Monday, 3 October 2022

Phonesites review

Lead generation was always one of the most important aspects of marketing. Over the years, it has seen a radical departure from ads in printed newspapers and cold calling to search engine and social media ads. Probably the best part of this dramatic change is that the days are gone when a marketer had to reach out to uninterested audiences.

Now they come to you. Interested prospects visit your sites and your social media pages. And you should be ready to make the most out of this opportunity. Landing pages can help you capture them when interested audiences show up.

This is where Phonesites comes in. As an easy way to build lead capture pages, even entire funnels for your business. With this service, you can build a landing page without any tech skills in a snap. You don’t even need a desktop computer, you can do it right on your smartphone. You can add follow emails and text messages to start building a relationship with your leads.

Pros and cons of Phonesites

Needless to say that Phonesites comes with predesigned templates and a drag-and-drop editor to customise them. Its feature set allows you to create your sales funnels from lead capture forms and pages to follow up messages via mail and SMS to convert leads into customers.

What sets it apart is that you can use it on your phone. You can also use it on a desktop (laptop) computer as the other run of the mill landing pages builders. And you can be sure that everything you build is mobile-ready.

With Phonesites, you can create landing pages, catalogues, surveys, and popups. Conveniently, it comes with a CRM that also includes tools to help you communicate with your leads through emails and SMS text messages.

As a landing page builder, it comes with the (almost obligatory) drag-and-drop editor so that you don’t need to code.

Pros

  • So easy to use, you can even use it on your phone

Cons

  • The process to cancel the account is convoluted with endless questions to persuade you not to cancel
  • This is not really a con, but be aware that the AI writing is not always giving you a proper match and you always need to check and edit the generated copy

Who is Phonesites for?

If lead generation is high on your priority list, Phonesites can help you create converting lead capture pages. Since it also includes tools for you to build funnels, including marketing automation, you don’t need to cobble something together from various disparate services.

It also is helpful if you’re regularly launching campaigns. It can help you launch the landing pages for your campaigns in a trice.

How easy is Phonesites to use?

The signup is quite painless save for the fact that you need to hand over your credit card details for the 7 days test period. After signup, you’re onboarded with a video.

Home doubles as a dashboard where you see at a glance how many leads were captured and other stats

You can use a pre-designed template or build your page from scratch. Phonesites lives up to its claim that it’s easy to use for everyone. It has a very easy to use drag-and-drop editor with which you can add content and customise a template.

Overall, its interface is intuitive and uncluttered. It also makes it easy for you to create minisites and funnels.

Phonesites design and templates

Phonesites has prepared 264 (at the time of writing) templates. Fortunately, there’s a search function.

Searchable templates gallery

The templates consist of several pages and make up your funnel. Once you’ve chosen a template, you need to install it. You don’t need to install all pages but can be selective.

For example, if you don’t need a privacy policy, you can just leave it out

Phonesites has designed templates for different industries and goals. They’re optimised for conversion but of course, that also depends on your content and offer.

How to manage your ecommerce store in Phonesites?

Phonesites isn’t built for dynamic content such as an online store. But don’t let that deter you: Since you can custom code (HTML, CSS, and Javascript), you can also embed a service such as Snipcart or Cartloom via custom HTML code.

Phonesites integrations

Phonesites has prepared native integrations for email marketing providers such as Mailchimp and Aweber. It also offers Zapier and Pabbly. Or perhaps it’s more correct to say that Pabbly has an app for Phonesites.

What marketing and SEO tools does Phonesites have?

Phonesites helps you build your entire funnel, starting from the landing page to follow ups and thank you pages.

SEO

In general, Phonesites has optimised its templates for SEO, and for example, it boasts very fast mobile load times. Each page has a settings section where you can add your meta tags.

Blogging

Phonesites is not built for dynamic content such as blogging.

Custom domain

You get unlimited subdomains so you can create unlimited pages. Depending on your account, you get 1 or can connect to unlimited domains.

AI Writer

Depending on your account, you have access to the AI Writer. This tool helps you write copy for your pages – generates content for you. All you need is to give it a title. You can also use it to write entire blog posts – of course, you still have to go over the results and make some tweaks. Don’t just trust it and use the generated copy.

Follow up

Each page in your funnel has a section called Follow Up. Here you prepare an autoresponder and you don’t need to add an extra service such as an email marketing provider. You can create as many emails as you like.

Payment options

You can connect your pages with Stripe and use its payment checkout page.

Phonesites security

You can build unlimited pages and funnels. The pages all have SSL encryption.

Phonesites customer support

Only the top 2 plans have chat, zoom, and phone support as well as coaching calls. You can reach out to the support team by clicking on the help icon in the left side menu.

Phonesites pricing

On the website, Phonesites offers 3 paid plans. But when you signup, you have to choose

  • Essential without AI writer
  • Essential with AI Writer
  • Unlimited without AI writer
  • Unlimited with AI Writer
If you pay annually, you can save 25%

Is Phonesites the right tool for you?

If you’ve read up through this entire Phonesites review and still feel unsure if it’s the right landing page builder for you consider this:

  • Do you like that you can build your pages both on the phone and on a desktop?
  • Do you like it if you don’t have to deal with a bunch of other services?
  • Do you like that you can build an entire funnel?
  • Do you like to see what’s happening at each step in the funnel?

If you answer yes to 2 or more questions, it’s a strong sign for you to go and try out Phonesites. Also, know that the trend to digital marketing is on the rise. Sharply. Especially after the pandemic, the speed has picked up.

Perhaps the most important question is, how important is lead generation for you? If important or very important, then it’s time for you to make a grand marketing plan. If this sounds intimidating, feel free to contact me.



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