How Much Does Social Media Marketing Cost?
Our social media marketing packages run $799 to $3,199 a month, filming included. That is the whole answer for most Sarasota businesses: pick a tier, and the fee covers strategy, on-site filming, editing, posting, and a monthly report. Below is exactly what each tier includes and what changes the price.
Our Social Media Marketing Packages
Essential
Consistent, professional, handled. The floor for a business that is done posting on its own.
- 1 video / week
- 1 carousel or image post / week
- Stories 2 days / week
- 2 platforms managed
- On-site filming + photoshoot every other month
For a consistent presence without the overhead
Start with Essential →Growth
Management plus content creation, posting every other day on Instagram and Facebook. Enough volume to grow an audience, not just keep one.
- 2 videos / week
- 2 carousel or image posts / week
- Stories 4 days / week
- 2 platforms managed
- Social media brand templates
- On-site filming + photoshoot every month
For the restaurant or service brand ready to grow
Start with Growth →VIRAL
Video-first content plus management, posting every day on four platforms. For owning your category on social.
- 4 videos / week
- 3 social feature posts / week (photo sets, carousels or graphics)
- Unlimited stories
- 4 platforms managed
- ManyChat auto-DM (comment a keyword, get the link by DM automatically)
- 2 on-site shoots / month
For brands that want to be everywhere, daily
Start with VIRAL →Included in every plan.Every package, whichever pace you pick.
- ✓ Founder-led creative strategy
- ✓ Full-service posting
- ✓ Profile optimization
- ✓ SEO-optimized captions for Google indexing
- ✓ Voice captions + trending audio
- ✓ Onboarding audit of all platforms
- ✓ Editing done by us, in-house, not a 3rd party in another country
- ✓ Social media content calendar
- ✓ Monthly reporting and analytics
- ✓ One round of revisions
“…made some great content for my social media platforms. Gained tons of attention and business.”
Jeremy Davis, Google review, October 2025
Prices current as of August 2026. No setup fee. Three-month initial term, then month to month with 30 days’ notice. Nothing is billed when you click: you pick a time for a free strategy call and confirm the tier there. First posts go live about a week after you sign.
Need something the tiers do not cover? Request a custom quote.
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Want to Run It Yourself? Start With the Consultation
Not ready for a monthly package, or you have someone in-house who can post? The Social Media Consultation is the strategy work we do for our managed clients, handed to you to run. $997, one time.
- Full audit of your current socials
- 90-day strategy, built with you
- 1:1 training to run it yourself
- Written playbook to keep
- 30-day check-in
Not to be confused with the free social media audit, which is a short read on your accounts at no cost; this is the full working session.
Grow into a monthly package later, or don't. Either is fine with us.
What's Included in Every Package
Every tier gets the same five things; the tiers differ in how much of each, and on how many platforms.
Strategy and Content Calendar
We audit your platforms, then write a founder-led strategy: which platforms, which formats, how often, and what each post is for. That becomes a monthly content calendar with short-form scripts, so nothing gets improvised in your parking lot at nine in the morning.
On-Site Filming in Sarasota
Our team comes to your location with the gear and films and photographs you and your team. We direct, we coach you on camera, and when a take feels stiff we change it on the spot. Every shoot day yields about 8 finished videos, the math behind every tier's cadence. This is Sarasota video production built for social, inside every tier, not an add-on.
Short-Form Editing and Captions
Every clip is cut for the platform it will live on: a hook that lands before anyone can scroll, captions that read with the sound off, trending audio where it helps. Reels, TikToks, and Shorts, plus the carousel, image, and story posts between videos. Editing happens here, by us; one round of revisions is included; turnaround is generally two to three days, same day when something cannot wait. See how our social media video editing works.
Posting and Profile Optimization
We optimize your profiles, then schedule and post on your tier's cadence: two platforms on Essential and Growth (Instagram and Facebook for most clients), four on VIRAL. This is the day-to-day of social media management in Sarasota, and the part most owners are relieved to hand off.
Monthly Reporting
Once a month you get a report: what we posted, which videos performed, what drove growth, and what we are changing next month because of it.
