MArketing-as-a-service. effective, but flexible.
Reduce Costs And Commitments With A Fractional Marketing Team
Building an effective marketing organisation is a challenge. Skills can vary a lot, so do experiences and talent. Adding additional depth to your marketing team therefore comes either with more risky commitments in forms of long-term hires, or immense costs in form of specialised agencies.
Luckily, there is a third path:
Hiring an affordable Fractional Marketing Team that supports you like full-time employees without risky commitments.
Why You Can't Live Without A Marketing Team
But Also Cannot Afford To Bet On It
We are not advocating against hiring Marketing talent. On the contrary, marketing is essential. But the increasing diversity of skills and experiences required to run a successful organisation are often too expensive and risky for small- and medium-sized businesses. Traditional Marketing agencies seem like a logical alternative, but are impractical. The price per deliverable and or person hour can be several times higher than what internal resources cost. And they can rarely provide the level of ownership over Marketing strategy, sustainable brand-building and long-term execution. They are simply not set up to be part of your organisation.
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of CMOs reported that they lack the in-house capabilities to deliver their strategy*
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Only 22% of CEOs and CFOs say they have received significant clarity from their CMO regarding marketing accountabilities*
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report that marketing lacks the technical skills to successfully integrate and operate some of the technologies in their stack*
So, how are fractional Marketing teams different?
Marketing-As-A-Service. Close, and yet off-demand.
Software-as-a-service is only attractive, because of its flexibility. In a rough patch or when a project has come to an end, you can cancel and are free of commitments. Marketing can work the same way. Not because we do not believe in long-term partnerships. But because we understand that true sustainability in business partnerships is built on providing what the other one needs. And only what they need.
At B2B Engine we call this Off-Demand Marketing. Yes, pun intended. When our customers compound value, they should and will pay for it. If they don't, we happily take a step back
If You Are Too Locked In With Marketing, You Risk It All
Your Marketing team is crucial, but hiring for every single function might
overwhelm your finances. So do Agencies.
Fractional Marketing Team
Principles by B2B Engine
Being immersed in an organisation
The main difference between classic Marketing agencies and fractional marketing teams is simply how close they are to your team. They become a real part of your organisation, understand the inner workings and how to get things done. All while being as flexible as possible and having full-stack resources through B2B Engine.
Maximum flexibility
Hiring for all important marketing functions can be too risky for SMBs. Overheads are burdensome on profits, can restrain growth and having to let people go, only to re-hire later, is both frustrates employees, adds additional layers of complexity and is expensive. Fractional marketing teams are adding exactly the flexibility that is needed to succeed on a broad level, without the necessary long-term commitments.
Clarity And Simplicity Are Key
Make your brand messaging, positioning and offering as simple and clear as possible. This is especially important when selling complex B2B products and services. This means keeping things short, saying one thing at a time and communicating with efficiency. Creativity does not require being fancy. It requires being clear.
Consistency Is Build Around Repetition
The more often a brand makes a point, the more it becomes part of its reputation. And if the audience gets value from what you have to say, keep repeating it. Trying to constantly find new ideas will only dilute your brand. What keeps people interested is when you believe in something enough to keep talking about it.
How B2B Engine
Fractional Marketing Teams work
Our Fractional Marketing Team Services are designed to give you exactly what you need to succeed. We combine deep discovery, fast execution, foundation and strategy building and flexibility, offering stability, continuity and flexibility.
Deep Discovery &
Expert Knowledge
Getting and staying close to your organisation is one of the core advantages of fractional teams. In order to do so successfully and long-term, our Fractional Marketing Resources are starting off by conducting deep discovery of your business:
- Marketing & Growth Strategy
- Brand & Positioning
- Team dynamics
- Sales Marketing processes
- Historic performances
- Products & services
- Market environment
Execute Fast On High-Value Deliverables
In most SMBs there is quite a lot of low-hanging fruit, when it comes to advancing demand generation and stimulating growth. Our fractional teams are equipped to quickly identify opportunities, often before an engagement even starts, and executes.
Mostly in parallel to building sustainable Marketing strategies and foundations for the long-run.
Fast results in a fast-paced world.
