Kickpages Review (2020) – Discover How The Newest Page Builder Compares To The Competition?

Let me start off by saying I wrote this Kickpages review out of necessity.  We could find no other site, at the time of this writing, that offered readers a genuine in-depth review of the Kickpages platform.  Unfortunately, like most products, many Kickpages Reviews are created by people trying to promote a product that they never used, touched, or smelled. 

The development of Kickpages is so active, this review is a perpetual work-in-progress and we’ll expand this review of Kickpages as often as possible.

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Let’s get this out of the way. As I said above, we’re a proud Kickpages subscriber and know the capabilities and limitations of this platform.
I’ve included my “Welcome To Kickpages” email dated April 14, 2019, to show our lengthy history with Kickpages.

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In full transparency, I’ve been a full-time marketer for over 10 years.  No, not one of those unethical people that promote products through lies, SPAM, and false promises. You’ll have to visit one of those other review sites for that; google’s full of them. 🙂 Because I’m a marketer, I know a good online product (especially a landing page builder) when I see it.  

My team and I have had the pleasure of using and experimenting with many of the popular landing page builders over the years.  A shortlist of these builders includes OptimizePress, Thrive Architect Page Builder, LeadPages, and yes – even ClickFunnels.  Many of these page builders were okay, but the ones that suited our needs came with too many limitations (number of funnels, the number of domains allowed, visits per month allowed, etc) and often the price was hard to justify.

Prior to discovering Kickpages, OptimizePress was my go-to product for anything landing page or funnel related – but being WordPress-based is a tremendous disadvantage.  Along with other limitations, having to install WordPress & OptimizePress on each domain you wish to use it on was just too time-consuming.  Out of desperation, I even tried a hand full of page builder apps launched by marketers on a popular affiliate platform. We won’t even waste your time talking too much about those platforms today. 

Even though Kickpages may appear to be the new kid on the block, it’s been in development for quite a while; kept under wraps until its development team felt it was ready. Fortunately for me, I stumbled on Kickpages in early 2019, long before the general public knew of its existence. 

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Kickpages Review [Section II]:
What Is Kickpages?

Now that we got all of that out of the way, let’s talk about Kickpages – the real reason you’re here. This is the part of the review where most bloggers say, “Kickpages is the latest, greatest, and last page builder you will ever need!”  That’s a huge statement and while it might be true, let’s keep this review down to earth.  What I can ethically say is once I tried Kickpages, I knew this platform was exactly what we were looking for (and more).

In this Kickpages review, we’ll dig deeper and talk a lot more about why I choose Kickpages vs other landing page builders that have been on the market for many more years.

Whether you want to create professional landing pages, full websites, funnels, membership sites, or just a random web page,  Kickpages gives you access to a diverse set of tools and assets to complete the job.  If that’s not enough, they will host anything you create in Kickpages on one of the most reliable cloud hosting providers in the world; we’ll talk more about that later.

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What Coding Experience is Needed To Build A Site In Kickpages?

Like all the best landing page builders of 2020, Kickpages provides a WYSIWYG (What you see if what you get) drag-and-drop graphical editor.  This means you need not understand PHP or HTML to use the platform.  This is especially true when you take advantage of the thousands of design blocks within the platform (see Section III).  If you’re a more advanced user, the Kickpages platform offers you plenty of opportunity to show off your coding skills in custom code, custom CSS, and customer .JS blocks. The user interface is quite intuitive and you shouldn’t have any problems navigating no matter your skill level.

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Will My Pages Show Correctly On Android and Apple Devices?

Anyone that has been working online for any amount of time knows that there’s a monumental shift towards optimizing online content from just desktop environments to now include mobile devices such as IOS and Android.  Google now uses mobile responsiveness as a significant factor when deciding where your web page will rank in its search listings.  Don’t want to have to understand what all that means?  You don’t need to!  The built-in technology in Kickpages makes your content look good on nearly any device.

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I Still Need Pretty Pictures To Put In My Landing Pages! 

