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Fractional CMO Show

Fractional CMO Show

Casey Stanton 150 Episodes Aug 19, 2026

The Fractional CMO Show, hosted by Casey Stanton, explores the growing industry of fractional chief marketing officers. It discusses how marketers can solve bigger problems, earn higher paychecks, and create a better lifestyle by serving companies as fractional CMOs. The show is sponsored by CMOx, a company that teaches how to attract and serve high-paying fractional CMO clients.

Episodes

When Vibe Coding Breaks, The CMO Pays For It
When Vibe Coding Breaks, The CMO Pays For It Aug 19, 2026 22:44 When a developer ships AI-generated code that quietly starts misfiring, the technical team moves on. What's left is a customer experience problem, a reputation problem, and a relationship problem. All of which land in the lap of the one person who wasn't even in the room when the code got written. This episode gets into why that's happening more often than anyone wants to admit, and what fractiona
Calling Yourself a Fractional CMO is Stupid?
Calling Yourself a Fractional CMO is Stupid? Aug 5, 2026 14:43 Someone wrote a blog post arguing that calling yourself a Fractional CMO is pricing yourself out of the market. The argument isn't wrong, exactly, it's just aimed at the wrong target. What gets unpacked is the real question underneath the debate: what kind of problems do you want to solve, and for whom? The episode traces the difference between companies that need a web designer and companies that
Ask What Won't Change
Ask What Won't Change Jul 28, 2026 14:00 The marketing industry is fracturing fast, and the break isn't happening where most people are looking. The bottom is getting cut out from under SEO agencies, PPC shops, funnel builders, and copywriters, not slowly, but all at once. What gets unpacked is who survives that collapse, and why the answer has almost nothing to do with your technical skills. The argument is about positioning at a level
Cranky Crab
Cranky Crab Jul 21, 2026 18:57 There's a certain kind of client who will never want what you're offering, no matter how good your pitch is. The episode opens with a story about a roadside crab shack in Maryland with 178 reviews and a 4.8-star rating,  and why Casey walked away from it as a hard no. What that moment revealed about positioning as a fractional CMO is the whole argument of the episode. He also draws a sharp line ar
Claude is Writing Mid Copy
Claude is Writing Mid Copy Jul 14, 2026 13:26 A question showed up in a Facebook group that's been sitting with me ever since: is anyone else noticing that Claude is writing really mid copy? What followed wasn't a rant about AI. It was something more interesting, a diagnosis of what separates marketers who can catch bad work from the ones who can't, and why that gap is about to matter more than almost any other skill you have. The episode get
How to Not Stop
How to Not Stop Jun 30, 2026 28:57 Most fractional CMOs have the skills to succeed. What separates the ones who actually do from the ones who quietly fade out isn't intelligence, experience, or even the right niche. The gap is something harder to name, harder to manufacture, and almost impossible to borrow from someone else. This episode digs into why so many people with real marketing talent give up before the compound interest ki
Majoring in the Minors
Majoring in the Minors Jun 23, 2026 19:51 Most fractional CMOs aren't failing because they lack skill. They're stalling because they're busy doing everything except the one thing that actually moves the needle. This episode opens with a gym analogy that's almost too accurate, then goes somewhere more uncomfortable: the real reason experienced marketers spend weeks building websites, booking headshots, and dreaming about book signings befo
Why You Need to Shut Up More Often
Why You Need to Shut Up More Often Jun 10, 2026 16:03 The best fractional CMOs in the room aren't the ones talking the most. This episode makes the case that silence, in negotiations, in pricing conversations, and especially around how you get your work done, might be the sharpest tool in your practice right now. What gets unpacked is a real situation: a CMO who cut their rate, earned their upside, and then watched it potentially slip away because no
Lunch Q&A with Casey
Lunch Q&A with Casey Jun 3, 2026 01:17:07 What happens when experienced marketers get honest about where they're stuck and ask for unfiltered coaching on how to move forward? That's the premise of this episode, and the answers get uncomfortable in the best way. The questions are real, the resistance is real, and so is the pushback.   What gets unpacked is a pattern that shows up again and again across marketers trying to build a fractiona
Finding Your Villian
Finding Your Villian May 26, 2026 11:57 Most fractional CMOs aren't struggling because they're lazy or undisciplined. They're struggling because they keep solving the wrong size of problem, and the market is about to make that very expensive. This episode draws a sharp line between the work that keeps you busy and the work that actually moves you forward, and the gap between those two things is wider than most people want to admit. What
Taste, Discernment, Experience: Why AI Won't Replace You (But It Might Expose You)
Taste, Discernment, Experience: Why AI Won't Replace You (But It Might Expose You) May 19, 2026 08:49 AI's arrival in the marketing department isn't the threat most fractional CMOs think it is. The episode opens with a provocation: the marketers who are scared of AI are scared for the wrong reasons, and the ones who are leaning into it with the wrong instincts are making a mistake that's harder to walk back. What gets unpacked is the real role that experience, taste, and discernment play when ever
Simplicity: Why You're Too Smart for Your Own Good
Simplicity: Why You're Too Smart for Your Own Good May 12, 2026 15:22 The argument is a counterintuitive one: the thing holding most experienced marketers back isn't a lack of knowledge or skill. It's something they'd never think to look for. The episode opens with a challenge, think of someone in your life who isn't as smart as you, yet is more successful, less stressed, and more free, and then builds the case for why that gap exists and what's actually responsible

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