GrooveFunnels Review
GrooveFunnels includes a website builder, a CRM, an email autoresponder, a shopping cart solution, a membership site platform, a video hosting solution, a Shopify replacement store builder, a Blog, live and automated webinar systems, customer help desk management software, an affiliate management system, and so much more...
Groovefunnels Honest Review... You will find a lot of reviews online raving about how great this product is simply because they stand to make a commission if you buy through them. Unlike most others, although I also stand to make a commission, I will tell you from the perspective of someone that actually uses this software that it has not been a software development journey without its problems.
What Is GrooveFunnels?
GrooveFunnels is an all-in-one business software solution from the company Groove Digital. It enables you to build and automate your sales and marketing systems, and improve your customer communications. Although people still call it GrooveFunnels it has officially been renamed GROOVE, and GrooveFunnels will be just be the funnel building app that is included with the Groove suite of software programs.
I will detail each solution that is included in Groove, but first I want to quickly tell you some important information regarding this software and the man in charge of ensuring that it is the best solution available.
Groove Digital provide you with two options. The first is a very generous free version which does not even require you to input a credit card. This is not a free trail, it is yours free for the lifetime of the platform. Your second option is a very cost-effective paid version which could save your business a small fortune every month when compared to paying a premium to purchase the equivalent individual products from separate providers.
Apart from the massive monthly cost savings, one of the biggest benefits is that this is an all in one system which means that you do not have to duct-tape different solutions together and hope that it all works. Everything in this package works perfectly with all of the other included software. This reduces a lot of stress and the added cost of technical resources to set everything up and keep it working as each separate service provider updates their software and you are forced to deal with incompatibility issues.
Who Owns GrooveFunnels?
Groove Digital It is the parent company behind all the products that make up the GrooveFunnels suite of software. It was founded by Mike Filsaime and 5 others. They have brought together an impressive team including some of the best people in the industry to ensure that this project is a success. They have even secured the services of an expensive UI (User Interface) expert to ensure that the interface is as user friendly as possible.
Who Is Mike Filsaime... And Why Is It Important?
Mike Filsaime is the CEO and Co-Founder of Groove Digital. He has been an industry leader as long as I can remember. I purchased one of his first big successful products called “Butterfly Marketing” sometime way back in the early 2000’s. Butterfly Marketing was a viral marketing strategy and software package that enabled website owners to multiply the number of visitors they attracted to their website.
Mike has been responsible for more Million Dollar launches for more brands than any marketer. In fact, he was the 2nd marketer in history to do a $1 Million launch way back in 2006. His companies have generated over $175 million, and he was the man who was responsible for the success of numerous well known software platforms such as Butterfly Marketing, WebinarJam and EverWebinar, Kartra, and PayDotCom, before moving on to bigger and better things when he founded GrooveDigital.
He has developed many industry firsts which are now commonplace in the industry. Mike has an impressive track record of successful software development which is the reason I bought into a BETA offer for a software which was not yet complete. Myself, and many others, helped to fund the development of this product, much like people do for products on Kickstarter. It is important to understand that Mike knows how to design and develop industry leading software solutions and that there is no reason to suggest that this will not be his biggest success to date.
What is Included in GrooveFunnels?
GroovePages Review
What Is GroovePages?
Groove Pages comes complete with wireframes (DIY frameworks of website blocks), Design blocks (Premade content blocks (templates) so you can easily change their content into your content), Elements (Blocks for video, text, images, buttons and much more), that you simply drag and drop from the side menu into your website editor. You do not need to know how to code anything when you use their no-code design blocks. Elements also allow you to easily add popups, countdown timers, progress bars, and much more.
As well as the built in premade blocks, you can design your own and then save them in your own menu for reuse in other projects or on other pages. This makes it easy to use the same font style, size and colour throughout your website so that it has a consistent look and feel. It is perfect saving your footer so that you do not have to rebuild it for every page.
Groove Funnels simple Drag and Drop Website Builder lets me save any block I create (Section of the website) into my "Excess Ideas" menu folder. Then I can quickly and easily drag it into any other website page, on this or any other website, and edit the text or individual images to suit the topic of the new page
Groove Pages - What is good and what needs improving:
What is good...
• The Drag And Drop Website Editor - The quick and easy drag and drop building blocks make life easier for you to build a website without having to understand the code that makes it work.
• The Pre-designed Content Blocks - Using the prebuilt and professionally designed blocks means that you can create a visually pleasing website, sales funnel, online store, or membership site without any visual design skills. Groove has employed experts to make a library of premade blocks to make sure that your website looks professional. They also have predesigned blocks for things like newsletter opt-in forms and direct response marketing that are designed to convert prospects into customers.
• The Ability To Use Custom Domains - There are two options when you set up a website using Groove Pages. The first is to use a subdomain. To keep it simple, a subdomain is when your chosen name is added in front of the Groove domain URL. For instance, I could have "excessideas.groove.com" where "excessideas" is the subdomain. However, in order for people to find me they would have to type excessideas.groove.com into their browser.
Groove lets you use a custom domain which is much better for branding your company. A custom domain is when you set up in Groove so that your website URL is excessideas.com without having to have the ".groovepages" at the end of it. This is much easier to type and much more professional looking.
