This suite is built from a series of packages, which in turn

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Where Zoho fell short for me was in pipeline management. The activity and deal views are downright crap. Even with the switch to Kanban, they are ugly and cluttered. I had the same problem with the UI for contacts, leads, and accounts. It’s just messy and slow to navigate. This little issue seems to come up again and again – the UI is awkward, unintuitive, and cluttered. With a few weeks or months of practice and use, I’m sure I could get it to work powerfully, but it feels… meh. Workflow automation is also limited to a pro plan, so I haven’t been able to simplify my process much.

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About HubSpot
HubSpot was founded in 2005 in Boston by Brian afghanistan cell phone number list Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. Before founding HubSpot, both were primarily in the software industry; Halligan, for example, was vice president of sales for the product now known as Microsoft SharePoint Workspace.

HubSpot started as a marketing automation company and focused solely on that business for about a decade until it launched its CRM and sales platform in late 2014.

While HubSpot has historically focused on mid-sized businesses, it has pushed into small businesses and enterprises since its IPO, working on both a freemium model and an enterprise sales approach to capture some of those markets.

Its goal is to provide an easier to implement CRM suite for non-enterprise customers. have different pricing plans with different levels of functionality.

When comparing HubSpot to directly competing CRMs like Salesflare and Pipedrive, one has to take into account that what is normally offered in one package is split between two different packages in the free CRM and the paid Sales Hub: features like email tracking, email sequences, email scheduling, calling , multiple pipelines, ... are only available if one purchases the Sales Hub alongside the CRM.

This immediately answers the question: why is HubSpot CRM free and why aren't the others free too? To properly compare with other CRMs, you need to take into account the paid service Sales Hub.