WHAT THINGS COST
How much does social media management cost?
A monthly number, and the honest limits of what it buys.
Short answer
Managed social growth costs $600 a month here, paid in advance and stoppable at the end of any paid month. That buys platform strategy, execution and monthly reporting. It does not buy a follower count, and we will not buy one for you.
What the fee covers
Deciding which platforms are worth your time, which is usually fewer than you are currently posting to. Then the ordinary daily work that makes an account look alive: posting, scheduling, and keeping a consistent look. Then a monthly report that is short and says what did not work as well as what did.
You talk to the person doing it. There is no account manager summarising somebody else's week.
Why the number is lower than an agency's
Because this is execution against a strategy, not a media department. There is no content studio, no community team covering weekends, and no twenty-page deck at the end of the quarter. If you need those, you need an agency and the number is several times this.
What you get instead is the part that most small businesses actually lack, which is somebody reliably doing it.
The follower question
We do not buy followers, likes or engagement at any price. It inflates one number, suppresses reach because the platform can tell, and is trivially detectable by anyone who looks at the ratio. If a count is what you want, this is the wrong studio and we would rather say so than take the money.
Real growth is slower and less flattering. Two thousand people who might buy is worth more than fifty thousand who cannot.
Where the boundaries are
Paid advertising is a different job with a different fee. Original filming and product photography are not included, though a batch of visuals and short cuts from material you already have is available as a one-off at $450.
Community moderation at scale and same-day response to everything are also outside this. Say so in the brief if you need them and we will tell you honestly whether we should be the ones doing it.
What moves the number
- Pushes it up
- More platforms, original production, daily community response
- Pushes it down
- Fewer platforms, which is usually also the better strategy
- Not for sale here
- Followers, likes and engagement. At any price
The packages behind these numbers
Each one lists its full scope, what it excludes and how the work runs.