Hire freelance marketer talent, or a managed team

If you are about to hire freelance marketer help, you have three realistic routes: find one freelancer yourself, post the job on a freelance marketplace, or buy a monthly plan of hours from a managed team like RemoteMarketer. Each route suits a different situation. This page compares them on cost, time to start, vetting, coverage and who carries the coordination, and it says plainly when a single freelancer is the better choice.

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No calls. Month-to-month. You own every ad account.

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Area Typical hours per month

Google Ads management and testing8 h
SEO fixes, briefs and on-page work8 h
Email campaigns and flows6 h
Tracking checks and reporting2 h
Coordination and monthly review1 h

Single freelancer, freelance marketplace or a RemoteMarketer plan

What matters	Single freelancer you find	Freelance marketplace	RemoteMarketer plan
Typical hourly rate	widely varies, experienced specialists commonly charge $60 to $150	wide range, plus marketplace fees on top	$83 to $99 effective rate, depending on plan
Time to start	depends on referrals and availability	fast to post, slow to shortlist and test	proposal by email within 2 business days
Who vets skills	you	you, helped by ratings	we assign specialists per channel
Channels covered	usually one or two	one per hire, you assemble the team	up to 4 on Growth, all on Team
Coordination	you brief and manage	you brief and manage each hire	one plan, one hour report, a lead on Team
Holiday or exit	work stops	you rehire	another specialist continues
Reporting	whatever the freelancer offers	varies per person	weekly hour report on Growth and Team, monthly on Starter
Commitment	agreed with the person	per contract	month-to-month or annual

Typical hourly rate

Single freelancer you find
widely varies, experienced specialists commonly charge $60 to $150

Freelance marketplace
wide range, plus marketplace fees on top

RemoteMarketer plan
$83 to $99 effective rate, depending on plan
Time to start

Single freelancer you find
depends on referrals and availability

Freelance marketplace
fast to post, slow to shortlist and test

RemoteMarketer plan
proposal by email within 2 business days
Who vets skills

Single freelancer you find
you

Freelance marketplace
you, helped by ratings

RemoteMarketer plan
we assign specialists per channel
Channels covered

Single freelancer you find
usually one or two

Freelance marketplace
one per hire, you assemble the team

RemoteMarketer plan
up to 4 on Growth, all on Team
Coordination

Single freelancer you find
you brief and manage

Freelance marketplace
you brief and manage each hire

RemoteMarketer plan
one plan, one hour report, a lead on Team
Holiday or exit

Single freelancer you find
work stops

Freelance marketplace
you rehire

RemoteMarketer plan
another specialist continues
Reporting

Single freelancer you find
whatever the freelancer offers

Freelance marketplace
varies per person

RemoteMarketer plan
weekly hour report on Growth and Team, monthly on Starter
Commitment

Single freelancer you find
agreed with the person

Freelance marketplace
per contract

RemoteMarketer plan
month-to-month or annual

None of these routes includes ad spend, which you always pay directly to the ad platform.

When hiring a single freelancer is the better choice

A good freelancer is often exactly what a business needs, and we would not pretend otherwise.

You need one clearly defined project, such as a website migration audit or a one-time landing page, rather than ongoing monthly work. Our plans are monthly only.
You already have a marketing manager who can brief, review and coordinate, and you are filling one skill gap.
You found someone through a trusted referral who knows your industry and has time for you.
Your budget is under the cost of 10 hours a month, and a few hours of focused help covers the need.

A managed plan makes more sense when you need two or more channels at once, nobody in house has time to manage several freelancers, or the work cannot stop when one person is away.

What a month of work looks like on a managed plan

Instead of one generalist, each channel is handled by someone who does that channel all day. A typical Growth month for a company on search ads, SEO and email:

Google Ads specialist reviews the search terms report, adds negative keywords, adjusts bid strategy targets and tests new ad copy.
SEO specialist fixes crawl issues, improves internal linking and briefs one or two pages around buyer queries.
Email specialist sends campaigns, tunes the welcome and abandoned cart flows, and keeps the list clean.
A weekly hour report shows each task and its hours, with a monthly review doc on results and next priorities.

How 25 hours are typically split across channels on Growth

Area Typical hours per month

Google Ads management and testing 8 h
SEO fixes, briefs and on-page work 8 h
Email campaigns and flows 6 h
Tracking checks and reporting 2 h
Coordination and monthly review 1 h

Coordination time is small because the plan, not the client, connects the channels.

Pricing next to a freelance budget

Starter costs $990 a month for 10 hours, $841 a month billed yearly, with one lead specialist on one or two channels, so it sits close to what many businesses spend on a part-time freelancer. Growth is $2,290 for 25 hours with 2 to 3 specialists. Team is $4,990 for 60 hours with 4 to 6 specialists and a marketing lead, including up to 6 fractional CMO hours. Enterprise starts from $9,490 for 120 hours or more. The full table is on pricing, and a longer look at budgets lives in our article on freelancer, agency or remote team.

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Starter 10 h $990 $99 per hour Growth 25 h $2,290 about $92 per hour Team 60 h $4,990 about $83 per hour Enterprise 120 h from $9,490 about $79 per hour and lower

How starting with us differs from hiring a freelancer

There is no shortlist, interview round or test task on your side. You send a short brief, see the estimate immediately, and receive a written proposal by email within 2 business days naming the channels, hours and first priorities. Onboarding happens in week one: access to your accounts, a tracking check and the first tasks. See how it works for each step.

See how it works

1. Answer three questions
Pick the channels you need, your main goal and your monthly ad budget. It takes under a minute and needs no account.
2. See your estimate
The estimate shows the recommended plan, total hours, monthly price and the mix of specialists. It is built from typical hours per channel, adjusted for your goal and budget, plus time for coordination.
3. Send the brief
Create an account, confirm your email with a 6-digit code and add your company, website, timeline and anything we should know. You can edit the brief until the proposal arrives.
4. Read your written proposal
Within 2 business days you get the plan, the hours per channel, the specialist roles and a first-month task list by email. Questions go back and forth in writing, and replies arrive within one business day.
5. Start in week one
After you accept, we request access to your accounts, check tracking, agree the first priorities and start the work.

Accounts and assets stay in your name either way

Whichever route you choose, insist that ad accounts, analytics properties and files are owned by your business. On our plans that is the default: we work through access you grant to your own accounts, never shared passwords, and remove it when a plan ends.

Questions before you hire a freelance marketer

Are your specialists freelancers?

They are remote marketing specialists who work in our team on client plans. You do not hire, contract or pay them individually, and you get one plan, one invoice and one hour report.

Can I start with one channel and add more later?

Yes. Start on Starter with one or two channels and move up a plan from the next billing cycle when you want more. Pages such as hire SEO expert or PPC management services describe single channel work.

Is a plan more expensive than a freelancer?

Per hour, our effective rates sit inside the range experienced freelancers commonly charge. The difference is in what is included: vetting, cover, reporting and several specialists under one plan.

Do you take one-off projects?

No. Everything we do runs on monthly plans, which is one of the clear cases where a freelancer can be the better fit.

How do we communicate?

Everything runs in writing, by email and shared docs, with replies within one business day. There are no sales calls.

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