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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Hubspot has accepted this challenge. Implementations of these features are intentionally simple, since ease of use is more important than sophisticated options for small business marketers.

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HubSpot Expands Its Services But Stays Focused on Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot has continued to grow its customer base and expand its product. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. Of course, this competition was always implicit – few small businesses would have purchased HubSpot plus one of those products.

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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

Customer Experience Matrix

Here’s a piece from 2009.) Ironically, speculation about Salesforce.com itself buying a marketing automation system had pretty much died down since last August’s Dreamforce conference, when the firm made it pretty clear they didn’t have plans in that direction (notwithstanding their earlier HubSpot investment ).

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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. I do expect vendors to converge on more standard social media features.

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inbound marketing training for free

The Effective Marketer

3 Responses to Inbound Marketing Training for Free David Meerman Scott says: June 22, 2009 at 3:29 am Hey Daniel, @repcor at Hubspot did a great job organizing these. David Reply Because You Can’t Beat Free Marketing Training « The Effective Marketer says: June 23, 2009 at 9:19 pm [.] Thanks for doing the reviews.

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Choosing an Email Marketing Software « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The matrix helped us focus on how vendors compared on each feature and also gave us the ability to rank vendors based on weighted scoring. Well, because there were some features we considered more important than others and so should you. Good question! Make sure you take those into consideration, especially on tie breakers.