Fractional Marketing Leadership for Tech Innovators &
Growing SMBs

Hands-on fractional marketing leadership for founders and executives ready to scale.
Whether you're building your growth engine from scratch or pushing past a plateau, get the strategic direction, team alignment, and operational execution needed to reach your next milestone.
My approach leverages a proven framework and AI-driven workflows to maximize revenue and accelerate pipeline velocity.
Who I Help
Scaling Tech Startups
Build your growth engine from Day 1
Without the costly trial and error.
You have a great product, but you need a structured marketing engine to gain real traction. I partner with early-stage tech founders to translate product innovation into market demand.
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Market Positioning & Messaging: Stand out in a crowded market with a clear value proposition.
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Go-To-Market Strategy: Map out your customer acquisition roadmap from initial launch to predictable revenue.
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Repeatable Pipeline: Build scalable lead-generation channels before hiring a full marketing team.
Established SMBs
Gain senior marketing leadership
Without the executive overhead.
Your business has proven traction, but growth has plateaued or feels chaotic. As your Fractional CMO, I provide strategic direction, optimize your spend, and lead your team to execute with clarity.
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Fractional Marketing Leadership: Get executive-level strategy and accountability tailored to your budget.
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Team & Agency Management: Direct internal marketers or external agencies to keep campaigns on track.
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Growth Optimization: Modernize your messaging, refine campaign strategy, and jump-start stalled pipelines.
How I Help
Experienced Leadership
Relentless Execution
Strategic clarity and change management.
Navigating rapid growth or modernization requires clear direction. I guide teams through critical market shifts and technology transitions, such as AI integration and digital workflow adoption, ensuring cross-functional alignment across sales, marketing, and operations.
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Fractional Strategic Guidance: Bridge the gap between high-level vision and daily team alignment.
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Modernization & AI Integration: Streamline legacy processes with digital workflows and modern tech stacks.
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Cross-Functional Alignment: Unify sales, marketing, and operations around shared revenue metrics.
Translating strategy into disciplined operational momentum.
A great strategy is useless without disciplined follow-through. I establish modern marketing operations, automated workflows, and agile execution frameworks that compress cycle times, maximize team output, and convert plans into measurable revenue.
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Workflow & Process Automation: Compress execution timelines using AI and modern automation tools.
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Campaign & Pipeline Management: Keep cross-channel initiatives moving forward with clear accountability.
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Measurable ROI Tracking: Continually optimize campaigns to drive sustainable top-line growth.
Proven Strategies
Professional Ecosystem
Data-backed go-to-market frameworks designed to accelerate revenue.
Avoid guess-and-check marketing. I deploy tested strategic frameworks, AI-driven market intelligence, and predictive analytics to identify high-value opportunities, sharpen your market positioning, and build predictable pipeline engines.
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Market Positioning & Messaging: Differentiate your brand and command authority in competitive markets.
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Data-Driven GTM Planning: Eliminate wasted ad spend and focus resources on highest-converting segments.
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KPI & Performance Architecture: Establish full-funnel tracking to measure velocity, efficiency, and ROI.
Vetted, senior-level talent without the friction of freelance procurement.
Instead of relying on unvetted freelance marketplaces, you get direct access to my network of battle-tested specialists—senior professionals I’ve partnered with to build products and launch campaigns for years.
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Core Disciplines: UI/UX Design, Creative Direction, Video & Content Production, Live Broadcast Events, and Technical Product Management.
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Seamless Execution: I lead and orchestrate the talent directly, delivering full-agency output without full-agency overhead or onboarding delays.
Services I Offer
Random marketing campaigns won't scale a business—they burn cash. Growth happens when your messaging, ad spend, and sales team align. As a Fractional CMO, I join your executive team to build and manage that engine. Instead of a full-time executive, you get senior marketing leadership focused on what matters: improving your acquisition funnel, implementing the right technology stack, and turning your marketing department into a reliable part of the revenue engine.
Brand Strategy
Your brand isn't just your logo or color palette—it's why a customer chooses you over a competitor offering the same thing. I help you clarify your core message, position your offer clearly in the market, and give buyers a compelling reason to choose you.
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Market Positioning: Identifying the clear gap in your market that your business can own, making it obvious why you're the better choice.
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Direct Messaging: Stripping out corporate jargon to write clear, concise copy that immediately communicates what you do and for whom.
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Customer Profile Clarity: Digging deep into who your best customers are, what problems keep them up at night, and what drives their buying decisions.
