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Learn how InMotion embraced HubSpot and achieved visibility across the customer lifecycle while improving operational efficiency and implementing Business Units.
Meet InMotion, a premium web hosting company that has served 570,000 customers over the past 20 years while earning accolades for Best Shared Web Hosting Company and Top Hosting Provider from the likes of TechRadar and HostingAdvice.com.
Put simply by Co-Founder Sunil Saxena, InMotion is a "customer service company that happens to offer web hosting."
InMotion Hosting has historically used programs and systems that its team developed in-house. They used several "homegrown" systems to connect and house customer, sales, and revenue data.
Eventually, the piecemeal approach broke down. The team lacked visibility into data which led to performance inconsistencies across platforms.
They realized they needed to switch from DIY to scalable solutions, ready to meet their needs as they grew. They explored open-source software like Mautic and proprietary software like MailChimp and Active Campaign for email.
InMotion felt aligned with open source or in-house developed solutions but quickly realized that they could achieve more with HubSpot.
In fact, they realized that if they could move off of Mautic, SurveyMonkey, Qualaroo, Active Campaign, and Sendible, they could save $13,485.59 annually and reallocate that budget toward HubSpot.
After purchasing HubSpot, the team knew that they needed to get it set up correctly due to the significant investment that the company was willing to make. That meant going with an outside vendor.
Ultimately, they chose Revenue River due to our agency's technical expertise with HubSpot.
It became clear through our conversations that the biggest challenge would be optimizing InMotion's HubSpot instance to accommodate the needs of multiple teams with Business Units. They needed help with intelligent system design, architecture, team training, and API and native integrations, ensuring that data would flow back and forth between the technology they use to run their business. Permissions and access would be critical and must be set up to meet team and business unit requirements.
InMotion had the intellectual property and industry expertise that we need for ideal system design logic and requirements.
The team at Revenue River coordinated with the technical team at InMotion to show them exactly what data points needed to be pulled. We were also able to provide a data schematic to show how data would flow.
We created a data schematic to show how triggers across their various platforms, including HubSpot, PowerPanel, and ZenDesk would update relevant information to enable the customer journey and create operational efficiencies for the InMotion team.
Data included lead source attribution, customer information, sales information, billing information, and behavioral triggers, with 50+ data points across platforms. Note: Some data points are obscured below to protect sensitive information.
"quote here about the solution we came up with"
To start, we got the sales team out of Mautic. The sales team struggled with Mautic's interface, finding it non-intuitive and relatively manual. When moving them into HubSpot, we included some Lead Status updates, Pipeline motion changes, Role/Team permissions, and customized the record layouts so the sales team could hit the ground running.
The next step was to get the Marketing team out of ActiveCampaign, which limited their automation capabilities and dynamic email options. Now, in HubSpot, they're using the new programmable email tools, Lead Source updates, and lead scoring.
Next, we developed an integration strategy for their proprietary platform, PowerPanel, to ensure customer and revenue data was syncing between the new system.
We got four teams up and running in HubSpot and implemented Business Units so that their other brand, OpenMetal.io, could function in the same instance.
Finally, we assisted with an integration between HubSpot and Zendesk, leveraging both connectors available in the marketplace.
All in all, we customized HubSpot to focus on creating an organized database, improving reporting visibility, fully leveraging automation, and conversion rate optimization by doing the following:
Below shows the final system architecture map that aligned triggers, data, and activity across customer activity, affiliate marketing, demand generation activity, sales activity, and lifecycle stages. Note: Some data points are obscured below to protect sensitive information.
"about the results. capabilities, efficiency, accuracy of data flow"
The InMotion team felt a sense of relief when they could end their Mautic license.
After moving into HubSpot, they achieved the following results:
They also went all-in on HubSpot and the flywheel, completing 64 certifications and counting.
Ashleigh Becker, Sr. Manager of Marketing Operations at InMotion Hosting, describes the impact of their new HubSpot system, the integrations, and the collaborative nature of InMotion's partnership with Revenue River.
