Updated October 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team
A white label marketing agency is a fulfillment partner that plans and delivers marketing work which another agency or a consultant sells to its own clients under its own name: the reseller keeps the client, the brand, the contract and the price, and the partner does the work behind it. Progression Agency is a white label marketing agency for marketing firms, web studios, PR and branding shops, fractional marketing leads and software companies that want SEO, paid media, social, websites, content, email and AI visibility in their offer without hiring a specialist for each. Progression Agency is based in New York City and works with clients across the United States and worldwide.
Your brand, our team. Progression Agency is the white label partner described on this page: we do the work, and your agency presents it to the client as its own. See how our white label partner program works.
On this page · 27 sections
- What is a white label marketing agency?
- When does reselling marketing make sense for an agency?
- Who buys white label marketing services?
- How agencies choose a white label marketing company
- Which white labeled marketing services resell well?
- Four ways to add a service you do not staff
- Marketing fulfillment from sale to report
- What carries your brand, and what can reveal the partner?
- Who speaks to the end client?
- Account access and ownership: the rule that protects all three parties
- Who owns the finished work?
- The partner agreement: what it should cover
- Client data, privacy and email law in a resale chain
- Platform rules that bite in white label digital marketing
- How white label marketing is priced
- What do white label digital marketing services cost?
- Setting retail prices and protecting margin
- Quality control when another team does the work
- How to vet a white label marketing company
- Warning signs in a white label provider
- Onboarding the first client with a new partner
- What should a branded client report show?
- Ending a client account or a partnership cleanly
- How agencies use AI assistants to find a white label partner
- Packaging several services into one offer
- How Progression works with agencies that resell
- Related services for agencies that resell
The short answerWhite label marketing services let an agency sell work it does not staff: the end client buys from the agency it knows, and the fulfillment partner delivers under that agency’s brand. It works when four things are settled in writing before the first client: the client owns every platform account, a scope is fixed for each client, deliverables pass a review step before the client sees them, and an agreement covers confidentiality, non-solicitation, ownership of the work and exit. Platform rules still apply through the chain, including Google’s requirement that management fees be disclosed to the advertiser in writing and on invoices. Our partner quotes start from the same published prices and price bands as direct work, for example SEO retainers from $1,500 to $5,000 a month for small and mid-sized programs, and the reseller sets its own retail price.
Platform policies and laws are described as published on October 5, 2026 and can change. SEO retainer, social media management and website tier prices are Progression’s own published prices; other prices are published US price bands (market figures, not a Progression rate card) from our pricing guides and service pages. Nothing on this page is legal advice.
What is a white label marketing agency?
A company that does marketing work another firm resells as its own. The reselling firm’s name is on the proposal, the invoice, the reports and usually the calls; the partner’s name appears only in the agreement between the two businesses.
Three parties are involved in every account. The end client buys a service and owns its accounts and data. The reseller, which might be a marketing agency, a web studio or an independent consultant, owns the relationship and sets the price. The fulfillment partner plans and delivers the work to a written scope and hands it over in the reseller’s branding. The arrangement succeeds or fails on the detail of access, quality control and the contract, which is most of what this page covers.
White labeling marketing, which some firms write as whitelabel digital marketing, is different from outsourcing in one respect: the partner is invisible to the end client by design. That raises the stakes on honesty. Everything the reseller tells a client about results, costs and credentials has to be true of the work the partner actually does.
White label company examples outside marketing
The model is older than marketing. Store-brand groceries are often made by manufacturers that also sell under their own names, banks offer cards and accounts built on another firm's platform, and software companies license apps that partners rebrand. Each has the same shape: one business makes the product, another puts its name on it and owns the customer. White label online marketing applies that shape to search, ads, social and the web.
Comparing white label vs branded work is a question of who the customer sees, not who is better at the job. The same specialist can deliver both; what changes is whose name is on the report and who answers the phone.
When does reselling marketing make sense for an agency?
When client demand for a service is real but too small or too uneven to justify a full-time specialist. Reselling turns a fixed payroll cost into a cost per client account.
Clients ask for a service you do not offer
A web studio’s clients ask who will bring visitors to the new site; a PR firm’s clients ask for paid amplification of coverage. Saying no sends them to another agency that may take the whole account. Reselling lets you answer yes without pretending to have built a department overnight.
Demand outruns the team
Seasonal peaks, a large new client or several launches in one month can swamp a small team. A partner that already knows your standards takes the overflow and gives it back when the peak passes.
A specialist leaves
When the one person who runs paid media or SEO resigns, the accounts still need managing on Monday. A partner can hold them while you decide whether to rehire.
A large account needs depth you lack
An enterprise client may need technical SEO on a big site, paid media across several platforms or an answer engine visibility program. A partner supplies the senior skill for that account only.
Testing a service before hiring for it
Selling a new service through a partner for six to twelve months shows whether clients will pay for it, at what price and with what churn, before you commit to a salary.
Who buys white label marketing services?
Firms whose clients trust them with marketing decisions but who do not employ every specialist those decisions need.
- Full-service marketing agencies filling gaps in their service list.
- Web design and development studios that want ongoing search, ads or care plans after launch.
- PR, branding and creative agencies whose clients need distribution for the ideas.
