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Groove.cm Review, Sep 2021

Sep 15, 2021

The $1397 lifetime offer is no longer available, the current lifetime price is $1997 but it will also go away by end of this year and become $299 per month. Groove.cm is coming out of the beta version very very soon. But hey, the FREE lifetime account is available and very useful to start with.


I get to know Groove.cm a little bit late compare with other pioneers I know. I only know it in June 2021. However, after a short few days, I upgraded my account to the platinum lifetime account. I have to confess, it was totally out of desperation during that moment.

Because I know my employer was going to discontinue my contract and I will be out of job end of June. The affiliate commission that Groove.cm offer is so lucrative that got my greed, desperation, and hope activated. It is 20% and $0% for free and lifetime account respectively. So I thought, why 20%... ? I want 40%. You do the math and you should know how much it is. 😊


Started to follow Groove live events like Groove-a-thon (Google-like or Apple-like keynote launch), watching YouTube videos and other events by the Groove community.


After more than 1 month, obviously, I got zero sales but I started to learn more and more about the power Groove. cm. Getting to know the vision of Groove from Mike Filsaime and other co-founders John Cornetta, Matt Serralta, Donna Fox, and Joe Jablonski. Not to mention I learned a lot from David Lemon too.


I am intrigued and excited about Groove's future. My personal opinion is, Groove.cm is the Tesla in SaaS (software-as-a-service) industry. It is destined to rock the world just like Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, and definitely more than the ClickFunnels app founded by Russell Brunson.


For those of you who understand exponential growth, I believe Groove.cm is definitely one. Growth, in the beginning, is deceiving but once it breaks through the barrier you will never be able to catch up. Exactly the same as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Instagram, Snapchat, Square, and many many more....


Why Groove.cm Is So Powerful?

Below are some of the points from my honest opinions:

  • Leadership culture - walk the talk, transparent even with an incomplete feature release, individual product owner for each App and features
  • Visionary - a big vision to take over the world
  • Power of community - Groove has a bunch of die-hard fans to keep sharing, testing, and advocating for the brand and platform. Spanning from HQ (Groove.cm) to GrooveAsia. It's the fastest-growing digital marketing community in the world now.
  • Easy to use Apps - a user-centric design that prepares for 8 years old kind to 80 years old folks
  • All in one platform - hosting 20 apps and keep on adding, that you will no longer need other digital marketing tools in the future
  • Groove listens to their community - bugs are reported on a constant basis and new features are requested every day. And Groove listen and kept refining and improving.


Groove.cm Apps

Figure 1: 17+ Groove Apps (source from Groove.cm)


GroovePages

A drag-and-drop page, the website builder that lets you make full-featured websites, and landing pages all in one project. Zero codings, zero programming knowledge are required.


It is meant to replace Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, Web.com, Hubspot Website Builder, HostGator, Divi, Beaver Builder, Weebly, ClickFunnels, Katra etc.


Even for FREE Account, you get to create 3 sets of full-fledged websites. You get to connect with a free subdomain (https://yourbrand.groovepages.com) or if you have your own custom domain name, you can connect 1 of your custom domain for free.

Figure 2: GroovePages template to create your personal or company website


Ready templates are prepared for your, most of the time you do not need to start from scratch. Fully mobile responsive.


Lifetime account, you get unlimited for everything.


GroovePages's backend is designed to optimize your PageLoad Time and help you to rank your SEO quicker and easier. That's something you don't really get it elsewhere.

And com'on free bandwidth and hosting, where do you get it?


GrooveFunnels

A drag-and-drop page, sales funnel builder that lets you make full-featured landing pages and sales funnels all in one project, linking to your GroovePages.


Meant to replace ClickFunnels and Katra. With GrooveFunnels, you get to create 1 set of sales funnels. For the Lifetime account, you can have unlimited funnels. Saving you from ClickFunnels $3564/year alone.


