Kit and Mailchimp are email marketing tools. Firestarter Funnels is the whole system, with a team.
If you're weighing Kit & Mailchimp against Firestarter Funnels, here's a fair look: where Kit & Mailchimp shines, when people start looking for more, what changes on Firestarter Funnels, and what a move actually involves.
Credit where it's due, and when it's time to look.
Where Kit & Mailchimp shine
- Focused, mature email tools with a long track record
- Creator-friendly sequences and forms
- Deliverability know-how
When people start looking
- Your bill climbs with contact count even in months you don't send
- You want email inside the CRM, next to the booking, checkout, and funnel it follows up on
- You want texting and social DMs in the same inbox as email
Everything connected, and people behind it.
One system instead of a stack
Website, funnels, email and text, CRM and pipelines, booking, courses and community, checkouts, and automations share one set of contacts and one login. A lead who opts in is already in your pipeline and your sequence.
Templates built for how personal brands sell
Personal brand site, lead magnet, webinar, book-a-call, sales page, checkout, course and community. Each carries the structure its decision needs; your words are the variable. New premium templates every month.
A real team, in-house
A private 1:1 onboarding session on Zoom, live tech hours with the expert team five days a week, 24/7 human chat and email, and a done-for-you path from the same team when you want it. Never a PDF of recommended vendors.
One price, locked for life
$147 a month or $1,470 a year, unlimited everything, with email and text billed only for what you send and a $20 monthly credit. Your rate never goes up after you join.
Move the people first, the sending second, the pages last.
Map the move on a free call; then your onboarding session walks you through the platform and live tech hours walk you through each step. Add White Glove Setup ($197, one-time) and the team connects your domain, email, calendar, payments, and social accounts and imports your contacts.
Contacts and tags
Export with tags and segments intact, import, and keep the tags. This is the memory of who came from where.
Sending domain
Authenticate your domain in the new platform before the first send.
Sequences and forms
Rebuild the active sequences and swap the forms for ones that write straight to the CRM.
Before you decide.
Is Firestarter Funnels a Kit or Mailchimp alternative?
Yes. Email broadcasts and sequences are built in and billed by what you send, about $1 per 1,000 emails, with a $20 monthly credit, instead of by contact count.
What about deliverability?
Domain authentication and sender setup are covered in live tech hours, or handled for you with White Glove Setup, and email verification is available to keep your list clean.
Can I import my list?
Yes, with tags and segments intact. Move the people first, then the sending, then the pages.
What will email actually cost me?
Run your list size and sending frequency through the email cost calculator on this site. Email is $1 per 1,000 sent with a $20 monthly credit, so most lists under 5,000 contacts pay nothing beyond the plan.
Kit & Mailchimp and the related marks are trademarks of their respective owners. Firestarter Funnels is not affiliated with or endorsed by them; the names are used only to help you compare.
Ready to move from Kit & Mailchimp?
Start on the platform today. Your 1:1 onboarding session is the first thing on the calendar, and live tech hours walk the move with you.