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Fractional CMO Service for B2B Businesses

Unlock clarity, confidence, and commercial traction with a Fractional CMO. Gain access to Chartered, board-ready marketing leadership — embedded part-time in your business to drive growth, align teams, and protect enterprise value, without the full-time overhead.

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your marketing challenge

Are You Seeing the Signs?

Growth is stalling despite active marketing spend. Campaigns run, tools hum, reports stack up — but revenue momentum is flat, teams are disconnected, and the board is restless.

Does this sound familiar?

  • “No one owns the commercial narrative.”
  • “We can’t prove what’s working — or why.”
  • “We’re stuck in tactics, not strategy.”
  • “Our Head of Marketing is overstretched.”
  • “We’ve outgrown our agency patchwork.”

This isn’t just a marketing gap. It’s a leadership gap. And it costs far more than you think.

free online  audit

Assess Your Marketing Capability

Many businesses don’t realise their marketing engine is underperforming — until results stall. Our free online Marketing Capability Audit helps you spot gaps before they become too costly.

In just 5 minutes you'll:

  1. Answer a short set of yes/no questions
  2. Instantly benchmark your capability across six core areas
  3. Receive a personalised report direct to your inbox
  4. See where value may be leaking — and what to prioritise
  5. Get a complimentary consultation with our experts to review your results

The next 5 minutes could show you whether your business needs a Fractional CMO to move forward with confidence.

cost of inaction

The Risk of Operating Without a Marketing Leader

Without strategic marketing leadership, underperformance calcifies into wasted time and effort, missed opportunities, and eroded value.

You risk:

  1. Slower pipeline velocity and stagnant revenue growth
  2. Missed market entry windows and competitive advantage loss
  3. High team churn and loss of institutional knowledge
  4. Budget leakage into low-return campaigns
  5. Reduced board/investor confidence and lower exit multiples
  6. Siloed business functions and customers switching to competitors

If you’re investing in marketing without leadership, you’re not investing. You’re spending!

our solution

Fractional CMO - Embedded, Part-Time Marketing Leadership

Our Fractional CMOs don’t just advise from the sidelines — we lead from the inside.

We integrate into your leadership cadence, own the strategy, align the team, and deliver results that stakeholders can see and measure.

Led exclusively by Chartered Marketers and SOSTAC® Certified Planners, our Fractional CMOs:

Set and communicate market positioning with commercial precision

Align sales, product, brand, and go-to-market execution

Mentor and upskill your marketing team

Present and defend strategy in the boardroom and to investors

Build the performance infrastructure to track ROI and progress

We do this on a part-time basis. You get the full value of a CMO — embedded, accountable, and 100% focused on outcomes - for a fraction of the cost of a full time senior executive.

Who Our Fractional CMO Service Is For

Our Fractional CMO service is designed for B2B organisations and PE-backed portfolio companies that:

  • Turnover from £2m to £50m+
  • Are scaling, repositioning, or transforming
  • Need to prepare for funding, market entry, acquisition/merger, or exit
  • Have ambitious growth targets but lack strategic marketing leadership
  • Are stuck in tactical execution with no cohesive strategy

what you get

Part-Time Marketing Leadership That Delivers in 90 Days

Our Fractional CMOs embed their strategic leadership into your business — bringing structure, clarity, and accountability that delivers measurable impact within the first 90 days.

Strategic Clarity

Set the direction with certified frameworks. We deliver market insight, positioning, and go-to-market plans that align marketing with business goals.

Team Leadership & Capability Growth

Strengthen your team from within. We mentor, align, and build capability across sales, product, and marketing functions.

Performance & Growth Planning

Make results predictable. We design funnels, demand engines, and dashboards that track performance and drive continuous optimisation.

Stakeholder Confidence

Earn trust at the top. We provide board-ready reporting, investor communications, and strategic counsel to keep stakeholders aligned and assured.

discovery to delivery

Our Simple Engagement Process

Strategic leadership. Streamlined onboarding. Immediate value.

Initial Discovery Call

Explore your goals, challenges, and team structure.

Expert Match & Diagnostic

Assign your ideal Fractional CMO and run a structured analysis.

Tailored Engagement Plan

Scope, proposal and agreed KPIs.

Onboarding & Integration

Your Fractional CMO embeds into your leadership team and rhythm.

Delivery & Leadership

Strategy becomes action with visible traction.

Monitoring & Momentum

Performance tracked, strategy optimised, team capability lifted.

cost transparency

Fractional CMO Pricing & Engagement Options

We use an outcomes-based retainer model tailored to your ambition and organisational complexity.

Tier Monthly Range
(+VAT)
Focus
Foundational Leadership £4,000–£7,500 Function buildout, brand positioning, early-stage demand generation
Growth
Leadership
£7,500–£12,000 GTM leadership, cross-functional orchestration, capability & martech optimisation
Transformation Leadership £12,000+ (custom) Strategic transformation, exit readiness, investor and board leadership

✔️ Embedded leadership

✔️Minimum term: 6 months

✔️Early exit fee: 1x monthly retainer (before month 4)

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Is Your Business Ready to Hire a Fractional CMO?

