Overall, I will give Captain Data three and a half stars. I do miss more integrations and the fact that I can’t build my own workflows is just a letdown at the moment, but yeah, that is my review of Captain Data. I hope that you liked the review and if you did, please give it a thumbs up.

If you have any questions to Captain Data other products you would like me to review, please leave a comment down below. Thank you so much for watching. Let’s catch up on the next one.

Do you find yourself out of ideas writing messages? Whether it’s a LinkedIn message, an email, or setting up an ad? You’re not the only one. I often myself run out of ideas, or I just write in the same tone over and over over again. Today’s product showcases Writecream, an AI copywriting tool, helping you to be more creative about your writing. So whether you need to set up a social media post, an ad or write a personalised LinkedIn message, then Writecream is there for you. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Writecream and generate some text.

We are now inside Writecream, and as you can see, it’s a really modern design. It’s easy to use, and they have made a lot of white space around. I really do enjoy this design, but the product is very simple. We can generate text in different languages, and that’s about it.

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Features of Writecream

So in the menu out here we have our dashboard where we can generate content. Then we have our recent activity up here where we can see what we have already generated. Often in these AI copywriting tools, they don’t save the generated text because it just takes so much space on the server, but Writecream save the text. Basically all the text you generate you can always find in the recent activity.

That’s really a great add-on. But the other menu points here are just the different tools. You can see that they also have some categories here, and that is the same categories we see out here. You can see they’re just changing, but let’s just start off by generating a blog introduction. This is something I have done in a lot of other tools, so I do really know how these introductions are generated.

So here you can see that I have added a brand. I have added a blog topic, and then I’ll press generate. So you can see it happened rather fast. I have my title, which is Kolekti.io, and then my topic is Kolekti.io is an affiliate dashboard helping you to manage all of your affiliate deals in one place. And the different results down here varies a lot.

So first off, I want to say that it’s great to see so many different types of introductions. Often they’re in the same tone or at least in the same category, but these four are very different. Now the first one here, the first sentence is a bit off, but the second sentence is really great. And when I look down to the different copies here, they are actually great. This one, great copy as well.

And also this one, the last one here becomes a little bit off, where it’s talking about affiliate deals. I did mention affiliate deals up here, but it’s just it’s categorised in the wrong way down here. But overall, this is a great result. I would be able to use at least this one right away as a blog introduction. But now for fun, let’s try and generate again to see whether we got new results or we get the same.

And here you can see the content generated. Again, Writecream is really fast at generating content. I must say that, but these different blog introductions are completely different from what we just generated. So that is a big plus for Writecream. Because often we see more or less the same blog introductions generated or in the same tone at least.

But here we do get different types of text generated every time, and they’re really relevant. I really like how they use the product name or the brand in the phrases that they use of the text generated. That is again, a huge plus. So overall this tool works really well. Now let’s try and go back and maybe use a social media tool.

Let’s try and generate an Instagram post. Again, we have the same here we have the product name, and then we have the product description. So this would in theory be a post for this specific product. Let’s try and press generate so we can see what they give us. So here you can see that we actually do get great results.

The first one here is very broad, but the second one and the third one here are great. This one is not so relevant. Here again, we have a great slogan that we could use. This one is a bit over the top maybe, this one is just very broad, and then this one is not really what I’m looking for here.

So we do get a bit mixed results here. Of course I can use this one. I can use maybe the first four or five at least. And then it becomes a little bit over the top or it just goes a little bit off the side here. But overall, again, great results.

I like that they are short and to the point, because for social media posts, we do not have that much space to work with, because otherwise it will come under the View more button. And then often it will not be seen by the viewers. So this is just really great results. If we want to add more text, we can always do that ourselves. Or we can use the blog introduction to add even more text.

So again, a great result. Now let’s try an email tool. So now we have tried the SEO, the social media, and before we go to Copywriting and the Long Form editor, I just want to try the email tool. So what I want is I want to write a LinkedIn message. And here we have two options.

We can either upload a list where it will then generate a text message for each of those in the list, or we can just enter a URL. For now. I’ve just entered a URL, and now it will take a bit longer, because now it has to see what my profile is about and then it will then add the text you can see here. So this is what it has drawn from my LinkedIn profile, and this is correct mentioned on my LinkedIn profile and it is personalised, but it’s very broad.

Here I can’t really control what I would like this message to be about.

This seems to be a tool for hiring people. If I would like to just connect or just network a bit with the person, this tool would not be a big help for me, but if it’s for finding new people for your team, it’s a great tool. I would, however, like to be able to control the message a bit to tell the tool what the message should be about. Now let’s go back to the dashboard here and go to copywriting. So within copywriting, we have these different tools you see here.

And what I would like to try is the brand description. So again, we have the brand name, the product description, and I will press generate here, again it comes very fast with the results. So let’s try and see the different results. So here there are two great results and two bad results. The first result is basically just what I typed in and what you will notice for all of these different results is that the first sentence is basically what I wrote.

Now that’s fine, but these two text here where we see the second one and the third one here, they’re actually very good, great results. The last one here is a bit off where it’s telling that the tool is free. It is definitely not free, but these texts are great. They’re telling about the platform, how you can track your performance in real time, manage your campaigns and easily optimise your affiliate marketing.

And down here again here it’s talking about we can track our earnings easily payments and we can view our referral stats. So again, a great result. Overall, these short form copies are really generating great results. Now let’s try and change the language.

I will change it to my native language, Danish, so I can confirm whether the results are there or not. So again, we’ll go back to create a copy. I will go to the SEO and I will take the blog intro. So here I have to change this to Danish, which I have done now, and then I’ll press generate. So let’s see how this will go.

Now, these results are not great. It’s very easy for me to see that they have been translated word by word, and often it doesn’t really make sense. So right now I can only test Danish because that’s the only language that I know of except for English. And I must say that I’m a bit disappointed to see this, in some of the other AI copywriting tools that I have tested. I have received much greater results.

So they really need to work on this translation service because it’s not great, but now let’s go to the exciting part. Let’s try their Long Form editor where we can generate long form content. Right now it’s in beta, and I will just delete what it says here. So the way it works is that we have our big text area where we build our blog post, and then on the left side is where we generate the content. So first off, I’m missing a way of setting a title which this blog post will be about.

But I assume that we have to set that in here as well. So we will write an article about the product name Kolekti and we have the product description. So here we’ll get some ideas of what we can write about and the tone I will just select casual as it’s already on, and then I’ll press write for me. Again we get results extremely fast.

That is a huge bonus by using Writecream. So now you can see that it’s writing in Danish and that’s fine. But I would like to test it in English because now I know that the results are not great in Danish. So I’ll just go to the dashboard to the languages and change back to English. And what I want you to notice is that they have a tonne of languages here.

They do have more than 75. However, if the results in all the languages are as they are in Danish, then I do not recommend using this for those languages. However, if they do get a change or we just receive better results, then do definitely use Writecream because they generate great content in English. But now I have changed back to English and we will go down and we will test out the Long Form editor again. So I’ll just start out by deleting what we had in Danish and then write for me in English.

So there are some really interesting ideas here. The first one is completely off. I will delete that, but this one is very interesting how they can increase affiliate sales by using Kolekti and this one again interesting. All of the last ones here are actually very interesting. But let’s just go with the first one here.

I like this one. So now we have our title, as you can see here. So I will then go up and then change to blog intro. Again, I keep the same product name and the blog topic. However, I do think I will change the topic to whatever we chose just before, and then I will press write for me again.

So now you can see that we’ve got four different blog introductions and the way this is working UX wise at the moment is not optimal. It does take too much time generating these blog introductions because I have to sit and manually remove add text and so on. I wish they would have a better flow where we basically would maybe get an overview of the options where we could choose the option we would like, and then that would be inserted into the editor or like Frase.io does it where we basically build an outline, and then for each heading, then we generate text automatically. But for now, this is also working okay.

So as a blog introduction, I do like the first one. It is a bit broad, but often that’s what blog introductions are about. As long as it narrows in at the end of the introduction. Now the second and the third one I feel are very short to use as a blog introduction, and the fourth one is actually okay.

But let’s just go with the first one here. I feel that’s fine. Now this is one way of going around building your blog article. Another way you can do is that you can start with a blog outline. So again, we have our blog topic, our brand name.

I will choose again the tone casual, and then I will say write for me. So now we will get an outline. As you can see here, we have four different outlines, and then based on each of these headings, then we can generate text, again this is not optimal, and it’s not the fastest way of generating an article, but it does work. So let’s just try and go with the first outline here, which is very generic, but it does have the third and the fourth one, which is narrowing in a bit.

So what I do recommend you now is generating text for each of these headings.

And there are two ways you can do this. You can either use the blog intro or you can use the blog heading expand. So if we use the blog heading expand, and we take our heading here what is Kolekti.io, make sure that the cursor is where the text should be generated. And then we say, Write for me. Then let’s see what results we get.

So they’re added down here, and this is different heading expansions for the heading that we have. These results are a bit of a mix. The first one is actually great. The second one is very, very broad. This one is completely off talking about videos, images, text and links.

And the last one is again okay, but I will use the first one. I think that’s fine. And this is basically what you do for each of your subheadings, now except for the last one, our conclusion. So for the conclusion, there is actually a specific tool that you can use here.

So we have our product name again and our blog topic. I’m not 100% sure why we don’t have the heading for the conclusion, but let’s just go with the flow here and see what results we get. So here it should actually be able to conclude everything. What I would like to see here is that it actually took the entire article as an input, and then it concluded on that. So basically summarised the entire article.

But for now it just takes the blog topic. So the blog conclusion is very generic based on the blog topic. It is overall thanking and hoping that they learn something from the article, telling the reader that they can ask questions if they have any, and then they hope that via the article they have learned something about the blog topic. And you can see we also have some underscores that we can fill out with the information that we would like. So that’s okay result.

I will just use the first one here just to round off this article that we are making. So now we have a heading, we have an introduction, then we have our outline here with text for the first heading, and then we have our conclusion. So now the blog post is actually done. Of course, I could also add text for the other subheadings, but it is just to give you an idea of how you make an entire blog post using Writecream. Now another cool add on could be if they had an integration to WordPress or an easier way for me to get this over in WordPress.

Right now I have to copy and paste it. And if I have been in Writecream sitting and formatting the different text, it’s not always when you copy and paste it into WordPress, that the formatting keeps the way it is. So an integration would really help and lighten the burden of getting from Writecream into WordPress or whatever CMS system you’re using. But overall, that is Writecream.

Writecream pricing

When we take a look at the pricing structure of Writecream, it consists of three plans. The first plan is completely free, where you get 25 credits a month to try out the tools and these credits are used so every time you use one tool, then you use one credit. Now the two paid plans only differ on the amount of credits you have. So really pick the plan that is equivalent to the amount of tools you want to use.

Alternatives to Writecream

Now, the alternatives to Writecream, as I see it, is Closerscopy and Jarvis. Jarvis is outstanding and the best AI copywriting tool in the industry for both short copy and long form content. Now ClosersCopy has an outstanding long form content, and it is definitely better than Writecream at the moment.

CloserCopy

If you’re looking for a long-form editor, then ClosersCopy might be your perfect match.

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However, Writecream has some really interesting features, and if they can just make a better UX around their long form, I really see an interesting tool, but for now both ClosersCopy and Jarvis are just ahead of Writecream on the features, though, I will say that Writecream generates fantastic results for the short copy and the way that they show the output in the formatted way makes it so easy to easily copy and paste the text into the other programmes that we’re using.

Future of Writecream

Moving on to the future of Optinly, they have a packed roadmap. First off, they’re working on UX improvements, so we will get a better app that’s easy to use with even more options. Then they’re adding more pop ups like a yes or no pop up and a feedback pop up. This will just increase the amount of pop ups we can add to our website and feedback pop ups are just so valuable in order to get feedback on certain features.

Last but not least, they’re adding more integrations and this is native integration, so we don’t need a third party system like Zapier to help us build integrations to our probably email system. Now, one thing I do really hope they will add soon is a drag and drop builder. This is something that will really increase the value of Optinly and make it easier for their customers and for ourselves to build these pop ups. Because right now we are very locked in the design phase. We need to be able to drag and drop the different elements to build our popups.

Pros & Cons using Writecream

Moving on to the pros and cons of using Optinly. Starting with the pros, their system doesn’t affect the loading time on your website. They have a responsive support and they have a modern and easy to use design, whereas for the cons they do not have the drag and drop workflow builder, and I’m missing more freedom in the design phase.

My experience using Writecream

Using Optinly, I have been able to grow my email list to new heights.
If you can offer an ebook or something else in exchange for their email, then you will see a bigger growth in your email list. Overall, I will give Optinly four stars. Their core functionality is superb, but I really need to see a drag and drop builder, but yeah, that is my review of Optinly. I hope that you liked the review and if you did, please give it a thumbs up. If you have any questions to Optinly or other products you would like me to review, please leave a comment section down below.

Thank you so much for watching. Let’s catch up on the next one.

Is your email list not growing? Or do you have an event where you just don’t see the attendees growing? Then today’s product showcase might be able to help you. I have been using Optinly for some months now and I have been able to grow my personal email list and 80% of my conversions are coming from popups built with Optinly. Via Optinly you can build pop ups, inline forms, and so much more.

I’m doing a giveaway of Optinly where you can win a lifetime licence of five websites. I will share the details later in the video. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Optinly and build some pop-ups.

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1. Features of Optinly
2. Optinly pricing
3. Alternatives to Optinly
4. Future of Optinly
5. Pros & Cons using Optinly
6. My experience using Optinly

Features of Optinly

We are now inside Optinly, which is a very simple platform yet powerful. We have our dashboard here where we have our different pop ups. Then we have some quick stats about how many responses, how many clicks, views, and the amount of campaigns you have. Then we have the campaigns running down here and they can both be a pop up could be an inline form or a full page pop up. Over here we basically have the same view where we have our different pop ups or different campaigns.

Then we have subscribers. Then we have integrations. Integrations are native integrations, they do also have Zapier, and they have Integrately and Pabbly, so you can of course also integrate if they do not have the native integration. I am using Encharge to send out emails. So I have a native integration here and this is working very well.

