Why HubSpot Service Hub?

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And for yet another week, we have to add another person because last week it was Christina Garnett. Now we got Eric Brenner. Eric, I'll come back to you in a second, but ladies and gentlemen, Hub Heroes podcast listeners, one of the things, one of the questions that you can ask yourself that probably might be the most important question you ask in your life is why? Why am I doing this? Why do I need this?

Why?

And so today, we are actually answering the HubSpot service hub, and we have a special guest. Yes, Eric Brenner from HubSpot is here. Eric, first of all, let's let the Hub Heroes podcast understand who you are. So it's real simple. Who are you? What do you do? And they already know that you do for HubSpot.

So I am Eric Brenner. I'm the go to market service hub specialist, which is a fancy term for anything and everything I could do to get Service Hub out there and get customers and partners and everyone's information back to our product because I want them building awesome stuff. I've been at HubSpot for almost five years. Coming up on sabbatical, feel free to send me your ideas for where to go on sabbatical, because right now it's to my front yard to do some yard work, which no one wants to do for a month.

Yeah, no, no, no. Yard work for a month is not a good thing. We have to find a good place. So, Hub Hero podcast, make sure on Twitter, use hashtag Hub Heroes Podcast and where you think Eric should go on sabbatical, that is a challenge to everybody. That is Listening right now. But let's start with the foundational piece, the very beginning of the conversation that we like to cover. And by the way, we do have a method. Last week we talked about Delight. This week we're talking about Service Hub. Now that doesn't mean that service is the only thing that should be delighting. If you didn't listen to the last episode, go back and listen to it because we're actually going to back into hopefully next week or the week after, into sales, the week after that, potentially marketing. And it's all under this idea of why that Hub. But Delight service, they go hand in hand. Here's where I want to start. And Max Devin, historical trainers. You know, this is like a thing that I just love to do when you have to explain. And by the way, Eric, you're going going to pitch into here in a minute. When you have to explain what is the HubSpot Service Hub. How the heck do you explain that?

It's going to be a very emotional and electric episode for me. So I'm going to. I'm trying to temper my excitement because I'm a fan man. What's the easiest way I could distill it down? Customer service software that helps you be there for your customers when you need them the most. We talked a lot about Delight in the last episode. These are the tools that really help you do it. That's as far as I'm going to go because we're going to go really deep later.

It makes the service team not a redheaded stepchild. That's what it boils down to. You always hear, is your organization a sales organization or a marketing organization? You never hear people asking, is your organization a service organization? And that. That's just plain wrong. And what it does is it ties these poor neglected people back into the communication structure of their organization.

I will say I think that there's a huge miss for a lot of companies on customer service. Like, we can all think of many examples of horrible experiences you had with a company that now make you never touch that company again. And so I totally agree with you. It's a redheaded stepchild. But it shouldn't be because it's your almost. While marketing can help with this and sales can help with this, when your customers have an issue, when your customers have questions, they're not going to your marketing team. They might go to your sales team and they're probably not going to answer every single question. That's what supports for and that's what Service Hub helps do.

Yeah, I love this. And for me the only thing that I would add to this is this layer of voice of customer and the ability to use surveys and chat and things like that to actually hear. And then because you heard something, be able to create knowledge articles and places of education where you can go to that next level for your customers. Again, customer success, customer service, call it whatever you want, but being able to listen and then execute on those things is key. So here's the thing, what I want to ask is this question and I need kind of a knee jerk response of when you hear this. So when I ask the question, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? What makes HubSpot Service Hub special?

So let's clearly define what's hyper unique about the service hub that you don't get anywhere else first so we can frame that up into context. The big things that you get with Service Hub are things like the ability to create a knowledge base, the ability to build automation around your ticketing process. So like tickets, it's a top level sort of object inside of HubSpot. It's a digital record of you helping someone with something or delivering a service, whatever it may be. We also allow you to do things like the conversations inbox, customer portal to manage your tickets and also surveys. The thing that makes service Hubs special to me is kind of like the narrative that we always kind of gave it when it first came out. I always look at any big things that HubSpot adds into its, its product offering, if you will, of like how it kind of fits into the history of how HubSpot's evolved over time. We said this thing when, when HubSpot came out saying it completed the suite, right complete the suite was like the big sort of terminology they used to kind of frame up where service hubs sort of fit into the equation. And the way that I always told people about it when I was training people and giving them the context of why it was such a big deal is that if you look back to even the original inbound methodology before it was Attract, Engage and Delight, Attract, Convert, Close and Delight, Delight was always part of the equation. However, our tool set, our product offering, our suite of cert, like, you know, tools, whatever you want to call it, our software, we had great tools to help you market, we had great tools to help you sell, Attract, convert, close. We kind of had that figured out. But when it came to delight, our answer was kind of just you can email people, survey monkey Links, Delight. And it was like it didn't really Our tool didn't really help walk the walk or talk the talk or whatever that means. It didn't really help deliver on the delight part. The Service Hub completely changed that and it finally made HubSpot have the ability to really attract, engage and delight across the entire kind of customer life cycle or journey or across your organization, however you want to think about it. That to me was a huge missing piece of the puzzle that we always needed and then it slotted right in there and that was a great day and I've been a fan ever since.

