Stop Building a Marketing Gig Economy: Start Building an Orchestrated GTM Engine

By Kristin Oelke, Managing Director, Growth Services, Brightrose Ventures, and author of Trust: Unlocking B2B Growth in Today’s AI World

There's a widespread belief in B2B scaling: hire dozens of freelancers, and growth will follow. Need demand-gen? Bring in a contractor. Need a copywriter or automation whiz? Freelance it. Easy fix-or so it seems.

But here's the catch: what you’ve built is a marketing gig economy inside your company-nimble but fragmented. And when growth depends on coherence and consistency, that won’t cut it.

That’s where orchestration becomes essential. In 2025, research from Mavlers reports that companies with tightly orchestrated marketing and sales efforts see a 208% increase in marketing-generated revenue, plus a 36.6% boost in customer retention. When those functions work in harmony, firms are nearly 3× more likely to exceed customer acquisition goals.

But orchestration isn’t just about aligning sales and marketing-it’s about designing a unified system where freelancers don't just perform tasks, they contribute to a cohesive GTM engine.

Why Orchestration Outpaces Freelancer Overload:

• Consistent narrative, smarter execution Orchestrated teams mean messaging, campaigns, and tools all align-no more piecemeal assignments with incompatible outputs.

  
  

• Data driving action, not noise Orchestration turns scattered insights into real-time response: triggering follow-ups, optimizing campaigns, adjusting strategy dynamically.(Source: dipoleDiamond)

  
  

• Performance at scale Managing dozens of freelancers? Without orchestration, oversight evaporates. A centralized system ensures accountability, agility, and momentum.

  
  

Brightrose’s Solution: Growth with Structure

That’s precisely why we built our Marketing Transformation Growth Assessment. It helps B2B organizations escape the freelancer trap by:

• Defining a unified GTM vision

  
  

• Aligning content, campaigns, and RevOps toward one goal

  
  

• Embedding orchestration from day one, not after the fact

  
  

Because here’s the truth: More freelancers doesn’t mean more growth. More orchestration does.

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About Kristin Oelke

Kristin Oelke brings 20 years of experience modernizing and scaling marketing functions across Big Tech, high-growth startups, and global partner ecosystems. She partners with investors, founders, and C-Suite leaders to design and execute strategies that drive measurable revenue impact.

She is also a frequent speaker and the author of TRUST: Unlocking B2B Growth Strategies in Today’s AI World, where she explores how companies build credibility, reduce buyer friction, and scale predictably through transparent execution, public proof points, and trust-driven content.

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