It uploads the subscribers immediately as they sign up, and you can make them sign up via tags. I will show you that later in the video. Furthermore, then we have our sites here which is also up here where we add a new domain, then we can create a campaign and that is about it, so let’s just set up a campaign. Here we will choose YouTube video as a title, and then you can see that you can build the campaign based on the different intents that you have for the campaign.

So if it’s for building audience, which is like growing a list, an email list. You choose that if it’s because you have some coupon pop ups you want to build, you choose that. You can also do countdown. You can even do gamification popups. I will just build an audience and then I will press create.

After pressing create, you can see where we can choose between some different types of pop ups. You can see that we can choose between a pop up launcher, which means that by clicking on the launcher down here it will show the pop up. We can also do a commercial video pop up. We can do where we embed a form and we have some free shipping coupons and so on. I will choose this one right here where we have a form where they can sign up for my newsletter.

When we are building our campaign. This is our campaign dashboard for the specific campaign. Over here we can choose whether it should be shown on desktop, mobile or tablet. We can even enable Google’s Invisible Recaptcha and you do not need an API key.

Then we can see the status of the campaign whether it’s running or not. We can set some different rules down here about how it should be displayed. So here we can choose whether the pop up should be shown after a certain amount of seconds that the visitor has been on your website. We can choose whether it should reappear for the visitor and after how long. So this one will show immediately, and it will reappear after five days.

So if the visitor goes to the website and doesn’t interact with the pop up, then five days later the visitor will see the pop up again, but in between they will not see the pop up. You can always set this one to zero and then it will always be shown. Then we have the embed options down here where you can add it as HTML code or you can use it as a WordPress shortcode if you have their plugin. Furthermore, you can add Tags, and these Tags are also being transferred into the integration you’re using.

So I’m using Encharge, so whatever Tags I’m adding here will be transferred over to Encharge via the integration, and Tags are great for differentiating between your subscribers. So here I’ll just add YouTube list as a tag, so every subscriber for this specific campaign will get the tag YouTube list. We can also add targeting rules down here. This can be that you have a certain amount of options you want to be fulfilled or just one of them. And the options differs from URL, page views and sessions.

So this means that you can actually show a pop up based on the amount of sessions that the user has had on your website. So if you don’t want to show new users a specific pop up, but only the users that are coming again and again and again, which are maybe indecisive and needs the last push. You can set a session beta here. Then you can say that it needs to be more than let’s say 20. Then they have been on your website 20 times.

So the 21 time they come to your website they will see this pop up. Now we’ll just save the pop up and then let’s go into the actual customisation of the pop up. In here is where we design our pop up so you can see up here we can choose between desktop, tablet and iphone and over here we have our options. You can see we have a background image, we have some text we can change, and we have some eye catcher as well. We can also choose whether we want to show terms and conditions or not.

So now it loaded the actual form on the left side and you can see it’s very simple.

It doesn’t have much styling at the moment. So what we can do over here is we can of course change here to use maybe the Assistant font. Then we down here can choose the form. Now I would love to be able to change the form more drastically by being able to delete fields. So let’s say I like this design, but I don’t want to ask them for name.

This is not possible at the moment. We do have to ask them for name, but for the specific form fields we can still change the actual font. As you can see, we can change the text colour, the background colour and of course the text and the same goes for the email field where we again will just choose Assistant in our form here. It is a little bit buggy because it keeps removing and adding the form, but it’s okay for now and now you can see we have a form.

We can see that it has some hover and we have the terms and conditions.

I will just remove the terms and conditions again. We can also change the animation the way we want it to either fade into our website. If we want it to Zoom in or the different options down here. We can also choose the background colour and change the actual image. If you’re giving away an ebook, you might want to send them to a specific page where they can download the ebook.

After they have signed up the email. This you do with the redirect after subscribe. So you can either choose to open this in a new tab, or you can just replace the current tab with the place where they can download the ebook. You can of course also just send the ebook in an email or if you don’t have anything at all to offer them, you can just not redirect them, but just show you the thank you page where you say thank you for them subscribing, very simple.

Now going back here I think they have added recently is custom CSS. So there are a lot of elements that we cannot change at the moment. For instance, the Hover here. If I wanted to remove the Hover, I would have to go in add custom CSS and then do it that way and that works fine for me because I’m fine at coding CSS, but for people who are not, this is not the perfect solution. So with a drag and drop builder, this would be a lot easier to come around, but that is the builder.

For now I’ll just press save template and then I’ll say OK, and now we have our template ready. If I go back to the settings here, we can choose to set it live and then it will be live on the website. So right now I have two websites and automatically because I have Optinly installed on both websites. It will run this pop up right here. So I will not press at the moment.

But what I want to show you is another type of campaign. I want to show you the gamification popups. So if I press create down here again we will be shown with the same overview here and scrolling down you can see the different options again. And let’s try and find a gamification pop up that we can use.

I will just choose this one right here. So again we have the same settings as you saw before, so I will just press save and then I’ll jump right into customising the pop up. So now again you can see we have our pop up and we have some more options over here. And that’s because this design just has more options to offer. So we have multiple titles and descriptions.

Then of course we have our button where they can start the pop up. Then we have some description down here. We have a background image and we have a secondary image as well. We have some layout, colours and the animation as we saw before, but that’s about it when we choose the gamification pop up so it is the same as you saw before. So no matter what type of pop up you will choose, you will always have the same options.

The only thing they differ on is the amount of elements. So you do not have the drag and drop builder. So the design that you choose depending on the elements is what you can change out in the Sidebar. And you can always change the text, the font and the colours sometimes. But you cannot change the Hover effects.

You cannot change the pictures and the way the pictures look. You can upload new pictures, but you cannot change the width, the height only if you choose to use the CSS. But overall that is the platform Optinly, very simple. They have a great support. So if you ever have any questions, just write to them.

Otherwise I would just encourage you to start using pop ups because they really do work. I’m converting a lot via pop ups

Optinly pricing

Taking a look at the pricing structure of Optinly it consists of three plans and you can get started completely free with a very generous free plan. Now their two paid plans depends on the amount of websites you need. Now when we do compare these plans to their competitors, it is very cheap.

You do get a lot of value for these plans and if you do need more websites than they can offer in their plans, you can always add more websites at a cost of $9 per extra website.

Alternatives to Optinly

Now the alternatives to Optinly, as I see it is OptinMonster and PopTin, and the main difference between both OptinMonster and Poptin compared to Optinly is the drag and drop builder. Optinly does not have the drag and drop builder option which means that we are pretty locked in the design phase.

We can’t build a pop up to be exactly our design. We can’t sit and drag and drop different elements, so we’re pretty locked and a workflow editor where we have this drag and drop options just open up so many more options for us and gives us the freedom to build a pop up to match our design and to even increase conversions more.

Encharge

With Encharge you get a platform to collect your email subscribers, and send out newsletters and much more.

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Future of Optinly

Moving on to the future of Optinly, they have a packed roadmap. First off, they’re working on UX improvements, so we will get a better app that’s easy to use with even more options. Then they’re adding more pop ups like a yes or no pop up and a feedback pop up. This will just increase the amount of pop ups we can add to our website and feedback pop ups are just so valuable in order to get feedback on certain features.

Last but not least, they’re adding more integrations and this is native integration, so we don’t need a third party system like Zapier to help us build integrations to our probably email system. Now, one thing I do really hope they will add soon is a drag and drop builder. This is something that will really increase the value of Optinly and make it easier for their customers and for ourselves to build these pop ups. Because right now we are very locked in the design phase. We need to be able to drag and drop the different elements to build our popups.

Pros & Cons using Optinly

Moving on to the pros and cons of using Optinly. Starting with the pros, their system doesn’t affect the loading time on your website. They have a responsive support and they have a modern and easy to use design, whereas for the cons they do not have the drag and drop workflow builder, and I’m missing more freedom in the design phase.

My experience using Optinly

Using Optinly, I have been able to grow my email list to new heights.
If you can offer an ebook or something else in exchange for their email, then you will see a bigger growth in your email list. Overall, I will give Optinly four stars. Their core functionality is superb, but I really need to see a drag and drop builder, but yeah, that is my review of Optinly. I hope that you liked the review and if you did, please give it a thumbs up. If you have any questions to Optinly or other products you would like me to review, please leave a comment section down below.

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When you build your email list, you need to be really creative. You need to build freebies. You need to build forms, and you need to place the forms at the right places. With today’s product Showcase, you can build viral forms. Now, a viral form is a form meant to be shared across all platforms.

Today’s Product showcase is Kirim.email, an email marketing platform allowing you to grow your email list via automations, broadcasts and forms. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Kirim.email and test it out.

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2. Kirim.email pricing
3. Alternatives to Kirim.email
4. Future of Kirim.email
5. Pros & Cons using Kirim.email
6. My experience using Kirim.email

Features of Kirim.email

We are now inside the platform Kirim.email, and we start right here on the dashboard. And as you can see, the design is great. It’s modern, it’s easy to use and it has soft, flat colours. I really like that. Now on the dashboard here we have an overview of how we are using our credits, how we are growing our subscribers, about our broadcast and our lists.

Up here we have basically a button where we can create everything we want to. Now I just want to jump right over to the list menu point here in the list you have, of course, all of your lists that you have created or imported. Up here we can control the subscriber field. So if you want to build even more fields to the actual template there is right now you can do that in here. So what we do is just we create a new subscriber field by clicking the button, and then we choose the name and the personalisation tag.

If we want to, that’s optional. I will choose the name country and I will say it should be a text. I can also choose drop down and then add all of the countries. But for now we’ll just choose text. I will submit it and now automatically all of my subscribers now have this field that I can fill out on all of my subscribers.

Now moving on. We can also build segments and segments is great if you want to send out emails to a specific group of people, so you don’t want to send emails out to an entire list. But you want to send emails out who fit a certain segment. So let’s try and build a segment here that we can send out an email.

Now it would be great if they had event based segments, because then we could send out emails based on actions done on your website. So whether if they have bought a specific product, they have signed up for ebook or something third, but here it’s a bit more simple. Here I will choose my YouTube subscribers and then the action we need to choose here.

So we can choose whether they have opened or clicked in an email. We can choose whether they are not in the list, whether they are in the domain, whether they subscribe before a certain date, what country they are in, state, and so on. You can see all the options down here. Now I will choose country and I will say they need to be in the country Denmark, this is not possible because it hasn’t been filled out on any of the subscribers.

So let’s just change this one to say they have to be subscribed before today and that is what we’ve done here. We can add multiple conditions, but this is fine now I will just give it a name, and then I will press save up here. So it has the name all subscribers before eleven of November. And now we have our segment right now you can see that there’s one fitting in here.

It’s my segment and I can choose to send emails to this specific segment. Over here we have an import log. How it’s going with importing emails into Kirim.email, and as I haven’t imported any, it’s just empty. We do also have inactive subscribers.

And then we have migration tools within migrations tools this is also a step when it is to set up your account. But here you can migrate from a previous system that you have been using, whether it’s MailChimp or something else. This is possible within Kirim.email. Even after you have set up your account.

It can be that you forgot something or you found a new email list that you have in another system. So in here you can see that you can migrate from five different systems easily. You can also choose to use a webhook where you basically just shoot over all of your subscribers via a webhook, and then you add them to a specific list. So if I add a new webhook up here, then I say that they should be added to YouTube subscribers, they should be subscribed.

And what the webhook URL is.

So there are multiple options for importing into your system here. You can also import by CSV if you would like that. Now let’s move on to broadcasts, within broadcast is basically sending out an email here and now. So often this is newsletters. You can also schedule them.

So if I go up here, and I add a new broadcast, then you will see we have to go through three different steps. We need to choose our recipients here. So now I have chosen a name where this broadcast should come from and the list, here you can see down here we can choose segments. So the segment we chose before to create, we can actually use here, and I will choose to do that. So now this is the first step.

The second step is where we build the content, our actual email. We need to give it a subject and then we need to add some content. So I will just start by giving it a subject and now you have multiple options. You can either choose to just very simple write whatever you would like in here.

So you can see this is very simple, but you can also add images, custom fields. You can also use custom fields. If you want to use the name of the subscriber just as an example, then you can add GIFs and you can import your shop catalogue, Dropbox, WhatsApp and so on. But now they do also have an email builder. An email builder is like we know it from MailChimp where we just drag and drop the elements over.

Here we can choose to either build the design ourselves or we can choose a template to use. I will choose a template and I will choose the newsletter boxed one here. So now you can see that it says Hello full name, and then it has some titles and some text down here that I can replace with whatever I would like. I just click on the box, and then I just start typing whatever I would like to, and I can change everything I would like. I can also change the buttons here.

I can change the link of the button over here and I can add extra elements. So if I close this one down, you can see we have all of these elements over here. I can also add blocks if I want a certain way that it needs to look, I can change the body if I want to change the text colour, the background colour, the fonts. I can add images and I can upload content that I can use. Often it’s images you upload, and you use, but for now this is fine.

I will press publish, so now we have our email. Now we can choose to either A/B test so we can make an entire different email, or we can choose to maybe just tweak the subject a little bit. So I will just change the subject a little bit to not have the number just to see if it does a difference. So now we have two versions of this email, and I’ll go to the next step here where we have our preview. Here we can see email one and email two and over here we can see that it will be sent to approximately one.

We can choose to either schedule it or we can send it immediately.

And then here we choose whether we want to track how many opens and how many is clicking, and when we are done we can send out this broadcast. Now I would like to be able to do two things here. I would like to be able to choose to send it in the receiver’s time zone, and I would like to see how they’re going to distribute the AB testing. One thing I noticed in my previous product showcase is a great way of doing the A/B testing. So instead of just sending email one out to 50% and email two out to the rest of the emails, then they only send out to 25% will get email one and the other 25% will get email two and then based on how that’s performing.

The rest of the 50% will then receive the winner. So that means that 75% will actually get the best performing email. I would love to see that within Kirim.email, but this is the broadcast. So now let’s move on to autoresponders. And autoresponders was something that I was very excited to see here you can basically build an email series.

So when someone signs up for your email list, normally what we do is we go into automations and then we build an email list separated between a wait of a couple of days. Here we can do it with autoresponders. So you can see here that I have one called Educate Your Audience. Let’s dive into that by editing it so you can see on the left here we have the amount of emails being sent out and under each subject, you can see that this one will be sent out one day after the person has subscribed to the list.

