Empower your business to grow smarter with fractional marketing services that deliver results.
Why you’re here and what you’re facing
You’re torching money
You’re spending a ton of money on paid ads with no ROI, or you’ve hired a full-time marketer or two and they haven’t worked out.
Your marketing just gets by
You’re mired in the “good enough” marketing problem, doing a few things here and there, but you know it isn’t strong enough and there’s no cohesive strategy.
Your business runs on referrals
Doesn’t sound like a problem, right? But if referrals are your only source of leads, scalability is going to be nearly impossible.
Who we’ve worked with
Why Zanate?
Our fractional marketing services offer expert-level guidance tailored to your business needs without resource demands of a full-time marketing hire.
No long ramp-up periods.
Or need for extensive training and hand-holding.
No benefits packages and perks.
We hit the ground running from day one to help you execute on short-term opportunities and lay a foundation for the future.
We’re your growth partners, plain and simple.
What our clients are saying
After diagnosing the issues and meeting with key stakeholders at Point One Navigation, Kris and Julie stepped in and completely transformed our approach. They designed and installed streamlined systems, including blog and video strategies, social media calendars, and press relations pipelines.
I highly recommend working with Kris, Julie and the Zanate team for anyone looking to build long-lasting marketing momentum.
JONATHAN GLADBACH
Founder, Boom Labs
Kris is such a pleasure to work with in any capacity. I can always rely on him to be at the top of his LinkedIn game, and he loves to freely share his knowledge and wisdom with everyone he comes into contact with.
I am proud to say that Kris is a long-standing member of the Prospology Team and look forward to our continued personal and professional growth, collaboratively.
SOPHIE ASH
Founder, Prospology
It’s never easy to find someone who has both the technical skill-set and the personality to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving start-up environment. Working with Kris during our 4 years together at Wide Open Media was an absolute pleasure.
Kris would be an asset to anyone who has the opportunity to work with him, and I hope we cross paths professionally again in the future!
DENIS O’DWYER
Founder, Wide Open Media Group
CEO, Shroomer
How we help with fractional marketing services
Warm & Cold Outreach
Using our custom tool stack we help you build and execute powerful warm and cold email outreach campaigns to help you book more meetings, faster.
Website Traffic Engine
We help you quickly increase organic website traffic through deep keyword research & highly targeted blog content execute a long-term strategy to keep the engine humming.
Social Media Growth
Building a social media presence is about meeting your ideal clients where they are and pulling them closer. We help you do just that.
Thought Leadership Content
We help you develop thought leadership content like case studies and data-driven whitepapers to help you stand out from the competition.
Landing Page Copy
Feel like your website isn’t telling the right story, or the story is incomplete? We’ll help you wordsmith it to dial it in.
Other Custom Services
Have a specific campaign that you need help with or to tackle that one KPI that keeps eluding you? Let’s tag team it.
Our recent blog posts
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How Data Driven Campaigns Fuel Your Marketing Breakthroughs
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How To Build a Cold Email Sequence That Converts
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7 Essential Reasons to Hire a Fractional Marketing Director
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10 Proven Tips to Boost Your Integrated Marketing Campaign
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The Truth About Reply Rates In Cold Email Outreach
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The 8 Ways Fractional Marketing Benefits Supercharge Your Business Potential
Kris Hughes,
Founder
I’ve always been a content creator and communicator. Following a short career in professional sports, I pivoted back to lean in on my writing and started my own sports blogs in 2007, eventually selling those to another network in 2012, before helping to build a large digital publisher here in Austin for the next four years pre-pandemic, and then working in SaaS content for a while.
Those opportunities gave me the opening to fund Zanate in March 2020 and the chance to work with growth stage companies who need an outside perspective and specialized expertise to execute quickly and grab the attention and traction they deserve.
I’m loving the work and look forward to becoming your growth partner!
To learn more about how I got here, check out my LinkedIn profile.
Thanks for visiting our website!
Julie Fiore, Creative Director
Hi, y’all, I’m Julie, an integrative & agile marketer for artists, creatives, arts organizations, and small agencies. My specialty is community building & connective digital strategy – I love learning about people and what motivates them.
Audience engagement & storytelling are the through-lines of my career. With two degrees in music performance, and a lifetime spent on stage, I recognize personas & relationships and search for subtext. I uncover what your organization really needs to say, filter that meaning through your unique voice, and then watch as your audience grows.
I love the power of good, well-placed, well-timed content almost as much as I love a good queso.
As a fractional CMO, I work to create cross-functional teams and believe that messaging should be cohesive – whether it’s sent from Development or from Marketing, or whether it’s in a grant or in an email.
To see my past positions and experience, hop on over to my LinkedIn profile – don’t forget to say hello!
Let’s work together on your next marketing project.
Ready to learn more about how we can help you win some fresh marketing momentum?
Wherever We May Roam
📍 Usually Austin, Texas
📍 But possibly somewhere in the New Mexico mountains on our laptops..
Get in Touch
Email: [email protected]
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