COMMUNICATIONS
The Consultant’s services are defined as “Email and Social Media Management.” These services are summarized below:
Overseeing the Client’s email program; including drafting fundraising emails, campaign updates, and volunteer recruitment. This will include up to ONE email per week. Additional emails will be billed at a protracted rate.
Overseeing up to TWO social media accounts for the Client. This will include initial set-up, weekly updates using Client provided graphics and images, and monthly paid social media advertisements. Graphic design and photography will be an additional fee, billed at a rate 0f $225 per hour.
Bi-weekly check-ins on the 1st and 3rd weeks of the month via phone, in person, or via zoom to discuss direction of the campaign, strategy, and analysis for the first three quarters of Smith Consulting’s fiscal year (December-August) lasting up to thirty (30) minutes. During the final quarter (September-November) these will increase to weekly sessions. If more check-ins are requested by the client, or if any of the check-ins are required to go for longer than the allotted time, the client will be billed at a rate of $100 per hour, billed in increments of tenths of an hour. In the final twenty-one (21) days before Election Day, a premium billing of $175 an hour will be charged for additional check-in time.
RETAINER
The Client shall pay a monthly retainer fee to the Consultant in advance for services. Any reasonable expenses shall be paid within seven (7) days of receipt of invoice by the client.
A monthly fee will be invoiced to the Client by the Consultant on the first day of every month for all the services provided and performed as well as for all the pre-approved expenses incurred the previous month for .
The monthly retainer fee will increase quarterly based on the Smith Political Consulting reporting calendar beginning in December and ending in November. .
Months in the first quarter (December-February) shall incur a fee of $50 per month.
Months in the second quarter (March-May) shall incur a fee of $75 per month.
Months in the third quarter (June-August) shall incur a fee of $125 per month.
Months in the fourth quarter (September-November) shall incur a fee of $275 per month.
The Client is required to pay the invoice within fourteen (14) days upon receiving it. A late fee of $25 per day will be charged until the invoice is paid in full, including any late fees.
The Parties agree that the payments are to be made via Cash, check, Square Payment, Venmo Payment Application, or sent to the following address: 12609 E. Casa Bella St., Wichita, Kansas, 67207.