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About Hubspot HubSpot was founded in 2006 as a result of a simple observation: people have transformed how they live, work, shop, and buy, but businesses have not adapted. This mismatch led Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah to create the vision for the inbound experience and to develop HubSpot's platform to support it. With our powerful, easy to use, integrated set of applications, businesses can attract, engage, and delight customers by delivering inbound experiences that are relevant, helpful, and personalized. HubSpot is, after all, on a mission to make the world more inbound, one business transformation after another. About Constant Contact Constant Contact makes email marketing easier by simplifying the process of creating a customized email that matches your branding with their easy to use email editor and customizable templates. Easily import your pre existing list or build one using their sign up forms.
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Easily add Incoming Emails to a HubSpot CRM Contact There are a number of ways to add incoming emails to a HubSpot CRM Contact. Unfortunately none of the available solutions is truly automated (you cannot simply forward all incoming emails). Let’s have a look at the options: Filing Options 1. hubspotID @ forward.hubspot.com. Must be forwarded from within your email client. Looks for you as the sender.
Looks for your contact within the forwarded messages If the emails do not show up in HubSpot, make sure the forwarded message contains a similar snippet: - Forwarded message - From: FROMNAME Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:45 PM Subject: Easily add Incoming Emails to a HubSpot CRM Contact To: TONAME Cc: CCNAME This snippet is missing if you have your email server / Gmail simply forward the email to HubSpot. hubspotID @ bcc.hubspot.com. Only works as BCC address. Looks for you as the sender.
Looks for your contact as the recipient 3. Sidekick by HubSpot Sidekick comes with a number of plugins that allow you to log emails from within the following clients:. Gmail / Google Apps. Microsoft Outlook.
Mac OS X Mail.app 4. General has not been implemented. Automatically forward some / all incoming email. Looks for you as the recipient. Looks for your contact as the sender Once HubSpot implements a general forwarding email address, we will be able to automatically file all incoming emails. Set-Up forwarding in Google Apps Note: Until HubSpot implements Option 4, we cannot take advantage of this feature.
Tip for Google Apps users: Since you cannot actually verify the HubSpot address, you need to add the email address trough the Google Admin console. Open your. Navigate to Users USERNAME Account Email Routing. ‘Add another destination’. Enter the desired email as ‘Destination’. Leave ‘Change SMTP envelope’ checked.
Save Changes Gmail / Google Apps Email Sync HubSpot is apparently also working on another treat for us: the ability to connect directly to your gmail inbox to pull messages and replies for the timeline. We will update this article periodically.