HubSpot - Highly Recommended for Inbound Marketing
- The product is not just the software. We had a great experience with their services team which was like a "coaching relationship" so they sent standard homework assignments and lined up 30-minute meetings every-other-week. This coaching relationship solved the problem of "we have lots of ideas but we don't execute them".
- Hubspot automated the KPIs we needed to present at our board meetings and showed trends in traffic, traffic source, keyword search, landing page conversion rates etc.
- Before Hubspot, creating a landing page required a lot of time and planning. With Hubspot, it was easy for us to create dozens of landing pages and we could create one for a specific campaign in less than an hour! This meant more targeted marketing and better visibility into campaign performance.
Cons
- I don't think the nurture program (e-mail campaigns) were very good as compared to Pardot, Eloqua, or Marketo, for example.
- The social media features were limited and I never figured out how to leverage these - for example, it would be nice if HubSpot had the equivalent of HootSuite integrated so it could send out tweets on a schedule etc. But if there was such functionality, I never saw it!