Consulting · Executive Tier

Marketing consulting and fractional CMO: direction, not another vendor

Senior marketing direction without a full-time hire, fixed in scope and dated.

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Consulting

You have vendors. What you need is a plan.

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Consulting from CICOR Marketing gives business leaders senior marketing direction without a full-time hire. It covers four engagements: Fractional CMO, marketing audits and strategic plans, AI consulting, and marketing operations and sales alignment. Every engagement is fixed in scope and dated. You get clarity and a plan you can carry out with us or on your own.

Most owners who land here already have vendors. What they lack is someone who can look at the whole picture and say what should happen next. The founder still makes every marketing decision. The budget is a guess, and nobody owns the number.

Consulting is for that moment. You are buying judgment, a plan, and a person who will say plainly what to stop, what to fix, and what to leave alone.

Services

Which situation is yours

FRACTIONAL CMO

The founder still runs marketing

Fractional CMO puts a senior CICOR Marketing leader in the role part time. He sets the strategy, leads the team and vendors, plans the budget, and reports to leadership monthly.

MARKETING CONSULTING, STRATEGY AND AUDITS

I do not know what is working

Marketing Consulting, Strategy and Audits starts with a marketing audit. Six areas are scored, the report is in plain language, and it ends with a 90-day plan.

AI CONSULTANT

Everyone says use AI and I do not know where

AI Consultant is the short answer. It is a person who tells you where AI fits your business and where it does not. It routes to the assessment, workflow design, and training pages in AI Services.

MARKETING TECHNOLOGY, OPERATIONS AND SALES ALIGNMENT

Too many tools, and sales says the leads are junk

Marketing Technology, Operations and Sales Alignment reviews the tools you pay for and designs the process. Sales and marketing sign one lead definition, and leadership gets one dashboard.

How We Work

How consulting engagements work

Every engagement is fixed in scope and has an end date: an assessment, a plan, a set of sessions, or a specific initiative. Deliverables are advisory. You own the decisions and the results.

The exception is Fractional CMO. It is ongoing by design and runs under Full Service, typically $5,000 to $20,000 a month sized to the engagement, because leadership does not work in four-week pieces. If a fixed-scope engagement finds work that needs doing, we quote it separately, and you can give it to anyone.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

A fractional CMO leads a company’s marketing function part time, doing the job a full-time chief marketing officer would do for a fraction of the cost. That covers strategy and budget, leading the internal team and outside vendors, reporting to leadership, and planning launches. At CICOR Marketing, a senior leader holds the role. He works under a monthly hour allocation with an authority level the client sets.

A fractional CMO from CICOR Marketing is quoted as a monthly retainer, sized by the hour allocation (typically 20 to 50 hours a month), the scope of the marketing function, and the authority level. It is delivered as Full Service, which typically runs $5,000 to $20,000 a month, sized to the engagement. You get the fee in writing after a short call.

A marketing audit is a structured review of your channels, website, content, brand, tracking, and budget. It tells you what is working, what is wasted, and what to do next. A marketing audit from CICOR Marketing runs from $2,950 to $4,500 for a small company, with larger companies scoped by size. It takes three to four weeks and ends with a scored report and a 90-day plan.

You need a consultant when the question is what to do, and an agency when you already know and need it done. A consultant gives you an outside opinion, a plan, and priorities with no long commitment. An agency does the work month after month. CICOR Marketing offers both. A consulting engagement often decides which one you actually need.

Ready When You Are

The first call is a diagnosis

Tell us where the business is, what is not working, and what you have tried. We will say which engagement fits, or whether you need one at all. The first call is a diagnosis, not a pitch.