I lead a small innovative solar energy company. I am currently in Denver for the Clean Tech Launch because I am chasing funding. We are an early stage company that’s been slowed by the recession and our lack of capital. I am looking to change that and am interested in your series.

Thanks,

Bob.

A tip for you and your readers… talk to Infusionsoft towards the end of the month (when they are working to hit sales quotas), and you can likely get a substantially better up-front start-up fee, as well as a much better monthly amount.

I promised to Infusion that I wouldn’t disclose to others what I am paying, but let’s just say that negotiating is one of the highest per/hour activities a person can engage in.

A few questions can save you literally thousands of dollars over the lifetime of your account – whether OA or Infusion.

And to add to your debate about OA vs. Infusion… by two cents is that sooner or later you just need to pick one, and hit it hard. Even if you make the wrong decision, you will usually be further ahead than if you make no decision at all and keep your business / product / service on the sidelines longer than it needs to be.

I’ve loved Infusion’s customer support, eagerness to serve me and answer all my questions, as well as their online tutorials, how-to videos, live support chat, live phone support…. the whole nine yards.

Mark, thanks for being a great resource to all of us

Tim

If you’re solidly on board with Infusionsoft, using InfusionWP is the only way to go in my mind, unless you value your time and energy at zero!

However, more and more these days I’m sending people to Office Autopilot if they want a powerful, easy to use WordPress membership site. In OA you can set up unlimited WordPress membership sites and you can easily insert merge fields into your member pages. Before OA added this feature, Infusionsoft + InfusionWP was the only realistic way to get this kind of power feature.

OA currently costs $297.00 a month. Infusionsoft coss $1500 up front plus $297.00 a month, plus you’ll spend about $70 a month for InfusionWP for just one membership site. InfusionWP offers a lot of extra “power features” but I find most people don’t really need all of that to accomplish their goals. I also like the fact that Office Autopilot’s membership integration is supported by a reasonably substantial company with live tech support M-F. The folks at InfusionWP are really great, but sometimes it takes a while to get help if you need any handholding.

OA has a very cool sequence system that lets your powerfully track the results of your email campaigns, including four-way split tests. This one benefit alone can make a huge difference to the actual performance of your online business and is my favorite feature of the whole system.

OA and Infusionsoft both offer Order Forms. Insfusionsoft’s order forms allow for some very complex offers and payment plans. Infusionsoft also has a built in shopping cart while OA uses a 1-click integration with 1ShoppingCart.

It’s not a simple choice. Infusionsoft and OA are the two main platforms I develop on for online business clients. I advise people getting ready to make the move from aWeber or MailChimp to an automation platform like Infusionsoft or Office Autopilot to compare features carefully because setting up either these platforms is a substantial investment of time and money and also a core design factor that will shape your business for a long time.

I have enjoyed WP + WLM + Aweber + PayPal for basic membership sites… am now graduating to Infusionsoft + Merchant Account, and needed an insight on integration with WP via (potentially) WLM.

Seeing your blog post here has saved me many hours of frustration. I am likely going to go get InfusionWP and not analyze or question the situation much further than that.

Thanks!

Tim

Every time daylight savings goes into or out of effect, you need to delete this file from your p910i operating system:

c:\system\data\GmtOffset.ini

The way to find and delete this file is to use a program called Epochware File Manager. The exact name of the trial version is FileManagerDemo.exe.