About Grant Marketing

Welcome to Grant Marketing— We are a brand development and integrated marketing advertising agency specializing in business to business communication and services for manufacturing and business service companies. Based in Newton, MA near Boston, Grant Marketing leverages its many years of experience to help our clients grow their businesses beyond expectations. We do this through a proprietary brand development process, integrated, and targeting marketing and advertising campaigns shaped by thorough research and analysis of both your business and the marketplace.

We offer our clients a full suite of communications solutions including Brand Strategy, Market Strategy, Marketing Support, Website Analysis, Web Design, Web Marketing, Public Relations and Advertising Services. As an experienced B2B advertising and communications company, Grant Marketing will assess your company’s brand position and then develop a strategy tailored to your needs. When you partner with Grant Marketing, online and print materials will work in tandem to create a synergistic marketing campaign, effectively reaching your customers.

Our professional staff gives our clients the personal service that those bigger firms just can’t match. Contact Grant Marketing today and start getting somewhere.

Meet our key Marketing Experts:

Bob Grant
Principal and Founder, Brand Strategist
Bob is the only Certified Brand Strategist in the greater Boston area, and one of only a handful in the country. The certification adds to Bob's extensive experience in industrial manufacturing sales and marketing. As an independent contractor for Thomas Register for more than 20 years, a member of the Thomas Register Winners Circle, and Thomas Register Hall of Fame, Bob worked with more than one hundred manufacturing and industrial distribution companies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Paul Jarosik
VP New Business Development
Paul has years of sales and marketing experience. He worked in various sales and marketing positions with Epic Records/Sony Music Entertainment for 15 years. Paul has been with Grant Marketing for 4 years and currently handles new business development, account management and partner relations at the company. Paul also runs Make Entertainment and consults clients such as Fenway Sports Group and recording artist, Natalie Stovall.

Rob Levinson
Brand Strategist
A Brand Strategist and Business Writer, since 1985 Rob has advised leading consumer, finance, professional services, higher education, non-profit, and technology clients. Early in his career, Rob played increasingly senior roles at advertising agencies in New York (Della Femina, NW Ayer) and Boston (Mullen, Arnold Worldwide) where he developed award-winning brand awareness programs for existing and new product launches. His first foray into technology was as Director, Marketing Communications at ProCD, a pioneering software company that manufactured the first comprehensive compilation of telephone numbers on CD-ROM. Later, Rob was Vice President, Marketing at Rovia, a software company.

Grant Penny
Art Director
Trained in graphic design, Grant was a member of the design team for the North Carolina Museum of History; graphic designer and head of the graphics department for Design Dimension Inc., an international exhibit firm specializing in tradeshow and museum exhibits; and art director of Yellow House Creative graphic design studio.

Justin Gostony
Web Designer and Graphic Artist
Justin is experienced in many various design areas ranging from new internet technologies to traditional print. He has been with Grant Marketing for 3 years and has previously worked with clients such as American Express, Deutsche Bank, and Citibank.

Bob Jaczko
Creative Director
As creative director and public relations manager, Bob has been involved in public relations, writing, and art direction. Bob has worked almost exclusively in B2B marketing, having worked with companies in high tech, semiconductors, scientific instruments, and industrial manufacturing. He has worked with General Electric Engines, Lockheed/Martin, and Integrated Dynamics Engineering. Bob was formerly Public Relations officer for NASA Astronaut Recovery Program Gemini/Mercury, VP Advertising/PR for Wilson, Haight & Welch Inc., and SVP Advertising, Creative Director and General Manager of Doremus/BBDO, Boston.

Jacinta Carrion-Williams
Office/Traffic Manager
Jacinta manages the Grant Marketing office and project traffic for our clients. She also is the chief purchasing agent for print, mailing, and photography services.

Partners:

Pixelgroove
Web Marketing Strategist and Search Engine Optimization
Pixelgroove offers SEO, Web marketing strategies, e-commerce web design, and web analytics. Pixelgroove provides you accurate, insightful and timely data about the performance of your website and the effectiveness of your online marketing campaigns. Troubleshoot the conversion of visitors to paying customers, identify your most profitable PPC keywords and learn which areas of your website you need to improve. Get the actionable data you need to help you make informed business decisions.

Houston Harris, Pixelspace
Web Strategist and Web Development
Pixelspace is a strategic design and communication company providing marketing and sales organizations with strategies to identify, attract, engage and retain customers. We specialize in developing customer-focused, results-driven, technology-enabled communication tools that create competitive advantage.

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Contact Grant Marketing today to see how our team can help your business reach its fullest potential.

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