What is a CRM?
CRM is a customer relationship management software or SaaS (software‑as‑a‑service) that helps you:
Generate high quality leads
Convert more leads to customers faster
Deliver a delightful customer experience
Turn customers into your fans
Are all CRMs
the Same?
Most CRMs only serve your sales team, leaving the rest of your company to cobble together different technologies that are difficult or impossible to integrate in a way that provides you with a holistic view of your company and how it is operating.
That’s because most legacy CRM platform companies expanded their capabilities over time by acquiring other software companies and then tried to make them work together. In addition, many CRMs are difficult to learn, expensive, hard to use, and take a long time to get onboarded and fully functioning.
It’s like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
In fact, many CRM platforms can come with a “Cobble Tax” that includes:
- Siloed Tools that make it harder to align
- Clunky UX that makes it harder to adopt
- An Inflexible Stack that makes it harder to adapt
Why HubSpot Stands Apart
HubSpot delivers a different kind of CRM experience. Its powerful and easy-to-use AI capabilities are built into a unified system that helps teams work smarter, move faster, and create consistent customer experiences.
HubSpot is designed to support every part of your revenue operations (RevOps). Marketing, sales, service, and operations teams can access the insights they need to perform at a higher level and contribute to company growth.
Instead of piecing together separate HubSpot built all the essential elements of customer experience management into a single platform. Content tools, messaging, automations, analytics, and customer data all work together through a single code base with the buyer's experience at the center.
What This Means for Your Growth
HubSpot is built to help your business scale through:
- A single source of truth that keeps teams aligned
- One intuitive user experience that increases adoption
- A unified codebase that makes it simple to customize and adapt
What You Can Accomplish with HubSpot CRM
The HubSpot CRM helps you:
- Strengthen the buyer experience by keeping every interaction connected through a single customer record.
- Improve team efficiency with an interface that supports smoother collaboration and clearer handoffs.
- Lower your total cost of ownership by consolidating customer-facing technologies, apps, and tools into one platform.
- Create content for every stage of the customer journey using Breeze, the AI-powered content creation software built directly into HubSpot.
HubSpot delivers a CRM platform designed around your customers' needs. It empowers your RevOps teams in marketing, sales, and service to build stronger relationships and provide a consistently high-quality experience.
Built for Business Growth
The HubSpot CRM is more than a sales system. It's a complete business platform made up of interconnected hubs that run on the same foundation, giving your teams a consistent and streamlined experience across every function.
The AI-powered CRM sits at the center of this platform and supports organizations that want to scale with confidence. You begin with a single hub, combine several, or adopt the full growth suite to unlock stronger performance across your operations.
When you expand your use of HubSpot, you open the door to outcomes such as:
- Higher customer satisfaction
- Stronger customer retention rates
- Faster, more predictable company growth
- Greater readiness and capability to scale over time
How HubSpot’s CRM Accelerates Your Success
Unify Your Marketing,
Sales, and Service
Databases and Apps
Content Management
Company Records
Forms
Share Content
Between Teams
Contact Activity
Contact and Company Insights
Documents and Templates
Organize and Track
Customer
Communications
Reporting Dashboard
Live Chat
Deals
Conversations Inbox
Conversational Bots
Ticketing
Team Email
Tasks
One CRM Platform Powered by AI
Marketing Hub
Reach and engage your audience with campaigns built on accurate data and AI insights. Create campaigns, automate follow-ups, and track performance in one place so your team can attract more qualified leads.
Content Hub
Plan, create, and manage content across your website, blog, and core channels from a central hub. Use AI-assisted writing, content personalization, and built-in optimization tools to publish content that supports every stage of the customer journey.
Sales Hub
Help your sales team build stronger relationships with tools that automate busywork, organize pipelines, and highlight the next best action. AI supports outreach, call summaries, forecasting, and planning so your reps can focus on closing deals.
Service Hub
Deliver support that builds long-term loyalty. Manage tickets, gather feedback, and use AI-powered chat and knowledge tools to improve response times and overall customer satisfaction.
Data Hub
Centralize and organize your customer data with a scalable data layer. Model, clean, and connect data from multiple sources so teams can trust their reports and make decisions with confidence.
