Ready-to-use, professional template in fully editable MS Word format—customizable, clear, and crafted for real-world marketing engagements.
Why This Template Is Essential
- Streamline your client onboarding process—omit guesswork and cover all the essentials fast, from scope to closure.
- Clarify expectations for both parties—outline deliverables, timelines, responsibilities, and compensation up front.
- Protect your business interests—solidify intellectual property, confidentiality, termination rights, and more.
- Elegant, clean formatting—makes editing simple and leaves a great impression on clients.
What’s Included
- Parties & Purpose: Identify the Client and Agency, and clearly define the consulting objectives.
- Term & Scope of Work: Flexible arrangement for hourly, project-based, or retainer consulting—tailor it to your arrangement.
- Compensation & Payment Terms: Options for hourly rates, flat fees, retainers, due dates, and late fees.
- Confidentiality & IP Ownership: Safeguard sensitive data while clarifying ownership of deliverables.
- Client Responsibilities: Define what you need—brand assets, feedback, approvals—to deliver effectively.
- Termination & Liability: Fair terms to exit and liability limits, so both sides feel secure.
- Independent Contractor Clause: Clarifies business relationship and avoids confusion.
- Jurisdiction & Full Agreement: Legally clear on governing law and merges prior communications into a binding document.
- Signature Block: Clean and ready for execution.
- Exhibit A – Scope of Work: A preformatted space to outline detailed services, milestones, and timelines.
Perfect For
- Marketing consultants and agencies launching new client relationships.
- Businesses needing a clear, robust contract template without reinventing the wheel.
- Freelancers who want polished, legally sensible agreements tailored to their marketing services.
How to Use
- Download the Word document.
- Input your details—names, dates, rates, deliverables, etc.
- Review and customize clauses (especially confidentiality, IP, and termination).
- Send to your client for signature and approval.
- Begin your project with confidence and clarity.