Ha, yowch.
In truth this is just a 'feelers out' type of post for now. But if it's coming across scammy then there's work to be done! (not quite sure what the scam would be given we don't want money. Or information. Or anything. Well I guess we want content to fuel our growing channels in the shape of interesting games. But that feels like a fair trade?)
Lots in the beamsplitter pipeline as the platform spins up, but right now we just want to put ourselves in front of some cool games and chat about any publishing worries or obstacles folks have so we can help curate solutions for the future.
(What's your beef with Mailchimp? Genuine question. If you have a better CRM solution I'd be keen to hear - I've worked in marketing for over a decade and Mailchimp is one of the better CRM solutions. Keen for your take on it. All CRM solutions are 'third party' unless you're developing your own!? Which would be bonkers. But fair play)
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not quite sure what the scam would be given we don't want money. Or information. Or anything.
Not strictly true. You're collecting email addresses on a weird site, which I'm not comfortable providing. Your websites (why do you have two?) also list an e-book, marketing packages, and publishing services for sale.
Incidentally, I don't trust giveaways in general, I definitely don't trust "no strings attached", and it bothers me that Konami probably has a copyright claim against one of the games you've retweeted recently. Also, your Twitter account is ten years old with 30k followers, but I can't seem to find any information about you online. Who are you? What's your history?
I'm not saying you're up to something, I'm just saying there's no verdict 'til we know you. Since your expertise is in marketing and brand awareness, you definitely won't be surprised by skepticism.
More peculiar things that I noticed:
1) I made a mistake: the e-book is actually sold on the Superstring web site, not the Beamsplitter web site. However, that's... not better. Superstring is the publisher of your current game of the month, Acolyte, which just came out at the end of June. Promoting two products by the same company at the same time, especially when one is brand-new and the other appears to be a competing product, makes me think that you have some undisclosed connection to that company. Even moreso because:
2) The Twitter link at the bottom of your site links not to the Beamsplitter account, but to the account for some web design firm called Squarespace. What's your connection to that company? It seems that Superstring's web site is also running on Squarespace infrastructure, since pressing Escape on their website prompts me to log in to Squarespace.
3) Speaking of Twitter, why are you following 18,000 accounts? I don't do social media, but I still find that very weird.
Squarespace is an independent website hosting company. It means that they used a template from Squarespace and did not correctly update all the fields. (In other words, it's an honest mistake.)
The twitter one I can answer too - if you follow someone there's a good chance they will follow you back, so the more people you follow, the more followers you get. It's one of the ways to get followers quickly.
Squarespace is an independent website hosting company. It means that they used a template from Squarespace and did not correctly update all the fields. (In other words, it's an honest mistake.)
Sloppy, but fair enough. I had hoped it was only something like that.
The twitter one I can answer too - if you follow someone there's a good chance they will follow you back, so the more people you follow, the more followers you get. It's one of the ways to get followers quickly.
I see. I find that distasteful, but I guess it's expected behavior for a marketing firm.
Mailchimp is a known risk for email newsletters, it has been on the news over the years for failure to protect customer emails. Recently got hacked again by someone targeting crypto email listers. So it's very suspicious that you who is older than Atari did not know such thing and don't even know how to set up basic email list like other normal companies.