Fractional CMO

Stop Paying For Mismatched Vendors.

Pay one agency as your CMO — and get a whole team. Strategy and execution across ads, email, web, automation, and reporting, run by people who actually talk to each other.

The problem

Most growing companies end up running marketing like this

It’s not that nobody’s trying. It’s that the work is spread across people who were never set up to work together.

A different freelancer for every channel

One person runs ads, another builds funnels, someone else handles email — none of them talk to each other, and none of them own the outcome.

No one owns the strategy

Everyone executes their own piece. Nobody is stepping back and asking what actually moves revenue this month.

Slow, expensive, and hard to scale

Every new initiative means finding a new vendor, negotiating a new contract, and hoping they're any good.

You're the one holding it together

Managing five relationships instead of running your business — chasing updates, re-explaining context, catching what falls through the cracks.

A full-time CMO can run $150,000–$250,000+ a year in salary alone — before the ad spend, the tools, or the rest of the team they’d need to actually execute. A patchwork of freelancers and single-channel agencies often costs just as much once you count the wasted spend, the slow execution, and the hours you spend managing it all yourself.

There's a simpler way to run this.

One agency, one monthly fee, a whole team working on what actually moves the business.

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The solution

One agency as your CMO — instead of five mismatched vendors

You get a team with nearly a decade of experience in digital marketing, advertising, automation, funnels, websites, and lead generation — combined with modern AI tools that let a small team execute significantly faster than a traditional hire or agency roster.

An extension of your team
  • Meta/Facebook Ads strategy, creative, optimization, and management
  • Email and SMS campaign strategy and execution
  • Website and landing page builds/updates
  • AI-powered lead follow-up and automation
  • Tracking, attribution, dashboards, and reporting
  • Marketing systems and SOPs
  • Offer development and campaign strategy
  • CRM and sales-process improvements
  • New marketing initiatives as they come up
See it in action

One dashboard for all of it

Reporting, ads, email flows, integrations, and project tracking — not five logins, one.

app.thinkandautomate.com
Think & AutomateReporting
Ad Spend
$4,820
Leads
112
Cost / Lead
$18.75
ROAS
4.6x
Leads by week▲ 22%
What you actually get

Not a vague retainer

Here’s what’s actually in motion every month.

Paid Media Management

Full management of your Meta/Facebook ad account — strategy, creative direction, copywriting, targeting, and ongoing optimization.

Monthly Strategy Session

A dedicated call every month to align on the highest-impact priorities and review what's actually working.

One Active Priority Project

A larger initiative in motion at all times — a funnel build, a campaign launch, a CRM overhaul — done right instead of ten things done halfway.

Website & Landing Page Support

Ongoing builds and updates to the pages actually responsible for conversions.

AI-Powered Lead Follow-Up

Automated SMS/email follow-up sequences built and maintained so leads don't go cold.

Live Reporting Dashboard

Real-time tracking on spend, leads, cost per lead, and ROI — reviewed together every month.

Documented Systems & SOPs

Your marketing processes get written down — not trapped in one person's head.

Offer & Campaign Strategy

New angles, creative concepts, and a testing roadmap to keep performance improving.

CRM & Sales Process Support

Ongoing improvements to how leads move from first click to closed deal.

Direct Access To The Team

Slack or email access for day-to-day questions — not a ticket queue.

How it works

Highest-impact priorities, every month

1

Each month, we'll work together to identify the highest-impact priorities for the business.

2

We manage the ongoing marketing responsibilities we've agreed on, while taking on a limited number of larger projects or initiatives at a time so we can actually execute them well.

3

There isn't a rigid list of deliverables or hourly billing. If it's a marketing initiative that falls within our capabilities and can reasonably be handled within our team's capacity, we'll help get it done. For larger projects, we'll prioritize them together and work through them in order.

Let’s compare

Three ways to run marketing. One of them scales.

Hiring In-House
  • One salary, one skillset — ads, web, email, and automation rarely live in one person
  • Months to recruit, onboard, and find out if it's a fit
  • When they leave, the knowledge leaves with them
Piecing Together Vendors
  • A different contract, invoice, and login for every channel
  • No one is accountable for the result as a whole
  • You become the project manager holding it all together
Think & Automate
  • One team covering strategy and execution across every channel
  • A monthly strategy session plus a dedicated priority project
  • One point of contact, one dashboard, one team that already knows your business
Why it works

The benefits

01

One point of contact

Stop being the translator between five vendors. One team, one thread, one person accountable for results.

02

Strategy and execution, together

The people planning the marketing are the same people running it — nothing gets lost in a handoff.

03

Built-in systems and reporting

Everything gets documented and tracked in one dashboard instead of scattered across spreadsheets and inboxes.

04

AI-leveraged execution

Modern AI tooling lets a small, senior team move at a pace that used to require a much bigger headcount.

05

Always one active priority project

Instead of ten things half-done, there's always one real initiative getting pushed forward properly.

06

Flexible, not rigid

No hourly billing or frozen scope of work — if it's a marketing initiative that matters, we help get it done.

One team. One monthly fee. Marketing strategy + execution.

Our goal is simple: become the marketing team you can bring ideas and problems to — and have confidence they'll actually get worked on.

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Questions

Before you apply

What exactly is a Fractional CMO?

It's access to senior marketing leadership and a full execution team without hiring a full-time CMO or building out an internal department. We plan the strategy and do the work — ads, email, web, automation, reporting — as one team.

How is this different from an ad agency?

Most ad agencies only run your ads. We handle the strategy layer above that — offer, funnel, email/SMS follow-up, website, CRM, and reporting — so the ads aren't the only lever being pulled.

What size company is this for?

Businesses that have outgrown a single freelancer or a single-channel agency, but aren't ready (or don't want) to build a full internal marketing department.

Do I need to already have ad spend or a marketing budget?

We'll figure out the right starting point together on a call — this page is about how we work, not what it costs. Pricing is discussed once we understand your business.

What does getting started look like?

Apply below, answer a couple quick questions about your current setup, and we'll get you on a call to see if it's a fit.

Ready to stop juggling vendors?

Apply below and answer a couple quick questions about your current marketing setup — we’ll get you on a call to see if it’s a fit.