Finding, claiming and messaging shops

How you find a shop, hold it, and send its owner your ad.

Discover lists real small shops. You can make an ad for any of them. Bringing a shop means you found it and pitch it yourself, and that earns you the bringing share for its first year.

Claiming

Claiming a shop means holding it while you pitch it: nobody else pitches a shop you hold. How many you can hold at once is set by your level and your proof. Claiming your own shops opens with the challenge, or when Cracked vets you.

Pitching

• Send the first message (a DM) within 7 days of claiming, or the shop goes back.
• During the challenge, your first message waits until a reviewer approves an ad you made for that shop.
• You send each message yourself, from your own account; Cracked records it. Sending opens member by member: until it's open for you, your shop and its ad stay held.
• Each real reply gives you another 30 days. A no is final.
• A shop that has joined Cracked isn't pitched: it asks for ads on Discover, and you make one for its brief.

When the shop buys your ad, you're paid: see How you earn.