This one also one day and so on this we can change.

So if I go to Educate your audience, I can choose to send this one out maybe three days after they have subscribed. And then of course, I can send a preview. But for each of these, we can change the email. And again, we have the email builder. If we want to use a template, or we just want the drag and drop functionality.

You can also write very simple content, which often actually converts better. In the settings here is where we choose what list it is focusing on. So right now it’s focused on the YouTube subscribers list. So every time someone subscribes to the YouTube subscribers list, they will get a series of emails. And this is great in order to share content.

Or if you want to upsell something to the actual subscribers. But other than that, again, we can track opens and clicks. We choose who is the sender. And then here we can see that right now it is not sending. If I enable this one, it will start to send.

But here we can add as many emails as we want to. And for each email, of course, we need to change the delay and the content and the subject. Of course, you can also have a lot of drafts if you are switching between a lot of emails. But this feature is really outstanding. It’s really great.

You can, of course, make it with automations, but this is just easier, really well done. Now let’s move on to automations. Automations is like we know it from ActiveCampaign and Encharge. We have a trigger, and then we have some actions, and then it will exit. So a trigger could be that they signed up for a specific list.

It could be that they opened a broadcast. It could be that they opened an autoresponder, for now I’ll just say subscribe to a list, and I’ll choose the YouTube subscriber list. Now, right now it just doesn’t do anything, it just exit the automation. But on the plus here we can add some actions.

So here we can choose between a response or decision. A decision is basically like an if else. If something has been fulfilled, go this way. Otherwise go this way to start with I will show you the response. So the response can be multiple things.

We can choose to either move them to another list. We can copy them to another list, or we can delete them from another list. Then we can add a tag or we can send an email. Now, if you do have set up integrations, you will be able to use them in here as well. But for now I’ll just choose send email.

I will add a subject, I will choose the centre, and then I will add some nonsense text here and then I’ll press save. What we can do is we can also add a decision. So here you can see that the decision could be multiple things. It can be at a condition where we need to wait for some days. It could be that have they opened the broadcast after one day?

The first broadcast here is save. So if they have then I don’t want to do anything. If they haven’t opened it, then I want to respond with another email. And this email could be something like, hey, I can see that you didn’t open my last email. Why is that?

Or you can just add even more information to your broadcast. So this is a great way to really increase your openings and to connect more with your subscribers. Now let’s just save this automation as a draft. We need to of course, give it a name and then let’s move on to Forms. So Forms is a very simple module.

They do have an elaboration in virals, which I’ll show you in a moment, but here we can just build forms. So here I will say this form is just called again YouTube subscribers, because that’s the list that they are going to be added to. And then I can choose to either create the form or create the landing page, so you can actually create entire landing pages within Kirim.email, and they will also be hosted on Kirim.email. Of course, this is very simple landing pages where again we use the drag and drop just as we saw with the email builder.

For now we’ll just create the form.

So here you can see that we have the form on the right side and on the left side we have the content that we actually build out. So on the right side the design, we can choose whether it should be a form, a slide or a bar. I’ll just choose form that looks best. And then here we can choose the title, the description, the favicon. If you want to use that, because now you will get a page that just consists of one form and that’s it very simple to the point.

So of course we can add titles which you can see already is their title and description. We can add a lead magnet. So this means that when they sign up for this form automatically they will get this lead magnet. It is often an ebook or freebie or something third. We can also change the confirmation where we choose the predefined confirmation email who is sending this email and a subject because here they need to confirm that we can send them emails.

Then you can also choose to change the post sign up, and this is basically when they have signed up, you want to show them a title and a message, and then you can use a custom domain if you want to host your form on your own domain. We can also choose up here whether we want to use magic opt-in standard double opt-in or just single opt-in. This really depends on the country you’re in and what the regulations are because we can also make this form GDPR compliant, and we can choose to forward the email to whatever email we would like.

In the bottom here we choose what fields we want within our form. Right now it has email as required, and then it has full name and that is great.

So as GDPR compliant, you can also add more options down here. But that is the form builder. Now let’s move on to the viral form builder because this one is really interesting. Let’s start by editing the form that I have already built as a viral form. And again, a viral form is a form meant to be shared across multiple platforms, so you can see that we start out by having our campaign details.

I have chosen a referral account and the target is 200 referrals. Then I’ve chosen the list YouTube subscribers and now let’s move on to expirations because you can choose to let your form expire. And the reason being is that if you want people to share your form a certain amount of times in order to win can be anything. Then you need to let it expire. Otherwise people can use years on doing this, and then they will come back to you later on.

So a good thumb rule is to always let it expire. I’ve chosen this one to expire 18 of November. Now let’s move on to the actual form and this is the view we just saw before. So we have over here the title, the description and our form down here. Then we have the lead magnet setting right now it’s just showing my website and then what we will show them after they have participated.

So I’m just showing a title and a finish button on the button here. Sometimes it’s showing. Sometimes it’s not right now it’s not showing. But now let’s move on to the next step, which is email confirmation and again, the email confirmation is because they need to allow me to send emails. So here I’m actually using a variable or a tag as they call it.

So I’m saying Hi name. I need you to confirm your email before we continue. Click this link to confirm your email. Here again, you can also use the email builder. If you want to use a template, or you just want to drag and drop options, I will just close it for now.

So here we can also choose whether we want to use single opt-in or we want to use the double opt-in. Again, it depends on the regulations in your country. Now let’s move on to sharing and inviting. This is the huge benefit of using viral forms because here you can choose to let people to easily share your form. Down here you can see that I have added Facebook and a Copy viral link.

We can also add Twitter where we control the message. We can use WhatsApp again where we control the message and email where we control the subject and the content. For now we’ll just go with the Facebook and the Copy viral link. You can also again use the tags, this is within the form.

So if you send out an email you can use the tags here. It could be something like Hi, I have filled out this form. Would you please fill it out so I can win X regards and then use the name here automatically. But that is just an example.

Now let’s move on to the autoresponder because this you can also use within viral forms. So in the autoresponder you can choose to send out three different types of emails. You can choose to send out an email when a participant reach the certain target, here I have just chosen you’ve done it as a subject. You’ve reached your target and then well done with a GIF here.

I can also choose what to send out to the rest of the participants. Here I have chosen to just say you’re almost there, keep on going strong and the last one is a reminder. So we can enable reminders in order to remind people to share this form so they can win the price on whatever it is. For now I’ll just disable this one. Now the last step before we publish is the landing page.

Again, you can choose to not use a landing page at all and just use the form as it is. Or you can build a landing page, and it works the same way as the email builder. So you can see I have already built a landing page you just saw before. It is not showing here. So let’s go to templates and within templates we have the free ones and the premium ones.

So in the premium ones you can see we have an ebook down here. I can view the package and then I can choose the ebook white of course I have to buy it. So let’s go back to the free one and then use a very simple one called Download Action here. So this one is very simple. If you have an ebook or another freebie, this one would be fantastic for you to use because you have a title, you have some text and image and then you have a footer down here where you can change for your social media icons or something you want to use down there.

But now one thing that is confusing me is the actual form. I do not know how I add the form in here and there’s no element over here called form and what you will see in a moment when I publish this landing page. There is no form on the landing page, so I feel like we need some help on that element, but for now let’s press save up here and then you can see we have our landing page here. There should be a form in this area here, but there is not and there is no way for me to know how to edit, but the design looks fine.

It is responsive, so that’s just great.

Now let’s move on to the last step, which is integrations. This I just want to show you briefly because they have integrations to a lot of great systems, at least the most important ones. So they have a WordPress and a WooCommerce plugin that you can use. They have an integration to Google Ads leads form. So if you’re running that type of ads, you can basically feed in your leads automatically into Kirim.email.

They do also have Google Sheets integration. If you want to use that and then they have Pabbly Connect and a lot more. Of course, with Zapier they open up for a lot of options, but these integrations are great, and it’s something that’s really increasing the value of Kirim.email.

Kirim.email pricing

Taking a look at the pricing structure of Kirim.email, it differs a lot from the alternatives. You have two plans you can choose between. The first plan is their basic plan where you get unlimited email sendings, and then you get the basic email functionality. Now, if you need SMTP and you need transactional emails, you should go with the contact plan that they have on their pricing plan here you get 35,000 credits that you can use on sending emails and validating emails. You do also get subaccounts, and you get the possibility to use their SMTP for transactional emails when it is they release that.

Alternatives to Kirim.email

The alternatives to Kirim.email is MailChimp and Encharge. Kirim.email is right up there. They have made a great product with a lot of functionality and a modern design. So when we compare those three products to each other, the design and the functionality is more or less the same. There are some elements they differ on and one huge element they differ on is speed.

Encharge

With Encharge you get a more advanced platform with event – based segments and much more. You can watch my review of Encharge.

watch review of encharge

Kirim.emails platform is not fast, so you have to really be patient when you use it. However, the functionality within Kirim.email is great with the auto responses, the automations, and the soon to be transactional emails, though Encharge is actually differing a bit on their event based segments. This means that within Encharge you can actually make segments based on events or actions. So let’s say that you integrate to WooCommerce and every time someone buys a specific product, you want to send them an email. This is not possible within Kirim.email, but it is something that’s possible within Encharge, so there are some elements you need to look at when it is you need to figure out what email marketing platform you want to go with.

Future of Kirim.email

When we dive into the future of Kirim.email, it can be quite confusing when you see the roadmap, though I have pointed out some elements that I see as interesting. Of course, they’re working on the SMTP API, so we will be able to send out transactional emails. Then they’re working on an agency module so we can start using Kirim.email within our agencies and basically paste it on to our clients. Furthermore, they are working on more extensive automations and last, but not least, they’re adding more languages so we can send emails out in different languages depending on the receiver.

Those are really interesting elements and I do hope to see them soon.

Pros & Cons using Kirim.email

Moving on to the pros and cons of Kirim.email. Starting with the pros, they have a modern design. They have integrations to the most important systems. You can easily migrate from other systems, and they have a huge help centre, whereas for the cons, it’s really slow navigating the system. They do not have event based segments and I can’t schedule broadcasts in the receiver’s time zone.

My experience using Kirim.email

I was blown away by Kirim.email. Their auto responders and viral forms are just outstanding. I do, however, hope they will focus a bit on the speed because it is concerning. Overall, I will give Kirim.email four stars. Their design is up to date.

They have an extensive library of help articles and their features are just outstanding, but yeah, that is my review of Kirim.email. I hope that you liked the video and if you did, please give it a thumbs up. If you have any questions to Kirim.email or other products you would like me to review, please leave a comment down below. Thank you so much for watching. Let’s catch up on the next one.

I’m a big fan of automation. The worst type of tasks for me are manual repetition tasks. I always look for ways to automate my processes, and with today’s product showcase, you can automate all of your manual data processes. Today’s product showcase is Hexomatic a platform allowing you to automate almost any type of task.

With their workflow builder you build your flow and let Hexomatic take care of the rest. So whether you need to build an email list, a list of Tweets or something. Third, then Hexomatic can do this for you. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Hexomatic and build some automation.

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4. Future of Hexomatic
5. Pros & Cons using Hexomatic
6. My experience using Hexomatic

Features of Hexomatic

We are now inside Hexomatic on the dashboard. Here we get a quick overview of our workflows down here. We get some news about Hexomatic and then they have a fun little feature up here where they just show you how much time you have saved on using the automations. I don’t know how they calculate this, but it’s a fun little add on. Then you can see your credits and again, the news down here now over in the menu is where the funny elements are.

The first menu point is our actual workflows, and this is also where you build your workflows. First I want to show you a workflow that I have built already. In here I have built a workflow to crawl my front page in order to find any links that just didn’t work. So you can see the workflow here is just to crawl my website. It needs to select all the items with the Proximo data centre with a maximum of ten URLs, and then basically it just crawls them.

Clicks on the URLs to see whether they return at 200 code, which is good or a 404 code, which means that it doesn’t exist. Now in order to see the results, we need to click on the log data and in here you can see that it has clicked on a lot of different links and most of them they respond with a 200 code, which is good. Now there is one link up here returning a 404 code, but that is incorrect. I have tested it. Maybe it’s just LinkedIn returning something strange, but other than that it looks great.

You can see that it has tested some different URLs and it has tested maximum ten URLs. If I do want it to test even more, I can go back, and then I can in my workflow change my limit to maybe let’s say 100, and then I can update and run it again. Now I can choose to run it now or I can schedule it. I will just run it now and continue anyway. So now it will start again to crawl my front page and then basically just click on all the links to see whether they work or not.

That is how it works overall with the workflows. Then they you also have a scraping recipe in here where we can build a new recipe and a scraping recipe is basically where you crawl a specific website and then you tell it what to crawl. So if I enter one website here and I click preview, then it will fetch the website here though without images, but the entire website is here, and then I can say, okay, I want all of the H1’s here so I can choose to either only select the single H1 here or H2, or I can select all of them, so I will just click select all of them.

Now when you do select all, you cannot scroll anymore. It’s a little bit frustrating.

I would like to be able to scroll in order to see whether it has crawled and chosen all the correct ones. But then you can see over here that we need to give this a name. We call this one headlines and then we need to choose the type right now it’s text, so you can see it chose four items and the text down here collect income from multiple affiliate platforms. That is correct.

So I will press save and then we need to give it a name up here. We’ll just call this one Kolekti.io headlines. I think that’s fine. Then when we are done we press save and we now have a scraping recipe. This scraping recipe we can use when it is we build workflows.

So I will just move on to automations. Within automations we have a lot of prebuilt ones. So as you can see, we have AI audio transcription, AI text to speech, AI logo detection, and a lot more. Within Heiomatic you can basically do and crawl whatever you would like to crawl as long as you can build it and think yourself to build it.

So I think let’s start with the email scraper here. So we would like to find all emails on a specific website. So I will choose the email scraper, over here we can see some similar ones, but I’ll just create the workflow with the email scraper here. So what we need first is we need some data just for the sake of this video.

I’m going to go to scraping recipes, and then I’m going to choose Kolekti.io headlines because now we have a data set to run on. I then press the plus down here, and then I search on email and then we have the email scraper. In source I choose Headlines and Proximo data centre. That is fine. Now what it will do is that it will scrape all of the data.