• The Mobile First / Mobile Responsive Web Design Capabilities - It is important that your website looks good on mobile phones as well as on desktop monitors. GroovePages is designed so that you can customise how your website will look on 5 different sized devices ranging from a desktop computer right down to a mobile phone. Apart from the end user being able to view your website correctly on a mobile there are many SEO benefits which I will discuss in the following section on SEO.
• The Fast Loading Times For Your Website - The GroovePages website builder, and all of the Groove suite of software products, have been build using the latest programming language which enables your website to be built using very efficient code. This means that your website can load faster which results in more people viewing your website and what you have to offer. The longer it takes to load, the more people close your website before it loads. This is especially true when viewing a website on a mobile phone.
• The Powerful Inbuilt SEO Features - GroovePages is designed to assist you to improve your Search Engine Rankings. I will discuss more of the benefits of using this website creator, and the main ways it helps your SEO in the section below
What needs improving...
To be fair, before I say what needs improving I need to state that my experiences have been while this software is still in BETA (Not a finished product) and that we bought the Lifetime Platinum version knowing that it would have bugs at this stage of development.
• Glitches And Bugs - Even though I knew it would have bugs I cannot hide the fact that working around these issues has at times been very frustrating.
• Editing The Blocks - Sometimes when you click inside a block where you want to input or modify text the curser jumps to the top of the block and you have to try clicking where you want to edit a few times.
• Formatting Text - When adding text I sometimes want to see what font, size, and colour a previous section of text was but the editing panel for text does not tell me this information. I am hoping they add this ability soon. As a work around I have been copying a selection of the text and pasting it into Microsoft Word which enables me to find the font, size and colour HEX code.
What Is Included?
Free members receive (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Websites - 3
• Custom Domains - 3
• Export Share Funnels - 1
• Import Share Funnels - 5
• Import Pages - 15
Paid members receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Unlimited everything
Update: At the end of January 2022 I was experiencing problems with some features suddenly not working as they should. As an example, the navigation menus stopped allowing me to update the links in the menu so I had to build other sections of the site until about 12 hours later when I was able to once again modify my website navigation menus. It turned out to be because they were migrating all of our sites to faster servers so I am sure the log term benefit will outweigh the short term pain. However, the editing problems I mentioned above are still an issue at this point in time.
GroovePages and SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
If you want to improve your search engine rankings, there are many excellent reasons why you would want to build your website using GroovePages . For anyone who is new to SEO... The higher you rank in the search engines, the more people will visit your website which means you can increase the number of sales you receive without having to spend additional money on advertising. Let's have a look at the key features that will help your SEO results.
• Mobile First - Statista.com states that by the 4th quarter of 2021 mobile devices (excluding tablets) generated 54.4 percent of global website traffic. Google knows this fact and they know that mobile use will continue to increase. To ensure that their users receive the best possible experience when clicking on a link they display on their search results pages they are now prioritising search engine rankings for websites that are optimised for mobile traffic using what is known as "Mobile First" design.
Mobile First is different to Mobile Responsive which keeps all the elements the same but "reacts" by changing the size of the website displayed depending on the device used. GroovePages and GrooveFunnels use Mobile First design which enables you to modify how your website appears on each of the 5 main device sizes.
Rather than just shrinking the website you can modify individual elements such as reducing the amount of white space, modifying font sizes, and other important aspects of your website so that it is customised for each screen size "At the design stage". This results in a much better user experience. The images below show 3 examples of the editing settings including; the pink one which means that all 5 sizes are being modified when it is on this setting, the desktop is highlighted which means only the desktop is being edited, and the mobile is highlighted means that only the mobile is being edited.
• Fast Loading Webpages - Google will increase your search engine rankings if your website loads quickly and with GroovePages you can achieve very impressive load times due to the way the websites are coded.
• Free SSL Certificate - Groove gives you free SSL certificates for your websites which is important for SEO because Google wants your website to provide a secure experience for visitors it sends to your website. SSL stands for 'Secure Sockets Layer' which is a security protocol that creates an encrypted secure link between an end user's computer or mobile phone and your website.
This is used to prevent people intercepting your data. It is especially important for any financial transactions such as dealing with your bank or filling in your credit card details on a shopping card. You can identify a secure website by the use of HTTPS rather than HHTP. Here is an example of a secure website URL: https://excessideas.com
• Keywords - Groove also makes it easy for even a beginner to set up their keywords for Googles website spiders to crawl. This is one of the ways that a search engine knows what your page is all about. It is not as useful for SEO as it once was but it is still important to fill out.
• Site Maps For Search Engines - GroovePages automatically creates your site map for you so that you do not have to know how to do it. This is required by search engines to assist them when they crawl your website.
• Syndication for Video - When GrooveStream is released you will be able to livestream into various social sites at the same time which will provide you with valuable backlinks to your website
SEO experts are really loving the benefits they get from using Groove to build their websites and now you can enjoy these benefits too.
GrooveFunnels - Sales Funnels
GrooveFunnels was the overall name for all the individual software solutions that make up this all in one sales and marketing solution for businesses. It is also what people think of when they talk about the ability to build powerful sales funnels that can increase the number of sales per transaction.
For people newer to marketing, a sales funnel is the series of steps that a customer is led through from first becoming aware of your business to becoming a paying client.
