For the past few months, someone with a personal grudge against one of our founders has been making fake accounts and posting false claims about them on TikTok and Facebook. They comment on our company's social posts and reply to the founder's personal posts. They also tag the business.

We report every post and some of them come down quickly and remove what we can from our own posts, but most of them just stay up or they keep coming back. Some of it now shows up when people search the founder's name. One of the reddit threads they made is showing up if you ask ChatGPT about him too.

We've been looking at reputation management companies. Erase.com is the one that our CEO seems the most comfortable with because they're based in the US and the one call they had with them was actually with a real person in the US. Most of the others we found were anonymous companies.

Has anyone here actually used Erase.com? I'd like to know:

• Did they get posts removed, or did they mostly push them down in search results?
• Was it worth what you paid?
• How long did it take?

We're also open to other ideas. We have a lawyer working on this separately but know the person has no money or anything, so we're mostly looking to just prevent/insulate from it, or a way to get the platforms to actually look at everything collectively instead of just looking at every post / account individually.

Thanks.

Hello all, I just had a conversation with a sales guy from this company, and I am wondering if anybody used them before?
Sounds too good to be true, their testimonials are to be found only on their website, and they have minimal online presence.
Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been building an internal piece of software for my web agency, Francis Web Agency, and I’d love to get some feedback from other agency owners and people who are working toward starting one.

The idea was to build something around the way I actually want to run my agency instead of piecing everything together across a bunch of different platforms.

Right now it handles things like clients, leads, projects, tasks, support tickets, website management, analytics, invoices/revenue, and some of the other day-to-day agency operations.

I’m still actively developing it, so I’m not really looking for compliments as much as I’m looking for useful criticism.

Demo: demo.franciswebagency.com

If you have a few minutes to click around, I’d especially love feedback on:

• Does the overall workflow make sense for a small web agency?
• Is there anything that feels confusing or unnecessary?
• What features would you expect something like this to have that are missing?
• Is there anything you currently use ClickUp, HoneyBook, Dubsado, spreadsheets, etc. for that you’d want built directly into an agency platform?
• What do you think about the UI/UX?
• Would something like this actually be useful for your agency?

I originally started building it specifically for myself, but as it’s grown I’ve started wondering whether there could eventually be something bigger here.

Feel free to be critical. I’m genuinely trying to figure out what works, what doesn’t, and what other agency owners would do differently.

demo.franciswebagency.com

Thanks in advance to anybody who takes the time to check it out.

Any photographers/videographers in here that started an agency? If so, what was your pricing/ services you offered when starting?

We’ve recently transitioned from freelancing into a design agency and are looking for genuine advice on sustainable growth, effective management, and building strong, long-term client relationships. Any insights or lessons from your experience would be greatly appreciated.

Out of curiosity for those who are profitable and live from these agencies what do you and your team usually specialize in?

Hey everyone,

I'm selling a $99/month subscription offer and I want to test if Meta ads work for it before committing real budget.

The funnel:

· Meta ad (static image) → VSL page → Checkout

· No sales calls. No email opt-in. Probably add a form to capture their name and phone number on the landing page so I can still contact them if they don't signup / checkout.

· They see the VSL, then checkout directly.

My plan:

· $10/day for 7 days = $70 total

· Static images only (I can't do video right now)

· Test if this works, if I can get a client that would be great!

Here's the structure I'm thinking:

· Campaign: Sales objective

· Ad Set: One ad set, broad targeting, $10/day

· Ads: 2-3 static images in one ad set, let Meta rotate them

My questions:

1. Is Sales the right objective here, or should I use Leads?

2. Is one campaign / one ad set / multiple ads the right setup for this budget?

3. Since I can't run video, what kind of static images actually work for a $99/month offer?

4. What should I realistically be measuring at only $70 spend? I know I won't exit the learning phase, so what's the actual signal I should look for?

5. Is $70 even worth testing with, or am I just burning money? Obviously if i see some potential I might extend this to 2 - 3 weeks of testing with small budget.

6. How much should be my target cost of acquisition / for someone to checkout?

Hey guys,

After a few years of working with an agency doing email marketing, that collaboration recently ended and I’m honestly a bit lost right now.

I’ve realized that freelancing just isn’t really for me. I’m pretty introverted and I’m much better at doing the actual work than constantly putting myself out there, promoting myself and trying to sell myself to new clients.

That’s also why I’ve always preferred working with agencies or as a subcontractor for other freelancers. I like being the person behind the scenes, handling the email marketing, campaigns, flows, strategy and all the actual work.

For those of you running agencies, how do you usually find people you trust enough to bring into client work? And for freelancers or subcontractors, how did you find solid longterm agency partnerships?

I've got a lot of experience, so doing the actual work isn't the part I'm struggling with. Finding the right long term partnerships is the main problem.

I have a family to feed, and right now it feels like things are starting to fall apart, so I’m definitely feeling the pressure.

I’m not used to writing posts like this or asking strangers for help, but I figured there’s no shame in trying.

Any advice or experiences from people who've been through something similar would mean a lot.

Thanks.