Full Transparency

We know exactly what people say
about marketing agencies.
Here is where we stand.

This is not a defensive page. We are not attacking competitors. We are telling you, directly, how we are built differently — and why that matters for your business specifically.

Complaint by complaint. Our position on each one.
01 / 10
No results delivered
Anger level
5/5 — the one that makes people go public
"We paid them all this money. Not a single lead. Not one new customer. Just a bill every month and excuses about brand awareness."

Where Raw Marketers stands

We do not consider a campaign successful if it cannot show leads generated and cost per lead. We do not report impressions, reach, or clicks as results. If those are the only numbers in our reports, we are not doing our job. Every engagement starts with defining what a result looks like for your specific business — not for our industry benchmarks.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • Week 3 of every engagement: first lead report. Not impressions — leads, with source and cost.
  • 30-day review call: if we cannot show you results you understand and agree with, we do not ask you to continue.
  • No long-term contracts. You are never paying for promises — only for results you can verify.
02 / 10
No transparency — never knew what was being done or why
Anger level
4/5 — a slow burn that turns to fury
"I felt like I was just writing checks hoping something was happening. The reports got more confusing, not clearer. I started to think that was on purpose."

Where Raw Marketers stands

Every week you receive an intelligence brief. Not a dashboard full of numbers — a plain-language brief that tells you exactly what we ran, what we found, and what we are doing next and why. You will never need to ask us what we are doing with your money. We tell you before you have to ask.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • Weekly intelligence brief — competitor ads running in your niche, what's converting, one creative recommendation, your campaign numbers.
  • You review every ad creative before it spends a dollar. No surprises.
  • You always have direct access to RaShaad — not a coordinator, not a ticketing system.
03 / 10
Locked into contracts with no exit
Anger level
5/5 — the most visceral complaint
"When I tried to cancel, I found out I was locked in for another full year unless I paid $18,000 to walk out the door. On my own account. For work they weren't doing."

Where Raw Marketers stands

Month to month. No annual contracts. No early termination fees. No 90-day cancellation notice windows. If we are not delivering results you can see, you should not stay — and we will not use a contract to make you. We are confident enough in the work that we do not need to trap you in it.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • 30-day rolling engagements. Cancel any month with standard notice.
  • No penalty fees for early exit. Ever.
  • Written in plain English in our engagement letter — not buried in page 7.
04 / 10
Generic work that could have been for any business
Anger level
3/5 — deflating and persistent
"They sent us a social media calendar that said '[CLIENT NAME]' in three places. They forgot to fill in our actual name. They had no idea what made us different. We told them three times."

Where Raw Marketers stands

Every campaign we build starts with an intelligence pull on your specific market — your niche, your geography, your competitors' actual ads. We classify what hook patterns are converting in your market right now before writing a word. The creative we build for a roofing company in Nashville is different from what we build for a med spa in Dallas, which is different from what we build for a concrete company in Tampa. If we cannot explain why a creative decision is specific to your business, we do not ship it.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • Week 1 of every engagement is intelligence-only: competitor ad analysis, hook classification, niche-specific creative brief.
  • All creative is reviewed by you before launch — you see exactly what we built and why it is built for your business specifically.
  • We work with fewer clients by design so we can know each business in depth.
05 / 10
No communication — ghosting after signing
Anger level
4/5 — feels like abandonment after a transaction
"Before we signed, our calls were answered same day. After we signed, I waited 11 days for a response. I was paying $6,000 a month and I felt like I was bothering them."

Where Raw Marketers stands

You have RaShaad's direct line. Not a support ticket. Not an account coordinator who reads from a script. RaShaad runs every client account personally. The person who sold you on this is the person doing the work. That is not a pitch — it is how we are structured. We stay small enough that this never changes.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • Weekly brief arrives in your inbox whether you ask for it or not.
  • Monthly strategy call is scheduled in advance — not something you have to chase.
  • We communicate more when performance is down, not less. That is when you need to hear from us most.
06 / 10
Fake metrics and vanity reporting
Anger level
4/5 — turns to contempt once clients understand what they were reading
"They showed me a slide with '50,000 impressions on that LinkedIn campaign.' I said, how many deals did we close? Silence. Literally silence."

