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Denver Fractional CMOs: Get an Unfair Advantage With This Secret Weapon of Marketing
Your Denver business is thriving, rapidly growing, and ready to scale up. Whether it's a bustling startup or on the cusp of self-sufficiency, this exciting phase demands savvy marketing leadership. The challenge? Bringing on a full-time Chief Marketing Officer might seem daunting.
Enter the Denver Fractional CMO: a tailored solution offering the expertise and leadership of a full-time CMO, but without the hefty compensation package. Learn more about why we’re the best in Denver.
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For many growing businesses and startups, the financial implications of hiring a full-time Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) can be substantial and not always necessary. In the growth or startup phase, the demand for a full-time CMO might not be critical.
A fractional CMO presents a flexible and cost-effective alternative, providing essential marketing leadership tailored to your company’s specific needs and frequency.
Additionally, a fractional CMO from DAP Denver can serve as an interim CMO, perfectly suited for companies in the process of hiring or replacing their first full-time CMO. This strategy ensures consistent and strategic marketing guidance during crucial periods of transition.
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A Denver fractional CMO can help you gain a complete understanding of your target audience — who they are and what problems they have that your company can solve. A “SWOT” analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) will help you understand your position in the marketplace.
Having highly skilled individuals on your team, whether in marketing or any other area, is invaluable. However, without effective leadership, their efforts may lack coordination, hindering progress. A Denver fractional CMO can provide your team with essential accountability, unity, and guidance. This leadership helps your talented staff reach their full potential, aligning their efforts towards common goals and success.
Even with the proper practices and channels, marketing teams produce lackluster results without the right overarching strategy. One of the best things a Denver fractional CMO can offer to your marketing team is a strategy to follow — one that will take the right ingredients and turn them into a recipe for success.
For marketing to be successful, it needs to be aligned with the sales process to the point where the prospects produced by marketing seamlessly turn into closed deals by the sales team. A Denver fractional CMO won’t just tighten the marketing ship — they can also get marketing working hand-in-glove with sales.
Websites do you no good if no one can find them. That’s what SEO is for — search engine optimization. SEO makes your website appear high on search pages when prospects search for relevant keywords. Your Denver fractional CMO can unify your team around a comprehensive SEO strategy to get you discovered.
Search engine marketing (SEM) is different than SEO in that you use search engines’ paid ads feature to get discovered easily at the top of promoted searches. It’s an easy way to test messages and funnels, make sales or even buy scalability. Whatever the best SEM solution is for you, your Denver fractional CMO can help you identify it.
Conversion optimization involves enhancing your sales funnels to ensure the highest possible rate of prospects transform into leads, customers, and then repeat customers. Denver fractional CMOs assist in fine-tuning these funnels, maximizing revenue from the valuable traffic your business invests in. This approach ensures that your marketing expenditure translates into tangible business growth.
People still check email daily, and it’s the cheapest and easiest way to get a message or an offer in front of your prospects. Robust back ends — upsells, cross-sells, repeat purchases — are still driven by email. A Denver fractional CMO can help you leverage email for the highest possible customer lifetime value.
A content audit is the process of cataloging and organizing all the content your company already has in its archive. You might have more usable content than you think — and it could be easy to repurpose for other uses. Your Denver fractional CMO can help you make the most of all the content you currently have.
While you might have more content than you think, there may still be pieces in your overall content strategy that need to be added. A Denver fractional CMO can lead the process of a “gap analysis” to identify those missing pieces and turn them into a “checklist” of content to be created to fulfill the strategy.
“User personas” are essentially “avatars” of your ideal customer — often with a name, a picture, and a back history. They help you define who you’re speaking to with your marketing messaging … so you can say the most effective things to them. Most companies skip the User Persona stage of message development; a Denver Fractional CMO will ensure it’s done correctly.
Business funnels vary in form, scale, and medium, yet they all share a common goal: to transform strangers into leads, then customers, and ultimately repeat customers. Your Denver fractional CMO plays a crucial role in refining your existing funnels and identifying opportunities to establish new ones, enhancing your overall customer acquisition and retention strategy.
Your marketing team may be talented, but there could still be missing pieces, and the absence of those skill sets could hold you back. Your Denver fractional CMO can perform a “needs assessment” to identify what must be added to the team to bring it to maximum capability.
Once you know what skills your team is missing, it’s time to go find them — that is, find the people who have them. A Denver fractional CMO can lead the search for the perfect people to complete your team.
Even if you have all the right people, they may need to improve without the proper organization. One of the most significant ways a Denver fractional CMO can add value is by organizing the team into the right accountability structure to get them synced up like a Swiss watch.
