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It’s time to bring home bigger paychecks, create the lifestyle we deserve, and make a greater impact. Join host Casey Stanton on the Fractional CMO Show as he and his guests explore this growing industry and solve bigger problems.
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- 2 weeks ago29 min
What AI Tools I'm Using Right Now - Part 2
Casey runs 11 Claude Code windows at once right now, across four live projects, with an orchestrator agent coordinating domain-specific agents below it. This episode gets specific: the exact folder structure, the soul.md file that makes an AI agent actually behave, and the real reason his wife's agentic work started going sideways before they fixed it on a Friday. But the AI stack is only half the episode. The harder question Casey leaves open is whether the niche you're in right now is going to survive what's coming. He pulled nearly 400 niches from six years of CMOx data and 750-plus CMOs, and what he found changes the calculus on where to plant your flag. Key Topics Covered: Why Casey doesn't chase new AI models Running multiple Claude Code agents with an orchestrator Folder structure and context discipline for AI work soul.md and how to give an AI agent a persona Using Claude Design vs. ChatGPT for ad creative The 25-website audit done in 90 minutes hands-off Niche stability vs. AI disruption Take the First Step Toward Growth with CMOx Booking a call with our team is super easy, stress-free, and all about YOU. Whether you're exploring options or ready to scale, this no-pressure consultation is designed to understand your needs and guide you in the right direction. 👉 CMOx.com/call Join the Fractional CMO Community Want to continue the conversation and get access to exclusive resources? Join our free Facebook group for fractional CMOs and marketing leaders! Inside, you'll find discussions, insights, and tools to help you grow your business and maximize your impact. 👉 CMOx.com/community
- Sep 22, 202616 min
Meat Proxy
AI is eating marketing from the bottom up, and most marketers don't see what that actually means for their career. Casey isn't talking about AI replacing creativity or strategy in some distant future, he's talking about what's already happening inside companies right now, where a single marketing coordinator armed with Claude is lobbing what one executive called 'slop grenades' into the business, and everyone is nodding along because no one in the room has the discernment to know the difference. The term that set this episode off, 'meat proxy', came from a Reddit thread where developers described themselves as organic humans whose only job is to press Enter. Casey makes the case that this is both the trap fractional CMOs must avoid and the opening they should be sprinting toward. Which companies will need you badly enough to pay you well, why equity deals are a losing bet in this environment, and what the 'great vanillafication of marketing' means for anyone who wants to stand apart, none of those questions get easy answers, but Casey works through all of them. Key Topics Covered: The 'meat proxy' trap and why it's spreading fast Why the bottom of the market is being eaten by AI The 'great vanillafication' of marketing Which companies actually need and can afford a Fractional CMO Why equity deals almost never pay out Discernment as the irreplaceable CMO skill Building an upstream referral network to win bigger clients Take the First Step Toward Growth with CMOx Booking a call with our team is super easy, stress-free, and all about YOU. Whether you're exploring options or ready to scale, this no-pressure consultation is designed to understand your needs and guide you in the right direction. 👉 CMOx.com/call Join the Fractional CMO Community Want to continue the conversation and get access to exclusive resources? Join our free Facebook group for fractional CMOs and marketing leaders! Inside, you'll find discussions, insights, and tools to help you grow your business and maximize your impact. 👉 CMOx.com/community
- Sep 16, 202623 min
The AI Tools I Actually Use as a Fractional CMO
Right now, experienced marketers are spending hundreds of dollars a month on AI tools they barely use, or bouncing between platforms every time a new model drops, and wondering why they're not getting more out of any of it. In this episode, Casey breaks down the exact AI stack he runs today as a fractional CMO, including why he has 12 Claude Code windows open at any given moment, why he thinks the $200/month plan is the cheapest high-value purchase he's ever made, and why the interface matters just as much as the model itself. But this isn't just a gear list. Casey makes a counterintuitive argument about where most people are leaving money on the table with AI, and it has nothing to do with which model they picked. He also walks through a real client problem he solved using AI in a way that a developer couldn't have cracked quickly, and the lesson he took from it about what CMOs should actually be using these tools for. The answer might change how you think about your practice. Key Topics Covered: Claude Code vs. ChatGPT Astra comparison Why the interface matters more than the model The $6 Uber ride era of AI pricing Using AI for computer use and autonomous problem-solving ChatGPT for images vs. Claude Design for vector graphics Why you shouldn't build things you have to maintain Choosing one platform and going deep vs. chasing every new model Take the First Step Toward Growth with CMOx Booking a call with our team is super easy, stress-free, and all about YOU. Whether you're exploring options or ready to scale, this no-pressure consultation is designed to understand your needs and guide you in the right direction. 