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Maximising Google Ads with HubSpot CRM Integration

Discover how HubSpot Ads revolutionise Google Ads campaigns, enhancing lead quality, audience targeting, and campaign management for superior results.


In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, achieving optimal advertising results requires not just powerful tools but also seamless integration and strategic alignment. Enter HubSpot Ads, also known as CRM Advertising, a feature within the HubSpot platform designed to transform how businesses create, manage, and optimise their digital advertising campaigns. HubSpot Ads offers a unified interface that simplifies campaign management across major platforms like Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, and Facebook Ads.

By leveraging HubSpot Ads, businesses can significantly enhance their advertising efforts on Google Ads. This integration allows for improved lead generation and lead quality through more targeted advertising, detailed optimisation, comprehensive tracking, and insightful reporting. HubSpot Ads utilises first-party CRM data to fine-tune ad campaigns, providing capabilities that go beyond what Google Ads alone can achieve.

In this blog, we will explore how HubSpot Ads can help you define clear objectives, improve audience targeting, create engaging content, and continuously test and optimise your campaigns. We will also delve into the benefits of integrating HubSpot Ads with Google Ads, including enhanced analytics, streamlined campaign management, and better alignment of sales and marketing efforts. Discover how using HubSpot Ads can elevate your Google advertising strategy, ensuring your marketing efforts are not only efficient but also yield high-quality results.

What is HubSpot Ads?

HubSpot Ads, also known as CRM Advertising, is an integrated feature within the HubSpot platform designed to streamline the creation, management, and optimisation of digital advertising campaigns. It enhances your advertising efforts on Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, and Facebook Ads by offering a unified interface for managing campaigns, tracking performance, and optimising results. This integration allows businesses to align their advertising activities with broader marketing and sales efforts, ensuring a cohesive and efficient approach to digital marketing.

HubSpot Ads increases the number of leads generated and enhances lead quality through more targeted advertising, detailed optimisation, comprehensive tracking, and insightful reporting. The integration with Google Ads provides unique capabilities that accelerate your advertising efforts beyond what is possible with Google Ads alone. By leveraging first-party CRM data, you can achieve cutting-edge Google Ads optimisation, staying ahead of the competition and driving superior advertising results.

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Benefits of Using HubSpot Ads with Google Ads

Integrating HubSpot Ads with Google Ads can significantly enhance your advertising strategy by leveraging own data alongside the targeting abilities provided by Google Ads. Here are the key benefits of using HubSpot Ads with Google Ads:

Improve Lead Quality

Lead quality optimisation is perhaps the primary reason to use HubSpot alongside Google Ads. If you rely solely on online conversion tracking for Google Ads, you are optimising for the highest quantity of leads without considering their quality. This bidding strategy is known as Target CPA, or Max CPA. You set a target CPA, which is the average cost per lead that you will pay, and this results in the highest number of leads.

By using HubSpot Ad Events (offline conversion tracking), you can sync your contact lifecycle changes back to the ad platform to score lead quality. This lets Google Ads know which leads are more likely to progress into customers and are therefore of the highest quality. For example, if you group your leads into good, average, and poor categories, you can train Google's AI to acquire more high-quality leads and fewer poor leads by using HubSpot Ad Events. Optimise automatic bidding (machine learning) to focus on acquiring high-quality leads, ensuring the AI prioritises the best quality leads, thereby reducing lower-quality leads.

This approach ensures that your advertising efforts yield more valuable leads, ultimately improving your campaign’s overall effectiveness and ROI

Improved Measurement, Tracking and Reporting

Most companies are eager to increase their advertising spend; however, they also seek to ensure they are achieving the highest possible return on investment (ROI). With many interactions and sales comprising both online and offline activities, it becomes challenging to discern what is effective and what is not.

By leveraging the combined reporting capabilities of Google and HubSpot CRM first-party data, you can refine your advertising efforts, attain superior outcomes, and drive business growth. This integration furnishes valuable insights and tools to amplify the impact of your Google Ads campaigns using your proprietary data.

HubSpot amalgamates Google’s data with your marketing data, providing a cohesive view of your campaign performance. This integration enables you to make informed decisions and hone your strategy by monitoring both standard online metrics, such as click-through rates and conversions, and offline metrics related to your sales funnel progression. These metrics encompass cost per Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL), Sales Qualified Lead (SQL), deal, customer, and overall advertising ROI. This comprehensive approach to reporting ensures you have a lucid understanding of your campaign’s efficacy across all stages of the sales funnel.

