Services

Fractional CMO

Our Fractional CMOs drive awareness, customer acquisition, sales development, and growth just like a full-time marketing leader, but without the full-time cost. As the most senior marketing leader, the fractional CMO oversees internal and external resources to achieve business objectives.

The specific responsibilities of the fractional CMO may include:

  1. Developing comprehensive strategies and aligning cross-functionally
  2. Developing a positioning strategy and messaging that resonates
  3. Identifying insights from competitive, market, and customer research
  4. Executing demand generation programs to meet MQL, SQL, opportunity, and revenue goals.
  5. Developing, managing, and optimizing budgets
  6. Leading and mentoring teams
  7. Brand management
  8. Developing full-funnel selling tools
  9. Implementing systems that support data-driven decision-making
  10. Program and project management

Go-To-Market Planning

We develop comprehensive GTM plans to hit revenue and growth targets today while establishing longer-term competitive barriers.

While situational, GTM plans often include:

  1. Growing top of funnel opportunities with right-sized demand generation
  2. Accelerating pipeline through full-stack marketing
  3. Increasing customer engagement and cross-selling
  4. Increasing close rates by targeting priority markets, personas, and use cases
  5. Enabling sales and channels with messaging, branding, presentations, tools, and training
  6. Optimizing spend on programs, internal and external resources

Deliverables include documented strategies, budgets tied to corporate goals, and execution plans with timelines, functional objectives, and key results (OKRs).

With decades of experience in sales, marketing execution, product marketing, and communications, we are skilled at collaborating at all levels and with all leadership functions.  

Market Development Strategy

Markets and buyer behavior evolve naturally from the early stage to maturity. To match buyer needs and continue fueling adoption, the market development approach must shift, even when operational momentum can be hard to change.

B2B

EARLY STAGE

GROWTH

HYPER-GROWTH

MATURITY

TARGETING

Visionary

Functional

Infrastructure

1:1 End-User

OFFER AND VALUE

Project

Solution

Productized

Extensions

SALES AND PRICING

Consultative

Solution

Product

Extensions

SOLUTION AND PARTNERS

Development / Consulting

Solution Gaps

Consolidate

Minimized

POSITIONING AND MESSAGE

Vision

Best for our niche(s)

Ecosystem Leader

Best User Experience

Using proven best practices and experience spanning hundreds of products and service businesses, we collaborate with client teams to facilitate alignment around strategies and their operational implications.

Research and Diagnostics

Operational Marketing Assessment

Do you need to scale your marketing efforts? Or, are current results not matching your desired goals? We employ a structured process, team interviews, and pipeline facts to evaluate the situation, identify gaps versus best practices, and deliver a prioritized set of recommendations for improvement.

Market and Competitor Diagnostics

The natural focus on today's operating issues makes it hard to step back and objectively evaluate unseen macro changes, such as category convergence, changes in power and influence across the ecosystem, competitive dynamics, new entrants, and threats. We outline the likely implications and outcome scenarios and make recommendations regarding a course of action.  

Value Proposition Research

Understanding how buyers perceive value is critical to messaging, targeting, and demand generation efforts. We will design and execute qualitative research to get to the root the reasons prospects, influencers, or customers recommend and buy.

Solution Offer Development

Today's notion of "minimum viable product" can undervalue how customers actually see their solution needs. Said more bluntly--what we're selling is often not what the customer is buying.

To speed adoption, solution offers must fulfill not only product requirements, but also the customer's unique solution needs, such as prerequisites, integrations, onboarding, complementary products, or complementary services. We help to identify the gaps, and catalyze teams around innovative ways to fill them.

Corporate Development Support

We bring experience with a wide variety of corporate relationships. We help by crafting compelling narratives and strategies to:

Attract strategic partners
Speed fundraising
Align executive teams around messaging
Develop solution make vs buy plans
Increase investor confidence

Other Services

The complexity of today's marketing challenges usually exceeds what any single solution provider can deliver. We know that every situation is unique.

We commit to assembling the right combination of resources to address your needs, and to work transparently with all parties, whether in a leadership capacity or supporting role. Our prime directive is always to help you achieve your vision of success.