A fractional marketing department · Dallas–Fort Worth

Everything a CMO does.
A fraction of what a CMO costs.

Marketing leadership, strategy, execution, and the events everyone else is afraid of. Installed in 90 days. Run for as long as you want. Yours forever after.

The math is
not complicated.
The market is.

full-time CMO, year one=$280,000 to $450,000, plus the recruiter, plus the equity
the agency=deliverables you chase, juniors you never met, hours you can't audit
so fractional=an executive who builds the department, runs it, and hands you the keys
the differencesubtle
The Ladder · fixed scope, fixed price

No hourly rates. Outcomes and prices.

Every engagement is a product with a number on it. You will always know exactly what you're buying, what it costs, and what exists in your company when it's done.

1/5

The Diagnostic

2 WEEKS

A full audit of your marketing function: positioning, pipeline, stack, content, events, team. You get a scored gap analysis and a prioritized 90-day blueprint. 100% of the fee credits toward The Stand-Up if you move within 30 days.

$4,500flat, credits forward
The flagship
2/5

The Stand-Up

90 DAYS

A complete marketing department, installed. Positioning and messaging, your CRM built and firing, a content engine, a sales enablement library, a campaign calendar, a KPI dashboard, and the Owner's Manual documenting all of it. Not a strategy deck. The machine.

$24,000$8,000/mo or $22,000 upfront
2 concurrent builds, ever
3/5

The Retainer

POST-BUILD ONLY

Ongoing fractional leadership for the department we built together. Three tiers, below. You can't buy maintenance on a machine I didn't build, which is exactly why it works.

$4,500+per month, see tiers
4/5

Event Direction

PER EVENT

Your conference, launch, or trade show, directed end to end by someone who has produced roughly a thousand live events. Ask any other fractional CMO to run your annual event. Watch them reach for a vendor list.

$15,000–$35,000scoped per event
5/5

The Renovation

16 WEEKS

The full rebrand, down to the studs: strategy, identity, and the entire working asset library, then a formal turnover to your team with guidelines, training, and 30 days of on-call support. Agencies deliver files. This delivers a department that knows how to use them.

$35,000–$45,000paid in thirds
bundle with The Stand-Up: ~$55,000
Retainers · 6-month minimum

Pick your fraction.

Every tier is the same executive. The difference is how much of the week belongs to you.

Keeper
Leadership
$4,500 per month · ~6 hrs/week
  • Weekly operating call
  • Quarterly planning and budget
  • Team and vendor oversight
  • KPI review and reporting

For departments that run and need a steady hand on them.

Driver
Leadership + Execution
$7,500 per month · ~10 hrs/week
  • Everything in Keeper
  • Hands-on execution of your top two channels
  • Campaign builds and launches
  • Content and enablement production

For departments that need the executive in the work, not above it.

Showrunner
Leadership + Execution + Events
$11,000 per month · flagship included
  • Everything in Driver
  • Direction of your flagship event program
  • On-site, in the room, on the day
  • The tier no one else in DFW can sell

Your marketing calendar, built around the moment that matters most.

The small print, priced · à la carte

The War Room Day

$3,500 · one day

Your leadership team, one whiteboard, and a complete quarterly marketing plan by dinner.

The Bench

$1,500/mo · 5 seats total

Two calls a month plus async access. A marketing brain on speed dial for companies not ready for more.

The Handover

$8,000 · 60 days

Ready for a full-time hire? I write the role, screen, interview, and onboard them against your Owner's Manual.

The Second Opinion

$2,000 · one week

An agency or fractional proposal on your desk, torn down line by line before you sign it.

In Writing · every proposal, every time

Guarantees are cheap talk. So they go in the contract.

Four promises, printed in every proposal, enforceable by you.

1/4

The 90-Day Receipt

The Stand-Up proposal lists exactly what exists in your company on day 91. If it's not all there, I work free until it is.

2/4

The Owner's Clause

Everything I build is documented and handed over. Playbooks, templates, processes, passwords. If I disappear tomorrow, your marketing doesn't.

3/4

No Bait, No Switch

The person you meet in the sales conversation is the person who does the work. There is no bench of juniors. There is no bench at all.

4/4

In the Room

On event day, I am physically in the building. Nothing that matters gets directed over Zoom.

The Witnesses · lightly trimmed, heavily verifiable

On the record.

Eight people put their names on statements about the work, in public, where you can check. Under oath, they would read the same.

She delivers lasting business impact. She sets high expectations, inspires those around her, and consistently delivers results that exceed them.”

Ron · Channel Strategy Partner

“She doesn’t just execute. She elevates.

Mike · Web Developer & Build Partner

“She develops thoughtful marketing strategies that help businesses stand out... constantly thinking outside the box while keeping business goals front and center.

Alison · The Event Lounge

“Whether it’s a fresh concept, a rough idea, or a passing thought, Jodi can shape it into something tangible: messaging that lands, materials that move people, and strategies that bring everything together.

Steve · Owner, Fractional Client

“In just four months, with virtually no brand awareness, limited budget, and minimal resources... six new MSP partners while engaging more than 50 technology executives, including CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, and VPs.”

Ron · Channel Strategy Partner, on a build from a standing start

“She developed plans for the pre-event promotional approach, booth design and messaging, lead capture system, and post-event follow-up protocols... Jodi took ownership.

Fernando · CEO, Singular Security

“Takes charge and seizes the initiative to get things done with little to no oversight.

Andrew · Partner

“She shows up, she follows through, and she makes the experience better for everyone around her. Teams are stronger and, honestly, happier with her on them.

Jonathan · Former Colleague

“I’ve seen her transform the branding and marketing of several companies in ways that make them competitive and relevant.”

O.G. · The Event Lounge

“Jodi is lightning in a bottle.

Andrew · Partner

Who It's For · and who it isn't
  • 01Companies between $2M and $50M with real marketing needs and no real marketing leader
  • 02Founders who have been burned by an agency and can name the invoice that did it
  • 03Teams with a flagship event, conference, or launch that keeps them up at night
  • 04Post-acquisition, post-pivot, and next-generation companies that need a Renovation
  • 05Anyone who wants the department without the payroll, and the executive without the ego
"You need marketing help but can't afford a CMO? Talk to So Fractional."

That's the whole referral. The name does the explaining, the guarantees do the convincing, and the work does the keeping. Fifteen years of live events taught us one thing worth printing: there are no second takes, so build it right the first time.

Who Does the Work · population: 1

No bench. No juniors.
Just the builder.

Fifteen years of live events taught her the only lesson that matters: there are no second takes. Roughly a thousand productions, hundreds of them destination, every one of them a live broadcast with no edit button. When you have steadied that many rooms at the moment everything wants to go sideways, a quarterly pipeline review does not raise your heart rate.

Then she did the thing most fractional CMOs only put on slides: walked into a NASDAQ-listed cybersecurity company as a marketing department of one and built the entire function from a standing start. Positioning, systems, content, enablement, events, brand governance. Built, documented, running. That build is the blueprint for The Stand-Up, which means you are not buying a theory. You are buying the second, faster, cleaner run of something she has already done under a public company's spotlight.

The work speaks first, on purpose. The name, since your referral already told you anyway, is Jodi. Read the build: Case Study Nº0, Rent versus own.

So fractional. So yours.

Start with the Diagnostic. Two weeks, one blueprint, and a number you can hold me to.

Fractionally yours, Jodi