You can’t improve a marketing team’s performance if you don’t know what success looks like. A Denver fractional CMO can identify the correct “key performance indicators” (KPI) to indicate success in marketing and then motivate the team to hit their benchmarks for those KPIs.
Businesses provide value, but brands are more than just the value of your offer — they’re your identity, the reason a specific subset of your customers will become enthusiastic fans and brand ambassadors. If you haven’t clarified your brand yet, a Denver fractional CMO can help you.
Brands don’t just have identities — they are positioned within a market. That’s how customers often choose between two companies that offer similar value. Your Denver fractional CMO helps you position your brand in the market to capitalize on opportunities other brands miss.
Of course, for prospects to know what your brand stands for, they have to hear about it. That’s where brand messaging comes in. A key value offering of a Denver fractional CMO is to help your team craft compelling, effective brand messaging and unite the team around communicating it.
How do you define your brand? Some common elements of brand identity are a brand mission, voice, purpose, and vision. If you don’t know how to zero in on these elements of your brand, a Denver fractional CMO can help you.
Anything that can be automated can be scaled. By harnessing the power of automation, you empower your marketing team to produce limitless results with the same resources. Your Denver fractional CMO can help you identify all the opportunities to automate your most important marketing processes.
Many marketing teams underperform not for lack of prospects, but for their inability to extract as many sales as possible out of those prospects. A Denver fractional CMO can help you establish a customer relationship management (CRM) system that ensures you never lose a sale because you have lost track of a lead or a customer.
More than just a “website,” WordPress is a content management system (CMS) — flexible, easy to integrate, rich with extensions. Your Denver fractional CMO can help you implement the CMS that opens up compatibility with game-changing marketing technology solutions.
To know if you’re meeting your KPIs, you have to be able to count what’s happening in your marketing technology. A Denver fractional CMO can lead the implementation of analytics so you can easily track the performance of your marketing efforts, doubling down on effective campaigns and correcting things that aren’t working.
We help hospitals, private practices, practice groups, and other healthcare organizations — small, mid-sized, and enterprise—scale and grow their operations in Denver. Organizations like Athena Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Omron have trusted our team with their digital and marketing transformations.
Use cases for a fractional CMO in the healthcare industry include
Fintech companies operate under stringent regulatory frameworks in their marketing activities, a measure put in place to safeguard consumers against unfair financial practices. Given the significant financial implications and the potential for misuse, these regulations can sometimes feel limiting, posing challenges to innovation within the confines of these rules. However, with the assistance of experienced and knowledgeable guidance, navigating these regulations while fostering innovation is indeed achievable through our fintech marketing services.
A Denver fractional CMO can help fintech and financial services organizations with:
Education in Denver keeps getting increasingly competitive, with more colleges and universities jostling for positions with e-learning and non-traditional educational alternatives. A Denver-based fractional CMO can assist educational institutions of any size to elevate their branding, find their target student base, and communicate effectively with them. We make educational marketing easy – though it’s nothing but!
Our Denver fractional CMOs can help with:
Government agencies don’t tend to think of what they do as “marketing.” Still, they have services to offer like any business, and outreach on behalf of those services requires branding and the raising of awareness, just like marketing. Many government organizations haven’t even bothered to think of their outreach in this way — but a fractional CMO can help them start.
A Denver fractional CMO can help government organizations with:
Ecommerce lives and dies based on digital marketing — offers, messaging, and brand perception. Anyone can make an eCommerce store — competition is fierce, and customer loyalty is your only hope. Why will they choose you over every other online store in your niche? Answering that question — and then executing on those answers — is the job of a Denver eCommerce fractional CMO.
We can help ecommerce companies with:
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Marketing presents a unique set of challenges for manufacturing organizations, which typically focus more on their products than on marketing strategies. While manufacturing is centered on the creation of products, effective manufacturing marketing requires a renewed focus on messaging and brand-building. Merely emphasizing product features is not sufficient for impactful marketing.
Our Denver-based Fractional CMOs based have the expertise to assist manufacturing executives in shifting their mindset from production to marketing. This change in perspective is crucial for providing clear, strategic directions to marketing teams, propelling the brand forward effectively.
Moreover, manufacturers often value data-driven approaches, and our strategy incorporates this preference when assigning a fractional CMO to a manufacturing team. With a well-crafted marketing plan, top-quality manufacturers have the opportunity to stand out from the competition and establish themselves as leaders in their specific market segment.
Attorneys are naturally competitive, and the legal organization is all about messaging. They often understand the purpose of marketing, but they need to learn the mechanics. When they attempt to craft their messaging, they think too much like a lawyer and too little like the clients the hope to attract.
A Denver fractional CMO can bring objectivity to the picture, helping attorneys and law firms step into the client’s shoes — often at a moment of stress and in need of expert assurance — and then craft a message that will resonate with the general public … not just other lawyers.
