The Agency Alternative

B2B Marketing Agency
Where Every Dollar You Spend Is Traced to Revenue.

You've hired agencies. You've tried the intern. You've thrown money at ads, video, a new website, maybe even a podcast. Some of it worked. Most of it didn't. And the worst part? You can't prove which was which.

$62M+
Revenue Tracked
218+
Companies
12.9x
Avg ROAS
The Fragmentation Tax™
Why 70% of B2B Marketing Budgets Can't Prove ROI

The Hidden Cost of Disconnected B2B Marketing.
It Was Never Connected.

One agency for SEO. Another for ads. A freelancer for content. An email platform collecting dust. A CRM that's become a data graveyard.

Everyone reports their own metrics. Nobody can tell you which activities actually drive revenue. After months of fees, you still can't answer: "What did we get for our money?"

You're spending 20–30% of your annual revenue maintaining this mess — paying for the best deal on each piece instead of the best system connecting all of them.

"If you pulled the paper trail right now — every invoice, every retainer, every 'let's try this for a quarter' — you'd see a mountain of deposits. But where are the receipts?"

That's the fragmentation tax. It's not a billing line item. It's the hidden cost of disconnected marketing — the leads that fell through the cracks, the campaigns that couldn't be measured, the revenue you should have closed.

Curious what it's costing you? Run the numbers →

Where Your Marketing Budget Actually Goes
Agency Retainers
Unattributed
Unknown
Traced
Freelancers
Unattributed
Unknown
Ad Spend
Unattributed
Unknown
Traced
Tools & SaaS
Unattributed
Unknown
Internal "DIY"
Unattributed
Can't attribute to revenue
Unknown impact
Traced to closed deals
The average B2B company can attribute less than 15% of marketing spend to actual revenue.
The Proof
Revenue Closed — Not Clicks Counted

$62M in Revenue Attribution.
218+ Companies. 12.9x Average ROAS.

Those aren't impressions. They're not clicks. They're closed deals — tracked from first touch to signed contract.

$62M+
Revenue Attributed
from first touch to closed deal
12.9x
Average ROAS
across all engagements
218+
Companies
that stopped guessing

$691K in Hidden Revenue

A B2B services company discovered revenue trapped in disconnected systems. We found it, connected it, and made it repeatable.

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12.9x ROAS Across 218+ Companies

Not a single outlier — our average return across every engagement. One strategy, one CRM, one scoreboard producing consistent results.

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What Clients Say
5.0 5 Reviews on Google

"Working with Steve and Melissa has been such an easy process! They work tirelessly to get your message out and go above and beyond to make it as simple as possible. Their expertise and professionalism is outstanding! When we opened Midwest Hyperbarics so many people didn't know what it was or how it would work for them and they were willing to learn everything about it to help us reach those who would benefit from it!"

Nicole Todd
Owner, Midwest Hyperbarics — Sioux Falls

"Working with Steve and Melissa at Gravity Growth has been Fantastic. As a growing construction Business, the last thing on my mind is brand building and getting in front of a camera. They have done a great job pushing me to get in front of the camera and tell our unique story. Gravity gets it! Their team of video editors and camera men have been fantastic. The quality of video and audio combined with the ability to ask the right questions to tell the story has been exceptional."

Ryan Senden

"Steve and Melissa are incredibly smart and experienced. DTI has worked with 'marketing' firms for 3 years, and Gravity Growth is by far the best. Steve has technical knowledge that I have never witnessed in other marketing firms. A+++"

Dr. Daria Bell

"Fantastic marketing group to work with. Incredibly engaged and responsive. The marketing work and results they have produced have been excellent. Very happy!"

Travis Liddell, MD

"It's not too often you get to work with a company that continuously makes promises and not only follows through on those promises, but always over delivers going above and beyond each and every time. Could not recommend working with them more!"

Jada Hieb
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Companies That Stopped Guessing
Advanced Laser Restoration — GRAVITY Growth client, Sioux Falls Expansion Capital Group — GRAVITY Growth client Jans Corporation — GRAVITY Growth client Radiant Health and Hormone — GRAVITY Growth client, Sioux Falls Vitality Growth Labs — GRAVITY Growth client, Sioux Falls Midwest Hyperbarics — GRAVITY Growth client AMPO — GRAVITY Growth client, Sioux Falls Kinetico Water Systems — GRAVITY Growth client, Sioux Falls Brain Health and Chiropractic — GRAVITY Growth client, Sioux Falls Naviguer Consulting — GRAVITY Growth client
Headquartered in Sioux Falls. Serving B2B companies across the Midwest — Minneapolis, Fargo, Omaha, Des Moines — and nationwide.
The Person Behind the System
25 Years From Door Knocks to Revenue Systems

Built by a Sales Leader.
Not a Marketing Agency.

