At You Don’t Need A CMO, we’ve spent countless months putting together an expert collection of key marketing and tech industry players; the idea, to collaborate on our clients and produce a universal, 360 experience of growth.

We don’t want our clients to have to go all over searching for a developer, a branding expert, or a videographer – the search is always a pain and frankly dangerous.

Many startup founders simply don’t know what they need, or where to look. So we start by asking our friends, investors, and networking community. We’re trying to find experts in every possible area related to growth, and build relationships designed to increase future efficiency. Among our “network” are:

Freelancers Dozens of marketers, designers, and developers with industry/niche specific backgrounds highly conducive to monumental work.

SaaS Platforms and Marketing Technology – We get our clients top rates on some of the most groundbreaking business intelligence technologies – not just the big names either.

Influencers – Yes, you heard that right. Our founder Chris Nicholas is an influencer in his own right. We’ve built a talent-development program with influencers in dozens of categories; our potential exposures target almost 50M people around the globe.

Investors – Through our own ventures, we’ve developed relationships with top accelerators and VCs on both coasts. They trust us for recommendations; they also trust us with their own portfolio companies. We get our clients the critical access to funding they need to implement our growth plans.

Want to learn more? Join us on slack, explore our beta-freelance platform, or apply as a marketer.

You’re an early-stage company with under 30 employees.

You run a lean, mean, rapid growth tech company.

You want fast, exponential growth.

You already have basic functions (design, social media) covered and you just need strategic direction.

You already have product-market fit.

You have enough funding or revenue to support an investment in marketing.

We're not a good fit if

You’re struggling to pay the bills.

You need cash to support basic operations.

You can’t afford a 2-3 month burn to scale your marketing apparatus.

You haven’t done due diligence and don’t understand your marketing fundamentals, and don’t have product market fit.

You have an unmotivated, amateur team.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

You Don’t Need A CMO prides itself on transparency and clarity. We want to be on the same page as our clients before writing the first line of copy or running the first ad. These are our most frequently asked questions.

How do you work with clients? (timing, meetings)

We are a very hands on team; generally, this involves us us sharing a slack channel with you and being available as we work 24-7 – we’re equally excited to be working with you.

We’re big on automations and tech, but can adapt our style (email/phone calls) if you prefer. We’ve been there.

What if we aren't satisfied or don't reach the results?

Sometimes, things don’t go according to plan – delays on our end, your end, even industry constraints and obstacles (Like COVID!) we never would have anticipated.

We have pages and pages of documentation to address various scenarios – we don’t give up on clients. Often, we’ve developed new services or products to address clients where things haven’t gone according to plan.

That being said, our vetting process is very important and the more info you can get us in advance of starting, the more accurate the estimates we can get you.

Do you do design or copy, or do I need to hire other people?

Our full list of services are covered on our solutions pages – in general, we do not do lower level tasks like design unless they are mission critical; we do have relevant team members, but we highly recommend you utilize one of the expert-vetted freelancers in our network.

Why do you work with startups?

Our founders built their marketing skills as founders of tech companies; addicted to the rush of crazy growth, working on You Don’t Need A CMO gives us the opportunity to do this 10x the degree at once.

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