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LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service

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Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service

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Congrats. Also cool that you give money back if they don't like the leads. Question: do you consider an 'entry' plan as well (say 150 dollar)?

Nope -- the reason is that you can't realistically research much information or reach out to many users in $150 of time. Figuring out and deploying a strategy to find and acquire users takes human time - it's very different from just purchasing a list of leads!

Can you please elaborate on the money back guarantee?

Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service

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Smart idea. I can say that the fully loaded cost of an online marketing manager (OMM) is somewhere between $5K-$8K a month.

We do a lot of BS like social media, but really we're measured on our ability to bring in trials and paid users.

If you can deliver more leads than the average OMM then you'll be delivering a ton of value and putting some OMMs out of work.

Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service

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I'm very worried this is just a "pivot" for MobileWorks to offer VAs at much higher prices. It sounds awfully like hiring overseas "talent" (cheap labor) to SPAM people into buying/trying/testing. They are actively emailing their database looking for people to actually do the service. http://d.pr/i/qn17 I highly doubt the interests of LeadGeni.us align with your company's interest. If you want to do things that do no…

This is not a "pivot". Our Premier service is still active and have bunch of happy satisfied users https://premier.mobileworks.com . The VA service is little more expensive than leadgeni.us mostly because leadgeni.us is higher commitment service.

We do send out emails to our crowd and give them opportunities for longer work with us. We interview them, vet them and certify them in different skills. Some of them are lead generation, outreach and sales skills. We do this fairly regularly among other things to engage with our worker community and expand them.

I am curious why you thought that this means our interest are not aligned with our customers interests. We would not be in business let alone have that many satisfied customers if we were not.

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