- SEO firms adding paid media, social or AI visibility to existing retainers.
- Fractional marketing leads and independent consultants who sell strategy and need execution.
- Software, hosting and franchise platforms that offer marketing to their own customers.
- Business coaches and industry associations that bundle marketing into a membership.
White label for agencies, studios and consultants
For a marketing agency, white label fulfillment is usually a way to say yes to a client request without a new hire. The partners most often cover the specialist services that are hard to staff for one or two clients, such as technical SEO, paid social or development.
Consultants and studios use a white label digital marketing partner differently: they sell the strategy or the site, and need someone reliable to run the work that follows.
How agencies choose a white label marketing company
Most agencies start by looking for the partnership model rather than for a single service.
Agencies that already know which single service they need will find it covered on its own page, such as white label SEO.
Whatever the label, the questions that decide the choice are the same: who does the work, who owns the accounts and who speaks to the client.
Which white labeled marketing services resell well?
Services with a repeatable process, a clear deliverable and reporting that can be branded resell best: SEO, local SEO, link building, paid media, social media, web design and development, content, email, reputation management, lead generation and AI visibility. Work that depends on deep knowledge of the client’s business, such as positioning, needs more of the reseller’s own involvement.
| Service | How it is usually sold | Why it resells | What makes it harder | Where we cover it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEO | Monthly retainer | Clear audits, content and reports | Results take months; scope creep | White label SEO |
| Paid media | Management fee plus media | Platform data makes reporting objective | Platform rules on fees and access | White label PPC |
| Social media | Monthly plan | Calendar and approvals are routine | Brand voice must match exactly | Social media marketing |
| Websites | Project, then care plan | Defined scope and launch date | Ownership of code, hosting and licenses | Website design and development |
| Content | Monthly volume | Briefs and edits are easy to review | Expertise and fact-checking | Content marketing |
| Email and automation | Program plus flows | Templates and flows repeat | Sender rules and shared liability | Email marketing |
| AEO | Retainer or audit | Clients are asking about AI answers | Measurement is newer | White label AEO |
| Local SEO | Monthly retainer per location | Profiles, citations and review requests repeat by location | Each location needs real local proof | Local SEO services |
| Link building | Monthly outreach | A link report is easy to check | Bought links count as link spam | Link building agency |
| Reputation management | Monthly program | Review requests and replies are routine | FTC rules on fake, bought and suppressed reviews | Online reputation management |
| Lead generation | Program fee, sometimes per lead | Outcomes can be counted | Lead quality and consent records | Lead generation agency |
| App development | Project, then support | Defined scope and release dates | Code, store accounts and licenses must be the client’s | App development outsourcing |
SEO
Search work is the most commonly resold service because it is recurring and has visible deliverables. The details of reselling it, from deliverables to wholesale pricing, are on our white label SEO page, so this page does not repeat them.
White label SEO marketing is also where a weak partner is easiest to spot, because the reseller can check rankings, traffic and new links independently instead of relying on the partner's report.
Paid search and paid social
Advertising management resells well because the numbers come straight from the platforms. It also carries the strictest rules, summarized further down. Our white label PPC page covers Google Ads, Microsoft, Meta and LinkedIn management under a reseller’s brand in depth.
Social media
Content calendars, community management and paid boosts are routine to deliver once a brand voice guide exists. The risk is tone: a post that sounds wrong is noticed by the client immediately. Our social media marketing and outsourced social media management pages describe the work.
White label Instagram marketing follows the same rules as any other channel, with one extra check: access should be shared from the client's own business portfolio, as the Meta partner access section below explains.
White label influencer marketing is harder to keep invisible, because creators deal with the brand they promote and disclosure rules name that brand, so the reseller should agree with the client up front on who speaks to creators.
Web design and web development
Web projects suit studios and consultants who sell strategy but not builds, and agencies that want a care plan after launch. Ownership needs the most care here, because code, hosting, domains, themes and plugin licenses must end up in the client’s name. See website design and development and WordPress outsourcing.
White label content marketing services
Articles, service pages and case studies resell easily when the reseller supplies access to the client’s experts. Without that access, content drifts toward generic writing that neither readers nor search engines value. Our content marketing page covers the method.
This work runs best on a fixed rhythm: a monthly plan agreed with the reseller, an interview with the client's expert for each major piece, and a review step before anything is published under the client's name.
Email and marketing automation
Campaigns and automated flows are template-driven and easy to brand, but email law makes the sender and the promoted business jointly responsible, so compliance has to be designed in. Our email marketing and marketing automation pages describe the programs. Agencies reselling email under their own brand can read white label email marketing.
Automation often extends to text messages, and white label SMS marketing needs more care than email. In the United States, marketing texts carry stricter consent rules than commercial email, so every consent record should be kept in the client's own account. Treat texting as a separate line in the scope, with its own consent and opt-out checks.
AI visibility
Clients now ask why ChatGPT or Google’s AI Overviews name a competitor and not them. Our white label AEO page explains how that work is resold, reported and priced.
Some resellers ask for white label AI marketing more broadly, meaning AI-assisted content, ad variations or report summaries. That can be resold too, as long as a person checks every claim before it reaches the client, because the reseller answers for it either way.
