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This episode we look at HubSpot sequences versus HubSpot Workflows and highlight where to use each. Plus we chat about using Email Sender Personalisation and a little gotcha. And A-Ha.
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Recorded: Thursday 20 December 2018 | Published: Friday 28 December 2018
The song of the 2018 was Take on Me by A-ha:
https://qz.com/quartzy/1494804/the-indelible-beauty-of-take-on-me-hollywoods-favorite-song-of-2018/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
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https://www.hubspot.com/products/marketing/pop-up-form
It’s a name change only, nothing else has changed.
Most of the HubSpot site pages and URLs have been updated - except for Product announcements, which I suspect they’ll leave as-is.
Just for fun I’ll be tracking how long it takes for Google to update their index - here’s how it looks currently even though the first 3 have been updated on HubSpot’s site:
When sending emails you can have them sent from the Contact Owner. This is great for emails sent from salespeople to their contacts without cloning emails and changing the from name, email and signature when the content is essentially the same.
This is set in two places:
Email details:
Email signature in body:
Not having a user email signature setup in profile and preferences so you can use them in email marketing.
This matters as when you send emails from marketing using different contact owners you can use their signature in the email. If they don’t have their signature setup it will be blank in the email. Note there is no default for this like other variables in HubSpot!
https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/account/add-an-email-signature-in-the-crm
A reminder to be prioritise your marketing problems
Review:
Ask yourself:
Obviously we all want more of all of them, but work out which is your highest priority and then focus on solving that problem first.
As an example, for many of our bigger clients we are now focussing on the nurture components.
Traffic and leads are OK, but moving the leads to be sales ready is a problem. Once they are sales ready, the sales process is working OK.
So, the focus is on the middle part - warming the leads up and communicating value and fit.
So that they can be handed to a sales person.
Sequences are basically sales automation:
https://www.hubspot.com/products/sales/sales-automation
When to use sequences versus email nurture workflows
| Marketing Automation | Sales Automation |
| HubSpot Workflows Email nurtures 1-to-Many Marketing Pro required |
HubSpot Sequences Follow up emails 1-to-1 Sales Starter required |
Strategy and Design is where marketers should be focussing:
https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/12/12/sweet-spot-is-where-strategy-meets-design/
From the article:
“If I were a young marketer, I would resist being pigeon-holed as ‘the guy that does email’ or ‘the social person’ or ‘the search expert’, and I would head to wherever strategy meets design.”
Consider:
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik: Episode 88: Eating for Your Brain with Dr. Lisa Mosconi
https://overcast.fm/+IcNnGluWk
Loved this episode as we learnt a lot of practical ways to eat well for your brain!
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/2018-marketing-trends-review/
But once you get past that guff, there’s actually some interesting insights eg this article on the number of touchpoints for people on their path to purchase:
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/feature/search-intent-marketing-funnel/#/
Awesomely super useful tool:
Excellent overview from Benjamin Mangold:
Ben runs Loves Data - here’s a related post:
https://www.lovesdata.com/blog/goal-value
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/the-future-of-marketing/
“It used to be that celebrities became influencers; now influencers are becoming celebrities.”
https://ahrefs.com/blog/seo-checklist/
Holiday reading:
https://raynernomics.com/become-everyones-trendsetter/
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