The Importance of Understanding Your Buyer’s Journey

In sales basics, everyone learns about the “buyer’s journey,” the path a lead takes to become a client. Starting with the awareness stage, moving through the consideration stage, and ending with the decision stage. But truly understanding the psychology behind the buyer’s journey can help your sales team send the right message at the right … Read more

Grey Matter or Full Time Employee?

Every business, large or small, needs a marketing team to build brand awareness and work with the sales team to get conversions. But having a full-time employee, or multiple, may not be the most cost effective way to tackle your sales and marketing needs. Are you stuck in the decision between hiring another full-time employee … Read more

What is Marketing Automation?

Marketing Smarter, Not Harder Gone are the days of hand-typing each email, each personal message, posting each social media engagement. In the current state of marketing, you need to move as fast as the world does to stay ahead, or at least caught up. As your business grows, so should your marketing techniques. Enter marketing … Read more

Selling With Psychology

How to land more sales when you focus on the buying brain Meeting your prospect in the middle and being in the right place at the right time doesn’t often just happen. There is planning and research that goes into making the perfect sales pitch and, more importantly, landing the sale. We at Grey Matter … Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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Industry Recognition

Grey Matter was recently recognized by Inc. as one of the most successful companies in America over a 3-year period. Only 5,000 companies make the Inc. 5000 list each year.

Grey Matter was also named the 4th fastest-growing business in the Greater Cincinnati area over a 2-year period across all business size categories by the Cincinnati Business Courier.

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