A desk, a laptop, a toolkit.
A new hire needs equipment and design, scheduling and reporting software. Seam brings its own.
WHY SEAM?
Your marketing.
Without the full-time salary.
You need your marketing moving. You might not need another employee. Get experienced support for your website, socials and more, from $140 a week plus GST.
From $140 / week
Plus GST. Billed weekly.
Experience from day one
Support across your agreed services.
No new employee to hire
No recruitment, payroll or super to manage.
THE COST OF ONE HIRE
A salary is just
the starting point.
Thinking about hiring a marketing graduate? Pick a salary and see what one hire really costs each week, before the laptop, software or training.
One in-house hire
$1,615
per week
VS
Seam Media
from$140
per week + GST
One in-house hire
Salary + super
$84,000$1,615 / wk
Local Marketing Foundation
Seam package
$7,280$140 / wk
Growth
Seam package
$12,220$235 / wk
Complete Growth
Seam package
$18,200$350 / wk
Salary + super only. Seam fees exclude GST. How we calculated this
Even our most comprehensive package
$65,800 less per year.
That’s 78% less than one hire on $75,000 plus super. More room in your budget for advertising, equipment or your next big move.
BEYOND THE PAYSLIP
And that’s before
the hidden costs.
The numbers above only count salary and super. A new hire also comes with these.
Someone still needs to train them.
A graduate brings fresh ideas, but often needs guidance with live campaigns, websites and reporting. Seam brings experience from day one.
Paid leave needs a plan.
Full-time employees generally get four weeks of annual leave and 10 days of personal/carer’s leave a year. Your marketing still needs to keep moving.
Hiring is a job of its own.
Recruitment, onboarding, payroll and supervision all take time. Seam gives you an agreed scope and one point of contact.
LESS COST, NOT LESS QUALITY
Real results for
real local businesses.
“Highly recommend Heath... he’s a man of his words, and he’ll do exactly what he says. Easy to communicate, very professional, very knowledgeable and I can tell he actually cares about helping your business grow.”
“Heath is nothing but amazing to work with! His communication was clear and he kept me well updated throughout the whole process of building our website. It turned out even better than I imagined.”
You’ll work with Heath directly.
No account managers or handballing. The person planning your marketing is the person doing it, and you’ll always know who to call.
Some of the brands we’ve worked with
CHOOSE THE SUPPORT YOU NEED
A smaller commitment.
A clear plan.
Start with your website and socials, add local search and one ad platform, or bring everything together.
A simple website. Active socials.
Local Marketing Foundation
$140/ week + GST
$7,280 / year · $607 / month average
91% less than one hire
- Basic website setup and care
- Small website updates
- Branded posts, captions and scheduling
- Facebook and Instagram support
Uses your photos and footage. SEO, reporting and advertising are not included.
Explore package detailsLocal visibility. One ad platform.
Growth
$235/ week + GST
$12,220 / year · $1,018 / month average
85% less than one hire
- Everything in Foundation
- Local SEO and Google Business Profile
- Five tracked terms and map-pack scans
- Google Ads OR Meta Ads management
- Conversion tracking and monthly reporting
One prioritised website or SEO improvement per month. Ad spend is separate.
Explore package detailsWebsite, socials, SEO and both ad platforms.
Complete Growth
$350/ week + GST
$18,200 / year · $1,517 / month average
78% less than one hire
- Everything in Growth
- Google Ads AND Meta Ads management
- Social content and campaign creative
- Combined performance reporting
- Monthly marketing review
Ad spend and third-party platform fees are separate. Larger projects and filming are quoted separately.
Explore package detailsTHE RIGHT FIT MATTERS
Need marketing support,
or a seat filled?
If you need someone on site all day, managing internal projects and responding to every request, a full-time hire can make sense.
If you need your marketing done well and done consistently, you don’t need to pay for 38 hours a week. You’re paying for an agreed set of marketing work, done by someone who’s done it before.
See our work in practiceYOUR NEXT STEP
Put more into your business.
Spend less on getting started.
Tell us where your marketing needs help. We’ll work out whether Foundation, Growth or Complete Growth is the right fit.
How we calculated the comparison
The $70,000, $75,000 and $80,000 salaries are illustrative hiring budgets, excluding super. They are not a claim about the market average, a minimum salary or an award rate. The model applies 12% super to the full example salary.
All figures are in AUD and rounded. Weekly employee costs are salary plus super divided by 52. Package annual equivalents are the weekly service fee multiplied by 52; average monthly equivalents divide that total by 12. These are comparison figures, not monthly or annual billing offers. Packages are billed weekly. Fees exclude GST; GST is payable on Seam’s fees. Employee salaries do not attract GST.
Salary already covers paid leave, so no additional leave amount is included. Equipment, software, recruitment, training, replacement cover, workers compensation insurance, any applicable payroll tax and leave loading are excluded because they vary by business. Ad spend, third-party platform fees, filming and larger projects are additional to Seam’s fees.
This compares costs, not equal hours, duties or outcomes. Seam packages are an agreed marketing service with defined deliverables and do not include a dedicated employee, full-time hours or unlimited requests. Your proposal sets the scope, term and notice period.
Results shown are from client-supplied reports; see each case study for the reporting period and context.
Employment references: ATO super guarantee rates, Fair Work annual leave and Fair Work sick and carer’s leave. References checked 1 October 2026.