Fractional CMO leadership for construction companies
Constructing
Magnetic Brands
A/E/C CMOs gives construction companies senior marketing leadership, integrated delivery, and construction-specific expertise to build magnetic brands, support profitable growth, and become easier to choose.
No More Checkbox Marketing
Marketing should do more than keep marketing busy.
Construction marketing has spent too much time being defined by proposals, social media, events, sponsorships, websites, and whatever someone in the company needs by Friday.
Those things may be part of the job. They are not the purpose of the job.
Marketing should help the business grow more profitably, improve hit rates, retain clients and employees, strengthen its reputation, enter new markets, launch new services, attract better-fit opportunities, and make business development easier.
That requires more than a marketing task list.
It requires marketing leadership.
Perryn Olson
President
About A/E/C CMOs
Meet your Construction Marketing Officer™
Marketing a construction company is different.
Our industry has long sales cycles, complex buying committees, must-win pursuits, joint ventures with competitors, subcontractor ecosystems, bonding requirements, safety considerations, capacity constraints, recruiting challenges, and dramatically different ideal clients from one market sector to another. Your fractional CMO connects those realities to the company’s growth strategy.
That can mean refining your position in the market, developing a stronger value proposition, guiding a must-win pursuit, improving client experience, strengthening your employer brand, entering a new geography, launching a service line, building the marketing team, or helping leadership decide where the company should grow next.
Strategy is only useful if someone can execute it.
Many fractional CMO models stop with advice. The consultant develops a strategy, then the client has to find the agencies, freelancers, specialists, and internal capacity to make it happen.
We built A/E/C CMOs differently.
Your fractional CMO is supported by an integrated delivery operation that can bring together strategy, writing, design, digital marketing, websites, SEO, research, automation, and other capabilities as the work requires. We also use AI-enabled systems where they improve speed, consistency, research, or execution without replacing the judgment the work actually needs.
You get fewer handoffs, fewer competing agendas, and fewer vendors for your team to manage.
One strategy. One accountable marketing function.
Constructing Magnetic Brands
The construction industry does not suffer from a shortage of good companies.
It suffers from too many good companies that are difficult to tell apart.
Quality, safety, integrity, experience, and relationships matter, but when nearly every competitor makes the same claims, they do little to help a buyer understand why your company is the right choice.
A magnetic brand is different. It gives the right clients, employees, partners, and prospects a reason to notice you, remember you, trust you, choose you, and come back.
That does not require becoming the biggest company or the loudest marketer in the market. Smaller contractors can out-position Goliaths. Specialty firms can become indispensable partners. Regional companies can become recognized authorities.
We help uncover what makes your company valuable, sharpen it, and make that value difficult to miss.
Perryn Olson, FSMPS, CPSM, CCMP
President, Fractional Chief Marketing Officer
A/E/C CMOs was founded by Perryn Olson, FSMPS, after two decades in construction marketing.
His work has spanned marketing leadership, consulting, research, publishing, writing, and speaking, with one common focus: helping architecture, engineering, and construction companies become better at the business of marketing.
A/E/C CMOs builds on that experience while continuing to question the conventions that have held the industry back.
We are developing original research, practical tools, benchmarks, frameworks, and educational resources intended to help both our clients and the broader AEC marketing profession make better decisions.
A/E/C Marketing Experience
Clients below represent our CMOs’ experience at past employers, agencies, and freelance relationships.
Resources
Ideas for leaders that want to get better.
Original research into the issues shaping construction marketing, brands, growth, and digital authority.
A practical, choose-your-own-journey business book for construction leaders who want to experience impact.
Practical thinking on construction marketing, leadership, differentiation, resilience, growth, and building brands.
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A/E/C CMOs provides fractional CMO leadership and integrated marketing support to help growing construction companies build magnetic brands and drive revenue.
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