Local SEO and link building
Both are usually sold as part of search work. Local SEO repeats well across many small clients: a Business Profile, citations, review requests and location pages for each site. Link building needs the most scrutiny of anything resold, because links bought for ranking purposes are link spam under Google’s policies. Our local SEO and link building pages describe the methods. The resale program itself, from client access to branded reports, is on our white label local SEO and white label link building pages.
Reputation management
Review requests, monitoring and replies are easy to run under an agency’s name, and the rules are clear: the FTC’s consumer review rule, covered below, prohibits fake reviews, reviews bought for a particular sentiment and misleading review suppression. Our online reputation management page covers the program, and agencies reselling it under their own name can read white label reputation management.
White label lead generation
Agencies resell lead programs when clients want booked calls or form fills rather than channel work. The partner runs the campaigns and landing pages; the reseller must be able to show where each lead came from and what the person agreed to. See lead generation.
White label app development
Studios that design apps but do not build them, and agencies whose clients need a customer portal or booking app, resell development. Code repositories, app store accounts and licenses must all be in the client’s name. Our app development outsourcing page explains the model.
Clients asking for services you do not staff?List the services you want to add and a typical client. We reply with how each would be delivered under your brand, what access it needs and a sample scope.
White label creative agency work: design, video and copy
Design, video and copywriting resell well when the reseller owns the brand guidelines and approves concepts before production. A white label creative agency should work from the client's guidelines, keep source files in the client's name and deliver files without its own metadata, watermarks or file naming. White label market research, such as competitor reviews or customer surveys, can be resold the same way, provided the report states its method and the dates its data covers.
Choosing the first white label digital marketing service to resell
Start with the white label digital marketing service your clients already ask for and you currently refer away. A web studio is usually asked about search and site care, a PR firm about content and social, a paid media shop about landing pages and email. Selling the service clients request is easier than creating demand for one they have not thought about, and the first few accounts show whether the partner’s work holds up under your name.
Four ways to add a service you do not staff
Resell it under your brand, refer the client for a fee, bring in a named subcontractor, or hire. Each changes who owns the relationship, who carries the risk and how much you earn.
| Approach | Client relationship | Whose brand | Your income | Your risk | Fits when |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resell under your brand | Yours | Yours | The difference between your price and the partner’s | Quality and compliance of work you did not do | You want the service in your offer for the long term |
| Refer for a fee | Passes to the other firm | Theirs | A referral payment, if agreed | Low, but you may lose the client | The service is far from your core |
| Named subcontractor | Yours, partner visible | Yours, with the partner introduced | A margin or a coordination fee | Shared and visible | The client’s procurement rules require subcontractors to be named |
| Hire in-house | Yours | Yours | Full margin after salary | Payroll and recruiting | Demand is steady enough to keep a specialist busy |
Many agencies move along this list over time: refer at first, resell once demand is proven, and hire when the resold volume would keep a specialist fully occupied.
A white label digital marketing platform or a service partner?
Some vendors sell software rather than people: a white label marketing dashboard that shows a client's ad and search numbers under the agency's logo, automation software, or a CRM the agency rebrands for its clients. Software of this kind brands the reporting and the tools; it does not plan campaigns, write content or fix a site. Many agencies use both, a branded platform for the screens a client sees and a service partner for the work behind them.
Reselling white label marketing automation software
Check four things before putting your brand on an automation platform: that the license allows rebranding and resale, that each client’s contacts and consent records sit in an account the client can take with them, that every client sends from its own authenticated domain, and who answers support questions when a workflow fails. The software runs the sends; strategy, copy and compliance review still need people, which is where a service partner fits.
When you outsource marketing agency fulfillment this way, the decision that matters most is not the price but who keeps the client relationship. In a white label arrangement the agency does; in a referral it does not.
Marketing fulfillment from sale to report
The reseller sells and briefs, the partner scopes and delivers, the reseller reviews, and the client receives work and reports in the reseller’s brand. Each handoff needs an owner and a date.
Intake
A short brief per client covers goals, audience, competitors, past work, constraints, approvals and who can grant access. The partner should ask for anything missing before quoting, not after the client has signed.
A written scope per client
Each client gets its own scope: deliverables, quantities, dates, access needed, who implements changes and the reporting schedule. A single partnership agreement with loose scopes underneath is where margin quietly disappears.
Production
The partner does the work inside the client’s own accounts and tools wherever possible, so nothing has to be migrated later. Drafts and plans go to the reseller first.
Review before delivery
The reseller checks every deliverable against the scope and its own standards before the client sees it. Building this step into the timeline from the start avoids the familiar rush at the end of the month.
Change requests
Clients will ask for more. A written change process, with the effect on price and dates stated before the work starts, keeps both businesses whole.
What carries your brand, and what can reveal the partner?
Reports, documents, decks and, if you choose, email and calls can carry your brand. Some platform screens show which businesses have access, so the access method decides whether the partner is visible.
Reports, documents and decks
These are the easiest to brand: your logo, colors, domain and sender name. The numbers inside must not change; branding covers presentation only.
Email, calls and meeting invites
A partner’s specialist can join calls as part of your team, using an address on your domain, or be introduced as a specialist partner. Decide which in advance and write it into the agreement.
