 the decision with which platform to go with can be a very challenging one and a daunting one because there's so many factors to consider and it's a long-term decision that's going to affect all these aspects of your business. So I had to make that decision earlier on this year and I'm hoping that this video and the resource will save you a lot of time in your research and maybe help you make a good decision that you'd be glad with. So the resource that you're seeing here in front of you should be in the link somewhere above or below this video. And it's basically what I did was I went ahead and signed up for the five most popularly recommended all-in-one course delivery mailing list affiliate software platforms that and website hosting platforms that was recommended to me by my clients and my colleagues. So the most popular one was Kajabi it's you know probably heard of it and then also very popular is Podia these days and Kartra and Zendler were also highly recommended. I did not look at I mean I have looked at Thinkific and Teachable and other course platforms before but what I was looking for was an all-in-one platform that could integrate into one database. This is really important I want to take a moment to talk about this. Imagine having in one place the information for your course students your clients your your customers of your products your mailing list your affiliates all in one database that's integrated so that when you are sending email to your students versus your clients versus your mailing list of various mailing lists that you have or your affiliates that can be all done in one place all their data and their activity is all happening one place. I didn't know how important that was until my business grew and once I made the switch now that it's all in one place it's miraculous it's amazing all the financial data for the purchases and everything is all in one place as well so it makes it easy to to see you know how much someone has spent with me and what kind of actions they're taking in the in the course which course the lessons they've completed all that stuff so I went ahead and signed up for all five of these highly recommended platforms to me and and I went ahead and took the actions that I would typically take uh in each of the five systems and I analyzed how easy it was now I honestly was not I was not biased towards Simplero in the beginning because I was biased towards Kajabi because that's the you know supposedly the industry standard and I you know I had several trusted colleagues that were highly recommending me to go to Kajabi so I was hopeful that Kajabi would be the winner here to be honest and the other thing I was hopeful for was Podia because Podia has really nice user user interface experience and it's just fun to use and I thought okay I hope it's Kajabi or Podia but I was quite surprised after doing my analysis that Simplero won on just about everything all of my the factors that I cared about as I was setting up the systems I set all five systems up the systems that really uh that I needed Simplero had and so I went ahead and said okay well given this analysis I'm going to go with Simplero and now as of this recording it has been six complete months of being extremely active within the Simplero system I all my mailing lists are in there my website is hosted on Simplero now completely my affiliate system is all 20 of my courses are now hosted in Simplero and what else my my shopping cart you know it Simplero works seamlessly with PayPal and Stripe and other payment processors as needed so but my my purchases my land my sales pages my order forms everything is in Simplero now I've been using it extremely actively for six months in fact I have I have set I have placed something like at least 30 different feature requests in Simplero to say hey can you improve this aspect can you upgrade that aspect and guess what they've been so responsive they've they've implemented at least 15 of my feature requests probably more than that and I've just been so grateful the customer service is amazing and something you know one of my colleagues the other day who has quite a large business asked me hey any red flags about Simplero because I'm thinking of moving over from WordPress you know this this guy has WordPress connected with different plugins and it's getting real complicated and I said well Simplero all in one and I said nope I honestly have been using it for everything since for six months now I'm in Simplero multiple times a day and all my customers client students are all using Simplero as this you know as the customer error student now and I love it there are no red flags and I basically everything that I need in fact I keep finding new features that I didn't know I needed and Simplero has and so no I don't have any red flags and I keep talking to my colleagues who are on Kajabi or on Podia I don't know as many people on Xander versus Kartram and I keep saying oh you can't do that in Kajabi I can do that in Simplero oh you can't do that in Podia my god that's a normal feature in some so I really I'm a huge fan now because I've tried all the systems and I have the colleagues or on the popular ones and when we compare notes Simplero keeps on winning so if you have any questions you can comment below this video either I or whoever else is managing this video will will answer and one more thing I want to show you before we finish up is the what surprised me I didn't expect this but the search engine optimization at Simplero is amazing so let me go and show you this tab now check this out so I'm showing you 16 months of results and of of the the impressions that I'm getting in my on my website and can you tell when I join Simplero well I'll make it easy for you look at this I joined Simplero in in April actually no I joined Simplero in April of 2022 but I didn't move my website over until May until late May mid May actually somewhere around here really literally around here I moved my website over to Simplero and look at what happened you know flat flat flat it was actually kind of slightly declining over the months and once I moved my website over to Simplero I didn't do anything no other website updates I just moved all the stuff over to Simplero and then just Simplero's technology SEO is so much better now look at this yeah I was I was rarely getting over 2,000 impressions any any any one day and usually you know barely getting over a thousand and now I'm regularly you know regularly now not a day goes by that it's not over 2,000 so it's super impressed just with with the SEO as well so anyway I hope this gives you some interest in finally exploring Simplero and like I said there are I keep discovering new little features that I didn't know I needed every week I'm like oh wow I didn't that that would be really useful I'm so glad Simplero does that so if you have any questions comment below and somebody I or somebody else will respond and I look forward to seeing you hopefully join the Simplero crew as well and using it I love geeking out on Simplero now because there's so many different things I can do with it so maybe I'll see you in the community thanks so much and I should mention my name is George Cao you can google me and find my website which is all on Simplero and so hopefully this is helpful