4 ms·
HubSpot is actually pretty good. For starters, it's free. They have most of the tools you'd want to run an efficient sales process available as add-ons too. It'
by andygcook 8y ago
HubSpot is actually pretty good. For starters, it's free. They have most of the tools you'd want to run an efficient sales process available as add-ons too. It's also gaining steam and likely to end up with the most third party integrations behind Salesforce. They also have a HubSpot for Startups program which can get you 90% off your first year.
Full disclosure: I used to work at HubSpot on the product team, but I didn't work on the CRM. In fact, I kind of built a competitive product to the HubSpot CRM internally for awhile, so wouldn't say it was good unless it really was.
- jillesvangurp 8y ago+1 on hubspot. They also have nice APIs and their freemium package is very nice. API usage is part of the freemium package. We use it to send leads from our backend system. I think their premise is that CRMs are a commodity and all the value is in upselling the type of features that they charge for. So making sure the baseline CRM is very good drives sales for that. Either way, it's a decent product.
- wlj 8y agoI have to disagree on Hubspot CRM. We moved to it on the startup plan you mention about 7-8 months ago, and have found it very difficult to use in a fast, intuitive and streamlined fashion. There are key areas that are missing basic functionality (EG: being able to see a list of deals that haven't been contacted recently) and if I could turn back time, I would not have made the decision to move to Hubspot.