Platform screens that show who has access
In Meta, assets are shared with a partner’s business portfolio by its ID, and Meta’s partner access instructions note that both businesses can see the shared assets in their own settings. If the client adds the fulfillment partner’s portfolio directly, the partner’s name appears in the client’s settings. If the client shares with your portfolio instead, the partner’s staff work as people inside your portfolio and the client sees only you.
Who speaks to the end client?
The reseller always owns the relationship. What varies is whether the partner’s specialists join conversations, and under whose name.
| Model | Who is on calls | Which email domain | Best when | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invisible partner | Reseller only | Reseller’s | The reseller’s account lead understands the work well | Questions the lead cannot answer live |
| Specialist in your name | Reseller lead plus partner specialist | Reseller’s | Clients want to question the person doing the work | Agree titles and what can be promised |
| Introduced partner | Both firms, openly | Each firm’s own | Procurement rules require subcontractors to be named | Clear roles so the client knows who decides |
Whichever model you pick, statements to the client have to be accurate. A specialist presented as part of your team must not claim credentials, results or certifications that belong to someone else.
Account access and ownership: the rule that protects all three parties
The client owns every platform account, domain and data set; the reseller and the partner are added as users with the least access the work needs. Each platform has its own roles, and they are worth learning.
| Platform | Owner | How the reseller and partner get in | Detail worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Ads | Client | Link the client account to a manager account | Client admins can unlink a manager account at any time; a manager cannot change the client’s sign-in details |
| Meta business portfolio | Client | Partner access shared by business portfolio ID | A partner with full control still cannot share the asset with another business; only the owner can |
| Google Analytics | Client | User roles on the account or property | Five roles from Viewer to Administrator, plus restrictions that hide cost or revenue metrics |
| Search Console | Client | Owner adds full or restricted users | A property needs at least one verified owner and allows up to 100 non-owners |
| Google Business Profile | Client | Owner invites managers | One primary owner; managers cannot add or remove users or remove the profile |
| LinkedIn Campaign Manager | Client | Client creates the ad account and adds roles | The creator becomes billing admin, and every ad account must have one |
| Domain name | Client as registrant | Registrar account access or delegated DNS | The registrant assumes sole responsibility for the registration and its use |
Why the client should own everything
If the partner or the reseller owns an ad account, a profile or a domain, the client cannot leave cleanly, and a dispute between the two agencies can take a client’s marketing offline. Ownership by the client is the arrangement every party can defend. On our white label work, the client owns its accounts, the reseller manages them, and we work as an authorized user.
Start with the least access
Google’s advice on hiring an SEO is to grant only read access to Search Console while a site is audited. The same principle works everywhere: read-only during scoping, task-level roles once work is agreed, and administrator rights only where a platform requires them. The role definitions are on the Google Ads access levels, Google Analytics roles, Search Console permissions, Business Profile owners and managers and LinkedIn Campaign Manager roles pages.
Keep an access register
A shared list of every client, platform, user and role, reviewed each quarter, makes offboarding a checklist instead of a search. It also answers the security questionnaire larger clients send.
Who owns the finished work?
Not automatically the client, and not automatically the reseller. Under US copyright law, work by an outside contractor usually belongs to the person who made it unless rights are transferred in a signed writing.
The definition of a work made for hire in 17 U.S.C. 101 covers work by employees, and commissioned work only in listed categories and only where the parties agree in a signed written instrument. Most websites, articles and designs produced by an outside partner do not fall into those categories by default, and 17 U.S.C. 204 says a transfer of copyright ownership is not valid unless it is in writing and signed. So the chain needs two written assignments: from the partner to the reseller, and from the reseller to the client, or one that runs straight through to the client. Your lawyer should draft them.
- Assign copyright in deliverables in writing, effective on payment.
- List third-party materials, such as stock images, fonts, themes and plugins, with whose name each license is in.
- Buy licenses in the client’s name where the license terms allow it.
- Register domains with the client as registrant; ICANN’s registrant rights page says the registrant assumes sole responsibility for the registration and use of the name.
- Keep source files, design files and credentials in client-owned storage.
- Record which tools generated or assisted any content, for clients whose own policies ask.
The partner agreement: what it should cover
Confidentiality, non-solicitation, ownership of work, data handling, service levels, liability and exit. Each needs a specific clause, not a general promise of good faith.
| Clause | What it should say | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Confidentiality | The partnership, client list, pricing and client data stay confidential, during and after the term | The model depends on discretion |
| Non-solicitation | The partner will not market to, contract with or accept work from clients you introduced, for a stated period | Protects the relationship you built |
| Ownership of work | Copyright in deliverables is assigned in writing on payment; third-party licenses are listed | Avoids disputes when a client leaves |
| Data protection | The partner processes client data only on instructions and needs approval for sub-processors | Privacy law flows down the chain |
| Service levels | Turnaround times, response times and how they are reported | Lets you promise dates to clients |
| Platform compliance | The partner follows each platform’s policies and tells you of any warning or suspension | Policy breaches land on client accounts |
| Liability and insurance | Who pays if work causes a loss, and the insurance each side holds | Errors happen; the question is who absorbs them |
| Exit | Notice period, handover of files and documentation, removal of access | Clients should never notice a partner change |
Restrictive terms are read differently from state to state. California’s Business and Professions Code section 16600, for example, says every contract restraining anyone from engaging in a lawful profession, trade or business is to that extent void, except as its chapter provides. A non-solicitation clause that works in one state may fail in another, which is one more reason to have counsel draft the agreement. Our guide to marketing agency contracts covers the client-facing side.
