Marketing Consultants on FreshBooks pay $33/month — $396/year. Over three years, that's $1,329. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 8.5 months. The median Marketing Consultant earns $55,000/year, so FreshBooks's annual cost is roughly 0.7% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $1,329 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
You're not the only one who's had enough.
Marketing Consultants face unique challenges: Scoping a retainer that quietly turns into running the client's entire marketing department for the same flat fee. Reporting on results when the client measures success by gut feeling and the funnel data tells a different story. Juggling four clients in four different martech stacks, each with its own logins, naming conventions, and broken automation. Getting paid on time when invoices sit behind a client's slow accounts-payable process. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Marketing Consultant earns $55,000/year. Software at $396/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your HubSpot is yours. You bought it once. Nexa works the same way — $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, and full accounting. All connected. All offline-capable. You own it like you own your tools.
FreshBooks is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | FreshBooks | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $33/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $1,329 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most marketing consultants are fully switched before the weekend.
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I start by triaging Slack and email across four clients, because a marketing consultant is on-call for whatever broke overnight — a Mailchimp automation that double-sent, a landing page that's converting at zero, a CEO who 'saw a competitor do something.' My first focused block is strategy: I'm in GA4 and HubSpot mapping a client's funnel because they want more leads but the real leak is in the demo-to-close stage, which isn't a top-of-funnel problem at all. I rebuild a nurture sequence and fix a Zapier connection that silently stopped passing leads to their CRM two weeks ago — two weeks of leads I have to apologize for. Midday is a discovery call with a prospect; I scope carefully because the last 'small retainer' became me running an entire department. Afternoon, I switch into a different client's stack — different naming conventions, different logins, different broken automations — and build a campaign in Canva and Mailchimp. Late day I write the monthly report and brace for the client who measures success by feel and will say leads are 'down' when they're up but slower-closing. Before I shut the laptop I send two invoices, knowing one client's accounts-payable will sit on it for forty-five days. Scope, stack, and getting paid — those are the three fights underneath the actual marketing.
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For solo operators and small teams (1-5), yes. Nexa includes invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting. FreshBooks may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. FreshBooks is $33/month — that's $1,329 over 3 years. Which is more? And if you'd rather split it, Nexa is also available as 3 payments of $99.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
30-day money-back guarantee. Full refund. If Nexa doesn't save you $500 in year one, you get every penny back.
Export your data from FreshBooks as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $2,592/year on software — and Marketing Consultant face their own version of that math. NH state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Manchester metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Marketing Consultants run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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