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Empowering Marketing and Sales with HubSpot

By : Resa Gooding
Book Image

Empowering Marketing and Sales with HubSpot

By: Resa Gooding

Overview of this book

Empowering Marketing and Sales with HubSpot is your comprehensive solution to using HubSpot to achieve your business goals with a flexible and lean approach. With this book, you’ll implement out-of-the-box solutions provided by HubSpot for sales and marketing professionals using all the tools needed to effectively manage your business campaigns, sales, and marketing automation processes. This book will take you through steps to ensure your investment in HubSpot pays off from Day 1. You’ll learn how to set up HubSpot correctly and understand how to generate quick wins for your organization. Next, you will work with important HubSpot tools for SEO, social media, and ads. The book will also show you how to use HubSpot for conversational marketing and create a marketing funnel using HubSpot’s lead capture and engagement tools. In addition to this, you will get to grips with building custom reports, dashboards, and notifications to stay on top of company marketing goals. Later, you will learn how to use HubSpot for inbound marketing and for every type of business, such as manufacturing, agriculture, and eCommerce. By the end of this HubSpot book, you will have the skills you need to be able to set up effective marketing campaigns and leverage the insights gleaned from sales efforts using just one platform.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: HubSpot – Starting Off HubSpot
6
Part 2: Scaling Your Business with HubSpot
14
Part 3: Is HubSpot Right for Your Business?

Identifying issues in your HubSpot portal

Like most things in life, you often don't know you have a problem until something disastrous happens. HubSpot users are often anxious to begin using the platform and prove a return on investment (ROI), as discussed in Chapter 2, Generating Quick Wins With HubSpot in 30 Days, so that they can justify the budget they asked from CEOs to get the platform. This means they often don't take time to plan how they will organize the portal and optimize the tools at their disposal.

Therefore, some of the most common issues customers face after using HubSpot for some time without proper planning are as follows:

  • They can't find or understand anything in your portal. If you find yourself with too many lists or workflows and don't remember why they were created or can't understand the reason why they were created, this means you did not maintain a proper log of your assets. Even if you find yourself scrambling to find...