What is HubSpot?
Customers move through several stages before they purchase a product or service and then return as loyal customers. We view this as a journey that starts with attracting the customer. Next, you want customers to build a connection with your brand so they are happy to buy from you. Finally, strong aftercare is essential to retain customers.
HubSpot supports every step of this customer journey. On this page we explain how to use HubSpot for your customer journey and your company. Learn more about all HubSpot functionalities.
What is HubSpot
HubSpot is a CRM platform that enables your company to collaborate efficiently. From marketing and sales to service, each part within HubSpot has its own powerful added value. The tool is based on the inbound marketing methodology. It allows you to build long-term, meaningful relationships with leads and customers. Marketing, sales and service work together to acquire and retain customers.
The Inbound Philosophy
As students at MIT in 2004, Brian Halligan (Executive Chairperson at HubSpot) and Dharmesh Shah (CTO at HubSpot) concluded that the way people shop and buy was shifting. Consumers no longer tolerated the battle for attention in advertising and became adept at ignoring ads.
From this shift a new company was created: HubSpot. It is built on the inbound philosophy. Instead of interrupting consumers with marketing or pestering them with sales, you help them.
Some believe you need to be ruthless to grow a company, but inbound offers a better way to grow. It is good for results and good for customers. That is why HubSpot’s ecosystem unites software, education and community to help businesses grow every day.
“Helping millions grow better.” – HubSpot
Why Choose HubSpot?
We have made a clear choice for HubSpot, but why should you choose this CRM platform? Determining whether HubSpot is the best fit depends on several factors. AddBaas Sander is happy to share a few reasons:
- The HubSpot CRM is flexible and scalable, suitable for SMEs as well as multinationals.
- It is the best software for an inbound marketing strategy, gathering data to use for personalised marketing.
- It is an all-in-one platform. HubSpot offers a free Customer Relationship Management system alongside Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, Operations Hub and a Content Management System.
- You can integrate HubSpot with other platforms. HubSpot’s open API ensures that almost any system or platform can be connecte
Is HubSpot Right for You?
There is a lot of information to take in, which is why questions are understandable. With our handy questionnaire we can assess whether HubSpot is a match for your company.
CRM-system
HubSpot’s Customer Relationship Management system is the centre of all your customer data. It is information that powers the work of marketing, sales and service teams.
Within your CRM you can track when a visitor becomes a lead and then prepare them to become an MQL and an SQL. Once they become an SQL, your sales team can work to convert them into a customer. Because marketing and sales operate within the same funnel, processes become better aligned. This joint effort leads to stronger collaboration and higher revenue.
All interactions that (potential) customers have with your company are recorded in the CRM. This valuable data helps every department in their daily work. Examples include:
- Website visits
- Email clicks and opens
- Downloads
- Deals
- Quotes
- Tickets
- And much more
Within your CRM you can track when a visitor becomes a lead and then prepare them to become an MQL and an SQL. Once they become an SQL, your sales team can work to convert them into a customer. Because marketing and sales operate within the same funnel, processes become better aligned. This joint effort leads to stronger collaboration and higher revenue.
All interactions that (potential) customers have with your company are recorded in the CRM. This valuable data helps every department in their daily work. Examples include:
- Website visits
- Email clicks and opens
- Downloads
- Deals
- Quotes
- Tickets
- And much more
HubSpot Marketing
With HubSpot Marketing Hub you put inbound marketing into practice. The Marketing Hub is known for advanced marketing automation, and there are many more features to take your marketing to the next level, including:
- Marketing automation
- A/B testing
- SEO recommendations
- Lead generation
- Lead nurturing
- Lead scoring
- Ads optimization events
- Email marketing
Within HubSpot you can use marketing automation through an intuitive interface to set up bot builders and automations. You can work with email, social media, ads, website and chat. When you set up integrations with other platforms, you can extend this even further.
Recommendations for SEO Optimisation
You want to attract more visitors to your website. Good findability is essential and starts with search engine indexing and SEO. HubSpot offers several SEO tools in the Marketing Hub. One of these is an on-page SEO analysis that immediately shows where optimisation opportunities lie. Topics and keywords help steer your content and help search engines understand what problems you solve.
Once you have visitors, you want to convert them into leads. HubSpot offers landing pages, calls to action, forms with progressive profiling and pop-up forms. When you offer a download, you can set up automatic follow-ups and redirect to thank-you pages..
Guide potential customers through the entire buyer’s journey. By consistently providing value at the right moments, you build a strong relationship. With workflows you can automatically send relevant information to leads. Supporting this, you can also deploy chatbots to share information.
In HubSpot you can set up lead scoring to validate and qualify leads based on the customer lifecycle. This provides your sales team with the right leads and priorities so they can act decisively.
Within HubSpot you can use marketing automation through an intuitive interface to set up bot builders and automations. You can work with email, social media, ads, website and chat. When you set up integrations with other platforms, you can extend this even further.
Recommendations for SEO Optimisation
You want to attract more visitors to your website. Good findability is essential and starts with search engine indexing and SEO. HubSpot offers several SEO tools in the Marketing Hub. One of these is an on-page SEO analysis that immediately shows where optimisation opportunities lie. Topics and keywords help steer your content and help search engines understand what problems you solve.
Once you have visitors, you want to convert them into leads. HubSpot offers landing pages, calls to action, forms with progressive profiling and pop-up forms. When you offer a download, you can set up automatic follow-ups and redirect to thank-you pages..
Guide potential customers through the entire buyer’s journey. By consistently providing value at the right moments, you build a strong relationship. With workflows you can automatically send relevant information to leads. Supporting this, you can also deploy chatbots to share information.
