Care.com Converts More Leads Faster Using HubSpot Sales

Care.com launched in the U.S. in 2007 and in just a few years was established as the world's largest online marketplace for finding and managing family care.  Its brand was widely recognized by consumers, but they wanted to jumpstart their B2B offerings.

Chris Snell, Sr. Inside Sales Manager, was focused on building Care.com’s SMB business. His team of inside sales representatives is responsible for turning inbound leads, who have created an online profile through their trial, into customers.  Their business was growing, but the reps weren’t selling as quickly or effectively as they could because they couldn’t see how prospects were engaging with them outside the phone.

Chris’s counterpart in marketing, Elizabeth Tutscheck, Director of Marketing, was on a mission similar to Chris’s:  She was trying to make Care.com’s workplace solutions and small business offerings a bigger part of the Care.com story.  But she realized her marketing team lacked the tools to scale their business.  She needed an all-in-one platform to help them run campaigns and measure their results.

Chris had used the HubSpot marketing platform at a previous company and saw the value it could bring to sales and marketing teams.  So when he learned about HubSpot’s introduction of a sales product, HubSpot Sales, he knew he wanted to give it a try.  

Chris set his whole team of twenty-four sales reps up with HubSpot Sales Notifications.  It gave them real-time alerts telling them when, where and how prospects were engaging with them - by opening emails, visiting the website, and more.  In less than six months, he saw the team being more agile and effective.  

The instantaneous nature of the notifications gave reps the ability to follow-up with prospects while Care.com was top-of-mind for them.  This helped them to move deals more quickly and reduce the overall number of messages and calls they made.  Chris says, “We expect HubSpot Sales to help drive revenue higher because reps will be able to jump on potential prospects in a faster method than they were before.”  Elizabeth agrees:  “Arming a sales team to measure their actions are measurable makes them a lot smarter and layers in a marketing mindset.  So it helps make sales conversion a lot faster.”

Chris also saw response rates going up since they could track the performance of their email messages.  “The most effective reps utilize HubSpot Sales to A/B test their email messages.  They can see which messages are working best and chose the winners.  This insight will also be useful for the team leads he recently promoted.  “From a coaching perspective, the team leads will have an opportunity to look at the reps’ email streams and help them better shape their emails to get opened.”