Digital Marketing
Strategy-led programs run by senior operators across the channels that actually move your pipeline.
Pricing
What CRTE costs.
CRTE offers focused services for small businesses, growth programs for teams ready to scale, and custom agency and production engagements. Small-business marketing services start at $500 per month, strategy-led retainers at $1,500, Studio sessions at $350, and commercial production at $850. Exact proposals reflect scope.
Price the work against a real budget
WRITTEN SCOPE · FIXED FEE · NO RETAINER TRAP
Starting small, honestly.
- Entry offers carry deliberately limited deliverables so the scope stays honest.
- They are a legitimate place to start, not a trial or a stripped demo.
- You expand as results, needs and budgets grow — the same team stays on the account.
- They are not lower-quality versions of CRTE's work; the operators are the same.
CRTE Agency pricing.
Initial 90-day term, month-to-month afterward with 30 days' notice. Expand any comparison to see package inclusions, exclusions, the questions we ask to quote it, and what moves the price.
Strategy & full-funnel
Search & visibility
SEO
Technical work, editorial content and defensible authority building — measured against organic revenue.
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Local SEO
Map-pack visibility, profile management and location pages for businesses that sell in a service area.
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Technical SEO
Crawl, indexation, rendering and Core Web Vitals work — scoped as diagnostics, sprints or oversight.
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AI SEO
Visibility work for AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and other answer engines — measured, never guaranteed.
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Conversion
Conversion Rate Optimization
Research, instrumentation and a prioritized test roadmap that compounds instead of guessing.
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CRO Audits
A standalone diagnostic that ends in a ranked, buildable backlog — implementation quoted separately.
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Paid media
PPC Management
Paid programs managed on a flat scope-based fee — never a percentage of your media spend.
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Google Ads Management
Search-first Google Ads management with strict query control and a flat management fee.
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Social & content
Social Media Marketing
Organic social built for native formats — with a deliberately limited entry offer.
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Content Marketing
Editorial programs priced by asset volume, research depth and distribution work.
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Web & production
Web Design & Development
Marketing sites and commerce builds priced by page count, integrations and custom development.
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Media Production
Commercial photo and video production sold by session, by day or as a recurring partnership.
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Video Production
Scripted and interview-led video priced by production days, crew and deliverable formats.
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Commerce & marketplaces
Ecommerce Marketing
Store growth across acquisition, lifecycle and conversion — priced by catalog and channel mix.
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Shopify SEO
Collection-led Shopify search work priced by catalog structure and technical condition.
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Marketplace Marketing
Listing, storefront and advertising operations across the marketplaces that move your product.
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Amazon Advertising
Sponsored Products, Brands and Display managed on a flat fee — never a share of your spend.
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Reputation
Reputation Management
Monitoring, response and review generation priced by location count and response volume.
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What moves Agency pricing
- Number of channels running at once
- Creative volume produced each month
- Reporting complexity and number of data sources
- Number of locations or markets in scope
- Media budget under management
- Technical depth required on the current platform
- Volume and format of content produced
- Authority building and digital PR intensity
CRTE Studio pricing.
Booked per session or per project. No retainer or lock-in required.
Product & commerce
Product Photography
Ecommerce-ready product capture priced by SKU count, setups and retouching depth.
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Brand & Lifestyle
Editorial lifestyle imagery priced by direction, talent, locations and post depth.
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Food & hospitality
Food & Hospitality
Menu and hospitality imagery priced by styling depth, dish count and preparation needs.
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People & teams
Portraits & Headshots
Individual and executive portraits priced by session length, looks and retouched finals.
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Teams & Corporate
Team photography priced by headcount, location and individual delivery requirements.
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Family Portraits
Appointment-only family sessions priced by group size, session length and printed products.
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Motion & creator
Video & Brand Films
Studio-led video priced by concept, crew, filming days and the number of cutdowns.
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UGC & Short-form
Native short-form content priced by concept count and who supplies the talent.
