Consulting
Ninety minutes. Two hundred dollars. Any business model.
$200 flat
90 minutes
No retainer
Sonar Shores runs one marketing consulting session — ninety minutes, $200 flat, any business model — with no retainer, no packages and no discovery call. Consultants charge $225 to $450 for the same block.
You bring one thing — an ad account, an offer, a funnel, a lead-response problem — and we diagnose it live and tell you what to change first.
You’re paying for the session, not a sales call. Nothing follows it unless you ask.
What you get
What you get in ninety minutes
Ninety minutes is enough to diagnose one thing properly and tell you what to do about it — live, while you’re on the call.
What fits
A diagnosis of one ad account — where the money leaks and what to change first.
A pressure test on your offer — what’s bundled, what’s guaranteed, what the first purchase costs.
A read on one funnel — the exact step where people leave.
A look at your lead response — whether speed-to-lead is costing you.
What it can’t
A full strategy built from zero for a business we’ve never seen. That’s not a ninety-minute job.
Ongoing execution — the session diagnoses, it doesn’t run the work.
Four unrelated problems at once. Bring the one that’s costing you most.
Bring the one that’s costing you most. Ninety minutes goes a lot further on one problem than on four.
The price
One session. One price.
One session
$200
flat
90 minutes. One block. That’s the whole thing.
No hourly rate
No half-hours
No packages
No retainer pitch
That is the entire price. No hourly rate to run up, no proposal, and no scope to negotiate before you know what it costs.
You pay once, for one 90-minute session. Nothing recurs and nothing is added.
What it costs elsewhere
What does a marketing consultant charge?
Experienced marketing consultants charge $150 to $300 an hour, and senior specialists and fractional leaders run $150 to $500. A ninety-minute block at market is $225 to $450. This session is $200 — below the floor, on purpose.
Marketing consultant rates, 2026. Sources beneath the table.
Experienced marketing consultant
$150–$300/hr
Senior specialist or fractional leader
$150–$500/hr
The same 90 minutes, at market
$225–$450
This session
$200
The number does the arguing. Most consultants will not publish a rate at all; publishing one, right next to the market, is the whole point of this page.
Who it's for
Who it’s for
Any business model — that is the point of this page, and it is not true of any other page on the site.
Ecommerce and DTC brands
Local service businesses
B2B — SaaS, services and lead-gen
Agency owners buying a second opinion
What we'll cover
What we’ll actually cover
Whatever you bring. Most sessions land on one of these:
The ad account — what's being spent, what's working, and the first change worth making.
The offer — what's bundled, what's guaranteed, and what the first purchase costs.
The funnel — traffic to money, step by step, until we find the one that leaks.
The creative — why the ads stopped working, and what to shoot next.
Lead response — how fast leads get answered, and what that speed is worth.
What this is not
What this is not
Most “strategy sessions” in this category are free, because they are sales calls. Charging $200 is what makes this one different — and saying so out loud is the whole trust argument.
Not a retainer pitch — nobody will try to sell you a monthly plan at the end.
Not a deck — no slides, and no branded PDF three days later.
Not a report you wait for — you get the answers inside the ninety minutes.
Not a discovery call — you are not being qualified, and you have already paid.
Questions
Questions
Experienced marketing consultants charge $150 to $300 an hour, and senior specialists and fractional leaders run $150 to $500. That puts a ninety-minute block at $225 to $450 at market. This session is $200, flat — below the floor, and there's no hourly rate to run up.
You bring one thing — an ad account, an offer, a funnel, a lead-response problem — and we diagnose it live and tell you what to change first. You get the answers spoken, inside the call, while you can still ask the next question. There's no waiting for a report and no discovery call before it.
No. The session is the whole transaction. If ongoing work makes sense, that's yours to raise afterwards — it is never pitched to you during the ninety minutes.
No branded deck or report three days later — that's not what you're buying, and by design. You're welcome to record the call, and we'll drop any links or references into the chat as we go. The deliverable is the ninety minutes.
Any business model — ecommerce and DTC brands, local service businesses, B2B, and agency owners who want a second opinion. Breadth is the point of this session, and it isn't true of any other page on the site.
Then it's honest to say so up front: ninety minutes can diagnose one account, one offer or one funnel, but it can't build a full strategy from zero for a business we've never seen. If you need that, the next step is ongoing management, not a longer call — and that's your decision to make after the session, not something sold to you during it.