Competitive read · generated 2026-09-10

Leverage Way

theleverageway.com · Generalist agency for mid-market, complex-sales-cycle B2B and B2C-with-consideration businesses — not a single-vertical specialist; they explicitly serve 8 named industries (private equity, manufacturing, service businesses, SaaS, finance, franchise, education/online training, healthcare) and claim 36–67 industries served overall

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Who you're actually up against

Each of these was found by the tool and then confirmed by fetching that company's own live page on 2026-09-10. If one of them is wrong, that is worth thirty seconds of your time to tell me — it is the most useful thing in this report.

SmartBug Media

https://www.smartbugmedia.com

Full-service HubSpot-elite digital agency (marketing, sales, RevOps, web, customer success) serving mid-market B2B companies in healthcare, manufacturing, SaaS, finance, franchise, and education — the same complex-sales-cycle verticals Leverage Way names.

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New Breed

https://newbreedrevenue.com

A HubSpot solutions partner combining RevOps, demand gen, website/CRM work and AI-powered services for mid-market go-to-market teams across eight named B2B sectors (software, financial services, manufacturing, business services, etc.), not one vertical.

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Sagefrog Marketing Group

https://www.sagefrog.com

Full-funnel B2B marketing agency serving healthcare/life sciences, software/tech, industrial/manufacturing, and professional-services clients, pitching itself as a senior-staffed extension of the client's own marketing team.

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Where the positioning differs

A read, not a measurement.

The browser tab is the first comparison, and yours says the name twice

Your homepage <title> reads "The Leverage Way - Leverage Way", and the page carries no meta description tag at all. The three agencies we checked put the category in that same slot: SmartBug's reads "Full Service Digital Agency | Most Decorated HubSpot Elite Partner | SmartBug Media®", New Breed's reads "New Breed | HubSpot's Top Solutions Partner", Sagefrog's reads "B2B Marketing Agency | B2B Marketing Companies | Sagefrog". The naming shifts inside your own site too — the homepage headline is "The Leverage Way™", the About page opens "At Leverage Marketing", one testimonial says "Leverage Marketing has been a game-changer for us" and another says "Leverage Way transformed our digital marketing". From the outside that reads as several labels for one firm before a buyer has read a sentence, while the other three have already said what they are.

Your first screen sells the method; theirs sell the buyer

Every heading above your testimonials is about how you work: "Custom Digital Marketing Strategies with The Leverage Way™", "Why We Created The Leverage Way™", "The Four Steps of The Leverage Way™". Sagefrog's first screen instead says "Better B2B Marketing" and immediately names four buyers — "Healthcare & Life Sciences", "Software & Technology", "Industrial & Manufacturing", "Business & Professional Services". SmartBug's says "The World's Most Decorated HubSpot Digital Agency." New Breed's says "As HubSpot's three-time Top Partner in North America". A buyer opening four tabs side by side gets three answers to "is this for me" and one answer to "how do you work" — and the second question is usually the one they ask after they have already shortlisted you.

The page that argues against checklists carries a wide one, with the least behind it

Your homepage says other agencies "simply rattle off a list of basic marketing tactics without taking the time to truly understand clients that they serve". Your own top menu then names 18 service pages across four practice areas and 10 industry pages. Breadth by itself is not the odd part — SmartBug's menu is wider still. What differs is what sits behind it: SmartBug names 7 industries with 64 case-study pages published, Sagefrog names 4 service groups and 4 industries with 14, New Breed names 8 industries with 42, and yours names 10 industries with 7. Read side by side, you are the one making the "truly understand clients" argument while carrying the widest gap between what is claimed on the menu and what is evidenced behind it.

Where the content differs

Counted from published pages on both sides.

465 posts on the site, and the newest one is dated seven years ago today

Your blog index shows 12 posts. We opened each and read the publish date off the page: the oldest is 4 October 2018, the newest is 10 September 2019 — seven years ago to the day from when this report was generated. Your site's own post feed reports 465 published posts in total and returns that same 10 September 2019 date as the most recent of all of them. The other three, counted the same way: Sagefrog's newest post is dated 9 September 2026, with 908 posts total and 38 of them published since 1 January 2026; SmartBug's article index opens with 26 August 2026 and runs 144 pages deep; New Breed's index opens with 25 June 2026 and shows 15 posts dated 2026 on the first page alone.

