FRACTIONAL CMO | AGENCY VETTING |

The Guardian of Your Great Work

Most founders don't need more advice. They need someone willing to tell them the truth.

After 32 years inside agencies, consulting firms and businesses, I've learned that the opportunities that compound a business and the opportunities that derail it often look remarkably similar.

That's why market leadership rarely goes to the founder with the biggest budget.

It goes to the founder with the right person in their corner.

  • Someone who sees what you can't yet see.

  • Who protects your Great Work like it's her own.

  • And will not stop until the world sees what you're building.llet List

I help founders see through the beautiful lies, fix what's broken, and grow what actually builds market power.

Perhaps I can do the same for what you're building.

The Hidden Cost Of Bad Strategic Advice

The agency promising certainty. The expert promising the breakthrough. The opportunity that feels too good to ignore.

Some create extraordinary growth. Others consume years of momentum while delivering very little in return.

That is where I work differently.

I sit on your side of the table.

I draw from my 32 years of in-the-trenches agency, consulting, humann behaviour, and business ownership experience to help you cut through competing agendas, sharpen positioning, and identify the handful of strategic initiatives most likely to create disproportionate growth.

results produced

$100M+

... across private clients and programs in franchising, professional services, coaching, manufacturing, hospitality, health supplements, IT, digital courses, financial institutions, property

experience

34 yrs

... operating numerous advisor businesses incl. marketing agency, copywriting consultancy, web design busines, business planning , marketing & business coaching, and copywriting college.

businesses helped

3372

Businesses helped across consulting, SaaS, ecommerce and financial services .. via events, coaching, consulting, campaign projects, and courses plus over 30,000 via our newsletters.

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The Agency Advice Trap: How to Tell if Your Marketing Agency Is Helping Your Business or Hurting It

Discover:

  • Why most agency relationships fail

  • The 5 costly mistakes draining marketing budgets

  • Which metrics actually drive growth

  • Whether you need an agency, internal team, or Fractional CMO

  • The framework used to diagnose marketing bottlenecks fast

  • How to align your positioning, messaging, and strategy for maximum ROI

What I Help With

Founder-side strategic guidance focused on protecting ROI, reducing noise, and creating more sustainable momentum.

01.

Improve Positioning

Clarify how your business is perceived, differentiated, and trusted in an increasingly noisy and AI-saturated market.

02.

Find Revenue Leaks

Identify the hidden strategic friction slowing growth, draining energy, and creating unnecessary complexity inside the business.

03.

Increase Marketing ROI

Ensure marketing decisions, spend, and execution are commercially aligned and contributing to measurable business growth.

04.

Screen Agencies & Vendors

Protect your business from poor agency fit, inflated retainers, weak execution, and expensive marketing relationships that erode momentum.

05.

Fiix Offer & Growth Bottleneckes

Strengthen your offers, messaging, and growth ecosystem so the business becomes easier to scale and sustain.

06.

Improve Messaging & Build Authority

Build stronger trust, visibility, and category authority through clearer communication and strategic positioning.

Who I Work With

This Is For You If...

  • You’re an established founder, consultant, agency, coach, or expert

  • Your business has potential but growth feels inconsistent or scattered

  • You’re tired of wasting money on disconnected marketing tactics

  • You want strategic clarity instead of more noise

  • You feel your positioning no longer reflects your real value

  • You want stronger authority, better clients, and higher ROI

  • You’re navigating reinvention, scaling, or market change

  • You want an experienced strategic advisor who protects your business interests

Why Founders Hire Me

Strategic Advisor. Founder Advocate. Protector Of Momentum

Kristina Elphinstone

Fractional CMO · Former Agency Owner = 34 Years On The Tools

I've spent 34 years seeing what works, what doesn't, and where businesses quietly lose money.

I've built agencies. Worked inside agencies. Written campaigns.

Led marketing teams. Coached founders. Advised businesses.

Reviewed thousands of marketing strategies.

After a while you stop looking at tactics.

You start seeing patterns.

Which agencies perform.

Which advice is useful.

Which advice is dangerous.

And which expensive mistakes show up over and over again.

That's the experience you're buying.

