
Learn the four HubSpot objects: contacts, companies, deals, and tickets, and why understanding their differences and associations is crucial for data quality, reporting, and automation.
Explore the HubSpot CRM by viewing contact profiles, noting the left sidebar for contact details and actions, the middle tab for overview and activities, and the right sidebar associations.
HubSpot properties store data points for records, such as contacts, deals, and companies. Some properties update manually, others auto-fill, and you can customize or create new properties in settings.
Add a single contact to the HubSpot CRM using the contact create form, entering email, first name, last name, and job title, then review the new contact profile.
Learn to customize the contact creation form by editing it, adding properties like preferred language, and rearranging fields. For teams, ensure data consistency and enable mandatory fields on paid accounts.
Create and associate objects manually in HubSpot CRM, starting with a contact and a company, using add new or add existing, as shown with Tom Hanks.
Import a list of contacts into HubSpot by uploading a file and mapping columns to HubSpot properties like first name, last name, email, and job title, create or update records.
Learn to distinguish HubSpot's two email types—one-to-one emails used for direct, personal outreach and marketing emails for campaigns—explaining where they live and how they feed workflows and sequences.
Connect your inbox to HubSpot, then send and log one-on-one emails from contact profiles, track opens and engagement with links inside the email, and reuse templates for repeated messages.
Learn how to configure HubSpot marketing emails, including subject line, sender, recipient lists, subscription types, scheduling, and automation workflows, with best practices for testing before sending.
connect your business domain to hubspot to send marketing emails from your company email, using a dedicated email sending domain and dns cname records, then verify and wait for propagation.
Discover how to create content with HubSpot by leveraging inbound marketing and the platform's content creation tools across the marketing hub and content hub, with both free and paid options.
Explore how HubSpot themes and templates drive landing page creation, from choosing a theme and template to dragging and dropping modules and editing text and images.
Learn to use HubSpot's social media scheduling tool to connect accounts, publish posts from one platform, and access analytics, social listening, and brand mentions monitoring for unified marketing.
Use HubSpot's seo tool to scan your site, receive content and meta recommendations, and connect Google Search Console for visibility, plus explore topic clusters with pillar pages and internal links.
HubSpot campaigns, a paid feature in the marketing hub, centralize assets and analytics for a single campaign, enabling comparison of performance across campaigns.
HubSpot for Marketing Professionals & Teams is a practical, hands-on course designed to help marketers use HubSpot confidently to plan, execute, and measure their marketing activities.
This course is ideal if you are a marketing professional, marketing manager, freelancer, or business owner who wants to understand how marketing teams actually use HubSpot in practice.
You’ll learn how to manage contacts in the CRM, capture leads with forms and landing pages, send marketing emails, publish content, run campaigns, and analyze marketing performance — all inside HubSpot.
All lessons are based on the latest HubSpot interface and features (2026) and include practical examples that you can follow along with in your own HubSpot account.
Some sections cover paid HubSpot features, but everything is explained clearly so you understand:
what’s available in a free HubSpot account
what requires a paid Marketing Hub subscription
and when it actually makes sense to upgrade
The course also includes an optional section covering HubSpot CRM fundamentals, which explains how contacts, companies, and properties work. If you are already familiar with CRM basics, you can skip this section.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Work confidently with the HubSpot CRM as a marketer
Understand how contacts and companies are stored in the CRM
Work with standard and custom properties
Organize contacts using lists and segmentation
Track website visitors using the HubSpot tracking code
Capture leads and build your contact database
Create forms to collect leads directly into the CRM
Build high-converting landing pages using HubSpot
Understand how lead capture connects to your marketing funnel
Create and send marketing emails
Design marketing emails using HubSpot’s drag-and-drop editor
Manage marketing contact status correctly
Send campaigns and understand email performance metrics
Publish and manage marketing content
Create website pages using HubSpot’s Content Hub
Build and manage a company blog
Understand how HubSpot supports SEO optimization
Run campaigns and engage your audience
Manage social media publishing inside HubSpot
Create ads and chat experiences
Understand how different channels connect inside HubSpot campaigns
Analyze marketing performance
Track marketing performance using HubSpot analytics
Understand how contacts move through the marketing funnel
Work with reports to evaluate campaign results
Explore advanced HubSpot marketing features
Run A/B tests on landing pages
Work with custom reports and marketing dashboards
Understand how advanced HubSpot features support marketing teams
You do not need a paid HubSpot account to follow this course. A free HubSpot account is enough to complete the core lessons, and we’ll create one together if needed.
Paid features are clearly marked throughout the course so you can skip or explore them depending on your access level.
About the instructor
I’m a certified HubSpot consultant and trainer, working with companies worldwide since 2018. I help marketing teams and businesses set up HubSpot correctly, adopt it confidently, and use it as a practical marketing platform — not just another tool in their tech stack.
Here’s what one of my students said:
“I just completed the course — and my only reaction is: WOW! Super valuable for entrepreneurs, consultants, and small businesses. Thalita managed to transfer her rich knowledge in a meticulous and easy-to-follow way. I honestly never knew the actual possibilities of the HubSpot platform and now I finally do!”
— Tamara Biljman, Content Strategist
You can find more testimonials on my website. I take pride in supporting my students throughout the learning journey, and you’re always welcome to ask questions during the course.
— Thalita
Disclaimer
HubSpot for Marketing Professionals is an independently developed course by Thalita Milan and has not been created, endorsed, or verified by HubSpot, Inc. HubSpot, Inc. has no liability related to this course.