As with anything in life, a tool is only as good as the hand that wields it.
Such is the case with HubSpot. Despite its extreme popularity and seemingly unlimited features, most organizations are dramatically underutilizing the tool and its capabilities. Because of this, they’re wasting money, seeing less ROI, and falling short of their sales and marketing goals.
If you’re on this page, it’s likely that you haven’t yet mastered HubSpot, and are experiencing one, some or all of the following frustrations:
Once your internal team is fully capable of leveraging all aspects of HubSpot, you can expect benefits and outcomes such as:
By insourcing and training the right talent in-house, you’ll never need to be reliant on an outsourced agency to manage your HubSpot portal for you. AND you won’t need to be saddled with ongoing high monthly retainers.
We’ll work with your sales AND service reps to ensure that they can properly translate their existing day-to-day processes into a new approach that best utilizes HubSpot, and actually saves time, energy, and effort across the board.
When your team is using the CRM correctly (with complete and accurate data that tracks the entire customer journey across marketing, sales, and service), leaders can have a true sense of what’s going on with customers and prospects.
With complete and accurate information at your disposal, your leaders can make data-driven decisions from up-to-date dashboards to optimize strategies, refine campaigns, and identify areas for improvement.
Today’s modern business not only needs to embrace modern CRM platforms, but it’s expected by today’s modern buyers who want a unified experience from initial sales conversation to final purchasing decision and ongoing customer support.
HubSpot support at IMPACT can take many forms (and that’s by design). We know that getting the most from your HubSpot investment isn’t a “one size fits all” approach. Here are a few of the ways our team can ensure you reach your long term goals:
You've invested in HubSpot to centralize your marketing and sales. Now comes the setup and team onboarding. How do you avoid wasting time and money, and ensure long-term success?
As part of our training program, your dedicated HubSpot Coach will both guide you AND provide hands-on support through each step of the setup process:
Additionally, your team will receive training and adoption support every step of the way so YOU gain the knowledge and expertise necessary to manage your HubSpot portal internally for the long-term, without the need for outside support.
Over several years of use, your HubSpot portal can become quite overwhelming. Are you using all of the features you’re paying for? And how do you declutter without causing issues?
Most other HubSpot audits only focus on short-term fixes that fail to keep your portal well-maintained for the long-term. We’ll teach you the necessary skills to audit and optimize your portal on your terms.
Once we identify your areas for improvement, we’ll teach best practices for data hygiene and ongoing maintenance. Plus, we’ll train your larger team on data collection best practices so you can avoid messy portals in the future.
Group Training & Masterminds
In addition to one-on-one support, IMPACT’s approach to HubSpot coaching and training gives you access to regular group training sessions with other HubSpot admins. These mastermind sessions create a community connection to share best practices, provide insightful feedback, and offer shared troubleshooting when things go wrong.
HubSpot CRM Setup & Training
IMPACT provides a dedicated coach who helps you map your existing day-to-day processes to actions that can be easily logged and tracked within your CRM. In doing so, we’ll also identify areas for improvement or automation within your processes. Finally, we work with your team to determine a simple, unified approach that can be easily adopted by all.
Sales & Success Team Training
IMPACT is one of the only HubSpot Partners that provides personalized, hands-on training for your users. Through interactive discussions with built-in accountability and homework, your reps will learn how to use HubSpot the right way, driving meaningful adoption across your organization.
Migration
We’ll help you replatform your website onto the HubSpot CMS Hub, mitigating all the risks and headaches associated with migrating a website. Once you’re on the CMS Hub, you’ll have the opportunity to purchase and install our HubSpot Website Theme/Template which will give you everything you need to build and improve your website on your own. We can also provide support and training before and after re-launching your website.
Website Design & Development
IMPACT offers a full suite of website design and development services. Launch your site faster with a more scalable, flexible foundation for you to build upon. After your site goes live, we’ll continue to train your team, as well as iterate and optimize your website, so you understand how to control and update it for the long term.