Where Raw Marketers stands

We do not report impressions, reach, or clicks as success metrics. Full stop. The only numbers in our reports are leads generated, cost per lead, leads that booked or closed, and revenue attributed to the campaign. If we cannot show you those numbers, we do not consider the campaign a success — and neither should you. We will never hand you a report full of graphs that all go up while your phone is not ringing.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • Our weekly brief has a fixed format: leads generated, cost per lead, vs. last week. That is it.
  • We set up conversion tracking before any campaign launches — we cannot report what we cannot measure.
  • If a campaign is generating impressions but not leads, we tell you and we change it. We do not dress it up.
07 / 10
Bait and switch — promised senior team, got a junior intern
Anger level
4/5 — feels like deliberate fraud once you recognize it
"The VP who sold us flew in for the pitch. After we signed, we never saw him again. We got handed to someone who had been at the agency for four months and was managing twelve other accounts."

Where Raw Marketers stands

There is no team to hand you off to. RaShaad builds your intelligence brief. RaShaad writes your creative. RaShaad is on your monthly call. RaShaad is answering when you call. We operate this way deliberately — not because we have not scaled, but because the quality of the work depends on it. When you work with Raw Marketers, you get the person who built this system.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • We cap the number of clients we take on so RaShaad can personally run every account.
  • If that changes — if we ever need to bring in additional team members — you will know before it happens and approve it.
  • Ask us directly: who will be doing my work? The answer is always the same.
08 / 10
Overpromising and underdelivering
Anger level
5/5 — especially damaging when small business owners took personal financial risk
"During the sales call they said, 'conservatively, expect 50 qualified leads per month within 90 days.' At 90 days we had three. And they called that early momentum."

Where Raw Marketers stands

We do not give you a lead projection number until we have done an intelligence pull on your specific market. We will not tell you to expect 50 leads a month before we know what hook patterns are converting in your niche, what your competitors are spending, and what the market can actually support. If the data does not support a number, we do not say it. We would rather lose a sale by being honest than sign you based on a number we cannot back up.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • Market intelligence pull before any campaign projection is discussed — we ground expectations in data, not optimism.
  • Week 1 intelligence brief shows you what your market actually looks like before money is spent.
  • Our 30-day review call compares actual results against the specific targets we set together at the start.
09 / 10
Kept the ad budget running even when ads were failing
Anger level
5/5 — crosses into feeling like theft
"I later found out they had run the same failing campaign for four months. The ads were failing. They knew. They kept running them. Because they were still getting their fee."

Where Raw Marketers stands

We do not earn more when you spend more. Our fee is a flat monthly rate — not a percentage of ad spend. We have zero financial incentive to keep a failing campaign running. When an ad is underperforming, pausing it and rebuilding is better for you and does not cost us anything. That alignment matters. We will never keep a bad campaign running because stopping it would hurt our revenue.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • Flat fee structure — your ad spend level does not affect our income.
  • You own the ad account admin access. You can see every dollar being spent in real time.
  • Daily spend monitoring means we catch underperformance in days, not months.
  • Weekly brief includes performance vs. last week — underperformance is reported, not hidden.
10 / 10
No ownership — they own your ad account, your creative, your data
Anger level
5/5 — described as a hostage situation
"We left the agency after 18 months. Turns out they owned the Facebook page, the ad account, and the landing pages. We had to start from zero. Every lead, every conversion history — gone."

Where Raw Marketers stands

Everything we build for you belongs to you from day one. Ad account, creative files, copy, strategy documents, intelligence reports. You are always the admin on your own ad account — we operate as a partner with access, not as the owner. If we ever part ways, you leave with everything. We leave with nothing that was yours.

