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Rick Ramos, fractional CMO

Fractional CMO, advisor and author

The fractional CMO who sets the strategy and gets it built.

I've led marketing through three 10x runs. Today I work with a small number of companies at a time, as your CMO, your advisor, or on one well-defined piece of work with a fixed price.

$0→$M

HealthJoy ARR as founding team member and CMO. Valued at $500M.

$20M→$M

Adknowledge revenue while I ran go-to-market.

$4M→$M

Adiant revenue, built on content syndication.

Companies I’ve led and advised

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“You'll have my cell. Most clients use it.”

You get the CMO. Not the account manager.

Agencies sell you a senior person and staff you with a junior one. When you work with me, the person on the call is the person who wrote the plan, and I stay in the work until it ships.

I've been doing this since the early commercial web, when I ran marketing for the 17th largest site in the world. The judgment comes from those twenty years. The speed comes from AI tools and a small bench of specialists I trust, with my sign-off on everything.

Three ways to work together.

Every price is on the page. Pick the depth that fits where your company is today.

02 · Managed monthly

One channel, run properly.

Defined output every month, built on my strategy and reviewed by me before anything goes out.

Earned Authority · PR

Get quoted, published and booked.

Month 1: authority angles and a target outlet list. Daily: journalist pitches. Monthly: bylined articles, podcast bookings with prep, and a report.

$2,999 /mo · 3-mo min

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Social Media Management

Social that gets posted and answered.

Month 1: written brand brief. By the 25th: 20 posts for two platforms to approve. Ongoing: publishing, replies within 24 business hours, monthly report.

$1,499 /mo

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Managed Content

Your content strategy, executed.

Monthly: 8 SEO articles and 32 social excerpts in your Google Drive, a topic cluster hub page, and a performance report.

$2,495 /mo

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03 · Fixed price

My playbook, applied to your business.

The frameworks I use with CMO clients, built around your company. Buy it today, no call needed.

Content audit, ICP and persona, 3 to 5 pillars, channel strategy, AI visibility assessment, topic cluster map and a 90-day roadmap.

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Seven deliverables from your real accounts and competitors’ ads, with a straight answer on paid social. PDF in 10 business days.

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Most clients start small. Some stay for years.

Fixed price · $499

Get a plan

A $499 strategy report shows you how I think and gives your team something concrete to run.

Managed monthly · from $1,499/mo

Hand off a channel

PR, social or content, run every month with set deliverables and a report you can read in five minutes.

Leadership · from $2,500/mo

Bring me in to lead

When marketing needs one owner, move to advisory or a fractional CMO seat. Nobody gets pushed there.

Three companies. Three 10x runs.

$M

ARR from zero · 1,500+ employer clients · $500M valuation

HealthJoy

Founding team, CMO · 2015 to 2023

Challenge: a pre-seed benefits app selling to consumers when employers held the budget.

What I did: led the pivot to B2B, built the brand, mascot, chatbot scripts and press engine, with coverage in TechCrunch, Forbes and the WSJ.

$M

Revenue, up from $20M

Adknowledge

VP of Marketing · 2008 to 2011

Challenge: growth through acquisition, with every new product needing a market fast.

What I did: built go-to-market for Miva, AdParlor and more at TechCrunch’s 6th most acquisitive company online.

$M

Revenue, up from $4M

Adiant

VP of Marketing · 2011 to 2015

Challenge: an ad tech company behind Adblade, a comScore top 25 ad network, competing for publishers and advertisers against much bigger networks.

What I did: grew one of the first content discovery networks, brought its content-style ads to financial publishers after the IndustryBrains acquisition, and wrote Content Marketing along the way.

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I wrote the playbooks.

Transform Your Marketing covers 33 tactics for branding and growth. Content Marketing, written in 2013, was a #1 Amazon bestseller.

“Finally, a marketing book from a real pro who has been in the marketing trenches!”

Jeffrey HayzlettJeffrey Hayzlett
Bloomberg TV host and former Fortune 100 CMO

“Rick Ramos has a proven track record of growing businesses.”

Scott LynnScott Lynn
Founder and CEO, Masterworks

“A blueprint for success that any marketer can use.”

Justin HollandJustin Holland
Founder and CEO, HealthJoy
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