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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?

Chapter 4: Empowering Your Sales Team through HubSpot

HubSpot is more commonly known for its marketing automation capabilities than its sales capabilities. However, in recent times, their sales tools have become more robust, often putting them ahead of the competition as it helps remove the friction that can exist between a prospect and salesperson. Today, more companies are using the platform to also power their sales activities as, first, it is mostly free to access, and second, it provides a few key advantages, as follows:

  • It allows both marketing and sales teams to see the entire journey of the customer from the first interaction with your business to the moment they became a customer.
  • It creates the perfect setup for sales and marketing teams to work closely together since they each have full visibility into each other's activities.
  • It reduces the company's investment in technology as they now only need to invest resources in paying for and managing one...