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Phoenix Marketing, are they legit?

#4
I've done B2B sales for 34 years, and IME most marketing companies are lame, if not out-and-out scams.

Sure there's professional knowledge (that you can learn if you put in the time), but the way most marketing companies' business model works is to churn and burn through a large list of customers, providing initial effort for new ones and throttled effort once they have you on the hook, hoping you're not paying attention and applying any success metrics to their results.
 
#5
I took a look at their website... 2 pages, no keyword traction, no testimonials and pricy packages. I'm almost certain they've worked out as simple workflow to buy listens/ views and place some ads for a fraction of what they're charging.

The absolutely best you could hope for is they have an entity with a big following and that entity promotes your music, directs their viewers to your links (but if they had this, they'd be bragging about it)... Next best is that you gain some organic traction with the resulting paid promotion. You could do the paid part yourself, (purchase clicks and place some ads) for less.
 
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I would recommend that you take a closer look at their packages and pricing to see if it's a good fit for your band's needs and budget. In terms of content writing, it's important to make sure that your band's messaging and branding is consistent across all platforms, including your website and social media. These content writing tips could help improve your online presence include using keywords relevant to your music genre, keeping your language simple and engaging, and incorporating visual elements like images and videos. If you're looking for more specific advice, feel free to ask!
 
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#7
- Yes. It is a scam.

Random spam DM from some company telling you to give them money for some nonsense?
- Yes. It is a scam.

{turns on VPN and looks at website}
- 2 pages: One with generic marketing buzzwords and arbitrary promises that mean nothing; One with prices and some vague description of what they're doing without any explanation of how they'll do it or how they'll guarantee results or even a clear explanation as to what the results will be? A dead instagram link? Their email [email protected]? Really? No about section. No credentials. No references. No testimonials. No examples of past successful campaigns. Didn't even bother to make fake credentials, references, testimonials, or past campaigns... Yes. It's a scam.

Hell... Even just "Phoenix Marketing" is perfectly generically suspicious. Like, is it accidentally alluding to the Phoenix that dies and rises from the ashes every time the scam gets shut down and they restart under some slightly different email? Is that why its email is phoenix.marketing110 and not just phoenix.marketing? Got a bot to increment the number and make a new gmail account every time Insta or whatever bans their old email as spam. Then they set up almost the exact same account and start again? Yes, it is a scam.

Even if it's not a malicious person looking to scam people out of their money, and it really is just one person who thought to themselves, "I'm gonna start a music marketing and promotion company" with all the best intentions, and this is what they came up with, with zero abilities to actually produce any of the results they promise, the end result is the same: It's a scam.

It's a scam.
 
#8
Totally, totally legit! In fact, I recommend you contact them ASAP, and let them have the SSN and birth date of everyone in the band, the routing numbers for all your checking accounts, and the userids and passwords of all your retirement accounts! What could possibly go wrong?
 

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