CrowdFund Buzz

I should have known better after reading all the negative comments, but after a call with one of the owners (Howard Sherman), went for it. It started with a terrible press release, and ended with a distribution which resulted in... nothing. When I hired a local agency, they told me that the services they offer, can be found on Fiverr for $5 only!

I did the check, and yes... their distribution 'service' is a cheap mass inclusion solution. It's a software which posts your press release on sites that almost gain 0 traffic, and surely not a single journalist will ever look at it.

I reached my goal at the end, but only after I got rid of these scam artists. Never ever work with Crowdfundbuzz.com. They are the biggest scam out there.

Their titel should be: "Since November 2012 CrowdFundBuzz.Com Has Proven to Be One of the Fastest and Most Effective Ways LOSE all your money and not succeed in your Crowdfunding Campaign."

STAY AWAY!

Crowdfundbuzz lured me in with smooth talking and bashing other companies. Which I believed at that point. Ok press release but nothing after that. Yes they did send me a report but all look like fake websites and nothing close to a result. I literately got nothing to show for and not a single backer thanks to Howard and his scam company. Please people, I'm sure that there will be good and honest companies, but please, please make sure to check your sources, see online and whatever you do, do not with work with the crowdfundbuzz scam!

We're very satisfied with the results we got from Crowdfund Buzz. We bought
One of their highest priced packages and they fulfilled our order fast!

The day after I placed my order I received my press release which I approved
On the spot. They got that press release published the same day!

The reports they sent me were very detailed. They got my press release
Published in 310 different news and media websites and over 20,000 people
Read my press release!

Their social media promotion was on the mark. I noticed they were regularly
Changing my social media message and I saw my crowdfunding project traffic
Grow and grow.

I don't know what the other people here are complaining about. We had a
100% positive experience and we'll be using Crowdfund Buzz again after New
Year's.

I signed up with Crowdfund Buzz about two months ago and recently paid them for an additional 60 days so they can continue promoting my brand and growing my consumer base. My offerings are B2C and I am very happy with how effective they have been in identifying new audiences and driving them to my offering.

My traffic is still surging and opt-ins are still sky high. I'm getting the results I want and I couldn't be more satisfied.

Since day one Crowdfund Buzz delivered on everything I signed up for and topped it with unexpected added value with a kind of transparency I've never seen before. I need to follow up with my attorneys and my accountant but never need to check on my publicist Howard Sherman; he sends me updates and reports without me even asking for them. Between things if I'm ever curious about what Crowdfund Buzz is up to I can see for myself whenever I want to.

Crowdfund Buzz overdelivers on services with professionalism we don't see much anymore.

Yep crowdfund buzz ripped me off too. I got suspicious after seeing the quality of their work so I did some digging online about these little crowdfund buzz bandits. By the time I discovered it was a scam they had already taken the money and ran. BUYER BEWARE! Paypal also said that i was screwed and that I should file wire fraud charges against them.

I guess crowdfundbuzz thinks that most people wont put in the effort to have them arrested so they keep scamming crowdfunders for only a couple hundred at a time and then leaving them out to dry. They cost me almost 400 bucks for NOTHING!

Where is the money you scammed from me? How about be honest for achange. I paid 340 dollars and Sherman did absolutely nothing. I filed a chargeback with my bank and simehow Sherman managed to convince my bank that he was in the right and services were delivered. Yep you guessed it, my chargeback failed.

You know the adage, underpromise and overdeliver, CrowdFund Buzz lives this with their clients. We have a top-priority Reg CF raise that needed PR support. CrowdFund Buzz has been there to support us at every stage of the raise.

There are three things that stood out by working with Howard Sherman and the team at CrowdFund Buzz:

1. Quick turn around
2. Beautifully written deliverables
3. Creative

If you are looking for a PR partner to support your business I highly recommend CrowdFund Buzz. They are easy to work with, care about their client's success and move quickly to help you meet last-minute opportunities.

If they would have any guarantee that their stuff works, the least they could do is offer money back to unhappy customers. They could still maintain a scam if there is one, because some campaigns would work with or without their intervention. But they don't.

Luckily I did not pay anything. First couple of days of our campaign were very good, because I had a few hundred pre-campaign leads and they all went in. So Mr. Howard took this as his "free trial" and proof that his magic works.

When he became too pushy asking for money, I told him I would pay 10% of all the business coming from his links. He replied, and I quote:

"In fact I think you ARE crazy because we sent you a tracking link and you saw the incredibly good results we delivered for you in just 24 hours under our free trial."

Unfortunately (for him), the "incredibly good results" were not of his doing. Else, he would have jumped at the 10% offer (this would have amounted to $300 per day).

Our campaign is still active at the time of this posting,
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbeffa/raspberry-pi-mega-io-industrial-expansion-card/

We checked out Crowdfund Buzz and were intrigued by their Pioneer social media marketing. From everything we saw $750 was a steal for a whole month of crowdfunding promotion.

Remembering that old saying 'if it sounds too good to be true...' I did some deep research by examining their social media activity and saw pretty good engagement. Then I took them up on their challenge and looked up what Crowdfund Buzz could charge for one post. A Twitter calculator I found told me i should pay Crowdfund Buzz $110 for one tweet (ONE Tweet?!). Same drill on Instagram and the website told me $145-$175 for a single Crowdfund Buzz post was a fair price. My reaction in one word was: DAMN!

We realized paying them $750 for a whole month of posts was a no brainer.

We signed up and started following their feeds. Sure enough they started posting for us within a couple of hours just like they said they would. Right after that, the traffic started flooding in. Then came new pledges.

IMO anybody running a Kickstarter would be crazy not to sign up for their advertising.

