Not a scam but unfortunately no real appointments after a month. They tried though.
Response from RainmakrNov 4, 2024
Chien,
We specialize in custom outreach campaigns to prospect for our clients.
After reviewing it seems you were on a Google Ad campaign ran by an affiliate. Not an outreach campaign. I do apologize that you did not receive any leads. I know google ads can be tricky and require a descent ad spend to really garner results, and typically take longer than 1 month to really drive website traffic that converts to leads.
If you are ever interested in trying out our custom outreach packages, let us know, and I would be happy to offer a month free to make up the month lost with the google ads.
AM
Amin
To be honest
To be honest, they are a service that is intended to give you appointments booked through their cold outreach methods. They were really sloppy in those methods and robotically responded after getting initial quality responses from the warm conversation openers. Their warm leads they gained were quickly lost due to this. Okay as a tool used for mass messaging as they definitely get the ground work laid out, but no results and even worse none of the promised expectations..
CO
Corey
Worlds most okay Linkedin Outreach service.
You'll regret not reading this if you're a small to medium agency and looking to land a couple more clients through Rainmakr's LinkedIn service.
CONS: - Our real experiences.
The biggest takeaway from our experience with Rainmakr.io was the lack of effort put into changes regarding campaign performance. I was genuinely taken aback when our team was pushed into a corner to come up with better ideas for the copywriting for the initial outreach when that's what they have "professionals" in their team for. (And also an important part of what you pay for in their service) -
Rainmakrs initial copywriting makes your outreach to potential clients sound like you are a CUSTOMER to THEIR service industry. Why do they see this as okay? Because even though yes, it may start a conversation with a potential client regarding their profession, 99% of the time this potential client is interacting with you because they think you're going to buy THEIR service now. As soon as you turn around and flip the script and try to sell your service back that conversation is dead and you're getting left on read. -
This is what happened to us during our first 2 months. Only to bring this up and then our assigned agent to say "I guess this is a problem maybe we should try something else" - To then only send back revisions on the copywriting an entire week later that was BARELY changed - don't rely on their "professionals" to be able to write the captivating outreach about YOUR business/services. Take the initiative and whatever they send you, use it as a copy-pasted outline and take 20 minutes with your team and make it personable to your business.
Their communication was also not great, we weren't impressed with the outreach by the team member we were assigned to keep us in the loop regarding our campaign's "success" efforts. It's not a good look for the client who's a paying customer to have to be the ones to reach out monthly and say "Hey, whatever you're doing right now ISN'T working, let's work up something new and try that." Actually extremely disappointing to experience.
From this point on we really started to understand what their company is good at. - which I'll get to in the Pros section.
As a company that does its own marketing, we wanted to try this vertical alongside what we were doing. During our 4 months with Rainmakr, they were not able to put us in the position to capture a single meeting booked onto our calendar. Not one, oh well.
That's just how testing and marketing go, and we learned.
PROS: -
Outreach consistency, this is it.
This is their bread and butter.
Rainmakr IO's Linkedin service simply thrives off the factor that they're able to consistently stay on top of reaching out to the people they say they're going to. Minus a few days, I watched several people being reached out to daily in my Linkedin account.
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Overall thoughts, if you have the cash and you're trying to save some time on Linkedin messaging outreach. As well as if you have your own provided script and list of leads. They will take your linked-in messaging outreach to the next level. Rely on them for the daily process of messaging people, NOTHING else. If you're okay with that, then toss the money in and let em' go to work.
Wish your company & team the best, clearly was not the right fit for us.
LJ
Leilani J S.
Bad lead quality from their pay per lead service
I'm giving them 2 stars because the team is nice but that's about it. I paid for their new pay per lead program. Around $200 for 25 leads. Thought I would be able to get minimum 5 clients from this. Nope! Everyone you call acts like you're some telemarketer and acts not interested, or doesn't have a valid/established business. One lady told me she couldn't even afford a $200/mo service!! Crazy. I also had 4 leads whose contact info lead to nowhere (contacted Rainmakr and they said they would replace, still even with the replacements the leads are 💩 and of bad quality. I was told they were warm leads inquiring about marketing services but even when I offered them a complimentary marketing strategy they wouldn't budge. This is the last time I ever pay for leads, waste of $200. Honestly I should have known that for this price getting decent marketing clients would be too good to be true. Who knows where or how they're getting these "leads" from!
JS
Jordan S.
Rainmakr didn't make it rain for me - more like a drought!
I had a bad experience with rainmakr.io. It seemed like a great service, but I received a total of 0 leads prepaying over $1,000 to them. Apparently I needed to manage my own account better because after 1.5 months I take a look in my LinkedIn sales navigator and there are no new leads lists, no connection requests, and no messages being sent by their team. No wonder I have no leads! After bringing this up they just explained we just entered into the 'connection phase' a month in (despite their promises that this will start within 7 days after you approve the messaging sequence - why a whole week after approval anyway?). So your first month is a total wash with Rainmakr.
I'll save you time, money and your frustration. Just get a LinkedIn automation tool like Alfred. It can do messaging sequences and actually do it right.
I'll give them an extra star because they did refund the last month of service so I'm only out $700 now...plus the $330 in sales navigator...yikes. Poor business decision, lesson learned with this company.
Response from RainmakrFeb 7, 2022
Hi Jordan, we're sorry that you had a bad experience with us. We never want that to happen. We reached out directly last week to offer a full refund, including what you paid for Sales Navigator, to make up for it.
Regarding your specific points, the target lists were saved under Saved Searches, not Lead Lists, so they were indeed built for you. And we were reaching out to people. The initial connection requests are under a buried section in the "My Network" section of the platform and move into your inbox once they are accepted by the prospect.
If there's anything else we can do for you to make it right, just let us know. Our goal is to give everyone a good experience with us, and we feel bad that we didn't get the results.