Discover how to hire a CMO using eight critical steps, and get strategies to empower your CMO for success. Uncover the easiest way to hire the ideal CMO through Go Fractional.
Ryan Anderson
Marketer. Number cruncher.
Multiple time startup marketing leader, focused on using data to inform the marketing and product decisions for growing companies. My job is to figure out what customers want, and then find new and creative ways to get it to them.
Work
Switchyards :: GTM
https://www.switchyards.comSwitchyards is the world's first neighborhood work club — a members-only space that is open 24/7, tucked into residential areas where people can come and get a few hours of work done.
We successfully expanded the concept from Atlanta to Nashville, built an email list of 4,000 interested customers, and sold out the first location in less than 5 minutes. Generated a 30x return of ARR to marketing budget.
Reframe :: Marketing
https://www.joinreframeapp.comConsumer app designed to help people take control of their relationship with alcohol.
Managed paid social and paid search, reducing CAC by 50% over the course of 2023.
Georgia Votes :: Project
https://georgiavotes.com/A non-partisan website that takes publicly available early voting information and organizes it in a way that's useful.
Created site and organic marketing strategy that has grown site to 50,000 daily visits during elections.
Experience
Proper Tack
Fractional CMO
Sep 2021 - Present
Offering Fractional CMO services to startups who have raised their first significant round of funding and are ready to start deploying marketing dollars. I specialize in building out marketing infrastructure and systems, and helping companies take that knowledge in-house and hire for long-term success.
- Created and executed Switchyards' ($10M raised) GTM playbook for new market expansion → switchyards.com
- Reduced Reframe's ($14M raised) paid search CAC by 50% while ramping up volume across channels → joinreframeapp.com
- Designed Capital on Tap's ($100M raised) marketing strategy for expanding into the US market → capitalontap.com
Georgia Votes
Principal
Sep 2017 - Present
A non-partisan early voting data website that takes publicly available early voting information and organizes it in a way that's useful.
- Created www.georgiavotes.com to track, analyze and report on election data in Georgia.
- Cited in multiple publications including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, FiveThirtyEight, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and NPR.
Techstars
Mentor
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
The worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed.
- Help small companies become big ones.
- RentCheck, Treasure Card, Punchlist, Corra Health and many more
FortyFour
Director of Performance Marketing & Analytics
Oct 2014 - Aug 2021
A multidisciplinary agency passionate about creating solutions that add value to your business and connect consumers with your brand. We are creatives, we are technologist, we are thinkers, we are problem solvers, we are a full service digital agency that takes projects from concept to launch. We are small, agile and responsive to the unique requirements of our clients and their projects. We are driven by delivering compelling experiences across a wide spectrum of digital platforms.
- Built and led the marketing and analytics practice for FortyFour from inception through acquisition.
- Oversaw all marketing activities for clients including Coca-Cola, Mars, Fiserv, COX Enterprises, and Georgia-Pacific.
Scoutmob
Head of Analytics
Aug 2013 - Oct 2014
Scoutmob was your home for inspired goods and gifts crafted exclusively by independent makers. This unique online store offers a lifestyle brand experience featuring products sourced exclusively from over 1,000 crafters, artisans and independent makers across the US.
- Grew monthly program revenue 200% over 6 months through cohort analysis and custom targeting.
- Created company's first LTV model, combining all business lines broken out by acquisition channel and first product.
Better World Books
Sales and Marketing Analyst
Feb 2011 - Sep 2013
Better World Books is a for-profit socially conscious business and a global online bookseller that collects and sells new and used books online matching each purchase with a book donation, Book-for-Book™. Each sale generates funds for literacy and education initiatives in the UK, US, and around the world. Since its launch in 2003, Better World Books has raised close to $29 million for libraries and literacy, donated almost 27 million books and reused or recycled more than 326 million books.
- Worked in a variety of roles with one of the world's largest online used book retailers, and a founding B-Corp member, to increase sales as well as social/environmental impact.
FlatWorld
Marketing
Apr 2009 - Aug 2009
Digital-first college textbook publisher committed to building a strong position in the college textbook market by expanding access to high quality, affordable content.
- For my summer MBA internship I searched out a startup that I would be passionate about, and ended up working with an incredibly talented group of people at a first-of-its-kind open source college textbook publisher.
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