Most of us have used the idiom, “A picture is worth a thousand words” but never has this been more true than when you’re trying to communicate something online.  Let’s face it, many people have short attention spans.  With services such as Intragram and TikToc, people are used to visual content.  It’s becoming more of a challenge to grab (and keep) your visitors’ attention.  This is where high-quality visuals come in to play; except royalty-free images are often expensive or hard to find.  No Longer! 

Kickpages users have no trouble finding visual assets.  We have access to an extensive collection of images, Millions in fact!  Not only does the platform have its own collection of backgrounds and marketing images but we have access to some enormous collections of images from third-party providers.  I believe Kickpages pulls images from Pixabay, Pexels, Unsplash, and a few others.

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Does Kickpages Play Nice With My Autoresponder And Other Third-Party Tools?

Once you learn how to utilize landing pages to their fullest, your landing page builder will become the center of your entire marketing universe. Intergrations are so incredibly important and was a concern of mine when I started using the platform.  Lucky for us, Kickpages developer Martin Crumlish, knows how important it is for Kickpages to communicate with all the popular third-party platforms.

These days, it’s easier than ever to make your third-party services work with Kickpages.  Kickpages now works with AWeber, MailChimp, GotoWebinar, Sendiio, Mailer, Constant Contact, Demio, GetResponse, Elastic-Email, and Active Campaign.  In fact, with Zapier integration, you can link your Kickpages sites to over 1500 Zapier compatible sites, services, and tools.  As long as your other tool is Zapier compatible, you shouldn’t have any trouble making it work correctly with Kickpages.

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The All Important Insights, Visitor Logs, And Geographical Data

Here’s where I get to shift gears a bit.  In the beginning of this Kickpages review, I promised to keep this article honest. Kickpages offers Page Statistics & Reports.  You can see page traffic & basic referral stats… but that’s it.  Yikes!  Before you freak out, let’s talk about this for a minute.  There’s two types of users:  Beginner or casual user who will find these reports adequate.  Then we have the power marketers who look at Page Statistics, Insights, and Geographical visitor reports like a 15-year-old watching the naughty channel.

In my experience, most of us marketers that have been doing this for a long time already have our own favorite Insights / Tracking software for our business.  We have it integrated in every part of our business from our CRM to our Autoresponder and maybe even tied into social media.  Any tracking service or software that I can think of will be compatible with Kickpages using the advanced custom code / custom .JS functions.

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Kickpages Review [Section III]:
Design Blocks And Templates

The Design Blocks function of Kickpages is so unique that we deserves its own section.  This is what will make designing your pages incredibly simple.  You’re probably thinking, “Templates, right?”  No!  Design Blocks are different. 

Since the early days of web design, we’ve heard the word, “Templates.”  These are usually entire web pages or, in this case, landing pages that are configured in a way that allows the designer to change a few things to “make them you’re own.”  More times than not, unless you put a lot of time and work into this editing, most of the sites that use the same templates look the same.   

On top of traditional ‘Templates’ looking the same, landing page and funnel templates have also haven’t been known for being inexpensive.  Look at the ClickFunnels Marketplace who sells their subscribers templates and funnels for a variety of prices, some running as much as $997 USD (onetime free).  Remember, that $997 is for just the template and has nothing to do with the monthly subscription cost for their platform.

….You Are Never Forced To Start From Scratch With Kickpages

You have immediate access to a stunning library of engaging mini-templates (called design blocks) to build whatever website or landing page you might need.   While most landing page design software includes templates or themes, design blocks are a unique feature found in Kickpages. 

Design blocks include any element you might need in your web page – headers, buy boxes, footers, headlines, pricing plans, testimonials, etc.  Simply drag each element into your workspace to create your own template; this makes each template quite unique.  You then edit your custom template that you made from the combined design blocks and you just saved yourself hours of design work.  You can even save your own design blocks to use on future web pages.  I have several custom design blocks saved – most are footers.  

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