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Strategy, frameworks, and the analysis behind B2B pipeline that compounds.

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Content Marketing

Content Topics That Help Your Sales Process

These are THE 5 content topics guaranteed to drive the most traffic, leads, and revenue Historically, sales has been viewed as a “need to have” activity, whereas marketing has been considered a “nice to have” activity. We don’t blame companies for not seeing the value in marketing, if it’s not connected to driving more sales … Read more

Grey Matter · September 16, 2019
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HubSpot

What is HubSpot and How Do We Use It?

HubSpot is a CRM web-based platform aimed at growing businesses through inbound marketing. Helping businesses tackle everything from education to email marketing, HubSpot is the tool that has it all for companies of any size. With three main “hubs,” Hubspot offers management of: Marketing: Marketing software to help you grow traffic, convert more visitors, and … Read more

Grey Matter · September 14, 2019
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Marketing Strategy

Achieve More With Your Lead Capture Forms With Clearbit Forms

What it is: Clearbit Forms is a form-building tool that makes it incredibly simple to gather information about a lead without them having to type it. It can be customized and used on your website, app, landing page, etc., and easily integrates with your CRM. The integration feature helps compile your new leads and update … Read more

Grey Matter · September 9, 2019
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Positioning

RSG Has Become Grey Matter

We live in an incredibly noisy world today. In the marketing industry alone, there are over 45,000 agencies. Tough break for us, huh? More importantly, how do you make a decision about who the right fit for your business is? That’s why we’re thrilled to share these exciting updates with you. What’s happened? Ready Set … Read more

Grey Matter · September 3, 2019
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Marketing Strategy

Three Tips for Managing Your Inbound Leads

According to Hubspot, inbound marketing is a business methodology that attracts customers by creating valuable content and experiences tailored to them. While outbound marketing interrupts your audience with content they don’t want, inbound marketing forms connections they’re looking for and solves problems they already have. Making sure you manage your leads properly will lead to … Read more

Grey Matter · August 31, 2019
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Marketing Strategy

Do Pop-Up Ads Work?

Why You Should Drop Disruptive Advertising for Inbound Marketing Everyone can agree pop-up ads are annoying. They’re unwanted and disruptive for web page viewers, making for a bad UX. 73% of internet users automatically disapprove of pop-up ads. When a website user is bombarded with pop-up ads, they are immediately inclined to click away from … Read more

Grey Matter · August 23, 2019
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Funnels and Automation

Marketing Automation Software: Friend or Foe?

Take the first steps to determine if you need such tools and if so, which tool is right for you Here’s the lay of the land to get your bearings These tools do have amazing capabilities, and their sales departments will dazzle you with what’s possible. Sounds pretty slick, right? Sure is. However, lest we forget, these … Read more

Grey Matter · July 16, 2019
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Websites

How to Optimize Your Website’s UX with Digital Tools

Businesses are always looking for better ways to understand their customers. One of the largest interactions a buyer has with a company is with their website. It takes about 50 milliseconds (that’s 0.05 seconds) for users to form an opinion about your website that determines whether they like your site or not, whether they’ll stay … Read more

Grey Matter · July 12, 2019
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Marketing Strategy

4 Questions We Are Asked Every Week

1. “We sent out an email but didn’t hear back from anyone.”Just because it hasn’t worked yet doesn’t mean it won’t work at all. Despite the fact that email spam is one of the most hated aspects of the marketing space, it remains one of the most effective communication platforms for B2B sales. The trick … Read more

Grey Matter · July 1, 2019
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Marketing Strategy

4 Stats That Will Change Your Approach To Marketing

1. 74% of marketing directors have little to no confidence they have the right technology in place to achieve their marketing goals.(Nielsen.com) It’s easy to get excited about the capabilities that some of the modern tools today offer. Email automation, lead scoring, real-time metrics… they’re all great to have – if you know what to … Read more

Grey Matter · June 25, 2019
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Marketing Strategy

4 Strategies to Improve Your Marketing That Don’t Include PPC

Pay-per-click advertising is a very reliable way to drive traffic to your website. But it’s not the silver bullet. Here are a few other ways you can supplement your PPC campaigns to improve your marketing outcomes. 1. Write pain-point content There’s only one thing your buyer cares about: solving their problems. When it comes to … Read more

Grey Matter · June 18, 2019
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Websites

Using Landing Pages to Boost Your Conversion Rate: Part 2

Last week, we talked about landing pages and their importance for your business. Today, we are going to talk about our favorite tool out there to build them. What it is: We understand the importance of landing pages, but how do we build them, and more importantly, make them look great and work perfectly? Enter … Read more

Grey Matter · June 15, 2019
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