Fractional CMO Leadership
The senior marketing brain your company needs, at the fraction of the cost it can actually afford.
Brand strategy, performance acquisition, and pipeline conversion are usually run by three different vendors who never speak to each other. Here they are run as one system by one person who answers for the result.
The senior marketing brain your company needs, at the fraction of the cost it can actually afford.
Your CMO left. The executive search will take six months. Marketing cannot sit still for six months.
Sometimes you do not need a marketing leader. You need one hard question answered properly, once.
Before you spend another dollar on marketing, it is worth knowing whether marketing is the problem.
You do not need someone to run marketing. You need someone senior to tell you the truth about it.
Growth stopped. Everyone has a theory about why, and none of them are supported by numbers.
Launches fail from unclear positioning far more often than from weak product.
Lead volume is a vanity metric. Qualified pipeline is the only number that matters.
If your competitor could paste your homepage onto their site and nothing would look wrong, you do not have positioning.
You are not running six channels. You are running six departments that happen to share a customer.
Your agency is optimizing the ad account. Nobody is optimizing the strategy the ad account serves.
Organic search is the only channel where the asset appreciates instead of expiring the moment you stop paying.
Your acquisition cost climbs every quarter and your repeat rate has not moved. That is not a traffic problem.
Marketing reports one number. Sales reports another. Finance trusts neither. Nobody can say what is true.
You cannot optimize what you cannot measure, and most mid-market companies are measuring the wrong thing confidently.
Agencies do not underperform because they are bad. They underperform because nobody senior is holding them to a number.
Acquisition costs are rising every year. Retention is the only lever that gets cheaper the better you get at it.
Most companies buy tactics before they have settled the decisions those tactics depend on. That is why the ad budget underperforms and the agency gets blamed.
Nothing downstream works if the buyer cannot say why you and not the alternative. This is settled first, always.
Which segment, which channels, in what order, with what proof required before the next channel opens.
Built before scaling spend, not after. Scaling on broken tracking multiplies the error rather than the return.
Now the budget goes to work, with a defensible claim, a defined audience, and honest measurement underneath it.
The assets that appreciate: organic search authority and customer lifetime value, which lower blended CAC every quarter they run.
Continuous. Scorecards, quarterly reviews, and scope enforcement so every retainer earns its fee.
Yes. The Growth Audit is a one-time engagement covering the full marketing function, and individual disciplines such as an agency audit or a positioning project can be scoped standalone. Most companies start with a single project and expand into a retainer once the priorities are clear.
In sequence. Positioning determines what you say, go-to-market determines who hears it, demand generation and paid media determine how they hear it, martech and attribution determine whether you can tell what worked, and lifecycle determines what a customer is ultimately worth. Running them out of order is the most common expensive mistake.
I direct. Strategy, budget allocation, creative direction, and vendor accountability sit with me. Daily execution — building ad sets, writing copy, shipping pages — stays with your team or agencies. That structure is what keeps the cost sane and keeps me focused on the decisions that need executive judgment.
That is what the Growth Audit is for. Two to three weeks, a full diagnostic of your funnel, spend, positioning, team, and vendors, and a 90-day plan in priority order.
Free 30-minute call · No pitch deck · Direct answer either way