{"id":43175,"date":"2018-10-29T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/?p=43175"},"modified":"2020-07-28T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T21:32:16","slug":"hubspot-wordpress-a-winning-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/hubspot-wordpress-a-winning-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"HubSpot + WordPress: A Winning Combination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WordPress is the perfect platform for creating beautiful, attention-grabbing websites. However, like with most things, being pretty isn\u2019t enough. You want your website to be a fully functioning machine. In addition to beautiful design, you need a strategy for scalability, personalization, and inbound marketing. One of the most compelling reasons to choose WordPress as a CMS is its integratability; the key to equipping your site with the best capability is to choose the right tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For transforming your WordPress website into a lead-generation and conversion machine, HubSpot offers analytics and data tracking that helps you become familiar with the entire customer journey. One popular misconception is that HubSpot and WordPress are conflicting solutions. In actuality, Hubspot is a complementary solution to your WordPress website. The HubSpot plugin adds an analytics dashboard, facilitates easy form creation, assists in demand generation via email, allows you to easily add live chat to your website, and lets you see everything about your contacts all in one place. For more info on Hubspot as a recommended WordPress solution, check out the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/solution-center\/hubspot\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WP Engine Solution Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To learn more about HubSpot for WordPress users and the future of the integration, we sat down with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/davidlykhim.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">David Ly Khim<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Senior Growth Marketing Manager at HubSpot, at the WP Engine Summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Tell us a little bit about the WordPress plugin and how it can benefit WordPress users. <\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are two ways you can think about the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hubspot.com\/products\/wordpress\/contact-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">HubSpot plugin for WordPress<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The first way is for people who are using WordPress as their CMS and HubSpot\u2019s marketing software. They can easily connect the two platforms to use HubSpot\u2019s marketing, sales, and customer service tools with their WordPress website. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second one is for anyone who is using WordPress but is looking for an all-in-one solution for sales, marketing, and customer service. We have found that WordPress users usually have dozens of plugins enabled. That can slow down their website and the idea of connecting all those tools with APIs can be daunting. This often leads to a situation where data isn\u2019t interconnected or reliable. Customers really want an all-in-one solution. For anyone who uses the plugin and the marketing sales tools, all the information gets passed through the free HubSpot CRM so people can rest easy knowing that their data is stored safely.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why is a WordPress integration important for Hubspot?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest reason is that a lot of our customers use WordPress because of its flexibility and affordability. For customers who are conscientious about their\u00a0budget, it\u2019s often the most sensible option. Other customers are die-hard WordPress users and budget-aside, you\u2019ll never see them use another CMS. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We know that choosing a CMS is unique to the customer and we respect the decision to choose WordPress. For us, it\u2019s about providing an easier way to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/leadin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">use HubSpot and WordPress together<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. That\u2019s why we have a renewed focus on making the plugin more robust and compatible to solve for that specific type of customer. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What does the future look like for WordPress and HubSpot?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s a good question. Right now, WordPress is going through a lot of changes. The release of Gutenberg is shaking up the community and is an opportunity for us to join in, and contribute to the WordPress community. Our goal is to contribute to the way that WordPress is moving and also remain an innovator within the community itself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re thinking of all the ways that we can help WordPress users take their marketing, sales, and customer service to the next level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I believe there\u2019s a world where they don\u2019t need 12 different plugins to grow their business on WordPress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We want to offer a centralized hub for their customer data to run their marketing, sales, customer service. That way they can manage their contacts and subscribers from one place so that they can spend more time running their businesses and less time trying to understand and connect all the tools. 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