Jwen wrote:Finally, someone reviewing their service! Thank you for sharing.
There are quite a few reviews out there, if you know where to look, and those reviews seem to be as diverse as the clients who hire it. One site to consider is www.fundedtodayreviews.com, which has a great selection of dozens of very positive reviews to consider. You can definitely find some negative reviews out there, as well.
It seems to me that one of the most common complaints about Funded Today is from clients who spent thousands of (non-refundable) dollars for Funded Today to test Facebook ads to attempt to find a way to profitably advertise their project---and then got few (or no) pledges in return. But that's arguably more the result of the creator's product/service than of Funded Today's marketing. As a car marketer, for example, you can do your best to figure out the best way to persuade people to come visit a car dealership, but if the car showroom is poorly-designed/staffed and if the car itself turns out to be more of an Edsel than a Mustang, and if every single person that you bring to visit the showroom ends up leaving without buying anything, then what can you do? Even the most skilled marketing on Earth can only do so much for a challenging product/service. And it seems that virtually every creator expects his/her project to do well---otherwise, they wouldn't have spent so much effort on developing it. Unfortunately, the market sometimes has other ideas, and that reality can sometimes be rather hard for some creators to deal with, and may leave them feeling both cheated and inclined to misplace blame.
Although it's true that good marketing can sometimes figuratively breathe new life into a generally-overlooked project by reaching out to just the right people and then effectively persuading enough of them to come take a look at it (which I've seen happen repeatedly before), it's also more the exception than the rule. It's more often true that, if a project isn't doing very well enough on its own without marketing, then there are quite possibly some fundamental problems with either its product or its presentation, in which case promoting it to the masses (or even to some carefully-chosen subset thereof) won't help enough.
In any case, those are a few of my thoughts about this subject based upon my own experience in the crowdfunding marketing world, for whatever they may be worth.
