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Etienne Juneau
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
Empty promises
Perhaps the worst marketing agency I worked with
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
Honestly I couldn t expect any worse
Premise our Kickstarter project wasn t successful and we re fully aware that this is not only caused Funded Today s It s a series of things that just didn t work out well However our experience with Funded Today has been horrible and we couldn t be more disappointed We purchased a pre-campaign and the newsletter ads services for a total of 5 500 USD During the pre-campaign phase we experienced - A confusing and approximate planning We ve been forced to postpone our launch multiple times because Funded Today missed all the deadlines multiple times or made silly mistakes - An awful Email Lead Generation landing page The first version was dramatic and they started promoting it with a wrong project name a wrong URL slug a completely misleading design and without waiting for our approval also wasting some of our ads budget The second version was slightly better but still not even close to our expectations And the ELG performance has been extremely poor as expected During the live campaign - The results from ads have also been disappointing but the experience here was not that dramatic and they communicated with us in a more accurate and timely manner - About the newsletter we re wondering how is it possible that we obtained only a hundreds of views from a mailing list with hundreds of thousands of subscribers as they claim Maybe Funded Today s mailing list quality and its open rate are not as good as they say and definitely not worth the extremely high price they ask for And then the cherry on top - At the end of the campaign they sent a survey to all our backers on our behalf and using our account asking for their personal data i e email address with a scammy form and without prior approval from us This is not just illegal it s also extremely unfair In conclusion working with Funded Today has been a complete waste of time and money We had to postpone the launch for several weeks they stole email addresses from our backers sending a scammy survey on our behalf and they ve been unclear hasty inaccurate most of the time And most importantly they disappeared and started to ignore all our messages when the it was clear that the project wouldn t have reached the goal This is so unprofessional and unfair that it s really hard to believe If you re about to launch a project on Kickstarter do yourself a favor avoid Funded Today Please I also reported all of the above to Kickstarter as I believe it is in their interest not to be associated affiliated or linked to Funded Today We re now considering to take legal action If you also had a similar experience with them send me a message I ve read hundreds of bad reviews like mine and I m pretty sure we can join forces for a class action
Focus Tools
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
This service is a scam
They kept chasing us to work with them and convinced us that they would help us succeed with our Kickstarter We paid them for Kickstarter design newsletter and ads After payment funded today went quiet for 2 weeks and then finally started with the design Their first draft was horrible the second edit round made it even worse And by that time we were 6 weeks further Delays upon delays and lie on a lie funded today kept us running behind them as soon as we paid We hired a freelancer to design the page for us It took her 4 days and we were ready to launch If it was not for Funded today They didn t reply for 1 week and then told us they would need 3 more weeks before we could go live 3 more weeks on top of their massive delay already but we did not have a choice We paid them they didn t want to refund us so we kept waiting We launched finally 5 weeks ago After 2 days funded today totalled us 650 650 dollars That s all these scammers got us No support no help only that our product was not good and they needed to stop their efforts Hold on they chased us before we even went live with our campaign with daily emails from Jordan Their scammy sales tactics made us lose 3 months of our time expenses totalling over 8000 and nothing to show for it If you have a dream of launching a successful Kickstarter then DO NOT listen to their stories and do not go overboard when they send you daily emails They do not have your interests in mind only their bank account and will drop you as soon as you paid them
Lee Fondiller
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
Hire Funded Today at your own risk
Hire Funded Today at your own risk we hired them for marketing our Kickstarter program and it was the worst mistake we could have made Jordan David the sleezy salesman felt like a used car salesman in the way they are portrayed in the movies slick talked his way through a presentation and once we paid the 2500 fee disappeared and had his team doing the work which he then indicated he was not responsible for They were non communicative incompetent not knowledgeable and incapable of providing us the result that a quality company could They took 400 for CrowdStock which was supposed to automatically refill the available amounts of the product as they are pledged but it never happened and we had to manually track it due to supposed programming changes Kickstarter made When asked for the contact from Jordan he couldn t get one even though he gave us the instructions to pay them When i went to the site to fill out a contact form it bounced back saying that jordan crowdstock io was no longer active LOLOL it s part of their company but they are saying it s not and won t provide the 400 refund even though ZERO work was done to earn that money Not to mention we ran social media ads and could tell every time they stopped due to a drop in activity and were told oh we turned them off because you ran out of money oh wait you have money left let s turn them back on It s their business to drive sales and they can t either keep track of the ad spend or communicate to us that we needed to add more money to the budget There is no portal to see any progress you re flying totally blind and getting a response from anyone via Skype the ONLY method they will communicate is impossible When I tried to have a call with Jordan he asked what s it about If it s about the ads I can t help you ask Josh It was always someone else s problem unless he was trying to collect money Billing was not aware of any of the prior pledges we had brought to the table and tried to charge us they didn t know that we were told 500 of the 2500 was included in the ad spend etc Needless to say I would not recommend this company I know their response is going to be well you made X dollars compared to your original campaign which made a lot less which is an unacceptable answer when our internal goal was a lot higher and COULD have been obtained if not for the inept service I tried to reach out to a founder of the company and got NOTHING Bad news you ve been warned
Darryl Abrahms
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
I never thought that ignoring customers was a successful business strategy
I paid this company 2 500 to help my Kickstarter campaign and all I got out of it was two 20 minute phone calls and a 71 page manual which was not relevant to my needs Don t trust this company
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
The cashback program is not working at
The cashback program is not working at all I registered for the cashback program and shared the link on a post that had thousands of views and the system did not report any clicks
Oleksiy Tsilyk
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
I do not advise dealing with them
I do not advise dealing with them We contacted Funded Today on the recommendation of our colleagues when our Kickstarter campaign had already started and raised the first 20k We were promised decent results and a lot of opportunities for working with Facebook and e-mail distribution in the backers database As a result they set up advertising on Facebook much worse than our specialists and there were no results at all and their mailing gave additional sales of about 5k we got all the rest of the income from backers passively without the efforts of people from Fund Today For all their services they billed us about 8k which did not correspond to the work performed at all Manager Jordan stopped responding to our messages altogether when he realized that they had done their job poorly P S In addition be aware that they can steal your customer base and edit your Kickstarter campaign without your consent which was also in our case
Adam Hepburn
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
Didn t send out newsletter then refused refund
I booked a newsletter with a few companies Funded Today being one of them I booked everything with them and sent the required access for my kickstarter project I sent followup requests when the project launched and never heard back from the Funded Today Team I sent an email about 5 days after launch asking for a refund and then they proceeded to tell me that they don t do refunds even though the service wasn t even attempted to be delivered He then went to explain that there s multiple companies under the same umbrella which essentially use the same resources and end up charging you twice This was not disclosed so I wanted to get a refund and didn t want to work with them They then basically told me to go away and refuse to do a refund I m also filing a police report against them
Stephen
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
They will claim you submitted your product to them
They reached out to us and said Thanks again for submitting to our page the other day We appreciate the opportunity to potentially partner with us on your upcoming crowdfunding campaign We don t have anything to do with the product they are talking about so we were able to call them on their lie so don t buy it
lil Rumi
6730 reviews
N/A
1 year ago
Really aggressive if you ignore them Reddit reviews are also very scammy
They keep sending generic cold emails getting quite aggressive when one doesn t respond - and I literally mean passive aggressive to the max Their reviews are also so bad - just search for them on Reddit to hear all the horror stories Proper scam artists - I hope this agency really just goes away Ironically I just received another cold automated bot follow up email saying What s your problem We re gonna book you in for a call regardless These are very aggressive scammer tactics Simply search on Reddit before using them is all I can say