Our Denver fractional CMOs can help you with:
Our Professional Services Fractional CMOs understand that, despite the wide range of available professional services, leveraging digital marketing high-performing tactics follows a remarkably consistent and replicable pattern across different sectors. While it’s true that strategies need to be tailored to each specific niche and brand, this is precisely where a Denver fractional CMO can provide invaluable assistance.
Interestingly, a relatively small number of professional service organizations prioritize achieving a dominant position in digital marketing. This landscape presents a unique opportunity for businesses to capture a substantial market share, or even achieve market dominance, simply by making concerted efforts in their digital marketing strategies.
Our Professional Services Fractional CMOs can help with:
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We’re Masters of Digital Marketing: Our Denver CMOs are more than just players in the digital marketing field; they’re innovators setting new standards. Trust us to elevate your digital presence and ensure a substantial ROI. Your team and stakeholders will be impressed by the impactful results we deliver.
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Often, it’s simpler to focus on tasks other than your own, especially when you’re the founder or a long-standing leader of an organization. Gaining an objective perspective on the best course of action can be challenging in such roles. There might be a strong inclination to stick to established methods, or an intense attachment to outcomes can lead to a state of over-analysis and indecision.
A Denver fractional CMO can come in with a fresh pair of eyes and offer impartial advice on the proper direction. They know what they are doing — they are veterans of numerous successful marketing campaigns, heads of numerous successful marketing teams. They know how to identify the right strategy and guide a team to execute that strategy to its maximal benefit.
The best predictor of future success is past performance. Our Denver fractional CMOs have proved their mettle in numerous assignments at the head of some of the most sophisticated marketing departments in the world. Our breadth of cross-industry experience means that one of them almost certainly has experience guiding a company just like yours.
Don’t settle for inexperienced leadership. A DAP Denver fractional CMO can bring much-needed confidence and experience to the help of your marketing campaigns, setting them up for lasting success.
In marketing, timing is as crucial as having the right message for the right audience. Moreover, the speed at which returns on investment are realized is vital for sustaining financial health.
A DAP fractional CMO in Denver can significantly accelerate the journey from implementation and investment to seeing tangible results. This not only helps in maintaining financial stability but also in capitalizing on those fleeting, impactful moments that form the foundation of powerful brands.
Marketing is an investment, and every investment demands a return; otherwise, it’s a bad investment. It’s not enough to throw money at the problem — enough revenue has to come back, soon enough, to justify the expense. The higher the ROI, the more you can afford to spend … meaning the more likely you are to out-compete the competition.
A Denver fractional CMO can ensure that the maximum revenue comes back for every dollar spent on marketing. This not only maintains the solvency of the marketing department, but it makes sure that your revenue stream is able to outlast competitors and establish increasing returns … in other words, a virtuous cycle of dominance in your niche.
A Fractional CMO and a traditional CMO both serve critical roles in a company’s marketing efforts, but they differ fundamentally in their scope and engagement terms.
A traditional CMO, or Chief Marketing Officer, is a full-time executive hired by a company to oversee the marketing roadmap, internal resources and, when applicable, the ad spend. This role encompasses the overall responsibility for the company’s marketing strategy and execution. The CMO often plays a key role in overall business strategy, has clear KPIs and often has a profit and loss responsibility for his or her department.
On the other hand, a Fractional CMO provides high-level marketing expertise on a part-time or contract basis. Most of our clients are small to mid-sized businesses or startups that need strategic marketing guidance but are not ready yet to invest in a full-time hire. It’s a practical solution that fits well with the often varied and dynamic needs of growing businesses.
The Fractional CMO brings expertise and insights to develop and guide the marketing strategy, often working with existing teams to implement it. However, unlike a traditional CMO, their engagement is typically for a specific period or for a set number of hours per week or month, providing flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
Digital Authority Partners charges a flat fee of $350/ hour with a minimum monthly retainer of 16 hours/ month. Of course, hours can be adjusted per your specific needs and requirements. We have Fractional CMOs who work between 16 and 40 hours / week. We also offer interim CMO services if you urgently need a full time CMO while you search for your next full-time hire.
Short answer? It depends. Most small and medium-sized businesses need access to executive marketing leadership to invest in the right tactics, channels and creative work. These are typically the companies best served by a fractional CMO model. If you have 10+ marketing employees, a full-time marketing director or CMO may be a better fit.
Most of our clients hire our fractional CMOs for 6-12 months to train their internal resources, prioritize the right marketing tactics, create a long term roadmap, help make the first full-time marketing hires and more. Our minimum contract requirement is 3 months, with options to extend.