Audience Targeting Improvements

Google offers a range of retargeting options, including Display Remarketing, YouTube Remarketing, and Search Remarketing, to reach people who have already interacted with your brand, such as through a website visit or a marketing event.

To go beyond the standard targeting options within Google Ads, HubSpot lists and buyer personas can refine your messaging to reach the right person at the right time. Share lists from HubSpot to Google, including contact emails and website cookies. This approach expands your reach to cold traffic and strengthens your retargeting efforts. Build a funnel on Google to nurture leads before capturing their details with a lead form on Google or your website.

HubSpot integrates with Google to share targeting lists created in HubSpot, including contact lists and website cookie list users. You can combine these audiences with Google's audience targeting to retarget warm traffic that already knows your brand. Utilise HubSpot’s segmentation tools to create highly targeted audience lists based on detailed criteria such as:

  • When filter criteria are met: Objects will enrol when the criteria are true. For example, when a contact’s city is "London," they can be included on a list with a geographic targeting filter.
  • When an event occurs: Objects will enrol when an event has happened, such as when a form is submitted or a contact revisits your website.
  • HubSpot also allows you to automatically email a contact if they return to your website, enhancing retargeting effectiveness.

Streamlined Campaign Management

Manage your Google Ads campaigns alongside other ad platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook within HubSpot’s centralised interface. This integration simplifies processes by reducing the need to switch between multiple systems and makes it easier to view your advertising results in the context of your business data, matched to contacts and companies rather than just anonymous online conversions.

Streamlining the ad creation, management, and optimisation processes significantly reduces the time spent on administrative tasks, allowing you to focus more on strategic decision-making.

Nurturing Down the Funnel

Use retargeting strategies within HubSpot and Google to nurture leads further down the funnel:

  • Website Retargeting: HubSpot enables you to set up retargeting campaigns for users who have visited your website. This helps re-engage users who have shown interest in your brand but have not yet converted.

  • Contact Retargeting: Use HubSpot to build customer lists for retargeting on Google, including uploading lists of prospect contacts or specific customers you want to target. Once you have captured their contact details, you can use workflows to deliver targeted content and follow-up messages based on user behaviour and engagement history.

By leveraging these retargeting strategies, you can effectively guide prospects through the buyer's journey, increasing the likelihood of conversion and enhancing overall campaign performance.

Budget & Bid Management

Utilise comprehensive data that extends beyond clicks and initial lead enquiry stages to make more informed budget and bid decisions. Improve bids by using HubSpot Ad Events to record sales cycle stage changes as offline conversions, ensuring your budget is directed towards high-quality leads and impactful campaigns. Maximise ROI by leveraging HubSpot’s analytics to strategically optimise ad spend.

Sales and Marketing Alignment

Ensure that your Google Ads efforts are fully integrated with broader marketing and sales activities, fostering better collaboration and strategic coherence.
Utilise HubSpot’s CRM to track all interactions with leads and customers, providing a comprehensive view of the customer journey and enhancing cross-functional communication. Establish a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between sales and marketing that defines a sales-ready lead (MQL), follow-up protocols, and close rates to ensure alignment and accountability.

Scalability and Growth Opportunities

Analyse performance data within HubSpot to uncover new opportunities for growth and refine your Google Ads strategy to target emerging markets or demographics. Scale your Google Ads campaigns by leveraging HubSpot’s automation and integration capabilities, accommodating business growth without proportional increases in effort or complexity.

Define Clear Objectives

When creating a campaign, selecting a clear objective or overarching bidding strategy that aligns with your marketing goal is crucial. Whether you aim for top-of-the-funnel awareness, middle-of-the-funnel consideration, or bottom-of-the-funnel conversions, HubSpot Ads offers a comprehensive solution to seamlessly align your Google campaign goals with your overall marketing objectives. By sharing HubSpot audience lists with Google, you can effectively target potential buyers at various stages of the sales funnel with the right ad content, driving results from initial brand awareness through the consideration phase to conversion.

