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How many customers is your online presence actually bringing in?

A beautiful website doesn’t necessarily mean it’s generating business. All too often, we see companies being taken advantage of by agencies and not seeing results from their marketing investment.

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Client sales generated
$850m+
Leads generated
1,967,850+
Brands
30
Years
12
  • Google Partner
  • Meta Business Partner
  • Clutch
  • Recommended by The Drum
  • Shopify Partner
  • HubSpot Certified Partner
  • TikTok Marketing Partner

We don’t want to be big, we want to be great.

We work the whole funnel rather than one channel of it: what brings people in, what turns them into customers, and what brings them back. One team across all three, so nothing is lost explaining last month to somebody who was not there for it.

With the cost of ads skyrocketing and their effectiveness dwindling, the economics of buying attention have changed. Inbound marketing attracts leads using helpful, relevant content that answers their questions and solves their problems.

Inbound works because it inverts who is doing the interrupting. Instead of buying attention from people who were doing something else, you answer the question a buyer already has, at the moment they have it - which is why the leads arrive better informed and close faster.

It is also the slowest of the channels we sell, and we would rather say so. The first three months are foundation and content with little to show; the compounding starts somewhere between months four and twelve. If you need pipeline this quarter, paid media is the honest answer and inbound is what you build underneath it.

Voyage Travel, where lifecycle marketing returned 1800% ROI
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1800%

return on marketing investment

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What you end up with

  • A pipeline that is not rented

    Content and search compound. Unlike paid, the leads do not stop the day you stop spending.

  • Sales stop chasing cold leads

    Scoring and nurture mean your team spends its time on people who are actually close to buying.

  • Fewer, better enquiries

    Qualification happens in the content, so the enquiries that reach you are already most of the way to a decision.

  • Attribution you can defend

    You will know which pieces of content produced revenue, not just which produced traffic.

Is this right for you?

This is for you if

  • You have expertise your market would value and no systematic way of publishing it
  • You can commit for four to twelve months before judging it on revenue
  • Your sales process can pick up and work a lead that arrives informed

It probably is not if

  • You need leads this quarter and nothing else is running
  • Nobody in the business can give a few hours a month to subject expertise
  • Your buying cycle is genuinely impulse-driven, where paid does the job better

Increased our customer base. They’ve been helping us for more than 3 years. Neige Marketing is really professional and helpful. We have Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and SEO services with them. We have increased our customers base and they are loyal. Their team really cares about their customers and willing to help all the time.

Raymond TurnerVal d’Isère, FR

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What’s involved in inbound marketing?

  • Automated Workflows
  • Blogging
  • Buyer Personas
  • CRM Tracking
  • Keyword Research
  • Landing Pages
  • Lead Scoring
  • Opt-In Forms
  • Case Studies
  • Content Strategy
  • Email Marketing
  • Ebooks
  • Guides
  • Surveys
  • Video
  • White Papers

What the funnel actually looks like

Five stages, and the work that moves someone from one to the next. Every programme we run is built against this.

The inbound funnel in five stages, from build and attract through engage and convert to advocacy, showing the channels used at each stage and how strangers become visitors, leads, customers and finally promoters

A flywheel process that turns strangers into brand promoters.

  1. 01

    Attract

    The buyer journey begins when a prospect faces an immediate task or struggle that sends them to the web in search of a solution. You attract them by producing high-quality content that meets their need at the right time.

  2. 02

    Convert

    With optimised conversion paths, each piece of content assists a prospect in their purchasing decision while also strengthening your credibility.

  3. 03

    Score

    Monitoring their engagement and progress in the buyer’s journey, a prospect can be scored and flagged as a lead for follow-up.

  4. 04

    Close

    Through this process your sales team saves time by limiting their focus to ready-to-buy leads, and every closed customer feeds the next cycle.

  5. 05

    Convert the audience you have built

    Traffic and subscribers are not the outcome. Lifecycle sequences, sales enablement content and clear next steps turn an audience into pipeline, and this is the stage most inbound programmes leave undone.

Questions people ask us

If yours isn’t here, ask us directly, and we’ll give you a straight answer, including when the answer is that we’re not the right fit.

How long before we see results?

Early signals in six to eight weeks; meaningful pipeline usually in four to six months. Anyone promising faster is either buying the traffic or describing a different thing.

We tried content marketing and it did not work.

That is common, and it is usually one of three things: content aimed at the top of the funnel only, no conversion path once someone was interested, or stopping before it compounded. We would want to look at which before recommending anything.

Do we need a CRM for this?

For scoring and nurture, yes. If you do not have one we will help you choose something proportionate rather than sell you the largest option.

Who writes the content?

We do, with your input on substance. The bottleneck on most programmes is subject-matter access, not writing capacity, so we plan around a few short interviews rather than lots of your time.

What is the difference between inbound marketing and content marketing?

Content marketing is one component of inbound - the assets that attract and inform. Inbound is the wider system around them: the offer that converts a reader into a contact, the lifecycle programme that nurtures them, the sales process that picks them up, and the measurement joining it together. Content alone produces an audience; inbound produces pipeline.

How do we know inbound is working before leads arrive?

By watching the leading indicators, which move months earlier: pages published against verified demand, index coverage and impressions for target terms, subscriber growth, and the proportion of enquiries arriving already familiar with you. If none of those has moved by month three, the strategy is the problem rather than the timeline.

Ready to kick your marketing and sales into overdrive?

It all starts with a free consultation. Connect with us to discuss your goals and get specific on increasing your leads.

  1. A 30-minute call. No pitch deck.
  2. We audit what you have and tell you what we’d do first.
  3. You decide. No retainer, no lock-in, nothing to cancel.