RETAIN: Engage a Fractional CMO With a Retainer Agreement
At VCMO, we understand that some businesses need long-term marketing leadership. With RETAIN, you gain access to our highly experienced Fractional CMOs through a customisable Retainer Agreement, enabling you benefit from long-term leadership that continuously optimises your marketing efforts.
Unlock Long-Term Marketing Success with a Value-Based Retainer
RETAIN is designed for businesses seeking consistent, high-level marketing leadership to drive long-term success. Unlike traditional retainers based on hourly or daily rates, our value-based retainers align the cost of our services with the measurable outcomes we deliver for your business. Whether you’re focused on increasing brand awareness, generating leads, or driving revenue growth, our marketing expertise ensures that your investment is tied to the value we create.
Why Choose a Value-Based Retainer?
- Results-Driven: Our retainers focus on delivering specific outcomes, such as higher lead generation, improved brand visibility, or enhanced customer engagement.
- Flexible and Scalable: As your business evolves, so does our service. We tailor our approach based on your current needs and long-term goals, ensuring continued alignment with your business objectives.
- Customised for Your Business: Every retainer is built around your unique marketing challenges and opportunities, giving you a strategic partner to help drive growth and achieve tangible results.
What Does the Retainer Include?
Our value-based retainers are designed to deliver measurable results and/or specific marketing outcomes that support your business’s growth. We build each retainer around key success metrics that align with your business goals. During our initial discovery sessions we establish clear, measurable KPIs to ensure your investment delivers tangible results.
Examples of the metrics we track include:
- Demand Generation: Increase qualified leads by X% within Y months.
- Brand Awareness: Boost social media engagement by X% in the first quarter.
- Revenue Growth: Achieve X% increase in revenue from targeted marketing campaigns.
- Conversion Rates: Achieve X% growth in lead conversion rates.
- NPS: Boost customer satisfaction NPS from X to Y.
Success metrics like these allow us to track performance and ensure that our work delivers the business outcomes that matter most to you.
Pricing Based on Value, Not Time
Our value-based retainer model ensures that you pay for outcomes, not hours worked. By aligning our pricing with the results we deliver, we ensure you get maximum value from your investment. The monthly retainer is customised based on the scope of the work and the impact we expect to deliver. This ensures transparency and allows us to scale services based on your evolving needs.
Tailored Pricing for Measurable Impact
Depending on the size of your business and your desired marketing outcomes, our retainers are structured to suit different business needs:
- Small Businesses - Up to 25 employees: From £3,000/month +VAT for ongoing strategic support and light execution.
- Mid-sized Businesses - Up to 250 employees: From £5,000-£10,000/month +VAT for comprehensive campaign management and growth initiatives.
- Large Enterprises - Over 250 employees: From £10,000+/month +VAT for full marketing transformations, including multi-channel campaigns and long-term strategic guidance.
Flexible and Scalable to Fit Your Needs
As your marketing needs evolve, we’ll adjust the retainer to ensure continued alignment with your business’s growth. Whether you’re launching new products, expanding into new markets, or optimising your digital presence, our Fractional Chief Marketing Officers adapt to support you every step of the way.
Ready to Drive Marketing Results with a Value-Based Partner?
If you’re seeking a long-term strategic marketing partner to deliver real, measurable business outcomes, our Retain Pricing Plan is designed to help you succeed. Let’s work together to design a custom retainer that aligns with your goals and delivers the results your business needs.
Additional Engagement Options
If you require shorter-term support or more flexibility, you may prefer one of our other engagement options:
Flex
Fixed
Ready to transform your marketing with a value-based retainer? Contact us today to learn how RETAIN can deliver the marketing results you need.
FAQ’s
Absolutely. If there's a change in your business needs and you're looking to engage a Fractional CMO on an ad-hoc basis, you're free to switch to our Flex Pricing Plan after the first three months of engagement. Or, if a fixed price for specific work is more your style, our Fixed Pricing Plan is another option. Whichever route you decide on, we'll provide an updated Scope of Work to reflect your choice.
You can cancel the Retainer Agreement without incurring a fee by giving at least three months' written notice. Otherwise, we impose a cancellation charge equivalent to one month. We implement a cancellation charge because our Fractional CMOs reserve their schedules exclusively for your brand, and the scale reflects potential lost work. You may wish to consider our FLEX engagement plan which comes with no cancellation charges.
Once we have agreed to work together, we issue our Terms of Business through our Zoho platform that you can review and sign electronically.
Before an engagement begins we work together to define and agree a Scope of Work along with specific marketing KPIs and/or outcomes. You enter into a minimum six-month Retainer Agreement. All details will be included in our proposal for the Scope of Work and you simply sign our Terms of Business.
Every Retainer Agreement is customised to your specific marketing requirements and commercial objectives. The deliverables will be agreed and detailed in a Scope of Work prior to engagement.
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Since VCMO is an early-stage business, maintaining a healthy cash flow is crucial for us. Therefore, we kindly ask all our clients to pay for our services as soon as our invoice has been received by your accounts team. We will continue review and adjust our payment terms once we have achieved sufficient scale.
Absolutely not. You enter into a minimum 6-month Retainer Agreement with 3-month’s notice of cancellation. You may prefer to engage with our FLEX engagement plan which comes without any contract and you are charged on a pay-as-you-go basis. Or you may prefer our FIXED engagement plan where we offer a fixed-cost for a defined scope of work.
Yes. Any travel costs incurred by our Fractional CMOs supporting your business will be itemised on our invoices, and receipts will be provided. For any agreed on-site work, travel and subsistence expenses will be claimed commensurate with your travel policy. This will be agreed with you before any travel commitment is made by your Fractional CMO.
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