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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?

Defining your sales process

Most business sales processes are well...lacking a process. Sales teams often cite the need to do things their own way and rebuke any level of input or system that gives insights into their daily activities. But this is not the main purpose of investing in a CRM or building a sales process. The goal is not to be a "big brother," but instead to implement a set of repeatable steps that each member of your team can take to move a prospect from a lead to a customer. The goal of such a process is to help your reps consistently and successfully close deals with a framework that works.

In addition, setting up a well-defined framework for your sales process in HubSpot gives the following added value to the marketing team:

  • It allows Marketing to tie the ROI from campaigns directly to the revenue generated.
  • It can be used as a future indicator to approximate the number of customers and the amount of revenue a particular campaign should generate...