An example could be that someone sees your advert on social media, they click on it and are sent to the newsletter opt-in page that you built using GroovePages, then they sign up for the newsletter that you set up using GrooveMail, and they read a series of your emails which educate them about your business and its products until they make their first purchase. This sale then triggers additional emails that only go to people who purchased what they did, telling them about what they should buy to go with what they just bought. This is designed to turn them into a repeat customer.
In Internet Marketing, a sales funnel is when the client reads your sales page, buys your product, and is then taken to a series of other offers that usually include special 'one time offers' that expire after they leave that page. As an example: They buy your eBook about how to make a website, then they are sent to a sales page offering them a video course all about what is in the eBook, and after purchasing that they are sent to another sales page offering them to attend a live masterclass where they will receive help from the person who wrote the eBook.
GrooveMail - Email Automation
What is GrooveMail?
GrooveMail is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and email automation software that enables you to collect, manage, and automatically communicate with new leads and existing clients via email and SMS (costs apply for SMS). This integrates with all the other software programs within the GrooveFunnels suite of products and is an essential software tool that every business should be using.
This email marketing software lets you set up opt-in forms on your website to collect a visitor’s name and email, or other details as well, and to subscribe them to which ever list you want to place them on.
Groove Mail is what is known as an autoresponder because you can set it up to automatically respond when a client performs a specific action, such as sending a welcome email when someone subscribes to your email newsletter. It also allows you to set up automated sequences of emails that are send to a specific email list.
Autoresponder Scheduled Email Sequences
You can setup GrooveMail with a pre-programmed series of emails that are automatically sent at predefined dates or intervals.
You could set up an email to go out on Christmas Eve to wish all your clients a Merry Christmas. You can set up emails to go out to remind subscribers that today is the final cut off for orders if you want your order to be delivered in time for Valentine’s Day.
It can automatically send a welcome email when they join your list, and then a second email the next day, and a third email two days later, and so on. This automates all your email communications and frees up your time for you to do other things.
Segmenting Lists and the use of TAGS
GrooveMail enables you segment lists and to add TAGS to specific users. You can segment people into different lists depending on which email subscription form they used to subscribe to your list. This lets you send highly targeted communications to each separate list.
Example: You might have a quiz on your landing page which separates men and women into two separate lists. Now you can send an ad for “weight loss for men” only to the men and “weight loss for women” only to the women.
You can tag a client depending on where they subscribed or what action they took. For instance, you could tag a client with a tag titled “Canada” if they subscribed on a page for Canadian clients. This then enables you to send an email to all your clients who live in Canada and not to the rest of your list who live in other countries. If you have a special offer that is only valid in Canada, you do not want to send an irrelevant offer to people who do not live there.
Tags can include anything you want including things such as sex, age, location, products purchased, that they opened a specific email, clicked on a link in an email, and much more. Using Tags can help you to increase the profits you make from using your email list.
Example: You could send a special offer for your training course “Advanced Email Techniques” to everyone who was tagged “Email 101” when they purchased your email basic training course. This enables you to send a perfectly targeted advertising message only to the people who will be most responsive to your offer.
Automations
As well as the email automations mentioned above, you can also set up automations to perform tasks based on the users’ actions. Automations are set up using “If, Then” rules… If this happens, then do this.
Example: If the user joins list B, then remove them from list A. For instance, if a user buys “Advanced Email strategies” they are automatically added to your list for advanced email users. Once they join that list, they are automatically removed from the list for “email 101” users.
Having a new TAG added can also trigger an automation to place them in a new list.
Why marketing automation is important
There are a number of reasons why using marketing automations is important.
• You only have to do a task once so you save a lot of time
• It reduces the risk of human error if you have to continually repeat the task manually
• By not doing the tasks manually you are saving money
• You ensure that your message goes out when it is supposed to. Life gets in the way sometimes and something can always come up that prevents you from performing a necessary task when it is required. Missing a deadline to send an email for a promotion can cost you a lot of money due to lost sales.
• You can ensure that people receive the emails at the same times each week which can increase open rates for your emails
Email Broadcasts
Apart from using automations there are times when you might need to send a message to your subscribers that is not pre-programmed to be sent on a specified date or time interval. This is when you would send a “Broadcast” to your subscribers. Example: You are a restaurant owner, and you just had a large party booking cancel. You could send a broadcast to your subscribers saying that some last minute tables are now available for tonight. This also works very well for last minute special offers.
What Is Included:
Free Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Contacts - 500
• Email Sends - 5,000 / month
• Can Import Contacts - No
Paid Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Contacts - 25,000
• Email Sends - Unlimited
• Can Import Contacts - Yes
NB: 25,000 subscribers on ActiveCampaign, which is what GrooveMail is modelled on, will cost you a minimum of US$229 per month just for their "Lite" version.
Recommendation:
There is nothing more important to a business than having a list of clients and an effective means to communicate with them. While you can use GrooveMail now, there are still some features that are not activated for use. However, the roadmap for future improvements will see this product become an unbeatable player in the email marketing arena.
GrooveSell - Shopping Cart
What Is GrooveSell?
GrooveSell is an advanced shopping cart system that will enable you to increase your average order value by implementing order bumps, upsells, down-sells, and cart abandonment transaction recovery processes.
It integrates with various payment gateways including PayPal, Stripe, AuthNet, NMI, Braintree, and GroovePay which is GrooveFunnels own payment gateway.