It will then look for all of the emails and then it will list it out. Right now there are no emails, so it should give us a zero result. But let’s try and see. I will press continue and I will say run now. Now you can see that we have it in progress up here and if I click on it we have, of course, our current workflow.

And then we have the log data right now in the log data it just says scraping recipe started. It says now Element scraper for Kolekti.io success. So now it has the data set, and now it needs to start to find all of the emails within the data set, but it won’t find any email, so it will probably just stop here. But this is just one example.

Let me show you another example by going back to automations. And then let’s try this AI logo detection. This one looks interesting. Now when I do just click create workflow. I’m just sent directly into the workflow to a completely blank slate, and then I have to start over.

So before we move on with the AI logo detection, then let me go back to the workflows and then click here on new workflow. This is a little bit easier to start this way because here we need to choose whether we want to use a data input like CSV or text file. We want to use a template library. We want to use automation or a scraping recipe. So let’s try the template library in here.

We have even more templates to use. So for instance, we can extract meta tags for a list of URLs. We can find B2B leads from Google Maps. We can do so much more. For instance let’s try this one competitor research from a list of domains.

Now you can see that compared to what I did before where I went directly from automations. Here we actually have a full recipe where we have some data input. Then we have some discover, both for tech stack, whois, the SEO meta Tags and some traffic insights. So you can see when I click on data input right now we have two URLs.

These URLs we would be able to replace with our own competitors. For now we’ll just enter my own domains just again for the sake of this video, so we can see the output. So now we have two domains here. The first one has an okay amount of traffic, and the last one doesn’t have any traffic at the moment. So let’s see how it goes.

I will press continue, and I will press run now. So you saw that we have the entire recipe just built out for us. And this was so fast. And now I will get a report of a lot of data for my competitors, in this case my own website. So again I click on the workflow, and then I click log data because here we can see what is going on and you will notice when you start using Hexomatic that sometimes the workflows can be a bit slow.

And the reason being that if they just ran through all of the steps extremely fast, they would be seen as spam. So they need to act like human beings and do it in a certain amount of speed. In order to not fall into any spam filtres or any kind. So it will now log everything. So every time it does a step it will add it to the log here, we will come back to this workflow, but before we do so, I just want to show you my settings here because in here we can set up integrations to Google, Discord, Telegram and Slack in order to use that so you can actually crawl data within Slack or within Google.

We do also have API and Webhooks over here to work with. If you want to integrate a third party system, they are also working on adding even more integrations. Now they do also have email notifications. If you want an email when a workflow is completed or it fails.

So those three options are great. They do also have an Academy up here. If you want to learn even more about Hexomatic and learn how you can really utilise all of the functionality within Hexomatic. Now we are back at the workflow and you can see so far there’s still no data, and sometimes you really need to be patient. But when it’s done you can see now it made the next step, and it took two minutes.

But when it’s done then it will output everything in the log, and then you can choose to either act on it within the log or you can export it up here to either Google Sheets as a CSV or JSON, so you can work with it in a third party system. But overall, that is the functionality within Hexomatic. As you can see, you can build any type of recipe you would like. It always starts with the data input where you either paste in some data or you upload a text file or you crawl an entire website for data.

It could be an archive, it could be a specific website.

Then you pinpoint what data you want, and then based on that data, then you just do the steps that you would like to do. It could be that you want to find the emails you want to find leads. You want to find Twitter profiles. Your options are endless.

Hexomatic pricing

When we take a look at the pricing structure of Hexomatic, it consists of four plans. Now the first plan is a completely free plan where you get 75 automation credits each month, and you get one simultaneously process running. Now the three premium plans. They differ on both the amount of credits, the amount of processes you can run at the same time and features. So it’s very important that you deep dive into these plans to really figure out what plan meets your needs.

For most of us, the first paid plan is more than enough for us, but if you do have a big need, you should take a look at the last plan.

Alternatives to Hexomatic

Now the alternatives to Hexomatic is Webscraper.io and APIFY. Now these three tools compared to each other are very similar. Personally, I do like Hexomatic a lot because of the Workflow builder is so easy to use. They have a lot of great recipes, and it just runs great.

Texau

Texau is an even further developed platform with more possibilites, and more options. Though a different design.

watch review of texau

The logs are easy to use, but overall, it really comes down to the workflow the way that you build up all of your recipes and your automations. So you should really dive into the different tools next to each other and see what tool you like most and what tool you can easily build out the different recipes.

Future of Hexomatic

Moving on to the future of Hexomatic they have a packed roadmap, but there are five things that I have pointed out to be very interesting. First off, they’re adding more integrations.

This means that we can build our workflows to another level and add even more integrations. Then they’re working on us being able to sort the data. So when we get a huge data set, we will be able to sort on specific properties in order to move on the next step. Furthermore, they’re going to add even more workflow templates, so it’s easier for us to get started. Now, one really exciting thing they are adding is AI text generation.

This will make it possible for us to respond to Tweets, for instance. So if you crawl a bunch of tweets and you want to add some comments you want to retweet or you just want to add a little bit of context to it. This will be possible with the AI text generation module that they’re working on. The last exciting element is SMTP built into the Workflow editor. This means that we can actually send out emails from the Workflow builder.

This is so interesting, and it’s not something I’ve seen before, so you will be able to collect an email list and then within the workflow, send out emails to all of the different emails that you have collected. This will make it possible to automate it even further.

Pros & Cons using Hexomatic

Now moving on to the pros and cons of Hexomatic. Starting with the pros, the UX is really helpful. They have a lot of great scraping recipes, and it’s easy and very visual to crawl data, whereas for the cons, I do experience the automations to be a bit slow. I’m missing social media integration to be able to crawl even deeper, and I would like to be able to crawl an entire website instead of only one page.

My experience using Hexomatic

Hexomatic is really an intriguing tool with endless possibilities. You can build almost any type of crawler and work with the data. Overall, I will give Hexomatic four stars. The design, the UX and the help videos are on point, but I feel I’m missing the entire social media aspects for them to be a superb tool, but yeah, that is my review of Hexomatic.

I hope that you liked the video and if you did, please give it a thumbs up. If you have any questions to Hexomatic or other products, you would like me to review. Please leave a comment down below. Thank you so much for watching.

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If you have worked with clients, you know how time-consuming it can be to constantly have to look for files, communicate and make sure everything is in order. Personally, I have spent too much time on communicating and looking for files which weren’t there. That’s why I’m excited to present today’s product showcase. Clinked is an all in – one customer platform where you can collaborate with your clients on tasks, calendar events, and much more. So without further Ado let’s dive into Clinked and test it out.

We are now inside Clinked, the platform here you can see on the dashboard where we get a small overview. I would like to see a much bigger overview of all of my clients if there are some new elements that I need to take care of. But we get the latest changes here basically just in a long row. Then we get some news from Clinked. We get what events I have coming up, my files and the tasks that I have.

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4. Future of Clinked
5. Pros & Cons using Clinked
6. My experience using Clinked

Features of Clinked

Right now I have one task for 17 of April 2022. Over here I have my groups, which we will explore just in a moment. Otherwise I can create a new client, a group or a project. Now what you will probably already see now is that this design is very outdated. It is taken directly from Bootstrap, which is a CSS framework and they have just used the standard design.

Now it will be fine for some. I would personally like to see a much more modern design, but it is okay as long as the functionality is there. Now moving on from the dashboard, we have our groups here where we can view all groups, and right now we have explore Clinked group. If I click on this one, we will see some different menu points in here. Now this group can contain files, notes, discussions, events and tasks.

The home is a small dashboard where we can add some news. We can see the activity. We can see recent files, recent notes, some discussions, and so on down here you can see the more I scroll, the more it shows. Now up here we can control what members have access to this group. We can, of course, control the settings, what we want to show in the menu, and then we can work with our files.

Now in here we have a file manager where we can create folders, and we can upload files, and you can basically upload any type of file. You can also email upload, and you can upload from Google Drive. Now the different files here is basically just like a file manager where we can drag and drop the different files within the folders. I can also open the file where it will open directly in Google Sheets.

Now this is view only, so I can’t edit it within Google Sheets and then save it back to Clinked. It would be a nice feature, but that’s not possible right now. There are some file types that we can preview within Clinked, for instance, PDF files here we can see them within Clinked. We can also upload new versions of the PDF to basically replace the old version. Now we can also change the grid view here if you like more to have it a visual appeal.

This is very much like Google Drive, but that’s how simple it is to work with the files, and you can easily upload files here, as I just shown you now in the notes section here this is notes shared between you and whoever are in the group, whether it’s your clients or your employees or your colleagues. Here you can see that we can add notes, we can edit them, and then we can comment on the notes. This is a great way to add notes maybe agreed with a client.

It can be that you have to share something within the group, but not necessarily with the client or whatever it is. As long it has something to do with the group, you should definitely add a note to it.

You can also go a step further and work with discussions. Here you can create a new discussion, and then you can start to discuss that subject. For instance, here we have project planning discussion. Here we have Does anybody have any idea for our upcoming project, and it’s linking to the project. Here you can see that there asks for roles, tasks, brainstorm, and to set deadlines.

And then there is a comment here, and I can also add comments to this discussion, and this is a great way to not having to disturb anyone with a meeting. Here we can just add in whenever we have time to fill in our needs for this specific discussion. We do also have an event menu out here where we can add events. You can see that there are some events already where we have a meeting where we need to Skype with the client. We need to create a brief, and we need to release the brief.

This is a great way to get a fast overview of what’s going on with the client. It would be great to have this overview for all of the groups and the clients, but it is as simple as just adding a new event up here. You’re entering the title and the different dates that we want to add. I will say 10th of November and then I will just create it, and then it is added now here for the 10th of November. I can then click on the event to see more information.

And then of course, I can comment and discuss this event. Now the last menu point is tasks. Basically in here we can manage small projects and tasks, and we can see the progress for the different tasks over here in the status bar. We can also see do, which is basically the deadline, and then we can click on the task to see more information.

Right now it’s 84% done. We can see there’s no text, but it has priority medium. And again I can comment on it, which is like a main thing for all of the different modules. We can always comment and discuss the different subjects. If I want to change something off the task, I can just press edit and then I can say the progress is maybe only 69% and then press save and it is saving in real time.

So you can see that the progress bar went a little bit down now, but that’s the functionality within the groups. Now we do also have a more global view where we have all of our different tasks here. Here you can see the different tasks. We can see what client is it who is the owner of the task?

Basically the same as we just saw before. But this is just an overview for all of our different clients. Would be great to also have the calendar view. We can see the tasks here and of course again click on them, and then we’ll be sent in to the specific task in the group. Now we do also have a summary here.

And the summary is basically an overview of the project where they take all of the tasks and then they give you an estimate. Right now the estimate is that we are off track. It is saying that progress is 0%. That is not correct, but at the moment it is off track. So we should get on this project to get it back on track.

That’s a great overview because you will have all of your different groups with the tasks in there. Now they do also have reach out. Here you can create new reach outs and this is basically to share news and updates to your members in the different groups. You can also tag them and of course choose the groups. For now I’ll just choose some members, and then I will choose an email subject.

I will just call this subject and then I’ll write YouTube video within. Now what I can do is I can send the test email or I can just send it. So this is basically just emails we’re sending out to specific segments. Either I can choose members. I can choose by tag or I can choose whole groups to send out.

When I just press send, it will send out the email and we can then see that right now status is pending. We can then click on the email that we have sent out here and then we can see small information like who is it sent to? And did we add any attachments? Now the last menu point up here in the top bar is members. And this is just the members that we have within our organisation.

Right now it’s only me with my information down here, and we can always invite members and of course choose what group they should be added to down here. And I will just choose the Explore Clinked group here, and then we can choose what role they should have, whether it’s basic, standard or administrator. It would be a little bit better for the UX here if they just said client or colleague or administrator. But I’ll choose Basic, and then we can add multiple emails up here. If the client has multiple people that they want in on the project, and then we just send the invitations out.

We can also up here create members from a CSV file. If you have to send out a lot of invitations, that is also possible. And then of course we can export the members. You can also globally search within Clinked and then it will search within files, discussions and notes. And this is globally all over your organisation.

Then they do also have chat functionality where we can add new groups and start active conversations. So I’ll just choose Explore link here and now we can chat all the members who are in this group together. It is as simple as this. It is a very simplified chat, but it does what it needs to do, and that’s perfect. We do also have a notification centre.

And then one last thing we have if I go back to Explore Clinked is we have the chat menu down here. So you saw the chat that I just started.

They are inspired by Facebook a little bit here with the chat window. So if I start multiple chats, of course I will have multiple windows, but for now I just have this chat window here where we can add new chat messages, and then all of the members within the group will receive these messages. Now Clinked do also have integrations. So if I go to my account and I click integrations, you can see that they have integrations to Adobe Sign, and they have integrations to DocuSign, and this is to sign contracts or documents between you and your clients.

So that’s just a great small add on.

You can also, of course, completely transform Clinked into your design and your logos and et cetera. You can actually also get your own app for Clinked where you get your own branding on the app. You just have to contact them. But overall, that is the platform Clinked.

Clinked pricing

When we take a look at the pricing structure of Clinked, it consists of four plans. They do not have a free plan, but you can start with a free trial and test out Clinked, whether it’s for you or not. Now, the cheapest plan doesn’t come with three of the main modules, so if you need tasks module and two others, you have to upgrade to at least standard. Now, if you’re a huge company, they do also have an enterprise solution for you. But when we do compare the two premium plans to each other, they do only differ on the amount of members and the storage you get.

In the enterprise plan you do also get a dedicated support manager.

Alternatives to Clinked

Now the alternative to Clinked is Microsoft SharePoint and Huddle. Microsoft SharePoint is an integrated part of the entire 360 Office package, so if you do use that package, you should definitely go with SharePoint. However, the real competition to Clinked is Huddle. Huddle is also working in the cloud where you do only have a login in the same way as we see within Clinked.

Encharge

Encharge is another alternative to Inbox. Encharge has more integration and a more modern design to really deliver the full package.

