I quit Kajabi for Systeme

After two years of being a happy user, I migrated all of my content from Kajabi, and transferred it all to Systeme in the summer of 2022. Why did I do it? Let me share my experience.

Why should you use an all-in-one platform for your online business

When you think of bringing your business online, especially if it’s in network marketing or affiliate marketing, normally the first thing you do is creating a new Instagram account, and perhaps a matching Facebook page.

Where most people fail is in NOT having an email marketing strategy to communicate with their audience, a blog to highlight the most important content, and having a solid and professional presence on the Internet.

I've gone through several platforms over the years. In my early years as a translator I had just a regular website, but when I started my current network marketing company and wanted to host team trainings, I needed to have something more organized.

As I started "for real" in 2017, I used 3Step Solutions (currently called Wavoto). This included website, blog and email marketing, but I had to keep the course platform aside: I used Thinkific for that.

When GDPR was established in May 2018, I had to switch platforms since 3SS, based in USA, wasn't going to serve the new requirements in the near future.

That started me on a complex phase, where I had my courses in Thinkific, email marketing in Convertkit and website with blog in Weebly. I must say that keeping the connections between them functioning correctly wasn't easy at all, and it started being quite costly.

That's why moving over to Kajabi in 2020 felt like huge savings (although that platform starts at 149 dollars per month), and certainly simplified things. There was no issues about interaction of the different components and I could keep the courses under the same roof. So I was very happy at first.

Why I quit Kajabi

Kajabi has many things I like, it's a robust platform that is constantly growing and offers many tools under the same roof.

However, both my network marketing business and my business teaching entrepreneurs to work online successfully was conducted in Spanish. And Kajabi's back office is only in English.

Besides, its rather high price makes it often unattainable for those who are just beginning.

These two reasons made it nearly impossible for me to recommend it to others, and that was a problem in my line of work.

Besides, Kajabi has limitations. In my case, I have multiple short courses and smaller products for sale, as well as the array of courses for my team members, so even though I upgraded to the top tier at Kajabi (399 dollars per month), I could only use 100 tags. Believe it or not but I kept deleting tags to add new ones, since I was constantly hitting the roof at 100 (very irritating).

Kajabi's sales pages are rather rudimentary as well, so I started using Samcart to improve them (add another 199 dollars a month).

So I was paying 598 dollars a month for a solution that wasn't quite meeting my needs.

And as my student base grew and I was telling them to have an email marketing strategy, I kept looking for a suitable email marketing tool that had the back office in Spanish.

Why I fell in love with Systeme

Systeme.io has the most important tools to build - and not only in Spanish but also in French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Russian and Chinese! Language-wise, it's tops. And this is not only for the back office and templates, but also for the customer service and support blog articles.

You get email marketing, web and blog, sales funnels, space to host courses and communities, and even your own affiliate program. The sales funnels are actually really good, and even include deadline funnels (with time-limited offers configured for each visitor) as well as more advanced functionality. Function-wise, it's superior to Kajabi as well.

Their price plan is fascinating, since it offers full functionality for free. You can have up to 2000 contacts (which is a lot), 3 sales funnels, 1 web+blog, 1 course, 1 community, 1 automation, 1 workflow, 1 tag, 1 email campaign... and a lot more, for free.

Stepping up to the paid plans, they start at 27 dollars per month, and the top tier is 97 per month. On the yearly plan, you save 30% in any of these.

The top plan is unlimited, and I need to point out this does not only mean unlimited email list but also the amount of courses, tags and even registered domains and websites. Kajabi certainly has nothing of the sort. In the unlimited plan, the annual price is 828 dollars for the full year (please compare that to my previous 598 dollars per month in Kajabi+Samcart, to get much less).

Customer service is great, they reply via email in just a few hours. And their functionality grows. There are also Facebook groups for the creators, in the respective languages, where you get extra support and ideas.

I started looking into it as a tool to recommend to my students, but as I saw it had things I was lacking in my strategy, as well as a great price reduction, I decided to migrate my huge website with blog posts and courses. Systeme also helped me with the migration process, so we could do it in just a couple months.

I should point out I would not have migrated if it were for the price alone. Two months migrating content is a huge expense in work time, after all. But the whole experience was worth it. I was also not happy with the way blogs looked in Kajabi, and Systeme is so much nicer. (What do you think, when reading this?)

I made a YouTube video to show you how the platform looks like. In future videos, I'll explain how to use the different functions.

Do you want to try Systeme for free?

I'd like to invite you to use my affiliate link Tisha.tv/Systeme to join (if you later decide to go into the paid services, the affiliate fee helps support my YouTube channel and the future content I will be able to share to help you use this).