It's exactly why I can walk into a room with your SEO agency, your ads team, or your AI vendor and ask the questions that make them uncomfortable — because I know what the right answers look like.

Paid Media

SEO & Content

Prof. Services Marketing

AI Implementation

Brand Strategy

Go-To-Market

Social Media & Content

Sales Enablement

Web Design & eComm

Copywriting

Marketing Automation

Agency Management

What People Say

"The Real Deal"

JT Foxx

9 Figure Entrepreneur,

owner of over 80 companies

"Working with you has been transformative"

Steve Plummer

Marketing Strategist,

Copywriter, Author, Speaker

"Transformative"

Working with Kristina has changed me profoundly. She brings a genuinely unique combination of the esoteric ways, a sharp business mind, and next level strategic marketing skills.

What this means is that if something can’t be solved with one of her many laser-focused business or marketing solutions, she is able to move it from your field via energy work. Working with you has been transformative.”

 

Steve Plummer

Copywriter, Marketing Strategist, Speaker, Coach

"Focused on key tasks tha build revenue"

Kristina has the ability to make the complex simple, to keep me focused on the key tasks that drive revenue and build brand, and she keeps me motivated and inspired.


I can’t recommend Kristina highly enough to business owners wanting to achieve the fullest potential for their companies.

Richard Triggs

Managing Director – Arete Executive

 

"Invaluable in the development of our marketing systems"

You have been invaluable to the development of the marketing systems within our franchise system. And the marketing strategies you have written for our clients have also worked a treat.

Look, over the years I’ve rubbed shoulders with a number of accomplished marketing strategists, through my international business dealings, and from what I have experienced, I consider you to be one of the most talented copywriters and strategists in Australia ”

Nic Clark

Co-founder, 10x

Enormously talented and gifted

“Kris is a talented and enormously gifted person; the results she gets speak volumes. But gifted people can be difficult. Kris is anything but that-she works enormously hard to get things right and to make her gift really work for her clients. She’s a joy to know and to work with.”

Paul Dunn, Chairman, B1G1

“Brilliant success strategist”

“Kristina is one of the most dynamic personalities I have had the pleasure of working with. Her passion, vision and innate wisdom combine with a formidable life and business experience to make her the brilliant success strategist she is.”

William Whitecloud – Author, Magician’s Way

I have used many over the years and nothing compares to Kris’s writing ability and strategic marketing thinking.

Her style is punchy, direct and it works. Every time I use Kris’s services she produces results.”

Rob Nixon

CEO, Panalitix

 

"Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow"

"Kristina has the most amazing ability to get lazer focused on where you need to be and catalyst you forward to be seen as an authority in your field. Working with Kristina is like the rocket fuel to success, to the next level

Her intuition and gifts of the esoteric with her copy writing and market genius is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow every Entrepreneur with out of the box ideas needs."

Nyree Pearson CEO, Avatarian

"Doubled our Revenue"

” In short, our turnover has more than doubled in the last financial year, during a recession and much of that has been due to your great service.

Warwick Lindsay

CEO, MagicEzy (formerly DucoMagic)

Note: We have since worked with Warwick across multiple companies and produced results that include a 60% increase in revenue in another business within a hdandful of months.

"You managed to increase my online sales by a real 48"

After you guys re-wrote my message – You managed to increase my online sales by a real 48% and my existing customers are now recommending it to all their friends because they love it so much!

Chris Elmore – Guitar Tips

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DISCLAIMER

This book provides educational information based on the author's experiences. It is not professional business advice or a substitute for personalized strategic analysis. Strategies are based on general patterns across multiple businesses. Individual results vary significantly based on your market conditions, business model, and execution. Success stories don't guarantee similar outcomes. This book does not constitute professional marketing, business, legal, or financial advice. Consult qualified professionals for personalized guidance. You are solely responsible for evaluating recommendations and their applicability to your business. Conduct due diligence and consult professionals before making significant decisions. The author makes no warranties regarding accuracy or effectiveness. We are not liable for decisions made or results obtained based on this content. Past performance and examples don't guarantee future results. Marketing effectiveness depends on numerous uncontrollable factors. By reading this book, you acknowledge you understand and agree to these limitations.©

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