GrooveSell

A shopping cart and powerful sales management enable you to sell more of your DIGITAL products and services. In addition, it can also help you manage your own affiliate management. Meaning you can create your own affiliate program and invite other people to sell for you.


You can build your custom checkout and order forms with different price points and designs. You get to set your payment terms as a one-time payment, recurring billings, installments plan, or trial period.


You can also create upsells, OTO (one-time offer), downsells, pre or post-order bumps according to your needs.


For payment, you get to choose to connect with PayPal, Stripe, or GroovePay without paying additional fees and with multiple currencies.


GrooveAffiliate

A cloud-based affiliate management platform with advanced affiliate tracking for digital and physical products. You can create affiliate promotional tools like affiliate links, articles, banners, blog reviews, swipes, etc, for your affiliate programs.

Figure 3: Affiliate promotion tools


It's more than that, you can add your own bonuses, create leaderboards during your launches or special events, analytic dashboard, or customize your commission payout to your affiliate members.


It is designed to replace Tapfiliate, Fefersion, LeadDyno, FirstPromoter, TrafficManager, Omnistar Affiliate, Zuberance, Swagbuck, etc.


You can easily save $800+/year with GrooveAffiliate.


GrooveMail

Doesn't matter which business you are in, the autoresponder is very important to help you automate your email sendings and replies. GrooveMail is aiming to replace automation and email platforms like Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, HubSpot Email Marketing, moosend, GetResponse, AWeber, and many others.


It comes with an unlimited email list and opt-in forms, tags and segments, unlimited email broadcasts, and email sequences as a Lifetime User. For early adopters of lifetime users, we get 25, 000 contacts to add and import into GrooveMail. Later lifetime user, you will get 10,000 (who knows Groove.cm might change later).


Here is the summary of what GrooveMail can do:

  • can gather and segment leads into a list (a list to categorize your subscribers e.g. Opt-in, purchased, Product A, Product B, etc.)
  • suppression features (emails, domains & TLDs - top-level domain) to avoid competitors signing up to your mailing list or from not credible domain)
  • filters and search based on subscribes, tags, forms, segments, sequences, opens, clicks, status or even IP address.
  • broadcasts (single time email list to a group of people, one to many) and sequences with email and/or SMS
  • automation for behavioral-based actions. If then statement and when to do what.
  • create custom database fields and forms
  • allow multiple email senders
  • analytics and dashboards


Figure 4: Contact's activities dashboard (source Groove-a-thon Aug 2021, Donna)


Right now, GrooveMail is still at the infant stage, GrooveMail servers are being warmed up and hopefully will be ready by end of September 2021. In order to use GrooveMail, you will need to have your own custom domain and business email. In another word, Gmail, Hotmail, outlook, yahoo, and all those public emails will be unable to operate with GrooveMail due to privacy issues.


One more thing to take note is that before GrooveMail is fully ready, you will need to use a SMTP service to connect your domain with GroovePage. You can choose Sendgrid (free to start with 100 emails per day) or SparkPost for now. Mailgun, SpartPost and Amazon-SES will be coming soon. Once the GrooveMail SMTP is ready then we don't need to use external services to do the bridging.


Unfortunately, GrooveMail is not available for free user at the moment.


GrooveMember

GrooveMember is a membership site and hosting your online courses or mini-courses. It allows you to create and sell your digital products online. It is designed to replace Thinkific, Teachable, TalentLMS, LearnDash, Kajabi, and so on.

Figure 5: Latest GrooveMember look and feel (source from Groove-a-thon, Aug 2021)


You can create unlimited membership sites and multiple tiers membership systems with different price points. Creating the membership site is as easy as GroovePages, just drag and drop, and place your copywriting, videos, pdf, picture, or mp3 into the page builder.


If you have more than 1 membership, you can collectively put it into 1 portal to host all membership programs. It can be a stand-alone purchase or subscription as a whole, entirely up to your preference. Being said that, you can create your own Udemy, private, exclusively, and customizable just for you.


