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CRM

10 Industrial Marketing B2B Challenges That Won't Go Away in 2027

It's 2027. B2B buyers are doing their homework long before picking up the phone. They expect useful information without sitting through a sales pitch. And yet, some manufacturers s...

Donny Kemick · Oct 2026
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B2B

Intro to HubSpot Commerce Hub: Simplifying Quote to Cash

Quoting a client shouldn’t feel like juggling sticky notes, PDFs, and three different payment systems. Yet for many B2B companies, that’s daily life. Deals stall, payments get lost...

John Beckwith · Sep 2025
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B2B

How to Use HubSpot Payments Integration for Touchless B2B Sales

Today, even B2B buyers expect e-commerce functionality from their vendors. You’re likely no exception. Historically, many B2Bs avoided e-commerce altogether or cobbled together sol...

Adam Vosler · Jun 2025
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CRM

What Is HubSpot Sales Hub? Features, Tiers, & Prices for 2025

I recently had a new client (and HubSpot devotee) describe HubSpot's Sales Hub better than I had in my 6 years of digital marketing. This B2B company's employees almost universally...

Adam Vosler · Dec 2024
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B2B

What Is HubSpot Service Hub? Features, Tiers, & Pricing for 2025

It's hard to keep track of all your customer interactions, especially as your business grows. It’s even more difficult to manage that customer support manually.

Adam Vosler · Dec 2024
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CMS

HubSpot Features for all 5 Hubs (+ Cost per Tier)

Whether you're held responsible your company’s marketing, sales, operations, or customer service outcomes -- or all four -- HubSpot's got a solution. HubSpot's features list stretc...

Adam Vosler · Dec 2024
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CMS

HubSpot Pro vs. Enterprise: 2023 Features & Pricing

HubSpot is the biggest and best in a sea of CRM (customer relationship management) tools. As B2B companies and customers evolve, so does HubSpot's software, and keeping pace with t...

Adam Vosler · Nov 2024
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CMS

HubSpot CMS vs. WordPress: Best Content Management System 2024

If your content is the foundation of your business website, the CMS is its backbone.

protocol 80 · May 2024
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Strategy

B2B Sales Trends 2022: COVID Has Forever Changed Us

COVID-19. There -- we got that out of the way. In all seriousness, it’s impossible to talk about the future of B2B sales without touching on the coronavirus -- as sick as we all ar...

protocol 80 · Dec 2021
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Social Media

The B2B SaaS Customer Journey, Demystified at Last

Buyers’ journeys have been around, and understood, for quite some time. However, every time a new market emerges or a new company forms, relearning the potential customer’s buyer j...

protocol 80 · Jan 2021
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