When you talk about "campaign pitches", e.g. 50 on the Marketplace Plus - does this mean it's 50 in total, or 50 per month? Thanks.
Good question; this refers to active pitches and is a rolling figure, meaning you could feasibly pitch 50 people, move all the way to a completed transaction and get to another 50 within a month. It's a capacity per campaign on how many people you can be simultaneously engaging with when you pitch. We added the ability to archive; archived campaigns don't count against your capacity.
I'm not sure I got this.
There is no free trial period, but you say that the risk is low because with the discount you can try the platform for $4.50. However, if I do that, and then I want to subscribe to an annual plan, the discount code won't work anymore and I'll have to pay full price?
Is that what you're saying?
What are you selling exactly? Access to a directory, and a messaging system?
The coupon code,
BHW50 works on the first charge, so if you used that on an annual plan, it'd make your payment 50% what it'd normally be for that first year. The $4.50 figure was an example on if someone chooses the Marketplace plan on a monthly basis; the example is to show the low amount that the system can be looked at for. This is working so well that I don't anticipate ever bringing back free trials as it has alleviated a lot of headache.
We are a platform and are selling access to that platform; it is a lot more than a smart directory, it is also a messaging and a transactional support system. Find the right influencers based on your goal, message them with a purpose, and work towards completing that goal.
basically we would have to pay plans to access influencers and then pay them for a campaign? thanks. sorry if i'm misunderstanding this. my brain is kinda slow even if i've read the whole thread
What you pay us for is the access to the platform. Each individual influencer has their own rate (much like if you were to reach out to a bunch of bloggers on cold outreach when using a pitch system like Ninjaoutreach or Pitchbox). We don't control the influencers, per se, but we police the system...so if a brand or influencer doesn't uphold their end of the agreed upon transaction, we boot them from the platform.
whats the advantage to using this over just messaging them through the social channel? also are there influencers for Instagram? Im willing to try this service just to see what kind of influencers are there. A big dis-advantage is that we cannot see what kinds of accounts we have access to through this marketplace.
A few pages back I extolled the virtues of cold vs warm outreach; the short version is because these influencers have signed up with us, they are signaling to you that they WANT to be pitched...so the acceptance rate is automatically at an advantage. As for Instagram, yes, we have 20,000 or so Instagram accounts.
The marketplace plan is purposefully limited; it was a compromise plan to be able to show enough to entry level users to make up for removing free trials after way too much research on the types of brands we wanted and how to still offer enough of the system to prevent abuse. Marketplace Plus and above plans can essentially see everyone in the network -- I anticipate we'll release "top lists" publicly in the next couple of weeks that show a bit of information about some of the influencers (but not everything of course).
Thanks for the question.
