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sway vs in-house

Compare the cost of working with Sway against hiring someone in-house to run your event marketing and bookings.

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why this matters

When event inquiries start outgrowing what your team can handle, the instinct is to hire. A sales coordinator, an events manager, someone to own it. That hire comes with a salary, payroll taxes, benefits, training, and the months it takes before they are fully up to speed, and you still need someone to run the advertising that fills their calendar.

This calculator lays the two paths side by side: the fully loaded cost of an in-house hire against what Sway costs to run the same work. It is not always one-sided, and the right answer depends on your volume and your team. The tool gives you the real numbers so the call is grounded in math rather than instinct.

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