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Contacts VS Companies
SOLVEFeb 4, 2019 1:26 PM
Hola Amigos! My business teaches basic Spanish vocabulary to preschool aged children. I want to use the CRM to create a list of new preschools to contact and then track through my "sales" cycle of taking them from a prospect to scheduling a demo to finally teaching classes at the school. I rarely know who the actual contact person is that I need to communicate with. So, my prospects start out from the company side of things and not a contact person. I can't figure out how to create an email for the company without making a contact attached to the email. Does that make sense? All preschools have a generic email address (ie. info@preschool.com) that I use for my initial contact and then I get the email of the correct person to add as the contact for the preschool. So, how do I add in a generic email address for these preschools without making a contact? Is that possible? Should I switch and make the preschools the contacts? Any other suggestions on how to work this? Thank you very much!
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Feb 5, 2019 10:43 PM - edited Jan 5, 2021 1:53 AM
>>"If the Company info can have their website address, physical location address, and phone number, why isn't there a place to add in an email address too without it being linked to a contact?"
Great question @TxGarrett ...
Not to get all geeky, but the short answer is because of how scalable contact-centric CRMs (like HubSpot) work. In these types of CRMs, a single Company can be related to many contacts. This is known as a one-to-many relationship and is baked-in to the way the HubSpot CRM is built as the core of a marketing platform.
In other words, Company records were never intended to function as dual roles -- i.e., both a company AND a contact. Company records have a very specific job, as do Contact records.
That being said, email addresses are stored in Contact records (by design). We can only speculate, but in a contact-centric marketing platform identifiers like email addresses are intended for use only when contacting a specific individual -- our goal as marketers.
There is no inherent marketing benefit in contacting generic, role-based email addresses. In fact, many leading marketing platforms expressly restrict sending email to such addresses. Both HubSpot and Mailchimp do a nice job of explaining these restrictions and listing examples of same.
-- see Set up email filters in your conversations inbox (HubSpot)
- see Limits on Role-based Email Addresses (Mailchimp)
Again, tried not to get too geeky, but hopefully not too vague to be useful.
Bottom line?
Use Contact records to store contact info in Hubspot, then only send to those role-based email addresses (if necessary) from the sales tool. (important)
Note: HubSpot is a constantly evolving platform. Please check the date of each post and view all solutions in that context.
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Hope that helps.
Be well,
Frank
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