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But Huddle are ahead of Clinked, especially on the design. Huddle has a much more modern design than Clinked, but other than that, they do have more or less the same features. So if it’s important to you that the design is updated, you should definitely take a look at Huddle, but if that doesn’t matter, and you just need a bunch of functionality, then Clinked is a great choice for you.

Future of Clinked

When we take a look at the future of Clinked, they do have a packed roadmap, but there are three main things I want you to notice. First off is that they’re working on shortcuts. This will make it easier for us to use Clinked and all of its functionality. It will be easier for us to go from A to B to C. Furthermore, then they are working on sub tasks.

This will make it possible for us to elaborate all of our tasks even more. Or if you have a task that is just too small to be a main task, and maybe it fits under one of the other main tasks, then you can easily add it under there. Now the last exciting thing that I noticed is that they are working on an offline mode. This means that even though you don’t have Internet, you can still upload files to Clinked. However, they do not upload until you get access to Internet again.

So as soon as you’re online on WiFi, they will automatically upload all of your files to Clinked without you having to lift a finger.

Pros & Cons using Clinked

Now moving on to the pros and cons of Clinked. Starting with the pros, it saves you time on communication. You can collaborate on tasks with your clients, and they have integrations to sign documents, whereas for the cons, they do have an outdated design. I’m missing better UX and help text to help me through the platform, and I’m missing a dashboard with th full overview of my account.

My experience using Clinked

Using Clinked, you really get a software which can be the middleware between you and your client. Your client can always find what the client needs without having to go through you. Overall, I will give Clinked three stars. It’s a tool with a great potential, but the design is really a setback for me. I don’t feel I can take full advantage of Clinked, but yeah, that is my review of Clinked.

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Email marketing is still a very rich marketing channel in 2021, but managing email campaigns and sending out different types of emails can be exhausting. It doesn’t have to be like this, which is why today’s product showcase is Inbox an email marketing platform with multiple features like transactional emails, email campaigns and even sender reputation tools. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Inbox and set up some email campaigns.

We are now inside the platform of Inbox and up here, you can see that they have three main modules. They have Inbox. They have Notify and Verify. Inbox is their biggest module, so we will start out with that. We have a dashboard where we get some quick overview of the amount of emails sent out, our open rate and so on.

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6. My experience using Inbox

Features of Inbox

But what I want to do is I want to set up an email campaign. In here you can see I already started one, but we will create a new newsletter. The first step is that we need to give it a subject and then we need to choose the language. I will just keep it as English and I have chosen YouTube as my subject. Now the next step is that we need to choose whether we want to use templates from Inbox.

We want to upload our own HTML. We want to sit and code the HTML in their editor, or we want to use some layouts. I will go with templates because that’s the easiest way to get through this step. Then you can see we get a lot of different templates we can choose between. We have some Valentine down here.

We have some New Year templates, and then we have some more generic ones. I will go with the one called Growth here. I will then press create and we are now presented by an editor, and this is basically like a drag and drop editor. It looks like it’s very much inspired by MailChimp, but it works very well. It’s easy to edit, and it’s easy to change the text and change the actual fonts, the font sizes and so on.

So you can see we have a lot of different elements going down here. We have some text elements, some images we can even work with columns you can see over here. We can add new columns in different sections, and we can also see how it looks on mobile. So it is responsive templates that we actually build. For everything you want to edit, you basically just click on it and then you change the text or the colours or the links or the actual image that you want to change.

It is that simple.

And when you’re satisfied with your newsletter, then you just go up here and then you press send. And then Inbox has now started our campaign. We now need to fill out the rest, and then we can send out the actual campaign. So you can see we have some different menus up here and some different menus going down. So here we have the subject.

We need to choose the from sender account we want to use. We need to choose who we want to send it to. I will say a contact list and then my first contact list. Then we need to choose when we can either schedule it or we can send it now and then last down here we have other settings where we can get some emails depending on what we choose. So we can get an email when it starts to send out emails, and we can get an email when it’s done sending out this newsletter.

Now we can also A/B test our campaign here, and we can A/B test by multiple things mainly about the subject up here, where we choose between either using the subject or the center account name. We can also do customised subjects down here. Then we can choose who to send from. We can choose who to send to and then down here you can see that right now it will send about 25% to group A and 25% to group B, and it will wait by the last 50% until it has a result from the first group.

Because based on the first group, it will then choose the winner and then send out the rest of the emails in that format. And you can choose down here how the winner is chosen, how long after they have been opened and et cetera, it’s very simple to set up, and this is a great additional feature because then you won’t waste an entire newsletter on A/B testing. You will only waste half of it, and it’s not even half of it. It’s more like 25% or even less that you’re actually wasting in order to figure out how you can best possible, send out this specific newsletter.

If we go up to the top here we also have auto resend campaign where we can choose to resend the campaign with a different subject or could be to a different group.

And down here we choose whether we should send to the ones who didn’t click or the ones who didn’t open. And the last menu point is RSS campaign. This you can easily use if you have a WordPress website or another type of website who can generate an RSS feed. An RSS feed often contains all of your blog posts and your pages. So this will basically send out a newsletter every time you post a new blog post on your blog for instance.

That is just one of the examples, but when you’re ready, you just go up here and then you hit send now. Now in the menu point, we just skipped contacts and this is just small lists that we can do. We can do segments, we can do groups, and then we can do contact lists. Of course, contact list is the most simple where we only give it a list and we choose a group and then we choose the content policy where we can choose GDPR, CASL or others.

And then we also choose the source, whether it’s active clients.

Is it from business cards? Is it employees? Who is this list about? This is just some great features that you can add to easily differentiate between your different lists. Now moving on to the reports here.

When it is that you send out email campaigns, then you will be able to generate a report based on this report. You can see simple elements like open rate, how many clicked in the email and how many were successfully delivered to all of the different emails. It’s simple numbers like that. Now the forms module here we can build forms and attach it to a list so you can see that there are six steps we need to go through here. I will call this one form one with a small description here.

Then we go to the next step where it is that we actually have to design our form. Here you can see that we get a very simple form with a title, some descriptions, and then the actual form here and we can change everything. We can change the text by clicking on it. We can change the heading, we can change the placeholder, the email field, we cannot change, but we can change the button here.

Now next step is we need to choose all the people who signs up for this specific form. They need to be assigned to a specific list. Again, I will just choose my first contact list and then I’ll go to the next step. The next step is basically to activate our form. We choose the language of the form, then we choose the center account.

We need to choose what activation newsletter that we want to use. And here you can see our email campaigns or we can just choose the system template. Then we can choose whether we want to use the default link. And here you can see some different types of links. Activation success is mainly when they have signed up via the form.

And then there’s a failure link that we want to send them to. If they do not succeed to sign up for the email, you can also get notified yourself every time there is a sign up. And now the next step here is the actual messages that we can control. Here we can choose the messages they need to see based on they signed up or they didn’t sign up or an error occurred. I will just leave them as they are.

And now the last step is that we can share the form. We can either share it as iframe or as an HTML. And then you can see that we can add it to our email signature or add it to a physical store as well. I will just keep it as it is. Press done and we now have the form ready.

I want to use this form in the landing page that we need to build now because they do also have a landing page module. As I mentioned in the introduction, this is a really feature rich product, so let’s build our landing page here. First off, I’ve chosen the title Landing page, a description, and then move on to the template. Here we are presented by a lot of templates and they seem quite good. They’re not as outdated as I’ve seen in other tools.

I will just choose the first one here and now we are inside the landing page editor. This is a copy paste from the email editor, so you will know how it works. It is by clicking on the elements or dragging and dropping different elements that you want to showcase. It’s very simple, but what I wanted to do is that I wanted to add my form, so I will pull that form down here and then I will choose the form we have built form one. It takes a little bit of time, but when it’s done then you will see down here it has the form.

Right now it doesn’t match very well in here and it is limited what we can change of the actual form here, but we can always go back to the form and in the form editor change the form to match the template right here, but I will just keep it as it is and I will press done. Now we have set up our landing page and we have designed it and we have added our actual form. Now the last step here is to put in some titles, a description, a social share title and a social share description.

You can also do code injection if you want to add analytics, Google Search Console and those elements. I’ve just filled out the page title and the page description and I will now go to the next step.

So now we have our landing page ready and you can see right here if I copy the link. This is our landing page. You can see it’s very simple. It has our form down here that is working and I can sign up and I will automatically be added to the list that we chose for the form. It was so fast to add this landing page and it’s so easy to change the design and it is responsive for email and it just works very well.

Now there are two more modules I will show you before we move on to the notify module. The first one here is automation. You can add automation in order to basically automate your entire email marketing flow. So I will create a workflow here. You can choose between some pre done one.

You can do a welcome message. Every time someone signs up for a specific list, you send them an email. You can do some birthdays. You can do email series if you want to send out a campaign where you send out multiple emails. Then you should choose this one.

But I will just start from blank so you can see the different options. Now out here we have triggers, we have actions and we have conditions. Right now they do not have that many integrations, so it is limited to what we can do within the workflow and within the automation. But one that’s often used is that when contact is added to the list, you simply just drag it over and then we click on what list we want to use. And then we can choose whether it should be added from the form from our landing page, the panel, or the API.

I will just choose the form. Now we need to do something with this and here we go to Actions. So in actions we can send them a campaign. And the way that you link these together is by putting them underneath each other. So you saw that there was this blue dot that is what is highlighting that they actually merged together now.

So here we choose the sender account. We choose what newsletter we want to send out, and then we press save. So now every time someone signs up for my email list, they will immediately receive a welcome email telling them, welcome to the list. You will be able to receive this and that and you will get an email approximately one time a week. But you can see out here we have a lot of different actions that you can use. We can also schedule. We can also wait. Let’s say that you want to send out an email campaign. Then you can make a list of emails and then divide them by wait elements here.

So you send out an email and then you wait two days and then you send out another email, wait two days and send out a third email. This is the way to build these email series, but I will just save and close this automation and give it a name and I will activate it. So now it is actively running. Now the last module before we move on to Notify is events. And here you can actually set up specific events that you want to do.

Now we can create the event up here, and the event is basically an image, a title and a description. Down here you choose whether you want to use a Twitter hashtag to create some awareness around the event. You can choose when the event is being held, and you can choose the place, the company email address, company phone, and the web URL. You can easily let people add this event to their calendar. You can also up here see when the event is actually going to be held.

And then you can add sponsored forms down here. Now I will just try and save this one as it is. And now we have our actual event. I will then preview it. And now here you can see how it looks for the people who are entering this event.

You can see we can share it on social media. We can add it to our calendar. Right now the time to event is not working, and that’s because I chose it to start in the past. But other than that, you can see the different attributes down here. And there is event place where I have added a link to Instagram right now.

So here you get an entire event page that you can just build, and you can easily combine this with the landing pages so you can gather leads of course, because that’s what it’s all about. Now let’s move on to the Notify module. The Notify module within Inbox is very simplified because it is a transactional email module, which means that you will send emails from your system via Inbox. So you are not in here manually sending out emails.

That is why we only have some few menu points out here, like statistics, the history of emails sent out, our templates, which I will dive into, and then we have some settings down here, including Payouts. Now in. The template is where you build your actual emails to send out. And this is transactional emails. But a transactional email often contains a template with variables that you filled out from your system.

So here we’ll just build a simple template. Now we can choose between the rich text editor or if you want to code it from scratch, I will just choose the rich text editor. In here you can add text to the actual template, and you can see here after adding text, we basically just have the text. We can see it as HTML preview, plain text preview, or we can edit the text. This means that you cannot build pretty templates with the design unless you’re extremely good with HTML. There’s no drag and drop in these elements.

You just need to be aware of this. Up here we can send a test to a specific email address to see how it looks. But right now the inbox Notify is very simple. It does work with transactional emails, but they do not have designs within their emails. Now let’s move on to the last module, which is Verify. Verify is used to increase your sender reputation, and it’s done by two ways.

You can either bulk verify all of your emails, or you can verify a single email. The reason for this is if your email is sending out a lot of emails to accounts that just doesn’t exist or your emails bounce constantly. This is not a great element for your sender reputation, which is why it’s a good idea to verify your emails, making sure that they are valid and you can send emails to them. But here we can choose to either bulk verify by uploading a file with emails, or we can just verify a simple email, and they do also have an integration to the other module Inbox.

So by clicking on import from Inbox, you can import an entire list and then you can basically verify the list and you can even update the list after you have run it through. This means that they will delete all of the emails which are Invalid and only keep the valid emails. I will just verify my list right here. It did fail for some reason, but I can always try to run it again as a verification, but it keeps failing. However, it is great to see that I can easily just import my entire list so I don’t have to export it and then import again into verify.

These three modules work very well together. I just wish that within the Notify module we could build actual templates where we could drag and drop, insert variables and work in that way, it would just give a much better impression of the company who is actually sending out transactional emails via Inbox. But other than that, it’s really great to see.

Inbox pricing

When we take a look at the pricing structure of Inbox. The price depends on the amount of contacts you have.

You can see that they have two plans and the first one you can get started with completely free. Now when you do get more contacts, you have to sign up for a paid plan, and when you do reach this point, you need to choose between the two plans you see here. Now these two plans differs on two elements, the amount of brands that you manage and the sending speed that you want to send out emails. The speed of sending out emails is only applicable to you if you have a tonne of contacts.

Otherwise, it is really only the amount of brands you need to look at.

Alternatives to Inbox

Now the alternative to Inbox is MailChimp. Mailchimp is a much more developed tool compared to Inbox within MailChimp. We have a better design. We have more extensive functionality, and they have just recently added automations within MailChimp, and this is also something we see within Inbox being in beta at the moment.

Now, a tool that Inbox has which we do not see within MailChimp is sender reputation tools. Within Inbox we can build our sender reputation and the way it works is that you send out a lot of different types of emails to a specific email address or a list of specific email addresses, and what Inbox will then do is make sure that for all of these emails they will always go in inbox, and they will never land in spam. By doing this, you will really build a great sender reputation so your emails will never end up in spam.

Future of Inbox

Taking a look at the future of Inbox. They have a lot of things they’re working on, but there are three main elements I want to highlight. First off, they are working on their integration page for their native integrations, they will make it easier for you to add all of your integrations. Then they are working on adding more templates, both to your landing pages, your email campaigns, and even your transactional emails. This means that you can build emails a lot faster than we do right now.

