Sprout Sage vs MedStar Media
If you run a medspa and you are weighing Sprout Sage Solutions against MedStar Media, you are comparing two real agencies that both work in the aesthetic space, not a strawman versus a specialist. I am Mandeep Singh, founder of Sprout Sage Solutions, and this page lays out the honest differences, including where MedStar might be the better fit for you. Every fact about MedStar below is cited “per their site” with the month I checked it, because I did not talk to their sales team and I am not going to guess at their internals.
The short version
MedStar Media is a family-owned digital marketing agency, per their site (July 2026), serving doctors, dentists, and medical spas since the founders’ backgrounds in marketing and web development dating to 2005. Their services cover website design, paid search and social ads, SEO, and email/SMS marketing, delivered by a named team of specialists. Pricing is not published; you get a number after a free strategy session.
Sprout Sage Solutions is founder-led. I publish flat pricing, $1,500/mo for SEO, $500 for a website, $300 for a landing page, all visible on my pricing page before you ever fill out a form. I personally do the SEO, CRO, and reporting work, sign no long-term contracts, and back it with 37 five-star Upwork reviews, Top Rated Plus status, a 97% Job Success Score, and 222 completed jobs. The comparison mostly comes down to how you prefer to buy: transparent flat pricing with the founder doing the work, or a custom-quoted boutique agency team.
Side-by-side comparison
| Factor | Sprout Sage Solutions | MedStar Media |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Published flat: $1,500/mo SEO, $500 website, $300 landing page | Custom quote after a free strategy session (per their site, July 2026) |
| Contract | No long-term contract; flat monthly, cancel any time | Not published; confirm minimum term directly (per their site, July 2026) |
| Who does the work | Founder, Mandeep Singh, personally, 9 years experience | Named team of specialists across paid media, SEO, web design (per their site, July 2026) |
| Vertical focus | Medspa marketing primary | Doctors, dentists, and medspas (per their site, July 2026) |
| Track record you can verify | 37 five-star Upwork reviews, Top Rated Plus, 97% JSS, 222 jobs completed | Client testimonials and a Skinney Medspa case study on their site (per their site, July 2026) |
| Years in operation | 9 years founder experience | Founders’ background dates to 2005 (per their site, July 2026) |
| Website/landing pages | $500 website, $300 landing page, published | Website design offered; pricing not published (per their site, July 2026) |
Positioning: boutique team versus founder-operator
MedStar Media positions itself, per their site (July 2026), as a “family owned and operated” boutique agency built around close collaboration and customized strategy for each practice. They name specific team members across paid media, SEO, and web design, which signals a small internal team model rather than a single generalist or a large impersonal shop. That is a legitimate structure. A dedicated team can split specialization across channels in a way one person cannot.
My positioning is different in a specific way: there is no team layer between you and the person doing the work. I am the founder, and I execute your SEO audits, content, technical fixes, and reporting directly, with a deliberately capped client roster so that stays true. Neither structure is universally better. A boutique team gives you channel specialists; a founder-operator gives you a single accountable person who knows your account end to end. The question to ask yourself is which failure mode you would rather avoid: diffusion of ownership across a team, or a solo bottleneck. I have built my business to solve for the second by staying deliberately small.
There is also a practical difference in how fast decisions move. When you email me a question about your SEO report or a page that is underperforming, you are talking to the person who wrote the report and can change the strategy on the same call. Per their site (July 2026), MedStar’s model involves coordination across named specialists in different disciplines, which likely means your question sometimes routes through an account contact before it reaches the specialist who can act on it. That is not a flaw, it is simply how team-based agencies operate at any size, and plenty of medspa owners prefer having a single point of contact managing specialists behind the scenes rather than dealing with one person directly. If you have run a business long enough, you already know which of those two experiences you have preferred with past vendors.
Pricing: published flat rate versus custom quote
This is the most concrete, verifiable difference between the two of us. Per their site (July 2026), MedStar Media does not list a single price, package tier, or rate card anywhere on medstarmedia.com. Every path to a number runs through their “free strategy session,” which is a normal model for boutique agencies that want to scope work before quoting it. It is not a red flag by itself. But it does mean you cannot compare numbers before giving them your contact details and time.
My pricing is public and identical for every prospect, listed on my pricing page:
| Service | Flat price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| SEO retainer | $1,500/mo flat | Local SEO, no contract, monthly reporting |
| Website | $500 | Built and owned by you, no lock-in |
| Landing page | $300 | Conversion-focused single page |
There is no negotiation range in that table, which matters more than it sounds like it should. When pricing is hidden, you are negotiating with less information than the agency has, every time. When it is published, you know in the time it takes to read a page whether the number fits your budget. I built my pricing this way specifically because most agencies in this space do not publish theirs, and that opacity costs prospects weeks of back-and-forth before they learn whether a vendor is even affordable.