ChatSpot, AI Assistants & Other Cutting-Edge Tools
We stay on top of all product updates, regularly meet with HubSpot product managers to give them the feedback we hear from our clients and to understand what’s coming to the platform, participate in private betas, and test recently released tools. All of this to ensure you’ll never fall behind the curve.
Start by talking to the experts upfront. By speaking with a HubSpot Coach, you’ll be able to ask the technical questions, and understand what it would be like to work with us before you sign on the dotted line.
Once an agreement is signed, your HubSpot coach will schedule an initial HubSpot kickoff session where we’ll dive into your HubSpot portal and assess your long-term organizational goals and objectives. By incorporating elements of your long-term strategic vision, we make sure we’re building a platform that will work for your current team while laying the groundwork for future growth and adoption for years to come.
Here, we’ll begin hands-on training with key stakeholders on your teams. An example of this might look like bi-weekly working sessions to configure your CRM for long-term success, mastermind sessions to learn how to leverage new automations, or weekly small group training sessions with cohorts of your sales/service reps.
At no point will you be locked into a rigid training roadmap. Our coaches and trainers know how to pivot to meet your current organizational needs, while ensuring that we’re working towards the organizational goals and objectives we established in Step 2.
IMPACT’s team of HubSpot Certified Trainers have a long track record of training HubSpot clients on how to maximize their investment in the tool. With more than 25+ years of combined HubSpot experience, they’re fully certified and accredited to tackle any technical challenge or internal alignment struggle at your organization.
Our team of in-house experts regularly connect with go-to market strategists and product managers at HubSpot to provide feedback on their upcoming product roadmaps. The team has also been featured at INBOUND, and often collaborates with HubSpot Academy professors on new educational content to ensure that all HubSpot users have a chance to grow in their knowledge and understanding of the tool.
Your cost will depend on your specific business requirements and the scale of your operations. Your project's size and scope will impact your program's total cost, but on average, you can expect to invest a minimum of $5,000 per month for stand-alone HubSpot coaching and training OR $10,000 per month when combined with our full They Ask, You Answer Mastery program.
Larger organizations, particularly those seeking hands-on training with a large team of sales/service reps, generally invest between $10,000 and $15,000 per month.
For custom website work, you’ll engage with our team of Web Strategists to create an easy-to-use website that better educates prospects and continuously drives results for your traffic, leads, and sales.
For HubSpot CMS + Custom Website development, a typical client will invest $50,000 to $120,000+ on the Website Mastery program over 8-12 months. This range includes your initial website strategy, design, and development, as well as your ongoing training and optimization for the 8-12 months you’re with our Website Mastery team.
“The meeting cadence over time was really invaluable in terms of helping our folks think differently and how we approached HubSpot. We're building experiences that really resonate with our clients.”
“Since making the investment to be in HubSpot training, we've really been able to push our sales team and bring value to their roles. It's not just something they're doing because they have to do it; it's something that brings value to their conversations with clients.”
“When I had to modify the organization to create a new role, IMPACT was right there, and they continued to check in even after the training.”
We quickly admit at IMPACT we’re not the right fit for every company that approaches us. In fact, if we feel there isn’t a match when our team talks with yours, we’ll be the first to let you know.
That being said, we're typically a good fit if you:
Results & Success Stories
Schellman is a Florida-based company that offers IT compliance services.
Challenge
The team at Schellman already knew IMPACT. After all, it was IMPACT’s web design team that had built and launched their new website. This new site came with a slew of features to collect and analyze user data. And the Schellman team wanted to learn all they could.
Solution
The modern marketer is swimming in data. The hard part is paying attention to the right metrics so you can make better decisions. With IMPACT’s help, Schellman’s marketing and sales team started diving into advanced data reporting in HubSpot, utilizing the tools more than they ever had in the past.
Result
Today, the team is empowered to track, analyze, and act on data that it collects itself. Instead of paying an agency to generate reports, they learned to generate the reports themselves. They can spot changes, anticipate trends, and update their site accordingly — all without having to call for agency experts.
