{"id":45702,"date":"2020-12-14T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/us\/en\/blog\/?p=45702"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:22:02","slug":"hubspot-for-startups-3-tips-and-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/hubspot-for-startups-3-tips-and-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"HubSpot for startups: 3 tips and tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the spread of the internet permeating so deeply into all aspects of our lives, there has never been a better time to start a business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good news is, technology is also cheaper (and more advanced) than it\u2019s ever been.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It might be the reason why an average of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/99firms.com\/blog\/small-business-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6.5 million new startups<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> throw their doors open to customers every year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting a business is really as easy as flipping your smartphone open and launching your company. But growing it? Now that\u2019s a completely different beast to handle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scaling a startup is definitely tough. But it\u2019s critical since that\u2019s what determines the long-term survival of your business, leads you to better opportunities, helps you attract good talent, and expands your business\u2019s profit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if there\u2019s one tool that can help small startups scale to their true potential, it\u2019s HubSpot. Much like RingCentral, HubSpot offers a suite of services that helps startups across all stages of their growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">\ud83e\udd1d Is your tech startup&#8217;s team collaborating as effectively as it could be? What should you look out for before you start scaling in earnest?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"download-form-widget standart-download-form\" data-url=\"https:\/\/netstorage.ringcentral.com\/documents\/checklist_for_startups.pdf\" data-id=\"6a3f7e80c8409\" id=\"6a3f7e80c8409\">\n\t\t<button tabindex=\"on\"  on=\"tap:6a3f7e80c8409.toggleClass(class='open')\" class=\"open-modal-download-action download-form-button\" type=\"submit\">\ud83c\udf1f Download the checklist to find out<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"download-form-modal\">\n<div class=\"download-form-modal-body\">\n<div class=\"download-form-modal-content\">\n<div class=\"download-form-modal-title\">\ud83d\udc40 Get this free checklist to evaluate if your startup's current approach is working for you. <\/div>\n<form class=\"download-form SMB\" method=\"post\">\n<div class=\"download-form-part\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input class=\"download-form-input\" aria-label=\"Full Name\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" type=\"text\" name=\"fullname\" placeholder=\"Full Name\" data-dl-events-hover=\"true\" data-dl-element=\"text\" data-dl-additional-info=\"download form\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"download-form-part\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input class=\"download-form-input\" aria-label=\"Email (please enter a work email address)\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" type=\"email\" autocomplete=\"on\" name=\"email\" placeholder=\"Email (please enter a work email address)\" data-dl-events-hover=\"true\" data-dl-element=\"email\" data-dl-additional-info=\"download form\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"popup_form\" value=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"Asset_ID__c\" value=\"ODAM-01420\" class=\"download-form-input\"><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"Lead_Entry_Source__c\" value=\"RC Blog\" class=\"download-form-input\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"download-form-part\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"download-form-submit\" type=\"submit\" data-dl-element=\"button\" data-no-auto-dl=\"true\" data-dl-additional-info=\"download form\" data-dl-name=\"Get it now\">Get it now<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<button on=\"tap:6a3f7e80c8409.toggleClass(class='open')\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\"  class=\"download-form-modal-close\"><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"download-form-modal-thank\">Enjoy! <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does HubSpot offer for startups?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To understand what HubSpot can do for your business, it\u2019s important to look at HubSpot&#8217;s own growth trajectory from a small marketing agency to become the software giant it\u2019s today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah started HubSpot as an internet marketing company in 2004 right after they graduated from MIT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But instead of being yet another cookie-cutter marketing company that made annoying ads and marketing jingles, HubSpot went against the grain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They noticed that people weren\u2019t buying any more from brands that bombarded them with interrupting ads. Instead, consumers bought from brands that genuinely helped their customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This led HubSpot to pioneer the concept of \u201cinbound marketing\u201d\u2014a way for customers to discover brands and products (that solved their problems) instead of the other way around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This became the single-most important ingredient for HubSpot\u2019s success in the later years. As a startup, they capitalized on the inbound marketing strategy to pull new customers to their brand and later adopted a \u201cmarketing flywheel\u201d to scale bigger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The marketing flywheel is an approach they applied\u2014in combination with the inbound strategy\u2014to remove friction from their internal processes in order to create a faster growth momentum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A marketing flywheel basically means you align your business functions to solve your customers\u2019 problems and keep spinning your marketing, sales, and customer service cycles to cater to your customer needs. This, in turn, will inevitably lead you to growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a lot you can learn about growing your startup from HubSpot\u2019s flywheel story. And it\u2019s something that all HubSpot products try to deliver in their features and benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by their own growth, the company has a program called HubSpot for Startups. It\u2019s a platform where startups can use HubSpot\u2019s software, learn from hundreds of online courses, and take advantage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appypie.com\/integrate\/apps\/hubspot\/integrations\">HubSpot Integrations with AI-Driven Workflow Automation<\/a>. Small startups can access the platform for much cheaper than the regular price of HubSpot software\u2014if they are eligible.