Commerce Hub
Support revenue growth with payment tools, billing workflows, and subscription management features. Commerce Hub helps reduce friction at checkout, speed up transactions, and improve reporting from lead to revenue.
Breeze
Create content in your brand voice for websites, blogs, landing pages, podcasts, and case studies. Breeze agents can also support strategy and execution tasks, helping you produce consistent, on-brand content across your entire customer journey.
What Sets Xcellimark’s HubSpot Onboarding & Implementation Apart
Xcellimark provides offers personalized onboarding that gets your team up and running quickly. We guide you through the entire process to remove barriers, streamline adoption, and help your organization get immediate value from your new CRM.
We handle the onboarding work with you.
Xcellimark gives your team hands-on support throughout the setup process. Instead of navigating everything on your own, you receive guided expertise that ensures your HubSpot environment is configured correctly and ready for your teams to use with confidence.
We tailor every HubSpot CRM Hub to your business.
Your processes, teams, and goals shape the way we configure your Hubs. Rather than forcing your organization to adapt to preset structures, we customize HubSpot to match how your business operates and how your customers move through their journey.
Our onboarding process helps your team succeed.
HubSpot provides helpful resources, and Xcellimark builds on that foundation with personalized training that is specific to your license, operations, and business model. Your team learns in a real working environment, supported by experts who make sure the platform meets your day-to-day needs.
What You Gain with Xcellimark’s Onboarding Approach
- A faster, smoother transition into your new CRM
- A HubSpot setup that aligns with your teams, workflows, and goals
- Practical, hands-on training that builds confidence and adoption
- Expert guidance that reduces errors and rework later
- A clear structure for your customer journey from the start
- Support that continues as your business grows
HubSpot Training & Consulting
Xcellimark offers personalized HubSpot training and consulting to help maximize your investment in HubSpot. We help you understand how to use the HubSpot system to specifically fit the needs of your company.
Our training and consulting process includes:
- A free consultation to understand your company, goals, and the challenges you want HubSpot to help you solve.
- An assessment of your HubSpot CRM Hubs, including Marketing, Sales, Service, CMS, and Operations.
- An initial review of team roles, responsibilities, and customer obligations.
- A custom training agenda created specifically for your team and finalized with your input.
- Preparation sessions to ensure your training is targeted and productive.
- Schedule training sessions that fit your team's availability.
- Web-based training delivered live, with on-site training available in select locations.
- A recording of your training sessions is provided for future reference.
- Optional ongoing consulting and support to help your team continue to improve and adopt new capabilities.
Frequently Asked Questions About HubSpot Hubs
1. What are some of the advantages of using the HubSpot Marketing Hub?
- Segmenting and targeting audiences with clean, accurate data
- Automating nurturing workflows that move contacts toward becoming warm leads
- Creating and updating content without relying on a web developer
- Tracking and reporting on the ROI of your campaigns
- Keeping your messaging consistent across email, live chat, and other customer touchpoints
2. What features in the HubSpot Marketing Hub help you convert more leads?
Engage and Convert More Leads
- Email Marketing
- Marketing Automation
- Calls-To-Action (CTAs)
- Landing Pages
- Forms
- Thank-You Pages
- Autoresponder Emails
- Live Chat
- Conversational Bots
- A/B Testing
- Smart Content
- Behavioral Targeting
Report & Customize
- Campaign Reporting
- Website Traffic Analytics
- Attribution Reporting
- Custom Objects
- Partitioning
Attract Your Target Audience
- Blog
- Video
- Social Media
- SEO
- Ads
3. What are some of the advantages of using the HubSpot Content Hub?
- Receive 24/7 security monitoring and threat detection.
- Get automatic software updates and management.
- Receive an SSL certificate.
- Use data to build personalized, sophisticated experiences.
- Leverage automation to help scale your website.
- Create better content by removing gatekeepers.
- Report and optimize your web content effortlessly.
- Keep your messaging consistent across all touchpoints.
