From software that helps financial institutions and healthcare facilities to customer service and supply chain, SaaS companies need to build credibility over time, market themselves to the right decision-makers and effectively manage (often complex) sales cycles.
Which is precisely why SaaS companies are now using technologies for marketing functions like creating landing pages, optimizing SEO, content marketing, and more.
Companies that engage in these activities have a bigger advantage than you might think, as only 24 percent of SaaS companies say they blog to educate their readers (much of the rest is self-promotion). And while there are a variety of tools within the realm of digital marketing, here we’ll take a look at how SaaS companies are using HubSpot to boost their marketing for 2018 and beyond.
In short, HubSpot is a unique marketing tool for SaaS companies due to a variety of unique reasons. HubSpot is an all-in-one marketing platform that provides businesses with the tools they need to engage and connect with their customers. From creating email campaigns and website pages, to automating lead generation and measuring results, HubSpot is a powerful tool for SaaS companies looking to grow their customer base.
Its automation capabilities can save time by innovating mundane tasks like segmenting lists and sending personalized emails. With its analytics dashboard, SaaS marketers can track how leads are engaging with their content, helping them make smarter decisions about where to focus their resources. With the combination of automation, analytics, and engagement tools provided by HubSpot, SaaS marketers have all the resources they need to effectively reach new customers and gain insights into what works best for their company.
HubSpot's CRM (with some marketing functionality) is free to get up and running for SaaS startups who are in their beginning phases and might need to be cost-conscious. HubSpot as an organization is geared towards helping SaaS companies with digital and content marketing from within the same platform. Companies can then work with agencies that are certified HubSpot partners to develop a holistic marketing and lead generation program that will help SaaS companies grow at a consistent rate.
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For SaaS companies, the time between capturing a marketing lead and actual engagement in a sales cycle can take weeks, months, or even years. Getting a target buyer to sign up for a newsletter or download a white paper with their contact information is just the beginning of the buyer’s journey. Leads often have to be followed up with, or nurtured, with additional content and information that will build trust over the long run. So for SaaS brands, HubSpot’s ability to automate the lead nurturing process is of particular utility.
LogiNext, a field service management SaaS company, is one great example of how automated lead nurturing through HubSpot can drive marketing results such as increased web traffic and lead qualification. LogiNext identified their key buyer personas and created specific lead nurturing tracks for each one. If a CTO signs up for a webinar, for instance, the follow-up lead nurturing email might contain specific information about now LogiNext integrates with other systems, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the product or industry reports specifically of interest to a technologist.
Hubspot enables marketers to do automated lead nurturing by leveraging its powerful automation capabilities. Through its automation features, marketers can set up customized campaigns to nurture leads and ensure they stay engaged with the brand. The automation tools provide a wide range of options such as setting up event-based triggers, scheduling emails in advance, sending personalized messages and more.
HubSpot can the subsequently track the behavior of how these leads interact with subsequent nurturing content, and make a rules-based decision of what content to send them next in the nurturing track. Moreover, HubSpot can generate a “sales qualified lead” if the lead is highly engaged with the nurturing content, and automatically suggest that a sales representative reaches out to them. The result is that fewer leads slip through the cracks over the long run, and only the best leads are then passed over to sales.
Finally, running ad campaigns and engaging in search optimization are also critical marketing needs for SaaS companies across the board. SEO can be much more complex from an SEO standpoint than many other industries, as companies to rank highly for multiple sets of keywords that might be of interest to various target personas and buyers.
And while companies certainly have a variety of SEO and advertising tools available, for SaaS companies the benefit of using HubSpot is that they can have an integrated approach with other digital marketing efforts like landing pages, content marketing, and email marketing.
Hubspot can be a great asset to SaaS companies when it comes to improving their SEO. Hubspot provides powerful tools and features that allow SaaS marketers to easily track SEO performance, monitor key metrics, and optimize content for better ranking.
One of the most beneficial ways that HubSpot helps with search engine optimization is its ability to track key metrics and improve content. HubSpot's advanced analytics tools can track user behaviors and identify areas where improvement is needed to ensure higher ranking on search engine results pages. It can also provide deep insights into current SEO performance, enabling marketers to make better decisions for content and ad campaigns.
An intellectual property software company called PatSnap, for instance, worked with HubSpot to increase website traffic and leads by creating Google AdWords campaigns directly out of the HubSpot software, rather than using separate tools. From an SEO standpoint, SaaS companies like PatSnap can use HubSpot to see which marketing assets and efforts are having the biggest SEO impact, and easily create similar content within the same platform.
The veritable “Swiss Army Knife” of CRM and marketing automation, HubSpot places itself in a unique position when it comes to helping SaaS companies grow through inbound marketing and content creation.
Lead nurturing, SEO, and blog posts are just a few of the many use cases that HubSpot presents for SaaS companies of all shapes and sizes. As with any technology, it's important to build up some internal expertise on the platform and engage with the right HubSpot partner that will help map our your inbound marketing journey.
If you are looking for a partner to drive your technology or software marketing, give us a call.
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