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CRM and lifecycle

Custom objects are usually the wrong answer

A custom object looks like the flexible choice, and it is usually the expensive one. Run the object-selection pass first: most of what teams build as custom objects already exists...

CRM and lifecycle

Make SQL a structural fact, not a judgment call

If marketing and sales argue about whether a contact is an MQL or an SQL, the problem is not alignment. It is that the stage has no definition anyone can check. Tie it to a record...

CRM and lifecycle

Never move a disqualified contact to "Other"

It looks like tidying up. It is deleting your own history: the funnel loses the record, and the contact drops out of the flows that could still convert them. Keep the stage,...

CRM and lifecycle

HubSpot gives you five lead scores. Spend them like it.

The lead score cap is five per account, not per object, and most teams spend the first two before they know that. Persona matching in particular should never take a slot. Use...

CRM and lifecycle

Separate what they typed from what you report on

"VP Sales", "VP of Sales" and "vp sales" are three rows in your report and one job title. Write self-reported answers to a twin property and let enrichment own the clean one.

CRM and lifecycle

Your form cannot create a Lead record

If you have been trying to get a HubSpot form to create a Lead and assuming you misconfigured something, you did not. Forms write to Contact, Company or Ticket only, and the...

CRM and lifecycle

The first five minutes after a lead comes in

Nearly every business believes it responds to enquiries quickly. Very few measure it, and the ones who start are usually surprised by their own number.

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