u/teledev

Hey there,

I was recently contacted by a PR firm (Pathos) that only invoices if you get published and naturally the sound of that didn't sound bad at all. I got on a call with them, and they showed magazines like Forbes, USA Today, Business Insider, Bloomberg, TIME magazine, etc. and asked for 5k USD to try to get my business published in all of them, payment due when one publishes me. I didn't have the budget for that, and they followed up with 1k USD for a business insider article. Is this normal procedure? It's our first time getting involved with PR firms seriously. For a broader picture, I run an education startup with 2000 users, 1 year old, solo founder, looking to 5x by EOY.

How hard is it to get published there? Is this something I could just do myself? Is the price outrageous? I'm new to this stuff, hoping to get some advice.

Thank you.

Hey there,

I was recently contacted by a PR firm (Pathos) that only invoices if you get published and naturally the sound of that didn't sound bad at all. I got on a call with them, and they showed magazines like Forbes, USA Today, Business Insider, Bloomberg, TIME magazine, etc. and asked for 5k USD to try to get my business published in all of them, payment due when one publishes me. I didn't have the budget for that, and they followed up with 1k USD for a business insider article. Is this normal procedure? It's our first time getting involved with PR firms seriously. For a broader picture, I run an education startup with 2000 users, 1 year old, solo founder, looking to 5x by EOY.

How hard is it to get published there? Is this something I could just do myself? Is the price outrageous? I'm new to this stuff, hoping to get some advice.

Thank you.

Hey,

I'm usually a chesscom player, pretty much hardstuck 1200 but haven't been playing rapid that much lately with a bit of elo anxiety to go even lower than that. Got my lichess rating after around 30 games to be about 1800, no longer provisional. Is it really that inflated for the lower elos or should I just play some more on the other account too? Trying to gauge how big the disparity is here, and what it would be FIDE

Assistant from a relatively popular media organisation in my country reached out saying they found out about my startup and were positively impressed and wanted me on their tv show for entrepreneurs. Got on a call with the program manager, talked to him, and he said that it normally would cost 40k-60k but they have a lot of funding so they can do it for the 'small price' of 3k that's necessary to give us the rights. They mentioned having 800k viewers, supporting young entrepreneurs, they take care of entire production and filming, something about 25 program spotd, etc. and it's for July, so they want me to confirm/deny ASAP, preferably today/tomorrow. It's not super useful for lead generation as we're b2c with small margins, but would help credibility/trust and SEO.

The sales-y phonecall was tickling my scam-senses a little, wondering what you guys think. Domain they sent the email from seems somewhat legit, same link as the website where they do these reports, but under a different name.

edit: sent them a followup mail asking to send from a domain of one of their popular websites/main organisation.

I'm assuming he's going to call me in the morning again, unsure what to do. We're at like 1k MRR so 3k is quite a lot of money and would eat up 5 months of ad budget