No-contract angle: cancel any time, no lock-in
My retainers run flat monthly with no long-term contract. You can cancel any time, for any reason, with no penalty. The pitch I give every prospect on a call is blunt: if I am not earning my $1,500 in the first month, fire me. That is not a marketing line; it is the actual structure of the agreement.
I cannot state MedStar Media’s contract terms because their public pages do not disclose them (per their site, July 2026). That is not unusual. Most agencies that quote custom pricing also negotiate custom contract length, sometimes with a minimum term of three, six, or twelve months attached to the rate. If you take a MedStar strategy call, ask directly: is there a minimum commitment, and what is the exact cancellation process. Get the answer in writing before you sign anything, with them or with anyone.
Services scope: what each agency actually covers
Per their site (July 2026), MedStar Media’s published service list covers website design and development, paid search and social advertising, search engine optimization, email and SMS marketing, and what they describe as sales tools and staff training for the practice’s front desk. That is a broad, full-funnel menu for a boutique shop, and bundling web development with paid media under one roof is a real convenience if you would rather not manage two separate vendors for your site and your ad spend.
My scope is narrower by design and reflects what I have found actually moves the needle for a single-location or small-group medspa: SEO built around local search intent, conversion rate optimization on the pages you already have or the ones I build you, and a website or landing page priced individually so you are never paying for a bundle you did not ask for. I do not currently publish a paid-ads management service the way MedStar does, so if your priority is a single vendor running both your SEO and your Google or Meta ad accounts, that is a real point in MedStar’s favor worth asking about directly. If your priority is a lean, transparent SEO and conversion engine without paying for services you will not use, that is where I am built to win.
The honest way to evaluate this is to list out exactly which services your medspa needs this quarter, not this year, and match that list against what each agency actually delivers rather than what a homepage implies. A full-service menu is only valuable if you are using most of it. If you only need SEO and a better-converting website, paying for a bundle that includes staff training and SMS marketing you will not touch is not a bargain just because it is one invoice.
Track record: what you can verify without a sales call
Part of what I am asking you to trust here is verifiable independently of me. I have 37 five-star reviews on Upwork, a Top Rated Plus badge, a 97% Job Success Score, and 222 completed jobs, all visible on my public Upwork profile and summarized on my reviews page. You do not have to take my word for any of it; the platform records are public.
Per their site (July 2026), MedStar Media features client testimonials on their pages along with a named case study for Skinney Medspa. I would encourage you to read that case study directly on their site rather than rely on my summary of a competitor’s own marketing material, the same way I would want you reading my Upwork reviews directly rather than trusting my paraphrase of them. Verifiable, third-party-hosted proof (an Upwork profile you cannot edit) and first-party case studies (hosted by the agency itself) are different kinds of evidence, and it is worth weighing which matters more to you.
When MedStar Media might be the right call
Be honest with yourself about fit. Choose MedStar if you want a small, established team with named specialists split across paid media, SEO, and web design rather than a single founder-operator. Choose them if you are comfortable with a custom-quoted engagement and do not need to see pricing before booking a strategy call. Choose them if their specific case studies, like the Skinney Medspa work described on their site, resemble the kind of practice and results you are trying to replicate. And choose them if, after asking about contract terms and account staffing on their call, the answers fit what you need. A boutique team with over a decade of combined marketing and web development background, per their site, is a legitimate option, not a compromise pick.
When Sprout Sage Solutions is the right call
Choose me if you want to know your exact monthly cost before you ever get on a call, from a $1,500/mo flat SEO retainer, a $500 website, or a $300 landing page. Choose me if you want the founder personally doing the SEO and CRO work rather than a team you have not met yet. Choose me if a no-contract, cancel-any-time arrangement matters to you, and if you want to verify my track record independently, 37 five-star Upwork reviews, Top Rated Plus, 97% JSS, 222 jobs, before you ever talk to me.
The fair move is to compare both directly. Book MedStar’s free strategy session, then book a free consultation with me, and you will have two real numbers and two real structures to weigh against each other, not a guess.
The bottom line
MedStar Media and Sprout Sage Solutions both serve medspas seriously, per their site and per my own track record. The real difference is not who understands aesthetics better; it is how each of us wants you to buy. MedStar asks you to book a call first and learn the price after. I publish the price first so you can decide before you ever pick up the phone. If transparent, flat, no-contract pricing with the founder doing the work is what you are looking for, the next step is a conversation, not a quote request.
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FAQ
What is MedStar Media known for?
Per their site (July 2026), MedStar Media is a family-owned digital marketing agency serving doctors, dentists, and medical spas, founded by people with marketing and web development experience dating back to 2005. Per their site, their services span website design, paid search and social ads, SEO, email and SMS marketing, and sales-tool training. They describe themselves as a boutique, selective shop, stating they “only work with those we know we can help.”
