Sell Consulting Services Online on a Shareable Gig Page
Package strategy calls, audits, and retainers into fixed tiers buyers can book in two clicks, on a page you own and share with your whole audience.
Consulting
Consulting
Your three tiers
BASIC
$90
45-min strategy call
STANDARD
$290
Audit + 2 calls + action plan
Most popular
PREMIUM
$900
Monthly retainer, async support
Every seller sets their own scope, delivery time, and price.
Selling consulting services online means publishing a fixed price for a defined deliverable instead of writing a proposal for every enquiry. A strategy call, an audit with a written action plan, and a monthly retainer covers most practices and gives a buyer an entry point that does not require a large first commitment. The US wage floor for this work is well documented: management analysts earn a median of $48.97 an hour and $101,860 a year, and financial managers $80.08 and $166,570, on 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics data. An independent rate has to sit well above those figures, because it absorbs self-employment tax, insurance, and the unbillable half of the year. Where you sell then decides how much of it you keep: Catalant takes 20% to 30% of the project, Fiverr takes 20%, Upwork takes 0% to 15% per contract, and a gig page here takes 8% falling to 3%.
Why sell here
Why sell consulting on FreelanceNation
Your gig page is your marketing. Fiverr has the marketplace but a faceless URL. Stan and Linktree give you a page with no buyers behind it. Here you get both, at a fairer take.
A shareable, SEO gig page
Your consulting gig is a public page built to be posted on social and to rank in Google, so buyers find you by search and by share.
A marketplace behind it
Every share funnels buyers into the whole marketplace, and the marketplace sends new buyers who search your category back to your gig.
A fairer take
Keep more of every sale than the 20% or more you pay on legacy marketplaces. Fixed tiers, self-serve checkout, your page.
What you can sell
Consulting gigs that sell well here
Package any of these into Basic, Standard, and Premium tiers buyers can order self-serve.
How it works
From consulting gig to growing marketplace
Package your tiers
Turn your consulting service into Basic, Standard, and Premium with set prices, delivery times, and clear scope. No bidding, no proposals.
Share your gig page
Post one beautiful, SEO-ranking link on your socials and link in bio. It loads fast, renders perfect share cards, and takes orders.
Buyers discover and buy
Followers buy in two clicks. The buyers who do not still discover the marketplace, which sends new buyers back to your gig.
Your buyers are founders, marketers, and operators who search for consulting and buy a fixed tier without the back-and-forth.
Benchmarks
What consulting work pays in the US, and what each platform leaves you
Wage figures are 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics medians via O*NET, which are employed benchmarks rather than independent rates. Platform fees were read from each company's own page or support documentation on 3 September 2026.
| Benchmark | Rate | Source and sample |
|---|---|---|
| Management analysts, median | $48.97/hr, $101,860/yr | O*NET 13-1111.00, BLS 2025 wage data |
| Financial managers, median | $80.08/hr, $166,570/yr | O*NET 11-3031.00, BLS 2025 wage data |
| Computer systems analysts, median | $50.89/hr, $105,850/yr | O*NET 15-1211.00, BLS 2025 wage data |
| Market research analysts, median | $37.87/hr, $78,760/yr | O*NET 13-1161.00, BLS 2025 wage data |
| Catalant take rate | 20% to 30% of project fees | Catalant consultant support documentation |
| Fiverr seller commission | 20% of every order | Fiverr terms |
| Upwork freelancer service fee | 0% to 15% per contract | Upwork support documentation |
| Toptal, consultant side | 0% | Client-side markup is not published anywhere |
| FreelanceNation | 8% Starter, 5% Pro, 3% Studio | Our published plans, $9 to $49 a month |
The same $10,000 engagement is four different amounts of money
Consultants tend to model their rate carefully and their platform cut not at all, which is backwards, because the cut is the larger and more variable number. A $10,000 engagement pays out around $7,000 to $8,000 through Catalant, $8,000 on Fiverr, $8,500 or more on Upwork depending on the contract fee, and $9,200 on our Starter plan. Quote the same figure everywhere and you have given three different discounts without deciding to. The other half of the decision runs the opposite way. An expert network takes a quarter of the money and hands you access to companies whose procurement process you could not enter alone, and a quarter of a real engagement beats all of one that never happens. A page you own takes almost nothing and brings you nobody. The practical answer for most independents is both: apply to the networks, because the applications cost an afternoon and their timelines run to a quarter, and in the meantime publish tiers somewhere a referral or a conference conversation can act on the same week.
Questions sellers ask
Consulting gig work, answered
How do I sell consulting services online without a website?
Publish a page with three fixed tiers and a checkout. A buyer needs four things: who you help, what specifically you deliver, what it costs, and how to start. A gig page carries all four and can be live in an afternoon, where a full website is weeks of work that mostly serves the first of the four.
What should I charge for a consulting call?
Anchor on the employed median for your discipline and then multiply. Management analysts earn a median of $48.97 an hour employed, and an independent rate has to cover self-employment tax, insurance, software and the unbillable half of the year, which is why a $150 to $300 45-minute call is common rather than greedy.
Should I sell consulting hourly or as a fixed package?
Fixed packages, in almost every case. Hourly billing caps your income at your calendar, invites scope arguments about what counts as work, and forces the buyer to evaluate you on time rather than outcome. A fixed price for a named deliverable is easier to buy, easier to deliver against, and it is the only structure that lets a buyer purchase without a call first.
Do consulting marketplaces take a percentage?
Most do, and the range is wide. Catalant states 20% to 30% of total project fees in its consultant documentation, Fiverr takes 20% of every order, and Upwork charges 0% to 15% per contract. Toptal charges the consultant nothing and instead marks up the rate it bills the client, a figure it does not publish.
How do I get paid for consulting without chasing invoices?
Collect before or during the work rather than after. A deposit, a fixed-price package paid at checkout, or a retainer billed in advance for the coming month all remove the chase entirely. Clients who will not pay in advance for month four are telling you something useful about month five.
Is consulting worth selling on a marketplace at all?
It depends on whether you have inbound work. If your calendar is full from referrals, a marketplace commission buys you rails you could rent for $19 a month and is poor value. If you are between engagements, a marketplace puts you in front of buyers searching for the work rather than for your name, and that is worth a percentage.
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