👉 CMOx.com/call Join the Fractional CMO Community Want to continue the conversation and get access to exclusive resources? Join our free Facebook group for fractional CMOs and marketing leaders! Inside, you'll find discussions, insights, and tools to help you grow your business and maximize your impact. 👉 CMOx.com/community
- Sep 9, 202618 min
The AI Turning Point Every Fractional CMO Needs to See Coming
The primary sources that marketers have relied on for years are quietly disappearing from AI. News organizations, forums, and media companies are locking down their content from the bots that power the tools everyone is rushing to adopt. What that means for how you serve clients, and for your own relevance, is something most fractional CMOs haven't thought through yet. This episode digs into why the AI tools your clients are counting on are about to get a lot less useful for real market intelligence, and what that creates for the fractional CMO who's paying attention. The more AI promises to replace human judgment, the more the humans who actually understand markets become irreplaceable. Key Topics Covered: Why major news sources are blocking AI crawlers and what that does to the quality of LLM outputs How Reddit and Twitter locked down their data and what that signals for where things go next The difference between what AI will keep getting better at versus where it's about to hit a wall Why "I use AI" means almost nothing without knowing which AI for which job The IBM quote on accountability and what it means for your role as a fractional CMO Why being the expert people want to work with matters more than any sales script What the CMOx Accelerator is building: network, process, and notoriety that AI can't replicate Take the First Step Toward Growth with CMOx Booking a call with our team is super easy, stress-free, and all about YOU. Whether you're exploring options or ready to scale, this no-pressure consultation is designed to understand your needs and guide you in the right direction. 👉 CMOx.com/call Join the Fractional CMO Community Want to continue the conversation and get access to exclusive resources? Join our free Facebook group for fractional CMOs and marketing leaders! Inside, you'll find discussions, insights, and tools to help you grow your business and maximize your impact. 👉 CMOx.com/community
- Sep 1, 202614 min
Your Experience is Expiring
Are you actually worth what you're getting paid? It's a question most senior marketers never ask themselves honestly, and the answer is getting harder to dodge as the tools, the tactics, and the competition all shift beneath your feet. This episode opens with a provocation aimed squarely at the folks making $200K, $300K, $400K a year, and asks whether the experience behind that number is still current or quietly rotting on the shelf. What gets unpacked is the real pressure fractional CMOs are about to face from younger, faster competitors who have less experience but more agility, and why a broad resume is becoming a liability instead of an asset. The argument lands in an unexpected place: the path forward isn't learning more, it's learning less, better, and in a much tighter niche. Key Topics Covered: Why high-earning marketers may not be worth what they're paid Experience expiring: how quickly yesterday's wins lose relevance The Dunning-Kruger trap for marketers experimenting with AI tools Claude artifacts, custom GPTs, and what rapid AI change means for your practice The real competitive threat coming from younger, faster practitioners Why niching tightly is about becoming deadly accurate, not limiting your options Becoming the person clients fight over instead of the person they settle for Take the First Step Toward Growth with CMOx Booking a call with our team is super easy, stress-free, and all about YOU. Whether you're exploring options or ready to scale, this no-pressure consultation is designed to understand your needs and guide you in the right direction. 👉 CMOx.com/call Join the Fractional CMO Community Want to continue the conversation and get access to exclusive resources? Join our free Facebook group for fractional CMOs and marketing leaders! Inside, you'll find discussions, insights, and tools to help you grow your business and maximize your impact. 👉 CMOx.com/community
- Aug 19, 202622 min