Continuity & Flexibility: Not A Contradiction
Once a customer, we retain deep discovery knowledge and, with your permission, analysis data access forever.
If you have to reduce or end your engagement with us, you won't lose your long-term growth partner. We keep an eye on your marketing and are available to you as advisors, offering continuity and stability for the long-run.
And when the need for our fractional services comes again, we can support you again with almost zero onboarding time and effort.
Start Your Growth Engine Without Bankrupting Yourself
Hiring a full-service agency to run your Marketing will introduce high costs,
unnecessary complexity, without success being guaranteed.
The B2B Brand Strategy Process
Building a powerful B2B brand doesn't happen overnight. But with the right process, you can see meaningful results in months, not years. Here's how we approach brand strategy B2B:
1. Discovery & Research: A True Status Quo
We start with a deep discovery of your brand, business, industry, products, services and customers. Within that we want to come to understand what your true reputation currently is. What does the market really think about you.
Part of the exercise is to also get to know you as the leaders of the business, as well as your staff. Knowing what you believe in, what your experiences are and how you solve your buyer's problems are the foundation of building or re-building your brand.
2. Buyer Journey & Decision Mapping
Step 2 goes deeper into the question of who your buyer is and what their journey looks like.
The most important step of defining the brand you should build is to understand the brand your buyers truly need and want.
3. You Future Brand: You And Your Customer
As outlined in our brand principles, authenticity matters a lot. We can build the best brand in the world together, if you do not believe in its values and statements, your audience won't either.
So, in this step, we bring together what you want to stand for, what your buyers expect from you and the aspirations you have for your future brand.
Content Optimization: Mastering Perplexity & Burstiness
AI models evaluate content based on specific linguistic patterns. Content that is too "flat" is flagged as low-value, while content that is too complex is ignored.
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How we help: We optimize your content for Perplexity (predictability) and Burstiness (variation). By balancing expert-level terminology with varied sentence structures, we signal to LLMs that your content is high-value, human-led insight, making it significantly more likely to be prioritized in generative responses.
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When You Should Consider
Fractional Marketing Services
Not sure if a Fractional Marketing Team is the right path for you? Here are some indicators that it might be:
- Your Marketing Leader keeps asking for more resources you cannot afford
- Marketing team members leave your organisation in under 12 months, regularly
- You are spending on your Marketing team and campaigns, but are not seeing an increase in attributed revenue or pipeline
- Nobody in your organisation can tell you what your Marketing agency is doing or achieving, week by week
- More than half of your overall marketing budget is being spent on head count or your Marketing agency
- Your Marketing agency is running your marketing, but unable to organise your wider go-to-marketing processes
- Your growth is slow, your competitor's is not
- If your business takes a 10% hit, you have to let go of at least one Marketing team member
If you're experiencing any of these challenges, it might be time to consider Fractional Marketing resources as an alternative to stimulate growth, break rigid and stale structures and finally rid yourself of the headache that is underperforming Marketing.
Learn More About Our Services.
Brand Strategy & Positioning
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Brand is everything. And yet, it is a vastly underserved category in the B2B space. We help you change this for your business. Build a brand that customers trust and love.
Demand Generation
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Content Marketing
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Sources:
* Gartner, Marketing Data & Analytics and Martech Capability Gaps for CMOs Survey. Survey of 405 CMOs and other marketing leaders (February–March 2022). 61% of CMOs reported that they lack the in-house capabilities to deliver their strategy. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2022-09-07-gartner-survey-reveals-marketing-data-analytics-and-martech-among-top-capability-gaps-for-cmos
* Gartner, 2024 Marketing Talent and Technology Survey. Survey of 405 martech leaders (May–June 2023). 63% report that marketing lacks the technical skills to successfully integrate and operate some of the technologies in their stack. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-02-27-gartner-survey-reveals-87-percent-of-marketers-are-concerned-about-technology-replacing-jobs-in-their-industry
* Gartner, CMO and C-Suite Expectations Gap Survey. Survey of 125 CEOs and CFOs (August–September 2024). Only 22% of CEOs and CFOs say they have received significant clarity from their CMO regarding marketing accountabilities. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-02-24-gartner-survey-reveals-only-45-percent-of-cmos-surpass-senior-executive-expectations-despite-achieving-objectives