A crowdfunding campaign means people give you money, and that responsibility also falls on to marketing companies. Never pay a marketing company, you must only work with marketing companies who pay you - not the other way around.
drudge wrote:I keep a log of the crowdfunding agencies i research for my campaigns, it helps me remember which ones to avoid when im live. and i just so happen to have a convo from crowd.pr. I’ll just let it play here. Enjoy!
CROWD PR MESSAGE 1:
Rene Smith <rene@crowd.pr > wrote:
I am an employee of Crowd PR. We did the PR for the Shonin Wearable Camera campaign. Shonin has added the Crowd PR badge and website address to the bottom of their kickstarter page for verification: kickstarter.com/projects/shonin/shonin. Check out our website: http://www.crowd.pr
MY MESSAGE 1:
I’m not looking at that campaign, I don’t do the work, that is your job. If you want to work for my campaign, then submit a proposal as well as 9 references. I’m not really interested though, we’re doing just fine without any marketing. I don’t pay for marketing, I pay for results.
CROWD PR MESSAGE 2:
Rene Smith <rene@crowd.pr > wrote:
I think you’d benefit from marketing, most big campaigns do lots of marketing. Here is several campaigns we’ve worked with this year (we are a new agency):
https://crowd.pr/amabrush
https://crowd.pr/kuroi-hana
https://crowd.pr/whitefox-keyboard
https://crowd.pr/huskeecup-3
https://crowd.pr/shonin
https://crowd.pr/mymug
Rene Smith | Sales
Crowd PR | http://www.crowd.pr
MY MESSAGE 2:
Again, I’m not doing any work. You need a find a way to prove to me that you did those campaigns. How much do you charge for crowdfunding promotion?
CROWD PR MESSAGE 3:
Our rate is $3k per month, and we work with many of our clients post-kickstarter for continuing PR if you move to indiegogo indemand.
Rene Smith | Sales
Crowd PR | http://www.crowd.pr
MY MESSAGE 3:
I’ll pass. You’ve got to be out of your mind. I don’t pay more than $200 for a crowdfunding promotion service. Period.
CROWD PR MESSAGE 4:
I don’t appreciate you insulting our work and what we do.
Rene Smith | Sales
Crowd PR | http://www.crowd.pr
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There you have it folks. Beware of Crowd.PR. They charge $3k and they don’t even have a way to show they did the campaigns they take credit for. This firm is definitely a no go for me.
