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I am not sure this is THAT big of a pain point. I do like the idea and direction sort of a mailchimp meets https://gumroad.com - but $37/month? Although I will admit there are a LOT more non-technical people who still struggle with wordpress - so maybe more of a integration/leverage from that might be ideal.

One feature you should think of is hosting the landing page on their specific domain. For example - the user can buy a domain, point it at the DNS and you take care of the rest. Rather than having convertkit.com/[some-random-hash] or a variation of it.

Looking forward to seeing the results and/or how well received this idea is

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I know a lot of people who know they SHOULD be doing this, but haven't bothered to set it up because they know it is so frustrating.

Custom domains are definitely on the feature list.

Also, I am quite good with WordPress, have a lot of experience with MailChimp, and this still really frustrates me.

I'm curious to learn more about how you decided on your pricing. I've used Marketo for a few years now, it's an absolute PITA to set up simple campaigns and I've often thought of creating an alternative simply out of frustration.

I wanted it to be high enough that I could actually make money with it (i.e. not $15/month), but low enough to be accessible to people at my marketing level a year ago.

This is the product I wish I had when selling my books.

I really liked Visual Website Optimizer's pricing, so I used that as a model.

You are right - I think the idea of "help building the funnel" is the most powerful one.

Not just 30 day course or 10 tips on ... but to really help people understand front-end sales, backend sales and cross promotion.

Super excited to see you hit the $5k/month goal by June :)

Yep, it's the best way to sell products online. I'll be writing a lot more blog posts about the process and how to implement it on any platform (not just mine).

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm definitely trying to hit that goal...

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