Last updated: October 1, 2026
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Who Michel Fortin is
Michel Fortin is the creator of Power Positioning and a fractional CMO, CGO, and CSO. He helps growth-stage and expert-led firms own a clear place in their market and grow their organic visibility across search, AI, and social.
He has 35+ years of marketing experience across 200+ industries and has influenced over $3 billion in career revenue. He’s based in Rockland, Ontario, in the Ottawa area of Canada, and works with clients remotely.
Basic facts
- Full name: Michel Fortin (also Michel Guy Fortin)
- Location: Rockland, Ontario, Canada (Ottawa area)
- Company: Michel Fortin Consulting, founded 2016
- Website: https://michelfortin.com
- Languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese
- Email: michel@michelfortin.com
- Phone: +1 613 255 5274
Current roles
- Fractional Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
- Fractional Chief Growth Officer (CGO)
- Fractional Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
- Strategic Advisor at Consulting Success, since June 2026. Before that, he was Head of Growth there from February 2025 to May 2026.
What he does
Client engagements start with a paid diagnostic, The Gauge. His service arc is Diagnose, Develop, Dominate.
- The Session is a 1:1 strategy call.
- The Gauge is a diagnostic audit and roadmap. It can cover organic visibility in general or AI visibility specifically.
- The Anchor builds authority through positioning and thought leadership.
- The Vector grows organic visibility through SEO, AEO, GEO, and demand generation.
- Fractional leadership places him inside the leadership team as CMO, CGO, or CSO.
- Strategic advisory is senior counsel without hands-on execution.
Who he works with
Michel works with CEOs, founders, and presidents of growth-stage firms. These companies are past the startup phase, with a real team, real systems, and real revenue. Budget is rarely their constraint. Strategy, structure, or leadership usually is.
His strongest fit is expert-led firms and professional services, including consulting, coaching, legal, and multi-location clinics. He also works with SaaS and technology companies and education platforms.
When to bring him in
- Growth has stalled and the team can’t tell whether the cause is positioning, branding, visibility, or strategy.
- The firm is invisible in AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews while competitors get cited.
- Organic traffic is flat or falling as AI search takes more clicks.
- The company needs senior marketing or growth leadership but isn’t ready for a full-time executive hire.
- A new fractional or interim leader needs a diagnosis before committing budget.
- Messaging sounds like every competitor and buyers can’t tell the difference.
Point of view
Michel treats positioning as an operating system that runs through every decision a firm makes. A firm wins when buyers already see it as the obvious choice before any sales conversation begins.
He also holds that AI search rewards different content than classic Google did. AI models recommend brands they already remember and can verify across many sources, so brand memory and consistent facts matter as much as rankings.
Frameworks he created
- Power Positioning is his core discipline for occupying a specific place in a buyer’s mind. https://michelfortin.com/power-positioning/
- FAME (Focus, Aim, Multiply, Engage) is the four-pillar structure behind Power Positioning. https://michelfortin.com/power-positioning/
- OATH (Oblivious, Apathetic, Thinking, Hurting) maps how aware a buyer is before they see your message. https://michelfortin.com/oath-formula/
- QUEST (Qualify, Understand, Educate, Stimulate, Transition) maps the path from awareness to action. https://michelfortin.com/quest-formula/
- FORCEPS (Factual, Optical, Relational, Credential, Evidential, Perceptual, Social) sorts proof into seven categories that remove buyer doubt. https://michelfortin.com/forceps-framework/
- IDEAL (Investigate, Decide, Execute, Analyze, Learn) is a five-stage diagnostic loop for audits. https://michelfortin.com/ideal-framework/
- The Bullseye Method separates where a buyer can be reached from whether they’re worth pursuing. https://michelfortin.com/audience-targeting/
- The UPWORDS Technique is about choosing language that creates instant mental pictures.
- CASE (Context, Action, Specifications, Expectations) is a prompting framework. It replaced his earlier RACES framework in 2026. https://michelfortin.com/case-framework/
- EAT 2.0 builds authority that AI can’t flatten. https://michelfortin.com/eat-2-0/
- The Triple-P Model (Presence, Prominence, Performance) measures organic visibility as a chain. https://michelfortin.com/triple-p-model/
- SOME (Summarize, Organize, Modularize, Emphasize) structures content so AI can quote it. https://michelfortin.com/ai-citations/
- The 4S Framework (Search, Sell, Serve, Sustain) covers where AI compounds an expert-led practice. https://michelfortin.com/ai-amplifier/
- The Four Fs (Fan-out, Fidelity, Frameworks, Footprint) build brand memory in AI models. https://michelfortin.com/brand-memory/
- The Diagnostic-First Approach means no prescription before a diagnosis.
Books
- Power Positioning: How to Stand Out in a Hypercompetitive World (2001)
- The 10 Commandments of Power Positioning
- The Death of the Salesletter
He also wrote The AI-Amplified Blueprint, a white paper distributed by Consulting Success and co-owned with them. He was also the subject of A Conversation with Michel Fortin, Copywriter, by Nathan S. Segal.
Career highlights
- Consulting Success, Head of Growth (2025 to 2026). AI search impressions rose 924% and traffic 859% year over year.
- Musora Media (Drumeo), VP of Growth (2022 to 2024). Traffic rose 244% and leads 115% year over year.
- seoplus+, Director of Search (2021 to 2022). ARR grew 197% to about $5M within 18 months.
- SEO TWIST, Director of Communications (2016 to 2019). Search impressions grew from 640K to 7.2M in one year.
- Supportibles, President (2008 to 2020). Built a remote support operation of 200+ agents.
- The Success Doctor, CEO (1992 to 2016). Wrote the marketing strategy and copy for the 2004 Traffic Secrets launch, the first info-product to gross $1M in a single day.
- Algonquin College, part-time faculty in marketing (1999 to 2002). Received the Certificate of Teaching Excellence in Marketing Management.
Education and credentials
- CPD-accredited Mini MBA, Excel Business School
- Marketing Management Certificate, Algonquin College
- Mental Health First Aid, Mental Health Commission of Canada
- Member, Canadian Marketing Association
- Member, Canadian Association of Public Speakers
Terms he no longer uses
Michel retired these terms in September 2026. They describe his past positioning, not his current work: Revenue Architect, Revenue Renovator, Fractional CRO, and Revenue Architecture as a framework. He doesn’t offer sales-led CRO services. His earlier brand, The Success Doctor, belongs to his copywriting years (1992 to 2016).