The koto-taka question, answered for Uttara
When an Uttara agency says '40,000 taka', ask the one question that exposes what you're actually buying: is that the fee, or the ad spend?
If you run a business in Uttara — a diagnostic centre near Rajlakshmi, a restaurant in Sector 3, a coaching centre by House Building, a furniture showroom on Garib-e-Newaz Avenue — you have heard 'digital marketing' quoted at least three contradictory ways. A boy with a Facebook page offers to 'boost your post' for 5,000 taka. A team in a Sector 7 office quotes 40,000 a month. A third wants 20% of whatever you spend on ads.
They all call it the same thing, and none of them tells you the part that actually decides your bill: how much is the fee for the work, and how much is the money that goes straight to Facebook or Google. This page sorts that out, because digital marketing price in Uttara is only confusing on purpose — once you split fee from spend, the whole thing becomes a number you can plan around.
Here is the honest mechanics. The 5,000-taka boost is not marketing — it is you handing Facebook 5,000 taka with no targeting plan, no tracking, and nobody reading what came back. The Sector 7 retainer is real work, but a chunk of that 40,000 is office rent and a junior who actually runs the account while the senior name stays on the proposal.
And the 'percentage of ad spend' model quietly punishes you for scaling — the better it works and the more you spend, the more they take, whether or not they did anything new that month. I do none of that. My fee is the strategy, the campaign build, the creative direction, the tracking setup, and the weekly hands-on management — a fixed service fee from 50,000 BDT — and your ad budget stays in your own bKash-funded ad account, where you can see every taka.
That separation is the whole reason I can quote honestly while a percentage-based shop cannot. Digital marketing for an Uttara business sits in the 50,000 to 1,50,000 BDT band depending on how many channels you run and how much creative you need — Facebook and Instagram alone at the floor, Google Search and proper landing pages further up. Genuinely heavy programmes — multi-branch, e-commerce catalogue feeds, a full content engine — start at 3,00,000 BDT.
Every number is fixed and written down before you pay a taka, split 50% on signing the scope and 50% when the campaigns go live, payable by bKash, Nagad, or bank transfer. Your ad spend is yours, topped up from your own account, and it never touches my fee.
And I will not win you with a cheap-sounding monthly number that hides the spend, because in Uttara I have watched where that ends.
Below 50,000 BDT I cannot sit with you, work out who actually buys from a clinic or showroom in your sector, build campaigns around the person holding a mid-range Android on patchy 4G, write and direct creative in the Bangla your customer reads, wire up pixel and conversion tracking so we count real enquiries instead of vanity 'reach', and still be on the account every week reading what the numbers say.
If your honest total budget — fee and ad spend together — is under about 60,000 to 70,000 BDT a month, I will tell you on the first call and suggest you start with one tight channel rather than spread a thin budget across four and feel nothing move.
See pricing in BDT