Fractional CMO Services for B2B industrial, tech and SaaS companies

Jennifer Harth
Marketing & Communications 👉 Scaleups 👩💻B2B Tech 💻 SaaS🌍 IoT✨Leadership Coach
Bio
🚀 Looking to scale your company and create or grow your marketing team? After 10+ years of building and scaling B2B MARCOM departments at founder-led scaleups, I can help you develop or validate your marketing and go-to-market (GTM) strategy. 🗨️ Feeling stuck, challenged or otherwise in need of a chat? Let's talk. I'm an experienced leadership coach. Let's meet: 👉 I enjoy improving things and making others shine. My personality type: Improver How I approach life (Clifton strengths): Focus, Maximizer, Learner, Individualization, Input. My values (VIA strengths): Leadership, Humor, Zest, Creativity, Perseverance. 👩💻My marketing profile: 》Marketing director for fast growing B2B tech scaleups across SaaS, tech and industrial environments. 》10+ years experience in creating, scaling and coaching multicultural departments. 》Expertise in hardware and software based channel-selling and global go-to-market (GTM) approaches. 》Product marketing and product launch management enthusiast. 》Roots in strategic communications and public relations (PR). 》Know-how on building scaleup culture around the corporate brand. ☑️ Demand generation through ABM, inbound / content, automation, events, trade shows, etc. ☑️ Sales and partner enablement in sales and / or channel driven go-to-market (GTM) environments. ☑️ Product Marketing and launch management. ☑️ Branding and communication strategy including leading PR / AR initiatives. ☑️ Branding & Culture. ☑️ Employer Branding & HR Marketing. ✨ My coaching profile: I help corporate leaders, especially in mid-management positions, develop their unique leadership style to lead through confidence and integrity. 》Certified Leadership Development & Executive Coach. 》Certified Strengths Coach. 》Degree in Applied Positive Psychology. ☑️ Leadership development. ☑️ Motherhood & Management. ☑️ Purpose-led leadership. ☑️ Positive leadership. ☑️ Burnout prevention & recovery. ☑️ Workaholism & identity. ☑️ Personal branding.
Expertise
Building a team
Knowing who to hire when can be daunting. Creating international teams based on growth stages, company needs and strength profiles of your team members is something I can help you with.
Content marketing
Works best when you have a content strategy that's connected to your brand positioning and Inbound Marketing / automation activities. It's key to have the people in place who can qualify and nurture content-generated leads.
Copywriting
Happy to share insights on brand-based copy writing, (strategic) messaging, tone of voice, and more. I'm a trained editor and went to journalism school.
Customer success
Who owns CX? It's a joint responsibility and Marketing should support the CS team to build a consistent Customer Experience and to gather satisfaction feedback. As a Marketeer, you need to be aware of and align the look & feel and messaging for all brand touch points. Together with CS, you can also build value-added training services and academy platforms or communities. Besides Sales, CS are your go-to-colleagues to identify brand ambassadors and key projects for success stories.
Go to market strategy
Are you planning to go to market through a (global) partner network? Looking forward to sharing my knowledge and experience with indirect sales channels.
Idea validation
Sometimes you just have to talk yourself through an idea to see if it works. Other times, a SWOT analysis is just what you need or you decide to gather more data to make a more informed decision. Whatever it is you want to do, I'm happy to talk you through it and share my insights.
Marketing automation
Are you not sure how to set up your Inbound Marketing engine and demand generation strategy and are you keen to define the roles and teams to get this off the ground? Let's talk.
Mindset coaching
I'm a certified leadership and strengths coach with a background in Positive Psychology. I mainly work with managers in mid-management positions who want to grow their teams based on strengths-principals and want to define their own path to executive leadership.
Product launches
We have all been there (and some of us are frequently challenged by it): the sales team starts pitching products or features which are not even on the roadmap, let alone the North Star product vision. But there is hope: you can create the processes and behaviors to take products to market in a structured way without loosing sales momentum.
Product marketing
Ask around in your company and even if there's only 3 of you, each of you will describe your company and product in a different way. Product Marketing is knowing your technology and target audience and defining a common baseline to train your internal, customer-facing teams (and enable your in-direct sales channels) to position your offering and creating pipeline. Consistency is key.
Public relations
Some say PR is just another element of the Marketing mix. But I'm biased. My roots are in Public Relations and Pubic Affairs. I count events and corporate communications, analyst relations and strategic messaging and branding to everything PR. It can be done ad-hoc, but it only starts making sense when it's embedded in your overall brand identity. Did I mention I love branding? I need to stop now, I'm running out of characters...
Venting frustration
There is nothing more cathartic than venting. My colleague would start singing Frozen's "Let it go" when frustration hit and guess what, it helped. Mainly because it makes us laugh. I have lost count of the times I have experienced scaleup frustration. You just have to live with gaps, so many gaps. There are so many grey areas, it's hard to spot the ones that are actually black and white. I'm a trained coach and am happy to help you vent and find a way forward.
Toolkit
Google Analytics
14 years of experienceGood starting point to analyze content performance and user acquisition and navigation behavior. Option to define goals and measure performance more closely also through UTM links.
Hubspot
7 years of experienceSetting up the CRM from scratch as well as the sales processes (including messaging templates, logging outreach) and marketing automation (web tracking, email nurturing, etc.).
Mailchimp
12 years of experienceIt's a good tool to start with for email marketing if you are on a small budget. In the past, we created templates and landing pages for mainly internal communications within Mailchimp.
Marketo
14 years of experienceProbably the most challenging Marketing Automation tool to set up and maintain, but also the most powerful one. It's not ideal for a startup or even scale-up, I'd recommend using it when your Inside Sales and Marketing teams are quite mature and you have a high volume of Inbound leads to qualify and nurture.
Salesforce
17 years of experienceLead processing and rating between CRM (Salesforce) and Marketing Automation Tool (Marketo, Pardot). Lead ranking and insight creation for the Sales team through customized fields. Trigger message configuration for the Sales team.
Unbounce
14 years of experienceUnbounce is a great addition to most Marketing Automation tools, because their landing page building features and design templates aren't as sophisticated. You can easily create your own domain and use Pardot or Marketo forms on the landing pages.
Industries
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Market research, digital marketing projects: inbound-ready websites, marketing automation, content marketing strategy, copywriting, among other things.
Experience
B2BSaaS
This role required building the MARCOM strategy and department from scratch including product marketing, product launch management, partner and channel enablement, corporate communications, HR Marketing, events, digital and design, among others. Close collaboration between Product - Marketing - Sales - Customer Success
IoTB2BCloud ComputingMachine LearningHardwareSaaS
Launching the European Marketing department (UK I DACH I Spain) focused on though leadership supported by inbound lead generation and events.
B2BSaaS
Marketing I Events I Trade Shows I Investor Relations I PR I Product PR
B2BB2CE-CommerceHealthTech
PR I Events I Media Relations I Public Affairs I Lobbying
B2CHardware