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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)
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Part 1: HubSpot – Starting Off HubSpot
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Part 2: Scaling Your Business with HubSpot
14
Part 3: Is HubSpot Right for Your Business?

Scaling your marketing with inbound marketing

In order to use the inbound methodology to scale your marketing, you must first understand that there are five fundamentals of inbound marketing: buyer personas, content, buyer's journey, contacts, and setting goals. Each of them plays a crucial part in your inbound strategy and, when combined, allows you to attract, engage, and delight your customers by empowering them to reach their goals at any stage.

The HubSpot CRM software is built upon this methodology. Unlike other CRM platforms such as Salesforce, Zoho, or Pipedrive, HubSpot is built with the intention of personalizing your interactions with a prospect even when this interaction happens at scale. Therefore, to successfully implement HubSpot and see ROI, you must be willing to think about your entire customer journey and find the best way to keep track of it in HubSpot. But, where do you begin? How do you create a successful inbound strategy? The answer lies in the flywheel...