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Performance Marketing
Fractional CMO Leadership

Grow Revenue, Cut Waste. Modernize your marketing with AI.

I'm Ben Rosenfield. Most brands don't need a bigger agency. They need a sharper, more flexible one. You get CMO-level leadership and senior specialists who ship the work. AI accelerates us; it doesn't replace us.

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20+ years modernizing marketing Senior specialists, no juniors AI accelerates the work; humans ship it All services available à la carte
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The shift

Intelligence got cheap. Execution got priceless.

AI can audit your funnel, draft your strategy, name your campaigns. That’s commoditized. But knowing isn’t doing. When AI hands you a 40-point plan: who executes it? Who fixes it when the rebuild breaks? Who’s across the table when the quarter’s on fire and you need a partner, not a prompt?

AI Commodity

Everyone has this now

  • Strategy decks
  • Surface-level audits
  • Best-practice playbooks
  • 40-point recommendations
VS
This is HERO

Three things AI can’t replace

01
Creative
concepting
02
Real
measurement
03
Bottleneck
analysis

↓ Each one is where the real money is now

AI Can’t Recruit, Motivate, or Execute.

All-star marketers still are better at:

01

Creative concepting

Not "making ads." Ideas that convert.

A strong concept = angle (why it matters) + offer (why now) + persona (who it’s for).

  • Spotting patterns in winning ads
  • Knowing what "good" actually looks like
  • Combining angles others don’t see

AI regurgitates the average. We don’t.

02

Real measurement

Beyond the platform metrics.

Still optimizing to ROAS? You’re already behind. Real operators understand:

  • Contribution margin
  • Cash-flow timing
  • Blended CAC vs LTV
  • Incrementality testing

Where marketing meets finance.

03

Bottleneck analysis

Highest-leverage skill. Rarest.

Most teams optimize what’s visible, not what’s actually limiting growth:

  • Scaling ads when supply is the issue
  • Tweaking creatives when CVR is broken
  • Chasing CAC when retention is the leak

Find it. Fix it. Repeat.

The Leaky Boat Principle

Plug the holes before you build the infrastructure.

You don’t bolt a bigger engine onto a boat that’s taking on water. We find the leaks, fix the fundamentals, then modernize. AI comes in when it actually moves the number, not because it’s the trend.

Then AI does what it’s actually good at

Multiplying execution.

Weeks Days
Time to create
1 1,000+
One concept, every channel
Leaner
Fewer resources, lower cost
Faster
In-market testing & learning
Services

A full-stack marketing team, assembled for you.

Every engagement is custom-assembled from the capabilities below. Hire the whole team or pick what you need. All services are available à la carte.

Strategy

We start by understanding the business.

Before we touch a channel, we build the digital playbook around what makes your business unique: positioning, audience, offer, and the path to a defensible growth engine.

  • Marketing strategy & GTM plans
  • Brand positioning & messaging
  • Fractional CMO leadership
  • Audit & opportunity sizing
  • Marketing org design

Performance Media

Paid acquisition that pays back.

Data-driven campaigns across every channel where your customers spend time, built to scale efficiently and measured against revenue, not impressions.

  • Paid Social (Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn)
  • Paid Search (Google, Bing)
  • Programmatic & Retail Media
  • Amazon Advertising
  • Affiliate marketing

Creative & Content

Ideas worth scrolling for.

Brand identity, creative direction, and content production that earns attention, from foundational brand systems to weekly campaign creative.

  • Branding & identity
  • Creative direction
  • Photo & video production
  • Copywriting & content
  • Personal branding

Lifecycle Marketing

Convert and retain, on autopilot.

Email and SMS programs that move customers from first click to lifetime fan. Welcome series, win-backs, loyalty. The unsexy work that compounds.

  • Email program design
  • SMS marketing
  • Lifecycle automation
  • Retention & loyalty programs
  • Transactional polish

Commerce & Web

The site is the storefront.

From Shopify rebuilds to landing-page surgery to checkout CRO. Websites that turn paid traffic into customers and customers into revenue.

  • Shopify development
  • Custom web design
  • CRO & landing pages
  • Funnel design
  • Mobile-first builds

Organic & Earned

Authority that compounds.

SEO, organic social, content, and PR. The long-term work that lowers your CAC and earns the right to charge a premium.

  • SEO & site audits
  • Pillar content & blog strategy
  • Organic social management
  • Public relations
  • Thought leadership

Influencer & Creator

The new word-of-mouth.

Creator partnerships, influencer programs, and talent collaborations that put your brand in front of audiences who actually trust the messenger.

