Nick Sal's HubSpot Inbound Marketing and Consulting Blog

It's been just over a month since I transitioned from my role helping to lead up HubSpot's Agency Partner Certification and training program at HubSpot Inc and joined one of my favorite HubSpot Agency Partners here in Boston, Innovative Marketing Resources. 

[ME AND SOME MEMBERS OF THE IMR CORP CREW HANGING OUT AT THE OFFICE DURING MY FIRST WEEK ON THE JOB - NOTE ONE OF THE NEW PLANTS WE ADDED TO GREEN UP THE PLACE, TOO]

Innovative Marketing Resources, or IMR Corp for short - had risen to become one of the better known Certified Platinum Providers in HubSpot's growing network of Agency Partners.  As someone who spent their entire career at HubSpot supporting our partners in the marketing industry, I had known and worked with the team at IMR and we had "grown up" in the program together for years.  But, times change, and if the agency was to continue to thrive in 2016, they needed new leadership.  Meanwhile, I was ready for a change as well.  I was looking for a chance to apply all I had learned from 4.5 years working at HubSpot - particularly the management and leadership systems that we pioneered on the HubSpot Academy Team (lead by Mark Kilens, one of the best managers I've ever worked for).  And with IMR hiring a senior manager to help lead up the entire agency, an opportunity presented itself.  So, with 2015 drawing to a close (and with my wife and I expecting our first child) this was a perfect point in my career to take a chance, strike out and see what I could do if I joined forces with of the leading HubSpot Agency Partners that I admired so much.

Driving fast, taking chances:

In short, it was a fast moving first month for me at IMR.  I'm used to that pace from my experience starting as the 250th HubSpot employee supporting around 4,000 customers to and then riding the orange rocket ship as the company went public, grew to  15,000+ customers and 1000+ employees on 3 continents - all within a few short years.  I told Kevin Jorgensen and Joe Petterossi (IMR's co-founders and my new business partners), I intended to come into the agency "like a big orange hurricane" and try to "make it rain inbound" all over the place.  As their new business partner and joining in the role of agency team leader, I would have a hand in improving all aspects of the agency - client services management, marketing/sales, as well as culture and team development.  

Wow.  What a week.  Many of you reading this are just getting back from flights home, or possibly on your way to catch a flight out of Boston as you wrap up a long week visiting here.  Wherever you are, if you were at #Inbound2012 the past few days, I know that you're EXCITED!!

HubSpot Continues to Grow

Something big is happening here, and last week many in the media started to take note. Just as HubSpot released a presentation on its 2011 Year in Review, a number of articles sprung up underscoring the continued growth and scale of HubSpot. Feel free to use the deck or some of the articles as part of your sales tools and help us spread the word.

• 2011 in Review: a deck full of HubSpot by the numbers. 
• Forbes: HubSpot Ready to Pounce as Traditional Marketing Gets "Obliterated"
• Bostinno: HubSpot Releases Big Numbers
• Boston is a Hub of Marketing Software, the Next Big Tech Software
• GigaOM: Marketing is the Next Big Money Sector in Technology (note HubSpot in the comments)