Pluck

@tjwise_ thanks for asking! The reason we have 1 tier is to keep things simple. We scale our pricing up for anyone who goes over the 1k emails/month. As far as the price point, there are many factors. To put a few of them very bluntly: - While conceptually simple, there is a lot of nuance to this product. We can't afford to spend time on customer support for users who are only $15/month. - A price tag of $250 isn't only the purview of "big corporations". Companies doing as little as $10k MRR spend $295/month on BuiltWith, $500/month on Mattermark, etc.... - We've had a handful of very small companies sign up, and we've seen a trend where they can't devote the resources needed to run a successful campaign using Pluck, so we use pricing to try to discourage those companies from signing up. We may offer lower pricing at some point, but we need to hone the product a lot more first, and we can only do that by working closely with more mature companies. Let me know if you have any more questions! Edit: typos

@angilly Damn, would love to try it out if it is around $150 a month :(

@samuelfaith good to know! we'll let you know if the price changes.

@angilly @samuelfaith Any chance of a free trial option?

@ninjinka @samuelfaith not right now. we need to stick to paid only for a while. you can signup anyway for free and you'll be notified if that changes!

@swetzequity yeah for now we're focused on companies that wouldn't think twice about spending $250/month for a trial of this nature (and there are a lot of those companies). Eventually, the plan is for our automated abuse flagging systems to get good enough to allow loosening restrictions (which currently involve lots of manual hand-holding) and allowing smaller players to use Pluck in a more self-service manner.

@angilly @swetzequity What you do is offer 100 free trial credits. Solved.

@roamlocally right now it's just Twitter, but as things progress expect to see other networks added!

@vinay123 yeah we really care about this, and that's something that we think makes Pluck special in this space. We're working to ensure we abide by all laws. This includes a myriad of techniques to figure out where the person is located and where their business operates. It's not perfect yet, but we're constantly refining it. It's worth noting that we don't recommend Pluck for B2C marketing. Not only are B2B recipients easier to find email addresses for, but going B2B puts our emails in a different class in many jurisdictions. Edit: typo

@angilly 👍 appreciate the prompt and thoughtful response. You are right, B2B has different regulations. Great idea. I'm going to give it a go too!

@vinay123 @angilly Not entirely true, in the UK, even B2B emails to individuals within a company still need to have permission. Only those going to company mailboxes are exempt from permission over here.

@davidhoos the minimum length is just 1 month. You could absolutely try it for a month and cancel. After canceling, any links in your emails will continue to work.

@angilly Thanks Ryan. Is the email that we sign up under going to be the email that all emails are sent from? In other words, would it be better if we signed up with a personal vs a marketing@ email?

@davidhoos no, it doesn't matter. you can signup with one email address, and then your account will have a "verified reply-to email address". You'll be able to set that address (and also set your physical address, which we need for CAN-SPAM compliance) after your submit your account and we review it.

@kingliv_ There are a few apps & Chrome extensions that let you find email addresses. They're escaping me at the moment; I think Clearbit has one. I just saw another one a few days ago too. When I come across it, I'll come back and comment again. One of the biggest values of Pluck is that we do everything for you in an automated fashion across multiple concurrent campaigns. While it may be too expensive for individual users (think prosumers), it's probably priced too cheaply for more mature businesses.

@kingliv_ The question of cost for any tool, is how much is your time worth?