Video Marketing for Small Businesses in 2027: What a Monthly Short-Form Retainer Actually Includes

A retainer is not "some videos". It's the same production pipeline a media channel runs on itself, pointed at your business. At GoChiHQ, every engagement runs through four standing steps:

• Consultation first. A short call or email exchange about your business, your customers, and what "working" looks like for you — before anything is produced.
• The full studio produces. Research, scripting, production, finishing and captions — the same studio that posts GoChiHQ's own channels daily.
• You review, then it posts. You see everything before it goes live, and posting follows a steady daily discipline rather than a monthly dump.
• Honest reporting. What the content did, stated plainly — not a highlight reel.

That's the real product a retainer sells: a content operation your business doesn't have to hire, train or manage.

Choose on where your business is, not on which tier sounds bigger:

• Starting or relaunching? A one-off entry package (our Launch Pack) proves the fit and gives you a first library of content to judge the studio by.
• Need to stay visible? A mid retainer (our Growth Retainer) is the anchor for most businesses: a steady stream of Shorts that keeps you in front of customers month after month.
• Ready to be seen everywhere? A top tier (our Brand Partner) adds higher volume plus brand support for businesses treating content as a main channel, not a side task.

The wrong question is "how many videos can I get for the least money?" The right one is "what posting rhythm will my customers actually notice — and who is running it every week?"

Our prices are published and fixed: Launch Pack $400 one-off (entry content package for a business starting or relaunching its short-form presence), Growth Retainer $500/month (the anchor recurring package — a steady stream of Shorts), and Brand Partner $900/month (higher-volume content plus brand support). Prices are before tax; applicable tax is calculated at checkout, and Stripe emails your receipt automatically.

Terms are stated before you pay: every booking is an advance booking, and 25% of the price is a non-refundable advance-booking portion that reserves your production slot; the remaining 75% is refundable before work begins (unused portion after). Monthly tiers can be cancelled any time to stop the next renewal. Full wording lives on the Services page and the Refunds & cancellations page.

Guaranteed views, guaranteed followers, guaranteed sales — if a studio offers any of these, it's selling you the guarantee, not the work. Platforms decide distribution; audiences decide purchases. What a studio can guarantee is the part it controls: professional production, steady discipline, your approval before anything posts, and straight reporting afterwards. Judge any retainer — ours included — on those four.