SERVICES / FRACTIONAL CMO
Set up the marketing engine, plan the offers and the creative, and coach the people you already have to run it. Planned by the quarter, built month by month, owned by your team.
Your marketing people are capable. Nobody ever showed them how the whole thing fits together. So the agencies set the agenda, and when the reports arrive, nobody in-house can push back on them.
New offers stall because no one knows how to shape one. Creative gets made without a strategy behind it. Most of what is missing is not talent. It is someone who has done it before, showing your team how.
FOUNDATION
Leads coming in, followed up, and counted. We start with whichever piece is missing: lead generation, the follow-up, tracking, or reporting. What already works stays.
DIRECTION
How to shape a new offer, what to say about it, and how to test it. Your team learns the thinking, not just the answer.
JUDGMENT
Which platforms to run, how to build the schedule, which fire to put out first, and which effort will not fix the biggest problem.
CAPABILITY
Your people do the work with someone showing them how. They keep the skill after every session.
This does not replace your team in the room. Your agencies stay your team's to manage. The job here is making your people good at it: briefing an agency and judging its work.
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Start from the goals the business already set for the year. Or set them together if there aren't any.
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Each 90-day block opens with a planning session that breaks the year's goals into specific tasks.
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Each month sets what needs to be built or taught so the quarter stays on track.
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Your team builds it with guidance. Questions get answered on your real work, not a case study.
Starting at $7,000/MO
Monthly retainer, priced to the scope of work
90 days
Planned one quarter at a time
Monthly
Billing, across the three months of each quarter
Included: marketing engine setup, offer development, creative strategy, and coaching for your in-house team.
Also included: guidance on choosing, managing, and replacing agencies, so your team can do it with confidence.
Not included: running your campaigns or managing your agencies directly.
Not included: finished creative production or full website builds.
Each quarter is its own decision. At the end of the 90 days you renew it or you stop. No long-term contract.
A lead-gen business doing roughly $2M to $10M a year. Big enough to need most of what a CMO does, not big enough to hire one full time.
A small digital marketing team. One to a few people. The work here is digital.
People in-house who do the marketing, or will. The owner in the planning sessions is ideal.
Not in a restricted or regulated industry.
Applications outside these are declined, and we'll tell you why.
Nobody here runs your campaigns. Your team does, and gets better at it every month.
We stay off your agency calls. If we are on the call, your marketer stops leading it and waits for us to. Your team learns to run the call.
It runs on your goals and your real work, quarter after quarter, not a fixed curriculum.
Each quarter your team needs less of this. That is how you know it is working. Most teams use about six months to get the engine built and running, then carry on without us.
Some keep the quarterly planning going for a year or more. Either one is the point. When one marketer needs to go deep on a single area, the fixed 12-week In-House Marketer Training covers it in detail.
You hear back within two business days either way.