Steve Schmidt, Founder and CEO of GRAVITY Growth, B2B revenue marketing agency in Sioux Falls SD
25+
Years in Sales
Top 1%
T-Mobile B2B
$62M+
Revenue Tracked

Steve Schmidt
The Seller Who Built the System

Founder & CEO
2001 — The Beginning
Direct Outbound Sales
Started where every great seller starts — door knocking, cold calling, grinding. No automation. No sequences. Just a pitch, a pair of shoes, and the willingness to hear "no" a hundred times a day.
2012–2018 — T-Mobile B2B
Top 1% Seller → #1 Sales Team in the Nation
Cold email at scale changed the game. Within a year, Steve became a top 1% seller at T-Mobile. Then built and led the #1 B2B sales team in the entire company — holding that position 16 out of 19 consecutive quarters.
800%+ to quota × 7#1 team — 16 of 19 quarters
2018 — Outreach
Enterprise SaaS — Intelligent Automation
Hit 398% of fully ramped quota in the first two months. Outreach was the frontier of intelligent automation — where Steve saw the future: sales and marketing as one integrated system.
398% quota — first 2 months
2019–2020 — TIDAL
Founder → M&A Exit
Founded TIDAL, a global Sales Development firm executing cold outreach for 100+ companies. Proved the model. After 16 months, TIDAL went through an M&A — Steve exited with his sights on something bigger.
100+ clientsSuccessful exit
2021–2025 — Magnetic
Executive Ghostwriting + Outbound Automation
Three years merging sales and marketing. Produced SpotLight Sioux Falls — 100+ business owners featured, 250K+ monthly viewers — proving the ability to light up markets from the ground floor.
SpotLight: 250K+ monthly viewers100+ business owners featured
2025–Present
GRAVITY Growth — The Agency Alternative
Everything led here. 25 years of selling, building, and exiting distilled into one fully integrated, ROI-rich solution. GRAVITY delivers the core pillars business owners need — all connected, all tracked, all yours after 12 months.
T-Mobile B2BOutreachAT&TTIDAL (Founder / Exit)MagneticSpotLight Sioux FallsGRAVITY Growth
The Cost of Waiting

Every Month Without a B2B Revenue System
Is Revenue You'll Never Get Back.

The fragmentation tax doesn't send you an invoice. It just quietly compounds — in lost leads, misattributed wins, and campaigns you can't replicate because nobody knows what actually worked. The longer you wait to connect the dots, the wider the gap between what you're spending and what you're earning.

The System of Things™
From Revenue Goal to System You Own

Your B2B Marketing System. Built, Handed Off, Owned.
12 Months. Three Phases. Then It's Yours.

This isn't "hire an agency and hope for the best." We engineer a complete B2B marketing system — strategy, content, distribution, CRM, and full attribution — custom-built for your business. After 12 months, you own the entire engine.

Phase 1

Align & Build Core

Months 1–3

Clarity Sprint™ — We agree on the revenue goal. Align your buyers, offers, and messaging. Core systems get built: website, initial SEO, CRM integration. First results start showing.

Phase 2

Execute & Scale

Months 4–8

Video production fires. Paid channels perform. Attribution gets dialed. Pipeline becomes predictable. You see exactly what's working across every channel in your CRM.

Phase 3

Document & Own

Months 9–12

Full documentation. Team training. System handoff. You own everything — video assets, website, automation, attribution. No ongoing dependency. No retainer trap.

When you stop paying an ad agency, leads stop. When you finish with us, you own the system.

What's Inside the System
Seven Integrated Components. One Revenue Engine.

Integrated B2B Marketing System.
Every Dollar Traced.

01

Video Production

Executive-led video that builds trust before your first sales call. Your leadership on camera, creating authority that compounds.

Explore Video →
02

Website That Converts

Built for pipeline, not pageviews. Every page traced to revenue. Conversion-optimized with automated lead capture and nurture sequences.

Explore Web Design →
03

SEO & AI Search

Rank where buyers look — Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity. Technical SEO, local SEO, and content that intercepts demand at the moment of need.

