Our clients include companies that represent a wide variety of business models, industries and sizes. Most of our customers are between $5-$100M in annual revenue – and growing! We are so grateful to partner with these brands – and many others – to help them achieve next-level growth.
The Impact of an Authentic Brand Fractional CMO
Go Next: Client Story
hearX Group: Client Story
Humentum: Client Story
eyebobs: Client Story
PowerBlock: Client Story
Red Argyle: Client Story
COLAB: Client Story
NATF: Client Story
Trusted Employees: Client Story
Comply Foam: Client Story
Summit 360: Client Story
Ecessa: Client Story
Beehive Strategic Communication: Client Story
Coherent Solutions: Client Story
Boundary Waters Bank: Client Story
Fueled Collective: Client Story
GoKart Labs: Client Story
Pro-Tec Design: Client Story
Our clients look to Authentic Brand and our fractional CMOs to help them build revenue, strengthen their brands, and build high-performance marketing programs and teams. We celebrate the impact of our vision to help growing businesses:
- Clarify messaging and brand differentiation
- Reduce the risk of wrong-fit marketing hires
- Attract ideal-fit buyers, partners, and employees
- Elevate, inspire and develop internal marketing staff
- Speed the impact of product and service launches
- Generate net-new qualified leads and revenue streams
- Drive higher margins and faster sales cycles
- Create stronger alignment between sales and marketing teams
- Identify untapped market potential and underserved audiences
- Engage best-in-class agency partners for activation
- Add confidence, bandwidth, and strategic guidance for executive leaders
- Exponentially increase valuation in exits
- Successfully navigate post-acquisition integration
- Support ongoing marketing innovation as a trusted advisor and resource hub
“We have been an Authentic Brand client since last year. We could not be happier. Our Fractional CMO is knowledgeable, efficient, effective and a great addition to our team. We recently extended our agreement and added more hours. He [our CMO] has helped to guide our team and I have seen tremendous growth in our branding, communications, marketing, and sales activity. I recommend Authentic Brand whole-heartedly.”
“I just wanted to take a moment and let you know how much I value working with [our CMO] through Authentic Brand! She has been an amazing coach, mentor, and friend and has immensely helped me in growing my marketing confidence and building an amazing marketing team! We truly value our partnership with Authentic Brand and cannot thank you enough for bringing [CMO] into our organization!
"Authentic Brand has been an instrumental contributor to our business strategy, helping to sharpen the effectiveness of our marketing practices and expose our team to broader levels of thinking. Their work has been a primary success factor in opening and growing a new sales channel by more than 6x over the past 18 months."
“Contracting with a Fractional CMO has been an ideal way to remove the marketing piece from senior management with limited time and marketing knowledge. Marketing is a territory bankers tend to think they know something about, but in reality their knowledge is rather limited and often results in wasted time and money. As a community bank we pay close attention to efficiency ratios and the bottom line. A
Fractional CMO is one way we can control our spending and maximize our marketing budget.”
We knew that something had to change to drive our own consistent growth. That’s when we turned to Authentic Brand for a Fractional CMO partner, and that’s been game-changing. […]
In order to grow and be competitive in environments that are transforming faster than any of us can predict, we have to invest in our own businesses. There’s no choice. Those investments have to be smart, focused, and strategic. And that’s what Authentic Brand helps us do.”
“We're making the organizational changes we need to ensure a strong future. As we examined options for expanding our marketing efforts, going with a fractional CMO gave us the ability to bring on an experienced marketing leader while maintaining flexibility with how we were scaling our efforts. Bringing on a fractional CMO through Authentic Brand has been an excellent decision for our company.”
We were suddenly facing a lot of competition at the same time. Originally, we had no marketing. Then we moved to “Random Acts of Marketing”, and we finally had to really professionalize that whole area, and that’s when we sought out Authentic Brand.
[Since] that initial engagement, we’re headed towards being even more than just marketing focused, we’re headed towards being sales focused.”
"As a fast-growing business in technology and innovation, our marketing and messaging is constantly evolving. This frequency of change had compounded our content assets, making it challenging to train and support our reps in bringing a consistent story to the market. We knew we needed to clarify and simplify our story, and Authentic Brand provided the external lens and expertise to help us do this quickly and effectively."
"The Authentic Brand team has been really instrumental in helping us organize and focus in on a really specific strategy. We have a tendency to want to do everything all at once, and they helped us pick out the most important things to focus on, drive the right metrics around that, and to tackle things in sequential order and gain a lot of confidence in what we’re doing in our marketing efforts.”
“With marketing and sales automation, [that Authentic Brand helped to create] we scaled the company, and our EBITDA grew from $1 million to $2 million, and [one year later] our company sold for 11 times earnings. Authentic Brand helped me get the true value of that company …and in the end that helped me give our shareholder a huge exit.”
"Authentic Brand provided valuable fractional marketing leadership for MedHub during a season of transition and growth. From day one in the role, Authentic Brand's experienced marketer built strong trust with our internal stakeholders and demonstrated deep understanding of our SaaS business model. Through her leadership, we redefined the future of our marketing team; crafting new roles and recruiting talent to support modern digital and demand generation programs, which are now activated and positively impacting our pipeline."
“7Summits initially selected Authentic Brand to help us refine our brand identity and messaging in alignment with our go-to-market strategy. After the successful creation of a Marketing Traction Roadmap and messaging strategy, we expanded our partnership with Authentic Brand to a retained advisory service, collaborating to define and achieve revenue and ROMI metrics.
Authentic Brand's partnership-oriented coaching approach absolutely accelerated my time to productivity and the function’s delivery of measurable results.”
"Authentic Brand met us at a crossroads in our business evolution; matching us with an experienced B2B fractional marketing leader who worked closely with our executive and client-facing teams to help shape our brand story and define our marketing resource requirements - ultimately helping us hire and onboard our new full-time marketing leader. Authentic Brand's fractional CMO offering was an ideal solution to help us bridge our resource gaps and build toward a strong, modern marketing organization."
"As a fast-growing blockchain tech firm, we needed a marketing partner that could ramp up quickly, supporting our leadership team around our go-to-market launch. Authentic Brand filled that role for us at a critical time. Their deep understanding of technology and business was evident in their ability to translate a complex, disruptive innovation story into market-ready assets."
“As a small-medium company, we don’t have all the resources to hire everyone in-house, so you need to outsource. There are so many third parties out there, and you can spend a lot of money really quickly if you don’t find the right people. Our fractional CMO has put us in touch with a handful of third parties that have worked for us.”
“Our sales were on forecast, and our ad spend was at the level we expected to be. There were a lot of moving parts, and many of them could have gone off the rails. But they didn’t. That in and of itself is the best compliment I can give our fractional CMO.”
“I think one of the most valuable things we got from our fractional CMO throughout this experience was helping us identify our core issues and then focusing on them. Taking less of a spray and pray approach with more focused and intentional marketing.”
“Our initial conversations with Authentic Brand instilled a lot of confidence in our leadership team because they showed the passion and commitment Authentic Brand has for helping organizations of our size with similar challenges take the next step.”
“Our experience with Authentic Brand was really positive. I liked the idea of bringing in an outside resource with fresh eyes and some new ways of doing things. But then also, at the end of the engagement, to have created a structure that we could use to keep going.”
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