About MEC Workshop

MECworkshop is a unique marketing agency that delivers marketing solutions.

In a nutshell, MECworkshop, with its unique structure, is the solution for both businesses and freelancers, particularly in today’s unprecedented times, by bringing together creative talents to cater to business projects at competitive prices.

How does MECworkshop operate? For businesses, MECworkshop ensures they have turnkey marketing solutions at competitive prices. We are a team of strategists, designers, mentors, and consultants, united to deliver business solutions. These range from business ideation and customer journey mapping to brand and website design, as well as a growth strategy. With minimal overhead cost due to its unique structure, MECworkshop delivers high-quality solutions with well-calculated rates. For freelancers, MECworkshop offers a comprehensive solution to each expert who has either lost their job or is an independent talent, ensuring they work on the right project that positively utilises and leverages their skills. Our added value to these talents is volume, quality, and customer service, with an income guaranteed by MECworkshop.

As a team, we love to challenge the conventional.

We won’t hesitate to push boundaries to fulfil the vision of our partners.

Marketing Agency or A Freelancer, how to make the right choice?

Your options are endless, with numerous platforms catering to freelancers, alongside a vast array of marketing and digital agencies. Just type freelancer or marketing agency into Google, and the search phrase comes back with more than a million results. That’s just a few too many to start filtering through.

And there’s your business niche, a marketing professional isn’t one-size-fits-all, which some stakeholders hope to recruit. For example, some marketing freelancers may possess extensive knowledge in fashion but lack expertise in the healthcare industry or the tech sector.

Let’s start with some basic definitions:

A freelancer is an independent marketing, developer, designer or even consultant who will most likely have some experience working for a big company in the past but will provide their services independently. In the age of AI, remote working is on the rise. A marketing agency is a larger team of marketing, digital, and creative professionals managed by a traditional hierarchical system, where marketers usually won’t be able to choose their projects and have a set of expected targets assigned to them.

There’s no doubt that not all businesses will have the exact needs, and that’s why this decision isn’t a clear cut one. In my case, a startup will need a dedicated individual who had the know-how, time, and most importantly, the belief in your brand.

Pros and cons in hiring a freelancer or Agency

1. Skills:

No one person is an expert in every field. Instead, a freelancer is known to be talented at a specific niche skill-set. This is why if you want an entire successful marketing funnel, you will require more than just one freelancer.

2. Service:

In an agency, there is no I. A one-person show is a hazardous value proposition. No matter how talented, professional and committed a freelancer is, unexpected disruptions such as illness, time zone differences or family emergencies can leave your project stranded in neutral. Working with a professional agency eliminates this risk as the team can compensate for the loss of one of their personnel and still meet your deadlines. And the most significant advantage of hiring a professional company is the access to an entire multi-faceted team able to accommodate all of your design, development and marketing needs. Furthermore, since every aspect of the project is delivered by one group, the final product is more consistent and polished than hiring several freelancers that weren’t working together.

3. Flexibility:

A freelancer usually is more flexible, specifically that they do not work from 9 to 6. And can charge you extra for working evenings and weekends.

4. Price:

While this is subjective, freelancers have much less overhead than a professional agency, and they are often the least expensive option. However, keep in mind that you get what you pay for, and outsourcing to more than one freelancer can quickly run up a hefty tab.