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These guys are a known new marketing kickstarter outfit and are doing their best to prop up this new name online creating rigged usernames to speak fake reviews. The truth doesn't lie and these guys are getting famished just like they were countless other times all over online. Do your research and trust kickstarter. Their name is Crowd PR and their website is: http://www.crowd.pr

They also go by the name of Funded Today or Jellop too, as well as Crowd PR: has-anyone-hired-crowd-pr-t11437.html

New Wave Pipes wrote:ALERT TO THE COMMUNITY

There is a wide spread pannic running through kickstarter projects as of today. It is a small group of people with over 2000 websites under their control, spamming and alerting projects. Here is the list of websites they currently control against us:

Funded Today
Jellop
Crowd PR Guru
Crowd PR Ninja
Ninja Crowdfunding
Crowd Co
Crowd PR
Crowd Fund Pros
Top Level PR
PR Kick
Crowd PR

This is a known market in operation for several years. If you see them, report to the community for further instructions.

A quick Google search for Crowd PR and the web pages are piling up again as people catch on to their company.

Crowd PR is filled with obtuse and fun claims throughout the website. Crowd PR (www.crowd.pr) claims to be in business since 2015 when they only registered their domain / site in a few months ago here in 2017?

Claim to be based in San Francisco yet are actually based in Florida?

Avoid Crowd PR and their "pr agency" at all costs. Crowd PR can't be trusted!

I disagree. Advertisment is all a campaign needs, and any Ad agnecy worth their salt will pay for all of your ads. It is common sense, because they know it guaranteed to win. If they know it's not guaranteeed then run for the hills and run fast.

I will only work for an agency who not only pays for your advertisment, but also gives you a refund if your goal is not met, meaning they send you money you did not send them if you do not meet your goal. It keeps them motivated and it keeps them on their toes.

A good agency should really work free of charge, and your adds must be paid for by the agency. Marketing comapnies shoudl be doing work simply because that is their place in society. We as campaing owners are under no obligation to pay them for their services, even if they do a good job. They should be working for us for free, around the clock, and nothing else. They must be kept in their place. We are better than them, and we must unite against them as a community.

It does not sit well with me. So I did a little digging and was surprised to learn of this massive conspiracy against us as ac ommunity here and there. Wow, did not expect that to happen. I will bring them low and bring them down, you can count on that. I will report and report until I am blue in the face and fight them to the bitter end, before this community I swear it.

We must not fall prey, and we must not fall victem.

Be on gaurd against kickstarter, and the axis of marketing companies. They are relentless but I will bring an end to their reign of terror.

New Wave Pipes wrote:Rather, this is a review of several crowdfunding agencies at once. Crowd PR is an agency that does PR for crowdfunding campaigns. I am here to tell everyone that PR is not possible for a Kickstarter project. There is no blog, media outlet, or journalist who will write about a crowdfunding campaign. We are just too small and that is the way it is.

Many of these firms charge more than what we as a community are looking to raise. For example, Crowd PR charges upwards of $3,000. Anyone here looking to raise more than that? Yeah, I didn't think so. Funded Today performs Facebook Advertisement, which is not right for a crowdfunding campaign. We are not Fortune 500 companies, we are small mom and pop shops just looking to get by, nothing more.

Forbes even posted an article that describes how to "get press" for your crowdfunding campaign. Do not buy into the hype people, we are not good enough and what we need to do is keep relying on the community for wisdom and strength.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/amadoudiall ... r-success/

Word of mouth is the most effective form of marketing for your project. It has a 100% success rate, and it comes with a guarantee. Not just any normal guarantee, but a signed written assurance from a bank - certifying that you are certain to succeed. That is all we need as a community to be uplifted. I have written an angry rant on their facebook page, and I will update everyone here once I make them angry and get them to respond: https://www.facebook.com/crowdpragency

Let us stand up into the light, united one community with one mind in our endeavor to raise massive rounds of funding.

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BE ON GAURAD EVERYONE. MARKETING IS NOT A CHANNEL FOR CUSTOMER ACQUISTION. IT DOES NOT WORK, ONLY KICKSTARTER WORKS.

