Organisational Capability

Creating a Marketing Function from Scratch

Paul Mills
September 26, 2025
Starting from zero? The right foundation turns overwhelm into opportunity — and builds marketing that drives growth.

Your Goal: Establish a High-Impact Marketing Function

A strong marketing function doesn’t happen by accident. It’s intentionally designed to support business goals, scale efficiently, and deliver measurable results. Building capability from the ground up ensures your marketing becomes a driver of growth — not just activity.

The Barrier: Starting Without Structure

When there’s no clear plan, challenges multiply:

  • Unclear priorities, making it hard to know where to focus first.
  • Resource constraints, with limited budget, tools, or expertise.
  • Lack of processes, creating inefficiency and missed opportunities.

The result? Disjointed activity, underperforming campaigns, and stalled momentum.

The Risk of Standing Still

An ineffective start creates long-term drag:

❌ Lost revenue opportunities, as your brand struggles to gain traction.

❌ Higher costs, with wasted spend on the wrong tools or tactics.

❌ Weakened competitive position, as established competitors outpace you.

Failing to lay the right foundations makes it harder — and more expensive — to course correct later.

How We Help

Our Fractional CMOs help you build a marketing function designed for growth. We:

  1. Develop a tailored strategy, aligned with your goals and resources.
  2. Implement processes and tools, ensuring efficiency and scalability.
  3. Build and mentor your team, embedding capability and confidence from day one.

Through our marketing leadership, we create marketing functions that work now — and scale tomorrow.

Ready to Build for Growth?

With the right leadership, you can turn uncertainty into structure, and structure into performance. Start strong, scale smarter.