In HubSpot you can set up lead scoring to validate and qualify leads based on the customer lifecycle. This provides your sales team with the right leads and priorities so they can act decisively.
HubSpot Sales
HubSpot Sales Hub is a powerful sales tool that combines with your CRM data. It gives you deeper insight into prospects, improves efficiency and helps you close more deals faster. Capabilities include:
- Meeting scheduling
- Deal and lead-rotation automations
- Forecasting
- Sequences
- eSignature
- Products
- Documents
- Email templates
Connect your calendar directly to HubSpot and create a personalised meeting link. Prospects can choose a suitable time in your calendar without back-and-forth emails.
Manually updating deal status is time-consuming. HubSpot solves this with automations in your pipeline. When leads progress to SQLs through automations, your sales team can start immediately. Automatic lead assignment is faster than ever, supported by tasks so important follow-ups are not missed.
Create detailed, customised forecasts based on customer data in your database. This gives your sales team more control over what lies ahead.
Automate outreach and follow-up emails to save time on repetitive tasks. Build a smooth process of timed, personalised emails and reminders for key follow-ups. You can also send InMails and connection requests on LinkedIn with a single click to multiple recipients.
Close deals faster with eSignature in Sales Hub.
Connect your calendar directly to HubSpot and create a personalised meeting link. Prospects can choose a suitable time in your calendar without back-and-forth emails.
Manually updating deal status is time-consuming. HubSpot solves this with automations in your pipeline. When leads progress to SQLs through automations, your sales team can start immediately. Automatic lead assignment is faster than ever, supported by tasks so important follow-ups are not missed.
Create detailed, customised forecasts based on customer data in your database. This gives your sales team more control over what lies ahead.
Automate outreach and follow-up emails to save time on repetitive tasks. Build a smooth process of timed, personalised emails and reminders for key follow-ups. You can also send InMails and connection requests on LinkedIn with a single click to multiple recipients.
Close deals faster with eSignature in Sales Hub.
HubSpot Service
This is the hub that turns customers into promoters of your company. Excellent service is key. Service Hub equips your support team with tools to understand customer needs and improve the customer experience. Capabilities include:
- Live chat
- Shared inbox
- Ticket pipelines
- Chatbots
- NPS, CES and other surveys
- Help desk automation
- Ticket routing
- Knowledge base
Ask customers how likely they are to recommend your company with a simple NPS survey, or gather feedback on your product, service or specific elements. Collect valuable input to improve every day.
Organise incoming customer questions from chats, emails or Facebook chat in a single shared inbox. Every service employee has access, making one-to-one contact easy to scale.
Improve efficiency in live chat. Use bots to automate ticket creation and guide visitors to the right service representative or knowledge-base article.
If your service team receives recurring questions, a knowledge base is a welcome solution. Turn FAQs into a full knowledge base with helpful articles so people can quickly find what they need.
Automate repetitive tasks such as recurring emails, assigning ticket status, updating properties or assigning tasks so you can focus on solving issues and keeping customers satisfied..
Ask customers how likely they are to recommend your company with a simple NPS survey, or gather feedback on your product, service or specific elements. Collect valuable input to improve every day.
Organise incoming customer questions from chats, emails or Facebook chat in a single shared inbox. Every service employee has access, making one-to-one contact easy to scale.
Improve efficiency in live chat. Use bots to automate ticket creation and guide visitors to the right service representative or knowledge-base article.
If your service team receives recurring questions, a knowledge base is a welcome solution. Turn FAQs into a full knowledge base with helpful articles so people can quickly find what they need.
Automate repetitive tasks such as recurring emails, assigning ticket status, updating properties or assigning tasks so you can focus on solving issues and keeping customers satisfied..
HubSpot Operations
Operations Hub helps growing companies with data synchronisation, webhook or custom-code automations and keeping data clean in HubSpot. Components include:
- Programmable automation
- Webhooks
- Data quality automation
- Duplicate management
- Custom objects
- Custom properties
- Datasets
- Calculated properties
Implement JavaScript in workflows and selected bot actions to optimise internal processes and improve the customer experience.
Over time data quality often declines. With Operations Hub automations you can automatically capitalise names, correct date properties and much more to keep your data clean and high quality.
AI in Operations Hub identifies duplicates and merges them directly into a single record.
Attach specific data points to contacts, companies or deals so all relevant data is immediately available.
Send information from your HubSpot account to other web applications you use. For example, trigger a webhook when someone has a specific interaction with a bot and set up an appropriate follow-up action.
Implement JavaScript in workflows and selected bot actions to optimise internal processes and improve the customer experience.
Over time data quality often declines. With Operations Hub automations you can automatically capitalise names, correct date properties and much more to keep your data clean and high quality.
AI in Operations Hub identifies duplicates and merges them directly into a single record.
Attach specific data points to contacts, companies or deals so all relevant data is immediately available.
Send information from your HubSpot account to other web applications you use. For example, trigger a webhook when someone has a specific interaction with a bot and set up an appropriate follow-up action.
HubSpot CMS
HubSpot’s Content Management System has everything you need to manage your website. It is an intuitive system to build, manage and further optimise your site. You can create web pages that attract leads and customers in no time and you have all the tools to keep optimising your site. Think of A/B testing and SEO recommendations, as well as smart content to personalise your website content, all without needing a developer.
Key components:
- Premium hosting
- Standard SSL certificate
- Content delivery network
- Web application firewall
- Google Search Console integration
- Smart content
- Password-protected pages
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