When it comes to selecting a HubSpot solutions partner, how do you know you’re making the right choice? Discover what makes us different and how you'll benefit from partnering with us.
If you’ve chosen to invest in a partner to help you unlock HubSpot’s potential, you probably have a shortlist of contenders somewhere. And if you were to revisit that list, you might come to the conclusion that we all look pretty similar. You wouldn’t be wrong.
We’re all HubSpot solutions partners, after all. You’ve picked us because we all offer the same kinds of products and services, to your specifications and budget. So how do you differentiate between the final names on your shortlist to determine the partner for you?
At this stage, it's how we offer our services that sets us apart. At BabelQuest, we talk about this in terms of accountability. What do we mean by this and how can we confidently claim it as a differentiator, as if every other solutions partner isn’t accountable?
Accountable for what?
You might know accountability as taking responsibility for something, having ownership of something, or committing to make something happen, and you’d be right.
In the context of services delivered, a lot of agencies can and do claim accountability for work produced or results generated. Some of them may even appear on your shortlist. They’ll talk about being results-driven or goal-orientated. And while they might have some very effective processes in place for following through on those promises, that doesn’t actually mean a great deal, unless they’re delivering a full-flywheel service.
What do we mean by this?
Your business growth flywheel in practice
One of the most common things we come across when a business approaches us for a CRM system is that they’ve lost track of their sales forecasting. Their pipeline’s in disarray and their salespeople are spending lots of time on activities that can’t be tracked.
- Where do your most valuable deals come from?
- What’s your primary source for new business leads?
- What’s your cost per sale?
- Can you rely on your primary lead source to achieve your revenue goals?
But the issue is rarely just with sales. Once we dig into it, it often becomes clear that the organisation’s website is also underperforming — either it doesn’t explain what they do, it doesn’t explain who they do it for, or it doesn’t have optimal conversion paths to help prospects actually put their hands up and say “yes, I’d like to have a conversation”.
- Does your marketing team generate qualified leads to hand over to Sales?
- Do you have visibility over how many of those leads are being advanced, nurtured or disqualified?
- What does your ideal customer look like?
And sometimes the issue extends beyond sales and marketing into service, too. Sales might be selling well, but the handover from Sales to Service and delivery isn’t being handled effectively, leading to poor experiences and dissatisfied customers who won’t buy again, never mind advocating for your brand or service amongst their professional networks.
- How do you know your customers are happy/unhappy?
- How do you know your customers are being advocates and can you track it?
An agency might be accountable for solving any one of these issues, and it might do that very well, but to be truly accountable it needs to address all of them, because repeatable, scalable business growth depends on all three of these functions working together.
Great — but how does that make you different?
Of course, there are other solutions partners offering full-flywheel services. Many rank alongside us in HubSpot’s Elite tier. But there’s a distinction to be made between a marketing-first agency that's grown to offer sales and service and one whose background is embedded in business-wide consultancy.
That’s us.
Our prerogative isn’t increased leads or better productivity. The end that we commit to helping you achieve is much more comprehensive than that.
We’re here to help you put your customer at the core of your business flywheel. In practice, that means aligning your marketing, sales and your service teams around the same vision of what the customer wants to deliver what they want.
And while other solutions partners were attracted to HubSpot because it’s the best marketing platform, we got there because its powerful analytics and reporting helped us to scale and grow ourselves first. We’ve climbed all the way to the top ranks in the HubSpot solutions directory using it, and by helping our clients to unlock its potential, they've achieved similar growth.
Being an Elite HubSpot partner means much more than selling lots of HubSpot licences. You have to be able to service your clients. And to service them well, you need to be accountable — not just for their marketing but for their growth.
Underneath the strategies we design and the campaigns we deliver, that’s what we’re accountable for and that’s what our clients hold us to.
How’s your flywheel spinning? I’m Lily and I work on the business development team here at BabelQuest. To find out more about your business challenges and how you might be able to use HubSpot to solve them, get in touch today.