Quizzes and assessments are not available at the moment but will be added in the later release.


GrooveVideo

GrooveVideo serves as the alternative for your YouTube, Vimeo or Wistia as your video hosting platform.


Many will ask the questions why? Because YouTube, Vimeo, and Wistia are already doing a fantastic job for hosting, tracking, and sharing. Why GrooveVideo? Sometimes you want to have more private video, mute videos on start, autoplay during page load, and show video titles. Or enable "Optin to unlock" videos, add banner images, text overlay, call-to-action (CTA) banners, these are only available in GrooveVideo. As GrooveVideo design with the online marketer in mind and understand what marketers need.


FREE account cannot upload any videos, you can only link your videos from YouTube or url from Vimeo or Wistia. But Upgraded Account will have 100GB cloud storage for your GrooveVideo.


GrooveKart

GrooveKart is just like Shopify. But you get to start to use and sell unlimited products with GrooveKart even for FREE Account. It is the all-in-one eCommerce platform that everyone needs today, to sell your physical products (different from GrooveSell that we mentioned above).


GrooveKart Free Account get to host only 1 store but Lifetime account can have unlimited stores. Oh... it is designed with print-on-demand business and dropshipping stores business in mind. So they got you covered. 😊


If you are an existing Shopify user, GrooveKart allows you to import and migrate your whole store from Shopify to GrooveKart in minutes. There's a store wizard to help walk you through.


Some of the in-built apps are already available for your GrooveKart, e.g. Zapier, GDPR, Facebook Messenger, live chat, spin wheels, coupons, product reviews, social proof, and so on.


You can choose to check with a payment gateway such as PayPal, Stripe, or Groove's very own GroovePay. That offers the lowest rate in the world and absolutely no hidden cost.


GrooveBlog

GrooveBlog is designed to replace blogger.com, Wix Blog, WordPress.com, WordPress self-hosted, Zyro, Medium, Ghost, Tumblr, Jekyll, and many more. Content marketing and content management are never outdated.


GrooveBlog is absolutely free to start with and available free for life. Free Account get to set up 1 Blog and Lifetime Account can have unlimited blogs


Unlike other platforms, GrooveBlog PageLoad extremely fast, optimizes to rank on SEO faster, is lightweight and you can have your custom domain connect to your name or brand name.


You can embed Ad tracking codes for monetization or tracking codes like Google Analytics or Facebook Pixels.


GrooveProof

It is designed to replace Proof, Fomo, Nudgify, Proof Factor, Provely, WPfomify, and so on. It shows real-time social proof of purchases on your website. Integrate very well with your GrooveSell.


GrooveAutomation

It is an alternative to Zapier. However, you can also integrate your existing Zapier within Groove.cm platform. GrooveAutomation automates your marketing tasks in GrooveMail, GrooveSell, and GroovePages.


GrooveWebinar Automated

GrooveWebinar Automated is designed to replace EverWebinar. GoToWebinar, Livestorm, easywebinar, etc. It was just released in Aug 2021.


It turns your existing webinars into the evergreen webinars, without needing you to repeat your session again and again. So that you can have your life back.


GrooveWebinar

GrooveWebinar is designed to replace Webinar Jam, StreamYard, Zoom, Microsoft Team, GoToMeeting, Google Hangout. It allows you to schedule and host live webinars with polls, surveys, popups, countdowns, and offers in your webinar.


The feature is not ready yet but is scheduled by end of 2021.


Upcoming Groove Apps

  • GrooveDesk
  • GrooveCalendar
  • GrooveStreaming
  • GrooveMeeting
  • GrooveSurvey
  • GrooveQuiz
  • GrooveFunnels Mapping
  • GroovePipe CRM
  • Groove SDK


Get Your FREE Groove.cm account here.


Or upgrade to your LIFETIME Platinum Account before it goes away end of 2021 here.