Create Engaging Content

HubSpot offers a robust suite of tools for creating high-quality, personalised, and engaging content. Within the platform, you can craft compelling visuals and clear messaging using a wide range of AI tools. Personalised content is more likely to resonate with your target audience, enhancing engagement and driving more prospects through the buyer funnel. Utilise HubSpot’s personalisation features to tailor your ad content to specific audience segments, buyer personas, and Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs). This strategic approach ensures your ads are relevant and impactful, fostering stronger connections with potential customers.

Test and Optimise

Continuously monitor your campaign performance with HubSpot’s detailed analytics. HubSpot provides actionable insights and recommendations based on performance data to help optimise your campaigns. This may include adjusting targeting criteria, refining ad creatives, or altering bidding strategies. By regularly testing and fine-tuning your campaigns, you can ensure they remain effective and aligned with your marketing goals, ultimately driving better results.

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HubSpot Ads Capabilities

HubSpot Ads offers a comprehensive suite of features and tools designed to simplify the creation and optimisation of advertising campaigns. By providing functionalities that align with the best practices for Google Ads, HubSpot Ads can significantly enhance your Google advertising efforts. Here's how HubSpot can help advertisers achieve these best practices:

Improved Audience Targeting

Enhance your Google targeting by leveraging HubSpot’s CRM to create highly targeted ad campaigns based on detailed customer profiles. Use HubSpot’s segmentation capabilities to craft customer list audiences and reach specific groups with tailored messages.

With HubSpot Ads, you can build audiences using your HubSpot data and upload them to Google for targeting. This allows you to:

  • Improve targeting by reaching known audiences exclusively or targeting cold traffic separately that has never interacted with your brand.
  • Reach warm audiences that already know your brand with unique messaging, leading to more effective advertising campaigns.

By creating more targeted ad campaigns, you can drive better results. You can also exclude specific audiences to refine your targeting further.

HubSpot Ad Audiences enables you to create custom audiences to share with ad platforms using multiple data sources within HubSpot, ensuring your campaigns are highly targeted and effective.

Website Users:

Remarket to individuals who have visited your website, ensuring your ads reach those already familiar with your brand. These users are matched with their website cookie list, which is collected by the Google conversion tracking pixel or the HubSpot pixel.

Email Contact Lists:

Retarget your contact/email lists by segmenting them into audiences based on specific behaviours, preferences, or demographics. For example, you can upload your customer list to upsell or exclude them from cold traffic campaigns.

Lookalike Segment Audiences:

Build a cold audience of people who are most similar to your website visitors, email subscribers, and customer lists by matching them with LinkedIn's user database through hashed encryption.

Lifecycle Stage Audiences:

Tailor your ads to different stages of the buyer's journey. For instance, show introductory offers to new leads and premium service features to marketing-qualified leads (MQLs). Display top-of-the-funnel ads to new prospects who are not yet leads or past website visitors, and create specific adverts for each lifecycle stage of a new contact lead. Upsell to existing customers with targeted ads, encouraging repeat purchases or promoting complementary products and services. This approach ensures your advertising efforts are relevant and effective at every stage of your sales cycle.

Ads Interaction Audiences:

You can segment contacts in lists based on their ads interactions in ad networks including Google Ads, Facebook Ads and LinkedIn Ads.
Ad interactions include when users click on your ads or submit a form after they engaged with your ad. Each ads interaction filter represents a trackable ad interaction, such as identifying which contacts clicked through to your website from a specific Google Ads campaign.

Event-Based Audiences:

HubSpot's event-based audiences allow you to target users based on their specific interactions with your website content, providing highly personalised and relevant marketing experiences. 

Target users based on their interactions with your website content, such as viewers of a certain page, webinar sign-up attendees, or those who downloaded a particular resource. For example, send an email automatically using a workflow to contacts when they return to your website.

Geographic Audiences:

Customise your ads based on the location of your audience to deliver region-specific offers or announcements using HubSpot properties such as city name or postal code to segment targeted lists. 

Demographic Audiences:

To effectively use Google Ads with HubSpot demographic targeting, start by collecting detailed demographic information from your audience, such as age, gender, location, and job title, through lead forms and CRM data integration. Next, create segmented lists in HubSpot based on these demographics, allowing for precise targeting. Sync these segmented lists with Google Ads to ensure your campaigns reach the desired demographic groups. Tailor your ad content to resonate with each segment by adjusting visuals, copy, and offers to match their specific preferences and needs. 