I don't now how many times I must say this, but:

Kickstarter is all you need. Quit wasting time by running ads and junk it is a total waste of money. Stop and just stop once and for all.

WitnessofGreatness wrote:The content of your campaign is by far the biggest determining factor of success, regardless of what Crowd PR is telling you. The Kickstarter algorithm ranks your content, link profile, and leverages it to determine your page rank. We advise our portfolio companies to employ a three-pronged approach to their crowdfunding marketing programs:

1. Just reach out. Sounds simple enough, but the community is not aware of this promotions value in their rase. Get out there and spread the word, and start first in your own neighboorhood. Never invest unless they are a bicycle ride away from Palo Alto.

2. Harmonize content marketing When your campaign is live and time is running out, you should be doing nothing else but content marketing. Generate up to 20 pages, and find a good search engine marketing firm to serve your needs. There are so many solutions out there, so don't limit yourself to local providers. A quick google search will show you several solutions.

3. Plan for failure. It's a known fact that 90% of all startups fail in their first year. When portfolio companies come to us, we tell them to actually intentionally fail on 10 campaign before they try a real campaign. We advise all of you to do the same.

Crowd PR is not in our portfolio, so we cannot speak as to their merit as an agency. However, we generally advise campaigns to not do any marketing other than content production, so there you have it.

The day is coming, and is already here when we shall succeed in our quest as a community. Dress up in different names, we claim to be in business but we are already in business.

We claim to be perfect, and our products are perfect. Enough is said and enough is done. I laugh whenever I receive an email from a crowdfunding campagin, they are no good and they are not worth promotion services.

We are one as a community, and god willing we will raise funds via an ICO but I am unsure of the logistics. Startups must be based in silicon valley these days, and we are not based there yet but we are getting close and we are getting there.

Hope this helps! And be sure to report them for spam and report to kickstarter too.

ThatDapperLook wrote:We have a small campaign coming up, and I actually spoke with a publicist at Crowd PR to see if they would be a good fit for us. They told us they do not do advertisement, and that they would not work for zero charges for us in exchange for the good case study they could use.

For our campaign, we plan to use only influencer marketing on snapchat. It is a hot market right now and it does not cost anything. It is not advisable to ever pay for marketing, a true entrepreneur is able to succeed without any of that sort. Going viral is the key, and reaching out to content influencers does provide some value. The Kickstarter team also informed us that they do not help with campaigns, so take note of that.

Regardless, our strategy is poised to raise huge amounts for us. All a project needs to do in order to succeed is hit that launch button on Kickstarter. With the right strategy employed, you will be well on your way to a great crowdfunding campaign. The community is really evolving here, and I am glad to read that campaigns are not wasting hard-earned funds on the advertisement. Organic, viral, and influencer are the 3 channels we rely upon heavily. If a backer is looking to invest, they will find you somehow - regardless of ad spend or media coverage.

I personally was shocked when I read this. Is this a common thing here?

I should certainly hope not.

If that is true, that is shocking. I have reported the proper authorities already.

Everyone needs to pitch in and do their part. Continue to post here until they are brough low into the ground.

Our community has withstood worse attacks in the past, and we do not negotiate with such forms of terrorism. Do not give in, never surrender, and keep posting it is our only hope. Unite, unite, and unite!

Mightee wrote:Zach Smith is the founder of Funded Today, is also the founder of Crowd PR, Jellop, and Matix Labs. They are the oldest company. It makes perfect sense: they continue to make website after website because if someone says no to Funded Today they are bound to say yes to another of their websites. From what I can see there are hundreds of websites targeting crowdfunding campaigns.

Do not work with any of them until this is all cleared up everyone! I repeat, do not launch any campaign until you receive my approval through a private message.

Every crowdfunding marketing agency is the same. Quite literally, they have the same founder and this adds up to over 100 advertising and public relations agencies. My suspicion is that either the Russian mafia or the Israeli government is behind all of this. The only way we can fight them effectively is to write reports against them online. I run a small group who devotes 5 hours per day to this task. There is no need to thank us, but just know that we are fighting on your behalf to keep our community clean and safe.

