Southern Tide Media
Plans & Pricing

Plans & Pricing

Our full growth stack, bundled into four monthly plans: Website Care, content, social, AI Visibility, reputation, brand protection, email, and CRM. Every plan costs less than the same services bought separately, and every plan comes with a monthly report that answers “what am I paying for?”

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Growth-stack plans

Foundation
The essentials, handled. Your site cared for like we built it yesterday.
$499/mo
Save $117/mo with this bundle
  • Managed hosting + SSL & security
  • Website Care Pro: priority maintenance & design requests
  • Monthly health & analytics report
  • Optional: Brand Protection Monitoring +$200/mo

Choose Foundation

Full Stack
Every channel working, one team running it.
$2,495/mo
Save $1,712/mo with this bundle
  • Everything in Growth
  • Reputation management
  • Email marketing: 2 campaigns/month
  • Managed CRM
  • Brand Protection Monitoring: who’s bidding on your brand name
  • Monthly AI Visibility report
  • Optional: paid media +$450/mo per channel

Choose Full Stack

Full Stack + Media
The whole engine, ads included.
$2,945/mo
Save $1,712/mo with this bundle
  • Everything in Full Stack
  • Paid media: one managed channel included (Google Search, Meta, or Amazon)
  • Monthly AI Visibility report

Choose Full Stack + Media

Every plan has a defined scope. Work beyond it is billed at $95/hr, and we always tell you before we start. Extra paid channels and additional social brands or properties: +$450/mo each. Brand Protection Monitoring: included in Full Stack plans, +$200/mo on any other plan.

Compare plans

FoundationGrowthFull StackFull Stack + Media
Price$499/mo$1,295/mo$2,495/mo$2,945/mo
Bought separately$616$2,060$4,207$4,657
Managed hosting + SSL
Managed Email Delivery (Postmark)
Website Care Pro (priority maintenance + design requests)
Monthly reportHealth & analytics+ AI Visibility report+ AI Visibility report+ AI Visibility report
Organic social (2–3 posts/wk, 1 brand)
Content (2 posts/mo)
AI Visibility Managed (GEO/AEO)
Reputation management
Email marketing (2 campaigns/mo)
Managed CRM
Brand Protection Monitoring+$200 optional+$200 optional
Paid media (1 channel)+$450 optional+$450 optional✓ Included

The monthly report

Every plan comes with a monthly report that answers “what am I paying for?” It’s written by the people doing the work, not generated and forwarded.

Foundation

Site health & analytics: uptime, updates, backups, performance, and what your traffic did. Proof the essentials are being handled.

Growth and up

The full AI Visibility report: how you show up in AI search and answers, what we changed this month, and what it earned you.

Adding paid media

Any plan can add managed paid advertising for +$450/mo per channel. Full Stack + Media includes the first channel.

Covers management of one paid advertising channel for monthly ad budgets between $500 and $2,500 per channel. The channel can be Google Search, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), or Amazon. Your ad budget is paid directly to the ad platform and is separate from the plan price. Budgets over $2,500/mo add 15% of the amount above $2,500 to that month’s invoice. Budgets over $10,000/mo are quoted individually.

Start with a build

Need a new site first? Our Build-First Growth System builds it before you buy it. Then a plan keeps it earning.

Own It — $2,950

One-time build at a set price. Classic custom builds from $4,750; e-commerce +$1,500.

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Subscribe — $599/mo

$0 down, 12-month minimum. Your new site plus the full Foundation scope in one monthly payment.

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Landing page / funnel — from $950

One page, built to sell one offer.

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Tracking & Analytics Setup — $795

GA4 + Search Console + Tag Manager, set up right. An $875 value bought separately.

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Every line item, explained

Every line item in the plans above, in plain English: what it is, what it costs on its own, and which plans include it.

01 Website build & ongoing evolution Every plan

Your website is the one channel you own outright, so it gets built right and it never sits still. When we start with a build, you see finished design work before you commit (spec builds from $2,950; fully custom sites from $4,750). After launch, every plan carries the site forward: design requests, new sections, and campaign landing pages handled month after month, so the site keeps improving instead of quietly aging until the next expensive redesign.