Businesses hire our Fractional CMOs when they:

  • Need strategic marketing leadership without a full-time hire
  • Are preparing for funding rounds or investor due diligence
  • Want to enter new markets or launch new products
  • Are repositioning after growth plateaus
  • Need to align sales, marketing, and product under one plan
  • Require stronger board and investor communication

Is your organisation ready for a Fractional CMO? Take our short diagnostic to assess your readiness for embedding one our our chartered marketing leaders. Takes just 3-minutes!

still deciding?

The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a Fractional CMO

We've published The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a Fractional CMO which gives you everything you need to know about finding, integrating, and succeeding with a Fractional CMO.

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Related Services

Alongside Fractional CMO support, we offer targeted services — from free, and paid-for audits and analysis to mentoring and advisory — providing focused interventions that build capability, insight, and investor confidence.

Marketing Advisory

You’re making a high-stakes decision and need independent, senior-level input right now.

Marketing Audit

You’re unsure what’s underperforming or misaligned in your current marketing setup.

Market Analysis

You’re entering a new market or need clear insight on customers, competitors, and trends.

Marketing Mentoring

You (or your team) need mentoring to build confidence, clarity, and capability.

Our project was to create a top-level marketing strategy which, once built, we could drive forward ourselves. And I can honestly say the work has been transformational for Yellowtail. After each workshop with VCMO, both Dennis Hall and I would be amazed at how much we'd achieved. We worked hard! But the results are worth it.

Sarah Steele
Operations Director, Yellowtail Financial Planning
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Shout out to Paul Mills who bravely took on running a positioning workshop with us yesterday. Is there anything harder than doing the thing your client does for others for them?! Great work. Really thought provoking, and so important to have facilitated by someone with an external perspective!

Bryony Thomas
CEO, watertight business thinking

Paul is a professional strategic marketeer who is able to apply his expertise with marketing budgets large and small. The commercial impact of Shaw & Co's rebrand, which was initiated, designed and implemented by Paul, has been to differentiate us positively in a sector where few have succeeded. He delivers what he promises, on time and on/under budget, to a high quality. Paul made a positive impact on our business that will last.

Rod Leefe
chair, shaw & co

VCMO's audit brought clarity to a complex set of challenges. They cut through the noise and delivered a clear, prioritised roadmap that we could act on immediately. Their ability to engage across teams and translate insight into action was exactly what we needed.

Dr. Ross Burn
Co-founder, Catsci limited  
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Lydia possesses a deep understanding of marketing strategies and has consistently delivered exceptional results. Her ability to analyse market trends, create engaging campaigns, and drive customer acquisition is truly impressive. Her dedication, attention to detail, and strong communication skills make her an invaluable asset to any organisation. I cannot recommend Lydia enough for her expertise, professionalism, and exceptional work ethic.

Alan Leckey
Business Consultant, CCO - the Collaboration Company  

Paul Mills wasn't just an outsourced marketing leader — he was a mentor. His support helped me enhance my technical marketing skills and shape a more strategic mindset, as well as build my  confidence with senior leadership and deliver higher-impact work. He is dependable and skillful, and his guidance has made me feel more capable and prepared for future challenges.

Caitlin Daniels
marketing manager, catsci limited
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VCMO brings knowledge, insight and practical experience to the table, but also something else, which is quite rare, the unwavering commitment to finishing the job without compromising on the quality of the output. Their work for Yellowtail has been exemplary and we're seeing the results already.

Dennis Hall
founder, yellowtail financial planning

Ruth brought great experience and insight to my firm over many years. Her considered and thoughtful approach to problem solving are a real strength and her experience of marketing and business development in the legal sector was invaluable.

Gavin Tyler
Managing Partner, Cripps

VCMO helped us think beyond our capabilities and reframe how we communicate the true value of what we do. Paul's workshop unlocked fresh ideas resulting in a more strategic approach to our content plan and go-to-market materials. The quality of the output and power of the messaging is really impressive.

Peter Ridgway
Business Development Director, Reach Separations
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VCMO has been instrumental in reshaping how we approach marketing at Lucent. Their strategic clarity, attention to detail, and ability to deliver at pace have been exceptional. Paul's embedded himself seamlessly into the team and quickly earned trust — not just from me, but from our wider staff and partners. The website and content strategy he led have already started delivering results, and I now feel far more confident in how we grow the business over the coming years.

Steven Rowe
Founder - Lucent Financial Planning
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VCMO helped me find the words and structure to communicate what I do — and who I do it for — in a way that finally connects. I’ve had more inbound enquiries since the website relaunch than in the previous two years.

Lee Spencer
aka The rowing marine
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