I have used wordpress and currently I use squarespace for my content management. Both have their pros and cons. Has anyone compared the content management systems. Are their similar features. I have looked at a few of the sites using hubspot and the look and feel seems similiar.

About 15 months ago I was a small business owner who was in trouble. I knew consumers were using the net more and more to find content/answers/businesses and I also knew that my website stunk. My problem was that I didn’t understand SEO, I didn’t get Content Marketing, had no idea how to start a blog, and didn’t know web design, code, etc.

Enter Hubspot….As soon as I saw their site I knew I was home. It was obvious they cared about empowerment through education. I devoured their articles, videos, webinars, etc. It was awesome and I could see the light quickly turning on.

To make a long story short, we signed on with them and have since become the #1 swimming pool website in the country in terms of traffic. The amount of leads we get due to SEO just over 1 year later is unbelievable. We’re spending way, way less on PPC and I’m now able to design all of my site’s pages with their CMS. Our website, http://www.riverpoolsandspas.com is now about 250 pages and I designed every one of them…and I still don’t know almost anything about code.

The fact that businesses complain about the monthly cost makes me laugh. Frankly, I just don’t get it. I’m saving over $6000 a month right now on organic search, which makes squawking of $250 pretty laughable.

The reason I’ve concluded Hubspot is the best CMS out there for small businesses like mine is because they offer so much training. They are constantly innovating and updating their CMS. Their forum gives me killer tech support when a question or issue arises.

When it comes down to it, Hubspot teaches people how to fish versus just giving them a fish, which is pretty freaking powerful in my book. All I needed was for someone to provide me with the knowledge and tools, and I knew I could make it work from there….which it did.

When people talk about how Hubspot doesn’t work what they are really saying is that they weren’t serious enough about content marketing. They didn’t want to invest the time. They wanted everything just to happen without the effort. Such expectations are silly, especially when it comes to SEO….or business and life in general for that matter.

You might ask why I’m so passionate about HS considering I don’t work for them and I’d simply answer by saying they’ve changed my life. They’ve changed my businesses. If I had not found them just over a year ago my company may not have survived the 2008/2009 economic disaster. These have been tough times for pool companies and with the money we’ve saved in advertising, combined with the crazy lead generation we now have, it’s been simply a Godsend.

Finally, with everything that I’ve learned during this time having impacted me so much, I started a small business marketing/sales blog that talks about my story with Hubspot. If you want to further read my thoughts on their company, just google ‘The Sales Lion’…(www.thesaleslion.com)….I hope everyone who is considering Hubspot found this helpful and feel free to email me with questions.

Marcus Sheridan
riverpoolsmarc@gmail.com

So if anyone has worked with Kutenda, please feel free to share your experiences.

I have been speaking with Hubspot and am thinking of using their services so the conversations here have been very helpful.

It looks like their fee’s have increased dramatically in the last year, but their product must have come a long way from the time of your original post. After reading all of the reviews, unfortunately , I’m a bit more confused than I was before coming here, but I’m definitely going to look into RhinoSEO.

Jep, could you please let me know what the main differences are between Hubspot and RhinoSEO? I’m fairly tech savvy and have the time to create content for my company, I just want to go with the best product.

Thanks!
Chris