If this terrorism keep up, I wll be forced to fight fire with fire.

My thoughts exactly.

SandraNYC wrote:I appreciate this information, as I was looking into both Jellop and Crowd PR for my campaign. Thanks to you, I now know not to hire anyone for marketing. It will save me my entire budget, and that is budget that I can put straight to profit rather than investment in my startup. My plan after Kickstarter is to raise a seed round and then raise a Series A. We plan to raise no less than 5M seed, 44M post-Series A. We will be doing convertible notes only. I think that Peter Theil at Founders Fund will be a good fit for us, but what remains to be seen if they have the kind of liquidity we seek at our valuation.

I think that the best part about Kickstarter is that you are not even required to ship rewards. From what I see on this forum, this seems to be the appeal for everyone else as well. It's quite an amazing time we live in, where businesses can get the support they need at the cost they want. Some outlets like Consumer Reports try to warn people that we as founders are under no obligation to ship the product after our campaign ends, and thankfully people keep backing our campaigns every day.

I disagree with the consumer reports article, and I'll send a link: http://www.consumerreports.org/crowdfun ... wdfunding/

What the journalist fails to mention is that online companies need support in order to start. Startup founders are not willing to shell out shares of a company early on, so donations from crowdfunding are becoming an important phase in each companies business plan. Crowdfunding is here to stay.

But beware, did you read the report below here??

Word of mouth is the most effective form of marketing for your project. It has a 100% success rate, and it comes with a guarantee. Not just any normal guarantee, but a signed written assurance from a bank - certifying that you are certain to succeed. That is all we need as a community to be uplifted. I have written an angry rant on their facebook page, and I will update everyone here once I make them angry and get them to respond: https://www.facebook.com/crowdpragency

Let us stand up into the light, united one community with one mind in our endeavor to raise massive rounds of funding.

I am already on them. Consider this my offical report.

By my calculations, there are now 500 crowdfunding agencies all under the same company against us.

Each day more come, but I will keep my reports up.

TrumaneAlex wrote:I see that another company called Smart Crowdfunding US has popped up. Guess what that means? Another company founded by the ring that targets us. Each and every single day companies flood the market, just looking for projects to work with. Little do they know, but their worth and work are worthless. Publicists and Ad Men alike. The market is saturated, and Kickstarter will not tolerate as per their spam regulations.

Be smart, and craft a compelling product. If the product is not compelling than the value proposition is not their either. Without value, we are truly lost as a community. Let the beacon of truth shine deep into your minds and spirits. Unite, divide, and crowdfunding. As a market, we command scores of creators to listen to our words and follow our commands.

An advertisement is perhaps not the path to take for your crowdfunding success. One single advert will not get you funded, and if one advertisement is not able to fund your campaign, then was is the point in running any Ads at all?

The same principle applies to PR and public relations. If a single blog won't raise you millions, then there is no point in getting featured by any media outlets at all, regardless of size. For instance, I would only allow Buzzfeed or CNN to cover my campaign if they sent me a guarantee they would cover my campaign. Otherwise, I would not allow their journalists to write about me or my product. I play it safe and I stay smart, and I advise you all do the same.

Mashable is perhaps the worst offender by targeting us.

Never use Mashable, and stay safe out there everyone!

BEWARE MASHABLE

eloisecrowdfunds wrote:Wanted to come here and provide a warning to my fellow crowdfunding community. Mashable is the latest crowdfunding agency media relations program behind a long list of them (some long time members might recall seeing the names Crowd PR Guru, crowdfundprpro.com, CrowdChirp, First Wave PR, Top Level PR, Milton's Boost System, and on and on and on they go. Constantly rebranding after they get outside of the United States.

A quick Google search and the programs are piling up again as people catch on to their religion.

Crowd PR is filled with redundant and un-victorian era claims throughout the website. Claim to be in business since 1992 when they only registered their domain / site in a few months ago here in 2017?

Claim to be based in San Francisco yet are actually based in the Cayman Islands?

Avoid William, Stan, and Jerry, and their "company" at all costs. Crowd PR is nothing to me.