Enterprise Tier · 12-Month Engagement

    Growth Engine Plus

    Enterprise full-funnel marketing for growing Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point service firms running multiple channels, multiple locations, or multiple service lines. Embedded Fractional CMO, multi-touch attribution, and a dedicated execution pod, all under one accountability.

    Starting at $6,500/month · 12-month engagement
    When Growth Engine Stops Scaling

    You've Outgrown a Single-Channel Retainer

    Most Greensboro service firms hit a ceiling somewhere between $8M and $12M in revenue. The standard Growth Engine that got you to $10M starts to break: paid channels need senior pod execution rather than a single strategist, SEO needs a dedicated content lead, lifecycle and ABM need owners, and leadership needs board-ready attribution rather than channel-level reports.

    Growth Engine Plus is what we run for those operators. It pairs an embedded Fractional CMO, a dedicated execution pod, and full RevOps and attribution infrastructure, so leadership stops guessing which channels actually drive revenue. If you're below $10M, stick with Growth Engine; it's purpose-built for that stage.

    What's Included

    Everything in Growth Engine, plus the senior leadership, attribution infrastructure, and dedicated pod required to scale past $10M in revenue.

    Embedded Fractional CMO

    Senior marketing leader in your weekly leadership sync, quarterly planning, and board reporting. Owns marketing org strategy, vendor oversight, and CMO-track hiring when you're ready to bring it in-house.

    Dedicated Execution Pod

    Senior strategist, paid media lead, SEO lead, and lifecycle lead working as a single team on your account. No junior account coordinators, no rotating cast.

    Multi-Touch Attribution

    Full attribution across every paid, organic, email, social, and direct channel. Pipeline reporting from first-touch to closed-won in HubSpot, Salesforce, or Looker.

    Full-Funnel Paid Media

    Google Ads, Performance Max, LSAs, Meta, LinkedIn, and YouTube under one pod with shared budget pacing and cross-channel attribution. Scales to $50K+ monthly ad spend.

    Enterprise SEO and Content

    Topical cluster strategy, eight or more pillar articles monthly, technical SEO, link acquisition, digital PR, and AI search visibility across multiple service lines and metros.

    Lifecycle, ABM, and CRM

    Full Lifecycle Engine plus LinkedIn ABM, integrated into your CRM with behavior-triggered sequences, sales handoff SLAs, and revenue attribution per touch.

    Multi-Location & Multi-Service

    Geo-segmented campaigns and service-line-specific funnels across Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, Charlotte, Raleigh, or wherever you compete.

    Executive Thought Leadership

    Ghostwritten LinkedIn presence, podcast and PR placements, and editorial-grade case studies for your founder, CEO, or rainmaker partners.

    Board-Ready Reporting

    Monthly executive reviews covering CAC, LTV, payback period, pipeline velocity, and marketing-sourced revenue by channel. Built for boards, investors, and acquirers.

    Best Fit For

    growing Triad service businesses with proven product-market fit
    Multi-location operators across Greensboro, Charlotte, Raleigh, or beyond
    Firms running $30K+ monthly ad spend across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn
    Leadership teams preparing for PE recap, acquisition, or institutional capital
    Operators without a CMO who need senior leadership without the $300K hire
    Service firms with multiple service lines requiring separate funnels and reporting

    Below $10M in revenue? Growth Engine is the right fit. Want senior leadership only, without execution? See Fractional CMO & Growth Advisory.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Ready to Scale Past $10M?

    Book a 30-minute strategy call. We'll look at your revenue, channel mix, and growth ceiling, then recommend whether Growth Engine Plus is the right fit or whether a different package serves you better.

    The version for competitive markets

    Some markets cannot be won at a modest pace. When four well funded competitors are publishing weekly, bidding aggressively and holding the top local positions, a program running at half their tempo will not close the gap, it will simply lose more slowly. The larger program exists for that situation.

    It fits businesses with the capacity and ambition to take significant share, typically those aiming to multiply revenue rather than add a few points, and with the delivery capability to absorb the resulting volume without service quality falling.

    It also fits multi location or multi service firms, where each location or service line effectively needs its own visibility, content and measurement rather than a single blended effort that serves none of them well.

    When the larger program is the wrong choice

    • The standard program has not been tried and is not yet saturated. Spend more only once you can show the current spend is constrained rather than inefficient.
    • Delivery capacity is fixed in the short term. Winning more work than you can serve is a reputational cost, not a win.
    • The budget would represent an uncomfortable share of revenue. Aggressive programs need enough runway to reach month nine without panic.

    What running at higher tempo means in practice

    The difference is not simply more spend. It is more channels running simultaneously, a faster publishing rate and a shorter decision cycle.

    Compressed foundation

    Measurement, waste removal and baselines completed in weeks rather than a month, because the pace of everything after depends on it being finished early.

    Parallel channel build

    Capture, content, reputation and account based work started concurrently rather than sequenced, which is only advisable when the budget can sustain all of them properly.

    Location or line segmentation

    Separate visibility, content and reporting per location or service line, so a strong performer does not mask a failing one inside an averaged number.

    Fortnightly optimization

    A shorter review cycle with the authority to reallocate budget between channels mid month, which is where much of the additional return in this tier comes from.

    Measuring an aggressive program

    Same core metrics as the standard program, plus the ones that only matter at scale.

    Share of voice against named competitors

    Your visibility relative to the specific firms you compete with, tracked over time. In competitive markets this predicts pipeline movement before the pipeline moves.

    Per segment cost per acquisition

    Calculated by location or service line rather than blended. Averages at this scale reliably conceal one segment subsidizing another.

    Marginal return on incremental spend

    What the last increment of budget produced compared with the previous one. It is the discipline that stops a well funded program from scaling past its efficient point.

    Capacity utilization against demand

    Tracked jointly with your operations team, because the failure mode of this tier is winning more work than the business can deliver well.

    Honest limits at this level

    • More budget does not linearly produce more clients. Every market has a saturation point and we will tell you when you are near it.
    • Higher tempo increases the demand on your team for input, approvals and subject expertise.
    • Competitive markets respond. Gains attract counter moves, so defending positions becomes an ongoing cost.
    • The program is still bounded by your offer and sales execution, which no amount of spend overcomes.

    What this tier assumes alongside it

    RevOps and attribution

    Segment level decisions at this pace are impossible without reliable closed loop data.

    Fractional CMO

    Faster decision cycles need someone senior authorized to make them.

    AI automation

    Higher inquiry volume breaks manual intake processes quickly.

    Questions about the larger program

    How is this different from the standard program?

    More channels running at once, a faster publishing and testing cadence, segment level reporting and a fortnightly rather than monthly optimization cycle.

    Do we need to start here?

    Rarely. Most firms should prove the standard program first unless competitive pressure or multi location complexity makes the smaller footprint clearly insufficient.

    What does it cost?

    It sits at the upper end of the packaged tiers, up to $9,950 monthly before media, with scope written into the plan.

    How much of our time does it need?

    Roughly four hours a month across leadership and subject experts. The higher content and approval volume is the main driver.

    Can we step down later?

    Yes. Several clients run the larger program to establish position, then move to the standard tier to defend it at lower cost.