If you’re considering hiring me as your HubSpot consultant, you probably want to know more than how long I’ve been using HubSpot or which certifications I have.
You want to know what it’s actually like to work with me.
Will I understand your business? Will you work directly with me? Am I going to wait three days for an email response? Can I handle something complicated? Am I strategic, technical, or both? And, of course, how much is this going to cost?
So, let’s talk about it.
I’ve been using HubSpot since 2012 and have been a certified HubSpot Solutions Partner since 2014. I’ve worked with businesses across SaaS, telecom, edtech and education services, biotech, finance, retail, luxury architectural materials, and other B2B and B2C industries.
But experience alone doesn’t necessarily mean we’re a good fit.
Here’s what I think you should know before hiring me.
I might be a good fit if you want to work directly with your HubSpot consultant
When you hire me, you work with me.
There isn’t an account manager taking your requests and passing them to someone else. There isn’t a junior consultant quietly doing the work behind the scenes.
I’m the person on your calls, answering your emails, thinking through your strategy, and actually working inside your HubSpot portal.
I’ve intentionally built my consulting practice this way, and I work with no more than three ongoing clients at a time so I can give each one the attention they deserve.
If you’re looking for senior-level HubSpot expertise with a very direct working relationship, we’ll probably get along well.
I might be a good fit if you want someone who learns your business
I don’t want to know only what you want me to build in HubSpot.
I want to know why we’re building it.
How does your business make money? How does a lead become a customer? What does sales need from marketing? Where does your data come from? What are people doing manually? What does leadership wish they could see?
The better I understand your business, the more useful I can be.
That’s also when I start noticing opportunities you may not have originally hired me to find.
I might be a good fit if you need strategy AND someone who can actually build it
I’m not a consultant who hands you a strategy deck and leaves your team to figure out how to implement it.
I’m also not a HubSpot admin who needs you to tell me exactly what buttons to click.
I like doing both.
My background is in marketing and business strategy, and I’ve spent more than a decade doing hands-on HubSpot work.
That means we can talk about the business problem, figure out the right approach, and then I can actually get into HubSpot and build it.
Depending on what you need, that could involve CRM architecture, workflows, automation, pipelines, integrations, reporting, data cleanup, custom properties, custom objects, marketing automation, sales processes, or something we’ve never tried before.
Those are often my favorite projects.
I might be a good fit if your HubSpot portal is a mess
You do not need to clean up HubSpot before you call me.
In fact, please don’t.
I’ve worked with plenty of portals that have been around for years and have passed through a lot of hands.
Properties multiply. Workflows pile up. Naming conventions disappear. Nobody trusts the reports. Someone built something three years ago and nobody knows why. Everyone is afraid to delete anything.
I find this kind of work genuinely fun.
I’ll help you figure out what you have, what you still need, what can go, and how we can make the system easier to manage going forward.
I’m also a big believer in using automation to clean and maintain data wherever possible rather than treating cleanup as a one-time manual project.
I might be a good fit if your business doesn’t fit neatly into a standard CRM
This is where things get especially interesting.
Not every business revolves around contacts, companies, and deals in exactly the way a CRM expects.
Sometimes you need HubSpot to understand another kind of relationship, process, product, location, subscription, application, property, or something completely specific to your business.
That’s where tools like custom objects, association structures, custom properties, integrations, and automation can become incredibly powerful.
I especially love finding creative ways to use custom objects.
If you’ve ever said, “I wish HubSpot could track…”, tell me how that sentence ends.
I might be a good fit if you want someone to bring ideas to you
One of the benefits of working across so many industries for so many years is that I’ve accumulated a pretty large library of HubSpot use cases in my head.
When I learn about a new client’s business, I’m constantly connecting what I’m hearing to things I’ve seen elsewhere.
The businesses don’t have to be similar.
Something I learned solving a problem for a telecom company might spark an idea for a luxury architectural materials company. An automation built for an education business might inspire a completely different sales process somewhere else.
I don’t expect you to already know everything HubSpot could be doing for your business.
Part of my job is helping you figure that out.
I might be a good fit if responsiveness matters to you
One of the things clients mention to me most often is my responsiveness and attention to detail.
That’s important to me.
It’s also one of the reasons I don’t try to build the biggest consulting business possible.
I don’t want dozens of accounts competing for my attention. I want to know my clients, understand what’s happening in their businesses, and have enough capacity to actually respond when they need me.
I might be a good fit if you’re looking for a long-term HubSpot partner
You don’t have to hire me long-term.
I offer one-off projects, onboarding, and ongoing consulting, and sometimes a project is simply a project.
But many of my longest client relationships started with one specific problem.
Once I understand the business, we tend to find other opportunities.
Could we automate this? Could we track that? Why are we doing this manually? Could sales see this information directly in HubSpot? Could we connect these systems?
Some clients have worked with me for years because their businesses keep changing, HubSpot keeps changing, and we keep finding new things to do with it.
I like those relationships.
I might NOT be the right HubSpot consultant for you if…
I don’t think every potential client should hire me.
For example, I may not be the best fit if you’re looking for a large agency that can provide an entire team of designers, developers, paid media specialists, content writers, and HubSpot consultants under one roof.
That’s not what I’ve built.
I may also not be the right fit if you want to hand someone a giant task list with no context and have them quietly work through tickets. I’ll certainly execute, but I’m probably going to ask questions, make suggestions, and occasionally challenge whether we’re solving the right problem.
And if you need a full-time person available exclusively to your company every day, you should probably hire that person.
My model works best for businesses that value senior HubSpot expertise, direct access, strategic thinking, and hands-on execution, but don’t necessarily need another full-time employee.
How am I different from a larger HubSpot agency?
The biggest difference is pretty simple: you always work directly with me.
A larger HubSpot agency may offer a broader team and more resources across multiple disciplines. That can absolutely be the right choice for some businesses.
My model is intentionally different.
You get one senior person who gets deeply familiar with your business and stays involved in both the strategy and the execution.
Neither model is universally better.
It depends on what you need.
If you’re actively deciding between the two, I’ve written a more detailed comparison of working with an independent HubSpot consultant vs. a larger HubSpot agency.
How much does it cost to work with me?
I believe pricing should be easy to find before you get on a sales call.
My current starting prices are:
- One-off HubSpot projects: starting at $500
- HubSpot onboarding: starting at $1,500
- Ongoing HubSpot consulting: starting at $3,000/month
- A la carte HubSpot training: $120/hour
The actual cost depends on what you need and the complexity of the work.
I’ll be upfront about scope and pricing before we start. And if I think you need a $500 project instead of a $3,000/month retainer, I’ll tell you.
What kinds of businesses have I worked with?
I’ve worked with businesses across SaaS, telecommunications, edtech and education services, biotech, finance, retail, luxury architectural materials, and other B2B and B2C industries.
That variety is intentional and valuable to the way I consult.
I don’t necessarily need to have worked with a company exactly like yours before.
I need to understand how your business works, what you’re trying to accomplish, and how we can use everything I’ve learned from hundreds of other HubSpot use cases to help solve your problem.
Still not sure if I’m the right HubSpot consultant for you?
That’s okay.
You don’t need to diagnose your own HubSpot problem before we talk, and I’m not going to try to force you into a service you don’t need.
Tell me what’s happening, what isn’t working, or what you wish HubSpot could do.
I’ll tell you whether I think I can help.
Let’s see if we’re a good fit.