What we do structurally to prevent this
  • You create the ad account. We request access. You are always the primary admin.
  • All creative files are delivered to you in original format at the end of each month.
  • Intelligence reports are exported to you — your market data stays with you.
  • No offboarding fees to access your own data. That is not something we do.
What you own when you work with Raw Marketers

This is not a courtesy policy. It is how we are built. Every client asset belongs to the client. No exceptions, no negotiations at exit, no surprise offboarding fees.

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Your Ad Account
You are always the admin. We request access as a partner. We never create or transfer an ad account into our name. If we separate, we remove our access. You keep everything — including years of pixel data and audience history.
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Your Creative Assets
All ad creative, copy, graphics, and video files are delivered to you in original format. Not web-compressed screenshots — actual editable files. Everything we build for you is yours from the day it is created.
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Your Strategy Documents
Creative briefs, audience analysis, campaign strategy documents — all delivered to you. Your intellectual capital does not live in our Google Drive. It lives where you can access it without asking us.
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Your Intelligence Reports
Competitor ad intelligence, hook classification data, and market analysis — exported to you monthly. Your market knowledge does not disappear if we stop working together. You built it. You keep it.

The guarantee in plain language: If we ever part ways — for any reason, at any time — you leave with every asset we ever built for you. We leave with nothing that was yours. There is no offboarding fee to receive your own files. There is no access we can revoke on your accounts. This is not a clause buried in a contract. It is how we operate by default.

The only numbers that matter

We make this commitment in writing to every client. It lives in our engagement letter, not just on this page.

We NEVER report these as success metrics:

Impressions — how many times your ad appeared on a screen
Reach — how many accounts were shown your ad
Clicks — how many people tapped without becoming a lead
Engagement rate — likes, comments, shares on your ads
Brand awareness lift — a metric that cannot be cashed

The ONLY numbers in our reports:

Leads generated — real people who contacted you from the campaign
Cost per lead — what it cost to generate each one
Leads that booked or closed — the ones that turned into revenue
Revenue attributed to campaign — what the campaign actually generated
Performance vs. last week — are we improving or do we need to change something

If we cannot show you leads and cost per lead, we do not consider the campaign a success — and neither should you. We will tell you that directly, not bury it in a report that looks busy enough that you might not notice.

What our engagement actually looks like week by week

No mystery. No black box. Here is exactly what happens when you start working with Raw Marketers.

W1
Week 1
Intelligence Pull — before a dollar is spent
  • We run a full competitor ad intelligence pull on your niche in your geography
  • We classify what hook patterns are currently converting in your market
  • You receive the first intelligence brief — your market, in plain language
  • Creative brief drafted based on what the data says, not what looks good in a proposal
  • You review and approve the creative direction before we build anything
W2
Week 2
Creative Build — you see it before it runs
  • Ad creative built based on the approved creative brief
  • You review every ad — copy, image, targeting, offer — before it launches
  • Revisions until you are satisfied. Not until our hours run out.
  • Campaign structure built: audiences, ad sets, conversion tracking verified
  • Conversion tracking confirmed working before launch — we cannot report what we cannot measure
W3
Week 3
Campaign Live — first lead report
  • Campaign launches with daily spend monitoring
  • First lead report arrives — not impressions, actual leads with source and cost
  • You know within days if the campaign is working, not months
  • Direct communication if anything needs adjustment — no waiting for the weekly call
  • Second intelligence brief: what has changed in your market since Week 1
W4
Week 4
30-Day Review — real numbers, honest conversation
  • 30-day review call with RaShaad directly — not a coordinator reading from a script
  • Actual results vs. the targets we set together at the start
  • What worked, what did not, what we are changing and why
  • Optimization plan for Month 2 — with your input, not just ours
  • If results are not where they need to be, we say so. Directly. And we tell you what we are doing about it.

If this sounds like what you have been looking for —
and what you have not been getting —
let's talk.

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