It can create discount codes so that you can offer time limited special offers. Being able to limit the amount of time that the code is valid for enables you to use scarcity to encourage people to buy it now. When you email a special offer to your subscribers you would include the discount code in the email and tell them to input it on the sales cart page within the next 24 hours to redeem their discount. These discount codes can be for a percentage of the sale price or for a specific dollar value.
GrooveSell also helps you to recover lost sales that happen when people abandon your sales cart before finalising the purchase. This can be done using:
• Retargeting – You can install tracking pixels, such as you Facebook Pixel, throughout the shopping process so that you can retarget people, who were about to purchase, using paid advertising.
• Cart abandonment Follow-up Emails – These enable you to automatically send emails to people that include messages designed to bring people back to the shopping cart page. Example: “Hey, we noticed you left something in your shopping cart… Here’s a link back to it”
You can also brand GrooveSell to make it a part of your company identity by using a custom domain and changing the colour scheme to match your company colors.
It integrates with all of the other GrooveFunnels products as well as third party vendors’ products. Zapier and Webhooks are also available to assist with additional third party integrations.
What Is Included:
Free Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Products- Unlimited
• Customers - Unlimited and can export
• Leads - Unlimited and can export
Affiliates - Unlimited and can export
Emails To Customers - Transactional only
Cart Abandonment Emails - Single send
Emails To Affiliates - Unlimited
Paid Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Products- Unlimited
• Customers - Unlimited and can export
• Leads - Unlimited and can export
• Affiliates - Unlimited and can export
• Emails To Customers - Unlimited
• Cart Abandonment Emails - Unlimited
• Emails To Affiliates - Unlimited
Finally, if you are worried if you can set this up… there is a wizard to walk you through the process!
GrooveAffiliate - Affiliate Management system
What Is GrooveAffiliate?
GrooveAffiliate is a very powerful affiliate management program that enables you to provide partners (affiliates) with special links that track sales. They will get credit for the sale when someone they send to your website makes a purchase. It automatically tracks who made the sale and how much commission they are owed.
An affiliate link looks like this, excessideas.com/affiliate-01, where any sale that originated from someone clicking this link is tracked to affiliate-01. You set the level of commission that you are willing to pay when a sale is made. Different percentages or dollar values can be set for individual products or services. You can also set a higher commission rate for special partner deals or to reward and incentivize a high performing affiliate.
You can create marketing materials for your affiliates to use that they can access in their affiliate portal. This can include email swipes, banner ads, articles, and much more.
This product is battle tested... GrooveFunnels own affiliate program operates using GrooveAffiliate and they have over 550,000 members. Every new member is automatically provided with an affiliate membership, and links, to help to promote GrooveFunnels.
You might be wondering why you would be willing to give away a percentage of your profits to an affiliate. There are several reasons, but the main ones are that affiliates are like having an army of salespeople out there working for free to make a sale of your products, and for all of their efforts, you only ever have to pay them when, and if, they make a sale.
Another reason is that by only paying when a sale is made you know exactly how much it costs you to make a sale as the commission levels are fixed. With advertising you do not have a 100% fixed cost per sale.
What Is Included:
• Unlimited for both free and paid members
Recommendation:
This is a quality product that could assist you to significantly increase your sales. I fully recommend the use of this product.
GrooveMember - Membership App
What Is GrooveMember?
GrooveMember enables you to create a membership site where you can host your digital training courses online. Access is only available behind a secure password protected login portal. You can provide access to these courses for free, for a fee, or for a mix of both.
Having your own membership site is one of the best ways to monetise your online presence. You can sell access to your membership site for a one-time fee or for an ongoing monthly subscription fee. One option is to charge a monthly fee for access and then drip out new content each month.
Drip feeding content means that you could create all of the content and set it up in your membership site so that lessons 1 is available when someone logs into your membership site for the first time. Then 30 days later lesson 2 automatically becomes available to that student. If they joined on the 17th of the month then on the 17th of next month lesson 2 would be unlocked for them to access.
You can also set it up so that content is locked until a certain date. This is perfect if you are selling tickets to a 30 day challenge where you want all the students to start on the same date regardless of when they purchased their ticket.
The third option is to provide instant access to all of the training as soon as they log into your training portal. This is usually what people prefer when purchasing training but that doesn’t mean that it is the best way to structure your membership.
Your course content can include video, audio, images, and text, and you have the ability to enable students to be able to download the files. You can upload PDFs, audio files, and images which are hosted for free. You can also host a limited number of videos via GrooveVideo. Unlimited videos can be embedded within GrooveMember from 3rd party video hosting companies such as YouTube and Vimeo.
Membership templates and themes assist you to design the look and feel of your training area to ensure that it looks professional, even if it is the first time you have ever set one up. Speaking of setting up your site, there is a membership setup wizard that will guide you through the steps required to build your membership site. Importantly, you can add your own custom domain name to your membership site which is essential for branding your site.
You can set up different access levels for your training where people must pay more to access the next level. It could be Bronze, Silver and Gold Access. Example: You sell website design for beginners for $97 in Bronze. Then there is an option to join Silver which includes intermediate website design skills for $297. The Gold level might include a bundle of 3 of your advanced website design training courses which sells for $997.
What Is Included:
Free Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Memberships - 1
• Members - 100
Paid Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Memberships - Unlimited
• Members - Unlimited
Recommendation:
I highly recommend owning a membership site and GrooveMember is a great option which is only going to get better as they add all the additional features they have planned for this software.
