Why you don’t need another marketing person

Most operators don’t have a “marketing problem.” They have a store that doesn’t sell — and hiring another marketer treats the symptom for one payroll cycle.

The real cost of “we’ll hire someone”

A junior marketing seat looks affordable until you price what they actually inherit:

• A brochure site pretending to be a shop
• Checkout that dies on PayFast / Yoco edge cases
• Product photos and SKUs living in WhatsApp threads
• No one owning updates, security, or “why did the cart break on Friday”

You’re not buying growth. You’re buying someone to firefight a store that was never built to take money.

What Get Selling actually is

Get Selling is EcoLife’s ecommerce lane: design once, maintain monthly.

We build a professional storefront on Shopify or WooCommerce, wire South African payments (PayFast, Yoco), and keep the store healthy every month — updates, backups, security, and minor product edits. Platform fees and gateway charges stay on your account. We say that up front.

That’s continuous store health — not a campaign deck and a prayer.

Packages (excl. VAT)

| Package | Once-off build | Monthly maintain | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter Store | R18,000 | R2,900/mo | | Growth Store | R38,000 | R5,900/mo | | Scale Store | From R65,000 | R11,900/mo |

Growth is the usual fit once you’re past a first ~50 SKUs. Scale is for larger catalogues and integrations.

Why another marketer isn’t the ROI move

Hiring buys capacity. Get Selling buys a selling system with a price you can budget.

| | Another marketing hire | Get Selling | | --- | --- | --- | | What you get | Salary + tools + ramp time | Built store + monthly care | | Checkout / payments | Often “someone else’s problem” | PayFast / Yoco wired in | | Broken cart on Monday | Slack chaos | Retainer hours + maintain | | Monthly cost shape | Payroll forever | Build once + fixed retain |

If your “marketing hire” would spend half their week chasing plugins, stock photos, and “please update the product,” you don’t need another marketer first — you need a store that works, then put humans on offers and customers.

Who this is for

• Brands still selling off Instagram DMs and Excel
• Operators with a site that looks fine and converts nothing
• Teams who want Shopify or WooCommerce without an agency quote that starts at “it depends” and ends at six figures

Get Found still owns LinkedIn visibility and outreach. Get Selling owns the checkout. Use one or both — don’t confuse “being seen” with “taking payment.”

The move

You don’t need another marketing person to babysit a broken shop.

You need Get Selling — professional ecommerce, designed once, maintained monthly.

See Get Selling packages · Book a Call · Call +27 72 606 4522