If you're reading this, you're probably at a decision point. Design capacity is becoming a problem, and you're weighing your options.

One option is to hire a full-time or part-time designer. The other is to partner with Marz Media. Both solve the problem — but in very different ways. Here's an honest comparison.

Speed to Get Started

Hiring a designer

Writing a job post, reviewing applications, interviewing, running a trial, negotiating, onboarding. You're looking at 4–8 weeks minimum before a new hire is producing quality work independently.

Marz Media

Most agencies are fully onboarded and receiving designs within 24 hours of starting. You brief us, we deliver.

Cost

Hiring a designer

Salary, employer contributions, equipment, software licences, sick days, annual leave, management time. A mid-level designer typically costs significantly more per year than most agencies budget for.

Marz Media

Per-deliverable pricing that scales with your volume. You pay for output, not presence. During quieter months, your costs flex down. During peak season, your capacity flexes up.

Quality and Consistency

Hiring a designer

Quality depends entirely on the individual you hire. One person has one skill set, one style range, and one capacity ceiling. If they leave, you're back to square one.

Marz Media

A team of ecom-specialist designers behind every project. Consistent quality standards across every client, every campaign. No single point of failure.

Scalability

Hiring a designer

A single designer has a fixed capacity. When you grow, you hire again. When it's quiet, you have a fixed cost with variable output.

Marz Media

We scale with your workload. Three clients or thirty, the process and the quality stay the same. No hiring, no redundancies, no capacity ceiling.

Reliability

Hiring a designer

Even great employees take sick days, go on holiday, have off weeks. When your designer is unavailable, your deadlines don't move.

Marz Media

A team means your deadlines are never dependent on one person's availability. 0 deadlines missed — that's not a marketing line, it's our track record.

The Bottom Line

Hiring a designer makes sense when you have predictable, high-volume output and the budget to support it long-term. It's a significant commitment that pays off at scale.

Marz Media makes sense when you want to scale now — without the hiring timeline, the overhead, or the risk. It's the fastest way to add reliable creative capacity to your agency.

Most of our partners tell us the same thing: they wish they'd started sooner.

Feras and Eric (Co-Founder) were looking for a reliable design partner to take on 8 & 9 figure brands with well established identities and high demand. Without skipping a beat we were able to meet that demand and exceed client expectations.

4

Brands Completely Handled

100$

Satisfied Brands

Feras

New Standard Co

Nick's main niche is golf and he needed someone who understands how to design some hole in ones. Giving each brand it's own look and feel whilst also converting was a walk in the park. Now the opportunity for diversity is boundless.

0

Deadlines Missed

24H

Average Turnaround Time

Nick

Rebel Email Marketing

After evaluating multiple creative agencies, Don chose Marz as the clear standout. We supported his Black Friday campaigns across multiple industries delivering what he valued most: speed, reliability, and happy clients.

3X

Email Output Boost

5+

Industries Served

Don

Hamilton Emails