Buyer Persona Audiences:

You can segment your retargeting lists based on personas that you have created inside HubSpot to create more tailored ad content. 

Hyper-Targeting Audiences:

Depending on the sizes of your audiences, you can overlay multiple audiences to create hyper-targeted audiences. Just remember that Google Ads audiences do have minimum sizes due to privacy restrictions.
 
Google Display Network: Must have a minimum of 100 active visitors or users within the last 30 days.
Google Search Network: Must have a minimum of 1,000 active visitors or users within the last 30 days.
YouTube: Must have a minimum of 1,000 active visitors or users within the last 30 days.
Discovery Ads: Must have a minimum of 1,000 active visitors or users within the last 30 days.

Google Ads First Party Audience Targeting

First-party audience targeting in Google Ads refers to the use of your own data—collected directly from your interactions with customers or visitors—to create customised and highly relevant advertising campaigns. This type of targeting leverages the information that your business has gathered firsthand, such as data from your CRM systems, website analytics, mobile app usage, or any other direct customer engagements. Here's a detailed explanation of how it works and the benefits it offers:

Types of First-Party Data

  1. Website Visitors: Data collected via tracking who visits your website, what pages they view, and the actions they take.
  2. Customer Lists: Information from CRM databases, including email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
  3. App Users: Data from users who have downloaded and interacted with your mobile app.
  4. Offline Interactions: Information from in-store purchases or direct interactions that are later digitised.

Implementing First-Party Audience Targeting in Google Ads

Customer Match: This powerful tool allows you to upload lists of contact information from your customers. Google then uses this data to match your customers with users logged into Google services. This enables you to target or retarget customers across Search, Shopping, Gmail, YouTube, and Display Network campaigns.

Website and App Remarketing: By implementing the Google Ads tag on your website or the Google Analytics tag, you can collect data on your visitors and app users. This data helps you create remarketing lists, allowing you to serve targeted ads to users who have previously interacted with your digital assets but did not convert.

Offline Data Import: If you collect offline data, such as in-store purchases or direct mail responses, you can import this data into Google Ads. This can be particularly useful for creating personalised ad campaigns targeting users based on their offline behaviours.

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Improved Lead Quality with Offline Conversion Tracking

Conversion tracking is a vital tool in Google Ads for measuring success and improving campaign performance to enhance profitability and increase customer sales. Google Ads offers both online and offline conversion tracking.

Online conversion tracking helps increase lead quantity, while offline conversion tracking helps improve lead quality.
Most advertisers use online conversion tracking to measure the number of leads generated and the cost per lead. However, more companies are now extending this approach by incorporating offline conversion tracking, as recommended by Google, to gain deeper insights into lead quality and long-term value.

Online Tracking (Google Conversion Tracking):

Google Ads records the number of people who fill out a form on your website as an online conversion, using the Google Pixel placed on your site.
Success is measured by the number of leads and the cost per lead, which only considers the first step in your sales process (the lead enquiry).

* Google Lead Ad Form Extensions already have a tracking system because the form is hosted on Google. Leads are imported as contacts into HubSpot with lead synching. 

Offline Tracking (HubSpot Ad Events):

Offline conversion tracking goes beyond just capturing form submissions by tracking what happens after the initial contact. With HubSpot Ad Events, you can determine whether a lead becomes a qualified lead, progresses to a deal, and eventually becomes a customer. Without offline conversion tracking, you only know who filled out a form. However, with HubSpot Ad Events, you gain insights into which businesses later scheduled a meeting, received a quote, and purchased your service.

Not all leads have the same value; some are more likely to turn into paying customers than others. Tracking what happens after the initial lead enquiry is crucial. By focusing on acquiring high-quality leads, you can optimise your advertising budget more effectively to achieve a better return on investment. HubSpot syncs lead lifecycle stage changes to Google Ads as offline conversions, allowing leads to be scored by the ad platform. By tracking leads through every stage of the sales funnel and optimising ad spend based on lead quality and revenue, you ensure your advertising budget is used efficiently, driving higher ROI and attracting customers who bring long-term value to your business.