Helped with that Halligan flywheel. It was that third piece to make it spin. I always think too. I think the amount of customers I had when I was in customer onboarding who were doing hacky ways of creating like deals without revenue, this helped us. Just as powerful and maybe more powerful than custom objects was tickets was this. Now we could track this stuff in its own place. But still on the HubSpot CRM, which is the best power of HubSpot.

The day we got a ticket pipeline. Oh, like the angels came down, seas were parted. All sorts of references that we could throw in here. So Devin, when you heard that question, what makes HubSpot Service Hub special, where did your mind go?

Oh, I'm thinking operations completely. When you're talking about your sales team and your marketing team being able to see everything that happens pre sale, you need to know what's happening post sale too. If you're dealing with some kind of recurring process or if you just want to rehash an existing customer, you don't want to go in talking about, hey, don't you love it when this person has like 12 tickets open because they hate your product? You need to be educated on what's going on with your customers at every stage of the Flywheel. And that's why to me, Service Hub is perfect. Every sales manager should be rooting for Service Hub. Every marketer should be rooting for Service Hub. If you can quickly identify potential detractors using Service Hub, to me, Service Hub is a no brainer.

Yeah. And it's, it's funny, I always think of things a little bit sideways. So when I answer what I feel makes it special is also going to let the cat out of the bag of what tool I really love most. Although I love all the tools in the Service Hub. But man, SEO brothers and sisters knowledge articles is so important for a secondary way to leverage search engine optimization for your sales, service marketing, all of it. And the reason I bring this up is because of a historical story that happened to me. You know, I believe in creating content. You know that. Max, don't start. We already have a whole episode where you talked about good content and laid it on the line. But at the end of the day, I've had people come to me again, don't work for HubSpot and be like, oh, I need help with HubSpot. And I'll be like, oh, well, what hub do you have? And they're like, no, we don't have HubSpot. We want to buy it because we actually watched your content. This is what happens. Even though you're designing knowledge articles for your customers, people who are not customers stumble on these SEO optimized on purpose or not articles and are like, oh, well, shoot, I already know how to do these 17 things. Maybe I should just buy it because it's going to make my life easier. So for me, it's just another opportunity to educate people on the things that they need to be educated on. And yes, I said that on purpose. The way that I said it. Here's the thing. The next thing that we have to get into though is because I know somebody is going to search y HubSpot service hub. They're going to find this page, they're going to listen to this podcast, whatever comes out of this, and they're going to be like, yeah, but, but Max, Devin, Eric, George, how do I know if it's for me? How do I know if I'm a good fit? Everybody buckle up because I already know Max is going to go ham on this one.

So.

But the question is, who is a great fit for the HubSpot service hub?

I mean, if you have customers, you want Service Hub. I'm sure Max has got a much better, longer answer than that. We can get in how many customers and size of your support team and size of your customer. But realistically, you got customers, they got questions, you have field service, project management, you need all this stuff.

If you got customers, you need Service Hub. That's it. If at any point somebody, I mean, unless you are selling something that is literally idiot proof, if you are selling, I can't even think of any. Even if you're selling a cookie, somebody might have a complaint about the cookie, they're going to want to talk to you. It's an opportunity for you to connect with your customers. If you have customers, you need service up. That's it.

Yeah, let me jump in here for a second because Max, I just want to hold the anticipation just a little bit longer because he's Losing his mind. It's going to be one of the sniffs snippets that we put out on the Hub Heroes YouTube channel because he's literally losing his mind right now. First of all, Devin, if somebody complains about cookies, they got life problems and they need to get therapy. I'm just going to throw that out there. That needs to happen. The other thing is, Max, just so you know, I'm going to allow you to answer this how you want to answer it, but I am going to throw a curveball after you answer this because I am built this way and I have to ask the next question. But until then, who's a Great fit for HubSpot Service Hub Max?