GrooveVideo - Video Hosting
What Is GrooveVideo?
GrooveVideo is a video hosting solution that includes the ability to add interactive video elements such as opt-in forms and text overlays on top of your videos.
Interactive Video Elements
There are a number of interactive elements that GrooveVideo enables you to add to your videos. These include:
• Opt-in forms which lock access to the video unless the viewer enters their details into the opt-in form. This is used for lead generation. When they enter their details, they will be added to your autoresponder (GrooveMail)
• A Clickable call to action lower third text overlay which takes them to any URL you want when they click on the overlay. The overlay might say “Protect your website now. Get your website legal pages here” and when they click on the overlay they will go to www.excessideas.com/legal-documents-for-businesses
• You can setup timed banner images that appear on your video only in the section you want them to be seen in. This would be useful in a sales video when you do not want to have a banner saying the price until you get to the part in the video when you talk about the price.
You can also set custom thumbnails and watermarks
The video files are encoded by Groove so that they can be viewed across various devices at different sizes to optimise the viewing experience for your users.
You can also control:
• If the video player controls are visible to the viewer
• If the video auto plays on loading
• If the audio is muted when the video starts
• The play button's style, animation, and icon size
Embedding Videos
You can easily embed and share videos on any website using the embed code. This includes GroovePages, GrooveMember, WordPress, or other page builder.
Video Analytics
GrooveVideo includes the ability to see analytics data for your video including:
• The number of impressions
• The number of unique views
• The total number of times the video has been watched in full
• The total watch time in seconds
NB: More analytics will be added during 2022
What Is Included:
Free Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Videos - 15
NB: If you have more than 15 videos you can connect to Amazon s3 for hosting the extra videos
• Encoding - None
NB: For encoding you would use a video encoder such as coconut.co
You can see their pricing here: https://www.coconut.co/pricing
• Storage - None
• Bandwidth - None
• Upload Limit - 5GB per video
Paid Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Videos - Unlimited
• Encoding - Free
• Storage - 100GB / Life
• Bandwidth - 100GB / Month
• Upload Limit - 5GB per video
My Thoughts:
Until I know what the cost is for excess video storage and bandwidth, which won’t be known until they move to a monthly subscription model, it is hard to say how much value there is in this individual product. It will depend on how much video bandwidth you would use per month. If you use under 100GB per month then this is excellent. NB: Groove has to pay for the hosting and bandwidth members use so it is only fair to expect that there would be limits.
GrooveKart – eCommerce Platform
What Is GrooveKart?
GrooveKart is an all-in-one eCommerce platform like Shopify that enables you to sell physical goods online. One of the big benefits is that many of the features that are an additional cost on other platforms are included for free in GrooveKart. This alone could save you a significant amount of money every month.
What Features Does GrooveKart Come With As Standard?
• Create Product variants – EG: This Tee-shirt comes in these sizes and colours
• Create scarcity using count down timers
• Provide Social Proof using mini popups that say “John from LA just bought this”
• Increase trust by including product reviews
• Gamify customer interactions using the “Spinning wheel” mystery discount app
• Offer coupon codes that provide a percentage discount or a fixed value discount
• Increase sales by including upsells, down-sells, order bumps, and retargeting pixels
Designing Your eCommerce Store
• Customize the look and feel of your store using GrooveKart’s drag and drop page builder
• Quickly build a professional looking page using the included templates
• Design and edit your product images using GrooveKart’s designer tool
• Access powerful analytics and reports
• Check the status of orders and product information
• Export customer data
• Utilise Google analytics
Branding
• Set up a custom domain to brand your store
• Edit your store to match your corporate brand
Customer Satisfaction
• GrooveKart is built on the same technology that powers GroovePages so your pages will load fast which means that you will not lose customers due to slow loading pages
• Your store will have an inbuilt support desk so that you can manage customer support issues professionally
• Answering customer’s questions quickly using Chatra live chat or Facebook Messenger will increase customer's level of satisfaction
Set Up Print On Demand And Dropping-Shipping stores
Easily setup Print-on-Demand and Dropping-Shipping stores that Integrate with:
• TeeScape
• Slingly
• Dropified
• Printfu
• LayerApp
• GK Ali-Connect™
• And GrooveKart Marketplace
What Payment Gateways Are Available In GrooveKart?
Free users: Free Users are only able to integrate PayPal & Stripe.
Upgraded Account Holders (Paid Members): Member who are paying clients of GrooveFunnels will be able to integrate with Paypal, Stripe, Autorize.net, NMI, Uviba, Card PMT, Braintree, Banxate, 2Checkout, Cash on Delivery, and GroovePay.
You can also apply for a merchant account with GrooveFunnels – this service is called GroovePay.
How Can I Move My Shopify Store To GrooveKart?
You can import your Shopify Store into GrooveKart using GrooveKart’s Shopify Migration tool
Transaction Fees:
Free Members:
• Online Credit Card Rates - 4.95% + 0.30 cents USD*
• Third Party Payment Processors - 2%
Paid Members:
• Online Credit Card Rates - 2.85% + 0.25 cents USD*
• Third Party Payment Processors - 0%
NB: * For qualified countries, products and services. Last updated 08/27/2021
GrooveBlog Review
What Is GrooveBlog?
GrooveBlog is a fast-loading blogging platform that comes with free hosting and a free SSL certificate. It is included as part of the GrooveFunnels suite of software.
It has a nice clean looking theme and is an easy blogging platform to get started with making it perfect for beginners. It is easy to add Google Analytics and tracking pixels, and just like the other Groove products, you can set up a custom domain name for your blog. You can use the “Open Graphics” settings to control what appears on social sites when someone shares your URL.
GrooveBlog includes the standard on-page SEO settings and more advanced SEO features are being added this year. Also good for SEO is the fact that your blog will be mobile friendly. Mobile first sites are given preferential treatment by Google.
GrooveBlog Versus WordPress
Here are some things to consider...
GrooveBlog
• You do not have to pay for hosting
• You do not have to install software to get started
• You do not have to constantly update themes and plugins
• You do not have to constantly monitor security threats
• You do not have to deal with incompatibility issues between plugins
WordPress
• It is more established and has a lot of third-party providers that support the community by creating themes and plugins
• Currently, there is much more opportunity to find a plugin that will support a feature you want
• The look of the blog is much more customizable
• Although I find WordPress easy to use, there are many that do not
What Is Included:
Free Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Blogs - 1
• Posts - Unlimited
• Custom Domains - 1
Paid Members Receive: (NB: Inclusions are subject to change after Feb 22, 2022)
• Blogs - Unlimited
• Posts - Unlimited
• Custom Domains - Unlimited
What Do I Think?
There are pros and cons for both platforms. However, the benefits of using GrooveBlog will rapidly increase as Groove continues to improve this product which is still in its infancy. There will also be a big jump in functionality when they release the Groove SDK (See Below) as then there will be many more third party apps available for GrooveBlog. I think that a lot of people who are currently using WordPress would not want to move GrooveBlogs at the moment. However, many new users will start here and enjoy its ease of use and the free hosting.
GrooveAutomation
What Is GrooveAutomation?
GrooveAutomation enables you to automate tasks that are performed between Groove Apps and third party Apps. This is an alternative to Zapier.
Groove Digital Academy
What Is Groove Digital Academy?
The academy is where you will find hundreds of hours of archived training that Groove makes available to its members. More training is added as it becomes available including recordings of the live training sessions. As a Groove member you will be able to access the academy and watch all of the training videos contained within it for free.
Some of the training includes:
• Product training for the Groove products
• Recordings of Q&A sessions
• Recordings of live builds with David Lemon
• Webinar replays
• Groove Updates
• And the expert interview series
Groove Facebook Groups
Groove has two separate Facebook groups which offer community support to its members. As a Groove member you will gain free access to both of these groups. One is the official members group where you will see general announcements and get support from other group members. The second one is for people who want to learn how to maximise their efforts when promoting the Groove Affiliate Program.
These Products Are Scheduled For Completion In 2022
GrooveSDK
What Is Groove SDK?
SDK stands for “Software Development Kit” and the SDK is what enables third party developers to make software apps that can interact with Groove’s software. When they release the GrooveSDK there will be an influx of App developers all eager to create applications that will provide additional functionality to the existing Groove programs.
This will dramatically increase what you will be able to do with Groove programs. In the blogging platform WordPress, there is a massive marketplace for third party Apps, and this is eventually what we could expect for the Groove marketplace. A good example that more people will relate to would be that the Apple Store has 1.96 million apps that were all developed by third party developers to add some sort of functionality to the iPhone.
Why Would App Developers Want To Develop Apps For Groove Users?
The reason is simple, they will have access to more than 550,000 Groove users, and this number is increasing daily. This provides the developer with opportunity to earn a significant income and importantly… it is a passive income.
What Do I Think?
I think that you will very quickly see an impressive selection of third party apps produced to service the Groove user market. I believe that these developers will want to create Apps as a matter of urgency so that they are the first to market and can capture much of the revenue that will be available in a new marketplace. This is great news for all Groove users.
GrooveWebinar - Live Version
What Is GrooveWebinars?
When released, GrooveWebinars will enable you to host live webinars. Just like GoToWebinar, you will be able to schedule a one off webinar or a series of recurring webinars.
Webinars can be used to dramatically increase your sales conversion rates. You can interact with your clients and utilize inbuilt features such as live chats, featured comments, and live polls.
I believe that there would probably be limits set regarding the number of attendees you can host per webinar, but as yet we do not know what these would be.
My Thoughts
Mike has created some of the leading webinar platforms on the market and I have no doubt that the quality and features included in this one will be worth the wait. It is important to note that GoToWebinar prices start at US$588 per year for 250 attendees and go up to US$4,788 per year for 3,000 attendees. The fact that we will be getting Mike's newest webinar software, GrooveWebinars, included as part of the Groove suite further increases the incredible value of this deal.
GrooveWebinar - Automated Version
What Is GrooveWebinar Automated Version?
This product will be the same as the live version except that it will enable you to automatically play the recording of a live webinar to attendees as if they were attending a live webinar. Some of the benefits of running automated webinars include:
• It can run while you do other things
• You can run multiple sessions and the webinar message remains the same every time
• You can have it run at times that suit people in other countries without you having to be up in the middle of the night
• It frees you up to answer questions in the live chat while the webinar plays
GrooveStream
What Is GrooveStream?
