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HubSpot Conversations - Live chat, bots & team email -- free.

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Meet the universal inbox built for all messaging channels and teams. With live chat, team email, and an easy-to-use chatbot builder, HubSpot gives you the messaging tools and context to have personalized conversations with prospects and customers at scale — for free!

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David
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Hi there! David here from HubSpot. Today, I couldn’t be more excited to introduce you all to our newest product, Conversations. Conversations is built on top of HubSpot CRM and includes live chat, chatbots, team email, and a universal inbox to manage it all. Last September, Motion AI joined the HubSpot team. Over the past several months, HubSpot has been working to build all of the bot-building capabilities that Motion AI was founded on into a free, universal inbox. Our goal is to make it easier for growing teams to have more personalized, 1:1 conversations with their prospects and customers. With built-in productivity tools (like the ability to create templates and snippets), mobile support via our Android and iOS apps, and integration with Slack, we’re excited to see how this product will transform the way sales, marketing, and customer service teams are able to connect with buyers around the world. My team and I are here to answer any questions you may have. Can’t wait to hear what you think! David
Rudy Lee
@davidjnels Great work!
Andy Cook
Congratulations on the launch every one! Any plans to open up the platform to third party developer integrations like Intercom/Drift?
Dharmesh Shah
Maker
@andygcook Absolutely. Already having "conversations" about this (no pun intended). A major push for HubSpot over the next year is opening up and improving the platform.
Andy Cook
@dharmesh Can always rely on you for some creative wordplay :) Fantastic to hear about opening up the platform. Have integrated with quite a few at this point. Happy to chat about or test the developer ux anytime.
James Gilbert

It's also free so it is really easy to get started

Pros:

Awesome product to help manage multiple conversations and to ensure each one has the context to make them as engaging as possible.

Cons:

Nothing comes to mind

Felix Kaiser
Free as in nuts? That come with the five drinks you‘ve ordered and are paying? You do need a paid Hubspot subscription to get Conversations or am I reading this wrong?
Elise Beck
@felixkaiser Conversations is indeed free (and included when you sign up for HubSpot CRM). Get started with live chat, set up team email inboxes, and build lead qualification bots at no cost.
Meghan Keaney
@felixkaiser @elise_beck Just an addition to be clear - the HubSpot CRM is free too. so it's really really free - like a bar that gives away peanuts without any drink purchase at all - because peanuts are tasty.. Thanks for asking.
Felix Kaiser
Free as in beer then. I stand corrected, apologies!
Tarek Pertew

Hubspot is our CRM and it's been extremely useful. I'm very excited that they now have a customer chatbot to plug right into our CRM. I think this genuinely is going to help with our sales efforts.

Pros:

Just set it up in minutes. Already looks like a better alternative to Interrcom, which we are currently paying for.

Cons:

I haven't played with it enough yet to have any cons.

Steven Hambleton
I've used this for a week or so and I like it but here's some feedback - 1. As a small business, I have a unified mailbox that caters for all kinds of email. Being able to pull email only for specific aliases or Gmail folders would be great! 2. Messages is buried in Settings (multiple clicks). Seeing that you have to attach a bot to a Message in an Inbox, is there a way to surface this better in the menu? 3. The bot is really good but there's no method of switching to a bot if you're away, you don't reply within a set time, your calendar states you're busy or if it's out of business hours. Also no way to end questions of the user is just browsing (not a potential customer). 4. Upgrade path to more advanced bot features means paying big money on Hubspot Service Hub (AU$540/m!).
Kevin Fremon
Awesome!! I have been hearing about this left and right from Hubspot customers and have been so excited for it's release. Really excited to try it out. Great work guys! -Kevin (AkA HubspotHero)
David
Maker
@kevinfremon Great to hear Kevin! Let us know what you think!
Jacob Donnelly
Looks really great, but question ... If our website isn't built on HubSpot, can we still use this? We're built on WordPress.
Katja Ritchie
@jaycodon Hey Jacob, Katja here from HubSpot - absolutely. Here's more on how we integrate with WordPress: https://knowledge.hubspot.com/ar...
Jacob Donnelly
@katjaritchie Great, thanks. Looks like I will be playing around with this tonight.
Max Freiert
Maker
@jaycodon Sure can! We work with any set through a lightweight, embeddable script. You just need to add this snippet into your Wordpress templates or pages you'd like to load the Live Chat widget. When you set up your first chat, you'll see the embed script on the last step of set up. If you run into issues we've got some docs on installing the embed code here: https://knowledge.hubspot.com/ar...
Dharmesh Shah
Maker
@katjaritchie @jaycodon Thanks for trying it out. Look forward to hearing your honest opinions.
Derek Shanahan
How will this relate to pricing? CRM is totally free, I'd imagine this will have features behind paywalls? Also, one of the bigger pain points with live chat is how many tools offer almost no analytics to evaluate success - how's Hubspot approaching this?
Elise Beck
@dshan great question -- it's totally free to get started with Conversations as well. You'll get full access to live chat and team email and be able to build lead qualification bots at no cost. With a paid HubSpot account; you'll get some additional benefits... for example, with Sales Hub Starter and above you'll be able to automatically route incoming chats to your sales team. That said, there's actually a ton of value in the free product!
Patrick Joubert
Well done David and the team :)
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