Custom Built Design & Remodeling is a Michigan-based custom home remodeling contractor.
Challenge
Custom Built Design & Remodeling had been a HubSpot company for a while. Like a lot of other businesses, that meant they paid each month for a powerful tool — and then only used 10% of it. They knew there was more they could get out of HubSpot, but they didn’t know how.
Solution
The team’s first impressions of HubSpot training were resoundingly impressive. The trainings were fun, interactive, high-energy, and richly valuable. The goal was always the same: Train the Custom Built team so they became HubSpot experts, ready to implement what they learned — and also to explore and experiment on their own.
Result
Today, HubSpot is the single source of truth at Custom Built. Marketers, sales reps, and company leaders can all use the portal to track the numbers that matter. When a buyer reaches out to the sales team, they can see exactly which pages that buyer has visited, making each sales conversation richer and more personalized.
PartnerMD is a concierge health provider.
Challenge
The PartnerMD team knew that the HubSpot CRM was vital to the company’s growth, but it lacked an in-house expert who could help them get more out of the platform. This meant they weren’t getting all the data they could from HubSpot.
Solution
PartnerMD came to IMPACT with two questions: Can you help us find the right digital marketer to fit our team, and can you help train us all to be HubSpot experts? PartnerMD trusted IMPACT to understand their unique business.
Result
In a short time, PartnerMD had the right person on board — and a training regimen to get the whole team up to speed on HubSpot. The new digital marketer was soon spotting issues early so the team could pivot and act. And with everyone learning together, HubSpot became the single source of truth for the whole company.
How To Get Started
If you feel like you’re ready to take the next step, schedule a free coaching session with one of our HubSpot experts today. Together, we’ll discuss the things standing in the way of your organization’s ability to maximize your investment with HubSpot.
Courses & Additional Insights
At our core, IMPACT is a business coaching and consulting company. Our obsession is that of helping organizations learn to become world-class internally with their sales, marketing, and overall business skills. We believe deeply in the motto of, “Give a person a fish, feed them for a day. Teach them how to fish, feed them for a lifetime.”
With this belief, we empower companies to reach their greatest potential by teaching them how to implement proven frameworks (like They Ask, You Answer, StoryBrand, Question First, etc.), ultimately helping them become self-reliant and fully in charge of their own destinies.
In order to “teach a person to fish,” we knew education, training, and community had to be at our core. For this reason, we started IMPACT+, a world-class learning platform that is loaded with educational video courses, a variety of tools, and a large community of sales, marketing, and business leaders — all sharing the philosophies and frameworks (like They Ask, You Answer) we teach and preach here at IMPACT.
IMPACT+ has FREE and paid portions of the platform, designed for individuals and teams alike.
IMPACT has worked with companies literally all over the world. With team members spread throughout the US, Europe, and Oceania — we’re prepared to engage our clients wherever they may be. At the time of this writing, IMPACT has worked with clients in over 17 different countries.
Our belief is that if you’re in an engagement with IMPACT, then you must be receiving clear, measurable value. And if that value stops, then you have the right to stop the engagement.
It’s really that simple.
So although we go into every client engagement with the mindset that we will be working together for an extended period of time, you are not “locked in” to said commitment.
We’ve always believed in the mindset of “there’s room on top for everyone” when it comes to the agency space. Therefore, we absolutely work with marketing agencies in a variety of ways — whether it’s They Ask, You Answer Mastery, sales training, web work, etc.
Just ask us. There’s actually a very good chance we’ve worked with someone either in your space or in a similar industry.
That being said, at IMPACT, our focus is that of teaching organizations *principles* of sales, marketing, and leadership. With this approach, the key becomes that of understanding HOW to apply said principles to your unique niche, business, etc. — something that we clearly know how to do.
So whether you’re B2B, B2C, B2G, etc., let’s have a conversation to figure out together as to whether or not our services are truly right for your business.