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The Full-Service Marketing Agency Alternative

Full-service agencies charge $8-15K/month for a pod of juniors who juggle 12 accounts. Get a hand-picked in-house marketer who owns your paid, organic, content, email, and analytics — for less than half.

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Why full-service agencies underdeliver

  • The pod problem

    The senior strategist sells you the deal. A rotating pod of juniors does the work. Every quarter someone new asks where the brand guidelines live.

  • You're one of 40 accounts

    Even the best full-service agency's account manager handles 20-40 clients. Your campaigns get ~1 hour of focused strategy per week.

  • Everything through a Slack channel

    You can't ping a full-service agency at 8am to ask about yesterday's conversion drop. Everything goes through a ticket queue and comes back 48 hours later.

What a full-service agency delivers — under one hire

Paid ads across every channel

Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn — campaign builds, daily optimization, transparent reporting. No 15% ad-spend fee.

SEO + content strategy

Keyword research, content calendar, on-page optimization, technical SEO fixes, link-building outreach — planned and executed.

Creative + brand production

Ad creative, landing pages, social graphics, blog images. Managed via Canva/Figma with your brand guidelines.

Email marketing + automation

Klaviyo, Mailchimp, HubSpot flows — welcome series, nurture sequences, abandoned cart, win-back, product launches.

Analytics + reporting

GA4, GTM, Meta Pixel, Looker Studio dashboards. Weekly review calls with honest attribution — no vanity metrics.

Team + vendor coordination

Manages freelancers, designers, and any additional specialists — so you're not the router between everyone.

One accountable hire. Half the agency cost.

A full-service marketing agency retainer is $8-15K/month. A GetGuru Marketing Guru covers the same scope for under $4K/month.

Starting from
$1,675/ bi-weekly
  • 5-day onboarding — meet your marketer within a business week
  • 30-day replacement guarantee if the fit isn't right
  • Bi-weekly billing, cancel any time — no annual contracts
  • You own the accounts, audiences, creative, and learnings
  • Full-time, timezone-aligned, English-fluent
Talk to us about a Marketing Guru
“We fired our agency last year — they were $11K a month for a pod that couldn't tell you our top ad without checking Slack. Our GetGuru Marketing Guru replaced everything they were doing, in-house, for less than half. Nine months in and we've grown 3× revenue.”
Founder / CEO
DTC founder, mid-8-figure ARR · E-commerce
3× revenue in 9 months

Anonymised at client request. Details available under NDA on discovery call.

Full-Service Marketing Alternative — Frequently Asked Questions

For most companies below $10M ARR: yes. Agencies exist because they can pool specialists across many small clients. When you have one dedicated marketer full-time on YOUR business, they can do the work of 4-5 fractional pod members, because they don't switch context between 40 accounts a day. For larger companies, we can add a second hire (specialist) to keep coverage tight.
Your Marketing Guru manages that layer — briefs, review cycles, delivery. For volume video work we can add a Video Editor from our bench. For premium photo/video shoots, they'll manage the local production vendor for you.
Fractional CMOs are typically $10K-25K/month for 10-15 hours of strategy per week — no execution. A GetGuru Marketing Guru is full-time (40 hrs/week), does both strategy and execution, and costs about a fifth of a fractional CMO retainer.
We match by industry experience where possible. Most of our Marketing Guru bench has 5+ years across DTC e-commerce, B2B SaaS, agencies, real estate, or coaching/course businesses. If your vertical is niche, we'll flag it during discovery and either find a match or advise a different fit.
Sweet spot is $500K-$10M ARR — big enough to need real marketing, small enough that a single dedicated hire can move the needle. Below $500K we often recommend a specialist role instead (e.g. just paid ads); above $10M we typically recommend a full-time Marketing Guru + a specialist for a specific channel.

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A 15-minute discovery call — no obligation, no sales pressure. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.

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