Last but not least, they’re working on an experimental feature which is called voice email. This will make it possible for us to basically dictate our entire email. Inbox will then write the email and send it out for us. This is a very interesting feature that I can’t wait to see how they will develop.

Pros & Cons using Inbox

Moving on to the pros and cons of Inbox. Starting with the pros, you get a feature rich tool with a lot of modules, and you can build landing pages, whereas for the cons, you do get an outdated design, and I’m missing more integrations to really automate my email flow.

My experience using Inbox

Inbox is a really powerful email marketing tool. The more you dive into it, the more features appear. I’m really impressed by the three main modules and I can’t wait for them to update their design. Overall, I will give inbox three and a half stars. They have a lot of great features, but I need more integrations and a more thought through design for them to score higher.

But yeah, that is my review of Inbox. I hope that you liked the video, and if you did, please give it a thumbs up. If you have any questions to Inbox or other products you would like me to review, please leave a comment down below. Thank you so much for watching. Let’s catch up on the next one.

Legal documents, something many struggle with, not only because it’s time consuming, but it’s also difficult. With today’s product showcase, you don’t have to struggle anymore. Today’s product showcase is Crove a platform helping and managing you with your contracts and legal documents. Not only does Crove have prebuilt templates, you can even automate the process around your documents. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Crove and build a contract.

We are now inside Crove, the platform where we can build legal documents. It’s a very simple platform right now, but it has all we need in order to build the documents. First off, we have my templates and this is not actual contracts. It is templates. In order to see our contract, we need to go over here and then you can see the documents that I have built right now.

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Features of Crove

I can then click on it to see this specific document. I can see the name of the employer. I can see the address and I can see the country and so on. You can see the different steps out here. Now, the first issue I want to mention here is that as soon as you finalise the contract, you can’t edit it anymore.

And I think that’s a bit of a problem because imagine that you build a contract, you sign it and you give it to your employee and your employee has some things that the person wants to change. Then you can’t really go back and change it. You have to build a new contract from scratch. It would be a nice add on that we could edit it before both parts have signed.

I completely understand that you should not be able to edit a contract that has been signed by both parts, but until both parts have signed, I think you should be able to edit the contract. But now let’s go back to the dashboard here because what I want to show you is the template gallery in here we have three different categories. We have HR, HR letters and legal. In these areas, we have different types of contracts that we can build. So what I want to do now is I want to build an NDA.

So what I do is that I click on the template here, and then it copies the template into my local template Gallery. What I then have to do is that I basically have to fill out all of these fields the day of the agreement. Let’s say the 20 November 2021. And let’s say Copenhagen because that’s where I am right now. We’ll then press next, and then we have to fill out the next name of organisation, the address, the disclosing party representative and the state.

And on the third step here, it’s the receiving party. So here I will enter the information of who it is that has to sign, which is not from the company I am representing. Now see, two of these fields are really confusing me. The first one is called father of Receiving Party and the second one age of receiving party. Often when you build an NDA, you send it to a company.

This company doesn’t necessarily have an age. I feel that’s very irrelevant for this NDA that I’m building. So I would actually really like to be able to customise my own fields, but I will show you how you can do that later on. But for now I just entered these information and I’ll then press next. And here we need to enter the information of two witnesses who needs to see when this document is signed.

Now we have filled everything out and I’ll then press submit. It is now building the contract. And what you will see just in a moment is the actual contract ready to be signed. You can see here that it was submitted successfully and we can now download it as a PDF. And here you can see the contract build out.

Right now you can see it’s on seven pages and we did not fill information out for seven pages, but that’s because Crove automatically builds the contract for us. And the only variables that there are in this contract is what we need to fill out and all of this information you see on these different pages. I will show you how you can change those just in a moment. But right now we have the entire NDA here. What we then need to do is we need to print it out and then manually sign it.

There are some contracts you can sign within Crove, but the NDA you cannot sign within Crove. You can also view the document within Crove by clicking on View document, and then you can see your entire document here. But now what I want to show you is that you can press edit up here and then you can still edit this specific template. And in here you can see that all of the yellow fields here. This is our variables that we fill out.

So basically by adding all of these different fields, you can build your own template with the information you need them to fill out. You can also change the actual content here. If you do want to add text, if you want to remove text, it’s just not relevant for the case of your NDA, this is possible for all of the different templates. All of these templates are just pre built from Crove. So you’re sure you get a standpoint where you actually have a legal binding contract, but other than that, you can see we can change the font up here.

We can customise the colours, we can change the font size a bit, and then we can add some images, tables, and I think that’s about it. Over here we have, of course, our variable settings. If I click on a variable here, we can see that this is called Father of Receiving Party. We can choose the variable type whether it should be a text, an underline, or a checkbox.

Then we can choose some different settings for the variable. And when we do not click on a variable, you can see we have all of our different variables out here, and then I can basically go in and edit the different ones. Now we can also work with expressions. We can work with the page settings overall, of course, I need to choose the page here, and then we can set up conditions and table settings.

As I just showed you. Over here, you can see where it is that the page breaks and this is an estimation. And overall that’s about it. You can see we can then save our changes here and then go back to the form where it is that we fill out the information. So you can see here we can actually build the entire form, which is where we receive the information. So here I can press duplicate on this one and then go down to the plus section and paste in the section.

And you can see we now have two sections. This means that you can really build out your templates to match your need on the point. You can add as many fields as you want to just remember to unique name all of your fields. So when you have to add them into your actual contract, the template, you can uniquely find them and add them in your contract in the text. Other than that, you can just add extra sections out here if you want to with extra information.

Personally, I would go in here and I would remove those two questions I was in doubt or at least rewrite them. So they make sense for me the next time I need to use this template. Other than that, it looks great. And this is what’s so great about this editor and about the templates. You can reuse these.

So let’s say the next time you need an NDA, you basically just go in use the same template. Maybe you change it a little bit to match the style of the situation that you’re in at the moment, and then you send out the NDA to be signed. Now I just want to show you how it looks when it is that you can actually sign within Crove. So what we have here is an employer agreement. And what you can see except for the fields here is the employee esign.

You can choose here to either upload the actual signature or you can just draw your signature right here. So I will just write my name or at least an abbreviation of it, and then I press done. And then basically it takes a photo of my contract and insert into the contract. Of course, this is only for me. I still need the signature of the employee, which this agreement is sent to, but this means that I can sign within Crove and I don’t have to print it out sign it, scan it in again, send it to the employer.

So this really saves me a lot of time. Other than that, it is the same as you just saw before where we fill out the fields and then we get a contract in the end that we can send out to our employer. And when you want to send this out to your employee, you basically just click share up here and then you can choose whether it should be publicly fillable. This means that if there are some information you need from the employee, you can make it public fillable, and then they can fill out the rest of the information.

Otherwise you just enter the email right here, and then you press share, and then they will receive the contract.

They can go in, and they can read it through. And if they agree, then they can sign it. The last point I want to show you is integrations, because you can integrate Crove with Zapier, Pabbly and many more elements here. You can even make your own API or Webhook integration to Crove, and this is often if you want to completely automate the process of a contract being built. So let’s say you have a template in your template Gallery.

You have it made out. It just needs information like the name of the employee, the address and maybe the country as well. Then you can say something like let’s say that in Zapier you have a flow, whereas when an employee is added to a CRM system or to your Slack or something similar, automatically a webhook should be generated to Crove, a contract should be made, and the contract should be sent out to the employee. Then you have a completely automated process of sending contracts out to your employees without you having to lift a finger.

This is what is so great about integrations and automating the process around your legal documents and contracts.

It can also be that you want to send an NDA to a possible partner. This can also be done via integrations. It might be that you have a flow in Zapier something like every time an email is sent to this specific email, then send an NDA to this email over here, and then you have also automated that process without you having to sign into Crove build the NDA and then manually send it out. The possibilities are endless when it comes to integrations and automations.

Crove pricing

When we take a look at the pricing structure of Crove, don’t be confused by the amount of plants that Crove offers when we deep dive into the plans it is only the amount of documents that they differ on. Of course, if you take the cheap plans, you do not get the automation around your documents, but what you will also notice is that you can get started completely free testing out Crove.

Alternatives to Crove

Now the alternative to Crove are DocuSign and FormStack. Now the main differences between these is the amount of features and the design.

The alternatives are way ahead of Crove at the moment because they have just had more time to develop their products, build better designs, and overall, all of the help that they offer within their products are just outstanding. One thing I really want to see Crove work on is the UX and the help because as you just saw when we fill out a form, and we build a contract, it’s just not enough help. Often we have to guess what the different fields are and a product in this industry, we just need more help to build contracts.

Future of Crove

When we take a look at the future of Crove, there are three main elements I want you to notice. First off is the Word integration. You will be able to import and export Word integrations between Word and Crove. This will make it easier for you to edit and work with your contracts. Furthermore, they are working on a better user onboarding flow.

This I really hope that they will add more help text because when I’m building contracts within Crove, I’m really missing help text to help and guide me through the contract build. Last, but not least they’re working on customisation so we can customise our contracts to better fit our brand and our needs and maybe tweak the wording, but also tweak the font, the colours and the overall design of the contract.

Pros & Cons using Crove

Moving on to the pros and cons of Crove. Starting with the pros, they have a template library. You get online signature and then you get integrations. Whereas for the cons, the contract building flow is not user friendly. I can’t edit a contract before it’s signed.

My experience using Crove

I was so excited when I found Crove. Finally, a platform with a template library helping me with legal documents, which is a jungle for me. It’s definitely an interesting product, but they still have work to do. Overall, I will give Crove three stars. Their product is solving a serious problem.

However, they really need to work on their UX and bring more help into their app. But yeah, that is my review of Crove. I hope that you liked the video and if you did, please give it a thumbs up. If you have any questions to Crove or other products you would like me to review, please leave a comment down below. Thank you so much for watching.

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What if I told you it’s possible to build mock-ups in your browser? I have reviewed a product which is more advanced than many graphical editors running in the browser. Today’s product showcase is Glorify an advanced graphical editor running in your browser, making it possible to build mock-ups. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Glorify and build a mock-up.

Here we are inside Glorify. Here we are on the dashboard, the workspace home where we get a quick overview of our own designs and a way to start a new design. You can see we have some different categories up here. We have suggested, of course, and then we have other categories that we can go in and start designing. Before we start designing I want to show you the brand kit, because if you start by setting up your brand kit, you will really save time when you do your templates and your designing.

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So in the brand kit, we can add logos in different types. We can add a colour palette and we can add fonts that we use. So for instance, I’m using Montserrat a lot, so I will just add that and you can see right here they do not have Montserrat. So if this happens, you will have to write the support and ask them to add it.

Otherwise you can, of course, upload it right here manually by downloading it from Google and uploading it here. They do also have another product called Logo Flow up here where you can build your logo, but that’s another product. So going back to the projects here now we will go into our mock up scene that I have started here. And then we’ll basically start designing the moc-kup. So here you can see we have the editor.

We have all of our options to the left here where we can add elements to our design. Then we have a toolbar up here depending on what we are clicking on. Then we can change that. And then out here on the right, we have more options for the elements we’re clicking on. Now one thing I was really excited to see is there are layers.

They do have a layer Navigator. This means that you can easily find the elements which are often behind and difficult to touch normally. And then you can click on them here in the layer and then go to edit and then basically edit those layers. That is a huge benefit. And I would love to see that in other products as well.

But now out here in the menu, we can, of course, browse templates here and then depending on what you’re building right now, you need to choose the right template of course. We have hero images. We have mock-up scenes you can see I have chosen a mock up scene right now. They do also have YouTube thumbnails and posts for social media. They have all of those sizes and you can always Resize your images up here.

Again, a really great feature you can see for instance, if I want to use this one for a Facebook post, I easily just click on Facebook and then I click on what I need to add from Facebook. I think there is a mistake here with the YouTube thumbnail, but that’s how easy it is. Now this is a thumbnail so I can change the background here. You can see when I click on the actual thumbnail.

I get two options. I can change the keyboard and I can change the screen. Now the keyboard is fine. I just want to change the screen. So by editing the content here, you can see we now have some text we can change and a background.

I want to change the background. So what I do is that I go over here and I replace the background. So you can see over here to the left I now have the possibility to add images either by searching or by uploading a specific image. Now I will just search for YouTube here and then you can see we get some different options. I like the first one here, so I will click on that.

It is now being added and you can see it’s added on top of everything. So I will just click on the background and remove that. And now I need to make sure that this layer gets in the back. And what I do then is I go to the layer navigator, and then I basically just pull my image all the way back. Now all that is left to do is make sure that this one fit the background all over.

So I will just zoom out a little bit to make it easier for myself. And then I will expand the image right here. So we’re sure that it takes all of the space that looks good. Now we can’t really see the text so we need to work a little bit with that. Now what I could do is that I could add a border right here, a black border that gives some contrast.

Not enough. But I can also add some shadow right here. So by enabling the shadow you can see, we create even more distance from the image behind and to the actual text. And then of course, you can change the shadow right here as you would like it to, because right now it’s a little bit too much. So I should change it a little bit down, maybe add the blur to be a little bit less and making sure that the distance both vertical and horizontal is not way off.

So for now, I’ll just add it like this. Of course, we also added the border so it doesn’t look great. But this is a way for us to really difference between the background and the text itself. When we are done, we just press up here and then we will automatically be sent back to our mock-up. Now you can see that it takes a little bit of time for it to update the image here, but maybe it just takes time for it to render it.

That’s completely fine. Now, over here in the menu, you can see we have a lot of options. We have basic options like images, icons and text, of course, also shapes. One interesting element is the beta mock up objects, because in here you can see we have all of the mock-up objects. So basically we can add all of these mock-ups to the template we’re working on right now and then replace whatever the mock-up object is with a photo of something we built ourselves.

Again I want to remind you that everything here is happening within a browser. There’s nothing locally on your computer it’s really great to see. Going further down we can also build tools like buttons, annotations, and adding a colour palette. We can also add Blobs, and then they have integrations to Pixabay to Pexels.

