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How Therapy Brands Optimized HubSpot and Salesforce After 16 Acquisitions

Therapy Brands creates high-value practice management, clinical, and billing software made by and for therapists. Whether you are a sole practitioner, a group, or an enterprise practice, they offer all-in-one solutions that are easy to use and fast to deploy and give you back time to spend with your patients.

Here's how Coastal Consulting worked with Therapy Brands to combine and categorize data into Salesforce CRM after many acquisitions and to optimize data flow for the HubSpot Salesforce integration.

The Brief

Consolidating 16 Brands into One using HubSpot and Salesforce

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When we first met Therapy Brands in March of 2022, Shannon, VP of Marketing, shared the following core issues:

  • We have grown through acqusition.
  • We have 16 websites that are all connected to one instance of HubSpot.
  • We have 16 pipelines, object record types, and processes in Salesforce.

These issues caused many problems downstream, including - challenging lead routing, data loss when a record type shifted for a misaligned product interest, no visibility into the customer lifecycle, tiptoeing around HubSpot and Salesforce out of fear of breaking something, and more.

The technical debt needed to be fixed, and reporting was near impossible. Shannon was in the process of growing from her marketing role to fulfill the VP of Sales Enablement role. She knew the technical debt needed to be more scalable and would significantly prevent Therapy Brands from succeeding, both at sales enablement and as an organization, in the future if not handled now. She had active plans for a website restructuring to accommodate all 16 brands under one URL, and now she needed the technical team to make the back end work as seamlessly as the new website.

At the end of our first conversation, Shannon knew she was in the right place. She shared, "You're my favorite person today.  I told someone at a branding agency that he was my favorite person today. But I'm telling him that you've just won." And the work began!

The Challenges

The Goals

Defining success for the partnership.

1

Rearchitect Salesforce and HubSpot for Scale

The new solutions needed to allow for reliable reporting, lead routing, and customer lifecycle reporting in both HubSpot and Salesforce.

2

Chart a Path for Strong Data Quality

Salesforce and HubSpot needed to have matching, quality data on all prospects and customers.

3

Simplify HubSpot and Salesforce

A clear system of ownership and well-documented automations were needed to make day-to-day administration a breeze.

The Partnership

How we partnered with Therapy Brands to simplify their CRM architecture and enable them to scale.

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Remove the Salesforce Lead Object

Leveraging the Lead object in Salesforce was making it impossible to assign and manage multiple product requests from the same individual without having duplicate records. To solve this challenge, we removed the Lead object from Salesforce and used Contacts and Opportunities for inquiry management. Rather than creating new Leads when forms were submitted, a new opportunity was created and associated to the Contact. 

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Consolidate Salesforce Record Types

Record types were used to indicate specific product interests across the 16 brands. To solve for this, we collapsed all record types into one master record type and used a multi-select picklist to indicate product interest on the Contact object. Then, we created Opportunities for each individual inquiry. These were then used to manage lead routing and to track MQLs, marketing performance, and lead quality.

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Leverage HubSpot for Automated Deal Creation and Assignment

To properly manage inquiry notifications and responses, we built Workflows in HubSpot that triggered when product-interest forms were submitted. These Workflows created Deals in HubSpot (and Opportunities in Salesforce) that contained the product interest and details on the request. Additional Workflows were built to manage team-based Deal assignments (that then synced to Salesforce). Finally, Workflows were created to then enroll Contacts into specific Sales Sequences to quickly follow up with personalized 1:1 communication from the assigned sales representative.

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Streamline CRM Data Quality

In the legacy setup, product-specific fields were created to measure Lifecycle Stage, lead score, and more. This resulted in 16 versions of these different properties in HubSpot and Salesforce. Think - 320 properties when only 20 were really needed. To better manage this, we built a plan to consolidate the properties used to track the individual product interest to the Opportunity object and used the Contact object to track the actual lifecycle and relationship of the individual. 

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Repair the HubSpot Salesforce Integration

Throughout the process, we worked to resolve Sync Errors, update integration settings, and ensure that all necessary data was syncing between HubSpot and Salesforce. At one point, Therapy Brands had over 100 sync errors. This was reduced to 0 at the end of the engagement. 

The Results

16

Salesforce Record Types Consolidated

20+

HubSpot Workflows Created

100+

HubSpot Salesforce Sync Errors Resolved

Therapy Brands - Lead Assignment Process

Inquiry Management

Redesigned to leverage Opportunities rather than Leads.

Ops _ Product Interest Based Deal Assignment (1)

HubSpot Assignment Automation

Leveraging product interest to assign inbound Opportunities and Contacts.

Ops _ 2023 Ops - PTOT _ Inbound MQL Sequence Enroll (1)

HubSpot Sales Sequences

Automated sales follow-up to inbound leads from record owners.

Ops _ Set Lifecycle Stage - SQL & Opportunity (1)

HubSpot Lifecycle Stage Automation

To reliably track the full customer lifecycle.

Ops _ Set Lifecycle Stage - MQL (1)

Our Impact

Our 1-year partnership enabled Therapy Brands to take control of their HubSpot Salesforce integration and reliably manage and report on their data. Through rearchitecting Salesforce and leveraging automation in HubSpot Marketing and Sales Hub, the Therapy Brands team is empowered to scale their growth.

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Quotes from Therapy Brands

"When I look back at the first conversation we had, it was such a hard project to even explain. I really think this was an incredibly complicated project with lots of moving parts, and we successfully navigated it, and we collapsed all those record types, and we updated all of our workflows. I think it’s gone remarkably well since we flipped the switch. The biggest win is that we had very little disruption when we made the changes in January."

Shannon Vann, VP of Sales Enablement

"Lauren and her team at Coastal have been great to work with, they helped Therapy Brands revamp their Marketing to Sales automations and have streamlined our use of HubSpot to allow us to get the most of our tools!"

Lindy Escalante, Sales and Marketing Technology Specialist