It does seem to me that Infusionsoft has been getting better lately. Still, I can understand how you feel.

Clarke

For the monthly price we pay, it makes sense that at a VERY MINIMUM Infusionsoft should have some basic, undo features.

Infusionsoft should be embarrassed by the lack of this basic feature.

And on top of it, the tech support guy who I talked to was a “trained” empathic, who could care less. Bad form, Infusionsoft.

That’s fine, but I do want you and everyone else to know that online marketing takes a lot of time and money to do well. This is true whether you use Infusionsoft or not.

With Infusionsoft, or any other tool, expect to spend 2 – 10x what you spend on Infusionsoft in either time or services to get results for your business.

Yes, I mean that even a small company should budget $3,000 per month or more, or an equivalent amount of time if you do it yourself. Doing it yourself does of course save money. But, unless you have excellent writing and marketing skills, it may take you many, many hours.

I can hear some of you saying: “$3K? I can’t afford that!”

Well, I’ve got some bad news for you. If you don’t have a decent budget for acquiring customers, you DON’T HAVE A BUSINESS.

Infusionsoft or any other software is not going to fix that. Sorry.

I’m not the most technical person, so Infusionsoft scares me. I”m a small business so the initial cost/investment is a lot to lose if it’s really as buggy as I’m hearing.

Is there anything else I can use to automate my sales process and a CRM. Is this worth the cost?

For example, I can’t post a picture from the shopping cart onto pinterest.
It’s unfortunate because I moved from mailchimp where I made money from email marketing and haven’t made money using the clunkiness of the platform. Not user friendly at all.

It does some of the basic things (email & crm) relatively well. And, Infusionsoft is cheaper than many of the alternatives. For people who only need the basics, it can be fine.

For ourselves and many of our clients, we use HubSpot. Definitely more expensive, but also much more powerful and complete. If you’d like, I can setup a free trial for you.

There is one Infusionsoft alternative I know of. But, I haven’t used it, so I can’t recommend it. Office Auto Pilot is the name.

I hope this helps!

Interesting post, and lively comments. Any updates on an alternative to Infusionsoft ? We are on the verge of deciding, but after finding this article and comments, thought perhaps best to review one last time. Appreciate any feedback.

These all are very imlortant for us so will be helpfull if you can share

Any & all ideas appreciated

Thanks very much for taking the time to post. I am in the process of looking at marketing solutions and have been talking to Infusionsoft. Your comments have been helpful and give me a lot to consider. If anyone has other options, please post them! Thanks!

Hi Paul,

Which crm provider did you end up going to?

They tried to process our credit card and contacted us. I said we don’t want and havent used the product after the extension. They say pay $249 or we are placing with collections.

My advise is use one of the much more affordable and user friendly providers. If you use them you really want to document your cancellation.

For the functions you are using, though, Infusionsoft is a good choice. I don’t know of any other product that does these things as well.

If you find one, please let us all know!

Clarke