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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?

Connecting your website to HubSpot

The most common content management system (CMS) used for hosting websites is WordPress. If you are using WordPress, HubSpot has a plugin that, once downloaded, allows you to connect your website to HubSpot. Follow these steps for a successful integration between your website and HubSpot. First, we need to install the HubSpot WordPress plugin.

Follow these steps to connect WordPress to HubSpot using the HubSpot plugin:

  1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
  2. Scroll down to Plugins.
  3. Click on Plugins, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 1.2 – WordPress plugins

Figure 1.2 – WordPress plugins

  1. Click Add New Plugin.
  2. Search for the HubSpot All-in-One Marketing – Forms, Popups, Live Chat plugin, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 1.3 – HubSpot plugin

Figure 1.3 – HubSpot plugin

  1. Click on Install Now. Once the installation is finished, click on Activate.

Once your installation is successfully completed, you will be redirected to a confirmation page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 1.4 – Success screen: your website is now connected to HubSpot

Figure 1.4 – Success screen: your website is now connected to HubSpot

With these actions completed, you have now installed the HubSpot WordPress plugin and connected your website to it.