Everybody. Like, and I think this is the hill I'm ready to die on, right? Completely. I mean, the thing is, is like I remember when I was onboarding customers on the Marketing Hub and cause that's like all we kind of had when I was doing onboarding. And I was like, how have you guys been getting leads and new business before this? And you want to know what everybody said? Word of mouth. Word of mouth and other people who had great experiences with your business. And guess what? They wouldn't be referring people just because you had a really cool marketing process or just because you had a really great sales process. It's everything you did after they became a customer, which made that person put their trust in you when referring friends, family, colleagues and other people that they care about to your business in whatever way, shape or form you want to think about it. The other thing is that even if you don't have customers, if you're some kind of organization, people get really hung up in the jargon of customers or non customers or prospects or like whatever. You've got some sort of equivalent of customers. You've got people that you're trying to help with stuff and genuinely you want to keep them happy. And I think the other thing, and maybe we'll talk about this later, you got to think about arming your folks who are at your organization whose roles is to help others. There's a lot you can do to help them. They have it in them to be able to help others to their full ability. Put the oxygen mask on first, if you will, when being able to take care of others and make their lives easier. Everyone can use Service Hub. The worst thing you can do is say, oh, we can't because we're a SaaS company. We're because we're not a SaaS company. There's a huge misconception that we've got to work to break. But I'm going to stop because again, I'll ramble on forever.

Yeah, no, it's all good. And we love the ramblings of Max Jacob Cohen. I'm just going to throw that out there. But here's the thing. As the Voice of Reason, aka the guy who doesn't work for HubSpot, I have to push back that if Everybody could use HubSpot Service Hub, there'd be no reason for Zendesk, Freshdesk, Intercom, things like that. And so really in this next question, even though Max is willing to die on the hill for that last question, I have to push to more of the granulars and ask is there anybody that is not a right fit for the HubSpot Service Hub and why Zendesk?

Those tools get the job done. I mean, they're decent products. The thing is, is that it's not just about Service Hub. You need a service solution, period. And if you're gonna go in one of those great. What makes Service Hub stand apart is the fact that it integrates seamlessly and was built to connect everything else. That's what it does. Can you imagine if your social media team could create Service ticket based on something that they captured on Twitter and make that happen immediately? So you tie in your service team immediately and address the online issue immediately. That's something you can do with Service Hub in collaboration with your other hubs. It's like having Service Hub as part of a multi hub solution is where it's at. Now if you have your own standalone service team that exists on an island and the only way that they handle business is by someone calling in to an 800 number that's listed in small print on the back of a package that the person already threw away, then fine, that's great. Get your own disconnected standalone system. But if you want to connect your teams and actually function as an organization and have informed employees throughout your organization, that's where Service Hub comes into play.

I think you're kind of explaining why HubSpot wins in general. I say this to people for years. The CRM is not a sales thing. I know people hear CRM and they're like, oh, sales. It's like, no, it's like this. Customer relationship management and HubSpot built that and then everything on top of it. Marketing Hub, Ops Hub, Sales Hub. Like that's the power of HubSpot. I know what you bought because I can see your deals. I know what pages you viewed because I Have your contact activity like I have everything in one place to know that this is what's good.

I know why you're mad. Because I can listen to the sales reps recording and see where you were misled and set wrong expectations. Context.

Oh man. Max either got really cool or really creepy right there for a second. I'm not sure. I'm not sure which one that was. But here's the thing. I can't leave this yet. I can't leave this yet because I have to ask it in a different direction and I know it is what it is. We'll move forward here in a second. But you're telling me there's nothing that the service hub is missing that a company out there might need that disqualifies it from being an option for a thing that they can use?

Well, that's different if we're talking about, oh, I need specific X feature. The point that I'm trying to make is that things like giving your customers easy ways to self solve problems on their own, giving your team a little bit more of a structured way of solving problems, when people do have to get involved and getting feedback and taking action on it is business, industry segment, vertical, agnostic. Everyone needs to do that somehow in their own way. Sure. Are there going to be people who have hyper niche? Various. Like, is there gaps in the product that people might need?

Sure.

But I'm just saying, like using those tools in general, you give me literally any business model. I can easily find a use case for each one of those big tools that's in it. You just have to think creatively about it. The beautiful thing about the service hub is that the three big tools that it adds aren't anything crazy complex. They're relatively inherently simple tools. The power comes out of the creativity in which you deploy them and use them and tie them all together.

