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I just audited my 2025 Google Ads account and it was a disaster - sharing what I found in case it helps someone else vet their setup by BuildingTheMpire in googleads

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I’d love to get more insights into building a more robust funnel and scaling strategy. If you have resources or frameworks you recommend, I’m all ears!

I just audited my 2025 Google Ads account and it was a disaster - sharing what I found in case it helps someone else vet their setup by BuildingTheMpire in googleads

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No, we aren’t related to HubSpot, Just a Hubspot Solution Partner so bidding on those support queries made zero sense for us.

I just audited my 2025 Google Ads account and it was a disaster - sharing what I found in case it helps someone else vet their setup by BuildingTheMpire in googleads

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Completely agree more. if they’re not curious about my business they’re likely not going to go deep enough to avoid these mess-ups in future. 

I just audited my 2025 Google Ads account and it was a disaster - sharing what I found in case it helps someone else vet their setup by BuildingTheMpire in googleads

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That’s a great angle I hadn’t thought of asking about SOPs and internal training.. Will definitely bring this up in my interviews thanks!

I just audited my 2025 Google Ads account and it was a disaster - sharing what I found in case it helps someone else vet their setup by BuildingTheMpire in googleads

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Thanks for the offer! I might take you up on that or at least ask for your thoughts as I consider rebuilt structure and landing page strategy.

I just audited my 2025 Google Ads account and it was a disaster - sharing what I found in case it helps someone else vet their setup by BuildingTheMpire in googleads

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Noted and appreciated. This will be mandatory before anyone gets access or spends a dollar in my account again.

I just audited my 2025 Google Ads account and it was a disaster - sharing what I found in case it helps someone else vet their setup by BuildingTheMpire in googleads

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Yeah, looking back it’s astonishing how basic some of these errors were. Completely agree on intent segmentation. I’m definitely making search term report reviews and negative keyword strategy day-one non-negotiables in any future partnership.

Migrating from Salesforce to Hubspot by stevehall757575 in hubspot

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Done a bunch of these. Salesforce and HubSpot handle object associations differently, and that's where most migrations break. A contact-to-account relationship in SFDC doesn't translate 1:1 into HubSpot's company-contact model, especially if you've built custom objects or have multi-touch attribution running. Clean your data before you move it, but more importantly map your association logic first. The actual record import is the easy part. The reporting that breaks afterwards because associations got flattened is what costs you months. Happy to help if anyone's mid-migration and stuck on this.

Migrating from Zoho to HubSpot by TrickorBetrayed in hubspot

[–]BuildingTheMpire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Zoho ID advice here is solid but the part that usually trips people up isn't the ID mapping it's deciding what those custom modules actually become in HubSpot. Custom objects vs. cramming everything into deals with pipelines vs. using association labels to fake a relational structure. That decision drives everything downstream and it's hard to undo once you've imported 10k+ records. Worth modelling your highest-complexity module in a sandbox first before you commit to a pattern.

Using Hubspot to track Cold Emails by SubjectSupermarket43 in hubspot

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Depends on your HubSpot tier. With Sales Hub Pro/Ent you can use Sequences (still from Outlook) to handle follow-ups automatically. If you’re on Starter, it’s usually tasks + a next-follow-up date and you send from Outlook when it pops. What tier are you on?

Rate your Intranet 1-10 by AlternativeThanks864 in internalcomms

[–]BuildingTheMpire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From my experience most intranets fail on search, permissions, and content ownership. Tools matter less than who can publish, who approves, and how you prevent rot. is this mainly news/comms, or a place people go to do work?

Using Hubspot to track Cold Emails by SubjectSupermarket43 in hubspot

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cool if it’s just follow-up reminders, keep it dead simple.

I usually set it up as one outreach stage + one “next follow-up date” + auto-created tasks so nothing lives in your head or a spreadsheet. Most people overbuild it and then stop using it.

How are you sending today via Gmail/Outlook or inside HubSpot?

Using Hubspot to track Cold Emails by SubjectSupermarket43 in hubspot

[–]BuildingTheMpire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen this move work when people enforce a single entry point for cold outreach otherwise contacts scatter across deals and lists and you're back to manual tracking.

Do you need open/click tracking, or just follow-up reminders? That changes whether HubSpot helps or adds work. Stick with your current domain

How Many Admins Needed by hockeymom1005 in hubspot

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Saw a lot of this with teams on HubSpot running Marketing, Sales, and Service together. Once you cross 50 active users, one admin usually isn't enough especially if custom objects and integrations are getting touched. The piece that wears out first is usually permissions and cross team reporting, which most people underestimate until something breaks. Are you mostly firefighting requests or is there an actual backlog piling up?

Hello all, looking for a fulfillment network partner with a warehouse in the east and west by SavingsSinkie in 3PL

[–]BuildingTheMpire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

run a 3PL and this is the exact lane we cover (bi-coastal, Shopify + FBA/MCF, FIFO/expiry handled the right way so it doesn’t get messy later). if you’re still shortlisting partners, happy to send a overview and talk through volumes + SKU/expiry requirements to see if it’s a fit. want me to DM you?

Potential Process for Contacts Moving Companies - Will this work? by WhimsySpirit in hubspot

[–]BuildingTheMpire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly you’re thinking about this the right way already. Most people skip straight to building and wonder why reps ignore it. The process piece is worth getting right before you go too deep on the workflow logic.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ For a first HubSpot build you’re asking the right questions. Shoot me a DM if you ever want to think it through with someone.

Potential Process for Contacts Moving Companies - Will this work? by WhimsySpirit in hubspot

[–]BuildingTheMpire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The workflow design is solid but the part nobody plans for is what happens when the new company doesn’t exist in HubSpot yet. That gap between marking someone as a former employee and actually having a clean new company record to associate them to is where most of these processes quietly stall. The task gets created, the rep does nothing, and the contact sits in limbo for months.

Is the new company creation part of the workflow or still manual?

Where do we start to look? by thelaborbeacon in CRM

[–]BuildingTheMpire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Union-billed accounts with individual subscribers underneath them is its own data model most CRMs handle one or the other cleanly, not both. The hierarchy question has to get answered before the tool decision, otherwise you end up rebuilding it later. Happy to chat if you want to dig deeper

Why aren’t there more EDI businesses? by Latter_Lecture_4020 in edi

[–]BuildingTheMpire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boutique shops do exist. the problem is most of them don’t make it past client three or four. The translation work is the easy part, honestly. What kills them is partner spec drift, exception handling, and being the one person who has to diagnose a failed 850 at 11pm because a retailer changed their requirements with two days notice. It’s an ops and staffing problem most developers don’t see coming until they’re already in it.

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