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A fractional CMO gives a Charlottesville company senior marketing leadership for one to three days a week, without a full-time executive hire. Extra Medium is headquartered in Virginia Beach and works with Charlottesville companies remotely day to day, in the room when it matters. In a market this small and reputation-driven, the value is judgment: a senior operator who sets the plan carefully, protects the name you have built, and answers for results.
Charlottesville punches above its size. The University of Virginia anchors the economy and spins out research, health, and technology companies. Around it sit biotech and health firms, wine and hospitality businesses that sell an experience as much as a product, and professional firms built on trust. It is a high-trust, relationship-first culture, and reputation travels fast in both directions. Sloppy marketing is remembered here. So is quiet competence. Most local companies do not need louder marketing. They need a senior person making sure the story, the spend, and the experience line up.
The seat runs on a monthly cadence, one to three days a week. Day to day we work remotely: strategy, planning, vendor and team direction, and reporting your leadership can actually use. When the work calls for a room, a launch, a planning day, a hard conversation, we are in Charlottesville for it. Behind the fractional CMO is the full Extra Medium studio across Launch, Reinvent, Grow, Intelligence, and Experiences, so a UVA spinout or a hospitality group gets senior leadership and execution without building a marketing department first.
It fits the spinout that has outgrown founder-led marketing, the health or biotech firm selling to buyers far beyond Albemarle County, and the established local business whose next customers will find it online before they hear about it at dinner. It also fits companies that need discretion: senior judgment, no noise. It starts with a first conversation, free and specific. If the seat fits, you get the engagement shape and price in writing before work begins. If your real need is smaller, we will tell you that instead.
No. Extra Medium is headquartered in Virginia Beach. We work with Charlottesville companies remotely day to day and travel in for the days that need a room. We will not claim a local office we do not have. What we offer is senior leadership that understands how a small, high-trust market actually works.
Usually, yes, and size is the point. Charlottesville companies often need CMO-level judgment long before they can justify a full-time CMO. One to three days a week of senior leadership, with a studio behind it, matches the scale of the market. If your need is really a pair of hands, we will say so honestly.
With a first conversation, free and specific, about your market, your reputation, and where growth should come from next. From there you get a written engagement shape and price before any work begins. No retainer pitch, no pressure. In a town where people talk, we would rather earn the referral than win the argument.
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Don’t know exactly what you need? Good. That’s our job. Tell us where the business is headed and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can help — and if we can’t, who might.
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