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Who is Quick Attach?

Quick Attach is a construction equipment company that designs, manufactures, and markets attachments for machines by Bobcat, Caterpillar, John Deere, and others. 

Josh Didier is the Senior Database Administrator for Quick Attach. After inheriting a system to manage their contact database, Josh discovered that due to duplicate records and data issues, their sales and[…]

You pull some data from your HubSpot CRM or Salesforce marketing and sales database only to find that it is rife with errors. Some names are capitalized, some are not. Phone numbers are stored in a dozen different formats. Addresses are all over the place — some include the state and zip code information in the street address field, while others have them separate. Worse,[…]

Email is one of the most reliable marketing channels. Unlike search and social—which can both giveth and taketh away when algorithms change—email marketing lets you build an audience that you can communicate with directly.   

But even email can create hurdles for marketers. If you do the wrong thing—like sending too many emails to inactive subscribers or sending emails to invalid addresses—it[…]

HubSpot and Salesforce are two of the most popular marketing and sales platforms in existence today. Naturally, each platform specializes in specific areas and provides unique benefits, leading to many companies integrating both platforms into their daily processes.

So, you have a list of contacts that you would like to upload into HubSpot, but you’re worried about duplicate data, overwritten records, and other common issues that come with importing contacts in HubSpot?

Or maybe you have a whole host of new data for existing contacts in your HubSpot database and you just want to upload the new data into the system, but are worried about overwriting records[…]

A “dirty” Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system can be paralyzing for marketing, sales and services teams. When the information you need becomes unusable due to the accumulation of errors in your data, it slows everyone down. 

The worst part? It’s inevitable.

• Leads fill out forms on your website inaccurately.
• Business development reps add contacts to your database based on the best[…]

Your CRM is responsible for storing your most critical customer data. It’s that data that you use to contact customers and prospects, personalize engagements, and put your teams in a position to succeed in their interactions.

One of the most critical fields that you collect in a CRM is customer and prospect phone numbers.

Along with emails, phone numbers provide the most direct way to[…]

If the average company dug into their Hubspot database, most would quickly find many data quality errors. These errors have a negative impact on marketing, sales, and customer service teams.

Don’t worry. It’s not any fault of your own. Data errors are unavoidable as your HubSpot data grows.

Data errors come from many places. Customer input into forms. Human error during data input from your[…]

Have you ever tried to deduplicate contacts across HubSpot and Salesforce, while the two platforms are syncing? If you have you know that it can get pretty complicated.

Fixing duplicate records in your CRM is difficult enough without having to worry about all of the issues that come along with two platforms syncing.

Both HubSpot and Salesforce have unique ways of handling duplicate records that[…]

If you sync your Salesforce and HubSpot databases then you probably have dealt with the pain that non-matching state and country fields can cause.

For every contact record in your database, your state and country fields have to match, exactly, between HubSpot and Salesforce.

If they don’t, the sync breaks and data for the record is not shared between the two platforms.

This can be a serious[…]