How Our Pricing Works
Here is every line that can show up on a bill from us, and the ones that never do.
Monthly Management Fee
The number on the card is the fee: strategy, shoot days, editing, posting, and reporting, billed monthly, in advance, by invoice. It does not go up because a video did well or a shoot day ran long. No overage, no travel surcharge, no setup fee.
Ad Spend (Yours, Not Ours)
Nothing on the cards is ad spend; the packages are organic. Want paid campaigns? We run them as an add-on (below) and you pay the platform directly. No markup, no percentage of spend.
Three Months, Then Month to Month
The initial term is three months, about how long organic social takes to start paying back. After that it is month to month, and either of us can end it with 30 days’ notice. Need to pause a month for a vacation, or run a seasonal business and want to pause the slow months? Tell us 30 days ahead and we start again when you are ready.
Tune any plan, priced up front.
If a tier is right except for one thing, add the thing rather than jumping a tier. Add-ons are arranged on the call, not in the form.
TikTok management
$250/moA third platform managed natively: TikTok posting, optimization and trend-watching on top of your plan (VIRAL already covers four platforms).
Comment & DM engagement
$100/moWe handle comments and DMs in your brand voice, so attention turns into conversations.
Ad campaign management
$299/moPaid social layered on organic: setup, targeting and reporting, with the ad spend paid by you directly, no markup, no percentage of spend.
Extra reel per week
$199/moOne additional filmed reel each week, max one per plan. Need more video than that? That’s VIRAL territory.
Influencer visit coordination
$150/moWe find, book and host local creators at your business, their reach, your content.
Always free
$300 valueA free social media audit, or a free 30-minute strategy call, start with either, any time.
Get the free audit →That is our social media agency pricing, all of it. What changes between tiers is volume and reach; the team stays the same. Need something the tiers do not describe? Request a custom quote.
How Much Should You Spend on Social Media Marketing?
Enough to be consistent, and not a dollar you would need to pull back in month three. Consistency is what compounds on these platforms; a big month followed by silence buys almost nothing.
Three ways to buy it:
Do it yourself with a scheduling tool.
Cheapest on paper, but it costs your hours every week, and the videos only get made if you make them, which is where most owners stall. (The $997 consultation above exists for this route.)
Hire a freelancer.
Often less per month, and often good. Ask who films, with what, and what happens the week they are sick. If the answer is you film on your phone and send it over, price your own time into the quote.
Hire an agency.
Published tiers on nationally ranking pricing pages run about $249 to $2,400 a month (observed August 2026). Ours run $799 to $3,199. Read the bullets before you compare numbers: most of those tiers are posting and graphics, and filming is you, or extra.
If a package cannot get you a steady supply of real video from your business, the fee is not the whole cost: add your own time, or a videographer, then compare.
We will tell you which tier fits your budget, or that you should wait. Free either way.
Why Our Packages Include Filming (Most Don't)
A typical social media package lists posts per month, platforms, maybe a graphics count and a monthly call. Filming is missing because most agencies do not film; they send a shot list and wait for footage.
The missing part is not talent. It is a Tuesday afternoon, a second person to hold the camera, and someone to say “again, slower, and look at me, not the lens.”
So it is inside every tier: every other month on Essential, monthly on Growth, twice a month on VIRAL, our team drives to your business anywhere in the Sarasota area, films you and your team, and directs the whole thing. The same people edit and post it. We have produced thousands of short-form videos this way, and the shoot day is why they look like you and not like stock.
When you compare our monthly fee against a posting-only package, put filming and coaching on their side of the ledger too. Then it is apples to apples.
What Growth Looks Like: Roughly 3,000 to 1M+ Followers Across 4 Platforms in 3 Years
“When we first began working together, our social media presence was very small, almost no followers and very little momentum.”
Todd Alan · Google review, Nov 2025
Hanami Sushi is a Sarasota restaurant. Different scale, same method: people talking about what they know, on a schedule, filmed and edited by a team who knew what would get watched. That schedule is what a package buys.
