Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool. Basecamp offers features standard to project management platforms, as well as mobile accessibility, unlimited users, and 3rd party integrations. Basecamp is priced by space requirements and concurrent projects.
$15
per month per user
HubSpot CRM
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
HubSpot’s CRM enables growth-minded businesses to optimize their relationships with leads and customers. Through harnessing the power of carefully crafted sales, marketing, customer service, content management, and operations tools, the software aims to make it easy to unify team strategy and drive conversion. Additionally, the software allows users to connect with over 875 integration apps, APIs, and solutions partners to create a customizable user experience that suits the way teams work.…
Like I said, when I worked for a small company, it worked great, but now we are using HubSpot where it has its own project management tool for us to use, so it's just easier to have one platform for everything we do.
I did not need so much of the task features that other CRMs have (which I do like the HubSpot CRM task features and how you can set up future follow-ups with contacts) but those other CRMs are not good if you are not a project-based company, and you have a lot of contacts. If …
HubSpot CRM has the upper hand in terms of ease of usage, change management and training new team members. HubSpot CRM has everything sorted in terms of UX and no team member especially new team members don't feel intimidated by this tool. It is really easy to use and access to …
Compared to Wrike, it is much more user-friendly. It has multiple levels of dropdowns and different ways to view the stats or timelines you're working in. Wrike did not provide these features and made it very confusing to track where each project was. Also, HubSpot CRM creates …
HubSpot offers so many more features over Zoho. It far exceeds what Zoho was capable of and does it far better. The integrations are amazing and the automation makes our lives so much easier in the long run. Zoho wasn’t very user-friendly where I truly believe HubSpot is. Zoho …
It was impossible to get my team to consistently use Base CRM. It was a fine tool, but HubSpot's CRM is superior for our business and our team actually uses and enjoys using the CRM now.
Didn't do any side-by-side comparison. HubSpot CRM came with the HubSpot marketing product, and worked perfectly together right out of the box. And we got Sidekick in addition,making it easy to be happy with what we have in place. Most companies our size (14 FTE) don't have …
Basecamp is a wonderful tool for teams of varying degrees of technical knowledge, teams managing lots of different types of "agifall" and waterfall projects, and teams that are remotely distributed. It's probably less useful for more strictly agile-focused development teams, compared to other more flexible software applications like Jira and Asana.
Well Suited - If you have a small sales team and want to focus on your priority leads - Need a tool to frequently email your top of the funnel to ensure brand recall happens the fastest possible way Not Suited - If you are expecting excellent UI/UX with a gamified approach CRM - Looking for a quick easy to use CRM (HubSpot required technical knowledge to setup).
Task management - It is very easy to add, organize and discuss tasks within Basecamp's interface.
The "Campfire" function is great for communicating when you just have a quick question for someone on the team.
Notifications - Basecamp lets you decide how often and about what you'd like to be notified. The ability to respond to messages in Basecamp directly via email saves a lot of time.
Personalized email campaigns: It helps to create highly effective personalized emails with its wonderful content tokens.
Scheduling of meetings: It eliminates the bottlenecks in the process of meeting schedule with its amazing integrating capabilities with other calendar tools like Google calendar. It also ensures the automatic reminders of meetings to the participants of meeting.
Automation for follow-up : With its feature called "sequences", follow-up emails made easy.
High Learning Curve. It's true that it can be easy to use, but to use well and effectively takes some time to learn. It's recommended to have an agreed-upon system in your team of what tools to use and when.
Notification Overload. If people aren't careful they could send a notification to everyone when only a couple people were meant to be prompted. And since emails are sent by default, you could have your mailbox overloaded with unnecessary updates. This is where it takes a bit of training in your team to have an agreed-upon system.
Lack of organization with Archived Projects. I will often need to reference an archived project to make a new one, but there is only a list of archived projects in alphabetical order, with no way to organize by archive date, or even search.
A lot of my companies have one URL for a ton of branches and each branch has their own name and location so I have to manually enter all the information because they all have the same URL so I can't easily use an Excel file to import those contacts so a faster solution to this would be appreciated
Making Corporate and branch associations is very tedious, it would be nice if the companies that all share the same url would automatically associate with the corporate company so I didn't have to manually do it
I would like to not see all the extra feature tabs in my layout because I am not using them so it would be nice to be able to turn them off (even the ones that are in my plan that I don't use, it would be nice to turn them off)
When I bring new people onto a project, it's immediately obvious how to use Basecamp. I don't have to worry about teaching them the features or walking them through it, it's just incredibly user-friendly. For this reason, I'll continue to renew my subscription even as new people are brought onto production jobs or the client changes.
To be honest there are some barriers due to which we are unable to use Hubspot at it's full potentials. The region that we work in has some restrictions that don't allow us to make calls or text which leaves us to just Email to the client.
It is easy to use, even for clients who have no experience with the platform. It can only get a little cumbersome to ensure that a client can't see certain documents you might want to keep in the Docs & Files folders. And sometimes, getting a client to actually use an unfamiliar platform can be a challenge.
It's incredibly easy to use, pretty intuitive even to those who are not as technically savvy. For all the basics, most people can figure it out. I think the piece that can get tricky is how things are defined and how to correctly label opportunities at certain stages of the pipeline without getting confused or accidentally duplicating work that's already been done.
I've never experienced downtime while using Basecamp, or been unable to access it when I needed it. That's not to say they've never had downtime, but I've been lucky enough not to encounter any, and I work odd hours, including late nights when maintenance is often undertaken.
For the many reasons I've given, Basecamp is a very strong program. There are a few features I can imagine that might make it even better, but I don't have a basis for comparison to be able to say that there is definitely a better one out there. I've noticed that Basecamp has evolved a bit from the time I started using it until now, so that makes me think that the producer of this program values it and believes in continuous improvement. If you could use the features offered by Basecamp, I would think you could use it with confidence.
Because when I needed help HubSpot responded immediately and provided me with the information I needed which enabled me to realize that HubSpot was even more customizable and easier to use than I thought! And I already thought HubSpot was very user friendly and easy to use, and then Support showed me how to manipulate the settings, columns and the appearance of the tool.
Decide the process before implementation - i.e. when it's due 8/9 does that mean 8am, noon, 5pm, 11:59pm? Check your to-do list frequently Set-up templates - just not with the dates (they can be funky)
If you've had any prior experience with cloud based marketing automation or group communication tools, you can do the implementation without paid outside support. Though getting to a SLA (service level agreement) would be best achieved with the help of a third party who can facilitate
Pretty good, but [Basecamp] has its drawbacks. Honestly I find the interface non-intuitive and sometimes have trouble figuring out how to change the status of a task. Perhaps it has something to do with the way it was originally set up by the admin, but I'm not sure. I liked Jira's drag and drop obvious functionality, but the project management side of the software was lacking. Smartsheet has excellent project management functionality, but the task management isn't as good.
This answer may be a little more concise, as it's simpler! Although functionality is fairly similar, Management brought the Sales team into the boardroom and took us through a high-level guided tour of both Pipedrive & HubSpot CRM. It essentially boiled down to which interface do you prefer/which can you see yourselves using quicker/easier/faster? End result: HubSpot CRM based on unanimous decision!
It has saved me time when having to get the same message out to multiple restaurants
It has helped us make smarter operational decisions because we can all collaborate on an answer in a shorter amount of time (instead of calling a meeting!!!)
The calendar function allows us to plot out our marketing agenda for the month and add/change it together as needed. The chef will post his recipe, the managers will cost it out, the social media manager will post pictures on it, and ultimately we will get that information out on an info sheet to the staff by printing the page.