  • Optimised Ad Spend: Allocate more budget to ads that attract leads similar to those who have previously purchased your service. Avoid wasting money on ads that only attract form fillers without further engagement. Knowing which leads convert into high-quality customers allows for more strategic budgeting.
  • Enhanced Lead Value Understanding: HubSpot helps Google Ads identify the most valuable leads. Whether you set bids manually or use automatic bidding, this integration ensures your money is spent wisely. Google Ads will prioritise leads that are more likely to convert into paying customers.
  • Revenue-Based Customer Scoring: HubSpot Ad Events can send sales revenue data back to the ad platforms, allowing you to score customers based on the revenue they generate and their purchase frequency. This information helps optimise your advertising to achieve better results.

HubSpot Ad Events: Tracking Lifecycle Stages as Offline Conversions

HubSpot Ad Events is a powerful feature that enhances your ability to track and optimise Google Ads using the progression of leads through your sales funnel.
By syncing lifecycle changes back to Google Ads, you gain improved optimisation and reporting capabilities through machine learning AI, ensuring that your marketing investments drive tangible results.

HubSpot defines several lifecycle stages to help businesses track and manage the journey of a contact through the sales funnel. These stages include:

  1. Subscriber: A contact who has shown interest in your content and has opted in to hear more from you, typically by signing up for a blog or newsletter.
  2. Lead: A contact who has demonstrated potential interest in your products or services, often by filling out a form or calling your business.
  3. Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL): A contact who has been identified by the marketing team as being ready for sales to outreach to.
  4. Sales Qualified Lead (SQL): A contact who has been vetted by the sales team and deemed ready for direct sales follow-up.
  5. Opportunity: A contact who has entered the sales pipeline and is considered a potential deal.
  6. Customer: A contact who has completed a purchase and become a paying customer.
  7. Evangelist: A satisfied customer who advocates for your brand and refers new business.

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How Google Ads Uses Offline Conversion Tracking for Bid Optimisation (AI machine learning). 

Target CPA (Cost Per Acquisition):

When an online lead is generated through an advertising campaign on platforms like Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn, this lead is recorded as a conversion using the platform’s conversion tracking scripts placed on your website. As the lead progresses through your sales process, an offline conversion is created each time a sales stage is completed.

The ad platform uses these conversions to assess the quality of the leads. Leads that progress further through the sales stages, such as becoming qualified or converting into customers, receive higher scores. For instance:

  • An online conversion might score 1 point.
  • A qualified lead might score an additional point.
  • A converted lead (customer) might score another point.

In this example, a lead that becomes a customer scores a total of 3 points, while a lead that doesn’t progress beyond the initial stage only scores 1 point. Google Ads requests that leads be marked as "qualified" and "converted" to align with its lead stages, enabling the system to use a basic lead scoring method, such as:

  • Lead (poor)
  • Qualified Lead (average)
  • Converted Lead (customer)

The Target CPA bidding strategy is then used to optimise for the maximum number of conversions, considering both online and offline data. Depending on the volume and quality of your conversion data, you can also test optimising for specific ad events, such as focusing solely on qualified leads instead of initial online leads.

Being able to see the cost for each of the completed steps in your sales process in both HubSpot and within the online ad platforms takes your advertising light years ahead.

Target ROAS: (Return On Ad Spend):

Target ROAS is optimising solely for the highest customer sales revenue. It will optimise to get the most customers, but more importantly, the most high-value customers. So instead of optimising for lead quality using lead stage scoring, you optimise for customer value. This is similar to how e-commerce companies bid when they have products with different prices - making cost-per-sale optimisation insufficient.

Target ROAS bidding focuses on optimising for the highest possible revenue from customer sales, rather than just the number of leads or conversions. This strategy aims to attract not only the most customers but, more importantly, the highest-value customers.

Instead of optimising based on lead quality, as in Target CPA, the system optimises based on customer value. Similar to lead scoring, customer scoring is applied in future auctions, where the system bids more aggressively for ad placements likely to result in high-value customers.

This approach is particularly useful for e-commerce businesses with a wide range of product prices. When the cost per sale isn’t a sufficient metric for success, Target ROAS ensures that the bidding strategy focuses on maximising the overall revenue by prioritising higher-value transactions.

Target ROAS & Target CPA:

In a Google Ads campaign, you can optimise for either maximum leads (Target CPA) or maximum revenue (Target ROAS), but not both simultaneously. For companies with a mix of online and offline sales, this presents a challenging scenario.

