No contract, no surprise bills.
Here it is in writing.
Every line on this statement is real. One team plans, designs, and produces everything from campaigns to websites to signs, you pay only for work you greenlight, and the invoice matches the ballpark. Clients who signed on decades ago still call the same number.
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Weber Advertising & Marketing
Lancaster, PA · est. 1996
Tel 717-299-1277, a person picks upStatement: what it costs to start
- First conversation
- $0.00
- Second conversation
- $0.00
- The weekly meeting, standing, every week
- $0.00
- Long-term contract
- None on file
- Early-exit fee
- Does not exist
- Mystery line items
- 0
Years in business: 30Same number since 1996
You pay for work and materials only after you say go, and that invoice matches the ballpark we quoted.
Next on the calendar: your weekly meeting
Put a weekly meeting on the calendar
The problem
What starting with our Lancaster PA advertising agency looks like (smaller than you think).
Most people brace for a pitch, a proposal deck, and a contract with a term and an early-exit fee. You will not get that from us.
It starts with a conversation. You tell us what you are trying to pull off and what is eating your week. We tell you, straight, whether we are the right shop for it and roughly what it takes. No charge for that talk, or the next one. We do not bill you to think out loud with you, and we never will.
Then we do one job. Maybe it is a flyer, a sign, a mailer, a website fix. We do it well, on time, and we make the whole thing easy on you. If we earned the next one, you will call us for the next one. That is the entire sales process.
No contract. We earn it.
Why no contract? Because we are not worried.
You can walk anytime, which means we have to keep the work good enough that you never want to. A contract is what an agency reaches for when it is worried it cannot. We would rather earn your business every month than lock it in once. Everything on the statement above follows from that.
One partner, not four vendors
We become your marketing department, minus the payroll.
A few jobs in, you stop thinking of us as a vendor you call and start thinking of us as the team down the hall who happens to have a different address.
A real marketing department is expensive: a designer, a copywriter, someone who knows print, someone who knows the web, a media buyer, and someone to ride herd on all of them. That is six salaries. Most growing companies cannot carry them, so one stretched marketing person tries to be all six and drowns. That is the person we are built for. You stay the decision-maker. We become the bench.
- You forward us the half-formed idea. We turn it into the finished piece.
- You tell us the season is coming. We already have next quarter mapped and the files ready.
- You get the request from the boss at 4 p.m. We have it back to you before you would have finished writing the brief.
You make the calls. We carry the load. And you add nobody to your payroll.
The weekly meeting
The clients who grow the most all do one thing. They meet with us every week.
It is the closest thing we have to a secret. Give us a standing hour a week and your marketing stops being a scramble and starts being a plan.
No slide deck, no pitch. One of our account executives, the strategist on your account, sits down with you, listens to what is selling, what is stuck, and what is coming up, then you leave with a short list worth doing.
The meeting is free. Always. You only pay for the work and the materials once you tell us to run with something. So the bar to start is about as low as it gets: an hour on your calendar, or a coffee, or lunch. You pick the day.
What you walk out with
Ways to grow
- More sales, more leads, and more people through the door.
- A campaign ready before your busy season starts, not scrambled together after it does.
- A brand that looks bigger than your competition, week after week.
Ways to save
- Sale tags sorted by aisle, so your crew hangs them instead of cutting them out by hand.
- A small tool or app that takes a weekly chore off someone's plate for good.
Proofs, approvals, turnarounds
What proofs, approvals, and turnarounds actually look like.
This is where most agencies hide a portal and a login behind a paragraph of process. We do not have one, and we did that on purpose. Let us be honest about why.
See how the proof, the approval, and the turnaround really go
A real person and a direct email, not a login.
We thought hard about building a client portal, the kind where you log in, hunt for the right folder, leave a comment, and wait. We killed the idea. Nobody has ever wished we had one, and people are relieved we do not make them learn one.
Instead, you get a real person and their direct email. Want to see a proof? It lands in your inbox as a PDF you can open on your phone. Want a change? Reply and say "make the headline bigger." Done. No new password, no homework. A portal puts the work on your plate. We would rather keep it on ours.
How an approval really goes.
