07/31/2026
"$1,550 a month for social media is just too expensive…" 👀
We hear it all the time. So we ran the math and it might surprise you.
📌 Hiring in-house: once you add taxes, insurance, and tools, one person costs $4,800–5,500 a MONTH. And the industry average says they leave in 18–24 months.
📌 A freelancer: $500–1,200/mo - but photography usually isn't included, strategy is informal, and it's one person with no backup.
📌 Doing it yourself: 10+ hours a week figuring out what to post, filming, editing, writing, keeping up. If you're a business owner, your time is the most expensive employee on your payroll.
📌 Us: strategy, shoots, captions, editing, posting, analytics, community management, meetings - full management from $1,550/mo, entry services from $1,250.
And the receipts, because affordable means nothing if the work doesn't perform: most of our clients are already past the yearly goals we set together IN WRITING every January.
A third blew through their ENTIRE year's impressions goal by June - and those were LOFTY goals benchmarked against real platform data.
If you're about to hire anyone (us, a freelancer, your niece, ask these first:
⚡ "What are my goals, in writing, and when do we review them?"
⚡ "What's included vs. billed separately?" (Ask about photography specifically.)
And ask yourself: "What happens when this person is sick, on vacation, or gone?" (With a team - nothing. That's the point.)
No easy answer to all three? That's your next problem to solve.
To everyone who isn't a business owner and reads our posts anyway - you're the reason this works. Every share, every "you should talk to Remember Media" in a conversation we never heard: that's how our 6 open spots for 2026 will fill. It's how every spot ever has 💚
Books are open - availability and pricing at remember901.com/availability
Know a Memphis business owner who's been "about to get serious" about social since 2024? Share this to their page or tag them below. We'll wait 👀