Caliber Helps Family Businesses
Clarify And Expand Their Brand To Attract And Retain Higher Paying Clients.

Hire the Fractional CMO+ to Build, Level Up and Optimize the Brand You Want to Be.

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YOUR BRAND DESERVES CHICAGO'S MOST HIGHLY RATED FRACTIONAL CMO+.


Privately held and multi-generational businesses consistently come to our team at Caliber Brand Strategy + Content Marketing because we're able to help them with at least one of the following problem areas:

  • Building A Strategic Marketing Roadmap To Provide Ongoing Clarity On Tactics

  • Positioning Your Brand To Consistently Resonate With More Qualified Prospects

 

  • Creating New Opportunities To Deliver More Dollars With Every Client

  • Writing High Quality Sales Messaging Made Exclusively For Ideal Clients

  • Mentoring In-House Marketing Managers And Coordinators To Raise Their Skill Sets


Do one of these sound familiar? Let's talk about it, along with other areas of improvement with your marketing or branding you'd love to see.

To get started, tell us about yourself in
First Steps so we can have a highly productive discovery meeting. If we're in alignment at the end of that meeting, we'll deliver a full marketing strategy that's yours to keep.

If you like
that strategy, we'll have a conversation then and there about my team and I leading your marketing with full planning and implementation.

I can't wait to meet you. 

- Dan Gershenson


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FRACTIONAL CMO+


Caliber is the Fractional CMO+ for the next generation and we mean it. 


For multi-generational businesses that don’t have a robust Marketing Department and no longer feel valued by their agency, there’s a better, smarter, more nimble path. 


That path leads right through Caliber.


We’re all about guiding business owners to more profit and dream clients. How do we do that? For starters, communicating their value proposition, sales pitch and branding beautifully.


Want to learn more about how Chicago’s most highly-rated Fractional CMO+ can help you build, grow and ignite your business? 

Hell Yes I Do!

MARKETING SYSTEMS


Do you want…


  • A website that builds trust?
  • A content platform to help you attract ideal clients?
  • SEO to ensure your business is found on the web?
  • Social media to create awareness and show a “human side” of the company?
  • Reputation management to view how your customers feel?
  • e-Marketing to reinforce your credibility?
  • PPC ads to capture demand from eager buyers?


Then it’s a marketing system you want.
Accept no substitutes.

Caliber’s marketing system is designed to clarify your approach to the prospective customer in every stage of their potential relationship with you:
Know, Like, Trust, Try, Buy, Repeat and Refer. 


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INDUSTRIES WE WORK WITH

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

Working with Dan is like having a personal superhero. vigilantly advocating on your behalf, without fail.


He embeds himself into your business and your brand, providing him a perspective that he generously shares, leading to changes that make your business better. 

Dan uncannily translates your voice to the written word — to the point that customers comment on it. I don't have any re-work with Dan; he gets it the first time, every time. I always look forward to working with Dan. He is thoughtful, fun and funny, genuine and easy to work with.


Kathy Quinn, Q Group

I hired Dan and his team to handle all of my marketing,

and it was the best decision I've ever made!


I am the managing partner of a boutique law firm in Chicago. I hired Dan to handle all of my marketing and it was the best decision I've ever made! He is truly a one-person law firm marketing department. His experience, guidance and creativity has been incredibly useful to me as I try to grow my practice. Most importantly, he is wonderful to work with, a true partner. Highly recommend Dan's services to any firm or company!

Adam Gurney, Gurney Law Group

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I’m Ready! Interview Series Featuring Dan Gershenson: Stop Pitching To People And Have A Conversation!

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The Slow Pitch: How To Get Business Leads on LinkedIn

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Creating Content that Ranks in Local Search

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The Fractional CMO

By Dan Gershenson July 22, 2022
Do a search for your name, your company name, your product or service names. Whatever you find on page one in the Google SERPs amounts to a significant collage of how your brand is seen in the wild today. See, it doesn’t matter if your best client tells their best friend you are the most […] The post Page One on Google Is Your New Business Card appeared first on Caliber Brand Strategy + Content Marketing.
By Dan Gershenson July 15, 2022
For local businesses, ranking your business in Google My Business (the Google maps 3-pack) can be the difference between thriving and merely surviving. All Google products evolve as they find ways to make search better and, let’s face it, make more money from that fact. There are a handful of factors that Google uses to […] The post Google My Business: The Key to Ranking Your Local Business appeared first on Caliber Brand Strategy + Content Marketing.
By Dan Gershenson July 8, 2022
Look, if you’re a local business, meaning most or all of your business comes from customers living in your community, you must get very serious about local SEO. Don’t worry, ranking locally for the kinds of things your prospects are looking for isn’t rocket science, but it does take a serious commitment to a handful […] The post The Local SEO Playbook – Your Guide to Local Rankings appeared first on Caliber Brand Strategy + Content Marketing.
By Dan Gershenson July 2, 2022
The conversation was going well. We felt like we were connecting at the same level. The prospect had gotten to know me and appeared to feel great about my understanding of his process, goals, etc. Then came the question. I’ve received it many times before. “Do you have any experience in our industry?” Years ago, […] The post “Do You Have Experience In Our Industry? No? Cool.” appeared first on Caliber Brand Strategy + Content Marketing.
By Dan Gershenson June 24, 2022
“The Client Is Always Right,” they say proudly. Nah. If the client is a soul-sucking, verbally abusive monster who makes you feel less than dirt, they’re not right. They’re Energy Vampires and you need to kill them. Not literally, of course. I mean fire them. Tell them to exit, stage left, out of your life […] The post Defeating The Energy Vampires appeared first on Caliber Brand Strategy + Content Marketing.
By Dan Gershenson June 17, 2022
First, watch this short video on “How To Hire A Marketing Consultant,” from John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. We think it’ll share a great point of view on ten things you should be looking for in a marketing consultant so you can start your search off right.  To John’s points, we’d like to expand on […] The post Ready To Hire A Marketing Consultant? Here’s 10 Things To Look For. appeared first on Caliber Brand Strategy + Content Marketing.
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