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Let's talk about 2 Kajabi features that cause some confusion: Products vs. Offers. What's included in each one and how many do you get of each? How are they used in Kajabi?

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A Definition of Kajabi Products and Offers

No one can explain the basics better than Kajabi themselves so please check out these Kajabi help files to gain a basic understanding. Then come back and we'll talk more :)

Products Overview & Creating Products in Kajabi

Offers Overview & Creating Offers

How Many Products and Offers Do You Get?

All Kajabi plans come with unlimited Offers so you can go to town with those! As for number of Products, if you take a look at Kajabi's pricing chart, you can see that the Basic plan comes with 3 Products, Growth has 15, and Pro has 100!

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Kajabi announced today that from now on feature rollouts will be released more often. YAY!!

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Back in the day, Kajabi used to do "feature rollout" posts after each 6-week cycle had been completed by their development team. However, over time the number of Kajabi teams has expanded. So 6-week cycles with one big announcement no longer makes sense. 

HERE you can see Kajabi's rollups on their blog.

Here's a quick summary of new things added to Kajabi:

Professional Analytics
Including sales report, opt-in report, and page view reports; subscription metrics are on the way like monthly recurring revenue, churn, and much more

Events
You can now clone Events; the UI has been updated

Custom Domains
New process that's streamlined and no longer involves struggling with the...

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Kajabi uses the term Event to represent a time and date which you want to surround with emails and automations. Some examples would be launches, webinars, or in-person events. It also works for automated webinars that repeat, say, weekly, where you'll receive new registrations on a rolling basis.

So now that you know what an Event is, you'll be happy to hear the news:

On 06-28-19, Kajabi announced on their Changelog that we can now clone Events! Here's a fun video they made to tell us more and show us how to do it. Enjoy! #twinsies

Here are the written instructions from the Kajabi help files if that's more your speed. So there you go and I hope you enjoy cloning Events!

Note: As of 10-03-19, the Changelog and Feature Requests were combined into a new button in your Kajabi dashboard called Feedback. Learn more about that HERE. I'll keep this post live just as background info - and to show how Kajabi constantly iterates their product features and makes them better!

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I've been using Kajabi since December of 2016 and "back in the day", one of the co-founders, Kenny Reuter, use to do Feature Rollups where he'd post what had been accomplished by his team during the most recent 6-week development cycle aka dev cycle.

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At some point, those Feature Rollups had to stop as Kenny focused on other necessities but we miss those rollups and people periodically ask when they'll be brought back. 

Well, it's the same only different, ha! On May 31, 2019, Kajabi announced a new...

Say you make an update to your product - course, membership, or service - and you want to notify every member of that product. 

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You could send an email broadcast. The only issue there might be that if some people did NOT opt-in to your marketing email list when they obtained the product, they won't receive the product update broadcast. In this era of privacy, GDPR, etc., we do want to honor people's wishes around being marketed to.

Yeah, it's a bit of a pain but there IS a workaround (because Kajabi is smart and they think of everything!). Instead of sending an email broadcast, you can simply do a product announcement.

To see what I mean, check out Kajabi's instructions for how to send a product announcement.

Here's the crucial part from those instructions:

If you want to send all members an email notifying them...

One feature that seems to surprise many is that Kajabi has email marketing! In other words, if you get Kajabi, it can replace your current service like Mailchimp, ConvertKit, MailerLite, etc. This can definitely save you money!

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There are 2 main features to Kajabi email: Broadcasts and Sequences. So let's talk about the difference between an email broadcast and an email sequence in Kajabi.

What's an email broadcast?

An Email Broadcast is an individual email sent to a filtered list of subscribers from your People tab. A Broadcast is useful when you need to get an announcement out to your list or need to send a single email to update your users.

What is an email sequence?

An Email Sequence is a series of emails that will begin sending immediately after the user is subscribed or...

When you decide you're ready to put your first online course out into the world, it's time for some research, right? You wonder what platforms are out there, how much they cost, what features they have, etc.
 

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Two of the most popular online course providers are Kajabi and Teachable. Linked below is a great in-depth article by Kajabi with a comparison and review of the two. But first, let's talk about course platform reviews ...

Do's and Don'ts to Get the Course Platform Information You Need

Granted, the article was written BY Kajabi so keep that in mind as you read it. Here are some other tips:

• DO read some "Teachable vs. Kajabi" reviews written by others so you get a broad view
  
  
• DO keep in mind that each author will have their own perspective and goals to make you choose the one that benefits...

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