Fractional CMO

The CMO seat, filled.Plus the team thatexecutes it.

Senior growth leadership without the executive hire. A Top Shelf Logic fractional CMO builds the strategy, owns the number, and directs an in-house bench across SEO, paid media, web, content, social, video, and AI. One leader. One roadmap. One scoreboard.

21+ years leading growth· Forbes Agency Council· ★ 5.0 on Google (31)
Growth Command CenterLIVE
$750M+
REVENUE INFLUENCED
21x
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
$150K
WEEKLY SALES
This is what your Monday looks like: every channel, one dashboard, one owner reporting in CEO language.
$0M+
in client revenue generated
0+
years of growth leadership
0x
return on investment: ~$7K/wk driving ~$150K/wk in sales for a national client
0.0
across 31 Google reviews
The problem

Growth needs an owner. Most companies never get one.

There are three ways companies usually try to fill the marketing leadership gap. Each one leaves the same hole.

Option one
$260K to $500K / yr

The full-time CMO

Salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and months of ramp time before the first result. For most scaling brands, it is the single most expensive bet on the payroll, and a slow one to unwind if it misses.

A huge fixed cost before any execution exists
Option two
Tactics on retainer

The typical agency

Agencies sell channels: an SEO package here, an ads budget there. They run the tactics they were hired for, report on activity, and wait for direction. Nobody above the channels is asking whether this is the right plan at all.

Execution with no strategy on top
Option three
The vendor patchwork

Scattered specialists

An SEO shop, an ads freelancer, a web developer, a social contractor. Each one optimizes their own slice, none of them talk to each other, and when the number misses, everyone points somewhere else.

No accountable owner of the outcome

You do not have a channel problem. You have an ownership problem.

The offer

What a Top Shelf Logic fractional CMO owns.

Not advice from the sidelines. An embedded growth executive who takes responsibility for the outcome, at a fraction of the cost of the hire.

1
Direction

Strategy & roadmap

Market position, offer, audience, and competitors distilled into a quarterly growth roadmap. Every dollar and every task rolls up to it, so nothing runs on autopilot.

  • Full-funnel growth strategy, written down and defended
  • Quarterly priorities with budgets attached
  • Competitive positioning that survives contact with the market
2
Accountability

Owns the number

One leader answers for pipeline and revenue, not impressions. Targets are set, forecast, and course-corrected in the open, the way an executive is supposed to run them.

  • Revenue and lead targets owned by name
  • Tracking and attribution kept honest
  • Misses diagnosed and fixed, not explained away
3
Coordination

Every channel, one plan

SEO, paid, web, content, social, video, and automation stop competing for budget and start compounding. Money moves to what performs, on a weekly cadence.

  • One integrated calendar across all channels
  • Budget reallocated to winners, fast
  • Vendors and internal staff directed under one plan
4
Visibility

Executive reporting

A standing report in CEO language: what is working, what is not, and what happens next. No vanity metrics, no forty-slide decks nobody reads.

  • A live scoreboard tied to revenue
  • Plain-English monthly executive review
  • Decisions and trade-offs surfaced, not buried
The execution bench

The strategy comes with hands.

Most fractional CMOs hand you a plan and leave you to staff it. Ours arrives with an in-house team already working together. Every capability below reports to your CMO, under one roadmap.

No roster to assemble, no vendors to referee. One invoice, one leader, one accountable team.

Who it is for

Built for brands that outgrew their marketing.

National & multi-location

Scaling brands

You have real revenue and real ad budgets, but channels run in silos and reporting arrives late. You need an executive to run growth like an operating function, without a $400K hire.

Regional, going bigger

Growth-stage companies

The founder has been the de facto CMO for years and it is now the bottleneck. We take the seat, keep you in the decisions that matter, and hand the rest to the bench.

Local market leaders

Firms that own a market

Practices and trades where dominance is decided locally. We run dedicated playbooks for law firms and home services, led by the same CMO discipline.

How engagements work

A seat gets filled in four moves.

1
First weeks

Assess

A deep audit of your funnel, channels, tracking, competitors, and spend. We find where growth is leaking and put a number on the opportunity.

2
Then

Roadmap

The findings become a quarterly growth roadmap: priorities, budgets, owners, and the targets your CMO will answer for.

3
Ongoing

Build & run

The bench executes across every channel on a weekly cadence, with your CMO directing traffic and moving budget to what performs.

4
Every month

Prove

Rankings, leads, revenue, and calls reported in plain English. What works gets more fuel. What does not gets cut, on the record.

Month to month, on purpose.

No long-term contract to hide behind. We keep the seat the same way a great executive keeps a job: by delivering. If the scoreboard is not moving, you should be free to act like it.

Why Top Shelf Logic

We have run this play at national scale.

Flagship engagement
21x

A publicly traded national brand

We direct strategy and execution for a national e-commerce operation: roughly $7K a week in ad spend driving roughly $150K a week in sales, alongside the SEO, feeds, and content that keep it compounding. That is the same leadership model we bring to your business.

$750M+

in client revenue generated across engagements led by our team.

21+ yrs

of growth leadership, from local firms to national brands.

Forbes

Agency Council member: founder Zach Thompson.

5.0 ★

across 31 Google reviews. Clients keep the receipts.

The next move

The CMO seat is open. Fill it this month.

Book a strategy call. We will show you where your growth is leaking, what an accountable owner would do about it, and what the first ninety days look like.

Month to month. One leader. One number. (469) 455-2777