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small startups can access the platform for much cheaper than the regular price of HubSpot software\u2014if they are eligible. For example, if you\u2019re a startup with under $2 million in funding, you can get HubSpot for Startups at:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">90% off for the first year\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">50% off for the second year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25% off from there on<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That means if you were to qualify in the HubSpot for Startups program, you would get HubSpot\u2019s Marketing Professional for only $89\/month instead of the regular $890\/month pricing for the first year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Same thing with HubSpot\u2019s Sales Professional and Service Professional (which normally cost $500\/month and $400\/month) that you can get for $50\/month and $40\/month with discount pricing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other than the capital funding, there are other eligibility criteria too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your startup has to be a member of one of the 2,000-odd incubators, startup accelerators, or venture capital partners approved by HubSpot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you have already figured out that you don\u2019t qualify for the HubSpot for Startups program, that\u2019s okay. HubSpot has other ways to help small businesses grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HubSpot for Entrepreneurs, for example, is yet another program that helps small business owners make use of HubSpot software, online resources, and integrations at a discounted rate of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hubspot.com\/entrepreneurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">30% off than the regular pricing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HubSpot for Entrepreneur\u2019s eligibility criteria is pretty relaxed compared to the HubSpot for Startups program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can qualify if you are an existing member of a HubSpot-approved partner or if you are a brand new HubSpot customer. However, you won\u2019t qualify if you are already a customer of Basic, Professional, or Enterprise Hubs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what if you are a brand new startup with a paltry budget that can\u2019t buy you HubSpot\u2019s software and resources? Or what if you\u2019re a solopreneur with a ramen noodle budget?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s still hope. You can get the above-mentioned benefits at no cost with HubSpot\u2019s free CRM, marketing, sales, and service tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good news is\u2014there\u2019s absolutely no eligibility criteria to start using HubSpot\u2019s free software. Also, the software is actually free. There\u2019s no trial period for you to upgrade to a paid plan\u2014unless you voluntarily decide to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 smart ways that startups can use use HubSpot\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>But beyond just using HubSpot&#8217;s CRM and marketing software, how can you expand all that functionality\u2014in an actually useful way?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you&#8217;re doing things like using the CRM to log customer interactions, then communication is a natural next step. How will you communicate with those customers (and potential customers)? Do they prefer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/us\/en\/blog\/inbound-calling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contact you by phone<\/a>? Or do they prefer to live chat, or email? (Or a mix of all three?)<\/p>\n<p>There are actually some neat ways that you can expand HubSpot to give you this phone calling and texting functionality, right in the dashboard. (More on that below.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make it easy for businesses to understand its software use cases, HubSpot offers software across three verticals\u2014Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, and Service Hub.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are a few ways to use HubSpot products categorized across the above-mentioned verticals.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>What are the 4 key components of a successful startup?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"download-form-widget standart-download-form\" data-url=\"http:\/\/netstorage.ringcentral.com\/ebook\/smb_startup.pdf\" data-id=\"6a3f7e80c857c\" id=\"6a3f7e80c857c\">\n\t\t<button tabindex=\"on\"  on=\"tap:6a3f7e80c857c.toggleClass(class='open')\" class=\"open-modal-download-action download-form-button\" type=\"submit\">\ud83c\udf1f Find out here<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"download-form-modal\">\n<div class=\"download-form-modal-body\">\n<div class=\"download-form-modal-content\">\n<div class=\"download-form-modal-title\">Learn to bake success into the DNA of your startup<\/div>\n<form class=\"download-form SMB\" method=\"post\">\n<div class=\"download-form-part\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input class=\"download-form-input\" aria-label=\"Full Name\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" type=\"text\" name=\"fullname\" placeholder=\"Full Name\" data-dl-events-hover=\"true\" data-dl-element=\"text\" data-dl-additional-info=\"download form\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"download-form-part\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input class=\"download-form-input\" aria-label=\"Email (please enter a work email address)\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" type=\"email\" autocomplete=\"on\" name=\"email\" placeholder=\"Email (please enter a work email address)\" data-dl-events-hover=\"true\" data-dl-element=\"email\" data-dl-additional-info=\"download form\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"popup_form\" value=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"Asset_ID__c\" value=\"ODAM-01423\" class=\"download-form-input\"><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"Lead_Entry_Source__c\" value=\"RC Blog\" class=\"download-form-input\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"download-form-part\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"download-form-submit\" type=\"submit\" data-dl-element=\"button\" data-no-auto-dl=\"true\" data-dl-additional-info=\"download form\" data-dl-name=\"Get it now\">Get it now<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<button on=\"tap:6a3f7e80c857c.toggleClass(class='open')\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\"  class=\"download-form-modal-close\"><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"download-form-modal-thank\">Happy launching!