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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?

Best practices for managing your sales pipeline in HubSpot

Ask any sales rep what's the least favorite part of their job and 9 out of 10 times, they will say doing administrative work. Sales reps would prefer spending time on those activities that directly contribute to their bonus plan, so unless you wish to include an incentive for keeping the CRM up to date, the alternative would be to make the process as painless as possible. So how can you achieve that? Let's examine some best practices in this section.

When to set up multiple pipelines

If you have HubSpot Sales Professional, then you have the option to set up more than one pipeline. However, before setting up another pipeline, do ask yourself the following questions:

Do you sell multiple products to various segments of your audience? For example, a company such as HubSpot sells its Marketing Hub mainly to the marketing departments of companies, while the Sales and Service Hub are sold to the sales and customer...