I will say that there are definitely gaps in things we have. I mean, let's be honest. HubSpot has been around from service hub standpoint for four years. Maybe Zendesk has been around for 10 and only concentrating on one thing. If you really think about it, there's plenty of room for us to grow. Whether it's better inbound, calling more with knowledge bases, more with like, honestly every tool. It's one of the joys of HubSpot that I have seen in my years here is that like we never release something and then say, enjoy, we're done. It's like they release it and then the team turns around and is building seven more versions to make it better. The other side of it that's nice is we may not have something, say like a flexible SLA tool today. While I think we're going to get there, we may not have it today. But integrations are app marketplace like partners can most likely get you where you need to be. So even if we don't have everything, we can get you there. While staying inside of HubSpot and keeping marketing, sales and service in one place and not having to say, nope, I'm going to leave this team with fresh desk over here or Salesforce for sales over here. Like we can get most if not all of it done. It just might not all come out of the box.

I love that you mentioned Eric pairing of, you know, a good steak and a good wine, but pairing of possible integrations. We'll get to that. I want to definitely circle back around to that, but I want your personal preferences at this point with this next question. And that is just what is your favorite HubSpot service hub tool and why? And it can only be one. Only one. I'm gonna go first. I love ever since the day that we had custom surveys added in and the power that that gives us. Again, I'm a big fan of. I need to be able to hear what my customers say. I need to understand the emotions that they're going through. And a custom survey done right is a very empowering tool. So with that said, Devin, Eric, Max, what's your one favorite tool for service hub and why?

It's literally easier for me to choose my favorite daughter than this. Devin, go ahead.

For me, it's knowledge base, no question. Because you know, I am at my, at my core, I'm a marketer and I love the ability to not only give people an opportunity to solve their own problems, but like you said, get that little extra little link. Juice is dope. I love the fact that knowledge base is flexible. I've seen it be used very creatively. There was this one group that was using it specifically for their marketing. It's where they housed all of their content for their blog, their podcast. Everything was put in the knowledge base just because of the way it's organized and the way you can store content in it. It was for them a perfect fit.

I will say I am like super excited for like 2023 for what HubSpot Service Hub has in store. My answer will change if you invite me back next year, but I will say it's like, it's like I said, we never stop doing something. While I think inbound Calling is good. I think there is plenty of room for it to be great and I know that we'll get there. I know what we're building and I know what the long term plan is and I think it's good. I will say, I have to say it's, it's feedback surveys because they're listening posts. They don't have to be just after a ticket. They don't just have to be after a chat post sale. 30 days later, how you feeling? Still happy with what you bought a year later? Still happy. And if not, let's use automation to figure out should your sales rep call you? Should a manager call you? Should someone talk to you? It's not just a. Well, it is a service hub feature. It's not a service tool. It's like a everyone tool. Hell, use it on your on a website page. Was this helpful? Did you find what you were looking for? Like it's all there for you to get your answer. But man, I mean I think Max was the one who taught me years ago. If you have a question about HubSpot, search for it on Google. If it comes up with a Knowledge Base article, we do it. And you know how to do it. If we don't and it comes up with a community article, maybe we can, maybe we can't. Maybe a partner can help you and if it doesn't show up with anything, you're asking the wrong question. So like Knowledge Base is pretty powerful tool. Just how it is today.

Okay, I, I'm just going to be boring and I'm going to say tickets. And here is why. The ticket object I think is really what took HubSpot out of the this is just a marketing and sales toolbox because that ticket object can be so flexible and it can mean so many different things. It can be that run of the mill. We have a support team and this is how they manage how they work. They have tickets. We can see how we've helped people. We can run metrics and performance off of that. Great. But you can also use it to measure how you deliver a service. You can use it for onboarding, you can use it for tracking. Let's say you're a company that maybe sells commercial lighting and you want to be able to track the project of designing everything, getting all the equipment and stuff that you need and then finally like all the different steps of going out and installing it and you wanted to like use it for project management a little bit. Ticket pipelines can give you different stages and thus unlock a million different Creative use cases for the ticket object. So I love it just for its the creativity you can deploy and all the different things you can do if you just think about outside of the box.

