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Fractional CMO in Ann Arbor
Executive marketing leadership without a full-time hire.
A Fractional CMO gives established Ann Arbor businesses executive marketing leadership — strategy, budgets, and accountability — at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire, with the context that comes from working across the Southeast Michigan market.
What you get out of it
- Clear goals, budgets, and priorities the whole team can name
- Aligned teams and consistent execution month over month
- Marketing that compounds instead of stalling every quarter
The Ann Arbor market
Built for how Ann Arbor actually buys
Anchored by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor runs on research, biotech, and a steady pipeline of technology startups — an educated, high-intent market where credibility and clear positioning matter more than volume. For an Ann Arbor company competing in that environment, the gap is rarely effort — it's direction. We bring a senior operator who sets the plan against your real numbers, aligns the team you already have, and holds weekly accountability so strategy turns into execution. The result is marketing tied to revenue, informed by how buyers in higher education and research and biotech and life sciences actually make decisions.
Industries we market to here
- higher education and research
- biotech and life sciences
- software and technology
- health care
- professional services
Also serving
Ypsilanti, Saline, Dexter, Chelsea, and Plymouth — and the rest of Washtenaw County.
Market
Ann Arbor, Southeast Michigan — a metro of roughly 370,000 people.
What we do
Fractional CMO for an Ann Arbor business
- 01Implementation Day on-site to align the team and set the plan in motion
- 02Quarterly Strategy Days, in person, to reset priorities against real numbers
- 03Annual planning — goals, budget allocation, and channel mix for the year ahead
- 04Monthly coaching for your marketing team or the person wearing the marketing hat
- 05Weekly accountability so plans turn into execution instead of documents
Why us
The receipts
$2M+/ year
Managed Google Ad spend
Across service, real estate, and supply businesses — budgets we are accountable for every month.
15+years
Graphic design experience
Brand and creative work that predates most of the agencies you're comparing us to.
Belowretail
Print pricing
Trade buying power keeps print under retail, across a huge range of products.
Agencyrate
CRM pricing
Our platform pricing is the rate we get as an agency partner — not retail per-seat.
Common questions
Fractional CMO in Ann Arbor, answered
- What does a Fractional CMO cost an Ann Arbor business?
- A fraction of a full-time marketing executive's salary, on a retainer scaled to how much leadership you need. For most established Southeast Michigan companies that's the difference between affordable senior strategy and no strategy at all.
- Do you work on-site with Ann Arbor teams?
- In person when it matters — an Implementation Day to set the plan in motion and quarterly Strategy Days to reset priorities — and virtual for the weekly cadence in between. We're based in Michigan, so getting to Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and Saline is straightforward.
- Is this right for a small Ann Arbor company?
- It's built for established businesses ready to scale, not startups chasing a first customer. If you have a team executing marketing but no clear strategy behind it, that's exactly the gap a Fractional CMO fills.
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Know what a lead costs you
Most businesses can tell you what they spent last month. Far fewer can tell you what it produced. This is the spreadsheet we'd build for you in week one — take it and use it, whether or not we ever speak.
- Monthly Tracker
- Twelve months of spend, leads, qualified leads, customers, and revenue. Cost per lead, close rate, CAC, and ROAS calculate themselves.
- By Channel
- The same numbers split by Google Ads, paid social, SEO, email, direct mail, and referral — so you can see what to cut and what to scale.
- Dashboard
- Targets versus actual, with variance signed so positive always means you're winning. Charts for cost per lead and spend against revenue.
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Marketing Metrics Dashboard
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Fractional CMO in Ann Arbor — get started
Let's talk fractional cmo in Ann Arbor.
Tell us about your Ann Arbor-area business and we'll set up a call. If Fractional CMO isn't the right move for what you're trying to do, we'll tell you which service is.
- Response time
- One business day, from a person who read what you sent.
- Based in
- Michigan — working across Michigan and the Great Lakes region