Glad We Have HubSpot, Better than Other Email Marketing Tools
December 10, 2015

Glad We Have HubSpot, Better than Other Email Marketing Tools

Sarah Alban | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with HubSpot

At Mavenlink, we use HubSpot for
- Drip campaigns
- Landing pages
- Resource library hosting
- Lead tracking
- Inbound marketing
- Lead targeting content

In short, we use HubSpot to build a home for our content, target it to the correct audience, and track our success. We primarily aim for solidly targeted content to the right audience, so we can better position our SaaS product and services, generate leads, and retain sound relationships.
  • HubSpot offers great SEO. When I'm writing blogs, it tells me how my titles, metadata, content, and links fare, and where I need to improve. If I don't have internal links in a post, for instance, HubSpot even suggests some.
  • HubSpot lets us easily clone landing pages. So if we need multiple landing pages for an ebook, for instance, we can clone the content and tweak it to a particular need, audience, or distribution channel.
  • HubSpot offers us simplified social-media posting. I can schedule as many posts as I want for a particular blog on all of our social media channels. They make it easy to repurpose content, test tweet language, and vary our posting schedule strategically.
  • HubSpot has a lag time connecting to our LinkedIn account. When I post on Twitter, the "post now" function posts it immediately. The LinkedIn usually has a lag time and sometimes doesn't post at all.
  • HubSpot blogging has its own built in CTA functionality. It doesn't recognize when I add a verbal (non-button) CTA at the end of a blog post, so it dings me on my blog's SEO value by not recognizing the CTA.
  • This isn't a limitation, but I would love to incorporate "Related Articles" to our blog feature, to keep people reading after one blog post with a selection of relevant content.
  • HubSpot lets us calculate our lead generation (social media traffic, conversion rates, year over year metrics, etc.) KPIs easily. It does all the tracking work without us having to create unique URLs.
  • The Hubspot/Salesforce integration makes it easy to capture leads from content and see them through the sales cycle.
  • Sometimes when our Salesforce records need double-checking on their origin, we can use HubSpot to go back and find out how people initially found our brand.
My colleagues selected HubSpot before I joined, but I am glad they did! HubSpot works better than other email marketing systems I have used.
HubSpot works well for our company, which is growing exponentially. We currently have 140 employees and plan to double next year. This makes HubSpot perfect for our purposes; I'm sure other companies would find their solutions appropriate too.

HubSpot Marketing Hub Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG email editor
10
Dynamic content
10
Ability to test dynamic content
10
Landing pages
10
A/B testing
10
Mobile optimization
10
Email deliverability reporting
10
List management
10
Triggered drip sequences
10
Lead nurturing automation
10
Lead scoring and grading
10
Data quality management
10
Automated sales alerts and tasks
10
Calendaring
9
Event/webinar marketing
10
Social sharing and campaigns
10
Social profile integration
10
Dashboards
10
Standard reports
10
Custom reports
10
API
10
Role-based workflow & approvals
10
Customizability
10
Integration with Salesforce.com
10
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
10
Integration with SugarCRM
10