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This glossary explains the key HubSpot, RevOps, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success terms in clear, practical language. Written by an Elite HubSpot Partner.

 

HubSpot Ecosystem Terminology

HubSpot CRM

CRM: Customer Relationship Management. HubSpot’s central database that stores and connects all contact, company, deal, ticket and custom object data.

Objects

The core data types in HubSpot: Contacts, Companies, Deals, Tickets and Custom Objects.

Properties

Individual data fields inside each object e.g. Lifecycle Stage, Deal Amount, Ticket Priority.

Lifecycle Stages

HubSpot’s customer journey model: Subscriber → Lead → MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead) → SQL (Sales Qualified Lead) → Opportunity → Customer → Evangelist.

Lead Status

Sales-focused qualification markers used to track engagement and progress, such as New, Attempted to Contact, Nurturing, or Connected.

Workflows

Automated processes that update properties, trigger emails, create tasks, move records, and streamline operations.

Sequences

Personalised, automated one-to-one sales outreach made up of timed emails, tasks, and follow-ups.

Lists

Dynamic or static segmentations of objects for reporting, workflows, onboarding or campaigns.

Pipeline

A structured set of stages used to manage Deals, Tickets, or Custom Objects, such as Sales, Renewals, or Onboarding pipelines.

Custom Objects

User-defined data objects created to store structured information unique to a business, such as Projects, Subscriptions, or Assets.

Gantt View (Projects)

A timeline view that displays project milestones, dependencies, and progress across time.

Customer Success Workspace

A dedicated area for managing Customer Success activity, including tasks, SLAs, renewals, account health, and Projects.

 

Sale, Marketing, Service Hub Terminology

Sales Hub

Deal

A revenue opportunity tracked through a defined sales process.

Deal Stage

The defined steps of your sales pipeline, such as Discovery, Scoping, Proposal, Closed Won.

Forecasting

Revenue predictions based on pipeline data and rep-owned forecasts.

Playbooks

On screen guides that support sales conversations with talk tracks, frameworks such as BANT or MEDDIC, and structured note taking.

Lead Scoring

Rules that assign points to contacts based on behaviour and fit to indicate sales readiness.

Tasks

Action items for sales reps, such as follow-ups, calls and reminders.

Quotes

Sales proposals generated in HubSpot using product libraries, pricing rules, and e-signature functionality.

Marketing Hub

MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead)

A contact identified by marketing as ready for sales based on behaviour, profile, and scoring criteria.

Attribution

Analytics showing which channels, assets and interactions influenced conversions.

Campaigns

A tracking container that links marketing assets to a single initiative with consolidated reporting.

Forms

Tools that capture contact data and trigger lists (segments), workflows or qualification rules.

Landing Pages

Focused conversion pages designed to capture leads for campaigns or sales funnels.

UTM Tracking

Link parameters used to measure campaign performance across external channels.

Service Hub

Ticket

A record representing a customer request, issue, onboarding task, or success activity.

SLA (Service Level Agreement)

Response and resolution time targets used to measure service performance.

Knowledge Base

A searchable library of self-service help articles for customers.

Customer Portal

A secure login area where customers can view and manage their tickets.

NPS (Net Promoter Score)

A survey that measures how likely customers are to recommend your company.

CSAT (Customer Satisfaction Score)

A survey measuring satisfaction with a specific interaction or support experience.

Content Hub

Smart Content

Dynamic content that personalises modules, CTAs, copy or images based on contact behaviour, list membership, or lifecycle stage.

A/B Testing

Testing variations of landing pages, emails, website pages or CTAs to improve engagement and conversions.

CTA Tool

HubSpot’s system for designing, embedding and tracking Call-To-Action buttons or banner-style links.

Brand Kit

A tool within Content Hub that stores brand colours, typography, logos and visual rules so all content remains consistent across teams.

Content Remix (AI)

AI powered feature that repurposes long form content (blogs, guides, webinars) into short form assets such as social posts, emails or landing page sections.

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Rev-Ops Terminology

Revenue Operations (RevOps)

A strategy that unifies Marketing, Sales and Customer Success through shared processes, systems and data.

RevOps Audit

A structured review of your CRM setup, automation, reporting and cross-team alignment.

Funnel Analysis

Tracking conversion rates between lifecycle stages or sales pipeline steps.

Data Enrichment

Enhancing contacts or company records with third party or AI driven data sources.

Handover

The process of transferring ownership of leads or customers between teams (e.g., Marketing → Sales → Customer Success).

Enablement

Training, content, workflows and tools designed to improve commercial team performance.

Revenue Reporting

Dashboards analysing pipeline health, forecast accuracy, ROI, churn and retention.

Customer Success Terminology

Renewal Pipeline

A dedicated pipeline used to track renewals and proactively prevent churn.

Health Score

A composite metric combining engagement, usage, sentiment, and support activity to assess churn risk.

Onboarding Plan

A structured project with milestones and dependencies for implementing a new customer, typically built using Projects.

Success Plan

A shared roadmap of goals, KPIs, and activities aligned to long-term customer outcomes.

QBR (Quarterly Business Review)

A structured review meeting covering performance, results, challenges, and future priorities.

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HubSpot AI Terminology

Breeze AI

HubSpot’s unified AI layer that powers content creation, reporting, analytics, CRM automation, summarisation, and data clean up across all Hubs.

AI Agents (Beta)

Autonomous agents that can handle tasks such as ticket responses, email replies, lead qualification and knowledge base suggestions.

AI Conversation Summary

Automatically summarises calls, emails, notes, and ticket threads, highlighting key actions and follow-ups.

AI Deal Health / Deal Insights (Beta)

Identifies at-risk deals based on inactivity, low engagement, missing next steps, or negative sentiment.

AI Ticket Routing

Automatically categorises and routes tickets based on sentiment, urgency, topic and historical patterns.

Predictive Forecasting

AI-powered revenue predictions that analyse trends, rep behaviour and historical pipeline accuracy.

AI-Powered Reporting (Insights)

Natural-language reporting where you ask a question (“Which campaigns drove SQLs last quarter?”) and HubSpot generates the report.

AI Knowledge Base Suggestions

Automatically recommends help articles to customers based on ticket keywords and conversation history.

AI Lead Scoring / Predictive Scoring

Machine learning models that score contacts and companies based on likelihood to convert or buy, more advanced than rules based scoring.

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