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Congratulations, you're on the move with at least one funding round secured, but scaling up leaves little bandwidth for marketing strategy and setting up systems and processes.
Hiring is tough, and top-tier strategic support comes at a premium. But that’s where we step in to save cost and focus on growth.
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Looking for the right growth leaders for you portfolio companies, but observing the founders rushing into hiring misfit and expensive permanent talent that turns temporary too soon?
We priorities long term associations and growth with a bang for your buck mindset towards our partners.
Why Talos?
We’ve been founders and we’ve built ventures, and we understand that nothing beats creating value
with maximum efficiency, minimizing leakages and finding solutions to costly processes. Our outcome-based marketing subscription including a Fractional CMO, a tailored-for-your-business framework + access
to an on-demand marketing operations team is your game-changer. You set the goals and the timeframe of success, and we deliver you results.
Growth Mindset
Our seasoned Growth Leader offers senior leadership tailored for your business growth without the agencies' internal dynamics and hierarchies.
We provide no-nonsense expertise to establish an effective, scalable growth function, customized to fit your business needs precisely.
We are the ideal solution if you don’t have the possibility or need for a full-time hire, but want a strategic partner in driving growth. Our highly-experienced CXOs take full responsibility of strategies, budgets, and execution.
Remote Leadership
The VirtualCMO model operates in a decentralised manner, enabling enterprises to access
a vast talent pool and leverage world-class marketing expertise without the overhead of a full-time C-suite leader.
This cutting-edge, outsourced approach empowers organisations to optimise resource allocation, enhance agility, and seamlessly align go-to-market strategies with evolving business imperatives.
Particularly beneficial for organizations seeking to expand into new markets, the vCMO construct disrupts traditional marketing structures, unlocking unprecedented scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Skip the lengthy recruiting and onboarding processes and go straight to doing the work. Get strategic marketing or technical leaders with hands-on experience ready to start working within days. You don't have months to waste getting a new hire up to speed with no promise of ROI. Invest in what works.
Fill gaps in your marketing or technical talent without paying a full-time salary and the additional costs you incur. Pay month-to-month for precisely what you need when you need it. Don't pay $250K-$500k a year for one or two potential experts when you can enlist a seasoned team of veterans for $102k-$136k.
Narrow internal thinking can limit your potential and growth. Fractional marketing lends fresh perspectives, agility, and depth to drive results. With a team of self-managing, expert-level marketers, you get a dedicated peer group bringing new tools and ideas to evolve your work and customer relationships.
Fractional Leadership- Cost Benefit Analysis
Fractional Growth Team
Full-Time Hires (FTE)
Marketing Team Cost
$68k-$102k per year2 to 4 experts with varying skill sets
$250k-$500k per year2 to 4 Full Time Employees
Marketing + Tech Team Cost
$102k-$136k per year4 to 8 experts with varying skill sets
$500k-$1M per year4 to 8 Full Time Employees
Benefit Analysis
Low Overhead: No benefits, payrolltaxes, PTO, employee infrastructure, office,
- Fast ramp-up: Able and accustomed toquickly adapting to new environments.
- Flexibility: Month-to-Month Contract. Pause or unpause. Scale up or down onhours.
- Autonomous: Project and team member management done for you.
- Powerful Team: Fast execution, redundancy, shared brain power, strategic thinking, and new ideas.
- Reliable: Track record of success and industry expertise. Low turnover. Strong culture.
Costly Overhead: You pay for benefits, payroll taxes, PTO, employee infrastructure, office, etc.
- Slower ramp-up: Interviews, onboarding, and less accustomed to quickly getting up-to-speed.
- Less Flexibility: If you're not satisfied with your new hire it's more difficult to change course.
- Not autonomous: You have to manage projects and team members.
- Less Powerful Team: Unless you have a very large enterprise-level marketing team, you likely have gaps in expertise and even team dynamics.
- Less reliable: Underperformance, employee churn, lack of strategic thinking, team member burnout.
Proven ROI
Yes
Maybe
Onboarding Time
Days
Months
Marketing Team Cost
$68k-$102k per year2 to 4 experts with varying skill sets
Marketing + Tech Team Cost
$102k-$136k per year4 to 8 experts with varying skill sets
Benefit Analysis
- Low Overhead: No benefits, payrolltaxes, PTO, employee infrastructure, office,
- Fast ramp-up: Able and accustomed toquickly adapting to new environments.
- Flexibility: Month-to-Month Contract. Pause or unpause. Scale up or down onhours.
- Autonomous: Project and team member management done for you.
- Powerful Team: Fast execution, redundancy, shared brain power, strategic thinking, and new ideas.
- Reliable: Track record of success and industry expertise. Low turnover. Strong culture.
Proven ROI
Yes
Onboarding Time
Days
Marketing Team Cost
$250k-$500k per year2 to 4 Full Time Employees
Marketing + Tech Team Cost
$500k-$1M per year4 to 8 Full Time Employees
Benefit Analysis
- Costly Overhead: You pay for benefits, payroll taxes, PTO, employee infrastructure, office, etc.
- Slower ramp-up: Interviews, onboarding, and less accustomed to quickly getting up-to-speed.
- Less Flexibility: If you're not satisfied with your new hire it's more difficult to change course.
- Not autonomous: You have to manage projects and team members.
- Less Powerful Team: Unless you have a very large enterprise-level marketing team, you likely have gaps in expertise and even team dynamics.
- Less reliable: Underperformance, employee churn, lack of strategic thinking, team member burnout.
Proven ROI
Maybe
Onboarding Time
Months
Some of our Clients