Already reselling and unhappy with the partner?Tell us what is going wrong: quality, speed, reporting or ownership. We set out how a move would work without putting your client accounts at risk.
Client data, privacy and email law in a resale chain
When a partner touches client customer data, privacy duties pass down the chain, and email law holds both the promoted business and the sender responsible. The contract cannot move that responsibility away.
Processors and sub-processors
In data protection terms the client is usually the controller, the reseller a processor and the fulfillment partner a sub-processor. The UK GDPR text of Article 28 says a processor shall not engage another processor without the controller’s prior specific or general written authorization, and that the same data protection obligations must be imposed on that other processor by contract. For a client covered by that law, the partner has to be authorized as a sub-processor even if it is never named in the client’s marketing.
Commercial email
The FTC’s CAN-SPAM compliance guide says a business cannot contract away its legal responsibility by hiring another company to send its email, that both the company whose product is promoted and the company that sends the message may be held responsible, and that each separate email in violation can carry a penalty of up to $53,088. Opt-out requests must be honored within 10 business days.
Deliverability rules
Google’s Gmail sender guidelines require senders of more than 5,000 messages a day to Gmail accounts to authenticate with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, support one-click unsubscribe for marketing messages and keep the spam rate reported in Postmaster Tools below 0.3%. A partner running email for several clients has to set this up per sending domain, in the client’s name.
Platform rules that bite in white label digital marketing
Google’s third-party policy for advertising, Meta’s partner access model, search engines’ spam policies and the FTC’s rules on reviews and endorsements all apply to resold work. None of them stops at the reseller.
Google Ads and the third-party policy
Google’s third-party policy requires a separate Google Ads account for each end advertiser and prohibits false, misleading or unrealistic claims about services, costs and expected results. Its transparency requirements say a management fee must be disclosed to new customers in writing before their first purchase and on every invoice, that any required cost report must show the exact amount Google charged without fees, that customer IDs must be provided on request, and that a third party whose customers mostly spend less than $1,000 a month must share Google’s advertiser guide. Verifying a client’s account as your own is listed as misrepresenting identity. Our white label PPC page applies all of this to the reseller chain.
Google Ads manager accounts
A manager account lets one login run many client accounts, can be given ownership of a client account to manage its users, and is limited in what it can change: it cannot alter the client account’s sign-in details. Up to 20 Google Ads accounts can be tied to a single email address, which is one reason agencies use a manager account.
Meta partner access
Only someone with full control of the client’s business portfolio can share assets with a partner. A partner given full control of an asset can manage everything but cannot share it with another business, and a partner given partial access can only assign people in its own portfolio to the tasks granted. In practice, the client shares with the reseller’s portfolio and the partner’s staff are added as people there, or the client shares directly with the partner.
Search engine spam policies
Google’s spam policies treat buying or selling links for ranking purposes as link spam and define scaled content abuse as producing many pages mainly to manipulate rankings, however they are made. Cheap white label link packages and content mills are where resellers most often inherit these risks without seeing them.
Reviews, endorsements and social proof
The FTC’s rule on consumer reviews, 16 CFR Part 465, prohibits writing or selling fake reviews, paying for reviews that express a particular sentiment, misrepresenting suppressed reviews and buying fake indicators of social media influence such as bot followers. The FTC’s endorsement guidance says that when enforcement is needed, its focus is usually on advertisers or their ad agencies and public relations firms. A partner running review requests or creator campaigns for your clients has to work inside these rules.
How white label marketing is priced
Per client account on a fixed scope, as a monthly retainer, as a project fee, by the hour, or as a share of media for paid advertising. Each shape suits a different service and puts the risk in a different place.
| Pricing shape | Services it suits | What the reseller should check |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed scope per client account | SEO, social, AEO, content | That the scope lists quantities, so extra requests are priced |
| Monthly retainer across clients | Agencies placing several accounts | How volume changes the rate and what happens when volume drops |
| Project fee | Websites, audits, migrations, setups | What ongoing care costs after launch |
| Hourly | Consulting, ad hoc fixes | A cap or estimate before work starts |
| Share of media spend | Paid search and paid social | Whether the fee rewards spending more rather than spending better |
Some agencies call the model wholesale marketing: the partner’s price is the wholesale price and the reseller’s is the retail price. On our white label work, partner quotes start from the same published prices and price bands we use for direct clients, each account is scoped in writing, volume terms are agreed in the partner agreement, and the reseller sets the retail price.
What do white label digital marketing services cost?