  • Creator partnerships
  • Influencer programs
  • Brand ambassadors
  • UGC strategy
  • Whitelisting & paid rights

Analytics & Measurement

If we can’t measure it, we don’t ship it.

Attribution, dashboards, and growth experiments. The reason you’ll actually know whether the marketing is working, not just busy.

  • Attribution setup
  • KPI dashboards
  • Growth experimentation
  • Conversion tracking
  • Marketing data warehousing

Need something not listed? Ask. Odds are we cover it.

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Official Partner KARTEL.AI Creative & Content

The future of content is AI production.

HERO provides the creative direction and management.

Through our official partnership with Kartel.AI, each creative concept becomes 10 to 1,000+ on-brand assets, perfectly formatted for every channel your brand sells on. You bring the brand. We bring the vision, the team, and the production engine.

1
Shoot
1K+
Assets
Channels

Built for every channel

Meta TikTok Pinterest YouTube Google Display CTV / OTT Email & SMS Web & PDP

Every aspect ratio

1:1 4:5 9:16 16:9 2:3 4:1
Engagement

Four ways to bring us in.

All capabilities above are available à la carte or as a custom-assembled team. Every engagement starts with a clear plan and scoped deliverables, sent as a digital proposal you can sign in one click.

Fractional CMO

Monthly retainer

Vision, Strategy, Execution as a monthly retainer. I serve as your interim CMO and bring the full team (performance, creative, dev, lifecycle, paid social, SEO) to execute, not just advise.

  • Annual strategic marketing plan
  • Weekly 1:1s with key decision-makers
  • Bi-weekly all-hands marketing meetings
  • Access to my vetted growth-marketing team
  • Direct day-to-day execution oversight

Audit & Strategy

Fixed scope

A 2-month scoped engagement to define vision, gather data, and produce a go-forward plan. Where most of my client relationships start.

  • Site, traffic & funnel audit
  • Persona & offer review
  • Tech stack diagram (keep / sunset / add)
  • Go-forward plan + scoped SOW for what's next

Build Sprints

Project-based

Time-boxed execution sprints for a specific deliverable: paid media rebuilds, lifecycle email programs, GTM launches, website & app development.

  • Paid media audits & rebuilds
  • CRO & landing page programs
  • Website / mobile app development
  • Lifecycle & email retention systems

Hourly Advisory

Pay as you go

Bring me in for strategic guidance, a working group, or to pressure-test a decision. Minimum 10-hour blocks. Standing or ad-hoc.

  • Marketing decision support for leadership
  • Evaluate marketing talent, software, CRM
  • Advise on website & app development
  • Available via Zoom + Slack

Trusted by

Brands I've helped grow.

How I work

A 4-phase approach that delivers results.

Every client relationship moves through the same four phases. You can stop after any phase, and we always know exactly what's being delivered, by when, and at what cost.

1

Audit & Vision

Site audit, traffic review, persona work, opportunity sizing. We figure out what assets are underutilized and what's actually stuck.

~2 months · scoped deliverable

2

Strategy & Plan

A go-forward plan with recommendations across content, CRO, SEO, paid, lifecycle, and product. Scoped SOW for what gets built next.

Delivered in Phase 1

3

Build & Execute

My team plugs in to implement: paid media, creative, dev, email, SEO. I run the org, you watch the work happen, KPIs move.

3–8 months · retainer

4

Scale & Optimize

Measurement, iteration, new product / channel expansion. The phase where compounding kicks in and growth pays back the audit several times over.

Ongoing

Testimonials

What clients say.

I can’t think of anyone better than you for a CMO position. You did a great job for us helping us see what we needed to be doing and we are putting many of your ideas into action now.
Karen Quinn
Karen Quinn
Founder · TestingMom.com
We brought Ben in for a sprint and never let him leave. He runs the team like he's been in the seat for years, not weeks.
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Head of Growth · [Company]
Most marketing consultants sell ideas. Ben sells execution, and shows up with the team to deliver it.
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Founder · [Company]
Ben Rosenfield
About

Ben Rosenfield

Entrepreneur with 20+ years across real estate, technology, and consumer products. I help companies modernize their marketing by bringing senior leadership, channel expertise, and a bias toward measurable outcomes.

HERO Performance Marketing is a virtual agency I assemble custom for every client. I’m your fractional CMO; the team I bring with me are the same senior specialists I’ve vetted and worked with for years: performance media, creative, lifecycle, web, SEO, PR, analytics. No hand-offs, no juniors, no overhead you don’t need. Every engagement is sized to the work, not to a corporate org chart.

20+
Years modernizing marketing
3
Industries: real estate, tech, CPG
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