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Consistent Execution: Ensuring your website, pitch decks, sales materials, and ads all tell the same story.
Driving Profitable Revenue Growth
Marketing shouldn't be an expense line item you hope pays off—it needs to deliver a clear, positive return on investment. I view your marketing through a financial lens, ensuring every dollar spent lowers customer acquisition costs, increases revenue opportunities, and improves profit margins.
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Revenue-Focused Strategy: Realigning your marketing initiatives directly with your company's revenue and profit targets.
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CAC & LTV Optimization: Analyzing channel costs to cut underperforming campaigns, shorten payback periods, and increase customer lifetime value.
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Sales & Marketing Alignment: Defining an agreed-upon "sales-ready lead" so marketing doesn't send reps unqualified contacts. We set shared targets across both teams—such as lead-to-opportunity conversion rates and pipeline velocity—so reps receive context-rich leads they can close, rather than cold contacts they must requalify from scratch.
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Retention & Account Expansion: Mapping post-sale touchpoints to identify churn risks early and spot new revenue signals. By tracking feature usage, support requests, and renewal windows, we launch timely upsell and cross-sell campaigns that increase contract values across your existing client roster.
Lead Generation
If your reps are spending hours on cold calls with people who were never going to buy, you don't have a sales problem—you have a targeting problem. I work alongside your team to fix the front end of your funnel so that the leads your reps receive are ready for a sales conversation.
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Multi-Channel Pipelines: Identifying where your target customers spend time online and setting up campaigns—across search, paid media, and outbound—that turn passive attention into real inquiries.
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Funnel Optimization: Reviewing every step a potential customer takes before buying to identify where you're losing people and fix the leaks.
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Tool Setup & Clean Data: Setting up your CRM and marketing tools so leads don't fall through the cracks and your sales reps know exactly who to call first.
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Targeting High-Intent Buyers: Stop chasing vanity metrics like website clicks and focus on generating prospects who are ready to buy.
Revenue Marketing
Too many marketing teams celebrate high website traffic even as revenue stays flat. Revenue marketing ties every marketing tactic directly to pipeline creation and closed deals, giving you full visibility into what drives your business forward.
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Clear Marketing Attribution: Setting up tracking to show which ads, blog posts, or campaigns contributed to signed contracts.
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Pipeline Acceleration: Creating targeted campaigns and sales collateral to keep deals moving forward.
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CRM Data Integration: Connecting marketing activity directly to sales outcomes so you can reallocate budget to tactics that generate revenue.
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Account-Based Campaigns: Running tailored outreach directly to buying committee members at high-value target accounts to secure larger contracts.
Digital Marketing
Being active on social media or running a few ad campaigns isn't a digital strategy. If your online channels operate in silos, you're wasting budget. I integrate your digital channels into a single, cohesive system designed to drive measurable revenue.
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Cross-Channel Alignment: Ensuring your SEO, search ads, paid social, and email lists aren't operating in isolation. When a prospect sees an ad on LinkedIn, your search ads, website copy, and follow-up emails should reflect the same offer and message.
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Focus on the Bottom Line: Move beyond vanity metrics like impressions, clicks, and page views. We track what impacts revenue and profitability: the cost to acquire a paying customer, how quickly you recoup ad spend, and total revenue per account over time.
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Behavior-Based Targeting: Segmenting your prospective buyers by where they are in their buying process—separating casual researchers seeking basic advice from motivated decision makers who need a proposal and implementation details immediately.
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Campaign Optimization: Regularly A/B test ad headlines, page layouts, and offer angles against live traffic. Identifying and scaling winning variations lowers your cost-per-lead and stretches your ad budget further every month.
Marketing Automation
If your team manually copies and pastes customer data, sends follow-up emails by hand, or loses track of leads, your operations won't scale. I design automated systems that handle repetitive tasks, nurture prospects, and keep your sales pipeline moving around the clock.
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Automated Lead Nurturing: Setting up targeted email sequences to keep your company top of mind and guide prospects toward a sales conversation.
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System Integrations: Connecting your website, marketing apps, and CRM so customer data flows smoothly, without manual effort or human error.
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Lead Scoring & Instant Handoffs: Flagging high-value leads based on how they interact with your site and automatically routing them to the right sales rep.
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Customer Onboarding & Retention: Building post-sale automated sequences that help new customers get started quickly, reduce churn, and create upsell opportunities.