You know, the thing I love about that section is there was these subtle strategies, these tips, these tricks that just came along for the ride of our favorite tools, which made it very valuable for the Hub heroes listeners. The next thing I want to go into here and you know, humans were just really weird people. I don't know if you have ever run into this and actually I do know that you probably have run into this where you're on the freeway and all sudden it's just slow as all get out and you finally get up to the reason why it's slow and it's because everybody looked at the wreck, everybody's gawking and if they would have just kept on driving, well, that's because we like to see the train wreck every now and then, as terrible as it is. So my question is, what are some of the train wrecks that you've seen? In other words, how companies have just got Service hub so wrong, so wrong. What are some of the horror stories?

I think there's like a couple things where it's like, maybe make sure you don't forget to do this because you're leaving a lot on the table if you don't. And you call that a bit of a train wreck, you know, a very simple one. It's like, hey, if you're doing NPS surveys, what sort of automation are you setting up if someone gives you a bad score? How are you actioning feedback? How are you making sure when someone tells you they are dissatisfied that you're actually doing something about it instead of just being like, oh, they hate us. Not going to improve from this at all. There's so much you can learn from it. But there's also just very simple steps you can take to ensure that when you're gathering the feedback, if someone's unhappy, you can notify the right person, set a task for something to follow up. Really make sure that like you're, you're fixing that problem versus just kind of letting it go and ignoring it. So it's like sleeping on a lot of the little detail stuff that people just kind of don't think to set up.

I mean, I think one of the worst things I've seen customers do is not think about the end result and just like jump in and start using a tool and setting something up. I used to always tell my customers, like build in Reverse. I don't even care what you're talking about. We could be talking about a marketing drip campaign with just emails and a workflow. You should build it backwards. It's the same thing where people just would jump in and be like, all right, in the tick pipeline, here are my statuses. And it's like, did you talk to your team to know what these steps are or did you just start running with whatever we gave you as default? You're setting yourself down a path of you could turn it around, but man, is it not an easy turnaround to try and fix something once your team is using it. So setting it up the right way, like having a conversation with your team to make sure that it like actually matches your process. I know I'm biased because I used to be in onboarding. It's part of the reason why I like onboarding because they sit down with you and they're like, what is your process? What do you do today? And then they help you put it in HubSpot so that you don't just run wild and all of a sudden realize, I built six workflows that could have been one. Like, what did I just do to myself?

Two things. One is, I feel like I say it every week. But if you're using Service Hub to replace preexisting tools, stop trying to make Service Hub work like the pre existing tool. That's kind of a big one. The other thing is treating Service Hub and by proxy, your service team like an island. Like having them in the basement and just they're out of sight, out of mind. I've literally seen an organization that would handle their tickets in Service Hub and hand off reports on the tickets in paper to different stakeholders around the organization. And it's like, what are, what are you even doing? Like what? It was just so mind boggling that you're just using one small, small piece of the software and not fixing the actual problems with your process. That is basically like Eric said, it's like you, you have to solve the problem and not use the software as a little band aid to solve one small issue you're having.

Yeah, yeah, I fully know that the next words out of my mouth are either gonna, people are gonna continue to listen or they're gonna turn the podcast off. One of the two. If what I say is, you, first of all know that what you're doing is a travesty. Second of all, know that I still love you. Third of all know that you can reach out and I will help you get past this. Thing that I'm about to talk about, ladies and gentlemen, I can't tell you how many portals I've gone into. And they will have multiple hubs. Marketing hub, sales hub, service hub. And you can definitely tell that they're creating deals in the deal pipeline and they're forecasting and they're, you know, doing all the things in the marketing hub. They're creating custom properties and using dependent fields in forms. And then all sudden you look at the service hub and there's absolutely nothing going on. They are paying for a product and they are not using any of it. If this is you, shame on you. And at the same time, I love you because I get it. Because here's what I hear over and over. Well, we have that because we got special pricing to buy it as. No, no, no, you have it. It's a set of tools. Use them. That's the train wreck. The fact that you have something at your fingertips that could make your business better and you're not using it. I will get off my soapbox and we will move on to the next thing, which is maybe going to be a little bit more helpful to the ladies and gentlemen that are listening. And that is one super ninja tip trick hack that you think people could implement today using the service hub that will just make their life that much better?

I have two. I have two that I really want to share first off, and I'll just pitch it. Wouldn't it be great if when your customer is waiting to hear back from your support or service representative, that they hear back from them before they get another marketing email trying to sell them something? This is the things that are possible when you're running everything under one roof. It's pretty easy for marketers to either add a little step in the workflow or create a suppression list for their emails to say, hey, if there's a contact that we're about to send an email to and they have a ticket associated to them that's currently in the stage of waiting on us, they probably want to hear from support before we probably try to sell them something. Again, this is stuff you can only do when you're running everything on HubSpot. Otherwise it's extremely complicated. In HubSpot, you're pointing and clicking around on the settings for a little bit, maybe getting creative in a workflow, but it's all there for you to do it because it's all one system. That's one thing.

