Grab your ankles.what does it mean when an SEO company says we require a minimum monthly retainer of $5,000?
I made sure there are red bars.nulled the gold color rep bar
can somebody explain to me what a monthly retainer is?
what does it mean when an SEO company says we require a minimum monthly retainer of $5,000?
It means they want 5K for you to be their customer. Retainer basically means you have a budget to be spent on various SEO tasks such as linkbuilding, consulting, on page stuff etc. You will then be billed at an exorbiant hourly rate.
but why would they set a fixed fee without knowing the work involved on each project?
I just really dont get why so many agencies use the monthly retainer model.
You sucks at maths
You pay me 5k a month. My consulting fee is 200/hr. everytime we talk on phone, IM, emails , Skype, etc. I'm billing you off the retainer.
Oh what is that. You want me to search keywords, back links, etc. that's extra.
but who in their right mind would pay that much just for talking on the phone and emails?
why would a company choose to do that instead of hiring their own full-time inhouse seo for the same price and have him do all link building + research etc...?