4. What features make the HubSpot Content Hub easy to use?
Create Remarkable Website Experiences with Ease
- Drag-and-drop Editor
- Website Themes
- Membership-driven Content
- Interactive Web Apps
- Dynamic Content with HubDB
Optimize and Personalize Your Website
- SEO and Recommendations
- Contact Attribution Report Builder
- Smart Content and Reporting
- Chat, Forms, and Bots
- Conversational Bots
- Adaptive Testing
- Web Analytics
Manage Your Growing Digital Presence
- Standard SSL Certificate
- Site Performance Monitoring
- Brand Domains
- Custom CDC Configuration
- Activity Logs
- 24/7 Security Monitoring and Threat Detection
- Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Website Hosting and Management
- Website Software Updates and Management
5. What are some of the advantages of using the HubSpot Sales Hub?
- Use data to prioritize your outreach and predict pipeline health.
- Leverage automation and put prospecting on autopilot.
- Create sales enablement content that’s accessible and on-brand.
- Report on rep efficacy with robust forecasting and sales analytics.
- Keep your messaging consistent across all touchpoints.
6. What features make the HubSpot Sales Hub powerful and easy to use?
Start Conversations
- Email Tracking and Notifications
- Email Sequences and Automation
- Google Gmail and Microsoft Outlook Integrations
- Calling
- Task Automation
Deepen Relationships
- Meeting Scheduling
- Live Chat
- Tasks and Activities
- Account-Based Marketing
- 1:1 Video
- Mobile CRM App
Manage Your Pipeline
- Pipeline Management
- Playbooks
- Rep Productivity Performance
- Quotes
- Sales Analytics and Reporting
- Forecasting
7. What are some of the advantages of using the HubSpot Service Hub?
- Use data to understand the complete history of every customer.
- Leverage automation to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.
- Create knowledge base content that aligns with your brand.
- Report on customer insights and the efficiency of your service.
- Tackle all of your messaging right from the CRM.
8. What features make the HubSpot Service Hub powerful and easy to use?
Unite Teams and Channels
- Ticketing
- Calling
- Team Management
- Team Email
- Conversations Inbox
- Conversational Bots
Power Proactive Service
- Time-to-Close Reports
- 1:1 Video
- Ticket Closed Reports
- Feedback Surveys
- Rep Productivity Performance
Scale Support
- Knowledge Base
- Email Sequences and Automation
- Task Automation
- Ticket Automation
- Templates
- Live Chat
9. What are some of the advantages of using the HubSpot Data Hub?
- Align around a single source of truth for data
- Leverage flexible automation to streamline your process.
- Create more personalized, data-powered content.
- Report with clean, consistent, and up-to-date data.
- Segment your messaging to improve your CX.
- More easily integrate other software data into HubSpot.
10. What features make the HubSpot Data Hub powerful and easy to use?
Connect and Clean Customer Data
- Ticketing
- 500+ integrations
- Real-time two-way data sync
- Historical sync
- Data deduplication
- Field mappings
- Dynamic Content with HubDB
Automate Every Business Process
- Programmable automation
- Data quality automation
- Webhooks
11. What are some of the features that make the HubSpot Commerce Hub powerful and easy to use?
Get Paid Faster
- Quotes
- Invoicing
- Payment Links
Save Time
- Automation and Reporting
- Custom Billing
- Revenue Reporting
- QuickBooks Online
- HubSpot Payments
- Stripe Payment Processing
Increase Your Revenue
- Subscriptions
- B2B Checkout
- Flexible Payment Processing
12. What are some of the advantages of using HubSpot Breeze?
Breeze helps you:
- Analyze performance, industry data, and best practices to create compelling social content.
- Craft and implement tailored outreach for CRM prospects to enhance your sales pipeline.
- Respond quickly to site visitors with AI trained on your website, blog, and knowledge base.
- Enrich company and contact records to drive decisions and convert top opportunities.
- Discover which companies in your target market are showing intent on your website.
- Build optimized forms that autofill information behind the scenes, boosting conversion rates.
13. What aspects of HubSpot Breeze make it powerful and easy to use?
Breeze Copilot:
- Assists you with tasks everywhere you work across HubSpot
- Preps you for sales calls
- Generates content
- Summarizes conversations
Breeze Intelligence:
- Identifies your target market
- Gauges intent of your website visitors
- Enriches contact and company data directly in HubSpot
- Gives you all the information you need on your contacts
Breeze Agents Include:
- Social Media Agent
- Content Agent
- Prospecting Agent
- Customer Agent

