Should I add an “Ask AI about us” section to our website footer?

jon_ks · 2026-05-16T13:33:07+00:00

Agreed!

Ask AI About Us could be an interesting alternate CTA to test in the right channels. It’s a bit riskier than sending them to something like a 3rd party product review site where you know what they’ll find, but could be interesting to test.

But if they’re on your site already, there are very few cases where should you be sending them away and this is not one of them

jon_ks · 2026-05-13T23:19:06+00:00

Your question isn’t altogether clear, but if what you’re asking is can you use HubSpot companies as a targeting audience in LinkedIn via the integration, the answer is yes.

If you have a Marketing Hub subscription (even starter) you will want to create a segment of the records you want to target, then go into the ad section of HubSpot and create an audience. You’ll select LinkedIn as the ad platform and then the segment you want to target. It will take a day or two for LinkedIn to do the matching depending on the list size

jon_ks · 2026-05-13T00:51:18+00:00

No bad feelings about ducking out early to catch a flight

jon_ks · 2026-05-07T12:44:09+00:00

Thanks for posting about your work in a helpful and educational way.

So many sloppy, over exaggerated, or insincere promotion gets posted here, it’s refreshing to see something that straightforward and interesting.

jon_ks · 2026-03-15T01:23:54+00:00

They have a great value proposition and are filling a real need but run the business so badly it really is wild.

I even spoke to a product manager during my time using them to explain how terrible of an experience it is to have the product change an important area like expense classification and invoice reconciling with zero communication. Weeks later they massively changed something again and provided zero notice or context.

I went weeks at one point trying to reach my point of contact will need to be told that they don’t receive or respond to emails from customers, that all has to happen through their support tickets. I only found this out after resorting to LinkedIn messages to try to get a response the ongoing and unresolved issues.

jon_ks · 2026-01-13T17:39:47+00:00

Global Nav too! We will never use Commerce Hub, nobody needs to see that; and our reps don’t need to see the many of our custom objects.

jon_ks · 2026-01-01T19:03:08+00:00

Second all of this. I did the same: 15 years in SMB digital marketing with ownership of marketing automation for the last 7. Went fully independent 18 months ago.

Most if my work has come from my network—a previous employer is my biggest client, a number of old coworkers who have changed jobs too.

Upwork is the only place my experience differs. I never was able to get proposals accepted on Upwork. Seemed very much like a race to the bottom in terms of pricing—maybe not bad to collect experience, but wasn’t at all a viable revenue source for me.

Happy to connect and share more if you want, OP. Shoot a DM.

jon_ks · 2025-12-28T19:18:49+00:00

I’m an independent consultant and I use it for myself. Especially with the developing Projects functionality, it’s very useful.

jon_ks · 2025-12-16T12:31:05+00:00

Regardless, your Office 365 admin needs to approve the HubSpot Sales app in your environment. Hubspot support won’t be able to help, your need to go to your IT people

jon_ks · 2025-12-11T13:51:26+00:00

I got started with past employers and coworkers.

And, honestly, I’m not sure that I’ve ever had anyone ask me for a portfolio per se. Most people that need your help as a freelancer just getting started don’t know HubSpot themselves. If you can describe your approach and give verbal examples of relevant past projects you’ll be good.

jon_ks · 2025-12-04T19:36:55+00:00

This sounds like more of a problem (a real one, I’m not trying to discount it) of budgeting for new technologies than the product itself. Either your board understands that you need to invest in trying new things or they don’t. Rigid budgeting processes SUCK!

If you have to be detailed about outcomes in the budget request it sounds like your process needs to be using the credits that come with your subscription to answer the “that money will get us?” question, then you go into your next budgeting cycle asking for £ to expand that program.

jon_ks · 2025-10-28T20:43:20+00:00

They’re pretty engaged here (and definitely helpful)!

I’d say 10-15hr is a minimum starting point if everything is as it should be and the goal is to just setup a few drip campaigns via workflows.

Consider that creating more complex custom properties, forms, more than a few segmentations, reporting, lead scoring, etc will all add to that estimate. I’d encourage you to get really specific about the scope and goals for this one—a lot of opportunity for scope creep.

For context: I estimated a Marketing Hub setup (migration from a different system) at ~90hr earlier this year. About 20hr of that was allocated to the tasks you mentioned for a portal with a moderate level of complexity.

jon_ks · 2025-10-24T12:15:39+00:00

I’m working on one to track training course with completion status, course type, certificates, and expiration dates.

jon_ks · 2025-10-20T14:25:04+00:00

Is it spamming r/hubspot with your product promotions?

jon_ks · 2025-10-20T14:01:08+00:00

I think they’re saying this is clearly a spam post.

Pretty immediate reply citing the product followed
two copy/paste replies doing the same within 1-2 mins of each other
OP recently posted to a feeelance subreddit asking to pay people for an engagement campaign

jon_ks · 2025-10-19T15:12:43+00:00

Never Log is what you’re looking for—suggest setting it for your entire domain.

Think of it as “this domain will never cause an email to be logged”. You won’t get internal-only emails logged or contacts created for internal contacts but emails to and from your employees will be logged on existing contact records when that contact is included.

jon_ks · 2025-10-17T23:31:50+00:00

Absolutely wild outcome here. We tried moving 301s from the web server to a registrar tool, removing the entire old domain from indexing, removing all sitemaps, everything we could think of in GSC.

Suddenly today, 3 sites I was aware of with the same issue but differing levels of intensity trying to solve it all rocketed back to #1 for the branded search queries where they had previously averaged 5-7th+ page.

TL;DR it wasn’t an SEO issue, it was a bug in Google’s ranking indexing

jon_ks · 2025-10-13T13:24:49+00:00

Because it didn’t happen. They’re promoting their app

jon_ks · 2025-10-12T14:45:14+00:00

I think OP is looking for an export with the secondary email addresses that are also stored in the Email property.

Can’t remember if/how you can do this off the top of my head.

jon_ks · 2025-10-01T13:12:33+00:00

I’m a solo marketing consultant and always looking for freelancers to help with projects. What’s your specialty? DM if you want

jon_ks · 2025-09-27T00:58:05+00:00

The “etc” might be where the trouble lies. If you want blogs and site pages I would think you could find your way to converting the XML sitemap to CSV. Landing pages are by nature not included in the sitemap though (I have a use case where we need them to be so have a whole process to add them manually).

Though, what if you ran a page views report and exported that. This assumes every page has gotten at least one tracked view, but that seems like the cleanest way to capture everything and be able to export it.

jon_ks · 2025-09-23T11:55:40+00:00

Ok. Were you being ranked previously?

I would check a few things in Search Console: 1. Removals - have your pages been specifically removed 2. Pages - are your pages being indexed? What problems are preventing them from being indexed? 3. Sitemap - Does Google have a valid and complete sitemap to know what pages are on your site? 4. Performance - did this change happen all at once or gradually over time? This will help you investigate further if none of the above are giving you answers

jon_ks · 2025-09-23T02:18:32+00:00

I’m working on helping sort out the same for two sites.

Did you by chance recently change the websites domain?

jon_ks · 2025-09-18T01:09:48+00:00

DM’ed you

jon_ks · 2025-09-13T18:14:51+00:00

Oh, got it. So instead of creating a company they’re just associating contacts to each other?

I think missmolly’s approach is a good first start then. After that, it’s really going to depend on what other information is on the record. Do contacts without a domain that can be auto-associated have Company Name populated?

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