Let me say this before you go to the second thing, because this I probably should have Said with the last answer as well. When people don't use reporting, it's a similar concept. The amount of people who I try and push to build a companies that I own with open tickets reports. That way a sales rep doesn't call and say, hey, would you like to buy something? And they've got like four open tickets. Man, talk about a horrible experience. Yes, I do want to buy something. I want to buy a working piece of the thing you already sold me. Don't call them. Figure it out first build reports. Check it before you do something like we do this at HubSpot. So it's like a. Similar to like the marketing emails when you're waiting on a customer support response.

Yeah, yeah. The second one that I have is using Net Promoter Score surveys in a smart way. Here's the truth. Most people don't know what SNPS means. They think, oh, we got a 10. That means we got a 10 out of a 10, which is like a hundred. We got an A on the test. That's what it is. No Net Promoter Score tells you a very specific thing given the way the question is asked. When you ask the Net Promoter Score question you were specifically asking, how likely are you to recommend X product or service to a family, friend or colleague or whatever? It is not telling you how satisfied someone is. It is telling you how likely they are to tell somebody else that you rock their socks and how likely they are to recommend you to someone else. A cool thing that HubSpot did a little while ago is they added a workflow action to allow you to create contacts via workflows, which, if anyone has ever tried to build a Referral program in HubSpot before, you may have noticed it involved a whole lot of zapping in and zapping out and doing some other complicated stuff. Maybe with the API, to have one person fill out a form and have that create a new contact besides the person that filled the form out. But now you can do that in HubSpot. And what's really great is if you're a marketer and you want to be able to segment folks for some sort of email campaign to try to drive referral traffic or get referrals, who better than to easily be able to segment your contacts by the people who have literally said they're very likely to recommend you to someone, it's. And it's all just. It's all just magically in there. You don't have to integrate with another tool doing nps. You literally just send these surveys out. You can easily Find the people that said, yeah, I'd be pretty likely to recommend you to somebody and target them directly versus taking a stab in the dark.

I love it. And Max, you actually, I think I came up with HubSpot Service Hub. New tagline. It's the HubSpot Service Hub. It's magically delicious because it's just. It's all magically in there. It's absolutely amazing. Devin, though, we haven't heard from you.

Sure, I alluded to it earlier. Well, no, I didn't do it. Alluded so much as said immediately 12 times. But being able to leverage social media is another opportunity for people to reach support for you to identify people who are having issues and attractors. A good example was a lot, I'd say even most of like the Fortune 50 does it. Like one time I had the stem from the avocado was in my guacamole from Chipotle and I put out a tweet that was basically like wtf Chipotle? And they're immediately like, oh my goodness, let's reach out, let's talk about this. And then I'm in contact with a service person. It's like you can do that with social media listeners. You have already have people who are monitoring chat. If you don't, you should have someone who's monitoring your chatter on social media and having listeners for mentions. And if you see that boom ticket, this needs to be addressed immediately. That's something you could do with Service Hub.

I will say Max kind of took one of mine earlier, which I loved was the tickets was his favorite thing because I won't say we named it wrong, but sometimes I wish tickets was named something else because like you can use it for anything. I've seen it used for pre sales and design for help with pre sales work. Whether it's onboarding. I had a customer do it. Solar panel roof installations. Like you use it for anything. And the stuff you can do with a deal when it closes, that creates the ticket that then hands off to the right team that then tracks the process. And if there's an issue with the installation, you have another ticket. And there's all of these ways that you can use this to not just be frontline support, it's why we called it Service Hub, not Support Hub. There's more to do with a ticket than just I have an issue. Fix it.

Yeah, it literally is my go to for onboarding processes because there's no revenue attached. Like that's the other thing. By the way, speaking of train wrecks If I back up a little bit, if you've got onboarding process or some other process that's actually in deals and it has nothing to do with revenue, move that junk to Tickets immediately. I'm just going to throw that out there. Please, please buy all that is holy.

Move it. Especially if you don't have like an enterprise version and you can't do a custom object. Tickets are right there waiting for you there you buddy, use them.