194.4K Instagram views in the last 30 days · as of August 2026See more client results.
Straightforward Pricing for Sarasota Businesses
Same packages, same prices, whether you are in downtown Sarasota, Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Venice, or North Port; on-site filming is included across the whole area with no travel surcharge. We already film in Lakewood Ranch for Tsunami Sushi at the downtown price. A national package can post for you from anywhere; it cannot show up at your restaurant on a Thursday and film the lunch rush.
We work out of 1343 Main St in downtown Sarasota: a small, all-local team you can reach anytime, and meetings are usually coffee at your business, not a monthly Zoom with a rotating account manager overseas. For the wider picture, see social media marketing in Sarasota. In Bradenton? See our Bradenton social media marketing packages.
Social Media Pricing FAQs
How much does social media marketing cost? +
With us, social media marketing costs $799 to $3,199 a month, and every tier includes strategy, on-site filming, editing, posting, and a monthly report. The industry range is far wider, mostly because most packages leave filming to you.
How much does social media management cost? +
Our social media management pricing runs across three packages: Essential ($799 a month), Growth ($1,599), and VIRAL ($3,199). The difference between tiers is volume and platforms.
How much should you spend on social media? +
Spend what you can sustain every month for at least a year; consistency is what these platforms reward. Agency social media packages on nationally ranking pricing pages ran about $249 to $2,400 a month as of August 2026; check whether anyone in that fee is making the video.
How much does a social media management company charge? +
Nationally ranking package pages charge about $249 to $2,400 a month as of August 2026, mostly for posting and graphics only. Ours are $799 to $3,199 with on-site filming included.
How much do social media managers charge per hour? +
We do not price by the hour: an hour of scheduling and an hour of filming, directing, and editing are not the same hour. Freelancers often quote hourly; compare what the hour buys, not the rate. Our packages are flat monthly fees.
How much should I pay for a social media manager? +
Pay for what you cannot do yourself. If you can film, edit, write, and post consistently, a scheduling tool is enough. If you need it all handled, including someone showing up to film you, that is what our packages are for.
How long are the contracts? +
An initial three-month term, then month to month; after that, either of us can end it with 30 days’ notice. It is in writing before you pay anything.
Are there any setup fees? +
No. The audit and strategy that start every engagement are included in your first month. No overage, no travel surcharge anywhere in our service area.
What's included in each package? +
Every package includes strategy, a content calendar, on-site filming with coaching, editing with captions, posting, and a monthly report. Essential ($799 a month): filming every other month, one video and one carousel or image post a week, stories two days a week, two platforms. Growth ($1,599): filming monthly, two videos and two posts a week, stories four days a week, brand templates, two platforms. VIRAL ($3,199): two shoots a month, four videos and three feature posts a week, unlimited stories, ManyChat auto-DM, four platforms.
Do your packages include video filming? +
Yes. Every package includes on-site filming at your business and coaching on camera: every other month on Essential, monthly on Growth, twice a month on VIRAL, about eight finished videos per shoot day.
How soon should I expect to see results? +
Your first posts go live about a week after you sign. Growth after that depends on your starting point and how consistently we can film. We will not promise a follower count or a date; we report monthly so you see the trend.
Can I cancel my package later? +
Yes. You can move up or down a tier, pause, or cancel with 30 days’ notice. Tier changes take effect at your monthly renewal; downgrades and cancellation open up after the initial three-month term.
Do you offer custom packages? +
Yes. If you need more platforms, more shoot days, or several locations, we will quote it. Request a custom quote or raise it on the strategy call.
Who owns the videos and photos? +
You do. Everything we create during the partnership is yours to keep. We keep the right to show the work in our case studies unless you ask us not to.
Ready to Pick a Package and Get Growing?
Pick a tier above, or book the call and let us pick with you. It is free, takes 30 minutes, and carries no obligation. The call is a live brainstorming session: we break down your current strategy (or the lack of one), work out a vision and identity for your accounts, and identify a custom video framework to grow them. Then we tell you which package fits, and say so plainly if none does.