When Vibe Coding Breaks, The CMO Pays For It
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 fractional CMOs need to understand to stay ahead of it. Casey looks at the specific failure mode that shows up when vibe-coded solutions hit real-world conditions. Not hypothetically. A real incident, a real client, leads getting hammered with text messages in the middle of the night because an API endpoint moved and the code had no way to back down gracefully. The argument running through the whole episode is that understanding when a developer is doing something wrong has quietly become part of the fractional CMO's job, and the ones who don't see it coming will eventually pay for it. Key Topics Covered: Where AI coding benchmarks actually stand right now and why the numbers matter to CMOs Why AI legal review is a mistake and AI coding is a legitimate tool The triple Venn diagram of predictable growth: strategy, talent, and leadership Agentic AI and what it means to have a capable agent pulling reports from a broken CRM The real cost when vibe-coded integrations fail without graceful backoff Second-order consequences of AI development and how to think about them Practical questions every CMO should ask developers before a custom-coded solution goes live Tools for keeping locally-hosted AI solutions secure, including Tailscale Take the First Step Toward Growth with CMOx Booking a call with our team is super easy, stress-free, and all about YOU. Whether you're exploring options or ready to scale, this no-pressure consultation is designed to understand your needs and guide you in the right direction. 👉 CMOx.com/call Join the Fractional CMO Community Want to continue the conversation and get access to exclusive resources? Join our free Facebook group for fractional CMOs and marketing leaders! Inside, you'll find discussions, insights, and tools to help you grow your business and maximize your impact. 👉 CMOx.com/community
- Aug 5, 202614 min
Calling Yourself a Fractional CMO is Stupid?
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 need a seat filled at the leadership table. Those are two completely different markets, two completely different conversations, and two completely different income levels. One of them has a $15,000/month client saying "yeah, that rate makes sense", and the other is grinding on project work. Key Topics Covered: The blog post that sparked the rant, "Calling Yourself a Fractional CMO is Stupid" Why the author is both right and wrong at the same time When a company actually needs a Fractional CMO vs. a specialist The Dan Kennedy principle on pricing and why being the most expensive is a strategy A real private equity client example showing what CMO-level ownership looks like Why solving bigger problems is the only path to bigger paychecks AI, staying relevant, and why playing around with new tools matters more than most people think Take the First Step Toward Growth with CMOx Booking a call with our team is super easy, stress-free, and all about YOU. Whether you're exploring options or ready to scale, this no-pressure consultation is designed to understand your needs and guide you in the right direction. 👉 CMOx.com/call Join the Fractional CMO Community Want to continue the conversation and get access to exclusive resources? Join our free Facebook group for fractional CMOs and marketing leaders! Inside, you'll find discussions, insights, and tools to help you grow your business and maximize your impact. 👉 CMOx.com/community
- Jul 28, 202614 min
Ask What Won't Change
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 most marketers have never seriously considered. There is a clear line between the roles that AI and hungry college grads with Claude accounts are already eating alive, and the one role that only gets more valuable as the chaos deepens. Key Topics Covered: How Google's AI overhaul is forcing SEO agencies to reinvent or disappear Why Meta's ad platform is cutting PPC agencies out of their own job The bottom 80% problem, and what it means for anyone running a specialty shop Digital natives with AI tools competing directly against established agencies Why the strategist and leader role is the only defensible position left The real difference (and non-difference) between a CMO and a Fractional CMO How to become the person clients seek out instead of the person who has to convince them Take the First Step Toward Growth with CMOx Booking a call with our team is super easy, stress-free, and all about YOU. Whether you're exploring options or ready to scale, this no-pressure consultation is designed to understand your needs and guide you in the right direction. 👉 CMOx.com/call Join the Fractional CMO Community Want to continue the conversation and get access to exclusive resources? Join our free Facebook group for fractional CMOs and marketing leaders! Inside, you'll find discussions, insights, and tools to help you grow your business and maximize your impact. 👉 CMOx.com/community
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