Fulfillment is quoted per client from the published prices and price bands below; the reseller’s own price to its client sits on top. Media and software are separate lines.
| Service | Price or market band | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SEO retainer, small | $1,500 to $2,500 a month | One or two service areas |
| SEO retainer, mid | $2,500 to $5,000 a month | A program with content production |
| Local SEO, one location | $600 to $2,500 a month | Profile, citations, reviews, local content |
| Content program | $1,500 to $8,000 a month | Four to twelve substantial pages a month |
| Technical SEO audit | $1,200 to $6,000 once | Names URLs and fixes |
| Paid search management, smaller | $1,000 to $3,000 a month | On $3,000 to $15,000 of monthly media |
| Paid search management, mid-sized | $3,000 to $8,000 a month | On $20,000 or more of monthly media |
| Paid social management, flat | $2,000 to $10,000 a month | Media paid separately |
| Social media management | $850, $1,850 or $3,400 a month | Three published tiers by platforms and volume |
| Landing page | From $1,400 | One template, copy, form, tracking |
| Brochure website, 5 to 8 pages | From $9,500 | Two or three templates |
| Business website, 10 to 16 pages | From $18,000 | Four to six templates |
| AEO retainer | $1,500 to $20,000 a month | By scope; audit $1,000 to $4,000 |
The SEO retainer rows, the social media management row and the landing page, brochure and business website rows are Progression’s own published prices; every other row is a published US price band (a market figure, not a Progression rate card). A quote follows a written scope for each client. Email programs are scoped per client. Our marketing agency pricing guide shows the retail ranges clients tend to expect.
Setting retail prices and protecting margin
Price from the outside in: what the client’s market pays for the scope, minus the fulfillment cost, minus the time you still spend on the account. If what is left does not pay for that time, the account is not profitable however good it looks.
| Line | What goes in it | Common mistake |
|---|---|---|
| Fulfillment cost | The partner’s fee for the scope | Comparing partners on price without comparing scopes |
| Account management | Calls, emails, approvals, internal meetings | Assuming it is zero because someone else does the work |
| Quality review | Checking deliverables before the client sees them | Skipping it in busy months |
| Sales and onboarding | Proposals, briefs, access requests | Not spreading the cost over the expected client lifetime |
| Tools and reporting | Dashboards, tracking, software seats | Absorbing subscriptions that should be billed |
| Risk and churn | Clients who leave early or pay late | Pricing as if every client stays two years |
One constraint is specific to advertising. Because Google requires management fees to be disclosed to the advertiser, a reseller’s fee on ads management will be visible to the client, so it has to be a fee you are comfortable explaining.
Digital marketing reseller programs: the commercial terms behind the partnership
A digital marketing reseller program is the commercial layer that sits on top of the legal agreement: which services can be resold, how volume changes the price, how fast a new client starts, what sales help the partner gives and how support requests travel. Agencies new to marketing white label arrangements often sign the contract and leave these terms to be worked out later, which is where friction starts.
| Term | What it should say | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Services and scope templates | Which services can be resold and the standard scope document for each | Quotes come back faster and comparable |
| Volume terms | How the partner’s price changes as the number of client accounts grows, and what happens if it falls | Margin stays predictable in a slow quarter |
| Start times | How many working days from signed scope and granted access to first deliverable | Lets the agency promise a date to the client |
| Sales support | Audits, proposals and call support available under the agency’s name | Wins clients the agency could not scope alone |
| Support route | How the client’s questions reach the partner, and reply windows by urgency | The client never waits on a forwarded email |
| Reporting | Template, delivery date and the agency’s review window before it reaches the client | No report arrives unchecked |
| Minimums and exclusivity | Whether any minimum volume or territory applies | Avoids commitments the agency cannot meet |
| Exit and transfer | What happens to clients, files and access if the program ends | Clients should not notice a change of partner |
White label marketing agency pricing is usually quoted per client from a written scope, with volume terms in the program. On our white label work there is no minimum number of client accounts, each account is scoped in writing, and the agency sets its own retail price. Wholesale digital marketing priced only by volume, with no scope behind it, tends to produce the same deliverables for every client.
Digital marketing white label services that need the most setup
Some services start the day access arrives; others need weeks of preparation. Paid media needs tracking before launch, email needs sender authentication on the client’s domain, local search needs verified profiles, and white labeled digital marketing for regulated clients needs the client’s compliance reviewer in the approval chain. A program that states realistic start times for each service saves the agency from promising a launch it cannot deliver.
Quality control when another team does the work
Write acceptance criteria for every deliverable, review before the client sees anything, and audit a sample of live work each quarter. A reseller who cannot judge the work cannot defend it.
Acceptance criteria
Each deliverable type gets a short checklist: what complete looks like, which facts must be verified, which brand rules apply and what the client must approve. Partners should work to the reseller’s checklist, not their own.
The review step
On our white label work, the reseller can review any deliverable before it reaches the client. Whoever the partner is, build that window into every deadline.
Sampling live work
Once a quarter, open a few live campaigns, pages and reports at random and check them against the scope and the platforms. Problems found here are cheaper than problems a client finds.
- Facts and figures checked against a named source before publication.
- Brand voice, terminology and claims checked against the client’s guide.
- Tracking tested end to end before any campaign or page goes live.
- Accessibility basics checked on web work: headings, alt text, contrast, keyboard use.
- Links reviewed for where they come from on any off-site SEO work.
- Ad copy and landing pages checked against each platform’s policies.
- Reports reconciled with the platforms’ own numbers.