I will say, I know I've said this already. The power of the CRM. I think one of the best things that you get with Service Pro or really any pro or higher subscription with HubSpot is workflows. What you can do to make your team efficient and stay on track. Make sure tickets don't fall through the cracks, make sure we're escalating. I mean, I remember I started in Go to market and they were like, we need macros. And I was like, like that's just a property that triggers a workflow. It might not be like you press one button on your keyboard, but you can do like a yes, no dropdown and when yes escalate ticket. Here's how this works with if then branches for company tiers, support tiers, all this stuff. If you can take the time to map it out and build it, you will save yourself so much time and effort in the long run that it's the efficiency part more than anything else in well of HubSpot.

Love it so much. Let's move forward because holy mackerel, look at the time. And ladies and gentlemen, we know that you gotta get back to work, but you're getting educated. So we're gonna keep going for just little bit longer and we're going to dive into the question again. It's, you know, a good wine and cheese or a good cheese and steak or barbecue sauce. I don't know. I'm getting hungry. Devin mentioned Chipotle and it's been downhill ever since then. But here's the thing. What in your mind is one or two marketplace integrations that you think are just super dope for HubSpot service hub users.

Really cool. One, if you're using live chat a lot and you support customers around the world, there's a really, really cool conversation integration called Babelbot, which will literally pick up if someone is chatting in in a different language and then use the Notes feature and translate it for you. And then you can use the Notes feature to tag this bot, translate and reply in your own language and it translates back for you. And sends the message. So all of the sudden your English speaking support reps all of a sudden can communicate with 65 different languages through your live chat. Which is wild. It's really, really cool. That's one. Timerman SLA from A8 Labs. If you need your SLA stuff to work a little bit differently than the native. By the way, the native SLA stuff in the conversations tool is awesome. But if you have to apply that more directly just to the ticket level and you're. You're not really using that conversations in mocks and you want to get a whole bunch of rich data for how long tickets are spending in certain stages. And it even works for deals too as well for deal velocity reports and stuff like that. Timerman SLA is a super cool addition again, just like Babel Bot. It's a really great example of HubSpot partners building in net new functionality into HubSpot to maybe do something a little bit better or make up for a gap where we don't have something in the tool. And that is like the most exciting thing about HubSpot's future, to be honest with you. Or at least from the partner side of things. And then the last one, and we didn't really talk about like what are the big things missing from HubSpot. Something that I definitely think is like missing from Service Hub, which I hope in the future we kind of go in this direction, is field service management for small to medium businesses. So think about maybe you're like an AC or H vac company and you need to be able to send people out on location and assign like technicians and do all the stuff that you would need to do when you're like managing a fleet of people to kind of go out and work in the real world. There's a really cool app called Zuperer. Zuper S Z U P E R. It's like super with a Z. And they're a field for service management tool. But they build this really, really solid integration with, with the Service Hub which allows you from a HubSpot ticket to go create a job for to actually send someone out to a physical location to do a bunch of field service work.

First of all, A8 makes amazing stuff. Timerman is maybe their best one. We actually had them join us at Inbound because it was so great. Zooper, the CEO calls it, it's super. But it needed to be more than super. So it's Zooper, which I thought was a great tagline of like, this is great. And the fact that you're field service reps on the app can take a note or a picture and it comes back into the ticket inside of HubSpot. It makes that frontline person never have to leave HubSpot and your field service person never have to leave Zooper. And they're all working together that anti silo side of things real quick.

Their integration they built is a gold standard example of what can be done with the CRM Extensions API. For anyone out there who has some sort of internal system that does that, go look at how Zooper does it. You can do that too, if you have the resources to build it, which is great. But sorry, I just wanted to like plug the CRM Extensions API because that is like a huge, huge deal.

No, no, I mean, Zooper was. Was probably going to be one of my three, so I'm glad you took it. I will get really nerdy with you for a second. I believe it's pronounced Babelbot, not Babblebot, like the Babel fish from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, just in case anyone goes searching for it and can't find it.

No, no, no, no, no, no. The Tower of Babel. Actually, hang on, let's go real nerdy for a second. I would think that it's Babel as well, because the Tower of Babel in the Bible is where God actually mixed the languages so that they couldn't speak together and actually build a tower up to heaven. So it may actually be Babel Bot instead of that. Because it makes sense. It's an app for languages.

If you are the developer of this app, you need to get on Twitter and you need to to settle this beef right now and tell us what the story is. And also, thanks. Thank you for building that.

