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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?

Chapter 13: Leveraging the Benefits of the Marketing Flywheel

From the funnel to the flywheel to revenue operations (RevOps), what does it really mean for businesses and—more specifically—for marketing, sales, and service teams?

Before we dive into the tactics, we must first understand the fundamental differences between these three (marketing, sales, and service) concepts. The funnel was the initial concept of how marketing and sales teams attracted and acquired customers. It was a more linear approach to track how many prospects came in from the top and eventually channeled their way to the bottom of the funnel until they became customers.

As customers became more empowered and knowledgeable and the flow of information became easier and more transparent, it became increasingly important for businesses to pay attention to how customers were treated as this eventually impacted their growth. Word of mouth could never beat any other marketing tactic to generate more...