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Hubspot is great since their product is designed with marketing in mind, this makes it a great fit for SaaS companies as they heavily rely on digital marketing channels to grow. They also have some great integrations with tools such as Proposify, Lucky Orange, etc. Our SaaS company just switched to Hubspot from Streak and we are happy to have made the jump.

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Second Hubspot, great for SaaS companies that focus on inbound marketing. The CRM product is free. If you're a startup, they have a program to get 90% off their other products.

Whatever CRM you use, look for one that integrates with any customer related tools that you're using. Larger players like Hubspot can attract more developer integrations. For example, we use Drift (Like Intercom but much cheaper) for customer support and sync events in Drift to Hubspot.

Thanks. Which plan are you on, if you don't mind me asking.

The free plan only has 5.5 of the 32 features in the next paid tier ( 600$ / year).

Thinking of using it to market my side projects.

Also, did you start with free tier for your SaaS and then upgraded once you got sales, leads, or did you directly start with 1 of the paid plans?

We are on the Pro plan. They were having a promo so I think we got it for $8500 with some add-ons and more contacts. Yeah, depending on your use-case the other plans before pro can be somewhat limited in their features. I would recommend using Hubspot only once you can do Pro or higher with add-ons like the social media automation. I could see it being useful thou if you could lump multiple side-projects into it and streamline the marketing process. We started with the paid plan coming off of Streak. We simply outgrew Streak as we were using that plus Proposify, Google Docs, Mailchimp, Drip, etc. and pulling everything together with Zapier, so it was just getting complex.

Thanks Mike! Very useful info.

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