Have one client that needs several services at once?Send the brief. We show how search, paid media, social, web and AI visibility would be scoped, delivered and reported as one program in your name.
How to vet a white label marketing company
Ask to see real work, real reports and the real contract. A good partner will show you how it handles access, quality, data and exit before you sign.
| Requirement | How to check it |
|---|---|
| Does the work itself | Ask who delivers each service, employees or subcontractors, and where they are based |
| Client-owned accounts | Ask how access is set up on Google Ads, Meta, Analytics and Search Console for a new client |
| Real deliverables | Ask for a recent audit, campaign plan or article with client details removed |
| Branded reporting | Ask for a sample report in another agency’s branding and check that numbers match the platforms |
| Platform compliance | Ask how Google’s fee disclosure and one-advertiser-per-account rules are handled |
| Data handling | Ask for the data processing terms and the list of sub-processors |
| Written agreement | Read the confidentiality, non-solicitation, ownership and exit clauses before the first client |
| References | Speak to two agencies that have resold the partner’s work for a year or more |
| Exit plan | Ask what happens to files, documentation and access if either side ends the arrangement |
What separates a top white label agency from a vendor
A vendor delivers what was ordered. A strong partner also tells the reseller when an order will not work for the client, raises risks before they reach the client, and keeps documentation good enough that the account could move to another team tomorrow. Those habits show quickly on a first trial account.
White label marketing firm or freelancer network?
A firm with employees can be held to one agreement, one set of data processing terms and one point of contact. A network of freelancers can be cheaper and more flexible, but each person is a separate set of access, terms and quality checks for the reseller to manage. The vetting table above applies either way; it simply has more rows to fill for a network.
Warning signs in a white label provider
Guarantees, secrecy about methods, and accounts in the provider’s name. Each one transfers risk to you and your client without saying so.
- Guaranteed rankings, leads or a number-one position; Google says no one can guarantee a number-one ranking.
- Link packages priced per link from sites you are not shown.
- Review programs that pay for positive reviews or gate unhappy customers away.
- Follower or engagement packages for social accounts.
- Ad accounts, profiles or domains created in the provider’s name.
- No written scope per client, only a monthly package name.
- Reports that cannot be reconciled with the platforms.
- Reluctance to put non-solicitation and ownership in writing.
Onboarding the first client with a new partner
Run the first account as a pilot: one client, one service, a short scope and a review at 30 days. Problems in the handoffs show up early and are cheap to fix.
- Sign the partner agreement and a data processing agreement before naming any client.
- Send the client brief and agree the written scope and dates.
- Ask the client to grant access to its own accounts at the agreed roles.
- Partner audits the accounts, tracking and assets before changing anything.
- Agree the report template in your branding and the review window.
- Launch the first deliverables and review them before the client sees them.
- Hold a 30-day review on quality, speed and communication, then decide on the next client.
What should a branded client report show?
What was done, what it produced in the client’s own terms, and what happens next, built from data the client can check in its own accounts. Branding covers the design; the numbers come from the platforms unchanged.
| Section | Built from | Why it is there |
|---|---|---|
| Work completed | The scope and the task log | Shows the fee bought something specific |
| Outcomes | Leads, sales, bookings or calls from analytics and the CRM | The measure the client actually cares about |
| Channel detail | Search Console, ad platforms, social analytics, email platform | Lets specialists check the work |
| Spend and fees | Platform billing for media; your invoice for fees | Keeps media and management fees separate |
| Issues and fixes | Platform warnings, tracking problems, delays | Builds trust by naming problems first |
| Next period | The scope and the agreed plan | Sets expectations before the next invoice |
Ending a client account or a partnership cleanly
Because the client owns its accounts, an exit is mostly a matter of removing users, handing over files and documenting what is running. Plan it at the start so nobody improvises it at the end.
- Give the notice the agreement requires and agree a handover date.
- Hand over documentation: campaign structures, tracking setup, content calendars, open tasks.
- Transfer files and source material held anywhere outside client-owned storage.
- Remove partner and reseller users from every platform on the access register.
- Unlink the client’s Google Ads account from the manager account, which client admins can do at any time.
- Transfer primary ownership of a Business Profile if it was ever held by an agency; Google requires another owner or manager to transfer to.
- Confirm domain, hosting and license ownership sit with the client.
- Keep the non-solicitation period running as the agreement says.
How agencies use AI assistants to find a white label partner
Agency owners ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google’s AI Overviews which firms do white label SEO, ads or web work, how resale pricing works and what to put in a partner agreement. The answers lean on pages that state these things plainly.
Typical prompts are practical: a white label marketing company that keeps client accounts in the client’s name, partners that offer paid media and SEO under one agreement, or what a non-solicitation clause should say. Assistants tend to cite provider pages that list services, ownership terms and pricing approach in text, directories and review platforms for agencies, and guides that compare the models. A provider that hides its terms behind a sales call gives them nothing to quote.
The same applies to the reseller’s own clients, who increasingly ask assistants about agencies before they sign. Google says its AI features need nothing beyond an indexed page that is eligible for a snippet. OpenAI’s crawler documentation says sites that block OAI-SearchBot are not shown in ChatGPT search answers, and Anthropic and Perplexity document their own search crawlers. A reseller whose site states its services, process and terms clearly is easier for an assistant to recommend.
