Band 03 · $5M – $10M

You have the revenue. You have the team. You don’t have a head of marketing.

$5M to $10M is the sweet spot — the first stage where a serious fractional CMO engagement pays for itself clearly. You’ve outgrown the agency-of-the-month carousel and you can’t quite justify a $150K–$200K full-time hire. What you actually need is one senior marketing brain making sure your team, your vendors, and your dollars are pointed in the same direction.

You’re here because…
  • Your marketing coordinator is busy. They’re doing tasks, not setting strategy.
  • Ad spend is up. ROI is fuzzy. Nobody can answer ‘which channel made us the most money last month’ in under a minute.
  • You’re still the final word on every marketing decision — at midnight.
  • Three vendors. Three opinions. Zero people accountable for whether the phone rings.
What you actually need right now
  1. A marketing operating system

    Your team reacts. They don’t execute on a plan because there isn’t one. We install the weekly rhythm, the scoreboard, and the quarterly planning loop your coordinator can actually run.

  2. Paid ads that are actually managed — not just running

    Your ads are running. Nobody is tightening them weekly. I own paid strategy at the direction level — set the targets, brief the vendor, hold them accountable to booked-job numbers, and cut what’s not working.

  3. Reputation and referral on autopilot

    Reviews happen when they happen. They shouldn’t. Every completed job should fire a review request and a referral ask, automatically. We get that built and running.

How Blueprinted Leads at This Stage

The Fractional CMO seat — starts at $15,000/month — was built for this stage:

  • I hold the marketing seat on your leadership team
  • Weekly leadership meeting + ownership of the marketing rhythm
  • Direction and accountability for every external agency (SEO, LSA, ads, web)
  • Marketing team hiring, onboarding, and 1:1s
  • Budget ownership and channel allocation across the stack
  • Quarterly Strategic Sprint — one big problem solved every 90 days
Why bands matter

Different Stage. Different Leak.

A $600K contractor does not have the same marketing problem as a $4M contractor. That is why Blueprinted Marketing uses revenue bands.

  • Solo Hustle (under $1M) — The leak is usually visibility, consistency, and owner bandwidth. Community on-ramp, not a CMO.
  • Valley of Death ($1M–$5M) — The leak is usually tracking, booking, reviews, and inconsistent execution. Strategic Advisor when you’re running multiple vendors and decision quality has become the growth constraint.
  • Scaling Engine ($5M–$10M) — The sweet spot. The leak is usually vendor chaos, unclear attribution, and no one owning the full system. This is where the Fractional CMO seat pays for itself.
  • Market Dominator ($10M+) — The leak is usually leadership structure, channel allocation, and market defense. No-brainer vs. a $150K–$250K+ full-time CMO hire.

Same category. Different constraint. The band tells us where to look first.

The paid diagnostic · $7,500

Request the Marketing Blueprint.

A fixed-scope $7,500 diagnostic delivered in 2–4 weeks: a 7-zone teardown, your scoreboard built, the leak math done, and a 90-day execution roadmap. Every retainer engagement starts here.