How to run, price and grow a marketing agency, and how Wieldy compares with the tools agencies use today.
A retainer is a recurring fee paid in advance for ongoing work. The four types of agency retainer, how they are billed, what the contract needs, and how each affects margin.
Seven agency management platforms priced at the same 12-seat team size, sourced to each vendor's pricing page and checked September 2026. Published by Wieldy.
Work out your agency's sellable hours, what's already committed, and the breakeven a new hire must clear. Formulas, worked examples and the hire-or-decline call.
A practical system for agencies: deposits, net terms, a reminder schedule with copy-and-paste emails, media-spend rules and a five-step escalation.
Four models for re-billing ad spend to clients, the six places media money leaks, and a month-end reconciliation routine an ops person can run in an hour.
A working method for agency retainer pricing: the four retainer models, blended cost per hour, a full worked example, and the four ways retainers lose money.
A margin-first method for time tracking for agencies: calculate retainer service ratio and effective hourly rate, run a 30-minute monthly review, and reprice.
A CRM for marketing agencies has to survive the won deal: retainer, first invoice, tiered commission. Honest comparison of HubSpot, Pipedrive, Productive, Scoro, Workamajig and Wieldy pricing at 15 users.
Dedicated reporting tool, Looker Studio, PM stack or all-in-one? A decision rule for client reporting software for marketing agencies, with 10-seat costs.
How to pay agency sales reps on retainers: collected vs invoiced, the commissionable base when media spend passes through, marginal vs retroactive tiers, and what commission tracking software must do.
Agency management software priced flat per workspace — $59, $105 or $174/mo. Retainers, tiered commissions and media-buying reconciliation, plus a sourced cost comparison at 10 and 25 users.
A commission plan built for agency retainers, media spend and churn — six decisions and a full worked example with numbers, ready to copy into your own plan.
The actual arithmetic behind a defensible monthly retainer: billable capacity, fully-loaded cost per hour, target margin and pass-through media spend. Worked example plus a free, ungated calculator.
How to calculate agency profit margin on net revenue instead of gross billings, what drives the spread between observed and recommended benchmarks, and the four leaks that cost margin.
Total monthly cost for Productive.io, Scoro, Teamwork, Function Point, Workamajig, Accelo and Wieldy at 6, 15 and 30 people — sourced from vendor pricing pages, September 2026.
Sourced cost comparison at 6, 12, 15 and 25 seats. Function Point is $53-$68 per user/month; Wieldy is flat per workspace with a 7-day trial. Prices checked Sept 2026.
Accelo does not publish pricing. Wieldy does: flat launch pricing at $59/$105/$174 a month, a 7-day trial with no card, and a live demo you open without a sales call. Honest comparison.
Wieldy vs Teamwork.com compared for 5-50 person marketing agencies: sourced pricing at 6, 15 and 30 users, commissions, media-buying reconciliation, client portals.
Looking for a Scoro alternative for agencies? See what Scoro costs at 8, 15 and 30 users, which bundle you actually need, and where flat-priced Wieldy fits.
Flat $105/mo for 15 seats vs $25/user/mo on Productive Professional. Real cost arithmetic at 10, 20 and 40 seats — plus where Productive.io is the better buy.
Seven Teamwork.com alternatives compared on total monthly cost at 10, 20 and 40 seats, with sourced September 2026 pricing. Published by Wieldy, one of the tools compared.
Seven Workamajig alternatives compared on total monthly cost at 10, 15 and 25 users, with every price sourced to the vendor's own pricing page, September 2026.
7 Scoro alternatives compared on real published prices at 12 seats — Productive.io, Teamwork, Function Point, Accelo, Workamajig and more. Prices checked September 2026.
Seven Productive.io alternatives compared on total monthly cost at 10, 20 and 40 seats. Prices from each vendor's own page, checked September 2026.