CorrenA flat monthly fee for ongoing work, not a percentage of your ad spend
Google Ads, Meta ads, conversion rate optimization and SEO are billed as one flat monthly fee, set by the work your accounts need and never by how much you spend on ads. You work with us month to month. Website builds get a fixed price, quoted in writing. Your number comes in a written proposal after the free audit, so you see the work before you see a price.
Why we don’t charge a percentage of your ad spend
Many agencies take a share of your ad budget as their fee, often 10% to 20% of ad spend.
We earn the same whether or not you spend more.
Under a percentage fee, cutting wasted spend cuts the agency’s pay. Under ours, it doesn’t, so when we tell you to spend less, or more, our fee isn’t the reason.
Flat fee vs percentage: when each costs lessYour monthly fee as ad spend grows
Monthly fee
Monthly ad spend
What sets your fee
How much work your accounts need each month. Your ad spend is never part of the sum.
- Channels and accounts
- Google Ads, Meta ads or both, and how many ad accounts and locations they cover.
- Campaign complexity
- How many services, areas and offers need their own campaigns, ads and keywords.
- Landing pages per month
- New or rebuilt pages we write, design and test each month.
- Content volume
- Service pages and articles we write for SEO each month.
- Building or maintaining
- Rebuilding tracking and campaigns from scratch takes more work than running ones that already work.
- Your ad spendNever
- Not a factor. If your budget goes up and the work stays the same, so does your fee.
How you get a number
After your free audit, reply with questions or ask for a call. Within 2 business days of that, you get a written proposal with the scope of work and your flat monthly fee in dollars.
The audit costs nothing and you keep it either way. Nothing starts until you accept the proposal.
What the free audit checksStep 1
Your free audit
A founder records a teardown of your ads, landing pages, tracking and search, ending with every issue ranked, and the three we’d fix first.
Within 3 business days
Step 2
Your reply
Questions, context, or a request for a call. The proposal is built on what you tell us.
When it suits you
Step 3
Your written proposal
What we’d do each month, your flat monthly fee in dollars, what’s included, the start date and how to cancel.
Within 2 business days
Your ad spend
Google or Meta bill your ad budget straight to your own card, inside your own ad account. It never passes through us, and we never mark it up. Our invoice covers our work and nothing else.
You can see every dollar of spend in the platform yourself, whenever you like.
Website projects
A new site or a rebuild is a project with an end, so it gets a fixed project fee, quoted in writing after the audit. The quote lists the pages, what’s included and the timeline.
If the scope changes partway through, we quote the change in writing before doing the work.
Website design and redesignMonth to month
There’s no 6- or 12-month contract. You can cancel with notice, and the notice period is written into your proposal before you agree to anything. Stay because it’s working.
Leaving is simple because nothing was ever ours. Your ad accounts, analytics and website stay in your name the whole time. We’re added as users, and when you leave, you remove us.
That isn’t always the case with agencies. When an agency creates a Google Ads account from its own manager account, that manager account becomes the owner. If an agency set up your account, it’s worth checking who owns it.
What stays in your name
- Google Ads accountYours
- Meta ad account and business portfolioYours
- Google Analytics 4 propertyYours
- Google Search ConsoleYours
- Website, domain and hostingYours
We’re added as users, with the access the work needs.
What every engagement includes
Whatever the scope, you see what we did, what it changed and what’s next, on a fixed schedule.
A weekly five-line update
Every weekShort enough to read on your phone. The same five lines, every week:
- 1StatusOn track, worth watching, or a problem, and why in one sentence.
- 2Spend and inquiriesMonth to date, against the plan we agreed.
- 3What we changedThe few changes that mattered this week.
- 4What’s nextWhat we’ll work on in the coming week.
- 5What we need from youA decision or an answer with a deadline, or nothing.
A monthly recorded review
Every monthA video walkthrough of the month, recorded by a founder. Watch it when it suits you and reply with questions.
- Inquiries
- Cost per inquiry
- Lead quality
- What we changed
- What’s next
A change log
Every changeEvery change we make, written down as we make it. When a number moves, you can see what moved it.
- The date
- What changed
- Why
- How long we’ll judge it over
These are the terms we sign.
Put in writing, so you can hold us to every one of them.
Flat monthly fee
Never a percentage of your ad spend. We earn the same whether you spend more or not.
Month to month
No 6- or 12-month lock-in. Stay because it’s working.
Founders do the work
The two people you meet are the two people running your account.
Your accounts stay yours
Ads, analytics and your site stay in your name. We’re added as users.
“We hired marketing agencies for businesses we started before this, and they just didn’t get it right. Ads over here, a website over there, and nobody could tell us what was actually working. So we started Corren to do it properly. Ask for an audit and one of us will record it ourselves.”
Questions about pricing
For anything we haven’t covered, email [email protected]. A founder replies within one business day.
Read our standardsWhy don’t you publish prices?
Because one published price would be wrong for most businesses. Two companies with the same ad budget can need very different amounts of work: one needs its tracking rebuilt and three new landing pages, the other needs a weekly tune-up.
So we look first. After the free audit you get a written proposal with your flat monthly fee in dollars, and that fee is the whole bill for the work it covers. Anything outside it is quoted in writing before we do it. No surprise invoices, and no fee that grows with your ad spend.
What if my ad spend goes up?
Your fee stays the same. It changes only if the work changes, for example adding Meta ads to Google Ads or more landing pages each month, and only after we agree the change in writing.
Is there a minimum ad spend?
Not for the free audit. Send your website whatever you spend, or if you don’t run ads at all. For ongoing work, the audit tells you whether hiring us makes sense at your budget. If it doesn’t, we’ll say so and point you to what you can fix yourself.
Can I cancel?
Yes. We work month to month, with no 6- or 12-month contract. You cancel with notice, and the notice period is set out in your proposal before you agree to anything. Your accounts are already in your name, so there’s nothing to hand back.
Do I keep my accounts, data and site?
Yes. Your Google Ads, Meta, Google Analytics and Search Console accounts, your website and your domain stay in your name, and we’re added as users. What stays in your name