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Kajabi announced today that from now on feature rollouts will be released more often. YAY!!

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Back in the day, Kajabi used to do "feature rollout" posts after each 6-week cycle had been completed by their development team. However, over time the number of Kajabi teams has expanded. So 6-week cycles with one big announcement no longer makes sense. 

HERE you can see Kajabi's rollups on their blog.

Here's a quick summary of new things added to Kajabi:

Professional Analytics
Including sales report, opt-in report, and page view reports; subscription metrics are on the way like monthly recurring revenue, churn, and much more

Events
You can now clone Events; the UI has been updated

Custom Domains
New process that's streamlined and no longer involves struggling with the...

On Fridays, I post some #FridayFun for you! These are just little extras to make you smile, laugh, feel inspired, and be encouraged in your online course, membership, or service business with Kajabi.

Happy Friday!!

HERE is a fun video Kajabi recently shared on Facebook.

It tells the story of a regular guy who just wants to surf, yet he's beholden to his office job, meetings, and annoying co-workers. 

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Guess how he solves all his problems? Yep, he discovers Kajabi and learns how he can sell his knowledge about surfing, which frees up his time to spend surfing and with the family he dearly loves. 

The story is told with Kajabi's usual great sense of humor but the point it makes is serious. Please take a look and see if it stirs anything in you.

"LET KAJABI FREE...

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Kajabi uses the term Event to represent a time and date which you want to surround with emails and automations. Some examples would be launches, webinars, or in-person events. It also works for automated webinars that repeat, say, weekly, where you'll receive new registrations on a rolling basis.

So now that you know what an Event is, you'll be happy to hear the news:

On 06-28-19, Kajabi announced on their Changelog that we can now clone Events! Here's a fun video they made to tell us more and show us how to do it. Enjoy! #twinsies

Here are the written instructions from the Kajabi help files if that's more your speed. So there you go and I hope you enjoy cloning Events!

One sign of a successful Kajabi account is when you have the same customer sign up for and/or purchase more than one of your offerings. Normally, when they go to sign up for a second or subsequent time, Kajabi will prompt them to log in if it recognizes their email in your system.

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 However, sometimes people either start off that second purchase using another one of their email addresses OR when Kajabi prompts them to sign in, they can't remember their login info so they purposely use a different email (even though they could've used the "forgot your password?" option). Hey, we get it. We've all been there, lol. 

The issue it causes for you, the Kajabi user, is that you want ALL of one person's data to be in one place - name, email, payment and purchase info, etc. So you may have the question:...

On Fridays, I post some #FridayFun for you! These are just little extras to make you smile, laugh, feel inspired, and be encouraged in your online course, membership, or service business with Kajabi.

Looking for some encouragement for your Kajabi business - or the inspiration to start one? Check out Kajabi's "Heart of a Hero" blog series where they profile regular people making a living with the tools Kajabi provides.

There's even a feature on Brendon Burchard who inspires many with his million-dollar coaching and motivation business!

Ready to be inspired? You can see "Heart of a Hero" posts on the Kajabi blog HERE.

Note: As of 10-03-19, the Changelog and Feature Requests were combined into a new button in your Kajabi dashboard called Feedback. Learn more about that HERE. I'll keep this post live just as background info - and to show how Kajabi constantly iterates their product features and makes them better!

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I've been using Kajabi since December of 2016 and "back in the day", one of the co-founders, Kenny Reuter, use to do Feature Rollups where he'd post what had been accomplished by his team during the most recent 6-week development cycle aka dev cycle.

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At some point, those Feature Rollups had to stop as Kenny focused on other necessities but we miss those rollups and people periodically ask when they'll be brought back. 

Well, it's the same only different, ha! On May 31, 2019, Kajabi announced a new...

When you build a "product" - course, membership, etc. - in Kajabi, you may want to include audio files. Some examples might be:

• transcripts of course videos
• meditations
• audio course files
• coaching calls

Here are Kajabi's instructions: How to upload an audio file to a post 

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How to Prevent Downloads of Audio Files

In Kajabi, all .mp3 files are downloadable if added in the download section, as in the instructions above and usually that's fine. Depending on the structure and price of your offering, customers/students will likely expect to be able to download the audio files they paid for. 

But there may be specific cases where you DON'T want to allow audio file downloads.

One example would be if you had a large number of audio files in a membership you sell, and you're afraid people would join for 1...

Say you make an update to your product - course, membership, or service - and you want to notify every member of that product. 

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You could send an email broadcast. The only issue there might be that if some people did NOT opt-in to your marketing email list when they obtained the product, they won't receive the product update broadcast. In this era of privacy, GDPR, etc., we do want to honor people's wishes around being marketed to.

Yeah, it's a bit of a pain but there IS a workaround (because Kajabi is smart and they think of everything!). Instead of sending an email broadcast, you can simply do a product announcement.

To see what I mean, check out Kajabi's instructions for how to send a product announcement.

Here's the crucial part from those instructions:

If you want to send all members an email notifying them...

No matter what email marketing and product/service delivery system you're using, you should be doing periodic backups of your contacts.

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This is in case of the rare instance that something goes wrong with the platform or hosting you use or, gosh forbid, YOU accidentally delete something you didn't mean to. Hey, it happens ‍.

Well, if it ever happens to you, my friend, you're not going to panic because YOU KEPT BACKUPS. And you have no excuse not to because Kajabi makes this dead easy. It literally takes 10 seconds.

Instructions:  How to export a list of all the contacts on your site

2 extra cool things about Kajabi's version of exporting contacts:

1. Not only does it export name and email but also other data, including what products they've purchased - so you can restore their access to those products
2. The...

One feature that seems to surprise many is that Kajabi has email marketing! In other words, if you get Kajabi, it can replace your current service like Mailchimp, ConvertKit, MailerLite, etc. This can definitely save you money!

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There are 2 main features to Kajabi email: Broadcasts and Sequences. So let's talk about the difference between an email broadcast and an email sequence in Kajabi.

What's an email broadcast?

An Email Broadcast is an individual email sent to a filtered list of subscribers from your People tab. A Broadcast is useful when you need to get an announcement out to your list or need to send a single email to update your users.

What is an email sequence?

An Email Sequence is a series of emails that will begin sending immediately after the user is subscribed or...