Leadpages vs Thrive Themes vs OP2 vs Click Funnels!

If you don’t have the time to watch the vids (although I highly recommend you do), here’s an overview of what I think are the pros and cons of each platform;

Leadpages

Pros

• So, so, so easy to use. Just click and edit. That’s it.
• Use their pre-written copy on the pages, just swap out the key elements for your products / industry.
• You can pick a template based on it’s overall conversion rates.
• The templates look nice, they’re clean, well designed and definitely improve conversions.
• They have the functionality for you to upload media, so you can build an entire funnel just on their system.
• Publish your page straight into a tab on facebook
• Loads more. Leadpages is definitely the page builder of choice!

Cons

• Due to how they’re setup, there’s little room for innovation so can at times be inflexible, which is the main reason I don’t create sales pages on Lead pages.
• They’re so popular you will see your design used my many others online. However they are adding more and more templates, so this problem will undoubtedly be short lived.

Price

$37 / $67 / $97 a month depending on what package you choose
 

Thrive Themes

Pros

• You can plug it in to your wordpress website and create any page you like on your site
• Very flexible drag & drop style editor. You can put what you want where you want it
• Easy to use and edit, particularly as it’s all in page, so you’re seeing your page as you’re building it
• Innovative team behind it, so lots of new features & updates being released regularly
• They are adding pre-made templates much like the other systems for you to amend and edit and make your own.

Cons

• Until they release more templates, it requires a little more ‘techie’ input. If you want to make your page look fancy with colours and outlines there’s definitely more to it. (I have to add a caveat here that I have only played with it a little. I’m not a seasoned user so I may be doing it an injustice, but I’m looking at it from a very simple new, non techie user point of view)
• There’s simply more ‘fiddling about’ required at the moment to end up with a nice design.

Price

$59 / $87 / $199 depending on what package you use.
 

OP2

Pros

• James & his team have done a great job with OP2. It’s a fantastic very flexible page builder for the total ‘non techie’s’ amongst us
• Easy to use, drag & drop, on page editor
• Super flexible, you can build any page with any design you like
• Once you have a design you like you can save the template and re-use on any site with OP2 installed
• Comes with pre-made templates a bit like leadpages (but a lot more flexible) that you can edit and make your own

Cons

So why isn’t OP2 the winner?

• Because it’s so laborious to use. There’s so much clicking and adding of rows and elements and bits and pieces that to build a page is about as interesting as watching paint dry!

Price

$97 / $197 / $297 one off fees depending which package you choose.
 

Click Funnels

Pros

Because this is a brand new software I don’t really know enough about it yet, but my first impressions are as follows;

• It’s not just a page builder, it’s a funnel builder. This really could be a complete game changer if you’re building any kind of funnels in your business
• It’s flexible and as with Thrive Themes and OP2 looks on first glance like you could create any page design you wanted to
• It comes with pre-made templates that you can use and edit to make your own
• Because it’s a funnel builder, the page building side is just one element, it’s heavily focused on stats, conversion rates and helping you to generate leads and sales. It’s really a business system which probably takes it slightly out of the realm of todays experiment

Cons

• Right now it’s a bit buggy. The team have some work to do to smooth some of the techie elements out.

Price

2 week free trial (closes Oct 7th), thereafter $97 / month
 

Summary

So clearly Leadpages is my Lead page builder of choice and I actually outsource sales pages and more complex designs these days, although we do use OP2 for simple sales pages.

However I am looking forward to playing more with Click Funnels. Once they iron out some of their small teething problems (which happens with all new software), then I think that’s going to be a very useful and time saving tool. Grab your free trial now, it closes in a few days.

Lastly click here if you’d like a copy of my 8 Email Styles PDF as demonstrated in the videos!

I’d love to hear from you. Has this been helpful? Do you have any others you recommend? Have you got any questions? I’m here to help!

Happy page building!

Jo :)