You see the work before it goes anywhere. Every time. We send a proof, you reply with changes or "ship it," and we send a fresh one back. When you say go, it goes. Nothing prints, posts, or mails until you have signed off, so no surprises land in the wild with your name on them.
If a deadline is tight, we will tell you the real window for a turn so you are not guessing. If you are slammed and slow to reply, we nudge you, because a missed approval is the one thing that can blow a date, and we would rather chase you than miss it.
How fast, really.
Fast, because the presses are ours. In-house printing in Lancaster, PA means the job never leaves the building. Send a job to an outside printer and you lose control of the date and pay a middleman. We own the whole stack, so neither happens to you.
How fast is fast? We have taken a last-minute direct mail piece from idea to dropped at the post office in five hours. That is the ceiling, not the everyday, but it tells you the real answer: tight deadlines do not scare us, and a rush is usually a scheduling call, not a surcharge. For the work that repeats, the weekly flyer, the seasonal mailer, the standing signage, "fast" becomes "on time, every time."
Easy to start. Built to stay.
No contract holding you here. A standing relationship you stay in because the work is worth staying for.
Getting the file to us
Send it however you want. We will make it work.
You do not need to learn our system, because we do not have one for you to learn. Send us your file the way that is easiest for you.
- Email it, drop it in a shared folder, or WeTransfer it.
- Mail us a hard copy, or hand us a napkin sketch.
- Point us at the website you want changed.
- Designed it yourself in Canva? Send the share link and we will pull what we need.
- Got a logo somewhere but you are not sure where? We will track it down.
Send a smoke signal if you have to. We will figure it out. Getting the file to us is our problem to solve, not yours.
Straight talk on price
You want some idea of what this costs. Fair.
Most agencies make you fight for it. Every engagement is a little different, so we do not slap a rate card on the wall and call it pricing. Instead, you get a real ballpark before you commit, in plain numbers, so you are never guessing. Then the invoice matches what we said. No mystery line items. No "miscellaneous." No bill for the phone call.
And because we print and produce it ourselves, there is no outsourcing markup: you are not paying our cost plus a vendor's cost plus a handling fee on top. You pay for the work, once.
Want a number to plan around before we even talk? The quote tool prices common print jobs in a couple of clicks, the fast lane for a single job. For the ongoing stuff, the kind that pays off most, that is a conversation, not a calculator.
A year in
What a real partnership looks like over a year.
A year in, the relationship stops being a series of jobs and becomes a rhythm. We know your brand cold, so you stop re-explaining your colors, fonts, and story every time. We know your calendar, so the spring promotion, the fall hiring push, and the holiday mailer are on our radar before you ask. When the boss has a wild idea on a Friday, you have somewhere to send it that says "on it" instead of "let me scope that."
You get one team that designs it, prints it, installs it, and runs the media, all in one building. So your weekly marketing goes out on time, the brand stays consistent across every piece and every location, and you are not chasing four vendors who each blame the other three. When something needs fixing, you make one call, and we own it.
That is the trade. You stay because leaving would mean rebuilding all of that somewhere else.
Hoober, around two decades. Karns, the better part of twenty-five years. No contract ever signed.
Boyer's, B.R. Kreider, and plenty of others across Central PA have been with us for over a decade too. That is rare for a marketing agency. Work worth staying for is the only lock we believe in.
“A team approach that has worked well for nearly 20 years.”
The deal both ways
What we expect from you.
A good partnership runs both ways. Here is the short list of what makes us great for you.
Tell us the real goal.
Not "I need a flyer." Tell us "I need more carts over $50 this month." We do better work when we know what you are actually chasing.
Loop us in early.
The earlier we see it coming, the more we can do and the calmer everyone is. Last-minute is fine, we are built for it, but early is better for your budget and your blood pressure.
Answer the proof.
When we send a proof, a quick "ship it" or "fix this" keeps your job on schedule. The one thing that blows a deadline is a proof sitting unread.
Tell us when something is off.
If a piece missed the mark or the bill looked weird, say so. We would rather hear it and fix it than lose you quietly. We do not get it perfect every time, but we own it when we miss.
Do that, and we will make you look good and make your week shorter. That is the whole arrangement.