Q What is the right time for someone to consider bringing in a fractional if they can't afford someone full time?
A Yeah, great question. In my experience, Fractional can work all the way up to about 20 to twenty-five million in annual revenue. Anything above that range in our experience, the idea of fractional starts to spread too thin. You really need a full-time operator at that scale of a company. You've got sizable operations, sizable team. The idea of fractional is just going to be tricky. Um, at a starting point, I would say at least to be at a million or more. Right? Low multiple seven figures. I know there's a lot of companies out there that are trying to break that seven figure threshold, uh, and we applaud them and celebrate them, but they often say, I want a COO, but in reality, you don't really need a COO. What you really need is just to do more of what you're already doing. Maybe you need a online business manager or an ops assistant or, you know, project manager. Um, but for companies that are at low multiple seven figures up to about twenty million, fractional works really, really well in terms of just the business size. In terms of when they may feel like the need is there is usually when they've realized that when they've been trying to grow and scale and it's not been happening fast enough, right? It kind of feels like they're pushing the, the boulder of their business up the hill and it's getting bigger and heavier. And it just feels like there's more effort. The day to d…
AI assessment note: “at a starting point, I would say at least to be at a million or more.”