The conversation.
What you sell, who buys it, what you've tried, what you can actually spend. Budget honesty goes both directions. We’d rather build a smaller plan that compounds than a big one you abandon in month three.
The money conversation
No “call for pricing” games and no three-meeting buildup. Our project floors are published, our fees are flat, and you'll hear a real number in the first conversation. This page explains how that number gets made.
Agreements, not contracts. Flat fees. Your assets stay yours.
What a first conversation sounds like
Said out loud, in the first conversation.
Illustrative sample — your scope will differ
How it works
Five things happen between “hello” and a price. Most of them happen in the first conversation.
What you sell, who buys it, what you've tried, what you can actually spend. Budget honesty goes both directions. We’d rather build a smaller plan that compounds than a big one you abandon in month three.
A quick read of what you already have: site, search presence, follow-up, reviews. What's working stays; you don't pay us to rebuild things that convert.
What's actually needed versus what's merely nice. If something we offer won't move your business, it’s not in the scope. We’d rather earn a smaller engagement that delivers.
Said out loud, in that first conversation. Built from the published floors below, flat, and put in writing: scope, deliverables, timing, decision points.
Not a contract, an agreement. Month-to-month for ongoing work, a payment schedule only if we're spreading build costs, and your assets in your name from day one. Then the work starts.
Door 1 — project work
A floor is the honest starting point, not a bait price. Your quote depends on scope, and you’ll see exactly what’s included before you commit.
Custom WordPress, mobile-first, SEO foundation built in.
Get found in local search, and cited by AI.
Planned, made, and posted for you, sounding like you.
Google and Meta ads: a flat management fee, never a cut of your spend. Your ad budget is separate and goes straight to the platforms.
CRM and automation: missed calls answered, leads followed up.
Project-based: per shoot, flat quote before we shoot.
Every floor links to its service page, where what's included is spelled out. What moves a number up or down is covered below.
Door 2 — The Fotizo Method
The Method is an ongoing partnership scoped from a diagnostic, so a price printed here would either overcharge you or mislead you. Two things are always true: partnered work is priced below the same services bought separately (one diagnostic, one team, one connected system, less duplicated overhead), and you’ll still hear a real number in the first conversation.
What the partnership looks likeNeither door is a funnel for the other. Project work is a complete relationship on its own. Plenty of businesses never need more than one well-built thing.
The honest comparison
Every owner weighing this decision has three options. Here's what each really costs and, honestly, when each one makes sense.
The tools look cheap: $550 to $1,800 a year for a site builder, plugins, and stock photos. The real price is your time: 100 to 300 hours of building, troubleshooting, and tutorials, taken from the hours that run your business.
And the finished site usually has no search strategy and no follow-up system behind it.
Honest fit: pre-revenue, when you genuinely have more time than money. Build it simple, and make it easy to replace later.
A web shop, an SEO retainer, a social agency, a maintenance plan: professional work, typically $24,000 to $78,000 in year one.
The hidden cost: nobody talks to anybody. The site doesn't know what the SEO team is doing, the social vendor has never seen your follow-up process, and you become the project manager of your own marketing.
Honest fit: at a scale where an in-house marketing manager runs the vendors for you.
Our lane. Project floors start at $2,500 for a site and $500/mo for ongoing channels. One team where the site, the search work, and the follow-up systems are built to feed each other.
When you want the whole system run as a partnership, that's The Fotizo Method.
Honest fit: when you want marketing that compounds without hiring for it.
Small budgets, honest math
The biggest cost in most first engagements is the build, usually a website. If paying that up front is the barrier, we'll reduce the upfront cost and spread the rest into monthly payments that fit your budget.
A payment plan covers work already done on a thing you own. Your ongoing services stay month-to-month, always.
End the services any time; the remaining build balance simply settles. It never obligates you to keep buying marketing.
Domain, site, accounts, data: in your name while you’re paying, and they leave with you.
We'd rather lower the barrier than watch a good business spend two years on a $40/mo template that never rings the phone.
When we manage ads, the management fee is flat. Your ad spend goes on your card, straight to Google or Meta. We never touch it, mark it up, or take a percentage of it. Bigger budgets don't earn us more, so the only reason we'd tell you to spend more is that the numbers say it's working. Your account, your pixel, your data — with our access revocable any time.
How we run adsNo mystery math
We build the plan to the budget — not the budget to the plan.
Who does the math
When you ask what it costs, you're talking to me (Sahen, a co-founder), and the number I give you is the one we'll stand behind. Eleven years inside marketing agencies, six running my own, most recently leading client success operations across more than 500 small-business accounts. My co-founder Tielyr builds the systems side of every engagement. We'll tell you honestly which door fits, including the one that makes us less money.
Tell us what you're working onQuestions
Ours start at $2,500. That’s a real floor, not a teaser. What moves it up: more pages, e-commerce, content written from scratch, deeper integrations. Every build includes mobile-first design and an SEO foundation. Details on the web design page.
The common guidance is 5-10% of revenue, but the honest answer is: whatever you can sustain long enough to compound. A $700/mo plan that runs for a year beats a $3,000/mo plan abandoned in month three. We build to your number, and tell you plainly what it can and can’t reach.
Because it's scoped from a diagnostic: a printed price would either overcharge you or mislead you. Partnered work is priced below the same services bought separately, and you'll hear a real number in the first conversation. More on The Fotizo Method.
Yes. That’s the payment plan described above. It covers the build (work already done, on an asset you own), while your ongoing services stay month-to-month. Leave early and the remaining build balance settles; it never obligates you to keep buying marketing.
We do agreements (scope, deliverables, and timing in writing), but no auto-renewing annual contracts, ever. Month-to-month after any build payment schedule, and your domain, accounts, and data stay in your name. The work is what keeps you.
Yes, and it’s a real conversation, not a pitch. You'll leave with a real number and our honest read on what you need, whether or not you hire us. If the right answer is “you don't need us yet,” we'll say that too.
We don't have one. Hourly billing rewards slow work, so everything is a flat, scoped fee: you know the full number before we start, and it doesn't creep.
The first conversation
Bring your real budget. Small is fine. You'll hear what it can reach, what it can't, and a real number for the piece that matters most. If the honest answer is a smaller plan than you expected, that's the one we'll recommend.
Tell us what you're working onAgreements, not contracts. Your assets stay yours.
Or email us directly: info@fotizomedia.com