GrooveStream will enable you to live stream to numerous social platforms at the same time. This is powerful as social sites give you preferential treatment when you do live streams to their platform. This could result in increased exposure for your live stream as well as saving you time by streaming to multiple sites at once.
GrooveDesk
What Is GrooveDesk?
GrooveDesk will be your professional digital help desk where you will manage all of your customer enquiries. Your customers will be able to lodge support tickets to the help desk platform and you will have a structured process for tracking and responding to their enquiries.
GrooveDesk can help you to manage questions about billing, tech support, sales enquiries, and requests for refunds. The way you handle communications with your customers can make or break the reputation and profitability of your business, so it is important to manage this process efficiently.
My thoughts:
This is an excellent tool for any business. Providing good customer service is essential and this product played a significant part in my decision to invest in GrooveFunnels.
GrooveSurveys
What Is GrooveSurvey?
GrooveSurvey is the survey builder app that will be part of Groove. You will be able to create surveys for your clients and prospects so that you can obtain valuable information that you can use to improve your business.
Here are just a few reasons you should be using surveys:
• To acquire demographic information about your best clients which you can use in your marketing to attract more clients just like them
• To determine what customers like about your business so you can do more of that, as well as areas that need improvement
• To learn what your customers buy from your competitors and why
• To identify unhappy customers so that you can rectify the problems they have experienced
• To discover ideas for improving your products or services from your customers and employees
GrooveCalendar
What Is GrooveCalendar?
GrooveCalendar allows people to see your calendar, identify what times slots are available, and book a time that is convenient for them. You can pre-select blocks of time that are to be shown as available and specify the length of each appointment.
For instance, if you sell consulting that is conducted over the phone you could specify that each session is 30 minutes and that the cost to purchase a session is $ 500. You would set this up with GrooveSell so that people must pay for the session before they can book a time.
This automates the whole process and eliminates people not showing up for the appointment and then not paying you for your lost time.
Just a few clients paying for missed appointments could pay for Groove!
GroovePipe CRM
What Is GroovePipe CRM
GroovePipe CRM is Groove’s customer relationship management and pipeline management software. This is like the product Pipedrive. It helps you to identify where your customers are in the sales process.
It tracks all interactions between the client and the business and anyone with access to GroovePipe will be able to see exactly what stage every deal is at and what needs to be done next to move them through the sales process… to move them through the pipeline towards a sale. It will assist you in building a relationship with clients and is essential for any busy sales team.
GrooveProof
What Is GrooveProof?
GrooveProof is a ‘social proof’ app that displays small pop-up notifications on your webpage telling website visitors that other people have just done what you want them to do. It is designed to make people feel like they would be making the right decision because other people also made that decision.
Example: You want people to buy your training course so while people are looking at the sales page these small pop-ups keep appearing for a few seconds at a time saying “John from New York bought this 27 minutes ago” and then when it reappears it says “Sarah from London bought this yesterday”. See the example below.
It is a proven strategy to increase sales conversions and with GrooveProof you could use it on your sales pages.
Groovefunnels Affiliate Program
What Is The Groovefunnels Affiliate Program?
The GrooveFunnels Affiliate Program, sometimes referred to as the GrooveFunnels Partner Program, is available to anyone who has a free or paid Groove.cm account. You are automatically enrolled as an affiliate when you join Groove so there is no application process you have to go through.
NB: Automatically enrolling your members into your affiliate program is a strategy taught in Mike Filsaime’s famous “Butterfly Marketing” methodology.
How Much Commission Does The Groove Affiliate Program Pay?
There are 3 different things that will affect how much commission you will earn.
1 – Are You A Free Member?
Free members earn 20% commissions on any sale they make on their own and no commission on tier 2 sales
2 - Are You A Paid Member?
Paid members earn 40% commissions on any sale they make on their own and 10% on 2nd tier sales.
3 – Was Your Free Members Upgrade To Paid Membership Assisted?
What are 2 Tier Affiliate Programs?
2 tier affiliate programs are affiliate programs that allow you to earn sales commissions from sales you make as well as commission from sales made by people that joined the program using your link. With the GrooveFunnels Affiliate Program a second tier sale is when someone who joined Groove via your affiliate link then makes a sale via their affiliate link.
How Much Could I Earn From A Second Tier Affiliate?
If someone joins Groove using your affiliate link and then they have just 12 businesses join using their affiliate link (1 each month) who are each paying $299 per month, then by month 13 you would be earning $358.80 per month without ever having to do any work to sign up those 12 businesses... $299 x 10% 2nd tier commissions x 12 businesses = $358.80 per month. That’s $4,305.60 per year and you didn't do any work to sign up the 12 businesses. Then you would be generating a monthly passive income thanks to Groove's two tier affiliate program!
What Is GrooveAssist?
If you sign up a free member who later pays to upgrade via someone else’s affiliate link, this is what is known as an assisted sale, which Groove calls GrooveAssist. You initially signed up the member so that member is linked to you for life. However, they did not decide to become a paid member until someone else convinced them to upgrade. The person who convinced them to upgrade assisted you to get a sale.
The person who assisted you might have spent time helping your free member, or provided them with a valuable bonus, which convinced them to upgrade. Groove introduced GrooveAssist to reward them for the work they did to help you to achieve the paid upgrade. When a sale is assisted by a second affiliate the commission is split equally between the two affiliates.