Seven case studies carrying ten industries

Your case studies page lists 7 — Belle Medical, an unnamed online business software training firm, Discount Equipment, Mission Critical Facilities International, Script Relief, Hansen Pole Buildings, Brett Robinson Real Estate — and your page sitemap lists the same 7, so that is the whole shelf. Your industries menu names 10: manufacturing, service businesses, AI/DXP platforms, SaaS, finance, nonprofit, franchise, online training and education, healthcare, private equity. The competitors' sitemaps list 64 case-study pages for SmartBug, 42 for New Breed, and 14 for Sagefrog alongside 81 separate resource pages. A prospect who lands on one of your 10 industry pages and then asks for proof in that industry is choosing from 7 stories asked to cover 10 markets.

No figures on your first screen, and the two on your About page disagree

Counted off the live pages: your homepage carries zero numbers. SmartBug's first screen carries four — "250+ Team Members", "1200+ Professional Certifications", "19 Certified Trainers", "2025 North American Partner of the Year". Sagefrog's carries six — 650 clients, 23 years, 35 Sagefrogs, 10x ROI, 95% retention, 5-star reviews. New Breed's body copy carries two — "500+ HubSpot implementations and over 475 accreditations and certifications". Yours sit one click deeper on the About page: "400+ clients, 36+ industries, and 13 years" in a leadership bio, then "more than 67 industries" and "over 10 million internet leads" three paragraphs below it. Read plainly, that one page gives two different industry counts, 36+ and 67, and a careful buyer reading top to bottom will hit both.

Where they're outpacing you

The two or three things that would be visible to a buyer comparing you side by side.

You sell HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive work, and name no tier anywhere on the HubSpot page

We read your HubSpot Services page end to end and searched its text for the words a buyer shortlisting HubSpot help looks for — Elite, Diamond, Platinum, Gold, "Solutions Partner", certified, accredited. Zero hits. The page covers onboarding, CRM implementation, Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, CMS and reporting, all of it framed as "our proprietary Leverage Way™". SmartBug's own browser tab reads "Most Decorated HubSpot Elite Partner" and its first screen counts "1200+ Professional Certifications" and "19 Certified Trainers". New Breed's homepage says "As HubSpot's three-time Top Partner in North America" and "With 500+ HubSpot implementations and over 475 accreditations and certifications under our belt". Sagefrog carries a dedicated "HubSpot Partner" page in its top menu. From the outside, that buyer reads three scoreboards and one blank, and a blank tends to get read as an answer rather than as an omission.

One of the four publishes prices, and it changes who has to make the first call

Sagefrog's top menu carries a "pricing" item pointing at a tiers-and-packages page. SmartBug's menu carries none. New Breed's menu — "Solutions, Services, Industries, Our Work, Technology, Learn, About Us, Contact" — carries none. Yours carries none. So this is one competitor doing something the other three don't, rather than a gap against the whole field. It reads as a sharper edge against you specifically, because your published first step is the Audit — "a thorough assessment of your current digital presence" — and nothing on the site tells a buyer whether that audit is free, paid, or the opening of a retainer. Comparing four sites, exactly one lets them rule themselves in or out before booking anything, and it isn't the one asking for the deepest first conversation.

The stale date isn't only the blog — it's every door on the site

The newest last-modified date anywhere in your page sitemap, across all 43 pages, is 23 June 2025. Across the 465 URLs in your post sitemap, the newest is 20 March 2025. Across the 32 entries in your glossary, the newest is 4 June 2025. So the industry page you send a manufacturing prospect to carries the same age signal as the blog archive, and there is no corner of the site that reads as recently touched. Sagefrog's post sitemap was last modified on 8 September 2026 — two days before this report was generated — with its case-study sitemap at 19 June 2026 and its resource sitemap at 8 June 2026. A buyer running the ordinary check, "is anyone actually home here", gets the same answer at every door on your site, and it is consistent in the wrong direction.

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