  • Design & build: mobile-first, launch QA, redirects, analytics wired in
  • Ongoing design requests through your plan’s priority queue
  • New sections & campaign landing pages as your offers change
  • Bigger projects scoped & quoted in writing first: $95/hr, approved before work starts
Read the full Websites page →
02 Managed hosting, SSL & monitoring Every plan

Fast, maintained WordPress hosting on servers we manage directly, not a reseller account you never hear about again. Your SSL certificate is issued, renewed, and watched. Uptime is monitored around the clock. And the email your site sends on its own (form notifications, receipts, confirmations) goes out through a dedicated, authenticated sending server so it lands in the inbox.

  • Managed WordPress hosting, tuned and kept current
  • SSL certificate issued, renewed & monitored
  • Uptime monitoring with daily checks, so problems are found before you feel them
  • Transactional email delivery: dedicated sending server, sender authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), 45-day delivery log
Read the full Website Care page →
03 Website care & security Every plan

The routine work that keeps a site healthy, done on a schedule instead of after something breaks. We watch core, theme, and plugin updates so nothing goes out blind, keep an eye on security before there’s a problem, keep backups ready to restore, and handle routine edits on request, with a person checking before anything goes live.

That includes platform updates. When your host requires a PHP or server upgrade (the software your site runs on), we test your site on the new version in staging first, fix minor compatibility issues (included), and roll it out with zero downtime. If an upgrade turns up a theme or plugin that needs significant rework to stay compatible, we tell you exactly what’s involved and quote it before doing anything. Your site stays safely on its current version in the meantime.

  • Core, theme & plugin updates, monitored rather than fire-and-forget
  • Platform (PHP/server) updates: tested on a staging copy first, minor fixes included
  • Security monitoring & restore-ready backups
  • Routine edits & small changes on request, checked by a person
  • Design requests with a priority queue (Care Pro level, in every plan)
Read the full Website Care page →
04 AI / SEO optimization & monthly reporting Growth & up

Search is shifting from a list of links to a single written answer, and AI only recommends businesses it can read, verify, and trust. Every month we track which AI answers name you (Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini), publish content built to win the ones you’re missing, and keep the code that tells machines who you are (structured data) up to date. Then we send you a scorecard in plain English.

  • AI answer monitoring across up to 10 priority questions
  • One content piece written to win a specific answer, or one on-page optimization pass, per month
  • Structured data (JSON-LD) maintained so AI can verify who you are
  • Monthly plain-English scorecard: citations, rankings, before/after

Every plan gets a monthly report. Foundation’s covers site health & analytics; Growth and up add the AI Visibility scorecard. Fighting for competitive keywords? Full SEO (from $995/mo) can be added on top of any plan. It’s scoped separately and never bundled.

Read the full AI Visibility page →
05 Content & blog program Growth & up

Two professionally produced pieces every month, on a schedule you never have to chase. Each one is researched, written in your voice, structured for search engines and AI answer engines, and edited and fact-checked by a person before you see it. You approve before anything publishes, and you own every word.

  • 2 posts per month, publish-ready
  • Written to rank in search and get cited by AI answer engines
  • Edited & fact-checked by a person; you approve before it publishes
  • Add AI Visibility’s monthly piece and that’s 3 pieces a month
  • You own everything we write
Read the full AI Content page →
06 Organic social Growth & up

Your feed stays active without you feeding it. We draft, you approve, we schedule: two to three posts a week for your brand, steady through the busy season when you don’t have a minute to think about it.

  • 2–3 posts per week, one brand
  • Drafted in your voice; you approve before anything posts
  • Scheduled & monitored, so there are no gaps
  • Additional brands or properties +$450/mo each
Read the full Social Media page →
07 Reputation management Full Stack & up

Your reviews decide whether people pick you, and AI engines read them when deciding who to recommend. We run review-request campaigns that get customers to respond, watch every major platform, and keep your listings (name, hours, contact info) consistent everywhere customers and AI look.

  • Review generation campaigns
  • Monitoring across Google & the major platforms
  • Listings kept accurate and consistent everywhere
  • Rating, volume & sentiment in your monthly report

Want every review answered? Reputation Pro ($599/mo) adds a response to every review: drafted by AI, approved by a person, never auto-published.

