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Growth Strategy Built for Profitable Scale

Get senior marketing leadership without the full-time hire. We act as your fractional CMO, owning the strategy, channel mix, and P&L that drive efficient, profitable growth, with a decade-plus of expertise and hands-on execution at a fraction of the cost and risk.

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Our Point of View

What growth strategy means to Strat88.

Most brands don't need another strategy deck. They need a senior leader who owns the outcome. We embed as your fractional CMO and take responsibility for how every marketing decision connects to acquisition, retention, margin, and the health of the P&L.

That means going well beyond channel tactics. We pressure-test your unit economics, set the growth roadmap, decide where budget should and shouldn't go, and build the team and systems to execute it, so growth becomes a repeatable engine rather than a series of disconnected bets.

What's Included

Everything a senior marketing leader owns.

From the growth roadmap and P&L oversight to channel strategy and the right hires, we take on the work a full-time CMO would, scaled to what your business needs right now.

Growth strategy and roadmap
P&L, margin, and budget oversight
Channel strategy and media mix
Hiring and managing the marketing team
Efficiency and unit-economics analysis
AI enablement and automation
Vendor and agency management
Forecasting and executive reporting
How We Work

A CMO's cadence, without the full-time hire.

We start by understanding the whole business, not just the marketing, then set the strategy, build the engine, and stay embedded to lead it. You get senior judgment on the calls that actually move the P&L.

01

Assess

We read the full picture: P&L, margins, channel performance, team, and goals, to find where growth is stalling and where the biggest efficiency gains are.

02

Plan

We build the growth roadmap around your goals, margins, and budget, deciding where to invest, where to cut, and what to prioritize first.

03

Build

We put the strategy into motion: channel plans, the right hires, the systems, and the vendor and agency alignment needed to execute it well.

04

Lead

We stay embedded as your CMO, owning forecasting, executive reporting, and the ongoing calls that keep growth efficient and profitable.

AI, Applied

Put AI to work where it actually pays off.

AI is changing marketing fast, but more tools isn't a strategy. As your fractional CMO, we help you decide where AI creates real leverage, build the practical systems to capture it, and skip the expensive experiments that don't earn their keep.

Where it fits

Find the real leverage

We map your workflows and economics to spot where AI genuinely saves time or money, from content and creative production to reporting and customer insight, and where it's just noise.

What we build

Right-sized systems

Think practical, not moonshots. Simple automations and lightweight AI agent setups that streamline the work your team already does, starting with quick wins you can actually maintain.

No hype

Honest about cost

Bigger AI integrations are possible, but only when the return justifies the investment. We scope and price the work transparently, so you're never surprised by the cost of ambition.

Case Study
International Education Evaluations

Full-service growth leadership that made acquisition dramatically more efficient.

IEE brought us on as their outsourced growth team. We owned the strategy and ran the marketing end to end, rebuilding the acquisition engine around strict profitability targets in a competitive, niche international market, so the business could spend less and get more.

-33%
Ad spend, with +13% conversions
-41%
Cost per acquisition, YoY
7.3X
ROAS, +56% YoY
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Before You Start

What to know before getting started.

01 What exactly does a fractional CMO from Strat88 do?
We act as your senior marketing leader: setting the growth strategy and roadmap, overseeing the P&L and budget, deciding the channel mix, hiring and managing the team, and staying accountable for the results. You get the judgment and ownership of a CMO, embedded in your business without the full-time hire.
02 How is this different from hiring a full-time CMO?
You get a decade-plus of senior expertise and hands-on execution at a fraction of the cost and risk. There's no six-figure salary, equity, or long ramp. We integrate quickly, scale our involvement to what you need, and you can adjust the engagement as the business changes.
03 How is this different from a typical agency?
Most agencies run a single channel and report on it. We own the whole growth picture and stay accountable to your P&L, then manage the agencies, freelancers, and vendors on your behalf so every part of the marketing effort pulls in the same direction.
04 What size or stage of business is this best for?
It's built for scaling eCommerce brands that have real revenue but no senior marketing leadership, where the founder or CEO is still making the big growth and P&L calls alone. If you've outgrown doing it yourself but aren't ready for a full-time CMO, this is the gap we fill.
05 How much time and commitment is involved?
Engagements are flexible and scaled to your needs, typically a set amount of time each month with clear priorities and regular leadership touchpoints. We right-size the involvement to your stage and adjust as the business grows.
06 How do we get started?
It starts with a growth assessment: a review of your P&L, channels, team, and goals to pinpoint the biggest opportunities and where a fractional CMO can create the most value, before you commit to anything.

Senior leadership for the whole growth engine.

Strategy is where it starts. From paid media and CRO to email and SMS, we can lead or coordinate every channel so the whole business scales profitably, not just one part of it.

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