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How Manufacturers Get Real ROI From Trade Shows: Before, During, and After

Trade shows eat a large share of most manufacturers' sales and marketing budgets. Yet many teams still measure success by the number of business cards in a…

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How Manufacturers Can Use Video to Win Complex B2B Sales

Most manufacturing deals don't get decided in a room you're in. Josh Fidi, CEO of SalesReach, pointed out that complex purchases can involve as many as 14…

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Is HubSpot Right for Manufacturers? Lessons From a 2.5-Year Rollout

Manufacturers adopted technology fast on the production floor. The front of the house (sales, marketing, and customer support) often still runs on email…

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HubSpot for Nonprofits Webinar: Moving off legacy systems like Blackbaud

Donors don't give nonprofits a pass on digital experience. They tap to pay everywhere else and expect the same from your donation form. Meanwhile, most…

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What nonprofits actually run for online giving

Blackbaud is still the largest single vendor on US nonprofit donation pages. It is also outnumbered. The four newest platforms in the sector, taken together,…

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Lake One Updates

Lake One Earns HubSpot's Non-Profit Industry Specialization Badge

Lake One has earned the Non-Profit Industry Specialization Badge, part of HubSpot's Partner Badges program recognizing organizations with validated expertise,…

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Lake One Earns HubSpot Data Migration Accreditation

What the accreditation is The Data Migration Accreditation is earned by submitting completed migration work for HubSpot to review. That includes a migration…

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Thinking

Kindful Renewal: Is HubSpot a Bloomerang Alternative?

If you run a nonprofit on Kindful, you already know the situation has changed. Kindful was acquired by Bloomerang and is no longer really its own product. It…

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Migrating from eTapestry to HubSpot: What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know Before They Start

eTapestry earned its place. For small and mid-size nonprofits that needed a real donor database without a six-figure price tag, it delivered. Gifts tracked.…

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Moving from Spreadsheets and Email to HubSpot for Nonprofits: What Leaders Need to Know Before They Start

Every nonprofit starts somewhere. For a lot of them, that somewhere is a shared Google Sheet and a Mailchimp account. It works well enough in the early days.…

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Thinking

The Biggest Gap in Nonprofit CRM Isn't a CRM Problem

A note before we get started: We use Fathom at Lake One, I'm an investor, and the Fathom links here are referral links. The category logic holds regardless of…

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Thinking

Your Nonprofit Doesn't Need a CRM Migration. It Needs a CRM Strategy.

After years with a legacy CRM, your nonprofit has finally decided it's time to move on. Your team is ecstatic. You choose a platform built for the cloud and AI…

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