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Partner with Waypost
We'll help you gain the most possible value from the HubSpot platform.
Strategy First.
Always.
Our plans are goal-oriented, focused, and specific.
Elevate Your Digital Presence.
Our approach to digital marketing is relational, strategic, and innovative.
We are Strategic Partners.
We believe in building trust through delivering measurable results.
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Our clients trust us with their brands, and it's easy to see why.
Whether you’ve been using HubSpot for a day or for years (We’re going on 8 years!), your HubSpot experience is going to get better as you learn how to organize your HubSpot portal and keep it organized. These nine tips are nothing new, but they’ve stood the test of time for many experienced HubSpot users.
If you organize your HubSpot portal, deleting (or archiving) assets is a big part of the job. Before you start pushing buttons, it’s nice to know you’ve got a backup of the most critical data in your portal.
HubSpot doesn’t offer a way to back up your entire portal at once, but here are the tools that offer a way to export data:
Contacts | Marketing | Sales | Service | Automation | Reports |
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Contacts | Ads | Deals | Tickets | Workflows | Standard & Custom Reports |
Companies | Emails | Products | Analytics | ||
Lists | Websites | Quotes (PDF Only) | |||
Files & Templates | |||||
Lead Capture |
Bonus tip: Use an integration like coupler.io (https://blog.coupler.io/hubspot-backup/) to automate this process!
Keeping your contact list as small as possible is usually your top priority. You want to avoid triggering that next pricing tier, and it doesn’t make sense to clutter your portal with unusable contacts.
Unfortunately, you can’t automatically delete contacts with a HubSpot workflow. This would be a great feature for keeping your HubSpot portal organized, but you can still use a workflow to make this task easier.
The workflow pictured here [click to enlarge] triggers when a contact unsubscribes or hard bounces and moves these contacts into a list called DELETE_ME_MONTHLY.
Bonus tip: You can add more aggressive logic to your workflow to target contacts with no activity or engagement or even contacts who may be too far outside your target market (also pictured).
If you search for “HubSpot naming conventions,” you’re going to get a lot of excellent ideas, but the important thing is that every asset has a name that communicates:
The goal when you organize your HubSpot portal is to give context to every asset. A lot of helpful information can be communicated quickly by a good naming convention. I recommend this article to get you started.
The benefit of naming conventions is that you can quickly identify assets that are no longer useful. It’s a good idea to regularly clean up old campaigns or workflows, besides all the small assets (like CTAs or emails) that get replaced and forgotten along the way. An organized HubSpot portal keeps relevant and useful information at the top of the stack, everything else should be filed in its place.
But before you archive that email, tag the beginning of the name with [ARCHIVED]. As you clean up media files, you’ll be thankful that you can see whether that image is appearing on live or archived content.
The campaigns tool is the absolute best way to organize your HubSpot portal, but for some reason, most users only open this tool to build out campaigns. How silly!
Per HubSpot:
An inbound campaign is a specific marketing effort that aligns your content across all channels toward one specific goal.
Since you’re not creating assets that don’t contribute to a goal, it also applies that you’re not creating assets that don’t belong to a campaign.
Even the most organized HubSpot portal could use more folders – even if they are already using some.
Folders should have a naming convention that gives context to their purpose, just like any other asset. Ideally, you will organize your content into nested folders that communicate:
Note: Some tools don’t support nested folders, like Workflows, and some tools don’t have the option to create folders at all, like CTAs and Forms.
Be heard: Since 2016, HubSpot users have been requesting folders within the CTA tool, and with no explanation, this feature still does not exist! Here’s a link to this feature request’s specific HubSpot Ideas post. Go nuts.
When you’re designing forms, it’s easy to forget that those custom fields you’re creating are brand new contact properties. . .
Until you try to use that data.
There’s nothing like scrolling through hundreds of random contact properties and wondering what they mean or how you should use them.
I like to think this is where the contact specified if they were a piece of wood.
Setting a description can help add context to these vague properties, but these descriptions aren’t visible when building a report or workflow.
Property groups are a great way to add immediate context to your data, but instead of just using campaigns to determine your property groups, you should consider differentiating:
We already mentioned descriptions for contact properties, but workflows and campaigns can also have descriptions, and you should use them to keep your HubSpot portal organized.
You are likely not the only person working in your HubSpot portal, and Steve-down-the-hall may not know what he’s looking at when he’s trying to change one of your impressively complicated workflows. Consider helping Steve by explaining your workflow and how it works.
Integrations can be a powerful asset, but they can also wreak havoc if you do not remember to keep track of the work they do for you. Here are some problems I’ve dealt with in the past while organizing a tangled HubSpot portal:
It can be easy to lose track of your integrations, especially if your company experiences employee turnover and you’ve inherited someone else’s work. Keep up-to-date records for every third party granted permissions in your HubSpot portal. It would be best if you were keeping a written record of:
Waypost has been a HubSpot Solutions Partner since 2014. We are a top-rated Gold Tier partner with 8 years of marketing and sales experience on the HubSpot platform. If your company is brand new to HubSpot, or if you’ve had HubSpot for a while, reach out and introduce yourself to us. We look forward to getting to know you.