What do you like best about the product?

Hubspot is a complete tool that allows you to align your inbound, marketing and sales efforts when you are at a growing stage. Having everything connected in one unique place saves time and improves the integration between processes. It's easy to use and the learning center is very helpful.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some key integrations are missing, as the one with Likeding Lead Gen Forms. A part from that, maybe the reporting side included without any add on is a bit weak, should be improved in that sense and take more profit of the integration of functionalities to provide also integrated analytics in the reporting.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm implementing the inbound and content strategy using Hubspot as a CMS and as a platform for all our marketing automation.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Try to dedicate time to follow the trainings and videos from the learning center, as some of them provide you insightful tips and recommendations.

What do you like best about the product?

Website building and hosting - with beautiful template and an extraordinary cms hubspot is the ideal tool for your website. Build in CTA’s from the crm side and unlock a powerful sales and marketing tool.

What do you dislike about the product?

My account manager changes pretty much every year since they are growing so much. I feel like the relationship would be better with a consistent point of contact.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It’s our all in one tool and that allows us to spend more time focusing on the content than fighting with all of the different tools and plugins of other softwares.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Try their free tool first and see how you like it! They have great blog resources as well for sales and marketing people.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy to use workflows, plus it works well with SalesForce.

What do you dislike about the product?

A little on the pricey side and it's SEO-based marketing functionality has room to improve.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are creating our companies first outreach campaigns. We have used HubSpot to campaign a webinar from start to finish.

What do you like best about the product?

I enjoy being able to customize templates for marketers to use. More so, having a robust platform to perform lead generation, store contacts, and launch websites streamlines work to provide increased efficiency.

What do you dislike about the product?

As a product HubSpot is still maturing and there are significant changes as well as many Beta products that have existed for 1+ years. Online documentation contains outdated information. Multiple rebrands, mean UI changes frequently.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

HubSpot allows our team to quickly set up landing pages for special events and send emails based on user interaction. The HubDB functionality allows our team to add content to templated sites more easily.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

HubSpot uses a Python-like templating engine and feels similar to Django and Jinja.

What do you like best about the product?

Hubspot is a centralized palce to cover the majority of your marketing needs. That can't really be beat.

What do you dislike about the product?

The tech is beginning to feel older and stale. It isn't bad, yet. But they are in danger of falling behind the competition if they don't hit the restart button soon.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hubspot allowed us to go from using 5-6 websites to manage all of our different marketing tasks, down to just 2-3. That is a huge simplification that genuinely helps at the end of the day.

What do you like best about the product?

HubSpot makes it easy to create all of your content in one page - including landing pages, emails, forms, and social media posts. It is also great that there is a marketing and sales side for all of our team.

What do you dislike about the product?

It is hard to customize landing pages and emails without having a developer or experienced coder on the team.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to send out many emails and keep track of all of our inbound leads.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

HubSpot is great! I highly recommend using it to keep everything in one spot.

What do you like best about the product?

Hubspot is at the forefront of modular websites. I like that I can build a client a set of module and they can create hundreds of different types of pages.

What do you dislike about the product?

The UI is clunky and off mark. Quick controls are nested in drop downs, modules don't scope well, and modular ability is only one level deep.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

100% of my income comes from building websites for Hubspot customers. It's a premium product that I know well and because Hubspot is so agency centered I have almost no competition as a contractor. I never have to hunt for work. I just wish Hubspot would incorporate my people into their structure, I've retained so many clients for them but they aren't contracts so they don't matter.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Hubspot has this amazing, game changing, platform. The problem is that someone decided that developer is a bad word and ran around replacing it with 'design' in the dictionary. Now you have a bunch of unqualified designers, marketers, and salesmen trying to build websites and getting frustrated. I have had this conversation with several of my clients and peers and we all agree that it is insulting and counter productive to discount our entire industry to convey ease of use. Especially when the ease of use is simply not their on a development level.

Also, the design tools user interface. When I am building a menu it adds an additions 2 seconds to each menu item to create and configure the link type from the dropdown. all that white space and you hide the quick action buttons behind an extra step. That describes much of the interface. There are so many amazing development products out there with state-of-the-art interfaces and you guys went with a gray blob. Yes, the organization and custom modules are an improvement but it feels like we traded one thing for another.

Lastly, My agency is a Hubspot partner, I have been fixing, upgrading, and adding to Hubspot's customers' websites for over 5 years, and I have been extremely active as an advisor in the community forum. I have dedicated a large chunk of my career to Hubspot. I have come to the conclusion that it means nothing to Hubspot that I do what I do. They want contract pushers and all of my clients are already customers. Still though, for my knowledge, dedication, experience, and the amount I give back to the community one would think that I would be regarded in some light however my experience, even with the consultants assigned to my account, is that they do not want to be bothered. I have complained about this to my channel rep, who told me a developers advocate was hired specifically for this reason. That was in March... I don't know who he is advocating for but it isn't me. Even if I could get some time to talk with him, he doesn't understand my business struggles he's just some young dev kid. He is only interested in making friends with the developers of contract pushing agencies. How does that help me? I get no outreach, I get no reward, I either get ignored or, in the case of onthebench, potentially taken advantage.

The future is online contractors. Developers matter. I LOVE Hubspot the software but if Hubspot the company can't see past the agency structure to really look at their customers needs then they are failing their customers. If you want to wipe an industry, something I use to define myself, off the planet you should make damn sure your product doesn't depend on the strength of the members of that industry in your community. My feelings towards this will never change however your competition is coming up and they are much more welcoming. Like many before and after me, you will soon find my offerings at someone else's camp. Keep your salesmen but lose the talent, not a very solid strategy.

What do you like best about the product?

I really enjoy the blog it provides great insight into content marketing.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't dislike much about hubspot. I feel like they are headed in a good direction.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

B2B business marketing. Great for content marketing.

What do you like best about the product?

User-friendliness and the endless possibilities

What do you dislike about the product?

The training can be long but I understand the purpose of it.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The optimization of website, landing pages, campaigns and email marketing.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that HubSpot offers a single platform for me to manage my website and landing pages, email automation, performance analytics, as well as our blog and social media. It offered us a platform to start our automation and website management as new marketers.

What do you dislike about the product?

The user interface is less than intuitive and recently HubSpot is pushing updates to add and remove features without notification to me as a user. This has caused tremendous issues with my marketing automation programs. For website management, the usability is poor. To access different features for one webpage, I may have to access up to four different drop-down areas as each function is siloed.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The original business solution for HubSpot allowed the company to begin with marketing automation and social media. Today, we may have outgrown its capability.