Target CPA (Cost Per Acquisition): If you choose to optimise for maximum leads using the Target CPA strategy, you risk overpaying for lower-priced products or services. This occurs because the system focuses solely on generating as many conversions as possible, without considering the varying values of those conversions. This approach can result in a loss of high-value sales while generating more low-value sales.

Target ROAS (Return on Ad Spend): Alternatively, if you opt for Target ROAS, the system optimises based on the revenue generated from sales. However, without tracking offline conversions, this strategy can be flawed. Since offline sales aren’t recorded in Google Ads, the system lacks critical revenue data from offline sales, particularly the highest-value transactions that occur offline. As a result, the ROAS bid strategy will underperform, reducing spending on leads that significantly contribute to revenue but aren't visible to Google Ads..

Companies can overcome this limitation and effectively utilise Target ROAS bidding by integrating offline sales data into Google Ads. By sending offline sales data back to Google Ads, the platform can account for both online and offline sales, including high-value offline transactions. This comprehensive approach enables more accurate optimisation to increase revenue and profit. (More profitable low-value sales, and more high-value sales)

Using Target ROAS with offline conversion tracking can also help avoid overspending on low-value products since the return on ad spend has a minimum threshold. The cost of implementing offline conversion tracking is minimal compared to the significant improvements it can bring to your ad campaign’s performance and overall revenue.

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Ad Management

HubSpot Ads provides a unified interface to create, manage, report on, and optimise advertising campaigns across multiple channels directly from within your CRM. This integration ensures seamless management of all ad campaigns alongside your company data, enhancing reporting capabilities. By connecting your ad platforms, HubSpot enables you to track digital ad performance, maximise ROI, and minimise ad spend. This flexibility in ad creation ensures that your advertisements align with your business objectives and resonate with your intended audience. Monitor the health of Google Ads compared to other platforms to evaluate not only cost per lead but also cost per MQL, SQL, deal, and sale. Use this data to align your marketing and sales efforts, generating more sales-ready leads.

Seamless Ad Creation

Use pre-built templates and intuitive tools to create visually appealing ads quickly by reusing existing content from HubSpot’s content library, making it easy to incorporate existing assets into your ads.

Comprehensive Lead Management and Nurturing

Automatically sync leads captured through Google Ads lead generation forms into HubSpot’s CRM for immediate follow-up and nurturing.

Lead Scoring and Qualification

Prioritise leads based on their engagement and potential to convert, ensuring efficient use of resources.

Automated Nurturing

Create automated workflows to nurture leads captured from ads, ensuring timely and relevant follow-ups.

Personalised Marketing

Deliver personalised content and offers to leads based on their interactions with your ads. Tailor your marketing efforts according to which ads they engaged with, enhancing the customer experience and boosting conversion rates.

Ad Reporting

You already receive reporting within Google Ads, so how does using HubSpot Ads take this further? HubSpot allows you to integrate your advertising data with your marketing database to gain deeper insights into your efforts. This integration surpasses the standard advertising interfaces of Google Ads, which only provide anonymous data not linked to your prospects and customers. HubSpot’s reporting capabilities enable you to gain deeper insights and make more informed decisions.

HubSpot Ads reporting goes beyond standard metrics such as impressions, clicks, and online conversions available in ad platforms. You can track not only the cost per online lead but also the cost per Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL), Sales Qualified Lead (SQL), cost per deal/opportunity, and cost per sale, along with revenue value. These valuable insights enable data-driven decision-making, allowing you to focus your efforts on the most effective campaigns and strategies.

Lifecycle Stage Analysis: Understand how your ads influence different stages of the customer journey, from awareness to conversion.

Attribution Reporting: Identify which ads, assets, and channels contribute most to conversions, allowing you to allocate your budget more effectively.

ROI by Campaign: Compare the return on investment across different campaigns to identify high-performing strategies and areas for improvement.

Multi-Channel Performance: Assess the performance of your ads across multiple platforms, including Google, Google, and Google, within a unified dashboard. Compare cost per lead, cost per MQL, SQL, deal, and sale.

Improve ROI: HubSpot reporting lets you measure and enhance your ad campaigns using ROI as a key metric for measurement and improvement.