What I have done
$180M Revenue
Spearheaded comprehensive brand awareness programs, go-to-market strategies, and commercial operations for enterprise services and SaaS portfolios—aligning cross-functional teams to drive profitable revenue growth, accelerate pipeline velocity, and exceed $180M in total revenue.
$40M ARR
Architected and scaled high-value subscription and recurring revenue models, driving predictable top-line growth and building over $40M in sustainable ARR to secure long-term commercial value.
$100M Budget
Directed comprehensive corporate and product marketing investments totaling over $100M, strategically allocating capital across global campaigns, high-impact events, digital channels, brand promotions, and agency partnerships to maximize ROI and market penetration.
$100M
Spearheaded comprehensive brand awareness programs, go-to-market strategies, and commercial operations for enterprise services and SaaS portfolios—aligning cross-functional teams to drive profitable revenue growth, accelerate pipeline velocity, and exceed $180M in total revenue.
Architected and scaled high-value subscription and recurring revenue models, driving predictable top-line growth and building over $40M in sustainable ARR to secure long-term commercial value.
$180M
Directed comprehensive corporate and product marketing investments totaling over $100M, strategically allocating capital across global campaigns, high-impact events, digital channels, brand promotions, and agency partnerships to maximize ROI and market penetration.
150 people
Led and scaled high-performing cross-functional organizations of up to 150 professionals spanning remote, domestic, and international environments—establishing rigorous KPIs, mentoring future leaders, and fostering operational accountability to empower teams and consistently achieve strategic business objectives.
$40M
$800K Saved
Delivered over $800K in annual operational savings by strategically consolidating global events, migrating digital and web platforms, and standardizing cross-functional KPI reporting across marketing and communications operations.
200% Increase
Architected and deployed an organization-wide Account-Based Marketing (ABM) framework that drove a 200% increase in outbound prospect engagement, significantly strengthening enterprise pipeline quality and sales-marketing alignment.
Commercialization
Recruited by venture investors to commercialize Helius, LLC, instituting rigorous organizational discipline and go-to-market execution to scale the business and position it for a successful strategic acquisition.
M&A Leadership
Directed strategic M&A initiatives from both sides of the deal—successfully integrating a specialized acquisition into Helius, LLC and subsequently leading Helius through its own high-value acquisition by Hughes Network Systems.
Ready to Accelerate Your Growth?
Book a complimentary 30-minute discovery call and explore how fractional marketing leadership can help you scale.
What to expect on the call:
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Zero pressure: A candid conversation about your revenue targets and current bottlenecks.
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Immediate value: Actionable feedback on your positioning and marketing structure.
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Clear next steps: A transparent assessment of whether a fractional partnership makes sense for your stage.
Meet the Principal: Michael Tippets
Why Trust Your Growth to the Tippets Group?
You don't need a theorist or a generic agency building a plan on your budget. You need an executive who has navigated every phase of the business lifecycle—from early-stage venture commercialization to scaling global enterprise operations. With more than three decades of progressive leadership spanning B2B marketing, go-to-market transformation, and P&L management, I bring enterprise-grade expertise directly to your business.
A Proven Track Record of Scale and Exit Success
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Venture Leadership & Execution: Venture investors recruited me to commercialize Helius, LLC. I advanced from Vice President of Marketing to Chief Executive Officer, closing over $5M in strategic Fortune 1000 agreements before successfully negotiating and executing the company's acquisition by Hughes Network Systems.
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Enterprise Pipeline Acceleration: I scaled a pipeline to support annual enterprise services revenue growing from $100M to over $175M (including over $40M in recurring revenue) through strategic go-to-market planning, marketing technology improvements and a focus on pipeline acceleration.
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Operational Expertise: My career foundation covers the entire commercial engine—software quality assurance and product marketing at WordPerfect, enterprise sales and C-suite briefings at Novell, global channel marketing at SonicWall, sales, engineering and marketing at Helius and marketing operations at Hughes
The Approach: Relentless Focus on Results
When you work with the Tippets Group, you get an embedded executive partner who rolls up their sleeves, aligns with your team, and builds a predictable, high-performing growth engine tailored specifically to your business goals. I can lead and mentor existing teams, or perform as an individual contributor - whatever it takes to get the job done!

"If your marketing engine is evaluated solely by vanity metrics like clicks and social shares while the bottom line stalls, you aren't running a growth driver—you're funding an expensive hobby."
