What is our primary use case?
My usual use cases for
HubSpot Sales Hub are the sales process and email automation.
What is most valuable?
What I like about
HubSpot Sales Hub the most is that it's complex in a good way, it has everything I need, it's well-integrated with other tools, and it's easy to integrate with.
HubSpot Sales Hub CRM system has helped my team in managing contacts and pipelines as it is crucial; it's something I can't live without.
If there was not this CRM system for me, everything would be on Excel and it would be a big mess; I would not remember about contacts to connect with somebody, I wouldn't be able to connect companies and people and deals in a unified way, it would be just one big mess.
What needs improvement?
I think the areas of HubSpot Sales Hub that could be improved or enhanced are probably templates that could be a bit smarter and the overall UI, which is not the best.
What bothers me about the UI of HubSpot Sales Hub is that it's a bit flat, and it does not allow for the personalization to the point I would want, as I would prefer it to look more like ClickUp tools where I can change the way it looks for my preference.
The email tracking feature of HubSpot Sales Hub helps me assess prospect engagement, but I don't think it works well and it needs to be improved; the problem with it is that it recognizes auto-screening in email tools, which means HubSpot Sales Hub thinks an email opened by an end-user is actually an email that is screened, giving me false expectations.
The benefits I've seen from custom reporting are quite acceptable, but the only thing I would improve is the Sankey feature; this feature is amazing in theory but it's not working very well, and I don't really understand how it's working.
Regarding integration capabilities, I integrate HubSpot Sales Hub with Apollo and Fireflies, and while the Outlook features are acceptable, Outlook should be improved since it's really problematic; the problem is that it's constantly disconnecting, and every time you go to Outlook you have to log in again, which nobody remembers.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with HubSpot Sales Hub for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
HubSpot Sales Hub has been quite stable with no big issues.
I don't recall experiencing any outages or downtime with HubSpot Sales Hub.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Regarding scalability, I think it's really well-designed; not to some enormous size, but it allowed us to start easily and then expand really, which I would say is quite cool.
How are customer service and support?
I communicate with the technical support of HubSpot Sales Hub maybe once or twice over the last five years.
I don't think my rating for technical support would mean anything since, as I mentioned, I may not have even contacted them; the community of HubSpot Sales Hub and information available in Google is sufficient enough to basically self-help myself.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I didn't really use a different solution for these use cases before HubSpot Sales Hub, and I've stuck with it.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup and deployment of HubSpot Sales Hub is quite easy; the importing feature is very good, but there is a lot of tweaking and personalization involved in the process, even for a small company, so I would rate it a five out of ten.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing HubSpot Sales Hub, we were reviewing
Salesforce,
Pipedrive, and Zoho, but HubSpot Sales Hub was the best for us.
What caught my eye about HubSpot Sales Hub that other tools didn't have is that it offers a free tier, allowing us to start without expensive modules, which let us review the tool, set it up, play with it, and eventually expand and start paying.
What other advice do I have?
I use custom reporting in HubSpot Sales Hub.
The email tracking feature of HubSpot Sales Hub helps me assess prospect engagement.
To be honest, I don't really utilize the sales automation tools in HubSpot Sales Hub; I tried them, but I'm not a super user, just some easy pipeline automation, which is not really important for me for enterprise sales.
My overall rating for this review is seven.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?