Comprehensive Insights: Access in-depth analytics and performance metrics for your Google Ads within HubSpot, tying back results to individual contacts or companies. Gain more context into your advertising by integrating this data with your marketing database.

Performance Tracking:  Monitor key metrics such as impressions, clicks, conversions, and ROI in real-time, facilitating agile and data-driven decision-making.

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Ad Optimisation (ROI):

HubSpot Ads ROI (Return on Investment) is a critical metric that helps businesses measure the profitability and effectiveness of their advertising campaigns on the HubSpot platform. By evaluating the financial return generated from ads relative to the amount spent, businesses can gain valuable insights into their advertising performance. To measure the effectiveness of your paid ad campaigns within HubSpot, you need to configure your ROI calculation to use revenue from deals or estimated revenue.

Revenue from Your Deals: This method calculates ROI based on your deals in HubSpot, using the Default deal amount settings. For a deal to be included on your ads dashboard, it must:

  • Be marked as closed won.
  • Be associated with a contact attributed to your ad campaign.
  • Have the contact in the lifecycle stage customer. 

Estimate Revenue: HubSpot estimates ROI based on your average sale price and average contact-to-customer rate.

  • In the Average Sale Price section, enter the numerical value of your average sale price.
  • Enter your average contact-to-customer rate as a percentage.
  • By configuring these settings, you can accurately measure and optimise the effectiveness of your paid ad campaigns in HubSpot

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Lead Management: Nurturing & Sales Assignment

Now that you are recording leads, it is important to decide how to follow up with different lead types. Some leads are ready to be handed to sales right away, while others require nurturing by marketing until they become marketing-qualified leads (MQLs). Following up on leads in the most effective way improves conversion rates and enhances the return on investment in advertising. By leveraging the powerful combination of HubSpot Ads and HubSpot CRM, businesses can streamline their marketing and sales processes, improve lead nurturing, and ultimately drive higher conversion rates and revenue growth.

Enhanced Lead Tracking

HubSpot CRM's integration with HubSpot Ads allows businesses to monitor the journey of each lead from the moment they engage with an ad. This integration provides detailed insights into which campaigns generate the most qualified leads, enabling marketers to allocate resources more effectively. Track leads from the initial ad click, to lead, to deal, and then to customer and beyond, ensuring that every interaction is captured and actionable. 

Lead Scoring

Use lead scoring to determine the most efficient follow-up, saving time for sales departments and ensuring leads are correctly assigned. Understanding a lead's history and preferences allows for tailored messaging that resonates more effectively with potential customers, improving engagement and conversion rates. Create personalised marketing campaigns based on these insights.

Improved Sales Efficiency

Sales teams benefit from having a complete view of a lead's interactions with marketing campaigns. This context helps sales representatives engage in more meaningful conversations, addressing the specific interests and needs of the lead, thereby increasing the likelihood of closing a deal.

Automate & Streamline Processes

HubSpot's CRM and ad integration enable the automation of many routine tasks, such as lead scoring and nurturing workflows. Automated workflows can send follow-up emails, assign leads to sales representatives, and trigger alerts based on lead behaviour, ensuring that no opportunity is missed.

Data-Driven Insights

The integration facilitates the collection and analysis of data across multiple touchpoints. Businesses can generate reports that combine ad performance with CRM data, providing a deeper understanding of campaign effectiveness and customer behaviour. These insights are invaluable for refining strategies and improving ROI.

Seamless Communication Between Teams

The unified platform fosters better communication between marketing and sales teams. Shared access to data and insights ensures that both teams are aligned in their goals and strategies, leading to a more cohesive approach to customer acquisition and retention.

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Campaign Objectives & Bidding Strategies

Google Ads offers a range of campaign objectives tailored to various marketing goals. Understanding these objectives and their corresponding bidding strategies is essential for optimising ad performance and achieving desired outcomes. Unlike some other advertising platforms, the bidding strategy in Google Ads often plays a more pivotal role than the campaign goal itself, as it dictates how your budget is utilised and what outcomes your ads are optimised for. Here are the primary campaign objectives and associated bidding strategies:

How to use HubSpot alongside Google Ads

HubSpot Ads offers comprehensive tools to complement and enhance your Google Ads campaigns, ensuring seamless integration and optimisation across various marketing objectives.

