A small team running the marketing alongside you.
Manage is the full retainer. Everything in Grow plus original content, ongoing campaigns, and a monthly strategy session. For businesses who want a studio acting as their marketing function, not a series of one-off projects.
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Custom retainer
3-month minimum, then rolling with 60 days notice.
- EmailTasting box flow
- SearchH1 + meta audit
- ContentBrand guide PDF
- LocalGBP photo refresh
Everything in Grow, plus the work that needs constant attention.
Manage is the level above Grow. The technical and platform side is already covered. The new layer is the creative and strategic work that scales the business beyond the launch.
Everything in Grow
Hosting, monthly site updates, Google Business management, local SEO maintenance, email system, performance monitoring, monthly report, monthly check-in. The full technical and platform side already covered.
Original content written for the site
Case studies, blog posts, guides, and the supporting copy that keeps the site current. Written in your brand voice by us, planned around what your customers actually search for.
AI-optimised content (GEO)
Content structured for citation in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews as well as traditional search. Answer-shaped sections, schema markup, brand entity work.
Ongoing campaigns, organic and paid
Quarterly campaigns run end to end. Strategy, creative, copy, landing pages, and the paid spend management on top. We work to the channels that suit the business, not a template.
Monthly strategy session
An hour each month with the studio working on the business with you. What is working, what is not, what to do next, where the budget should go. Less of a check-in, more of a planning meeting.
Quarterly review and planning
Every three months we sit down to look at the bigger picture. What the data is telling us, where the brand is going, what to invest in next quarter. The plan lands as a written document.
Detailed analytics and insights
Custom dashboards beyond the monthly Grow email. Funnel tracking, conversion attribution, GEO citation monitoring, and a real read on what is moving the business.
Conversion optimisation, end to end
The full method. We research how visitors behave, build several versions of a page on different angles, then split test to find the winner and keep it. Where traffic supports a valid test we run it in full; where it does not, we improve from the evidence instead.
A studio acting as your marketing function
For businesses who want a small team running this work alongside the rest of the business, not a series of one-off projects or a freelancer chain. The retainer is structured around what you actually need.
Not everyone needs this. Most clients sit on Grow.
Manage is the right shape if the business is past the early stage and the marketing needs more horsepower. If you are not sure, ask on the call and we will tell you honestly.
You have a brand and a site already
Manage is not a starting point. It is the next level up from Grow, usually a year or two after launch when the business is bigger and the marketing needs more horsepower.
You are not going to hire in-house yet
You need the work done but you do not have the volume or the budget for a full-time marketing hire. A retainer with a studio is the cheaper, more flexible answer.
You want one team, not five vendors
No separate copywriter, photographer, paid agency, SEO consultant, and developer to manage. One retainer, one bill, one point of contact.
You want it run, not learned
You would rather pay for the marketing to happen than learn to do it yourself. The hours you would have spent fighting WordPress are better spent on the business.
Bespoke, but not opaque.
We quote Manage based on the shape of the work, not a fixed ladder. Most retainers settle between £1,500 and £4,000 a month. We share a real range on the first call.
What affects the price
- How many original pieces of content you need each month
- Whether paid advertising is part of the retainer or not
- How many channels we are actively running (organic, paid, email, social)
- Whether the work needs a content brief from scratch or can run from your existing one
- How frequently you want the strategy session and the review
What businesses ask before signing on Manage.
Honest answers about price, commitment, and how Manage fits alongside what you have already.
Because every Manage relationship is different and a fixed price would either undercharge half our clients or scare off the other half. The retainer is built around what your business actually needs: how many channels we are running, how much content, whether paid advertising is in scope. We quote once we know the shape of the work.
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