I was going to say thank you for building it. It's awesome. I will say before I say, one of my favorites is this is the joy of HubSpot is when we have a gap. We're not like, we don't have a gap. We see Zooper and we're like, you guys want to partner with us? Let's build something. Oh, we don't have this Babel Bot. Babel Bot thing. You guys have it. Can we work together to make this work in HubSpot? We're not afraid of the gaps. We want to. If we can fill them ourselves, we will. If we can't, we're going somewhere else. We're not just going to be like you. Don't be that. I mean, it's half the reason I like pso. Hub, just from a time tracking standpoint, you can track billable hours through a ticket.

Oh, snap. See, that's. This could be just a whole episode of the app marketplace. And as I'm listening to you guys talk about these, I'm also thinking about my ninja content strategist person, Liz. I'm like, maybe we should just create videos for every single HubSpot integration on demand, because then I would actually know about all of them. Because I, two Hub Heroes listeners, am learning today right now. Now, here's the thing. I got two things to say, and one is one, I like to keep it simple. So when you think about Devin and the fact that he said immediately, immediately 12 times, one of my favorite integrations is slack and slack with workflows and just immediate communication into being able to communicate with the humans. So keep it simple. It's an old tried and true, but I had to mention it. The other one, as I was getting ready to talk about it, I'm like, all right, maybe, maybe, just maybe, Dax and Connor should call us and they should sponsor the Hub Heroes podcast. Because I was going to mention Clone Attack, because being able to clone tickets and clone deals, the amount of time that that app has saved me personally and clients that I serve is absolutely ridiculous. So, Dax, Connor. Yeah, call us. You can sponsor the podcast at any given point in time that you would like to and we'll mention you. Oh, crap, we just mentioned you for free. Anyway, moving on, moving on, because we got to get people back to work. We want to end this with one action item that people can take after this episode. Let's go. Eric, Devin, Max, and then I'll close this bad boy out. A action item that listeners can take around the HubSpot service hub.

Oh, man, an action item. Let's see. We've just explained to you, and however long this has gone on, a million ways that people aren't using Service Hub correctly, I would say go look at it and see if you're using tickets in just one way or more than one way. And what else should you be doing?

For me, I'd say stop treating your service people like their lepers. Bring them into the fold, Bring their process into the fold. Make the information they collect and their process not an afterthought. Make it a part of how you can make your sales process better, how you can make your marketing better, and how you can just make everyone communicate with each other and see what's going on with your customer from every aspect of their journey, post sale and beyond.

I'm going to big time agree with with Devin. I think if we're looking at Service Hub as a way to be like, oh, we have to keep track of literally every single thing or service people are doing and make sure they're doing their job, that's the wrong way to think about it. You want to think about Service Hub as a way to act as a heat shield of a lot of the stress that is working in customer success. And what can you do to enable those people to enjoy doing their job better and have a little bit of extra balance and some tools that'll make them more productive and increase their quality of life as a service? Support success, whatever representative at your company, what can you do to make their jobs easier so they can have a funner time doing it? Thus be able to pass on a lot of that positive energy to taking care of your customers. You don't want it to be a drag. You don't want it to be difficult to be able to help people. Because if you're not helping your employees who have this as their responsibility, you can't really expect them to do a banger job helping other people. Look at it through a little bit of a different lens. Lead with empathy. Really make sure your people have what they need to do right by your customers. Because if you don't do right way by the them first, you're. You can't expect them to do right by others.

Can I get an amen to all the Hub Hero podcast listeners? I'm actually going to give you two action items because I have to go back to what made me so freaking passionate in this. If you're listening to this and you're not doing anything with Service Hub, stop it. Stop it. Start doing stuff with your Service Hub. Now. With that said, if, if you are using it, and I think it was the words of Eric about gaps. If you're using Service Hub, find the gaps. Go to the app Marketplace and find the integrations that pair well with the things that you're doing to enable your teams. Okay, Hub Heroes, we've reached the end of another episode. Will Lord Lack continue to loom over the community or will we be able to defeat him in the next episode of the Hub Heroes podcast? Make sure you tune in and find out in the next episode, make sure you head over to thehubheroes.com to get the latest episodes and become part of the League of Heroes. FYI, if you're part of the League of Heroes, you'll get the show notes right in your inbox. And they come with some hidden power up potential as well. Make sure you share this podcast with a friend, leave a review if you like what you're listening to, and use the hashtag hubbyspodcast on any of the socials and let us know what strategy conversation you'd like to listen into next. Until next time, when we meet and combine our forces, remember to be a happy, helpful, humble human. And of course, always be looking for a way to be someone's hero.