When was the last time a social media post actually brought a new client through your door? For most small business owners, that answer is harder to come by than the advice to "just post more" would suggest. And yet the advice keeps coming, with the implicit promise...
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How to Build a Marketing Strategy When You Have a Small Budget and a Big Mission
A few weeks ago, I got on a call with a founder who had spent the better part of three months trying to build a marketing plan. She had a Google Doc with fourteen tabs, a spreadsheet with channel ideas color-coded by priority, and a Notion board tracking campaigns...
How to Find and Hire the Right Fractional CMO for Your Business
Bringing in a fractional CMO can sound like a dream solution for a small or mid-sized organization. Senior-level marketing leadership, without the cost or permanence of a full-time executive, feels like exactly the kind of support growing teams are looking for....
Why Work With a Fractional CMO?
If your organization has been operating for some time, chances are marketing has grown more complex than it used to be. What once felt manageable through a few channels or occasional campaigns now carries greater weight and consequence. Marketing reaches a point...
What is a Fractional CMO and Does Your Organization Need One?
Hiring a full-time Chief Marketing Officer is not always the most practical move, especially for organizations operating with limited budgets and lean teams. At the same time, marketing decisions rarely stay small for long. What starts as a question about messaging or...
Build Brand Trust with These Ethical Marketing Campaigns
Ethical marketing is the content you share about the intersection of your product or service and the impact it has or your business has in the world. It’s as much a digital marketing strategy as it is a philosophy. At Wayward Kind, ethical marketing is at the heart...
How to Respond to Political Moments
Content Development, Marketing Strategy
On Wednesday, January 6th, 2021, Black and Brown organizers secured the victory for two historic Democratic candidates in Georgia, essentially saving American democracy once again from itself. Mere hours after this, in the midst of certifying the Electoral College...
How To Develop Your Company’s Core Values
Content Development, Marketing Strategy
Every company has a set of values, whether or not they are codified or articulated. Having an expressed set of core values though creates a strong company culture, a team foundation, and sets your company apart from your competitors. Coming up with a strong set of...
3 Ways of Repurposing Content
Creating quality content is time consuming. But what if we told you there was a way to transform your existing content into something new? Or new-ish? Repurposing content is the perfect way to utilize existing content and get new eyes on it. The goal of content is to...











