Thomas Helfrich

InstantlyRelevant.com

Instantly Relevant helps B2B companies grow faster by combining AI, automation, and human expertise into one end-to-end marketing system. We manage everything from social media and content creation (posts, podcasts, YouTube, newsletters) to direct outreach, personal brand growth, and AI-SEO powered, human-written thought leadership articles.

Our value is simple: we don’t just build strategies... we execute them. Clients range from billion-dollar engineering firms and $100M SaaS companies to solopreneurs making $500K–$2.5M annually. Across industries — insurance, engineering, software, marketing, and consulting — our customized approach works because it’s designed around results.

All of this comes for less than the cost of an intern.

Lead AI Marketing Strategist

Cut The Tie (Instantly Relevant, Inc. Company)

Cut The Tie | Own Your Success
Cut The Tie is a multi-channel amplification platform that turns one podcast conversation into a powerful marketing engine. We amplify your story across YouTube, social, blogs, newsletters, digital magazine features, and ads—maximizing visibility, credibility, and ROI.

Podcast Host

Computer Aid, Inc.

Led enterprise adoption of AI and Intelligent Automation across sales, delivery, and marketing functions at a $1B+ services firm.

Designed and executed innovation strategies that modernized operations and improved efficiency.

Created AI-powered solutions that enhanced customer experience and supported revenue scalability.

Served as an executive advisor for technology-enabled transformation, positioning CAI as an industry leader.

Chief Innovation Officer

ISG (Information Services Group)

Trusted advisor to Fortune 500 clients including Eli Lilly and Stanley Black & Decker.

Spearheaded AI and automation strategy programs that optimized workflows and reduced costs.

Partnered with executives to align technology investments with measurable business outcomes.

Delivered scalable process optimization frameworks that improved operational quality across enterprises.

Senior Director, Intelligent Automation Services

KPMG

Executive advisor to global enterprises on governance, AI adoption, and automation frameworks.

Guided clients in adopting new technologies securely and strategically.

Developed frameworks that balanced innovation with regulatory compliance.

Senior Manager

Elsevier

Director Business Technology

Accenture

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Solutions Architect

Win More Marketing Clients, Get Verified | Build trust faster, overcome skeptical buyers, & win more clients | Get Verified, Risk-Free | 1 Mil YouTube Subs / Top 10% Global Podcast

I deliver on the promise of Ai marketing to generate leads and build your brand. In fact, I guarantee it.

I bring together AI, automation, and human expertise to drive measurable growth for clients ranging from billion-dollar engineering firms to $100M SaaS companies to high-performing solopreneurs. Book a time with me here: Calendly.com/instantlyrelevant

My team and I provide end-to-end growth solutions:
• Social media management (LinkedIn, Meta, and more)
• Content production (posts, podcasts, YouTube, newsletters)
• Direct outreach (DMs, connections, network growth)
• Thought leadership + AI-SEO human-written articles
• 1:1 coaching to sharpen offers, systems, and sales flows
• Integrating Ai into you business to achieve measurable results

In the past five years, we’ve helped secure over $500M in contracts, doubled revenue from $40M → $80M in just two years, and scaled small businesses from $1M → $3M ARR. Every engagement is customized—and all of it comes for less than the cost of an intern.

Before launching Instantly Relevant, I spent 20 years in consulting (including KPMG) and led intelligent automation and AI strategy implementations at Eli Lilly and Stanley Black & Decker.

🎙️ In 2024, I launched the Cut The Tie podcast + YouTube channel, which grew into a top 2.5% globally ranked show with 1M+ subscribers—proof that the same growth systems we use for clients work at scale.

👉 Want to see how your lead gen stacks up? Take my 3-minute assessment: assessment.instantlyrelevant.com

Chief Executive Officer

Let's double your LinkedIn revenue with the Instantly Relevant sales and marketing system.

Artem Smirnov

Smirnov Consulting Group

𝗪𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀. Our proven strategies work for any business selling high-ticket products and services like:
-B2B tech companies,
-Financial services companies,
-Advertising agencies,
-Software development companies,
-Marketing agencies,
-SEO agencies,
-Branding agencies,
-UX design studios,
-B2B consultants,
-Advisors,
-Experts,
-Professional service providers,
-Public speakers,
-Business coaches,
-Management consulting firms,
-Construction and civil engineering companies.

**I've worked with many companies and entrepreneurs for the last 12 years, including small businesses and even big brands like Google, HubSpot, T-mobile, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Stripe, IBM, Skoda, MaxMara, Century 21, Lotto, Nestle, Lukoil, Gazprom, KTM, Pirelli, Fisher and Kappa and many many more.**

✅ 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:
- Software development company -> scaled from $7.1 mil to $24.3 mil (revenue) in just 12 months
- UX design company -> scaled from £550k to 4.2 mil (revenue) in 12 months
- SEO agency -> helped them generate $3.1 mil in new contracts in just 11 months
- Facebook ads agency -> $2.6 mil in new contracts in 12 months
- Financial services company -> $31.1 mil in new revenue from the leads we generated for them in 10 months
- IT consulting firm (+software development) -> $18.4 mil (revenue) from new projects they got in just 12 months

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 
✔️ 1-on-1 Coaching / Consulting
✔️ Group Coaching
✔️ Done-For-You Services: hire my team to generate leads and sales for you

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘁: 
- send me a DM here on LinkedIn to see if we are a good fit
- or email me at: artem@smirnovartem.com

𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲:
www.smirnovartem.com

𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹:
contact@smirnovartem.com

LinkedIn

Consistently creating content on this platform for my network.

