Author Archives: Justin Gray

About Justin Gray

Justin Gray is the CEO & Chief Marketing Evangelist of LeadMD. He founded the company in 2009 with the vision of transforming traditional “grassroots” marketing efforts through the use of cloud based marketing solutions. Since that time Mr. Gray has emerged as strong voice for Marketing Automation, Demand Generation and Conversational Marketing through both industry publications and his Blog, The Marketing Evangelist.

Talent NOT Included – What Marketing Automation Vendors Don’t want you to Know

There are a few disclosures I need to make before I start this blog post. LeadMD re-sells a popular marketing automation platform – Marketo. This is well-known. The disclaimer here is that in our business, it simply makes sense to … Continue reading

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Who would win in a fight between marketing automation and a marketer?

The older I get the more simple things seem to become. A long time ago (nearly 20 years!) there was a book that was popular that stated “Everything I learned I Learned in Kindergarten.” You’ve probably heard of it. It … Continue reading

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The Marketing Automation Times Podcast – Justin Gray on MA Success

Our guest for this episode of the Marketing Automation Podcast is Justin Gray, CEO & Chief Marketing Evangelist for LeadMD.  Justin founded LeadMD in 2009 and has spent the last 12 years helping companies overhaul and optimize their marketing and … Continue reading

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All I want for Christmas is Simplicity – The #1 Key to Marketing Automation

The holidays are here again and every year I exclaim a combination of the same things: “Man, that year flew by” and “I really want to keep things simpler this next go around.”  The fact that I say these statements … Continue reading

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Trust in the Garden of Eden

As I was allowing a 60 year old Italian man to straight shave my neck last week at my regular barber (pretty cool old style barber shop – they call it a “whack”), I was suddenly struck by the notion … Continue reading

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The learned responses of Pain and Denial

I remember when I was a kid my parents loaded up the family van and we went on a bit of a road trip.  The destination was “camping”.  No one seemed to know where camping is exactly; maybe that’s the … Continue reading

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What happens at Dreamforce stays at Dreamforce

After Dreamforce last week, 95% of Dreamforce attendee’s blogged about Dreamforce in a “Top (fill in the blank)” take-a-ways format, with a statistic somewhere in the first paragraph – So there, I’ve done both, can we move on now? We … Continue reading

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First Dates

I am terrible at hiring.  It’s a fact.  On the lifetime I have fired as many people as I have hired.  That’s a pretty big number.  I’m not proud of that metric. With my hiring epiphany out of the way, … Continue reading

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Quality (Service) is Like Buying Oats

When I was a kid my father had this plaque hanging on the wall in his office.  The simple plaque of wood and metal read bluntly ‘Quality is Like Buying Oats’. Like most children I grew up with very idyllic … Continue reading

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Marketing Automation is Sick

It’s Monday.  Last week on Friday I got sick.  Really sick.  I never get sick and I hate being sick – the aches, the fever and resultant sweating, the sore throat, the stuffiness – the complete and utter incapacitation.  I’m … Continue reading

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