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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?

Exploring third-party tools that can give further insights into your reports

Although the HubSpot reporting tool is quite robust and can definitely meet most of the reporting needs of any marketing and sales team, sometimes there is a preference to combine data from other sources to get a complete outlook of the performance of your marketing and sales efforts. An example of such cases is sometimes a software as a service (SaaS) company has its own platform where the activity of the user takes place and, therefore, in order to measure things such as usage of their product or churn rates, they will need to combine this data related to sales information or even to measure which lead sources bring better customers. Another requirement of dashboards could be the ability to manipulate the layout data, where a user can add a report from HubSpot but also next to it add a report from Google Analytics if needed.

There are a host of platforms that give you the ability to satisfy your reporting...