Both publish their prices. LYFE (founded 2011, 60+ staff) is social-media-first: Facebook and Instagram ad plans at $500, $800 and $1,400 a month plus a $300 setup fee ("Call us to waive"), on a 3-month initial contract. Karbon publishes ad management from $750–$2,500/month depending on scope and adds an AI receptionist.
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| LYFE Marketing | Karbon | |
|---|---|---|
| Ad-management pricing | Published. Facebook and Instagram: $500 (image ads), $800 (video ads) or $1,400 (image and video) a month. Google Ads: $500, $800 or $1,400 a month. $300 account setup fee ("Call us to waive"); extra social networks $100/month each; Bing $150/month.[1][2] | Published on its site: ad management from $750–$2,500/month depending on scope; local-business growth plans from $997/month plus ad spend; the AI receptionist from $397/month plus a one-time setup; landing pages from $250 one-time or $25/month. Ad spend goes straight to the ad platforms, with no percentage-of-spend markup. |
| Contract terms | An initial 3-month contract, then month-to-month; cancellation takes 30 days' written or digital notice.[2][1] | Ad management is month-to-month — no long-term lock-in. Other services are billed as their own plans. |
| Video creative | Video plans include "2 Vertical Videos, 1 Actor per Quarter"; all social ads are made in-house.[1] | Creative production is part of onboarding; Karbon does not publish a fixed video allowance. |
| Organic social media | Social media management — content calendars and posting — at $650–$1,000 a month on average; the agency was founded on social media marketing.[4][3] | Not in Karbon's published service list. |
| Services | Social media marketing and advertising, Google advertising, email marketing, short-form video, SEO and graphic design.[3][4] | Meta & Instagram ads, Google Ads, SEO, landing pages & websites, an AI receptionist, marketing automation, and live reporting. |
| Who they serve | Small businesses working with a limited marketing budget, across industries including local service businesses.[3] | Local service businesses across the United States. |
| Reporting | Monthly reports with takeaways and next month's plan; Monday–Friday ad monitoring and a dedicated account rep.[1] | One live dashboard, updated continuously: AI reads campaign and visitor data and flags what to change, and a human strategist verifies and acts. |
| Track record and partner status | Founded 2011; Meta Business Partner and Google Partner.[3] | Founded in 2025. Karbon does not publish a headcount and does not claim a Google or Meta partner badge. |
| Calls and follow-up | Email marketing, including drip sequences and text-message follow-up to subscribers. Call answering is not listed on the pages we read.[3][4] | Answers calls too: the AI receptionist from $397/month plus a one-time setup. Marketing automation handles the follow-up. |
Neither option is right for every business. Here's a fair view of where each one fits best.
Where Karbon has the edge: call answering and follow-up in the same shop, and a live dashboard instead of monthly reports. Where LYFE has it: organic social management, video creative built into its plans, and more than a decade in business. Both publish prices, so compare the plans line by line.
LYFE publishes Facebook and Instagram ad plans at $500, $800 and $1,400 a month and Google Ads plans at the same three prices, each with a $300 account setup fee ("Call us to waive"). Karbon publishes per-service prices: ad management from $750–$2,500/month depending on scope; local-business growth plans from $997/month plus ad spend; the AI receptionist from $397/month plus a one-time setup; landing pages from $250 one-time or $25/month. Both list ad spend separately from the management price.
Yes, a short one: LYFE starts clients on an initial 3-month contract, then month-to-month, with 30 days' written or digital notice to cancel. Karbon's terms: Ad management is month-to-month — no long-term lock-in. Other services are billed as their own plans.
If your priority is social media presence — posting, content and video ads — LYFE was founded on that. If your priority is booked jobs from Meta and Google ads, with calls answered and a live view of cost per lead, Karbon is built for that. Ask each for campaigns they have run in your trade.
LYFE's Facebook image-ad plan lists "Monthly Social Ad Spend with Networks" of $500 to $1,000, and its video plans $1,000 or more, as a separate line from the plan price. With Karbon, ad spend goes straight to the ad platforms, with no percentage-of-spend markup.
Every statement about LYFE Marketing on this page comes from these pages on its own site, each opened and read on the date shown. Karbon's figures come from Karbon's own published pricing and terms.
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