How to integrate Kajabi with ClickFunnels
Boost your product marketing by integrating Kajabi with ClickFunnels.
ClickFunnels and Kajabi are two successful digital marketing platforms but they are aimed at different audiences. Kajabi is ideal for selling solely digital products such as online courses, membership programs, and ebooks. It is a specific tool aimed at a relatively specific audience. Meanwhile, ClickFunnels’ audience is broader. Its users can sell physical or digital products.
By integrating these two powerful platforms with each other, you can boost and speed up your business marketing goals.
ClickFunnels
If you’re a regular visitor of our site, you’re probably aware by now that we here at Funnel Heist rate ClickFunnels as a highly marketing tool. (READ: ClickFunnels Review)
ClickFunnels is used to create and implement funnel marketing strategies successfully for your business and clients. It is accessible for people with all levels of experience and marketing knowledge. The platform offers ready-made funnel templates. (READ: What is ClickFunnels?)
Key benefits to using ClickFunnels
Below are some of the excellent benefits of ClickFunnels.
- Suitable for anyone
The main advantage of Clickfunnels is its user-friendly nature and wide audience. ClickFunnels will work for someone who has experience in sales or a new entrepreneur who is looking to dip their toes into marketing funnels.
Kajabi, on the other hand, only allows digital products/online knowledge to be sold so it excludes those who sell physical form products.
(READ: ClickFunnels or Kajabi: Which one should you use?)
- Focused
ClickFunnels’ primary focus is on sales funnels, which is what they do best.
- Value for money
ClickFunnels is significantly cheaper than Kajabi. Therefore, you would get more value for your money with ClickFunnels. (READ: ClickFunnels Pricing Plans and Packages)
With a ClickFunnels basic package, you receive three unique domains for your products. This gives users the freedom to sell different ranges or types of products and keep them separate to avoid confusion. More domains mean more opportunities to sell.
If you have a membership-based business or product, ClickFunnels advisable. Their basic plan allows any program to have unlimited members. This is different from Kajabi, where a basic plan priced at $129 per month only enables you to have 1000 members. You would have to be paying for the $899 per month package to have unlimited members.
Kajabi
In a nutshell, Kajabi is a digital product delivery system aimed at ‘infopreneurs.’ They are individuals with extensive knowledge in sales, branding, design, or customer service. Kajabi offers a platform for them to share their expertise.
Kajabi provides a range of features so people can choose to sell their knowledge in a variety of forms. For example, they could create an ebook or go whole-hog and develop a membership program.
This is different from ClickFunnels, which is a platform for both digital and physical products.
Key benefits to using Kajabi
- Range of features
With Kajabi, you can build a website, blog, and more. The opportunities for customization are endless. You can tailor the design to suit your brand completely.
Building a website on Kajabi means you have access to a range of themes. You might find one you like or completely redesign it. Kajabi allows any degree of customization.
Kajabi websites are fully responsive so whatever your design is, they will function on any device.
- Drip Content
You can schedule content to go live whenever you want whether it be for the following week or month.
You definitely have enough to think about without having to sit in front of a screen poised to publish content. This also means you could tease your audience by letting them know when to expect content.
- New Features
Kajabi also offers new features. Being a knowledge commerce platform, they give you the option to sell online courses. They take this further as you can even create course assessments.
You will be the one to set the rules. For example, people may have to complete each assessment before they move on or may have to achieve a particular score.
Users can also run digital events inside the Kajabi software. These may consist of pre-recorded content or you can go live to share your knowledge with viewers.
- 24-Hour Live Support
Kajabi is known for providing excellent customer service as one of its main priorities. Their website offers a 24-hour live chat service so that you can get answers to queries almost immediately.
How to integrate ClickFunnels with Kajabi
In 2016, ClickFunnels and Kajabi announced that the two companies would be integrating.
Use ClickFunnels’ fast and convenient sales funnel builder with Kajabi’s content delivery powerhouse. It is a good combination especially if you already have funnels built in ClickFunnels, you can explore Kajabi for advanced content options and membership site features.
Kajabi is one of the leading software that allows users to create courses, launch campaigns to help in marketing and design websites for their businesses. When you integrate your Kajabi account with your ClickFunnels account, it will significantly boost your business.
What you need to integrate ClickFunnels with Kajabi
- ClickFunnels account
- Kajabi account
- Kajabi API key
- Kajabi API Secret
The API key is what makes it possible to integrate ClickFunnels with Kajabi. You need to retrieve it from your Kajabi account. Here is how you can obtain your API key quickly.
- Login to your Kajabi account, go to the dashboard, and find User Menu located on your left.
- Click on Account.
- Scroll down and find API credentials.
- Copy the API key, and paste it into the API key section in ClickFunnels, copy the API secret to your API secret section in ClickFunnels.
Now that you have retrieved your API key, below are the steps to follow to integrate Kajabi with ClickFunnels.
- Log in to your ClickFunnels account. On the dashboard, click on your profile and choose Account Settings.
- Click on Integrations.
- Click Add New Integration.
- On the Add New Integration page, look for Kajabi by typing “Kajabi” in the search bar. Kajabi will show up in the search results. Then, click on it.
- In the Add New Integration page, you will be required to enter the Integration Nickname, API Secret, and API key. Choose any name and type it on the Integration Nickname. Your API Secret and API key can be found in your Kajabi account, as explained in the steps to retrieve your Kajabi API above.
- After pasting your API and secret and the Integration nickname, click on Connect Integration.
- A Kajabi Sign-in page will prompt you to log in using your username and password if you are not logged in already.
- Click on Allow to allow ClickFunnels to have access to your Kajabi account data as well as modify it.
- You have successfully integrated Kajabi with ClickFunnels. You can now find it among the list of integrations.
This integration allows you to combine the effective power of funnels from ClickFunnels and the delivery power for a seamless and flexible online business. With this powerful combination, you can take your business to a whole new level.
Despite the idea of a Kajabi vs ClickFunnels contest, the two can actually work well together. Kajabi is very open about the fact that ClickFunnels can be integrated in several ways.
You could use ClickFunnels for the front-end of your sales and take advantage of their popular funnel builder then use Kajabi for the back-end due to their payment integration options and order forms.
You can also use ClickFunnels for the majority of the sales process and simply deliver the product on Kajabi. It’s completely dependent on you and your business needs.
