Every engagement begins with a free marketing audit, not a pitch. From there you pick the model that matches the work in front of you. All ongoing work is month to month, because the work should keep you, not the contract.
Arch publishes its pricing. Pick Your Channels starts at $500 per month. Full-Service Growth starts at $2,500. Projects run $5,000 to $60,000 as a fixed fee. Ad spend is separate. All ongoing work is month to month, no minimum, 30 days notice.
A mid-level marketing manager in Columbus costs roughly $75,000 to $95,000 in salary, plus payroll tax, benefits, software, and the months it takes to hire. That buys you one person who is genuinely good at two things and learning the other ten.
| One in-house marketer | Full-Service Growth | |
|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | $95k to $120k all in | From $30k |
| Disciplines covered | Two, maybe three | All twelve |
| Time to productive | 3 to 5 months | Week one |
| Ad platform certifications | Depends on the hire | Included |
| Design and creative | Outsourced separately | Included |
| Photo and video production | Outsourced separately | Quoted as a project |
| If they leave | Start over | Not your problem |
| Scale down | Layoff | 30 days notice |
This is the comparison that matters. Not whether we cost more than the cheapest agency in town, but whether twelve specialists beat one generalist at roughly the same money.
The choice usually makes itself obvious by the time the audit is done.
You already have marketing running. Some of it underperforms. Some of it leaks. Some of it has no owner at all. Tell us which pieces, and we take them over and make them work. Pick one, pick three, pick whichever ones are bleeding the most.
An embedded team running every channel against one strategy. You get a dedicated lead who knows your business, the specialists your scope requires, and one place to look for everything marketing is doing.
A defined scope with a start and an end. No retainer, no ongoing commitment. This is where a lot of relationships begin, and there is no pressure to turn it into something bigger.
Before we propose anything, we audit your visibility, website, ad spend, reviews, and the three competitors you name. You get written findings and a prioritized plan regardless of whether you hire us.
It exists for one reason: we will not propose work we are not confident will produce customers. Most agencies pitch first and figure it out later. We figure it out first, and the work proposes itself.
Get Your Free Marketing AuditMost agency contracts are ten pages of legal cover for whoever has the most leverage. Here is how this actually works.
No minimums, no annual lock-in, no auto-renewal. Leave with 30 days notice and no penalty. Lock-in is how agencies hide bad work, and we would rather earn the next month every month.
We do not take a percentage of ad spend. That model pays an agency more for spending more of your money. Our fee is flat, so telling you to cut a channel costs us nothing.
Ad accounts, domain, CRM, analytics, creative files, raw footage. During and after. If we part ways you take all of it, including the historical data.
Media budget goes directly to Google or Meta, not through us. You see the real invoices. Nothing is bundled into one number with a margin hidden inside it.
If the work is not producing what we projected, we raise it in the next review before you have to. Sometimes the answer is to scale back. Sometimes it is to part ways. Both are honest.
If your budget is too small for the category, or the problem is operational rather than marketing, we tell you during the audit. It happens more than you would expect.