Brand Awareness

  • Audience Syncing: Import and sync Google audiences into HubSpot for detailed segmentation and targeting.
  • Analytics Tracking: Monitor metrics such as impressions, reach, and frequency using HubSpot’s analytics to measure campaign effectiveness.

Consideration

Website Visits:
    • Tracking and Attribution: HubSpot tracks visits and attributes them to specific Google ads, providing insights for optimising ad spend.
    • Landing Page Optimisation: Create and link optimised landing pages using HubSpot’s A/B testing features to maximise conversion rates.
Engagement:
    • Social Media Tools: Schedule and publish Google posts to complement engagement campaigns, ensuring consistency and maximising engagement.
    • Engagement Reports: Monitor likes, shares, comments, and follower growth, and adjust content strategy accordingly.
Video Views:
    • Personalised Video Content: Create targeted video content in HubSpot tailored to specific audience segments for increased relevance and effectiveness.

Conversions

Website Conversions:

    • Conversion Tracking: Set up Google’s conversion tracking within HubSpot to monitor specific actions taken by visitors.
    • Optimised Conversion Paths: Use HubSpot’s tools to create optimised conversion paths, including tailored landing pages, thank you pages, and follow-up emails to maximise conversion rates.

Lead Ad Form Extensions:

    • CRM Integration: Automatically capture leads from Google Ads lead form extensions into HubSpot CRM, ensuring seamless lead management and follow-up.
    • Automated Workflows: Create automated workflows to nurture leads with email sequences, personalised content, and follow-up tasks.

By leveraging the powerful combination of Google Ads and HubSpot, advertisers can effectively meet and exceed their marketing objectives, ensuring a cohesive and optimised approach to their advertising strategies.

Integrating Google Ads with HubSpot
Connect HubSpot to Google Ads:

  • In HubSpot, navigate to Marketing > Ads.
  • Click on “Connect Account” and select Google.
  • Follow the prompts to authorise HubSpot to access your Google Ads account.

Import Google Lead Gen Forms

  • If using Google Lead Gen Forms, ensure they are synced with HubSpot.
  • Go to Marketing > Lead Capture > Forms in HubSpot.
  • Select “Google Lead Gen Forms” and configure the necessary settings to import leads directly into HubSpot

Create Lead Nurturing Workflows

  • Develop workflows in HubSpot to nurture leads captured from Google Ads.
  • Navigate to Automation > Workflows in HubSpot.
  • Create a new workflow, setting triggers based on form submissions or ad interactions.
  • Include follow-up emails, content offers, and other nurturing actions to guide leads through the buyer’s journey.

Further Reading

If you want to learn more about HubSpot Ads, check out our HubSpot Ads Guide.
For a more theoretical overview of advertising, see our guide- How to using AI and Automation with Advertising.

HubSpot Ads works with LinkedIn Ads, Facebook Ads and Google Ads.
For a more in-depth review of each ad platform integration with HubSpot, see our blog posts:

Conclusion

Integrating HubSpot Ads with Google Ads offers a transformative approach to your digital marketing strategy. By combining HubSpot’s robust CRM and marketing automation capabilities with Google’s powerful advertising platform, you can significantly enhance both lead generation and lead quality. This integration allows for seamless campaign management, precise targeting, and in-depth performance analysis, ensuring that your marketing efforts are both effective and efficient.

HubSpot Ads helps you define clear objectives, improve audience targeting, create engaging content, and continuously test and optimise your campaigns. By leveraging first-party CRM data, you can personalise your advertising efforts and maximise the impact of your Google Ads campaigns. This strategic approach not only improves lead quality but also ensures that your advertising budget is directed towards the most valuable prospects.

The benefits of integrating HubSpot Ads with Google Ads extend beyond basic campaign management. Enhanced analytics, streamlined reporting, and improved sales and marketing alignment contribute to a more cohesive and effective advertising strategy. By focusing on high-quality leads and using data-driven insights, you can achieve better ROI and drive business growth.

Ultimately, HubSpot Ads provides the tools and insights needed to elevate your Google advertising strategy. Embrace this powerful integration to ensure your advertising efforts are aligned with your business objectives, resonate with your target audience, and deliver measurable results. By leveraging the combined strengths of HubSpot and Google Ads, you can stay ahead in the competitive digital landscape and achieve your marketing goals with greater precision and efficiency.

 

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