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Frequently asked questions
Everything prospects ask before a discovery call, answered plainly, including the questions where the honest answer is unflattering to us.
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The four questions everyone asks
- What does Elvare do, in one sentence?
- Elvare decides what a founder, executive or expert should be known for, then builds the positioning, profile and editorial system that makes that hold across every public surface.
- How much does an engagement cost?
- There is no public rate card. Price follows scope: how many people are covered, how many surfaces need rebuilding, and how much drafting Elvare does versus your team. You get a costed written proposal before any commitment.
- How does an engagement start?
- A 30-minute discovery call, free and without obligation, then a written recommendation covering scope, deliverables, timeline, responsibilities and the measurement plan.
- What will Elvare not promise?
- Rankings, reach, lead volumes, funding or revenue. The work itself is guaranteed: deliverables, cadence, review rhythm and honest reporting against the indicators agreed at the start.
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Working with Elvare
How engagements start, what they cost to explore, and who does the work.
What happens on the first call?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no deck. We ask what you are trying to achieve, who you are trying to reach, what has already been tried, and what "working" would look like in twelve months. You should leave with a clear view of whether Elvare is the right fit, including when the answer is that you are not yet ready for an engagement, which happens on roughly a third of calls.
Do you charge for the strategy or proposal?
The discovery call and the written recommendation that follows it are free. If the scope needs genuine research before it can be priced (a competitive audit, for instance) we will tell you that in advance, describe what the paid diagnostic would contain, and let you decide before any work starts.
How is pricing structured?
Project engagements are quoted as a fixed scope with a fixed fee; ongoing editorial and management work is quoted as a monthly retainer. Prices are not published because a one-off profile rebuild and a twelve-month programme are not comparable engagements, and we will not publish figures we have not validated against real delivery cost. You receive a costed written proposal before making any commitment.
How long is the minimum commitment?
For project work, the project. For retainers, most are structured with a three-month initial term because anything shorter cannot show signal, but the terms are stated in the proposal rather than buried in a contract, and there are no auto-renewal traps.
Who actually does the work?
Named in the proposal before you commit. Elvare does not sell a senior name and staff a junior team. You will know who runs the diagnostic, who drafts, and who reviews, and if a specific role is being delivered by a specialist collaborator, that is disclosed with their name and remit.
What if we already have an agency or in-house marketer?
We work alongside them. Elvare defines positioning, message architecture and measurement; execution can stay where it is. This is a common and usually sensible arrangement, the agency gets clearer direction, and you are not replacing a working relationship to buy a strategy.
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Scope and services
What is in, what is out, and which service you might actually need.
Which service should we start with?
You do not need to know. Describe the situation (what is happening in the business, who you need to reach, what has already been tried) and we will tell you which of the eight services fits, or that a combination is needed, or that none of them is the problem. The services index includes a four-question guide if you would rather self-select first.
Do you run paid advertising or PR?
No. Elvare does not run paid media, media buying, or PR and press-coverage retainers. Those are different disciplines with better-suited providers, and we will happily say so on the call rather than expand our scope to take the budget.
Do you manage social accounts end to end?
Partly. Ongoing LinkedIn and content management is offered where it is attached to a strategy, planning, drafting, scheduling, comment strategy and reporting. We do not do high-volume daily posting, and we never send direct messages or make commitments on your behalf without explicit instruction.
Is Reddit marketing safe for a B2B company?
It is safe when it follows each community’s rules and Reddit’s own terms: no fake accounts, no vote manipulation, no undisclosed affiliation, no fabricated testimonials. Done that way it is slower and less glamorous than agencies usually promise, and it works. Done any other way it is a public reputational risk that also ranks on Google for your brand name for years.
Will you use AI in the work?
For transcription, research, outlining and editing support, yes. For unreviewed publication under your name, no. Unedited generated content is increasingly devalued in search and detectable by exactly the expert readers you want to reach, and it gives nobody a reason to cite you rather than a competitor.
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Measurement and honesty
How results are reported, and what will never be claimed.
What results can we expect?
Elvare guarantees the work, the deliverables, the cadence, the review rhythm, and honest reporting against the indicators agreed at the start. It does not guarantee rankings, reach, leads, funding or revenue, because those depend on the market, the platforms and your competitors. Anyone promising specific numbers before doing the work is estimating and presenting it as certainty.
How do you measure personal branding?
Three layers. Leading indicators you control (cadence, message consistency, approval velocity. Audience-quality indicators the market decides) who engages, whether they fit your defined audience, whether inbound references your published thinking. Commercial outcomes reviewed quarterly at most, reported as ranges with assumptions stated rather than false precision. Follower counts are recorded as context, never as an outcome.
Do you publish case studies?
Only verified ones, with client permission, which is why there are currently none on this site. Elvare will not invent client results, testimonials, statistics or logos to fill a section. Verified evidence slots exist in the central configuration file and populate the moment real material is supplied.
How soon will we see anything?
Leading indicators move within weeks. Audience-quality signal usually takes a couple of quarters, and commercial attribution arrives later and unevenly. We agree the baseline in week one, review leading indicators monthly, and make an explicit keep-or-change decision with you at ninety days rather than at twelve months.
What if it is not working?
We say so in the review, with the evidence, and recommend either a change of approach or an end to the engagement. A programme that only ever reports good news is being justified rather than measured, which is the most expensive failure mode in this category, and the one clients are rightly most afraid of.
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Markets, locations and international work
Where Elvare works and how delivery runs.
Where is Elvare based?
Elvare is a remote-first consultancy working across India. We do not maintain physical offices and we do not claim local presence we do not have. Dedicated pages exist for the three markets where client fit is clearest (Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi NCR) and four more are queued behind real demand rather than published as placeholders.
Can you work with us outside India?
Yes, in other English-speaking markets where the research justifies it. India remains the primary market. International engagements are scoped on the same terms, delivered in IST with scheduled overlap for your timezone, and we will tell you honestly if your market behaves differently from the ones we know well.
How does remote delivery actually work?
One recorded session per month, asynchronous written review cycles, a shared editorial calendar, and a monthly report. Live sessions are scheduled deliberately (for strategy sprints, interviews or planning) rather than being the default, because most of the work does not need a meeting and the calendar cost of daily syncs is real.
Do you do on-site work?
Where it materially improves the outcome: founder interview workshops, partner sessions and strategy sprints are the usual candidates, and they are scoped as a line item rather than assumed. Routine delivery does not require it.
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Where to go next
If the answer you needed is not here, the fastest route is the discovery call, but these three pages resolve most of it first.
All services
What each engagement actually includes.
About Elvare
The method, the standards and what we will not claim.
Insights
Our published thinking, for evaluation before you buy.
Contact
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Ask us the awkward questions directly.
Pricing, staffing, references, what has not worked before, the discovery call is the right place for all of it, and none of it commits you to anything.