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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?

Step 4 – conducting an audit for your Marketing Hub

There are several components of the Marketing Hub in HubSpot. For a detailed description of how to use them, you can explore Chapter 6, Geting Known through Social Media on HubSpot, to Chapter 10, Revive your Database with HubSpot's Email Marketing Tools. In this section, we will focus on the most common and important aspects that should be checked for every HubSpot portal, regardless of the types of campaigns they are running.

When performing a marketing audit, there are five critical elements you must check:

  • Contact fields and segmentation
  • Lead source
  • Email campaigns
  • Lead management
  • Reporting

There are, of course, many more items to check, such as landing page optimization, forms, tracking URLs, and much more. But for now, let's take a look at what it takes to ensure these five elements are running properly in your portal.

Contact fields and segmentation

This part of the...