At the start of this month, a few days before I launched my Copy Riddles program, I naively decided to make some changes to the sales page.
I’d gotten testimonials back from people who had gone through the test round. I just wanted to paste those in.
So I opened up my page builder and —
It looked like the fridge scene in Ghostbusters. The one where Sigourney Weaver opens her fridge, and instead of shelves with salami and cheese, she sees a vortex of evil energy and a demon hound growling, “Zuuuul.”
I immediately closed down the page builder and pretended like nothing happened.
After a few moments, I carefully opened it up again. I peaked in.
“Zuuuul,” I heard the hound say again.
My sales page had completely collapsed. All the text, supposed to flow from top to bottom, had gotten crushed down and was running to the right, off the page. The images were piled on top of each other. It was unreadable and unusable.
Yesterday, I mentioned GrooveFunnels. That’s the new marketing funnel software looking to compete with ClickFunnels.
Well, I built the sales page for Copy Riddles using GrooveFunnels.
My reasoning was this:
I know how to build a webpage. That’s easy.
But what I don’t know is how to build an order page and upsell pages… how to connect to payment processors like Stripe and PayPal… how to integrate all this with affiliate tracking so I can get other people to promote my stuff and become a millionaire in the process.
I’m sure there are tech solutions for all these problems. But I didn’t feel like researching them. And I didn’t feel like paying hundreds of dollars a month to try them out, especially since Copy Riddles is still a small and experimental project for me.
So I went all in on Groove. It does everything. Builds your webpages…. creates the sales funnel… processes payments… handles affiliates.
It sounded great.
The reality of course was a mess of supernatural proportions. Lots of glitches, confusing design, and a vortex of evil energy in my fridge.
And yet, like I said yesterday, I’m actually recommending GrooveFunnels. If you are a marketer or copywriter, and you expect to ever need a new site for a project, I believe it makes sense to try GrooveFunnels out. Here’s why:
1. My sales page ended up working just fine. In fact, it fixed itself, or the little Groove elves working behind the scenes fixed it. In fact, whenever I contacted the elves with questions or requests, they were very responsive and helpful.
2. Even though simple stuff (like changing the size of a headline) was almost impossible in Groove, the hard stuff (like handling affiliates across different pages) was instant. All the stuff I didn’t know how to do came ready to go out of the box.
3. Groove is free to use. Did I mention that yet?
Fact is, Groove is a huge project. Along with the page builder and the affiliate stuff and the sales funnels, they are also working on an email service and a shopping cart and membership site software.
And since they are working on a million things in parallel, everything is full of glitches and bugs.
But those bugs are getting worked out. Groove as a project is very hot and growing. Money is being poured into development.
And one day, or so I hope, Groove will be a stable, reliable platform, which actually gives you all you need to run a business online.
So that’s why I say it makes sense to try Groove out. And to do it now.
Because Groove won’t always be free, but it still is. There are no restrictions on the free program, except you can only use Groove for three websites max.
The only thing is they put an ugly black bar at the bottom of your site, saying “This site was built with Groove Funnels.” But if you sign up for a free Groove account today, and forward me your confirmation email, I will even tell you how I got rid of the ugly black bar on my site, while still being on the free Groove account.
Oh, and I will give you something else too. But this post is running long, so I’ll tell you about that tomorrow, when I finish my Groove promotion. (Or you can find out today, by sending me your confirmation email.)
For now, if you’d like to try out Groove, here’s where to go: