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How to Use HubSpot to Convert Leads into Customers

Mar 15, 2024 / by Meghan Hultquist posted in sales, marketing, HubSpot, sales enablement, strategy, lead conversion, customer acquisition

Converting leads into closed customers is often the ultimate goal for sales and marketing teams. With the myriad of tools and tactics available, it can feel challenging to streamline the lead conversion process efficiently. However, HubSpot stands out as a comprehensive solution that empowers businesses to transform leads into customers seamlessly.  

HubSpot is much more than just a CRM; it's a powerhouse for marketing, sales, and customer success. At its core, HubSpot offers a unified, easy-to-use platform that allows businesses to effectively manage their leads, automate marketing and sales processes, and track customer interactions carefully. 

In this post, we'll explore some key lead conversion strategies as well as the ways that HubSpot empowers teams to convert and nurture leads into closed deals and customers.

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RevOps 101: Setting Up HubSpot for RevOps Success

Mar 6, 2024 / by Meghan Hultquist posted in sales, marketing, HubSpot, RevOps, Revenue Operations, customer success

Breaking down silos across critical business functions is a struggle for many organizations. The most successful and scalable teams today have a key factor in common: they function as a cohesive revenue team that competently and elegantly handles revenue operations, better known as RevOps.

RevOps is the strategic alignment of sales, marketing, and customer success operations across the full customer lifecycle to drive growth. RevOps maximizes revenue and growth through operational efficiencies and alignment of all teams, systems, and processes with an extraordinary focus on revenue and your customers.

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How to Set Up Your Deal Pipeline and Stages in HubSpot CRM

Jan 30, 2024 / by Meghan Hultquist posted in sales, technology, HubSpot, sales enablement, strategy, RevOps, CRM, Revenue Operations

Editor's Note: This blog was originally published in July 2018 and updated in May 2019 and January 2024.

HubSpot CRM is a great tool to help sales leaders gain visibility into their pipeline and to implement measurable change in their organization.

Click here to get the HubSpot CRM now. It’s free and it’s awesome, we promise.

Setting up well-defined deal stages is an important first step to gaining insight into your sales funnel and improving sales team performance.

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How to Use HubSpot Lead Scoring to Close More Customers

Jan 20, 2022 / by Meghan Hultquist posted in sales, technology, marketing, marketing automation

Blog originally published Sep 4, 2018.

Having a healthy stream of leads coming in from your website is a great first step toward generating revenue attributable to your marketing efforts. But turning those leads into customers requires a bit more strategic attention.

Lead scoring is a valuable tool that any sales and marketing team can implement to close more customers. Lead scoring is a system that ranks your prospects based on their perceived value to your organization. It is an automated way to identify and hand off your hottest leads to your sales team so they can work their magic and close more deals.

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6 Free Integrations and Apps to Supercharge Your HubSpot Portal

Jul 15, 2021 / by Lex Hultquist posted in sales, technology, HubSpot, customer acquisition, optimization

There are now thousands of apps that seamlessly connect with HubSpot, plus tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands existing API configurations with custom apps that exist to help companies grow better.

Every organization has its own set of priorities when it comes to infusing HubSpot across its specific tech stack; however, there are a number of high-value, free-version apps every company can connect to HubSpot in order to extract more value from the platform. We've outlined six of these free apps to get you started maximizing your HubSpot investment. (and a bonus with Google Sheets at the bottom!)

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Lead Generation Tips: When Cold Calling Isn't Working Anymore

Dec 28, 2018 / by Meghan Hultquist posted in sales, sales enablement, lead generation

If you've been noticing a diminishing return on your cold calling investment, you're not the only one. Digital technology has massively disrupted the way business communication is conducted, and sales teams are seriously feeling the impact. 

The harsh reality for many sales teams is that in today's modern marketplace, cold calling just isn't sufficient to hit your sales and growth goals.

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11 Clever Ways to Use the HubSpot Prospects Tool

Nov 7, 2018 / by Meghan Hultquist posted in sales, technology, HubSpot, sales enablement

The HubSpot growth stack includes tons of useful tools for sales and marketing teams. One of its most powerful and intriguing features is known as the Prospects tool. It's a tool that's been around since the very early days of HubSpot, and it's one of the most interesting features to both new and existing HubSpot customers.

Understanding the potential power of the HubSpot Prospects tool and how to leverage it gives marketing and sales teams a huge competitive edge.

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HubSpot Tools to Speed Up Your Sales Process and Close More Deals

Sep 12, 2018 / by Meghan Hultquist posted in sales, technology, HubSpot, sales enablement, marketing automation

The world’s most popular marketing automation platform, HubSpot, is primarily known for its ability to help marketing teams, but there are so many powerful facets of the software that are designed to supercharge sales for your company.

Many sales leaders are cautiously optimistic about marketing automation software like HubSpot, but they're just not sure how the technology applies to them. 

HubSpot includes a full set of sales productivity tools that help streamline and speed up your sales process. These technology tools allow sales teams to spend more time selling, shortening average sales cycles and increasing sales team happiness. Let’s take a look at some of the top tools helping sales teams fuel performance.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Marketing Automation

Aug 23, 2018 / by Meghan Hultquist posted in sales, technology, sales enablement, marketing automation

Marketing automation exists primarily to help companies generate revenue. Because, really, what's the point of marketing if it's not generating revenue? The way we see it, marketing shouldn't even be happening at your company if it's not strategically generating revenue in a predictable and scalable way.

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4 Emerging Technologies on a Collision Course with Marketing and Sales

Aug 21, 2018 / by Lex Hultquist posted in sales, technology, marketing

Technology in the marketing and sales space is evolving rapidly, with more capabilities and innovations emerging every day.

The disruption potential of these major technologies is tremendous. In a space that has already been massively revolutionized in the era of digital, marketing and sales leaders must prepare to adapt their technologies, business models, and personnel in order to keep up with the future.

Here are four of our favorite emerging technologies on a path sure to intersect with marketing and sales very soon.

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