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Open Letter to Potential MADWIRE / Marketing360 Customers

Dear reader, deciding to work with Marketing 360 / MADWIRE was the worst and poorest investment of money I have made. Worse than the waste of money is the waste of time. I can get more money, but I’ll never recover the time I spent frivolously over 14 months trying to work with the people at Marketing 360 / MADWIRE.I partnered with Marketing 360 / MADWIRE from February 2022 – March 2023. Giving credit where credit is due, they did an excellent job creating my website. It looked good, and I was happy with it. However, in fairness to Marketing 360 / MADWIRE, I was not the most accessible customer. It sometimes took me longer than appropriate to respond and make decisions on the first iteration of the website. However, when we finally published the website – I was pleased. That is the only thing they did right. To have an account manager on the account, Marketing 360 / MADWIRE requires you to have a minimum monthly content budget of $300.00. This content budget can be used for one of their professional “writers” to create blog content and other standard copy for the webpage. They do not tell you that a 10-sentence blog post will cost you $300.00. They do not tell you that their professional “writers” do not write at a standard above what you would expect from a 6th-grade student. There is zero transparency in pricing. I had no input over when those content dollars will be spent or how they would be spent. When I addressed this with my account manager, he blamed me for not responding. He said they were writing according to what they thought was appropriate and that I should trust the process. Again I was not always timely in responding. However, I should have editorial privilege over my website and brand and be able to review and approve all copy written for me. I logged on to the website editor and deleted the “content” that their “professional” writers created. Since I did take a long to reply, I decided not to complain and accept that my delay was the cause for that, and we moved on. I told the account manager that I did not want, under any circumstances, any other content to be written for me. There are AI writers that produce much higher quality content than what their “professional writers” are creating. I followed up on that request with an email, and he acknowledged that request.Fast forward two months, and again, I am reviewing my account details and see $900.00 in content charges. I looked at the blog, and much to my amazement, there were two more blog posts. They were written with the same grade school quality. There were 20 sentences written for $900.00. They were charging me $45.00 per sentence. Again, I logged on and deleted that garbage myself. I asked for my money to be credited back, and after a month of waiting, I was met with an offer to create one video that could be used on my website. This was the beginning of the end for me. Now I am watching every single charge they are making to my account. So far, I am $1,200.00 in the hole.In the meantime, giving my account manager the benefit of the doubt, I begin adding money to an advertising budget for Facebook and Google Ads. Marketing 360 / MADWIRE charged me $200.00 to write four sentences on two ads. After the final meeting with the account manager, I terminated my contract with Marketing 360 / MADWIRE. I was not paying a single dollar more to them to watch it vanish into thin air for content that is nothing more than overpriced garbage and to manage a Google dashboard that a trained monkey can learn to click around on. Upon terminating my account, they kept the $1000 left in the advertising budget for ads they never ran; they kept the $600.00 left in my content budget and shut down my website. As I was reading other reviews on here, I was laughing to myself reading their lackadaisical responses to other negative reviews and the invitation to check out reviews from their other customers who love them. Interestingly, Top Rated Local is directly integrated into the Marketing 360 / MADWIRE platform. Who owns them? Just a thought.Suppose anyone wants to contact me for more information, proof of my dealings with Marketing 360 / MADWIRE, or records of my conversations with every person on their team. I have it all in that case and would welcome the discussion, perhaps even a class-action lawsuit. Anytime I have an opportunity to tell my story about how Marketing 360 / MADWIRE over-promised, under-achieved, hides their fees, overcharges for substandard work, and will delete your website, ad copy, and everything that you paid for while you were with them - I will sing like a bird.To that end, dear reader, and fellow small business owner, here is my advice - run for your life. Save your time and money. Look elsewhere. Marketing 360 / MADWIRE is not who and what they say they are.

Date of experience: Apr 30, 2023