Read the full Reputation Management page →
08 Email design & management Full Stack & up

Two campaigns a month, designed and built to look right in every inbox, with tracking links wired in, and sent on schedule, so email stops being the channel you keep meaning to get to. Every campaign reports what it earned.

  • 2 campaigns per month: designed, built & sent
  • Tracking links wired to your analytics
  • Send coordination & scheduling
  • Performance in every monthly report

This is marketing email. The email your website sends on its own (receipts, form notifications) is separate, and it’s included in every plan under managed hosting.

Read the full Email & Automation page →
09 Managed CRM & automated workflows Full Stack & up

A CRM (the system that tracks your leads and customers) only pays for itself if someone runs it. We set yours up, with the sales pipeline, its stages, and your website forms feeding straight into it, then run it every month: automated follow-up that goes out while the lead is still warm, leads ranked and sent to the right person, and a pipeline review so the numbers stay accurate.

  • CRM setup: pipelines, stages & website forms wired to capture
  • Automated follow-up & nurture sequences: drafted, approved, running
  • Lead routing & scoring
  • Monthly pipeline review & workflow optimization
  • Your data stays yours, with a clean export any time
Read the full Managed CRM page →
10 Paid media management Full Stack + Media

Paid media is the one rented channel in the stack, and that’s why it comes last: ads work best when everything above it is already in place. In Full Stack + Media, one channel is managed inside the plan. It’s also available as a +$450/mo add-on on Growth or Full Stack.

  • One channel managed: Google Search, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), or Amazon
  • Covers ad budgets of $500–$2,500/mo per channel
  • Additional channels +$450/mo each
  • Ad spend paid directly to the platform, never marked up
  • Conversion tracking & plain-English reporting
Read the full paid media page →

Don’t take our word for it

“The Southern Tide Media team has smartly positioned itself as partners, versus “vendors.” Each step along the strategic path, I feel as if they are “all in” and have our best interests at heart.”

George DuRantNorth Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce

“Southern Tide Media increased our conversion rates on our SEO campaigns by 60% in short time… Brandon takes the worry out of all the technical jargon and translates that into workable applications you can understand as a business owner.”

Denise BurnsIn The Shade Beach Canopies

“In every dealing I have ever had with Brandon Evans, he has been knowledgeable, fair, and has responded quickly. I would highly recommend using him for any of your business’s marketing or advertising needs!”

Jacob SmithSandy Beach Resort

Common questions

Can I start smaller than Foundation?

Yes. Every service on this page is available on its own: Website Care from $149/mo, AI Visibility from $499/mo, reputation management from $349/mo, content from $295 a piece. And if you start with a build, you see finished work before committing to anything monthly. Foundation is just where the pieces start getting cheaper together.

What happens if I cancel?

You keep everything: your site, your domain, your content, your data, your accounts. We hand it over cleanly, document what’s running, and stay available for questions. The one exception is a subscription-built site inside its first 12-month term; ownership transfers to you at month 12.

How does paid media pricing work?

On its own, management is 18% of monthly ad spend with a $450/mo minimum per channel. Inside a plan, the paid media add-on covers ad budgets of $500–$2,500 per month per channel. Budgets above that add 15% of the amount over $2,500, and $10k+/mo programs are quoted individually. Either way, your ad spend goes directly to the platforms. We never mark it up.

Can I switch plans later?

Any month. Plans run 30 days at a time, so moving up or down is a conversation, not a contract amendment.

What happens when my host forces a PHP or platform upgrade?

Nothing dramatic. It’s included in every plan. We test your site on the new version in a staging copy first, fix minor compatibility issues as part of the plan, and roll it out with zero downtime. If the upgrade turns up a theme or plugin that can’t run on the new version, your site stays safely on its current version while we quote the fix in writing. No surprise work, no surprise bill.

What if I need something outside my plan?

It gets a written quote first (production work at $95/hr, strategy and consulting at $150/hr), and nothing starts until you approve it. There’s never a surprise line on your invoice.

Curious what AI could do for your marketing?

We’ll look at your current setup — ads, site, SEO, automation — and show you exactly where AI and a sharper strategy could move the needle. On us, no obligation.