After reading all of the negative reviews I was skeptical but after talking to Gordon and Howard they arranged for a free trial so I could see for myself. Within 24 hours I had a lot more traffic to my Kickstarter and more backers too.

After signing up for their $1499 package I got a ton of new people to look at my project. My press release was published in newspapers all over the country!

They even got me booked on a national TV show but I couldn't arrange to fly out to the TV studio in Washington DC fast enough to fit the schedule. I missed out but it was my fault.

They got me on a couple of big radio stations and that was easy - I was a guest on the show over the telephone! One was a huge station in Los Angeles during the morning commute (HUGE!) and the other was a station in Chicago.- WGN.

It's really cool to pitch your product live in front of a live audience of hundreds of thousands of people! Everybody should try it. It was intense!

I got more media coverage than I ever thought possible and I definitely made a lot of money using their services.

I just used CrowdFundBuzz for the first time and now I'm a customer for life. They had fantastic communication and responded to me quickly. Thanks!

Crowdfundbuzz was a ripoff. I paid $599 for a badly written press release, 0 visibility in the press and 0 results. Avoid at all cost.

Crowdfund Buzz crushed it! My Kickstarter blew away my best projections during the holiday season AND we had no products to ship! AMAZING!

My crowdfunding campaign wasn't doing so well. Howard gave me a free extension to turn things around. Stand up guy.

I had a terrible experience with this company. This a cookie cutter PR "company" that has little actual public reach, commits the same PR errors that are warned about in blogs on their own website, cares nothing about their results, and takes no accountability for their performance as a PR firm; leaving any displeased customer with a repeated citing of their "No Guarantees" excuse. They actually put "No Guarantees" and "No Refunds" in their Terms of Service. It seems to me that any company that puts "No Refunds" in their Terms of Service is fairly arrogant to assume that their service is flawless and there would Never be any reason to refund a customer's money; RUN!

Here's the bottom line. Howard, the owner, assured me that crowdfundbuzz was a good match for my campaign, a proposal for a US Tour of a Performance Art show with a funding goal of $80,000. A basic PR assessment reveals that, with the most common donation amount of $25, it would take 3,200 backers to reach my funding goal. Considering an average conversion rate of 10%, it would require about 32,000 clicks to have a reasonable chance of my campaign succeeding. In the end, crowdfundbuzz generated a whopping 412 clicks; not even 2% of the clicks necessary to provide some assurance of our success. These guys can and will say whatever they think will get you to use their service, but, in the end, they are unconcerned with their performance, though happy to take your money.

Don't be fooled by the successful crowdfunding campaigns this company has "assisted". After the results I witnessed, I am fairly sure that most of these examples would have achieved their goal without the aid of crowdfundbuzz. To provide some detail, take note of the 30,000 + people they claim to reach daily through social media (facebook, twitter, etc.); however, they are likely reaching the same accounts daily, the profiles are inauthentic, and/ or the people are disinterested in their posts and tweets. The primary other "service" they provide is to send a PR release about your campaign to many online media sources; however, they send it to the Financial/ Markets section of their list of online news publications, which hardly anyone reads, and even fewer read this section looking for a crowdfunding campaign to support.

I did not expect nor insist that they make my campaign successful, but I do expect a crowdfunding PR firm to generate plenty of online traffic and clicks to my campaign page; especially if they claim to be a "good match" for my campaign. Be very cautious. These guys can and will say anything to convince you that they are a good match for your crowdfund proposal, but they will balk at any dissatisfaction with their performance and cite their "No Guarantees" motto to you endlessly. Be wary of any crowdfunding PR service; especially this one. If you want any assurance, get a minimum number of clicks or web traffic in a contract before paying for such a "service". Good Luck-

I signed up for their Premier service at $4,000 and so far we've identified over $40,000 in investments to our equity crowdfunding campaign so far. Anybody in business will tell you that if you can 10x your money on adspend you're winning.

The press release was newspaper quality and was published on Yahoo Finance, Dow Jones Market Watch, Morningstar (the ratings firm!) and lots of others. All told we were promised 90 guaranteed publications and they overdelivered with 151!

The social media marketing is definitely a powerhouse and it's a steal compared to all the money we wasted on Facebook ads. On a per-click basis we're way ahead in reaching our target audience.

I scrolled through lots of reviews here and being in business for over 30 years I can tell you that anybody that complained "this doesn't work" or "it's a scam" is ignorant to how marketing and promotion works, plain and simple.

For example: We were published in 151 news websites all over America. The total combined readership was like 90 million people according to a media report. Who actually ended up reading our press release? Less than 10,000 people! And of them we can account for about $35,000 in investments from 223 investors. Crazy, right?

When people talk about what "works" or "doesn't work" they're telling the world they don't know know what they're talking about. They really mean the financial outcome. Anybody who has a head for business -esp. Sales & marketing - can explain this to you. Heck, kids appearing on Shark Tank can explain this to you.

If Facebook or Google could guarantee some kind of ROI or financial gain using their advertising services they would be worth TRILLIONS.

Crowdfund Buzz works. We have all the reports, we see everything they do with full transparency and it's obvious we are enjoying tremendous value; we're getting more than what we paid for.

We paid them to get the word out there and they have exceeded all of our expectations. I would post this same review even if we didn't raise a dime. The simple fact is that we paid them for a set of services and they delivered more than what we paid for.

The missing link here seems to be that ignorant people just can't understand that Crowdfund Buzz sells marketing services - not mind control. Any agency can only do their best to reach as many people as they can, they can't MAKE those people send their money your way. That's a personal consumer choice

We have about two weeks left and with the ongoing social media marketing I'm confident we'll raise even more money. We're planning a Reg A+ offer later this year and we are definitely retaining Crowdfund Buzz again.