HubSpot CRM vs. iMIS Engagement Management System

I think at this time, every company should have a CRM. That being said: For smaller companies without a growth perspective, the system might be too big and hard to set up compared to other solutions. If there is a scaling process ahead and you need a system that grows with you, I´d always recommend using HS.

iMIS Engagement Management System is well suited for associations or other non-profits that operate without a lot of bells and whistles. So far in my experience if you want to do more sophisticated operations, marketing in my specific role, then iMIS Engagement Management System may not be the best AMS. It does the basics well but the more high-powered you want to get then the more it's going to cost by having your vendor of choice to work to enhance or upgrade what you have.

• The sales funnel is one of my favorites in the entire industry.
• Their task managing system truly helps Account Executives be on top of every lead and opportunity without dropping the ball.
• The data tracking for KPI truly helps our team set goals and improve weekly.
• The e-mail sequences are top tier as well.

• One-stop-shop. I love that we have one system that will track our income, manage membership, email contacts, manage our website and pull reports.
• Response time on support tickets. Whenever I have a problem using iMIS, I can either log into their support site to submit a help ticket or send it directly from my email account. Someone normally responds to me within the hour and then I will get a solution within the day no matter the time of day I submit the ticket.
• Easy to use widgets. I love using widgets to pull a page together. They have slideshow widgets that use on a daily basis. There are also forum widgets and widgets to pull an already created query to a page you choose to display this information on.

• Let's integrate with Shopper Approved to automate collecting reviews for existing clients. It would be easy with templates and sequences to integrate Hubspot clients and help their businesses grow and succeed. while Hubspot goes above and beyond for them. So many small businesses are manually doing this right now and don't realize there is an easier way.
• I wish there was a way to automatically have Tasks titled to match the email or phone call their correspond within the title. This way when I am looking at my tasks for the day at a quick glance they don't all just say "Followup with" / For example if my subject line in my email is "Ditch Trustpilot," that could automatically populate into the task title, so that I quickly know that I can call them about upgrading from TP to our service."
• Can't think of anything else at the moment

• System Performance: iMIS has always seemed to have had performance issues....sluggish specifically. Though some of that may be in part to some of our customizations, but we don’t think so.
• Integrations with 3rd Party Products: we would like to see more integrations with 3rd party apps.

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.

HubSpot's platform communicates all in one place. It is very organic in how you can find the information with the associations built in. This makes it easy to open an an object and see all the other objects in the CRM at a glance. You are also able to click on the other objects and review those records quickly and efficiently. With just a few clicks you can go from a contact to a company to the deal.

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.

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

The free version alone stacks up pretty well against the mentioned competitors. I believe as your business operations grow, the price points for additional users and needed functionalities will grow as well, and HubSpot is well within competitive pricing to compete with the other enterprise-level systems. I’ve stuck with HubSpot for a long time.

I think both are great tools. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. I really like the CMS component that comes with iMIS. It is important for an organization to be able to quickly build websites to engage their members. iMIS provides tools to do this out of the box.

• Hubspot CRM allows us to save tons of time by automating our workflows and emails that go out to prospects and customers. These can be very detailed by differentiating by product, lifecycle, and vertical
• Hubspot CRM allows us to easily forecast future demos and pipeline (people who have demo'd but haven't closed yet.
• Hubspot allows us to automatically distribute inbound leads. It's the best inbound marketing platform in the world!

• iMIS had a neutral impact on my non-profit organization's overall business objectives. Both the finance and department teams just worked around the limitations that iMIS had.