About · Marketing team for one-location service businesses
The marketing team your one-location service business can’t afford to staff.
Posts, paid ads, and review replies — bundled into one flat monthly fee. No 6–12 month retainer, no upsold social posts, no separate ad-spend line item.
The founder
Who started Cornerpost.
Cornerpost was founded by a husband-and-wife team that ran marketing for a regional chain of physical-therapy clinics before deciding to make the same playbook available to the businesses that actually keep towns running — the one-location plumbers, dentists, salons, gyms, and local clinics.
Those owners were getting pitched the same stack every quarter: a website rebuild on contract, ad spend billed separately, a social-post package added on after signing. None of it was wrong in isolation; it was just built for a different buyer.
Cornerpost exists to fill the gap between a solo owner who can’t afford a marketing team and an agency whose pricing assumes one. We do three jobs (posts, paid ads, review replies), and we do them on one flat monthly retainer.
Why Cornerpost
Why this offering exists.
The same five agencies — LYFE, WebFX, KlientBoost, SmartSites, and Disruptive — come up again and again when a local owner asks for marketing help. Their sites are polished, their case studies are real, and the math on what they sell is the same:
- Retainer bases of $1,000 to $15,000 a month.
- Ad spend billed separately on top of the retainer.
- 6–12 month minimums, often with an annual renewal.
- Social posts upsold after signing — usually as a separate SKU.
That is the category norm, not a flaw in any one firm. Cornerpost’s answer is to bundle the three jobs a one-location business actually needs, name them on the invoice, and keep the contract at one number a local owner can budget.
How Cornerpost prices, side by side
The category pattern vs. Cornerpost’s answer.
LYFE, WebFX, KlientBoost, SmartSites, and Disruptive all bill on roughly the same shape — this is how the category prices. Cornerpost’s row is what replaces it for a one-location service business.
| Surface | Industry-standard agency pattern LYFE · WebFX · KlientBoost · SmartSites · Disruptive | Cornerpost bundled One retainer |
|---|---|---|
| Retainer base | A monthly base of $1,000 to $15,000 — quoted after a discovery call and tied to a defined scope. | One flat monthly retainer of $1,000 to $2,500 — quoted from a single tier card, not a custom build. |
| Ad spend | Billed separately as a media spend line, separate invoice from the agency — owner pays Meta / Google directly or through the agency with a markup. | Channel guidance (Meta, TikTok, Google Business Profile) scaled inside the tier — owner pays ad spend directly to the platforms at cost, Cornerpost only invoices the retainer. |
| Contract length | Six- to twelve-month minimums, with annual renewals baked into the MSA. | Month-to-month after a 60-day ramp — pause with 14 days’ notice, same-day offboarding if you outgrow us. |
| Social posts | Upsold after signing as a separate social-media SKU, typically as a retainer add-on layered on top of the base. | Posts (8–20 short-form a month) are in the base retainer — not a separate line, not an upsell. |
| Who picks the levers | Agency-led strategy and quarterly planning decks; the owner receives deliverables and a recap, not a calendar of decisions. | One team and one flat invoice — posts, ads, and replies run off the same plan and the same single point of contact. |
| What shows up on the bill | A retainer line, a separate media-spend line, a social-post add-on line, and a content-shoot invoice — four rows minimum. | One line: the monthly retainer. Ad spend goes directly to the platforms, no markup, no second invoice. |
What lands in the monthly retainer
Three jobs. One retainer. No ad-spend line item.
Each card is one job. Each job is on the same invoice and the same 60-day ramp. Ad spend is paid directly to the platforms — Cornerpost only invoices the retainer.
Bundle 1 of 3
Posts
8 to 20 short-form posts a month — original photos and video sourced from your shop or studio, scheduled across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Google Business.
Bundle 2 of 3
Paid Ads
Two to three ad sets live across Meta, TikTok, and Google Business Profile — creative, targeting, and budget managed end-to-end on a weekly cadence.
Bundle 3 of 3
Reviews
Same-day written replies on Google, Yelp, Facebook, and the platform that matters in your vertical — including the negative ones, with reply templates for the awkward cases.
One flat monthly fee. Posts, ads, and reviews. No ad-spend line item.See the three tiers
Day-one
Twenty minutes. One number inside the band.
Tell us which of the three jobs is your actual bottleneck and we’ll quote you a flat monthly number inside your tier — no deck, no procurement form, no calendar tetris on your side.
- 20 minutes, video or phone — whichever saves you context-switching.
- We come prepared with the review + ad signal we’d want before signing.
- No form? Email cornerpost-place@polsia.app and we’ll send the breakdown.