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As I start getting ready to make commercial RPG Maker games, I would like to know if anyone can recommend a good marketing/PR firm for indie games? By marketing I include advertising the game as well as helping with Kickstarter or Greenlight.
I admit my experience with past marketing firms have not been good. For lack of a better term, they're all scams. It usually goes like this:
1. Firm sends very promising email saying how good they are at marketing games, how they will take care of your game, how they will write press releases, how much extra traffic they will generate etc. They even have official looking websites with official looking customer testimonials.
2. We pay for the service. Usu in the hundreds.
3. We get these obviously cookie cutter press releases and marketing material. Heck, even the response email we got after we complained was so obviously a cut-and-paste your name in blank email. And the result? Zero (or at least we couldn't notice a change) extra traffic. And this happened like 3 times already, basically all the one's we've tried so far. I mean if I wanted cookie cutter press releases I could've written them myself. Seriously.
Now, I don't believe every single marketing firm out there are scammers, despite what my experience is showing so far. And we are willing to pay good money for good marketing. By that I mean a firm that actually takes time to know your product and write custom marketing material for it. So, anyone have a good one to recommend? One that actually delivers results?
I admit my experience with past marketing firms have not been good. For lack of a better term, they're all scams. It usually goes like this:
1. Firm sends very promising email saying how good they are at marketing games, how they will take care of your game, how they will write press releases, how much extra traffic they will generate etc. They even have official looking websites with official looking customer testimonials.
2. We pay for the service. Usu in the hundreds.
3. We get these obviously cookie cutter press releases and marketing material. Heck, even the response email we got after we complained was so obviously a cut-and-paste your name in blank email. And the result? Zero (or at least we couldn't notice a change) extra traffic. And this happened like 3 times already, basically all the one's we've tried so far. I mean if I wanted cookie cutter press releases I could've written them myself. Seriously.
Now, I don't believe every single marketing firm out there are scammers, despite what my experience is showing so far. And we are willing to pay good money for good marketing. By that I mean a firm that actually takes time to know your product and write custom marketing material for it. So, anyone have a good one to recommend? One that actually delivers results?
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