The Tenure · Kristin Marquet

Fractional CMO strategy for fashion, beauty, and wellness brands.

I help founder-led brands turn early traction into structured growth: positioning, go-to-market, and the marketing decisions that set the next two years.

Seventeen years · more than 500 brands · over 100 in fashion and luxury

How we work together

Three ways in, by depth.

One decision, one quarter, or ongoing leadership. Every engagement starts with the same question: what is actually limiting growth, and what is the next right move.

Entry

The Read

A ninety-minute strategy session on the single decision holding your growth, followed by a written brief you keep. For founders who need a clear answer, not a retainer.

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Mid

The Intensive

A half-day working session on positioning, messaging, and go-to-market, followed by a thirty-day roadmap that sequences what happens next and who does it.

See The Intensive
Ongoing

Fractional CMO

Senior marketing leadership on a monthly basis: strategy, planning, and the decisions a growing brand needs made well. Three-month minimum, two clients at a time.

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Who this is for

Founder-led brands with traction.

The work suits brands that are past proving the concept and into the harder problem: growing without losing the thing that made them worth buying.

This fits if
  • You have launched, you are selling, and growth has become unpredictable
  • You are preparing for retail, wholesale, a raise, or a second product line
  • You need senior marketing judgment without hiring a full-time CMO
  • Your brand is founder-led and you still make the final call
  • You want a decision and a plan, not a deck that sits unopened
This does not fit if
  • You are pre-product or pre-revenue and still testing the concept
  • You want someone to execute the work rather than direct it
  • You are looking for a media buyer, an agency of record, or a content team
  • You want coaching, accountability, or a course
  • You are not prepared to change positioning if the work calls for it
Selected work

What the work looks like.

Beauty · Personal brand

A celebrity makeup artist

Two decades of editorial and celebrity work, a reputation held almost entirely inside the industry, and a personal brand that had never been defined on purpose. The work centered on positioning: what she is the obvious choice for, how that reads to the people booking her, and where the story was being told at a level below the work.

Outcome: a defined position, and language she can use consistently across the places she is seen.
Wellness · Practice and products

A psychotherapist and wellness entrepreneur

A private practice growing alongside a second business of books, courses, and digital products, each with its own audience and no shared architecture holding them together. The work addressed how the two brands relate, which audience each speaks to, and how the expertise underneath both is positioned as one authority rather than two efforts.

Outcome: a clear relationship between practice and products, and a single position the media can cite.
Fashion · Wellness apparel

A wellness apparel brand

An apparel label built on a mental health mission, competing in a category where mission alone is not a position. The work covered category positioning, the message architecture connecting the product to the cause without leaning on it, and how the brand introduces itself to a customer meeting it for the first time.

Outcome: a position that holds up next to larger labels, and a message that sells the product on its own terms.
Kristin Marquet, fractional CMO
About

I have spent seventeen years on one problem.

The distance between how good a brand is and how it is read. Across more than five hundred brands, over a hundred of them in fashion and luxury, the pattern holds: growth stalls on positioning long before it stalls on budget. I work as a fractional CMO for founder-led brands in fashion, beauty, and wellness, and I bring the judgment of a senior marketing leader without the cost of a permanent one.

A place to start

See how the market reads you now.

The Considered Presence Index scores your brand across three edits in about three minutes and names the one to make first. It is free, and it is a useful thing to bring to a first conversation.

Take the Considered Presence Index
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Tell me what you are deciding.

Send a short note about your brand, where growth is stalling, and what you are weighing. I read every inquiry and reply personally. If the fit is wrong, I will tell you that too.

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