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Paul Sparrow

Paul Sparrow is a Managing Partner based in Charleston, South Carolina. He places battle-tested CMOs and CSOs in right-sized client engagements to generate growth strategies that achieve revenue acceleration and profitability. Paul is a business growth expert with over 30 years of strategic development and execution in a variety of industries and organizational settings, including Fortune 50, startups, turnarounds, and emerging growth. He can be reached via email at psparrow@chiefoutsiders.com or at (615) 351-7189.

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Seasoned Marketing Operating Executive to Drive Revenue Growth and Value Creation for Chief Outsiders Clients

4.2.2026 | Posted by The Chief Outsider

Driving digital transformation, AI-enabled marketing, and brand reinvention, for healthcare, financial services, and technology companies, Stephen Cassell joins Chief Outsiders as a fractional CMO.

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YFS Magazine: Marketing In Today’s Inflationary Environment: What SMBs Need To Know

7.1.2021 — Build a solid go-to-market plan based on insights and the economic condition of the markets in which you compete. Read the Article here.

YFS Magazine: How SMBs Can Strategically Thrive After The COVID-19 Crisis

5.6.2021 — More than two-thirds of businesses have the impression they’ve dodged the proverbial COVID bullet. Is this actually true? Read the Article here.

Houston Business Journal: How to boost sales by emphasizing your marketing team

3.4.2021 — Here's how small, midsized and large companies tend to allow the dysfunction between sales and marketing, and what steps can be taken to foster cooperation and increase revenue. Read the full Article here.

Chief Executive: Looking For An Edge In 2021? Broker Peace Between Sales And Marketing

1.15.2021 — About 10 percent of a company’s annual revenue is squandered when these teams work at cross purposes. Here's how to fix that. Read the full Article here.

Strategic CFO 360: How To Accelerate The Business Post-Pandemic

10.5.2020 — The state of the economy does not define the growth phase of any company. Here's how CFOs can assess where their companies are—and how to grow through the uncertainty. Read the Article here.

Chief Executive: How to Accelerate Your Business Post-Pandemic

8.10.2020 — It may sound counterintuitive, but the state of the economy does not define the growth phase of your company. Here's how to assess where you are and how to grow through the uncertainty.

Luxury Daily: How to accelerate your business post-pandemic

8.10.2020 — A Plan with several back-up options is key to survive rough times.

Grit Daily: Can Your Business Thrive Despite the Economic Challenge of Coronavirus?

3.18.2020 — 2020 is turning out to be a mild period of softening likely followed by accelerated growth by year’s end. But the impact of the coronavirus could extend that softening and in an extreme scenario, even lead some markets in to a full blown recession. Although you won’t hear this via most news-worthy mediums, unbiased sources believe this to be the case.

Yahoo!Life: Can Your Business Thrive Despite Economic Challenges Like Coronavirus?

3.18.2020 — Before the appearance of the coronavirus, it was easy to believe that the cash will just keep on flowing. But now the alarming news regarding the spread of the coronavirus and its impact on the economy could easily create the opposite effect, an acceptance that the markets are out of control and the bottom is about to fall out.