Fractional CMO Show

To predict the success of a marketing strategy, you need to build a tool that can estimate what that success will look like for your client. Casey Stanton breaks down what goes into creating an effective and accurate tool along with a great use case. Find out how to measure and understand the outcomes of your efforts!   Takeaways: You need to build an estimation tool for your clients and team to u...

Although it's critical to their success, prospecting can seem like a never-ending chore for Fractional CMOs, but it doesn't have to be! Casey Stanton discusses how Fractional CMOs should approach prospecting to find new business opportunities, how to make sure prospecting remains a priority, and what you can do to honor your time commitments.   Takeaways: To avoid prospecting feeling like a chore...

It's not always clear whose responsibility it is to track deals, forecast for the future, and take action to grow the company. Casey Stanton explains my marketing finds itself in the position to do so and why it's so critical that they do! You'll learn what you need to track, how to keep track of the right data, and where you can go for the resources you need.   Takeaways: Sales teams need to have...

What should you do if you are the Fractional CMO of a company that has a weak CEO who lacks vision? This can be a frustrating position to find yourself in, but Casey Stanton has some advice to help lessen the stress. You'll learn when the right time to speak up is, how to mince your words properly, and how to introduce new systems.   Takeaways: Even when you are very selective with the clients you...

It's really not that hard to become a millionaire, but if that's your only goal, you're going to have to give up a lot to get there. Casey Stanton is sharing a better way that will allow you to cultivate every part of your life while also creating value and being paid for it. Discover how you can create value as a Fractional CMO, how diving into a niche can increase your effectiveness, and why cre...

Casey Stanton is giving CMOs everywhere a quick tip to improve collaboration amongst their team, share client data safely, and save you time and money.    Takeaways: Using a "grow@" or "account@" email allows your entire team to log in to a client's tool while only paying for one account. Your client only has to share access to one account, however, you can still assign the right work to the right...

Help your team become more efficient by splitting up their tasks more effectively. Casey Stanton is bringing the concept of partitionable and unpartitionable tasks to the center stage to show how you may be wasting time and effort on tasks while actually making them take longer to finish. You'll learn how to recognize the different types of tasks, plan for a more efficient quarter and choose the r...

Your team won't always have good times so it's imperative to build strong foundations during that peacetime to survive when wartime strikes. Casey Stanton is providing you with a mental model to mold those foundations you need to help your team. You'll learn why you must build up systems during the good times, the keys to cultivating an effective and committed team, and how to make it through the...

Learn how to get yourself to a point where you are financially secure, you love the work that you do, and you love the people you work with. Casey Stanton opens the door to Replacement Therapy to help you get rid of your least favorite clients and be energized by your work. You'll hear about how to tell if you actually like a client, when it's safe to move on from them, and how to give yourself th...

When it comes to your team, does the squeaky wheel get the grease or the pink slip? Casey Stanton discusses if there is a right and wrong answer to the question and what role your situation may play in the decision. You'll learn about identifying the "magic" in an employee, what you can do to optimize an employee's capacity, and how to weigh the options from the perspective of your company.   Take...

When delegating tasks to your team, are you aware of the difference between routine tasks and new and different tasks? There's a big difference in fact, and Casey Stanton is helping you understand it and how it impacts your team's productivity. Get ready to learn about how to determine what kind of tasks each person gets, what to look for when hiring for a certain type of task, and how to optimize...

You are at a crossroads and you need to make the conscious decision between the path to an incredible future or the path to just a standard future. Casey Stanton is here to help guide through the decision as you mull over what you really want for your future. You'll learn about creating a future that's bigger than your past, how to choose clients as a Fractional CMO, and what you need to do to hav...

It doesn't matter what role you're currently in, if you want your career to grow, you need to punch up. Casey Stanton is giving you the gloves and showing you the techniques to find and take advantage of your next opportunity to solve bigger problems. You'll hear about the benefits and challenges of bigger clients, what to look for when selecting a client, and why you can't wait to punch up.   Tak...

As a CMO, can you provide more value to a company by always trying to be on the cutting edge of every new marketing advancement or by mastering the slow to change principles of marketing? Casey Stanton sets out to answer that question to get you the most value from your limited time.   Takeaways: If you are always chasing the newest marketing techniques, you may find temporary success but in order...

You don't have to worry about going all in to start out as a Fractional CMO! Casey Stanton is walking you through his own journey of taking steps toward becoming a Fractional CMO and overcoming the hurdles. You'll learn how to mentally approach the jumping off point, how to provide great values to clients, and understand what you can offer.   Takeaways: When starting off as a Fractional CMO, you d...

It can be hard to do a great job marketing yourself, even if you're a great marketer. Where do you start? How many examples do you need? What tone should you use? These are the questions that Casey Stanton is answering. You'll learn about when to take credit, what to include, and how to craft a powerful narrative about you and your capabilities.   Takeaways: Great marketers usually are great at ma...

As a Fractional CMO, you can't do all the work yourself, so you need a good team. But you can't stop with just hiring a good team, you need to have a vision for them and help in developing them to reach that vision. Casey Stanton is giving you the keys to doing this and reaching your own vision in the process. Prepare to learn about championing the success of others, surrounding yourself with dive...

Anxiety is a natural part of business and it is crucial for you to know how to cope with it and then use it to help yourself grow. Casey Stanton shares his own story of facing anxiety when first starting as a Fractional CMO and how he used that experience to gain perspective and get stronger. You'll hear about how to prepare before betting on yourself, what to do when you find yourself scraping ag...

When it's time to talk price, finding the right answer to get you the right compensation for the work that you do is not a clear-cut path. But that's in the past because Casey Stanton is giving you the right mindset to approach this topic and the formula to help you find the rate you deserve to be paid. You'll discover your effective hourly rate and what that says about the work you do and what yo...

So much importance is placed on simply increasing the size of a company's customer pool but this can't be sustained forever. Casey is illuminating how you need to position the company for growth through gaining a deeper understanding of your customers' problems beyond those you have already solved. You'll learn the dangers of stagnation and how to avoid it, how to increase the lifetime value of a...

Everyone has a marketing lineage and pedigree which shapes the way they view problems and the solutions to them. Casey Stanton reveals the importance of identifying your marketing lineage and pedigree and how to define them. You'll learn how lineages and pedigrees play into client relationships and what happens when people from drastically opposing business backgrounds have issues working together...

When you're driving new business to your Fractional CMO practice it's important to not rely too heavily on referrals. Casey Stanton is filling everyone in on why it's more important to focus on filling up your pipeline than looking for more referrals and attain the Golden Ratio.    Takeaways: The Golden Ratio is the idea that referrals are coming in more frequently than customers churn. You can no...

It can be hard to figure out what to do to actually help smaller local service companies, but it doesn't have to be! Marketing agency owner and Fractional CMO, Robin Heppell, tells of the wonder and success that can be derived from working with specialized local companies, in particular, funeral homes. Learn about differentiating in a local area, managing your reputation with both long-standing cu...

Some companies are all too willing to take money from anyone who will give it to them, regardless of how this impacts their brand. Jeff McKay, CEO of Prudent Pedal and a Fractional CMO, joins the show to correct the narrative. Jeff discusses how to proactively manage your brand, why you have to balance your core profit engine with the solutions you provide, and the importance of having strategic m...

Don't get caught up in how you're going to message your prospects before you get them, the real priority is getting a comprehensive list of everyone that fits the description of your customer! Casey Stanton is back again to hammer home how imperative it is to obtain the list of potential clients through whatever ways get the job done, regardless of industry.   Takeaways: There are many ways to go...