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Marketing · Fractional CMO

Marketing. The seat that fills Tuesday without a discount.

A fractional CMO decides what marketing is for and holds it to a number. For a single-location spa that starts with local search and the patients you already have, not with a bigger ad budget. I ranked my own company #1 on Google without an agency; this is that work, applied to yours.

In my spaI ranked my own company to the top of Google without an agency, built the rebooking campaigns that kept the book full, and then built a content platform because social was the gap I could not hire my way out of. Steph: the Google #1 story with specifics: which terms, which city, how long it held, and any result from your spa or a client you can publish with a number.

What the seat covers

What you get each month

How an engagement runs

  1. The audit first. Two to three weeks across all four areas, so the seat starts with a ranked list, not a guess.
  2. Thirty-day setup. Access, baselines, the first dashboard, the first fixes that pay for the month.
  3. The cadence. Steph: days or hours per month, remote or on site, how the month is structured.
  4. Term and price. Scoped after the audit, once I know what the seat actually needs to cover.

Who this is for

Owners who post when they remember, pay an agency they cannot evaluate, or have a Google profile they set up in 2019 and have not touched. You do not need more marketing. You need someone to decide what it is for.

Not for: spas looking for a content factory. The seat is judgment and direction. When execution is needed, it is scoped separately or handed to Opteva.

Questions
Is this the same as hiring Opteva?

No. Opteva is a content platform I built; it writes and publishes social in a spa's own voice. The marketing seat decides what the spa's marketing should do, holds it to bookings, and may or may not use Opteva to execute part of it.

Do I need to spend money on ads?

Usually not first. Local search and the existing patient list are where a single-location spa gets its next bookings. Ads come after those are working, if at all.

I already pay an agency. Do I fire them?

Not before the audit. Many agencies are doing fine work against the wrong brief. Part of the seat is giving them a better one and reading their reports with an operator's eye.

Start here

Not sure this is the seat? That is what the audit is for.

All four areas, one report, ranked by dollars. If the leak is somewhere else, the report says so.

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