Why our prices are on this page
Most agencies make you sit through a discovery call before they will name a number. We understand why: every project is different, and a headline price invites unfair comparisons. But it wastes your time and ours if the budget was never going to work, and it puts the smallest businesses at the biggest disadvantage, because they are the least likely to push for a quote.
So here are the two packages, what each is actually for, what moves the price up or down, and what the monthly fee does not include. If you read this page and decide we are not the right fit, that is a useful outcome too.
The two packages, side by side
Both are monthly. The difference is not really the amount of work, it is which problem the work is aimed at.
| Brand Growth | Digital Reach | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly investment | $1,500 | $2,500 |
| The problem it solves | People see you but do not remember you, and your materials do not look like they came from the same business. | Your positioning is clear and the constraint is simply that not enough of the right people are seeing it. |
| What it centres on | Brand strategy, messaging, creative direction, and 3D or immersive visuals. | Targeted digital marketing, a higher volume of content, and performance insights. |
| Choose it if | You are launching, repositioning, or pulling an inconsistent brand back together. | You are confident in the message and want reach, leads, and measurement. |
| Where it starts | A brand and messaging audit before anything gets produced. | A channel and audience audit to find where the budget is currently leaking. |
| What it will not fix | Weak reach on its own. A sharp brand still needs distribution. | A muddled offer. More reach on an unclear message just spreads the confusion. |
If you are not sure which one you are, that is usually a sign you want Brand Growth first. Reach spending is far more efficient once the message is settled, and running it in the other order is the most common way marketing budget gets wasted.
What actually moves the price
When any agency quotes you a different number, one of these is almost always the reason.
How many channels you want covered. Each platform is its own format, its own audience behaviour, and its own reporting. Two channels done properly beats five done thinly, and it costs less.
Content volume. Twelve pieces a month and thirty pieces a month are different jobs. This is the single biggest lever, and it is the one most worth negotiating.
Whether advertising spend is managed. Running paid campaigns is active work: budgets, bids, audiences, creative rotation. It is separate from the ad spend itself, which goes to the platform.
How complex the 3D or visual assets are. A packaging render and a full interactive product configurator sit at opposite ends of the same service. Complexity, not quantity, drives this one.
How deep the reporting goes. A monthly summary is cheap. Proper attribution, where you can see which channel produced which enquiry, takes setup and maintenance.
How fast you need it. Compressed timelines cost more everywhere, in every industry, for good reason.
How to work out what you should be spending
A common industry benchmark puts total marketing spend somewhere between seven and fifteen percent of revenue, with earlier-stage and growth-focused businesses sitting at the higher end. It is a rough guide rather than a rule, but it is a much better starting point than picking a number that feels comfortable.
| Where you are | Sensible split | What that realistically buys | The trap at this stage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just starting, revenue is thin | Almost everything into one channel | One platform done consistently, plus a website that actually converts. Nothing more. | Spreading a small budget across four platforms so that none of them gets enough to work. |
| Established, steady revenue | Nearer the lower end of the benchmark | Consistent content on two channels, basic paid support, and reporting you can read. | Paying for activity rather than outcomes, because nobody set up measurement at the start. |
| Growing and hiring | Middle of the benchmark | Multi-channel presence, managed ad spend, and proper creative production. | Adding channels faster than you add capacity to service the enquiries they generate. |
| Scaling or entering new markets | Upper end of the benchmark | Full campaign production, immersive assets, and attribution across the funnel. | Optimising small details while the underlying positioning has quietly gone stale. |
What the monthly fee does not cover
These are billed separately, by us or directly by the supplier. Every honest agency separates them, and if a quote does not mention them at all, ask where they sit.
- Advertising spend. The money that goes to Meta, Google, or TikTok. It is your budget, paid to the platform, and it should stay visible to you.
- Third-party subscriptions. Scheduling tools, email platforms, analytics, stock libraries.
- Photography and video shoots. Crew, location, and talent when a project needs real footage rather than 3D or existing assets.
- Print and physical production. Signage, packaging runs, branded material.
- Website hosting, domains, and plugin licences. Ongoing costs that belong to you and should be registered in your name.
One thing worth insisting on. Ad accounts, domains, and analytics properties should be registered to your business, with the agency added as a user. It is a small administrative point that decides whether you keep years of data if you ever change supplier.
How to compare us against another quote
Use these on us, and on everyone else you speak to. The answers tell you more than the price does.
- What happens to the work if I leave? Who owns the ad accounts, the audience data, the creative files, the 3D models.
- What is a deliverable and what is an effort? Twelve posts a month is a deliverable. Social media management is an effort. Only one of them can be checked.
- Can I see a real monthly report? Anonymised is fine. If reporting is a slide with follower counts on it, measurement is not really happening.
- What does month one look like against month four? Most of the setup work lands early, so month one rarely resembles the steady state. Knowing the shape prevents a nasty surprise.
- What will you not do? An agency that agrees to everything has not thought about your business specifically.
- Who is actually doing the work? Worth asking plainly, especially where the person who sold it is not the person delivering it.
Questions we get asked
Why are the prices in dollars?
The packages were priced in US dollars because we work with clients outside South Africa as well. If you would rather have the quote in rand, ask and we will convert it at the current rate.
Can I start smaller than $1,500?
Sometimes. One-off work, a single campaign or a set of visuals, sits outside the monthly packages and is quoted on its own. Tell us the budget you have and we will tell you honestly what fits inside it, or that nothing does.
Am I locked into a contract?
Ask us this directly and get the answer in writing before you sign anything, with us or with anyone. What matters more than the length of the term is the notice period and what happens to your accounts and assets at the end of it.
What if I already have someone doing marketing in-house?
That often works better, not worse. The usual split is that we handle strategy and production while your person owns day-to-day community management, because they know your customers and are closer to the business.
What happens in the first month?
Audit and setup, mostly. Access to accounts, a look at what already exists, and the strategy or channel work that everything afterwards is built on. It is the least visible month and the one that determines the rest.
Do you work with businesses outside Gqeberha?
Yes. Almost all of this work is delivered remotely, and being based in the Eastern Cape only really matters for shoots and in-person sessions.
Get a number for your situation
Tell us what you sell, who you are trying to reach, and what you can spend. We will tell you which package fits, or that neither does.
Also worth reading: 3D branding and immersive marketing, or social media for small businesses.