Infusionsoft is vast in its scope, while sendpepper and aweber focus on marketing, infusionsoft does all that, plus an affiliate system and a shopping cart.

In the last week we have taken a pragmatic approach and concentrated on getting the shopping cart and email marketing going first. As you suggested it will be a few weeks before we implement the offline marketing pieces, the campaign planning and financial tracking.

The advantages of infusionsoft for us are that it is proven, has great facilities for customer segmentation, and allows us to do all our prospect and customer management in one place.

Thank you for your comments comparing Headway and Thesis.

Regarding Infusion (and your migration from l Shopping Cart and A Weber, I am not looking at the technical issue you mentioned, but wondering if you have an opinion on the functionality (seems broader than l Shopping Cart) and the ease of use in setting up autoreponders, work flow, newsletters, shopping cart, offline customer.

Probably it’s way early for you to have an opinion, but wondering if you or Lizzy has looked at any of these issues.

We are completing the migration from aweber and 1shoppingcart to Infusionsoft this weekend. The issue for us was lack of support between the membership plugin wishlist member and 1automationwiz (a flavour of 1shoppingcart). Aweber is great but it does not make sense to use it when we are paying for infusionsoft. I would still recommend Wishlist Member but only when combined with Paypal and Aweber.

I abruptly stopped using Headway yesterday on my blog after the widgets all disappeared. I will go back and try again again later when I have some more time.

My initial view is that Thesis has better code quality and is better suited to me as a developer. I think Headway is pitched more towards the graphic designer market.

With Thesis, it seems all pretty easy; add your code in custom_functions.php and style the site in custom.css. With Headway I need to learn a new paradigm before I can get started. However, I think Headway offers you more flexibility over page layout. But for me content is more important than presentation so I can live with Thesis.

Going forward I can see us offering both Thesis and Headway at the Power Blog Service once we have developed some level of competence with Headway and proved to ourselves it’s a good thing for our clients.

1. Infusionsoft
Received a newsletter (or two), one from Infusionsoft which you were testing or first implementing. Wondering what you think of it and potentially migrating from A Weber or l Shopping Cart.

2 Headway

Any progress on evaluating Headway, say, compared to Thesis?

The short answer is probably aMember. But we have not tried it so this is a theoretical solution at this point.

This is our current thinking based on experience.

Good Combinations are:

• WishlistMember with Paypal as payment provider for one off and recurring charges
• InfusionSoft with the InfusionWP plugin for Credit Card Payments for one off and recurring charges
• InfusionSoft with the InfusionWP plugin for Paypal one-off charges

The issues are

• Lack of full Paypal integration – It seems to be that most shopping carts do not YET seem to be integrated fully with Paypal through the relatively new Express Checkout API which supports one off and recurring charges. I expect this situation will be resolved within the next few months. We will try and find out specifically when InfusionSoft will support recurring charges through Paypal
• WLM have integrated with 1ShoppingCart however my 1ShoppingCart provider 1AutomationWiz says THEY only support integration with aMember – so when the integration stopped working we got little support – and because the WLM code is encrypted it is difficult to debug what is happening. After two days of failed transactions we decided it was a waste of our time.

We do recommend WishListMember with Paypal integration if you can live with a single payment provider.