Does Groove Provide Marketing Assets For Their Affiliates?
Groove provides all affiliates with premade marketing resources so that any affiliate can get started immediately. These resources include:
• Numerous affiliate links that send people to different pages or events such as sales pages or webinars
• Email swipes (pre-written emails) that you can simply cut and paste into the emails you send
• Blog reviews ready to cut and paste into GrooveBlog
• Articles you can put on your GroovePages website
• Banner ads for your website or paid advertising
• Social media content
My Thoughts:
The Groove Affiliate Program offers a good opportunity to earn some additional money. The incredible amount of value that people will receive in return for their investment in Groove makes this a very easy offer for people to promote, and as Groove continues to improve on their products, and releases new products, the value will only increase.
If you know people who would be able to benefit from becoming a paid Groove member, or if you know someone who you think could sign up a lot of people under them, upgrading so that you can use the paid products yourself could be even more worthwhile because as a paid member your commission rate doubles and you earn those 2nd tier commission.
Join The Groovefunnels Affiliate Program Today
Joining is quick and easy and no credit card is required.
Simply sign up for your free GrooveFunnels today account using my affiliate link.
My Affiliate Link: http://minilinks.pro/GrooveFree
Groovefunnels Pricing
How Much Is GrooveFunnels?
At the moment, GrooveFunnels pricing is different to their proposed retail pricing because they are currently in BETA (Development phase).
During this phase they are offering special deals to their backers as they are helping them to fund the development of their products.
During BETA there are 2 different GrooveFunnels price options:
GrooveFunnels Free Lifetime Access:
With GrooveFunnels free plan you can join for free and start using GrooveFunnels immediately. There is no credit card required to sign up… there are no tricks, no trials, and no unexpected credit card bills!
How Much Will GrooveFunnels Cost On February 22nd 2022?
The pricing will be based on a monthly fee pricing model. At that time there will be 3 options:
• A free account
• A silver account for US$99 per month
• A Platinum account for US$299 a month
WARNING … Free Account Inclusions Reducing On Feb 22nd, 2022. If you want a free account, you should hurry to join before February 22nd as it sounds like the number of inclusions in the free account might be reduced after this date. I believe that you will only receive 1 custom domain instead of the 3 you get if you join before Feb 22. Being able to use 2 extra custom domains could make a big difference to your profitability. It is free to join so you may as well secure your account now to lock in the current inclusions.
Are There Any Limits That Apply?
Like any service you subscribe to there are some limits. I have included the limits for each product in the product information sections above.
We do not know yet what limits, if any, will apply to the unreleased apps
Conclusion
You have just read about all of the products that make up the Groove software packages. Now it is time to sum up what I think about this offer.
What Needs To Be Improved:
At the moment there are still some issues with the software that they are going through and fixing. My biggest issue is with the page editor as there are a few annoying bugs. Sometimes it can be tricky to get your curser to go where you want and when you go to position it the curser jumps to the top of the block you are working in, and then you have to go back and click again. While this can be frustrating it hasn’t stopped me from building a number of websites.
There is also the issue of not being able to see what font, size and colour existing text is. Read about my workaround in the GroovePages section above.
I trusted in Mile’s successful track record and purchased the paid upgrade immediately. At that early stage there were a ton of bugs… but we were told there would be when we purchased as it was still in the early stages of development. Since then, the development of these products over such a short time has been very impressive.
The good news is that while there are still some issues, they are getting fixed. They do listen to their members and have made endless improvements over the last few years.
What Is Good:
The fact that you can build a free website (3 currently), all with free SSL certificates and free hosting, and manage an email subscriber list of up to 500 people for free, is unbeatable value. Then they also give you access to Groove Digital Academy where they will teach you how to build a sales funnel for free, how to design a website for your business, how to do email marketing, and so much more.
With this free all-in-one software and a cheap domain name you could start your own online business, or use it to promote your offline business. You might also decide to become involved in the Groove affiliate program where you can earn commissions by promoting Groove.
Let's not forget the potentially lucrative membership sites where you can charge every member a monthly fee. In the free version of Groove you can have 100 members, so at $20 per month that adds up to $2,000 per month, and at just $47 each that is $ 4,700 every month using free software. You can see how quickly that can add up, and how you could cover the cost of the paid upgrade.
The reality is that even the free version provides you with the resources necessary to create multiple sources of income.
My Recommendation:
After reading all of this page and seeing everything that you get for free, I am sure that you don’t need me to tell you what a great deal this is. I would challenge anyone to find a better free offer.
Free normally means a trial offer, or free for 7 days, and then they start to bill your credit card every month. Not with Groove… you do not even have to enter your credit card details.
What is included in GrooveFunnels today far exceeds what Mike told us we would receive when we first purchased this product a few years ago, and there are still products in development. I am sure that more features will be added over the coming years as Mike has big plans for this software, and I see this quickly becoming the best all in one software solution for businesses.
Having followed Mike and his products for probably close to 20 years, I recommend getting your free membership today even if you do not intend to use this for a while. We know what you get with the free version if you sign up today, but we do not know what will still be included in the future as this package continues to improve and become even more popular.
GrooveFunnels is free, no credit card is required. You have never had to make an easier decision to make in your entire life…
Here is my Groove affiliate link. Sign up today.
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