And as a photo creator, then they have icons we can use here and then they have effects and textures as well, so you can add dirt, you can add fire, you can add lighting and so much more to your image to bring it to life. Another thing that really surprised me is their illustrations down here in Ouch. They have a lot of illustrations here. And what’s great is that, let’s say I add this illustration right here.

It does take a little bit of time to add it, but when I have added it, I can completely customise this one as I want to, because over here we have all of the colours that is populating this illustration right here and then we can basically just change to the colours. We would like to see if we want some green buttons. We can change this one to green. And of course, we can also Resize this one. And as it’s SVG, we can resize and minimise as much as we want without losing quality.

A really great bonus. Of course, this doesn’t look great, so I’ll just remove it again. But this is all of the elements they have in order to build your template out. They do also have pages. This means that your template or design you’re building can consist of multiple pages.

This is not normally something you do for a YouTube thumbnail or for a Facebook post. It is mainly something you do where you can add multiple images to a website or whatever it is you’re working on. And it is as easy as pressing the plus button here and now we have page two, and then we can easily switch between them by simply just clicking on them. But when we are ready, I will just delete the page here. Then we click on the download button up here. Here we can choose what size we want it in and what file type, so we can choose PNG.

We can choose JPEG of course, PDF and SVG. That’s really interesting. So I will choose SVG and I will choose, I just want the page one and then I will press download.

Now I’m really interested to see how this is going as SVG because I have not really had that as a focus and I’m using images, but here you can see the actual image rendered. So the first mistake is that we’re missing the image that we actually added within the ipad mock up here. Other than that, it’s really great quality of the image. I can see both the Apple Watch and the ipad is high quality, but of course I can see that the image we used in the background is not the best quality, and that is, of course, because an image doesn’t necessarily work with an SVG in that way, it is only elements built out of forms that will really work, but it was really fast downloading the image.

That’s another benefit. You can also enable a grid if you want to over here, but overall, that’s the functionality within Glorify when we build our templates. It’s very simple and they have a lot of templates already. Of course, I’m hoping for them to add more, but for instance, for YouTube thumbnails at the moment they have 351 templates that you can just start using.

And of course templates are just a starting point. We build the templates out into our own design and then we use the actual template.

Glorify pricing

When we take a look at the pricing structure of Glorify, it consists of three plans. First off, you can get started completely free, and it is pretty generous. Now for the paid plans. I’m a bit disappointed to see that they’re still limiting on the amount of AI background removals we get. I do know it’s because AI is not free for them to use, so it does make sense, but hopefully they will find a better way of us using that in the future.

Now, if you do need unlimited of everything you need to contact them because all of their paid plans have some limits.

Alternatives to Glorify

Now the alternative to Glorify is Canva and Crello as I see it now, I’m really surprised to see how well developed Glorify is. When I started testing it out I didn’t have high hopes, but I must really say their editor is great and they have implemented a Navigator, which is something I’m really missing within Crello and Canva. This is an easy way for me to find the elements that I need to use.

Simplified

Simplified has taken a different approach to building visual graphics by including AI in helping you generate content.

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Of course, they do not have as many templates as we see in Crello and Canva, and there are still elements that they need to work on in order to get a little bit better, but they’re definitely on the right track.

And with the future coming up, I’m really excited to see where Glorify is going.

Future of Glorify

When we take a look at the future of Glorify, they do have a really feature packed roadmap, and that’s so good to see. They are mainly working right now on a carousel view. This means that when you build multiple slides, you will be able to show these slides next to each other so you can easily get an overview. Then they are working on global brand kits. What this means is that when you have built a brand kit, you add colours and fonts.

Now, when you start building your templates and you start using these brand kits, then with the Global brand kit when you change your colours in the brand kit, they will automatically change on all the templates you have used this global colour on. This will really save time in the future. Furthermore, they are working on more integrations, both shared integrations but also stock photo integrations.

This means that we can share our templates and our images on social media easily and with more stock photos integrations we have even more photos to choose between. When it is, we build our template. Last but not least, the biggest update coming is live collaboration. This means that we can sit two, three, five people together and work on the same template at the same time in real time.

Pros & Cons using Glorify

Moving on to the pros and cons of Glorify. Starting with the pros, they have an advanced editor. You can work with SVG files in the browser and you can build mock ups, whereas for the cons, the UX can be confusing, sometimes especially the buttons. I would like to see more templates and I’m missing a feature to build my own shapes.

My experience using Glorify

I was really surprised of how mature Glorify is. The ability to work with photos, illustrations and integrations within the browser has just blown me away. And with their roadmap, it is just so intriguing as a product. Overall, I will give Glorify four and a half stars. It’s really a mature product.

It’s feature packed and with live collaboration coming up, it might be five stars in the future, but yeah, that is my review of Glorify. I hope that you liked the video and if you did, please give it a thumbs up. If you have any questions to Glorify or other products you would like me to review, please leave a comment down below. Thank you so much for watching. Let’s catch up on the next one.

With the right webZion Builder, you can test your ideas at a rapid speed. You can even rebuild your entire website by simply dragging and dropping the different design elements. And if you’re not a designer, then do not worry, they have a lot out of prebuilt design elements that you can just use. Today’s product showcase is Zion Builder a WebZion Builder perfect for WordPress.
So without further Ado, let’s dive into Zion Builder and let me show you how to create a page.

We are now inside WordPress where I have set up Zion Builder and I have been playing around with Zion Builder. First off, I just want to show you the settings here because this is where it really starts and if you set up the settings correct, you will really save a lot of time in the end. Now first off here is where you choose what type of post you want to be able to use Zion Builder on. Next up is maintenance mode.

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So if you’re building on your website and you don’t want your visitors to see what you’re doing, you can simply enable a coming soon or a maintenance mode which they will then see on your website. The appearance is simply for whether you want the light theme or the dark theme of Zion Builder. In the font options here, I would really recommend you going in here and adding the fonts that you use, this will really save you time. In the end. This is not like a global styling, but it is a way for you to easily find the fonts that you use within your project.

If you’re using custom fonts, you can easily upload them here, and they do also support Adobe Fonts.

Now for the custom icons. Per default, you get Zion Builder with the Font Awesome 5 icons, but you can easily upload your own icons right here on the button. Now the last one down here is presets. Here you can basically do global colouring and gradients. So what I’ve done is I’ve created my blue one as a global colour, so I can easily use that blue one and map it to all the places I used the blue.

So let’s say I want to change to a green one. Then I basically go in here and change it to green and then everywhere I have used it on my website. It will then change to green. Now before we move on to the theme builder, I want to show you templates. Because templates is basically global blocks and elements that you can use within your website. So for instance here I have a blog which is a modal where I have users signing up for a trial.

This model I don’t want to rebuild on each page of my website, so I’ve made it as a block so I can reuse it and easily just paste it in to all of my different pages. Now this does sound a little time consuming, which is why I’ve done it a little bit different. I’ve added this modal to my footer, so I only have to add it in one place, and I will show you how just in a moment. You can also build entire templates and add in here as your templates so that’s an entire page you build out, save it as a template and then you can reuse it later on.

But now let’s move on to the theme builder here because the theme builder makes it possible for you to build different designs depending on the situation. So you can see here I have three different designs.

I have my default template, which is used all over my website, unless there is something overriding it. And I have two places where I overwrite this default template, that is on the single blog post and on the blog itself. But now you can see that I use the same footer on all of these templates. It is only the header, which is varying, and that is because on my blog I have a blue background, whereas the default is just a white background. And on the blog post I have an even different type of header I’m using.

But now I want to show you the footer here. So if I go in and I edit the footer, this is the first time we now get into the Zion Builder, so you can see I have two sections here and the third one down here. The first section here, which looks a little bit strange, is actually my shortcode to my modal. So this is not how it looks on the front end. This is just my modal that I have inserted via a shortcode.

This means that I only have to change my modal in one place, whereas if I just inserted it as a template and I made a change in my modal template, it wouldn’t reflect right here. So if you want to use this template, and it needs to look exactly the same on all pages, then this is the way to do it. If you just want to insert it and make your own little version of it, then you basically go into your library. You click on local library. I have it down in my blocks, and then I just press insert. Now it has inserted it and I can then work with it so I can actually do changes.

But these changes are not reflected on the actual modal. Just be aware of that. Now, when I’m done with my footer, I will press save. I will not do that now just close the component.

But this is how you build templates for different situations. So up here, when we add a new template, we choose what this template is for. So for instance, the one I have built for my blog here, you can see if I edit that. I have only ticked up specific pages and then blog because I’ve made a specific blog page for it. And this is how you can do it.

For instance, my blog post here. If I press edit, I have chosen for all posts, not pages, just posts. So all posts have this design right here. And yes, you can also use Zion Builder to build your blog. I will show you that right now.

So within Zion Builder, I have built this blog here. It is very simple. It has a header section up here. Of course, my menu, my footer, and then the actual content here, which is my blog. Now, the way I have done this is maybe a little bit complex, but let me try to explain it to you because we have what’s called a repeater option.

A repeater option is containing two elements is containing a repeater provider and a repeater consumer. So the provider is the outer element and the consumer is the inner element. The provider is what provides information and the consumer is what consumes information and showcase it. So on my provider, I’ve made a query builder set that it needs to be posts and I want to show ten post per page order by date. Now, if I then go in and I edit my column right here, you can see with an image, a title, a link and a category up here you can see I have enabled consumer.

This means that I can use the information from the provider to build out my design here. So if I go to General and I click, for instance, edit image, you can see up here that I have chosen to use featured image. And the way it works is it’s called dynamic fields. So here I can remove the field and then I can show you how I do it. So down here we have a little icon called Use dynamic Data.

By clicking on that you can see I have something called post. Within post I can choose to use the featured image. Now this is the featured image for the specific blog post. So if I made multiple blog posts, they would automatically repeat in here because of the setup I have made here. So just to sum up, you make a provider where you set your query of what you want to show of content, and then you make your consumer, which is your design for the provided information.

And the same goes for the title down here. If I click on the title here, you can see again, I’ve chosen post title as my dynamic data. Furthermore, I’ve also chosen that my heading needs to be a link, and I have chosen again dynamic data where it needs to link to the post or the page in the same window. Now here you can see some of the elements from Zion Builder, for instance, in Styling. If I click on Wrapper here, you can see we get some different types of changes we can do for CSS mainly, but it is drag and drop and simply clicking.

There is no code involved here. For instance, the background I can change that to either be a colour. I can choose a gradient, an image, or even a video as my background. For typography here I would love to see global styling and it is coming. But for now what I do is that I go in and I choose my fonts and you can see what I showed you earlier where I chose some fonts in my presets.

They are now the top two fonts here that I use and they are changing in lifetime. You can see right here. I can also add text shadow and I can just do so much within Zion Builder. I can build borders, I can change the size and the spacing. I have so many options within display where I can choose how my display needs to be based on the fit, which means the screen size.

Furthermore, I can also choose transitions, which is one of my favourites that I use for buttons. So I have a button up here which is showing sign up for beta. This has a transition of 300 milliseconds, which means that the transition from going from coloured to transparent is much more smooth and you have more options. Now what you can do to maybe make a little workaround for your global styling is adding CSS classes, so you can build a global CSS class. You can give it a font, you can give it a font size and so on, and then you can use it in here.

So for instance, I have a global CSS class called Open Beta Programme, and that’s because every button which has this specific class opens up my modal where they can sign up for my beta. If I add that now to the heading, that means that every time someone clicks here it will open up a modal and then I can, of course, also choose the different elements within the styling. I will just remove it again. Now one more thing you can do is that you can choose the different sections here based on what state you want to style.

So if you want to change the hover of the actual heading here, you just choose hover and then we change that it needs to have a background on red. That means that every time I Hover on my actual heading here it will now be red, as you can see here. In the advanced tab here, we have basically custom CSS, and we have, of course, the repeater option I just shown you. You can also animate your different CSS elements. You can make a bounce here and then you can see how it actually looks. You can make a flash, you can make a rubber band, and this is a great way to draw the eyes attention on specific elements that you want people to notice.

The last thing here is search where you can basically search for whatever you want to change. So if you want to change the animation, you search for animation and then you change it for the specific element. Now you can also change the view and change to mobile to see how it actually looks on mobile. You can see here it looks okay. I need to change a little bit up here, but other than that, it actually looks great.

And we can also change for tablet, laptop and desktop just to see how it looks and make sure that our website is responsive. Now you do also have page options, which is basically just the title, the status of the page, the page layout, which is set default right now. Then you can add custom CSS and custom JavaScript to the specific page. That’s a great little add on. Then you can make global CSS classes.

You can see I have my open beta programme class and you can make dynamic data preview source where you choose whether it should be a single, post type archive or a taxonomy archive. Of course, depending on what page you’re building. Now three more elements I want to show you is the tree view. This one works as a Navigator where you can easily find your different elements, because when you just add a header, it’s most likely that there is a column and a row around that. So to maybe edit the column, it’s a little bit difficult to find it here in the view by just clicking on this small edit button here.

So then you can easily take the tree view here and then you can click on the specific elements right here. We do also have a section view right here, which is maybe a little bit easier for you. And then we have the wireframe where we get an entire different way of building our website. This is not my favourite. I really use the tree view a lot.

If you do make changes you don’t like, you can also go to the history here and then you can redo it. Last but not least we have our library, which I already shown you. And in here you can see that we have a lot of prebuilt design elements that we can just insert into the editor and then build our website from the ground up. What I usually do when I need to add extra sections is I click on the plus icon here because then I can search for the elements.

Let’s say that I need an image box. Then I search for image, click on the image box and then you can see we have an image box with no styling at all that we then need to go in edit the image box and then make it into our design. Now with some global styling, this would have been a lot easier, but right now I still really enjoy using Zion Builder and I can’t wait for the future. Now before we move on to the pricing of Zion Builder.

I just want to show you the Pag speed insights because Zion Builder is really advertising that they’re a fast Loading website Builder, and that is really true. In here you can see right now I have built the website via Zion Builder and I have no optimisation plugins at all. So when we scroll down here, first of all, you can see that we have 67 as a score on the mobile, which is already very high. When we scroll down, we see that the issues we have is the images, which is not next generation. We need a plugin for that. And then we can see that the server is having a little bit long time responding could be the images, but it could also be that we haven’t minimised and compressed our files, which we need another plugin for.

