What do you dislike about HubSpot Sales Hub?
To be honest, support and sales are not always well-trained on the actual capabilities of the platform.
There were many times that we called and asked for a solution, and the answer was either completely irrelevant, a cold “No, it’s not possible,” or a push toward another package that did not really fit our needs.
What was frustrating is that after a bit of struggle and our own investigation, we often found that there actually was a decent solution already built, or at least something clearly prepared and thought through by the HubSpot design team.
For example, as a landscaping company, we really wanted to run the business in an address-oriented way. At first, it seemed like that was not possible. I spoke with sales multiple times, and there was no obvious solution presented to us. In the end, we did our own due diligence, realized that upgrading to Sales Enterprise would give us access to custom objects, and basically sold the higher package to ourselves because it was actually the logical solution for our business.
So in that case, we were the ones acting like the knowledgeable salesperson, understanding the platform well enough to justify the higher price tier because it truly solved our problem.
And you know what the next pitch was after that? Marketing Enterprise! Which is completely irrelevant to us at our current stage.
In summary, I think it would help a lot if sales and support had a deeper understanding of the actual capabilities across the platform. They should try to put themselves in our shoes and tailor a real solution to our business, instead of just blindly offering more packages and trying to maximize the contract value without really considering what we need.
It should feel more like dealing with us as a B2B business with specific operational needs, not like a B2C retail sales process.
Also, on the product side, I wish the UI were a bit more customizable. For example, it would be nice to rearrange custom object cards more freely, customize CRM ribbon icons, and generally have a bit more flexibility in how pages are structured visually.
And please stop sending reminder emails to deactivated users. There was a reason behind those deactivations!
Overall, considering everything, you are doing a lot of things well, and I appreciate the work. Please keep it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.