Is VALORAE Media legit? What you can check yourself

"Is this agency real?" is a fair question to ask about us.

I would rather you ask it than skip it. So this post is a list of things you can check yourself, without taking my word for any of them.

Here is the awkward part up front. VALORAE Media sells social media management and has no social media profile of its own.

On most checklists, that alone would fail us. By Check 5, I think you will see why it is the most useful check on the list.

Check 1: The founder has a name and a public record

An agency with no named person behind it is asking you to trust a logo.

VALORAE Media is run by me, Siddharth Khushalani, founder of the VALORAE group.

Names are cheap to borrow. That is why the profiles matter more than the name itself.

I have four profiles, and only four:

• tgsidd.com, my personal site.
• instagram.com/tgsiddh, with the h on the end.
• youtube.com/@TGSIDD7.
• linkedin.com/in/tgsidd.

Open them and look for the same name, the same face and links that point back to each other. I have no live X profile, so an X account under my name is not me.

The longer version, including how to cite the agency, is in who runs this agency.

Check 2: The group page lists the official addresses

Go to valoraehq.com. It is the group home, and it links the three running companies at their real addresses: valoraearc.com, valoraemedia.com and valoraecast.com.

If a domain, handle or invite is missing from that page, treat it as not ours.

You may also land on another group address, such as valorae.net or valorae.in. Each one shows the group page and names valoraehq.com as the original, so none of them is a separate business.

The group blog keeps a list of official profiles as well. That is the page I would bookmark.

Check 3: A published price you can hold us to

A price printed on a page is a promise anyone can screenshot.

We print one. Full Page runs $2,000 to $3,500 a month and covers every platform, the calendar, strategy, repurposing and comments.

The other two tiers are quoted on the call. Edit is editing only. Manage is Edit plus titles, captions, scheduling and posting on one or two platforms, with a monthly report.

That split is a check in itself. If a message under our name quotes a fixed monthly number for Edit or Manage, or a Full Page figure outside that range, it did not come from us.

I will admit the weakness. A printed price only protects you if you hold the message up against it.

The tiers are laid out in the pricing post, and this one covers how to weigh a listed price against a quote.

Check 4: The contact email sits on the site

Our contact address is support@valoraemedia.com, and it is printed on valoraemedia.com.

Look at the domain. It matches the site exactly.

A message from a webmail address, or from a lookalike domain with an extra letter or a hyphen, is not from us.

The safe habit is simple. Do not reply to the message that reached you. Open a new email, type the address yourself, and ask whether the person who contacted you works with us.

I would rather answer those emails all week than have one person hand a login to someone borrowing our name.

Check 5: Media has no social profile, and that is the point

Back to the awkward part.

A social media agency without an account of its own reads like a red flag. I understand why.

Here is why it works the other way. I post under my own name, on the four profiles in Check 1, and the agency does not run a public account anywhere.

So there is no Media handle to copy, and no lookalike to tell apart from an original. Any profile, on any platform, presenting itself as VALORAE Media is not us.

That makes this the fastest check here. You do not need to compare follower counts, join dates or bios.

You only need to know that the real list is empty. It is the one check an impersonator cannot pass by trying harder.

Check 6: Access comes through roles, never passwords

The last check is about what we ask for once you say yes.

We never ask for a password, whatever the tier. Every platform has delegated access built in: Meta Business Suite roles for Facebook and Instagram, channel permissions on YouTube, page admin roles on LinkedIn, and member roles in TikTok Business Center.

You grant a named person a specific role, your two-factor stays on, and you can remove that role yourself from the same screen.

On Edit we need no access at all, because you post. On Manage and Full Page we ask for a posting role, plus a community role where we handle comments, and nothing above that.

If anyone using our name asks for a login, a recovery code or for two-factor to be switched off, stop there.

The walkthrough for each platform is in never give your agency your password, and the ownership side is in who owns your social accounts.

Check 7: What to do if someone contacts you claiming to be us

Here are the six checks as one routine.

First, click nothing in the message and grant no access yet.

Second, match the sender against the lists. A personal handle has to match one of my four profiles exactly, including the h at the end of tgsiddh. A profile using the Media name fails on sight.

Third, hold any number they quote against Check 3.

Fourth, write to support@valoraemedia.com from a fresh email you typed yourself, and include a screenshot of the message.

Fifth, if it turns out not to be us, report the profile on the platform where it reached you. You owe it no reply.

I have kept this post to things you can verify without trusting me. A legitimacy page that only asks for your trust is not doing its job.

The short version

• Check the founder against tgsidd.com and the three other profiles.
• Check every address and handle against valoraehq.com.
• Hold any quoted price against the Full Page range of $2,000 to $3,500 a month.
• Treat any account using the Media name as someone else.
• Write to support@valoraemedia.com from an email you typed yourself.
• Grant roles, never passwords.

If you want Edit or Manage quoted, write to support@valoraemedia.com and we will set up the call.