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Influencer Packages
Creator-ready content sessions priced by looks, asset counts and recurring frequency.
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Rush
CRTE Rapid
Rush scheduling and delivery applied on top of a standard package once availability is confirmed.
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What moves Studio pricing
- Number of SKUs photographed
- Angles and setups required per product
- Styling and prop complexity
- Retouching depth and specialty surfaces
- 360 capture and total final image count
- Creative direction and pre-production depth
- Number of locations and set changes
- Talent casting and wardrobe requirements
What we never charge for.
- No percentage of ad spend — management fees are flat and scope-based.
- No hidden image-license renewals on approved final assets.
- No CRTE ownership of your advertising or analytics accounts.
- No surprise third-party costs — anything external is approved in writing first.
- No long lock-in after the initial term.
- No guaranteed-ranking, guaranteed-revenue or guaranteed-lead-volume claims.
Engagement terms
- Agency retainers run an initial 90-day term, then continue month-to-month.
- Media spend is separate from management fees and is paid directly to the platform.
- Platform fees, software, talent, locations, permits, stylists, props and travel are separate unless a package explicitly includes them.
- Third-party costs are estimated and approved before being incurred.
- You own your accounts, approved final assets and final files.
- Studio sessions are booked per session or per project — no retainer required.
Where these numbers actually land.
Every rate on this page comes from a specific discipline with its own scope, cadence and deliverables. Follow the one you are budgeting for.
Search and local visibility
- how an organic search program is staffed and sequenced
Audit, technical repair, content build and the reporting cadence behind the monthly fee.
- what map-pack work costs across Greater Los Angeles
Profile management, review velocity and neighbourhood coverage priced per location.
- why authority work is quoted per placement, not per link
Editorial outreach, digital PR and the standards we refuse to drop to hit a number.
- the cost of defending a search result you did not choose
Review generation, SERP defence and crisis response scoped by exposure.
Paid media and demand
- management fees for paid search accounts we inherit
Fixed monthly management rather than a percentage of your media budget.
- budgeting paid social when the creative is the variable
How production volume, not platform choice, sets the real cost of social.
- pricing lifecycle email against list size and send volume
Flows, campaigns and deliverability work quoted by programme scope.
- what a compliant text programme runs per month
Carrier registration, consent handling and message design included in the fee.
Site, conversion and commerce
- fixed-fee ranges for a full site build
Design, build, migration and launch quoted as a project with a delivery date.
- sizing a testing programme so the results survive a second month
Traffic thresholds that decide whether testing is worth funding at all.
- where store revenue changes the shape of the retainer
Catalogue size, feed complexity and margin structure priced honestly.
- the per-piece economics of editorial content
Bylined writing, research time and the editing pass behind each rate.
- one-time build fees versus ongoing automation upkeep
What gets built once and what genuinely needs monthly attention.
- per-location costs when your data lives in twenty directories
Aggregator submissions, duplicate suppression and ongoing accuracy checks.
Studio production days
- day rates for a tabletop product session
Setups, frame counts and retouching hours that make up a studio day.
- what a garment shoot costs once fit models are involved
Model time, styling and steaming built into the quoted day.
- budgeting a food shoot around a working kitchen
Prep hours, stand-ins and the shrinking window a plated dish gives you.
- the price of a brand film from brief to master
Crew, capture days, edit passes and the cutdowns that come with it.
- team portrait pricing on a per-person basis
How many people the floor can move through in a single booked day.
- cost per usable asset on a batched content day
The most efficient way to buy volume without buying a second lighting build.
Context before you commit
- the full range of disciplines we quote against
Every pillar, with the sub-services each one contains.
- category-specific funnel math that changes the numbers
Why a legal lead and a restaurant cover cannot be priced the same way.
- who does the work you are paying for
Senior operators in Los Angeles, no junior handoff, no reseller stack.
- booking the Westlake Village floor by appointment
What is already on site before your shoot day starts.
- get a written scope with the fee on it
One senior operator reads your situation and quotes it in writing.