Why Work With Us?
Why The Bnevol Network Outperforms Agencies or other team structures
We've put together a simple comparison of the key differentiating factors that separate the performance and work experience you receive when working with Bnevol vs. traditional agencies and freelancer alternatives. We broekn it down into three main areas below...
Experience
How is your work assigned?
Bnevol
We assemble a specialized team based on the specific needs of your project. Your team comes exclusively from within the Bnevol Network ONLY. We do not recruit, whitelable, or hire contractors outside of the Bnevol Network.
Marketing Agencies
Your work is assigned to whomever is available at the time of the sale. Agencies use allocation models to ensure staff is booked at target capacities. This means, the rockstars (assuming they have some) are almost always booked at capacity. So the decision often comes down to whose capacity needs to be filled.
Freelancers
Come one, come all, until they can't take anymore. Of course, a good freelancer will tell you they are at capacity, or that they aren't a good fit for what you are seeking.
Who Is Doing Your Work?
Bnevol
Your work is executed by executive level practitioners at every level. That means executive-level communication, execution, performance, reporting, etc.
Marketing Agencies
You work with employees that are sometimes newly/early growing in their role. Everyone starts somewhere, so right on to them. What does that mean for you?
Freelancers
You work with a single person, who has zero relationships with the other cross-functional teams.
You have career-level executive professionals who are certified practitioners executing at every level of your project. They have graduated from marketing agencies to stand up their own or other marketing agencies.
Your work is executed by any range of junior to senior marketing managers, etc (some are great, some aren't, it's hit-or-miss despite the agency's best intentions).
You have access to a Solopreneur who may or may not be great. You don't know why this person has stepped out on their own.
Who Do You Have Access To?
Bnevol
You have full access to the Founder, who has a high interest (and highly accountable) for the success of the relationship and is participating at every level of the relationship. Unlimited access as direct contact.
Marketing Agencies
You have access to account managers, account reps, customer service, etc... and maybe the rare encounter with an executive after the sale, and hopefully that's not to simply “step in,” so-to-speak.
Freelancers
You have access to this single point of contact with zero accountability structure.
Who Is Managing Your Project/s?
Bnevol
You get certified project management with all projects, with even higher degrees of accountability structure than even marketing agencies would provide - its a value marketing agencies have over freelancer workers that yet get’s bested by working with Bnevol.
Marketing Agencies
You have someones’ boss or manager accountable for that employee's work getting done, on time, and to specification. Rare to have project managers, even more rare to have certified PMPs managing team work.
Freelancers
You, or someone on your team, will have to project manage and stitch together a disparate and disjointed team and orchestrate activities cross-functionally. This either adds to and/or takes away from the critical work you and your team are accountable for and where that time is best spent.
Performance
How customizable are the services and solutions?
Bnevol
You gain access to much broader specialization at the strategic business level with agility to bend with the organizations' needs, goals, and changing environment.
Marketing Agencies
Big ships can’t turn on a dime. Marketing agencies have lots of overhead and infrastructure, standardization, and baked processes - which are generally excellent qualities for scaling an organization, but it also makes them inherently less nimble and able to adapt to the agile and variable needs of businesses, especially outside of their core set of marketing services.
Freelancers
Lack of value-add outside of their domain of expertise.
Turn your dollars into impact
How Far Does Our Dollar Reach?
Bnevol
When you work with us, the resulting revenue we generate empower us to continue our direct sponsorship and engagement with our CSR endeavors. Choosing to work with Bnevol empowers others in clear and measurable ways. Find out more about our CSR impact here.
Additionally, if you seek to diversity your supply chain by working with a qualified, proven, and established black-owned business then Bnevol is your answer.
Marketing Agencies
Some agencies have CSR or other social impact initiatives. Others don't. Its up to you to do your homework and learn about what they actually do vs. what they say... And of their initiatives, which ones resonate with you. Running a free lemonade stand once a year may not quite yield the type of regenerative impact you would like to see ultimately.
Freelancers
You might be helping out a struggling and talented soloprenuer - and if thats the case, we'd say right on to that.
