MantelMarketing vs Squarespace
Squarespace gives you a well-designed template and an editor. With MantelMarketing, a designer builds your site for you and keeps it updated.
MantelMarketing
Done-for-you, monthly
- You don’t have the hours or the interest to design and write the site yourself.
- You want a site that looks built for your business.
- You’d rather send us a change than open the editor every time your hours or prices move.
Squarespace
Polished templates, DIY editor
- You enjoy design and want to make every decision yourself.
- Your budget is firmly under $50/month and you’re comfortable with a template.
- You want room to experiment, adding pages and trying layouts whenever you like.
What done-for-you looks like
Designed for your business from the first page.
Look through a complete sample website to see the design and detail included with MantelMarketing.
Linden & Co., a sample healthcare website
02 · About Squarespace
What Squarespace does well
Squarespace is a template-based builder with clean defaults and an editor built around design. If you have the time and an eye for design, it’s a strong choice to build yourself.
- The templates look good out of the box, so it’s hard to ship something ugly.
- Hosting, SSL, analytics and the editor all come on one bill.
- Blog and commerce tools are built in, and scheduling is sold separately if you need it.
Where Squarespace doesn’t fit our customer
- It’s still DIY: every photo, paragraph and layout decision is yours to make.
- Templates are shared, so a competitor can pick the same one.
- Every edit is on you, because there’s nobody to send a change request to.
03 · Side-by-side
Feature-by-feature
| Category | MantelMarketing | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Small businesses that want a real website without learning design | DIY owners who like to design |
| Pricing model | Done-for-you websites, built by a designer, $99–$499/mo | $19–$99/mo (billed annually) |
| Time to launch | 3–14 days from kickoff to launch, sized to the build | Hours to weeks, depending on you |
| Done-for-you buildDIY templates: you build the site | Included | Not included |
| Hosting included | Included | Included |
| Custom domain included | Included | Free for the first year on annual plans |
| Designed for your business | Included | Not included |
| Mobile-optimized | Included | Included |
| SEO setup included | Included | Built-in SEO tools; you set titles and descriptions yourself |
| Lead-capture forms | Included | Included |
| Blog / CMS | Included | Included |
| E-commerce | Stripe checkout for service-based businesses | Built in, with automated sales tax on Core and up |
| Booking / scheduling | Optional Google Calendar integration | Squarespace Scheduling, sold separately |
| Ongoing minor editsThe biggest difference: we make the edits for you | Included monthly: text changes, photo swaps and tune-ups | DIY: you log in and change it |
| Best for | Owner-operators who want a site designed around their business | Owner-operators with an eye for design and time to spare |
04 · Keep comparing
Compare MantelMarketing to other website tools
Ready to skip the building part?
The questionnaire takes about ten minutes. Your site can be live in as little as three days.