Content Creator

Facebook

-Custom strategy
-Sales funnels
-Monthly reporting and analysis

Facebook Ads Expert | Helping Businesses Scale Using Paid Traffic

YouTube

Why YouTube? YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google, with millions of visits and hours of video content. It allows reaching a huge audience of potential clients and it is an essential platform to advertise.

The video format allows to connect with your audience in a unique way, generating more traffic to your website, building Brand awareness and increasing conversions. Did you know that you could select your audience by gender, age, interests and physical location? Or even target only those who have previously visited your site through remarketing programs on YouTube?

Youtube Ads Expert | Running Ads For Service-Based Businesses

Web Top Control Ltd.

Managing Director

SPS centrum s.r.o.

SEO, Social Media Marketing and Online Reputation Management. Consulting.
• Keyword research for SEO
• On-page and Off-page optimization
• Facebook, Instagram and Youtube Advertising

On-site Optimisation

Keyword research
Optimising meta title tags, description tags and alt tags
Keyword inclusion in content
Adding Heading 1’s to each page and H2-H6 if necessary
Adding Anchor text
Content Analysis
Duplicate content review
Local SEO
Adding structured data mark-up to the website to give more information about your business to Google
Adding XML, HTML, Video and Image Sitemaps to Google Webmasters

Off-site Optimisation

Link Building
Content Strategy
Directories- Adding business to local directories which includes a back link to website
Search Engine submission to popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo.

Monthly SEO Work 

Monthly ranking report
Monthly analytics report
Blog creation
Submission of website to directories
Competitor analysis
Website content review and then updating content
Anchor text optimisation
Applying any of the recent developments in SEO to the website.
Testing the Meta Title/description tags to optimise their performance.
Monitoring Google Webmaster tools to make sure there are no broken links, URLs not working.

Digital Marketer

CEO at Smirnov Consulting Group 👉 We build client acquisition systems for B2B businesses 🔹 B2B Growth Consulting & Marketing 🔹 We stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

👉 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗱𝗼: I help B2B companies get more leads, sales and clients every single month. To do that I'm using my proven strategies: 𝟭) LinkedIn marketing and lead generation campaigns, 𝟮) cold email campaigns to increase volume up to 1000+ contacts per day (depending on your goals), and 𝟯) retargeting ads (Meta Ads or LinkedIn Ads or Google Ads) to increase conversions.

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿:
Our proven strategies work for any business selling high-ticket products and services like:

-B2B tech companies,
-Financial services companies,
-Advertising agencies,
-Software development companies,
-Marketing agencies,
-SEO agencies,
-Branding agencies,
-UX design studios,
-B2B consultants,
-Advisors,
-Experts,
-Professional service providers,
-Public speakers,
-Business coaches,
-Management consulting firms,
-Construction companies.

**I've worked with many companies and entrepreneurs for the last 12 years, including small businesses and even big brands like Google, HubSpot, T-mobile, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Stripe, IBM, Skoda, MaxMara, Century 21, Lotto, Nestle, Lukoil, Gazprom, KTM, Pirelli, Fisher and Kappa and many many more.**

✅ 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆:
- Software development company -> scaled from $7.1 mil to $24.3 mil (revenue) in just 12 months
- UX design company -> scaled from £550k to 4.2 mil (revenue) in 12 months
- SEO agency -> helped them generate $3.1 mil in new contracts in just 11 months
- Facebook ads agency -> $2.6 mil in new contracts in 12 months
- Financial services company -> $31.1 mil in new revenue from the leads we generated for them in 10 months
- IT consulting firm (+software development) -> $18.4 mil (revenue) from new projects they got in just 12 months

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 
✔️ 1-on-1 Coaching / Consulting
✔️ Group Coaching
✔️ Done-For-You Services: hire my team to generate leads and sales for you

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘁: 
- send me a DM here on LinkedIn to see if we are a good fit
- or email me at: artem@smirnovartem.com

𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗠𝟴 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮 - 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:
https://smirnovartem.com/the-book/

𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲:
www.smirnovartem.com

𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹:
contact@smirnovartem.com

www.smirnovartem.com
𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽: B2B businesses and high-ticket service providers:

-B2B tech companies,
-financial services companies,
-software development companies,
-marketing agencies,
-SaaS companies,
-branding agencies,
-SEO agencies,
-UX design studios,
-B2B consultants,
-advisors,
-experts,
-professional service providers,
-public speakers,
-business coaches,
-management consulting firms.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗱𝗼:
I help you get more B2B clients and scale your business extremely fast. The goal is to help you get 10, 30, 50 or even 100 clients every single month (depending on your goals and the size of your team).

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘁:
-Send me a DM here on LinkedIn
-Or send an email to: contact@smirnovartem.com

Over 2,000 businesses have hired Artem Smirnov for speaking, consulting, training or outsourced marketing services including Google, HubSpot, T-mobile, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Stripe, IBM, Skoda, MaxMara, Century 21, Lotto, Nestle, Lukoil, Gazprom, Raiffeisenbank, KTM, Pirelli, Fisher and Kappa and many many more.

🔹 SPECIALTIES:
| B2B Lead Generation | LinkedIn Marketing | Social Selling | Social Media Marketing | Digital Marketing

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