Packaging several services into one offer
Bundles sell when the services depend on each other: a website with search and a care plan, paid search with landing pages, social content with paid amplification, or search with AI visibility. One partner across the bundle means one scope and one report.
| Bundle | Why the parts depend on each other | Who usually buys it |
|---|---|---|
| Website plus SEO plus care plan | A new site needs redirects, structure and updates to keep its rankings | Web studios after launch |
| Paid search plus landing pages | Ad results depend on the page the click lands on | Agencies with lead-generation clients |
| Social content plus paid social | Boosting proven posts beats boosting untested ones | Creative and PR agencies |
| SEO plus AEO | AI answers draw on the same pages search engines rank | SEO firms with clients asking about ChatGPT |
| Email plus content | Newsletters need a steady supply of useful material | Consultants serving B2B clients |
Sequencing matters as much as the bundle. Tracking and access come first, then the service that produces measurable results soonest, then the slower compounding work. A partner that delivers several services can plan that order once instead of several vendors each planning their own. Our digital marketing services page lists the full range.
One full-service partner or several white label marketing agencies?
White label marketing agencies come in two shapes: specialists that fulfill one service, and full-service partners that cover most of them. Some resellers use both, and the choice decides how many agreements, reports and contacts the agency has to manage.
| Model | Strengths | Weaknesses | Fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| One full-service partner | One agreement, one report, one plan for sequencing work across channels | Depth varies by service; one supplier to depend on | Agencies selling bundles to small and mid-sized clients |
| A specialist for each service | Depth in each channel and easy comparison between suppliers | Several agreements, report formats and contacts to coordinate | Agencies with large or complex accounts in one channel |
| Core in-house, partners for the rest | The agency keeps its strongest service and adds others without hiring | The agency must still judge work outside its specialty | Agencies known for one discipline whose clients want more |
White label digital marketing agencies that cover several channels make bundles easier to deliver, but each service still deserves its own check against the reseller’s standards. White label digital marketing companies that offer only software, such as branded dashboards, schedulers or review tools, are a different purchase: the agency gets white label marketing solutions to run itself, not people to do the work.
What the best white label marketing agency looks like for your clients
There is no single best white label digital marketing agency; there is a partner that fits the clients you sell to. Agencies with local service clients need depth in local search, reviews and paid search. Agencies with ecommerce clients need feeds, shopping campaigns and store development. Agencies with B2B clients need content, LinkedIn and lead quality tracked through a CRM. Ask a prospective partner which client types make up most of its resold work, and check references from agencies that look like yours.
White label conversion rate optimization and analytics
White label conversion rate optimization can be a quick win for an agency already reselling traffic, because it improves the return on visits the client is paying for. It needs enough traffic and conversions to test properly, tracking the client owns, and agreement on what counts as a conversion. Where traffic is too low for testing, a review of the pages and forms with prioritized fixes is the honest offer. Our conversion rate optimization and marketing analytics pages describe the work for direct clients.
Whitelabel marketing for small agencies and consultants
A consultant or a three-person studio usually does better with one white label digital agency covering search, paid media and websites than with a separate partner for each. One partner means one agreement, one reporting format and one place to raise a problem, which matters more than specialist depth until the client list grows.
How Progression works with agencies that resell
The same way our published white label terms describe: the client owns its accounts, the reseller manages them, and we work as an authorized user behind the reseller’s brand.
Reports and documents carry the reseller’s brand, and our name appears only in the contract between the agencies. The reseller can review any deliverable before it reaches the client. Partner quotes come from the same published prices and price bands as direct work, each client account is scoped in writing, volume terms are settled in the partner agreement, and the reseller sets its own retail price. We deliver SEO, paid media across Google, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube, social media, website design and development, content, email and automation, and AI visibility, for agencies and consultants across the United States and worldwide from New York City.
To start, send the services you want to resell, a typical client and how you want reporting branded. You receive a sample scope and a written quote for that client.
Related services for agencies that resell
Pages that cover the individual services, the platforms and the business side of running an agency.
- White label SEO for agencies
- White label PPC and Google Ads management
- White label AEO
- Digital marketing services
- SEO services
- Search engine advertising
- Social media marketing
- Social media advertising
- Website design and development
- Email marketing service
- Content marketing agency
- Local SEO services
- Link building agency
- Landing page design agency
- Marketing analytics agency
- Website maintenance
- App development outsourcing
- Full-service marketing agency
- How to brief a marketing agency
- Is my marketing agency doing a good job?
- White label content writing for agencies
- White label social media management
- White label lead generation for agencies
- SEO reseller program
- White label Facebook ads
- White label video editing
- White label graphic design
Want to sell more services without hiring for each one?
Tell us the services your clients ask for and how you want the work branded. We reply with how each would be delivered, the access it needs and a written quote for a first client.
Getting found in search
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Paid media and lead generation
Websites and design
Choosing and working with an agency
Software and app development
Website design by industry and type
Web development, platforms and hosting
Social, content and brand
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Frequently asked questions
What does a white label marketing agency actually do for another agency?
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Who is liable if a resold email campaign breaks CAN-SPAM?
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