Senior marketing leadership, strategy and team oversight — without a full-time executive salary. Built for Sydney businesses and the New South Wales market.
Sydney has the deepest and most expensive marketing talent market in Australia. A full-time CMO here commands a package most mid-market businesses cannot justify, while the cost of getting senior strategy wrong in the country's most competitive auctions is unusually high. That gap — needing executive judgement, unable to fund an executive salary — is precisely what a fractional engagement exists to close.
Sydney is the hardest market in Australia to win and the most valuable to hold. It carries roughly a quarter of the national population but a disproportionate share of head-office marketing budgets, which means the auction for commercial keywords is denser here than anywhere else in the country. Cost per click on competitive professional-services and trades terms routinely runs well above what the same keyword costs in Adelaide or Perth, and the organic first page is usually occupied by domains with a decade of accumulated authority.
Search Console already shows 78 distinct Sydney-modified queries producing 3,432 impressions for this site — demand that is currently landing at an average position in the fifties and converting nothing.
Monthly impression volumes from Google Search Console, Sydney-modified queries.
Positioning, channel strategy and a plan tied to commercial targets rather than activity.
Managing your internal team, freelancers and agencies to one accountable plan.
Deciding where the money goes and defending it with numbers.
Holding your existing suppliers to measurable standards.
Marketing translated into the language your board and investors use.
Building the marketing function so it eventually runs without a fractional CMO.
The practical consequence is that broad head terms are rarely the right opening move for a Sydney business. The winnable ground sits in suburb-level and niche-modified intent, in the AI answer layer where the incumbents have not yet consolidated, and in conversion rate — where most Sydney advertisers are still leaving the majority of their paid traffic on the table.
Sydney CBD · North Sydney · Parramatta · Macquarie Park · Chatswood · Barangaroo · Surry Hills · Bondi Junction · Norwest · Liverpool · Bankstown · Sutherland Shire
DigiWolf is based in Sydney. That means same-timezone response, in-person workshops and strategy sessions where they are useful, and first-hand knowledge of how these auctions actually behave rather than a read of a rank-tracking tool.
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Typically two to four days a month for a business under $10m revenue, scaling with complexity. Enough to set direction, run the cadence and hold suppliers accountable — not enough to do the execution, which is deliberate.
An agency executes a channel. A fractional CMO decides which channels deserve budget at all, and then holds the agencies delivering them to account. The two are complementary — and if your agencies are performing, we will say so.
The goal is to make the role unnecessary. That means documented strategy, working systems, and usually a hiring brief for the permanent marketing lead you are now in a position to specify properly.
Yes. DigiWolf is Sydney-based, so you get same-timezone response and in-person strategy sessions where they are genuinely useful.
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