Tag: marketing-operations

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[…]

In a world where data drives our marketing, sales, and customer success initiatives, bad data has increasingly become a problem for companies of all sizes. Right now, your company is missing out on revenue because of bad data in your HubSpot databases. That’s right. It’s a fact of life for any company that collects and uses even moderate amounts of customer data.

A data entry error might keep a[…]

Marketing isn’t for everyone, and for a long time it was out of reach of the average citizen.

Times have changed drastically, and thanks to the internet and budding entrepreneurs around the world, the barrier to entry is lower than ever.

Don’t have the coding skills to design a landing page? No sweat, you can use a drag and drop WordPress builder like Divi. Feel completely lost using Illustrator[…]

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[…]

CRM data management is critical for engaging with prospects and customers throughout the customer lifecycle.

Maybe you’ve tried to inject personalization into your marketing automation campaigns, only to find that your CRM software was filled with data errors and standardization issues that reflect poorly on your company.

Or maybe you have sales team associates that have missed critical context[…]

Your organization exports HubSpot contacts all the time — to share among your teams, deliver them to vendors, import into another software, or to analyze and report on them.

With every new internal project, vendor partnership, or new software used, your need to export data regularly grows. While filtering and exporting data in HubSpot is simple, the manual task of going into the system, opening[…]

Data collaboration is more important than ever for sales, marketing, and support teams. Every win that we secure with customers flows from our understanding of our company and those customers. Effective data management is the gift that keeps on giving in business.

The quality of your customer data impacts the experience that customers have throughout the lifetime of their engagement with your[…]

Purging data on a regular basis plays a critical role in CRM database maintenance.

Allowing low-quality and problematic data to remain in your database causes many problems. It can balloon your CRM costs in plans that are based on the number of contacts. Low-quality contacts lower email open rates and harm your sender reputation. Clutter makes it difficult for all teams that rely on customer[…]

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[…]

How often do you export and share data from the CRM — both internally or externally — for correcting, updating, inputting, or collaboration? If you’re like most companies, the answer is “all the time.”

You may share customer data with your finance department who doesn’t have access to your CRM. Or you might share your customer data with your marketing team to fix issues, enrich data, or for use[…]