Ultimately, I had to figure it out on my own – even though I had a very small team and a limited budget.
For a long time, it was just me, my laptop, and my HubSpot license.
It took years of testing tactics, writing content on nights and weekend, and building each step of my lead generation process piece by piece, but I figured out the system that worked.
I grew my company from 10 leads per month to 300 leads per month.
The good news for you is that I “walked through fire” (almost losing my job several times), to develop this lead generation system, so you don’t have to!
Would you like to learn how?
When we sold that company, I wanted to share my systems, tools, and processes with other marketers and business owners that needed to get more leads but didn’t have a big team or a huge budget.
In my first year as a HubSpot consultant, I personally helped over 25 companies improve how they got found, brought in leads, and close sales. But, there was a problem…
When I gave HubSpot guidance to busy marketing directors and their staff, the plan often became muddled. Let me explain...
I wanted working with me to be affordable. I thought I was doing my clients a favor by consulting with them one-on-one for a few hours each month. However, the low cost meant that I could only help them in a limited way.
I ended up only handling the fires that needed to be put out (e.g. leads are down for the month, my CEO needs a specific report, or we have a conference in three weeks). The reactive nature of working with companies this way helped them a little, but we never really created the sustainable inbound lead generation engine that my clients needed.
I had to come up with a more impactful way to help.
I had already tried low-cost one-on-one consulting. Acting as their marketing department (costing my clients $15,000-$25,000 per month) wasn't the right option for my clients either.
I knew there was a way to bring in more qualified leads with their current in-house team if they just had the system and expertise.
In order to truly help small and mid-sized companies, teaching marketers my systems had to: