Business & marketing consulting
Fractional CMO: senior marketing leadership without a full-time hire.
A part-time chief marketing officer who sets priorities, manages your team and agencies, and ties every major marketing decision to your business goals. The time and meetings are agreed up front.
What is included.
- Review of the team, vendors, plans, and reporting.
- Marketing priorities and budget planning.
- Defined leadership meetings and decision responsibilities.
- Coordination of staff, agencies, and specialist providers.
- Executive reporting and support for launches or hiring.
- Documentation and handover of the working plan.
What to expect
From first call to steady improvement.
Six steps, in this order, every time.
- 01
Define your target audience
We start with who actually buys from you — location, age, income, interests, intent and past customers — and build audiences that match, so budget isn't spent on people who will never convert.
- 02
Build messaging and creative
We write the offer and headlines and produce the images and video for each platform, with several versions ready so we can learn which angle wins.
- 03
Set up conversion tracking
Before a dollar is spent we install and test tracking for calls, forms, bookings and sales, so every result can be traced to the ad, keyword and audience that produced it.
- 04
Launch your campaigns
Campaigns go live on the channels agreed in your plan, with budgets, schedules and locations set. The first weeks are a learning phase while the platforms gather data.
- 05
Optimize and refine based on data
We cut audiences, keywords and placements that waste money and move budget toward what brings in leads and sales, based on real tracked results — not guesses.
- 06
Keep testing creative and following trends
Ads wear out. We keep testing new creative, offers and formats, watch platform changes and seasonal trends, and report what we changed and why.
The P1 Growth Model
How a budget changes shape after the review.
- Starting plan
- After the review
Search
Starting plan: 45%After the review: 34%-11 pts
Social
Starting plan: 25%After the review: 22%-3 pts
Streaming and video
Starting plan: 10%After the review: 24%+14 pts
Email, SMS and CRM
Starting plan: 5%After the review: 12%+7 pts
Site, creative and testing
Starting plan: 15%After the review: 8%-7 pts
Each month the model compares what every channel returned against its cost, then recommends where the next dollar goes. Channels earn their share.
Illustrative example of a reallocation, not a recommended mix or a client result. Your mix is modeled from your own data.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute discovery call, then a First Look audit of your accounts, site and tracking.
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Questions about fractional cmo & advisory
What does fractional CMO mean?
It means part-time senior marketing leadership with a defined scope, time commitment, and decision-making role.
How much time will we receive?
The engagement specifies time, availability, meetings, and responsibilities. It is not automatically a fixed day each week.
Can you work with our current agency?
Yes. The role can include coordinating existing providers and reviewing their work against the agreed plan.
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Platforms and tools
Platforms we run every day.
Advertising, analytics, commerce, CRM, web, streaming and AI tools across all of Position One's work.
Google Ads
Meta Business
YouTube
Microsoft Advertising
Amazon Ads
X Ads
Reddit Ads
Snapchat Ads
Facebook
Instagram
Google Display & Video 360
Google Marketing Platform
Google Search Console
Google Maps
Google Business Profile
Apple Maps
Semrush
Ahrefs
Google Analytics 4
Google Tag Manager
Looker Studio
Hotjar
Shopify
HubSpot
Salesforce
Webflow
WordPress
Netflix
Hulu
YouTube TV
Prime Video
HBO
Max
Paramount+
Peacock
Apple TV+
Disney+
Roku
Tubi
Fubo
Samsung TV Plus
Plex
OpenAI
Claude
Anthropic
Grok
xAI
Adobe
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft PowerPoint
Canva
Microsoft
Apple
Platform inclusion does not imply partnership or certification.
Talk with Position One
Schedule a discovery call.
Thirty minutes, on video or in person. Tell us about your business or campaign, what you need and when you need it. You leave with a clear next step, a scoped proposal, or a straight answer that we are not the right fit.
- Your goal, and where you are starting from.
- Which of our services fit, and which do not.
- The next step, and what we need from you to scope it.