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Create your own inbound marketing strategy<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can take a leaf out of HubSpot\u2019s inbound approach to improve your marketing approach. HubSpot offers multiple features through its Marketing Hub to help you grow website traffic, convert more leads into customers, and scale your inbound marketing strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the Marketing Hub software, you can automate a large part of your marketing like attracting the right audience to your website pages, creating conversion-ready landing pages, building personalized email templates, and passing high-quality leads to the sales team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The best thing is\u2014you don\u2019t have to spend long hours moving and entering lead data manually into multiple spreadsheets. The smart automation powers the movement of customer data across all your tools\u2014saving you a ton of time and effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The analytics features help you measure your campaigns\u2019 efficiency, attribute the right activities to your revenue, and give you insights on improving your marketing for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, Marketing Hub tracks all your ad dollars spent across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Google and populates the data inside HubSpot. You can look at the data to track your expenditure, justify your ad spend, or double down on the channels that give you more bang for your bucks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing Hub is a one-stop solution for you to manage your marketing assets ranging from blogs, SEO (search engine optimization), social media, and videos.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Track sales prospects in one place<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have been using a spreadsheet to manually track lead data, the Sales Hub can help you raise your game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HubSpot SalesHub is a great way to organize your leads into different segments and track the success of your sales or marketing campaign using the report and analytics features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the Sales Hub, you can create email sequences to nurture leads and manage interactions with potential customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HubSpot offers useful features like managing contact information, activity tracking, pipeline visibility, merging with Gmail or Outlook inbox, or chatting with customers and prospects in real-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, Sales Hub saves you the hassle of writing a new email everyone you have a lead coming through the marketing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, you can create several email templates to send to your prospects depending on the channel they come from, their demography, or other differentiation you have created in your CRM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also schedule meetings, create email cadences, or track your sales pipeline with the Sales Hub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43939\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image12-1-e1607611137227.png\" alt=\"Hubspot Sales - Sales Software for Small to Enterprise Companies\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the cool things you can do in the HubSpot ecosystem\u2014designed for the sales teams\u2014is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/apps\/call-with-ringcentral-for-hubspot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">integrate it with RingCentral.<\/a> This lets you text prospects right from HubSpot:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/apps\/ringcentral-engage-voice-for-hubspot-browser-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45703\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HubSpot-SMS-RC-e1607611620440.png\" alt=\"HubSpot SMS RC\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And even record your meetings and sync them all in one place:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45704\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sync-hubspot-recordings-ringcentral-e1607611674670.png\" alt=\"sync hubspot recordings ringcentral\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re looking for ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/us\/en\/blog\/sales-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speed up<\/a> your sales process or make life easier for your sales team, this is a great integration to look into.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Offer great customer service<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just like its Marketing Hub and Sales Hub, HubSpot also offers great features for customer service teams under the Service Hub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the Service Hub set of tools, you can automate your help desk process to a great extent and manage customer relationships more efficiently. Again, if you hook it up to your business phone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/us\/en\/blog\/find-best-phone-service-for-small-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">system<\/a>, you can make and take calls from customers directly from your HubSpot dashboard. The big benefit here is that when a customer calls, you&#8217;d be able to see their entire history with your company, including other conversations and complaints they might have had in the past:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43291\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/HubSpot-RingCentral-integration-e1605725255770.png\" alt=\"HubSpot RingCentral integration\" width=\"900\" height=\"565\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s a great way to empower your entire customer service team to pick up a conversation with any customer, even if they&#8217;ve never spoken to them before\u2014while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/us\/en\/blog\/proactive-customer-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offering proactive<\/a> customer service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also use the Service Hub to manage trigger surveys to collect customer feedback, organize support tickets, initiate or respond to live chat conversations, create and manage knowledge base articles, deploy chat bots, and use the reporting feature to improve your service delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With self-service features like knowledge base management, you can empower your customers to find answers to their queries on their own\u2014reducing the traffic to your customer service helpdesk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also aggregate the common questions that your live chat bots or agents get and convert them into FAQs (frequently asked questions) to help your customers find answers quickly and easily.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can your startup use HubSpot and RingCentral together?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a company that rose from nothing to become a $17 billion company on their own, it\u2019s respectable that HubSpot offers so many options for newbie startups to access resources they might not have otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HubSpot for Startups and the other options are great choices for ambitious startups to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/us\/en\/blog\/customer-acquisition-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">improve customer acquisition strategy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/us\/en\/blog\/customer-retention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">manage customer retention<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a startup looking to communicate better with both customers and prospects, look into how you can use RingCentral and HubSpot together!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the spread of the internet permeating so deeply into all aspects of our lives, there has never been a better time to start a business. 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