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Empowering Marketing and Sales with HubSpot

By : Resa Gooding
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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?

Converting traffic to customers using inbound marketing

We now understand what it takes to generate interest for your product, but how do we take it to the next level and convert this traffic to paying customers? Let's take a look at how the entire process can look. For your new product or service launch, hosting a webinar is a good tactic to generate leads (inbound tactic), and promoting that webinar on LinkedIn (inbound tactic) will get you brand awareness as your existing followers will see those posts. And, even though they may not all choose to register, some may share it or tag people they know might be interested. But, after the webinar, we need to also be on top of how we nurture those leads (inbound tactic) until they convert to a sales opportunity.

The point is that the second phase of inbound marketing, engage, is just as important as the first, attract, and for companies who fail at inbound marketing, the reason is usually that they did not plan for the entire customer...