Business Growth Blog

Migrating your CRM - or whatever system you currently use to manage your prospect and customer data - is daunting, but knowing what to expect and working with the right team can help make it a smooth transition. Here is an outline of how a CRM migration typically progresses, including budget and timelines.

The essential thing sellers and marketers need to know to get results from the campaigns they run every day is what contacts in the sales and marketing database are qualified potential customers. 

Email marketing remains a top marketing channel to generate engagement and leads. The hardest part is coming up with the topics, writing the content, and figuring out who to send it to. The last thing you want is for hard-earned marketing emails to get blocked by email service providers because of a technicality.

What is Clearbit?

Clearbit, the first AI Native Data Provider, enriches CRM data and simplifies the process of identifying top target accounts, understanding who is ready to buy, and instantly finding their contact information. There is a robust integration with HubSpot to build B2B lists with company and contact data and automatically sync those into HubSpot.

Your contact database is your most precious asset because it contains (or should contain!) the people you’re currently doing business with or with whom you would like to do business with. Unfortunately, it often gets neglected and holds companies back from effective selling and marketing. Here are three common database problems and how they can negatively impact your business.

Every company must invest some time and money into marketing to get customers. You can’t do business without it. The investment is usually about 7-8% of the projected gross revenue for a small business. How a company uses the money is critical to its success. The ONLY way to know if the investment is getting a return is to collect and track specific sales and marketing data.

Marketers and salespeople need to communicate with the same customers at various stages of the buyer’s journey. HubSpot is a centralized database for all business growth related contact data. Here’s an overview of how each role typically uses HubSpot to quickly access the lists, views, and contacts they need to do their job.

The days of email blasts to lists of contacts are coming to an end. The EU and California instituted more stringent privacy laws in 2018. More states and regions are soon to follow. If you use HubSpot, and email to contacts in the EU or California, here are some tips on using their GDPR functionality.

The number one benefit of HubSpot, in my view, is that the CRM is central to the entire tech stack. If set up correctly, it stores multitudes of valuable data about the one thing sales, marketers, and business leaders care about the most: target buyers. These are the people that will, hopefully, become their future customers. Taking time to set up contact, company, and deal record views in HubSpot is essential to use the tool effectively. Watch the video or download the slides to see how to do it.

One of the age old questions companies ask people is "how did you hear about us?"

That is one of the most important pieces of information you can gather. Unfortunately, many companies I talk to don't have a clear process for how to collect or leverage that data to drive important business decisions.

By effectively tracking lead source, you can fully evaluate where you get your best customers and how that impacts your business growth. Here's an example of how it can work: