Manufacturing agencies, compared.
You can hire someone, use a freelancer, build it yourself, or hire an agency, and here is how we compare with each.
- $6,000one timeFor our complete website
- 6-18daysFrom brief to launch on our recent sites
Shopfloor Agency and three industrial agencies
Our website is $6,000, one time, and every price is on our pricing page. Each agency has its own page, set side by side with us on price, timing, and who owns the site.
If you are weighing an in-house hire, a freelancer, or a website builder, our page on Shopfloor Agency alternatives compares each one with us. Our case studies show three recent builds from brief to launch, and our industrial marketing agency page sets out what we do and what it costs.
We also compare ourselves one to one with weCreate, Altitude Marketing, and Lform. If you are leaving an agency, our pages on Windmill Strategy alternatives, Gorilla 76 alternatives, and Weidert Group alternatives set out the other options.
Questions about choosing marketing help
- Is an in-house marketing hire cheaper than outside help?
- For a website and search work alone, usually not. The median salary for a marketing manager is $166,790 a year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2025), while our website plus twelve months of SEO comes to $14,100 in year one. A hire covers far more ground, including trade shows, samples, print, and photography from the floor, and the two can run together.
- Manufacturing web design agency vs freelancer: which should you hire?
- Hire a freelancer when the site is small, the capability text already exists, and someone on your team will own it, because a good freelancer will build it faster and for less. Hire a specialist agency when the capability tables, tolerance ranges, and certification scopes are the hard part of the job, because a specialist drafts them from your drawings and quality manual and your engineer corrects the draft. With us, you work directly with the person who builds your site, as you would with a freelancer, and we write the technical pages as a specialist does.
- Should a manufacturer use a directory such as Thomasnet instead of its own website?
- A listing and a website do different jobs. A listing on an industrial supplier directory such as Thomasnet appears where buyers go to look for suppliers, and it stops the day you stop paying. Capability pages on your own domain are bought once and stay yours. A practical test for any listing is to divide its annual cost by the gross profit on one won job and ask whether it will bring in that many jobs a year.
- When should you hire none of them?
- Hiring nobody is often the right answer for now. If your capacity is sold out for the next year, if your revenue comes from two or three customers who renew on relationship, or if nobody on your team can confirm a tolerance range within a week, a new website will sit unread. If your current site already states your capabilities, tolerances, and certifications, completing your Google Business Profile is often enough.
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