Miracle Walter
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Last night I got an email for a marketing agency. The do marketing for clients in my niche and similar niches(and it's a real company, they emailed from their domain, and their company is legit).
They said they came across my site when researching the niche. I have a product directory in my niche, it is one of a kind, there some sites doing vendor reviews, but no dedicated product directory for product comparison. I have write up for hundreds and hundreds of products.
They asked for my "complete pricing". They said they wanted to collaborate on writing, sounds like they want me to make content for their clients in the niche.
My site is 100% solo and 100% affiliate commission based, I have never written content for a market. Though, what they could be asking is listing prices, to list their clients brands on my site(I'm coming closer to 1,000 products listed, with a number of brands, with option to browser products by brand, including their entire current catalogs with information and images - sometimes much more details than the original product pages on the vendors sites). They may not realized I set up each brand and their catalogs for free without being paid(or even asked to do it), though it could appear as if it's a collaboration, my only motive was to make affiliate commissions and show up on google for product searches along side vendor's product listings.
I replied, asking more about how they want to collaborate, and filling them in on the progress of my site(still early stages, the homepage really is more of a rough copy, and I have a lot more products and brands I want to cover).
Anyway, will see what they say. After typing this, now I think maybe they want a guest post on my blog section, as a promotion and backlink for a client, or maybe niche edit(they just said "content collaboration"). That could make sense for "complete pricing". It's good, in the longer run I should make a company deck for my site so I can respond to this stuff professionally. It's fairly new and I've just gotten to it's current stage fairly recently, so didn't consider any of that yet.
-First off, anyone have an idea what a marketing site would be asking for when they ask a niche site owner for "complete pricing"? Ads, guest posts, that sort of thing. Maybe they want me to write content, they said they liked my content. I really have no clue.
-Second, I don't even have a vague number in mind. If it's content on my site, it's new with low DA(but it's big and does look nice, and unique, which I also tell the ladies). And if they want me to write for them, I have no clue what would be low balling myself, or high balling them. I would like to work with them, I like that their marketing agency has clients in niches I'm interested in, could be a good connection. Will see what they say, if they clarify. But I feel like I may already sound like a n00b by replying and not knowing what they meant by "complete pricing".
I have 15 years of on an off online marketing experience a rogue online marketer. As a late teen, I was a website and social media manager for an ecommerce site for a gourmet food brand(and had no clue at the time or remember what the web firm would talk about in the bi-weekly meeting when they'd talk about SEO and stuff. I mostly designed popcorn labels in photoshop, did social media graphics, and added product listings and photos. The only SEO I really did was add alt tags to their product photos). And, briefly as a blockchain startup social media manager(btw, never except near full compensation in i-o-us for pre-launched tokens, even if it would equal 10s of thousands of pre-sale value price, they shit aint launch). Anyway, point is, not counting affiliate programs, I've never had a formal interaction with a marketing agency before. So I have clue at all really what they are expecting, nor what pricing would be if I knew what they were asking. I'm flattered they had a professional impression of my site, but I don't know what to tell them.
They said they came across my site when researching the niche. I have a product directory in my niche, it is one of a kind, there some sites doing vendor reviews, but no dedicated product directory for product comparison. I have write up for hundreds and hundreds of products.
They asked for my "complete pricing". They said they wanted to collaborate on writing, sounds like they want me to make content for their clients in the niche.
My site is 100% solo and 100% affiliate commission based, I have never written content for a market. Though, what they could be asking is listing prices, to list their clients brands on my site(I'm coming closer to 1,000 products listed, with a number of brands, with option to browser products by brand, including their entire current catalogs with information and images - sometimes much more details than the original product pages on the vendors sites). They may not realized I set up each brand and their catalogs for free without being paid(or even asked to do it), though it could appear as if it's a collaboration, my only motive was to make affiliate commissions and show up on google for product searches along side vendor's product listings.
I replied, asking more about how they want to collaborate, and filling them in on the progress of my site(still early stages, the homepage really is more of a rough copy, and I have a lot more products and brands I want to cover).
Anyway, will see what they say. After typing this, now I think maybe they want a guest post on my blog section, as a promotion and backlink for a client, or maybe niche edit(they just said "content collaboration"). That could make sense for "complete pricing". It's good, in the longer run I should make a company deck for my site so I can respond to this stuff professionally. It's fairly new and I've just gotten to it's current stage fairly recently, so didn't consider any of that yet.
-First off, anyone have an idea what a marketing site would be asking for when they ask a niche site owner for "complete pricing"? Ads, guest posts, that sort of thing. Maybe they want me to write content, they said they liked my content. I really have no clue.
-Second, I don't even have a vague number in mind. If it's content on my site, it's new with low DA(but it's big and does look nice, and unique, which I also tell the ladies). And if they want me to write for them, I have no clue what would be low balling myself, or high balling them. I would like to work with them, I like that their marketing agency has clients in niches I'm interested in, could be a good connection. Will see what they say, if they clarify. But I feel like I may already sound like a n00b by replying and not knowing what they meant by "complete pricing".
I have 15 years of on an off online marketing experience a rogue online marketer. As a late teen, I was a website and social media manager for an ecommerce site for a gourmet food brand(and had no clue at the time or remember what the web firm would talk about in the bi-weekly meeting when they'd talk about SEO and stuff. I mostly designed popcorn labels in photoshop, did social media graphics, and added product listings and photos. The only SEO I really did was add alt tags to their product photos). And, briefly as a blockchain startup social media manager(btw, never except near full compensation in i-o-us for pre-launched tokens, even if it would equal 10s of thousands of pre-sale value price, they shit aint launch). Anyway, point is, not counting affiliate programs, I've never had a formal interaction with a marketing agency before. So I have clue at all really what they are expecting, nor what pricing would be if I knew what they were asking. I'm flattered they had a professional impression of my site, but I don't know what to tell them.