Explore SEO →
04

Paid Ads That Prove ROI

Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube pre-roll — every dollar traced to closed deals in your CRM. Not clicks. Revenue.

Explore Ads →
05

YouTube & Long-Form

A channel that compounds trust over time. Executive thought leadership, podcast content, and authority-building video strategy.

Explore YouTube →
06

Distribution Engine

Your content pushed to every channel your buyers use. Not a posting calendar — a coordinated system that drives reach and engagement.

Explore Distribution →
07

CRM & Attribution

The connective tissue. Lead scoring, email sequences, full-funnel attribution from first click to closed deal. The scoreboard that proves it all.

Explore Attribution →

When every component shares one strategy, one CRM, and one scoreboard — the system compounds. That's not a theory. That's $62M in tracked revenue across 218 companies.

Knowledge Base
B2B Revenue Systems

B2B Marketing Questions Answered by Revenue Experts

The questions CEOs actually ask — answered with data, not fluff.

01 Revenue Systems & Attribution

An integrated marketing and sales infrastructure where every component — video, website, SEO, ads, CRM — works together and traces to closed deals. One strategy, one CRM, one scoreboard. GRAVITY builds these in 12 months, then hands you the keys. See our packages.

Every touchpoint — ad click, video view, email open, page visit — is tracked from first touch to closed deal. When a deal closes, you know exactly which activity contributed. We've tracked $62M+ in attributed revenue across 218+ companies. See our case studies.

A traditional agency sells you services on a monthly retainer — stop paying, everything stops. A revenue system is built over 12 months with full attribution, then handed off to you. You own the video assets, the website, the automation, and the tracking. No ongoing dependency. No retainer trap.

The fragmentation tax is the hidden cost of using disconnected marketing vendors — one for SEO, another for ads, a freelancer for content. Each reports their own metrics, nobody owns the full picture, and you can't trace any activity to actual revenue. Companies with integrated systems eliminate this tax and typically see 3x better growth outcomes.

02 Cost, Fit & Timeline

GRAVITY offers three tiers: Foundation ($3K–$5K/month) for $1M–$3M companies, Growth ($5K–$10K/month) for $3M–$10M, and Scale ($10K–$15K/month) for $10M+. Every tier includes video, website, SEO, ads, and attribution. See transparent pricing.

GRAVITY works best with B2B companies doing $1M–$10M in revenue where leadership is willing to be on camera and the team is ready for a 12-month system build. If you're looking for a logo redesign, a social media calendar, or "brand awareness" as a primary KPI, we're not the right partner — we measure revenue closed, not impressions. Book a free strategy call.

Website and SEO foundations show results in months 1–3. Paid channels and video compound during months 4–8. By month 9, pipeline is predictable and attribution is dialed. Full system handoff at month 12. See real timelines in our case studies.

Hiring a marketing generalist costs $80K+ in salary alone, plus tools, training, and a year to ramp. A traditional agency gives you rented work with no ownership. A revenue system gives you the best of both — expert execution for 12 months, then you own the entire machine and can run it with a smaller internal team.

03 Video, SEO & AI Search

Executive-led video builds trust before the first sales call. When your leadership is on camera, prospects feel like they already know you. A single video series tracked to $334K in attributed revenue for one GRAVITY client. Video is the gravitational center that pulls SEO, ads, and social together.

AEO ensures your business shows up when prospects ask AI tools — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI — for recommendations. It requires structured content, schema markup, and authoritative answers that AI models can cite. Companies investing in AEO now will dominate their categories as AI search grows. Explore SEO & AEO.

The playbook that gets most companies to $1M — referrals, word of mouth, founder-led sales — stops scaling. Growth stalls when there's no system generating qualified leads independent of the founder's personal network. The fix is building an integrated revenue system where every marketing dollar traces to a closed deal.

We serve B2B companies across manufacturing, professional services, healthcare, logistics, technology, and more. Based in Sioux Falls, SD, we work with companies locally and nationally. The methodology is the same — the execution is customized for your vertical. See our diverse client base.

Free · 30 Minutes · No Pitch Deck

Stop Guessing.
Start Proving.

30 minutes with a Sioux Falls B2B marketing team that measures revenue, not impressions. We'll agree on a revenue goal and show you what the system looks like to hit it. Whether we work together or not — you'll leave with clarity.

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One system. One goal. One scoreboard.
GRAVITY Growth · 2611 W Sudbury St, Sioux Falls, SD 57108 · 605-214-8000