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Reddit marketing for agencies — winning your own clients

This page is about marketing your agency, not about running client accounts — for that, see FounderReply for agencies. Buyers ask for agency recommendations in public every week. FounderReply finds those threads, drafts the answer in your voice, and holds it until you approve.

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What it does for an agency's own pipeline

Where it works

Answer the "can anyone recommend…" thread

The growth engine scores threads where someone is choosing a partner or fixing a campaign, and drafts a reply that solves the problem in the thread.

What it produces

Promotion is the exception

A draft leads with the answer. Your agency comes up when it is the answer — which is also the only version of this that survives a strict subreddit.

What you keep

Proof beats a pitch

Your persona carries the specifics — the channels you run, the results you can name — so drafts argue with detail rather than with adjectives.

Where this happens

The communities, and what each one allows.

These are the rooms where your buyers and your peers already argue about what works. Three of the four tolerate disclosed, in-context promotion; r/freelance does not, and its rules page says exactly where the line is.

r/marketing~1.4M · moderateMarketing professionals discussing strategy, channels, and tooling.r/DigitalMarketing~900k · moderateSEO, paid, email, and social practitioners sharing tactics and tools.r/PPC~200k · moderatePaid-search and paid-social practitioners.r/freelance~600k · strictIndependent freelancers across writing, design, dev, and marketing.

Safety model

We don’t do the things that get you banned.

Every reply goes out from an account you connected yourself, and human approval is on by default — so building your agency's reputation in public never costs you the account you built it on.

What the agent will and will not do

The right-hand column is the load-bearing one: a list of refusals is checkable, and a list of adjectives is not.

Always

Acts only from accounts you connected yourself, and loses one the moment you disconnect it

Reads the whole thread before it writes a word, and leads with the answer

Holds every draft in an approval queue until you release it

Starts every action at the safer of our own default and that network’s policy

Never

Posts without your approval, unless you raised the dial for that action

Uses a shared, rented, aged or “managed” account

Raises DMs or comments under other people’s posts for you — those ship gated

Treats promotion as the pattern rather than the exception

Account ownership

You own the account. You can take it back.

Every network the agent touches is one you connected yourself. Nothing is invented, nothing is rented, and nothing survives you disconnecting it — which is the only version of this that is safe to put your company’s name on.

Connected by you

You do the connecting, on an account that is already yours, two-factor included. FounderReply never makes an account for you and never works from a shared, rented or aged one.

One account at a time

It reads the whole thread before it writes a word, works one account at a time, and paces itself — nothing that reads as a bulk tool from the other side.

Yours to revoke

Disconnect an account and the agent loses it at that moment: the access is a grant you made, not something held apart from you. 5 of the 10 networks in the directory connect today; the rest are shown as soon, never as live.

FAQ

What people ask before they connect an account.

This page is about growing your own agency: finding and answering the threads where buyers ask for a partner. The other page is about the product you would use to run social for your clients — a separate workspace, persona, autonomy dial and approval queue per client. Different job, different page.

Yes, and the communities you would post in enforce it. r/marketing and r/DigitalMarketing tolerate promotion that is disclosed and in-context; r/freelance treats an undisclosed pitch as spam. Each community's rules page on this site spells out the actual rule rather than a generic "be helpful".

Yes, on the client's own connected account, connected by them and revocable by them — never an account we hold, rent out, or invent. Each client lives in its own workspace with its own autonomy settings and its own approval queue. That is what FounderReply for agencies covers.

Where to go next

Reddit self-promotion rules: the complete guideThe guide behind the rules on this pageRead Every network, and where each action startsThe defaults, printed from the sourceRead The guides behind these rulesHow to take part without tripping a spam filterRead

Ready when you are

Agencies: your next customer is already in the thread.

Approval is on by default and every action starts gated — nothing posts until you say yes. Raise the autonomy dial only where the output has earned it.

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