So by installing two plugins, one for the images and one for compressing and minimising our files, we would score a lot higher because that is the main elements that we are failing on right now. And if I change to computer, you can see we score 84, which is also very high. And again, it’s talking about the server’s response time, the images and that we need to compress and minify our files. So they are really doing a great job creating fast websites with Zion Builder.

Zion Builder pricing

When we take a look at the pricing structure of Zion Builder, it is very simplified. First off, you can get started completely free to test out Zion Builder. Of course, it is a limited version where you can test it out on your website to see whether Zion Builder is for you or not, because Zion Builder has taken a different approach to the website builder game. Now when we compare the paid plans to each other, they only differ on the amount of websites you can use Zion Builder on.

Otherwise you get the same amount of features.

And what I really do like about Zion Builder is how agile it is. You have so many options compared to the competitors.

Alternatives to Zion Builder

Because the alternatives to Zion Builder are Elementor and Oxygen Builder. Now, Elementor is definitely number one in the website builder industry. They have just been in the game for longest and they just have a lot of pro elements that you can use in order to really design your website. For instance, with Elementor, you have global styling.

Elementor

Elementor is the most mature website builder in the industry. I wrote a review of Elementor, you should check it out.

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This is not something we see within Zion Builder yet, but when we do take a look at the future, which we will do just in a moment, you will see it is on the roadmap. Now for the Oxygen Builder they are in between I would say. Zion Builder is close to Oxygen Builder and Oxygen Builder is coming close after Elementor. However, Oxygen Builder is still behind Elementor on the amount of features that they have. But it is great to see alternatives popping up to Elementor, so we get some competition in the industry to get even better products.

Future of Zion Builder

When we take a look into the future of Zion Builder, it is very interesting. First off, they’re working on rebuilding the entire interface to make it even more intuitive for us to use. Then they’re working on a basic theme. This theme will make it possible for us to build an even faster loading website than right now. Then they’re working on a form builder so we can build forms within Zion Builder so we don’t have to go out and find external plugins for that.

Then they are also working on more integrations to other plugins so you easily can use external plugins within Zion Builder when it is that you build your website. And last but not least my favourite, they’re adding global styling to Zion Builder. This makes it possible for us to build websites even faster because we don’t have to sit and choose the fonts, the colours and the head sizes all of the time.

Pros & Cons using Zion Builder

Now moving on to the pros and cons of Zion Builder. Starting with the pros, you get a fast loading website. You can build your entire WordPress website using Zion Builder and it’s so easy to use. Whereas for the cons, Zion Builder does not have global styling, UX can be tricky sometimes when you click on certain elements, and it’s not a mature product, so we still have small box here and there.

My experience using Zion Builder

Zion Builder is a great alternative to Elementor. They have managed to build a website Builder that takes a minimal amount of time to learn how to use and the possibilities are endless. I can’t wait for the future. Overall, I will give Zion Builder four stars, but yeah, that is my review of Zion Builder. I hope that you liked the review and if you did, please give it a thumbs up.

If you have any questions to Zion Builder or other products, you would like me to review. Please leave a comment down below. Thank you so much for watching. Let’s catch up on the next one.

Nurturing and growing your email list doesn’t have to be a manual process. With automation flows and the right tools at hand, you can build and grow your email marketing on autopilot. Today’s product showcase is Acumbamail, a software helping you growing and nurturing your email list from multiple channels. So without further Ado, let’s dive into Acumbamail and let me show you the platform. We are now inside the platform Acumbamail where we have all of our modules on the dashboard. Here we get a quick overview of our campaigns, our plan, and we have a marketing calendar over here.

The marketing calendar is great to see what campaigns you’re sending out or if something is happening on specific days. So we can see here, for instance, 31 October there is Halloween. So if we want to run an email campaign surrounding Halloween, we can easily do that and set that up in here. But we will just jump right into campaigns here, where we will set up our first email campaign because this is what Acumbamail is really about. For me, it’s about email campaigns and it’s about the automation which I will show you after.

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When we set up our email campaign, we can choose whether it should be a newsletter, A/B testing an autoresponder or RSS. RSS is great if you have a blog and you want to shoot out an email for every blog post that you make, or at least have the possibility to do so because the RSS feed will automatically pull in your article and create an email marketing campaign around that article. For now I will just use newsletter. I would like to be able to send a series of emails, but I will show you a workaround for that later.

Now, when we create our newsletter here, we need to give it a campaign name and a subject. On the next step here we choose who we send to. I will just choose myself and then we have to choose our templates. Either we can choose one we have already created or we can make a new template based on some of the templates already in here. You can see here they have a lot of templates.

Some of them are a bit outdated, but you can always turn them into your own style. I will take this template here called Be the Change. I will then give it a name and then I have now created the template. See now we are shown in a view where we can build out the email and this is very easy with drag and drop it’s like we know it from MailChimp. It is very similar to that.

It’s very easy to change all of the elements here, we can make a button and we can call this one sign up for our YouTube channel. Then we can easily out here change the colour if you want it to be a little bit more reddish like YouTube and then that’s it. So up here we can change to our logo if we want to, we can change the text and it’s as easy as just dragging and dropping. If you want to build rows, let’s say you want an image on the left and you want text on the right that is also possible.

Within the rows here, you just pull out the section you would like to use, and then you can up here basically just add what you want to the left and add the content to the right as well. The last settings menu point here is how the area width should be, whether the content should be centred or left aligned and some other elements you can choose here. This is how simple it is to build up an email campaign. I will now press next and the last step is basically we just have to send out this email to whomever we want to send it out to.

Of course you need consent, but this is how easy it is. Here we can see all of the steps and in the bottom here we can actually choose to send it out to the subscribers when they’re most active. This is a great feature because then there is a bigger chance for them opening the email and interacting with the email. So I will enable that one. When we have sent out the email, we will have some analysis that we can check and then we can also down here choose to resend to subscribers who don’t open but with a different email subject.

So if I enable this one, then it will send out a new email with this subject here two days after they haven’t opened the email and it will be the same email just with another subject.

So that’s a different way of A/B testing. If you didn’t choose the A/B test campaign to begin with. Now the last step is just to either schedule the campaign or send it now. I will just send it out immediately, but moving on, we have our lists and within our list we have, of course, whoever is in the list. And for each of these lists, we can build custom fields. Let’s say you want to use the text message module within Acumbamail. Then you have to add a text message field for the phone number that you can use to send out text messages. Other than that we can build forms.

If we want to build a form that people sign up for this specific list. That is also possible. When we build a form it is very simple. You start out by choosing the template you want to work on, and then you can choose different elements. So after they have submitted the form, you can show them a message here.

In order to complete your subscription, you must click in the email that we have sent to you and down at the bottom is the message for those who sign up but are already signed up. Very simple. On the next step. Here is the more exciting part because here we can actually design our form as we want it to. Often we want the form to look like our design of our website.

So it looks like it’s part of the website that you can do in here where you can change the style of the buttons, the input fields, the text on the buttons and all of the colours. I will just go with this for now and now on the last step is the integration step. Here you can add this form to your website by adding these two codes. The first one needs to be in your header and the last one here needs to be wherever you want the form to actually appear on your website.

And then the form is already integrated with Acumbamail and a specific list.

So here you can already start by gathering an email. You can of course, also use this form when we build a landing page. But now let’s move on to the automations. Automations you can use to basically automate all of your manual processes. Here will create a new automation. I will just call it YouTube video.

What we will often do is that we will get content and we will get subscribers in from multiple channels, and it’s very important they get on the right list. So let’s say that we get an email subscriber in from an external form that doesn’t have anything to do with Acumbamail. Then in here we could say that the trigger was that they were added to the list and then we had to choose what needs to happen to them when they’re adding to the list. It could be that we want to send them out an email template, maybe welcoming them to the list. What they can expect.

Another thing could be that we wanted to shoot a webhook. A webhook is more technical if you want to do anything within your system and the last one here is the text message, so you can also shoot them out a text message if you have the module and you of course, need the phone number of the list subscriber. Right now the automation flow is very simple. We don’t see so many integrations, and we really need integrations in order to get the full value of automations.

That’s what we see within Encharge and within ActiveCampaign that by having integrations, we can build even more processes and automate them, which in the end saves us a lot of time.

Now we’ll just quickly show you here the SMTP. Because per default you are using Acumbamail’s SMTP relay, but if you would like, you can also use your own SMTP, and it is very simple to set up. You basically just click on the setup button here. Then you enter your username, the server and the password and then you’re good to go, then you’re using your own SMTP, and this is good because then you do not rely on Acumbamail’s SMTP. Let’s say that Acumbamail has a customer who is spamming out emails, which means that the mail server at Acumbamail can get banned from multiple websites or email providers. This will hurt you.

So I will recommend you using your own SMTP relay if you can. Otherwise, you can, of course, use Acumbamail’s SMTP record and they do have multiple. So do not worry that much about it. Now I don’t have the text message module, so I cannot send out text messages, but I can show you the campaigns and the quick send. Because the quick send you can use if you fast want to send out a text message to someone.

It can be that you have a customer who has made an order, but you do not have a specific item in stock. Then you can fast here send them a text message, asking them if they would like a different type of item and they can just reply to it. But other than that, we can actually set up campaigns, and this is campaigns for text messages, which means that it will send out to multiple text message numbers in one go. This is where we set up the campaigns, and I’ll just choose my test campaign that I have already set up.

It is very simple. You choose who needs to be the sender, and then you write your text message. Then you can choose whether you want to schedule the campaign or just send out the text messages immediately. And then when you have written these three elements, then you just press send campaign and it will then send out the campaign to all of the numbers on the list that we have chosen in step one here, where I just chose customers. This is how simple it is to send out text messages to multiple.

But again, I would like to be able to send out a series of text messages just with the email flow.

You can do that with the automation where you basically set up a text message and then you set up a hold for two days maybe, a text message, a hold for two days and so on. So I will recommend you building a campaign like that. Now the last module is landing pages. This is a fast way to test ideas, because often when you need to build a landing page, if you’re building from scratch, it’s going to take a long time. But in here you can just choose a design to start from.

And then, of course, you can make it your own. But by having a design from the get go, it really saves you a lot of time in the end, I will just choose a design over here and we will call this one YouTube video as well. First off, we need to give some SEO description and title. If we want we can also put it as a subdomain on our own domain here in the: Configure the page domain section. For now, I’ll just keep it as it is and go to the next page where we have to design our entire landing page.

And here you can see that it’s the same view as we saw just before when it was that we built out the email templates, so it is the same view and it works the same way where you drag and drop the elements you want to use and you still have the rows up here. When you want to build the design down. If you want to change anything, you just click on it and you change it. Now this editor here can also be shown on Mobile for you to see how it looks and it is responsive per default.

It is not a full extensive landing page builder. It is made to test out ideas and build an email list. It is not meant as a landing page with full functionality with a lot of advanced animations transitions and so on. It is a bit more simple and for each element you can see over here we have some properties that we can change, of course, depending on the element that you’re clicking on. But it is very simple and you can see here on my screen.

I have to scroll a lot to build at least the desktop version. It is easier to build a mobile version, and maybe they should focus on mobile first because even more mobiles are coming, and we’re just seeing that the primary unit for websites today often is the mobile, so that could be a way that they could work around this issue they have with a lot of scrolling. But it is great to see that you can build out landing pages because it’s an easy and cheap way to test out ideas, even though if it’s not a business idea but an idea for your already current running business, you can still use a landing page and test it out.

And the way you see whether the idea will be a success or not is the amount of email subscribers you get, of course, hold it up against how many visitors you have, and then you actually have a conversion rate where you can see whether the idea is a good idea or a bad idea.

Acumbamail pricing

When we take a look at the pricing structure, you can get started for free, and you should definitely do that to test out Acumbamail to see whether it’s for you or not. And overall, with all types of software, I always recommend starting with the free plan. When we do take a step further into the paid plans, it can be confusing because there are so many modules that we can twist and turn on the amount of emails we send out and text messages. But do not worry they have a more simplified view.

If you click on the comparison model, then you can see we have only three plans we need to focus on and the amount of emails that we send out.

This is a more simple way of looking at the pricing, and this pricing is very similar to one of the alternatives ActiveCampaign, whereas Encharge the other alternative is even more simplified with two plans only.

Alternatives to Acumbamail

Now the alternative to Acumbamail is, as I just mentioned before, ActiveCampaign and Encharge. ActiveCampaign is definitely the most enterprise system within the industry of email marketing systems, whereas Encharge is a bit in the middle because with Acumbamail we can build landing pages. This we can also do within ActiveCampaign, but we cannot do it within Encharge.

However, Encharge and their entire email system is much more built out and has more extensive functionality with for instance, A/B testing. This is not yet within a ACumbamail. Hopefully it will come in the future.

Encharge

Encharge is one of my favourite software. Their design and flow of building e-mail campaigns is just outstanding.

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Overall. When we also look at the design, Acumbamail has the potential to have a pretty design. However, it’s not so functional and often when you click around all of a sudden the page refreshes on times that we do not expect it to, so they do have some UX they need to work on compared to the alternatives.

Future of Acumbamail

When we do look into the future of Acumbamail, there are four main points that they are focused on. They are focused on adding faster Loading landing pages, which is good for SEO. Then they are working on adding more templates both for email campaigns but also for landing pages. Furthermore, they’re working on adding more languages within the platform and last, but not least, they’re adding even more integrations so we can build more extensive automation flows and automate even more processes that we do manually at the moment.

Pros & Cons using Acumbamail

Now moving on to the pros and cons of Acumbamail. Starting with the Pros, they have a text message module. They have native integrations to CMS platforms and you can use your own SMTP setup. Whereas for the cons, the UX is not as fluent. I’m missing more modern designs for both email campaigns and the landing pages, and I’m missing more options in the automation flows to build more extensive automation flows.

My experience using Acumbamail

If you’re getting started in the email game, and you’re looking for software which can help you with building and growing your email list, then Acumbamail is definitely a software for you. Overall, I will give Acumbamail three stars, but yeah, that is my review of Acumbamail. I hope that you like the video and if you did, please give it a thumbs up. If you have any questions to Acumbamail or other products you would like me to review, please leave a comment down below.

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