Your HubSpot CRM and marketing software only work to grow your company if it is set up for your specific business. For instance, start-ups are set up very differently than enterprise-level businesses. A real estate company needs a different configuration than a SaaS software provider.
Topics: HubSpot, CRM, Lead Management
Traditionally, marketing and sales departments have a friendly, but hands-off relationship. If there is a problem with your marketing strategy, sales stays out of it and marketing tries to fix it. If there is a sales problem, sales does not want marketing involved in the solution process.
Topics: HubSpot, CRM, Sales Process, Sales and Marketing Alignment
Let’s flashback to your sales team in the year 2019...
Topics: HubSpot, Sales, CRM, Sales Process, Sales Efficiency
If you think your business’ data is simply about numbers or charts, you’re not seeing the full picture. And, if you think data is about looking backwards and creating important-looking slides for your next presentation, you are missing a big opportunity.
Topics: HubSpot, Sales, CRM, CRM Adoption, Sales Process, Sales Efficiency
Whether you grow your business by cold calling and pounding the pavement, you primarily use an account-based marketing approach, or you generate leads through inbound marketing, content is at the center of your growth strategy.
Even digital entrepreneurs, who claim that you don’t need to create a lot of content to generate leads and sales, still produce a lot of content to spread their message, build a community, and attract new buyers.
Topics: Content Marketing, sales content
Recently, we had a new member join our HubSpot CRM program who has great conversion rates throughout the customer journey - from getting qualified leads to converting those demos into customers.
Then, why did they feel the need to optimize their lead management process and increase efficiency for their sales team?
Topics: CRM, Lead Management, Sales Efficiency
What if I told you that being an expert in the HubSpot platform is only a fraction of what you need to increase sales using the HubSpot CRM? You can spend your nights and weekends getting certified in every feature and button within the platform, but you still may not be fully confident that your HubSpot CRM is set up right for your business.
Topics: HubSpot, CRM, Lead Management, CRM Adoption, Marketing Automation, Sales Automation
I still remember the day that I realized that I was not running a marketing agency.
My team was very good at creating content and generating leads, but we did not have the interest or structure to do it in an agency model.
Our most successful clients leveraged my team to develop complex sales and marketing automation and implement business-specific lead management frameworks. To optimize the post-sales stages of the customer journey, we automated processes, accountability, and reporting in the delivery of products and services once somebody became a customer.
Topics: Productivity, Revenue Operations, Sales Efficiency
News flash - HubSpot is no longer a marketing platform.
This might be news to you. Since HubSpot has done such a good job branding themselves as a leading marketing platform, it's really hard for them to convey that they are no longer simply marketing software.
Topics: HubSpot, Lead Nurturing, Lead Management, Marketing Automation, Sales Automation
The tension between your sales team and your marketing team is one of the most written about or discussed slow-burning feuds on earth.
For some businesses, it is right up there with:
While both teams share a mutual goal of creating revenue for the company, their separate processes and deliverables can make their partnership a living nightmare.
Topics: Productivity, Sales, CRM Adoption, Customer Experience, Sales Process
