Worried about your cost of marketing?
If you're hesitating to dive into marketing, you're not alone. For many small business owners, the cost of marketing feels uncertain at best—and downright sketchy at worst. Too often, agencies throw around buzzwords, bury fees in fine print, or tack on surprise charges that make you wonder what you’re really paying for.
Not here. At The Clever Catalyst, we believe clarity is powerful. You deserve to know exactly what you’re investing in, what it costs, and how it works—before you ever sign on the dotted line. No shady fees. No smoke and mirrors. Just smart, strategic marketing with full transparency from day one.
The Cost of Marketing with The Clever Catalyst
All of our projects will be billed either in a package rate, such as with our organic social media plans, or at one of four tiered service rates.
The rates for all of our packages and our tiered services are always available for review online and by request.
Even our packaged services include a breakdown of what you're paying for, leaving no room for us to hide large margins (otherwise known as ripoffs).
We offer many different services, and those services require varying levels of skills to render, so we embrace variable billing.
All of your work with us will either fall into a package or an hourly tier. If you need 2 hours of admin work and 2 hours of ads work, you will receive an invoice with a line item for each with their respective prices.
This makes it very easy to know what to expect on your invoices and means you're never paying for more than you need!
When you look at our price list, you won't find a start-up fee, a termination fee, a commission rate, or anything about a retainer. This isn't because we're hiding it—it's because it doesn't exist.
We can get started with as little as an email and pause, stop, or cancel services just as easily. Occasionally, there are costs associated with making new accounts or setting up new software, but even that is billed hourly at the appropriate rate.
There are lower-cost of marketing options out there. If you're looking for the cheapest option for a marketer, we are not it.
The reason for this is simple: our team is 100% US-based, real humans with the skills to back up their job titles. We create all of our content without the use of AI, and we don't just deliver a project; we take responsibility for it, and we do it RIGHT!
However, we promised you in 2019 we would keep our prices as low as we could afford to in an effort to keep marketing as accessible as it can be to our favorite demographic - Small Businesses! - and we still mean that.
Clever Affiliate Program
As if our pricing wasn't already so amazing! We will make your invoice shine a little brighter as you tell others about us. Whether you're an active client, a past client, or a potential future client, we have an incentive for you!