Does MedStar Media publish pricing?
No. Per their site (July 2026), MedStar Media does not list any package prices, tiers, or rate cards anywhere in its public pages. The only path to a number is booking their free strategy session and getting a custom quote. I publish the opposite: $1,500/mo flat for SEO, $500 for a website, $300 for a landing page, all listed on my pricing page before you ever talk to me.
How much does MedStar Media cost?
I cannot tell you, and neither can their website. Per their site (July 2026), no pricing, packages, or minimum spend is disclosed publicly. Third-party industry write-ups describe them as sitting at a higher price point than some competitors, but that is someone else’s observation, not a number MedStar has confirmed, so I will not repeat it as fact. My own pricing is the one number in this comparison you can verify without a phone call: $1,500/mo flat, listed on my pricing page.
How is Sprout Sage Solutions different from MedStar Media?
The core difference is how you buy. I publish flat pricing, from $1,500/mo, and I am the founder personally doing the SEO, CRO, and reporting work with 9 years behind it. Per their site (July 2026), MedStar operates a small team model with named specialists across paid media, SEO, and web design, and pricing is quoted after a strategy call. Neither model is wrong. One tells you the number up front; the other tells you after you have talked to sales.
Does Sprout Sage Solutions require a contract?
No. My retainers are flat monthly with no long-term contract, and you can cancel any time. If I am not earning my $1,500 in month one, fire me. I cannot state MedStar Media’s contract terms because their site does not publish them (per their site, July 2026), so ask directly on your strategy call before signing anything, including any minimum term or cancellation notice period.
Is MedStar Media good for medspas?
It can be a solid choice for the right practice. Per their site (July 2026), MedStar has worked in digital marketing since 2005 and positions itself around close, personalized collaboration with aesthetic and medical clients, which is a legitimate model many practices value. The honest trade-off is that you will not know your monthly cost until after a sales conversation, and I cannot verify their contract terms, team assignment, or reporting cadence because none of that is public. Fit depends on whether you are comfortable buying on a custom quote.
Who actually does the work at Sprout Sage Solutions?
I do. I am Mandeep Singh, the founder, with 9 years in this business, a Top Rated Plus badge on Upwork, 97% Job Success Score, 222 completed jobs, and 37 five-star reviews. I personally handle your SEO, CRO, and reporting rather than handing your account to a junior after the sales call. Per their site (July 2026), MedStar names specific team members including paid media and SEO specialists, but their public pages do not specify exactly who is assigned to a given client’s account, so ask that question directly if you take their call.
Which agency is more transparent on pricing?
Sprout Sage Solutions. I list every tier publicly: $1,500/mo flat SEO, $500 for a website, $300 for a landing page, all on my pricing page, no sales call required to learn the number. Per their site (July 2026), MedStar Media does not publish a single price, package, or rate anywhere on medstarmedia.com. That is a common and legitimate model for boutique agencies, but it means you cannot compare numbers until after you have given them your contact information and time.
When would MedStar Media be the right call instead of Sprout Sage Solutions?
If you want a small, established agency with a team of named specialists across paid ads, SEO, and web design, and you are comfortable with a custom-quoted engagement rather than published pricing, MedStar is worth a call. Per their site (July 2026), they have operated since 2005 and focus specifically on doctors, dentists, and medspas, which is real vertical experience. If your priority is a team-based agency over a single founder-operator, or you specifically want in-house web development bundled with paid media under one roof, request their quote and compare it against my flat $1,500/mo.
Does MedStar Media offer AI automation like after-hours lead capture?
I did not find AI-specific automation, such as after-hours voice or SMS lead capture, published on MedStar’s site as of July 2026, so I will not claim they do or do not offer it. Ask them directly if that matters to you. My own AI automation is a defined service, after-hours booking capture, no-show-reducing SMS, and review automation, priced separately from SEO so you can add it or skip it.
Can I see real reviews of Sprout Sage Solutions before I decide?
Yes. I have 37 five-star reviews on Upwork, a Top Rated Plus badge, a 97% Job Success Score, and 222 completed jobs, all verifiable on my Upwork profile and summarized on my reviews page. Per their site (July 2026), MedStar Media features client testimonials and a Skinney Medspa case study on medstarmedia.com; I encourage you to read those directly rather than take my summary of a competitor’s own marketing.
How do I decide between Sprout Sage Solutions and MedStar Media?
Ask three questions on any call: what is the exact monthly cost, is there a minimum contract term, and who specifically executes the work. I answer all three before you book, on my pricing page. Per their site (July 2026), MedStar answers those questions on a strategy call rather than in public, which is a normal boutique-agency model, just a slower one to compare against. Book a free consultation with me and you will have real numbers to compare either way.
