Effective marketing is all about two things: segmentation and scale. HubSpot’s new Workflows tool is designed to help you with both. Workflows is a powerful new tool in HubSpot that makes nurturing your leads, managing your pipeline, and automating your marketing incredibly easy.
Segmentation + Nurturing in Perfect Harmony
Workflows works in concert with HubSpot’s list segmentation tool, making it easy for you to build hyper-specific segments of leads whom you can target with customized marketing campaigns. Want to send an automated welcome email to all new customers? Omit leads with a “gmail” address from your marketing campaigns? Nurture new whitepaper leads in different ways depending on their industry and company role? These things (and an infinite number of other uses) are all possible with Workflows.
Fully Automated Lead Nurturing
It’s easy to set up robust, highly customized lead nurturing emails with Workflows. Simply select your starting condition (such as a contact completing a form, an import, or a wide range of other criteria), then start adding email messages as steps. You can easily add as many email messages as you’d like to a workflow, add in delays that are granular down to the minute, and take other actions as part of your campaign (for instance, adding users who have completed your campaign to a list of leads to follow up with).
Beautiful Emails, Robust Reporting
Because Workflows works with HubSpot’s new email tool, it’s easy to create beautiful emails that are highly customized and deeply personalized for each lead. Easily manage templates, test and tweak your message, drop in calls to action, and build your emails from one powerful and easy to use interface. When it comes time to report on campaign performance, you can take advantage of HubSpot’s deep and insightful analytics tools. See which leads opened which messages and when, which links they clicked on, and what actions they ultimately took.
More than Just Email
Workflows is also much more than just a lead nurturing tool - it can help you automate common marketing processes, and move leads through your funnel in an efficient and scalable way. Want to change a lead’s lifecycle stage when they’ve downloaded a pricing guide? Push a lead to Salesforce only when they’ve met a certain qualification threshold? Send a webhook to another system notifying it of a new contact? All possible with Workflows.
Workflows brings marketers the same kind of automation a sophisticated CRM system provides to sales, and takes it a step further. Because it’s also incredibly intuitive and easy to get started with, it has the power to change your marketing on the very first day you start using it.
Over the next few months, we’ll be working to migrate existing customers from the legacy lead nurturing tool to Workflows in as seamless a way possible. Existing customers who already have access to Workflows can find documentation on using it here.
Greg DeVore 10:56 AM on August 16, 2012
Just used the new email tool yesterday and am excited to get going with workflows. This is so much better than what we had before.
Awesome work guys.
Ingrid 8:22 AM on August 17, 2012
Will there be enroll buttons in salesforce like the previous lead nurturing?
Andrea 4:23 PM on August 17, 2012
Will I be able to add in customers that I did not get from the website into the system without having to down a mass download of them?
Jeff 4:34 PM on August 17, 2012
Andrea - you can absolutely add in customers who didn't come from your website. HubSpot's Contacts system has an easy mechanism for importing a CSV file of leads or contacts that you can then opt into a workflow or work with in other ways.
JonDod 7:46 AM on August 20, 2012
This is great! Really looking forward to seeing workflows and using it with my clients!
Jon Nugent 12:38 PM on August 20, 2012
Nice - it appears you're integrating more and more of Performable's tools into HubSpot.
Mike H. 9:14 AM on September 20, 2012
Will it still integrate with 37 Signals aka HighRise?
Jeffrey Russo 11:18 AM on September 20, 2012
Hi Mike,
Definitely. The integration you are referring to ties HubSpot's Contacts database in with HighRise, and that system works in close concert with Workflows.
Deanna 2:35 PM on September 21, 2012
Hi, with the new workflow will we be able to be set up an email campaign and based on who opened that email can the new workflow automatically trigger another email to launch and be sent to only those that opened the first email campaign?
Jeff 8:52 AM on September 24, 2012
Hi Deanna,
Thanks for your question! This is definitely possible; how it works depends on whether you are a HubSpot Professional or Enterprise customer...
HubSpot Enterprise customers will soon be able to set Workflows up to do this automatically (we are working on a feature that will allow you to kick off a workflow based on very granular activities like specific email clicks, opens, etc.)
Professional customers can do this, but they would have to do it manually (after the initial send, creating a list of folks who opened that specific email, then putting those folks into a nurturing campaign.)
Chelsea 12:23 PM on September 27, 2012
So if Workflows are really only for Enterprise and Professional customers ( http://www.hubspot.com/customer-migration-center ), where does that leave the Basic customers? Will be have Workflows or keep stay with the Lead Nurturing Campaigns? If we do get Workflows, will they work like Lead Nurturing Campaigns do now for Basic customers?
Thanks,
Chelsea
Jeff 5:22 PM on September 27, 2012
Hi Chelsea,
Thanks for your question! If you are an existing HubSpot Basic customer and you have access to Lead Nurturing, you'll be grandfathered in and will eventually be migrated to Workflows - we'll never take that feature away from you. Stay tuned to the in-app notification and the migration center for details on when you'll be moving over.
With regard to the second part of your question, Workflows makes it easy to accomplish the same things that you were doing with lead nurturing, and a whole lot more. We'll also have some training and resources to help you learn how to use Workflows when the time comes for you to move over.