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Pricing

One team.
Four ways to start.

Three do one thing at full strength. The fourth does all of it.

Industry, locations and complexity do not change the fee. What changes is where we point the effort, decided together in your roadmap.

Market Launch
$2,499 / mo
Organic Authority
$2,999 / mo
Social Presence
$2,999 / mo
Complete Marketing Team
$5,000 / mo

Every one is month to month. Cancel with 30 days’ written notice.

Not sure which one? Run the free assessment and we will tell you

A full program spread thin is worse than a narrow one done properly.

The complete team is priced to do six things at full strength. Discount it and you get six things at a fraction, which helps nobody. So instead of a cheaper team there are three narrower tracks, each doing one thing to exactly the same standard.

None is meant to be permanent. A track exists to get one part of your marketing working well enough that the rest becomes worth doing.

The Programs

What each one buys

In ascending price order, with what each one deliberately leaves out.

$2,499 / mo

Market Launch

One objective. One market. One offer.

A new business, a new location, a new product, or entering a market where nobody knows your name yet.

  • Up to three advertising platforms
  • One landing page or conversion path
  • Offer development
  • Four creative hours a month
  • Conversion tracking and monthly reporting

Not this Weekly articles, broad SEO, weekly social, multiple locations.

Includes managing up to $2,499 a month of media. Cost plus 15% above that.

Market Launch
$2,999 / mo

Organic Authority

Be the answer, without buying the attention.

Businesses with the patience to compound, or who have run ads and want something that keeps working after the budget stops.

  • Technical and on-page SEO
  • AI search visibility
  • One authority article a week, edited by a person
  • Google Business Profile
  • Conversion rate optimization

Not this Paid campaigns of any kind.

Optional. If you add it later, cost plus 15%.

Organic Authority
$2,999 / mo

Social Presence

The first place a stranger checks.

Businesses whose feed is quietly costing them work: last post nine months ago, comments unanswered, profile half-built.

  • A Social Blueprint before anything is posted
  • Unlimited platforms
  • One post a week, plus every federal holiday
  • Captions, hashtag and keyword strategy
  • Community and profile management
  • A quarterly half-day shoot at your business

Not this Search, advertising, website work.

None. This track buys no advertising.

Social Presence
$5,000 / mo

Complete Marketing Team

Everything, together

All of it, moving together.

Businesses that want advertising, search, content, social, website and measurement all moving at once, and one number to call when they want to know how it is going.

  • Advertising management across every platform
  • SEO and AI search visibility
  • Weekly authority content
  • Weekly social posting, community and profile management
  • Website optimization and conversion work
  • Analytics, StoryApp™ and a monthly strategy meeting

Not this The quarterly on-site shoot, which stays with Social Presence. Everything else is here: all three tracks, website work, analytics and a monthly strategy meeting.

Includes managing up to $5,000 a month of media. Cost plus 15% above that.

Everything included

The arithmetic

$2,499 + $2,999 = $5,498
The complete team $5,000

Any two tracks cost more than the whole team.

Those are the two cheapest, so the claim holds for any pair. If you need two of these, you need the team, and the team is cheaper. We would rather you know that here than work it out in month four.

Tell us where you are

Advertising Media

15% media management

The complete team includes managing up to $5,000 a month of media, Market Launch up to $2,499. Above your allowance, media is billed at cost plus 15% on the amount over it, on every platform.

Organic Authority buys none unless you add it. Social Presence buys none at all. One rate, no penalty for scaling.

Media invoices on its own cadence, separate from your service fee: they issue on the first and are due by the twenty-fifth for the month ahead.

What the 15% covers

  • Platform setup and campaign structure
  • Daily pacing and budget control
  • Bid, audience and placement optimization
  • Placement quality and fraud monitoring
  • Consolidated billing and reporting

Campaign Minimums

Every campaign needs a floor

Below these numbers a campaign cannot reach enough of your market to produce a result you can read. We would rather tell you up front.

  • Search Google and Microsoft Ads, per month $1,000 / mo
  • Meta & social Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, per month $1,000 / mo
  • Display & programmatic Including retargeting and geofencing $1,000 / mo
  • CTV & video Connected television, YouTube, digital audio $2,500 / mo

Creative Production

Creative rates, published

One sheet governs extra creative on your plan and standalone projects. Nothing is prepaid.

Hours beyond your allowanceRate

  • Up to 10 hours $155 /hr
  • Up to 20 hours $145 /hr
  • Up to 30 hours $135 /hr
  • 31 hours and beyond $125 /hr
  • Media production Videography and photography, on location within 30 miles of our Greenville office or in studio. Travel beyond that is quoted separately. $450/hr

Terms

  • On your monthly plan: extra hours are estimated on the roadmap, approved by you, then billed at month end.
  • On a scoped project: estimated against a written scope, 50% to start and 50% once half are used.
  • Every hour is logged and visible in StoryApp™.
  • Rates may change on notice.

Some of the companies we have worked with

  • Clemson
  • BASF
  • LMI
  • ITW Hartness
  • Sealevel
  • Cerulium
  • TRS-SESCO
  • OPSV
  • CDI
  • BLE
  • COR3

The Agreement

30 days

No long-term contract. Either of us can end the agreement with 30 days’ written notice, for any reason. We would rather earn next month than trap you in it.

Billing
Your service fee bills monthly in advance, on the same day of the month you start.
First invoice
Due on acceptance. Work begins once it clears. Late balances carry 1.5% per month.
Results
We commit to the work, the roadmap and the reporting. No honest agency guarantees outcomes.
AI use
We use AI tools in research and drafting. Everything published is edited by a person and approved by you.
Ownership
On payment you own the final deliverables we create for you.
Your part
Timely access, assets and approvals. Delays there move timelines, not the fee.
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