If Your Salesforce Renewal Feels Like a Battle, It’s Time for Change

What if you could cut your CRM Admin costs by up to 90% and actually enjoy using your platform?
Every year, the price climbs, the complexity grows, and your team spends more time managing systems than selling. What if you could cut your CRM Admin costs by up to 90% and actually enjoy using your platform? We're Inbound AV - two-time HubSpot Impact Award winners — and we've helped dozens of teams escape the Salesforce renewal trap without losing a single record
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The Hidden Tax You Pay Every Month
Most Salesforce users only see the license fees, but the real cost hides in daily inefficiencies and admin overhead.
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What You're Actually Paying For |
Salesforce Reality |
HubSpot Truth |
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Platform Licenses |
$150–$500+/user/month |
$45–$100/user/month |
|
Dedicated Admin Staff |
$$$$ |
$ to $$ |
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Developer Hours |
$15,000+/month for customizations |
Minimal — Custom Dev retainer & projects are 50%-70% lower than Salesforce |
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Integration Maintenance |
Constant breakage, custom code debt |
Native connections that just work |
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Training & Onboarding |
Weeks per new hire |
Hours with intuitive UI |
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"Surprise" Add-Ons |
CPQ, Pardot, extra storage, API calls |
Included in Marketing & Sales Hub |
Real Math for a 50-Person Sales Team
Salesforce
Annual Cost
~$285,000
- Licenses: $150,000
- Admin/Dev: $120,000
- Add-ons & Integrations: $15,000
HubSpot
Annual Cost
~$108,000
- Licenses: $72,000
- Monthly Admin/Dev Retainer: $36,000
Your Savings on Software: $177,000
40+% savings
How Much Time Has Salesforce Taken From Your Team?
Be honest. How many times this month have you thought:
❌ "I need to submit a ticket to the admin just to update a field?"
❌ "Why did this workflow break again after the last release?"
❌ "We can't make that change until Q3 when dev has bandwidth"
❌ "I'm afraid to click anything — I might break the whole org"
❌ "My reps spend more time fighting the CRM than selling"
This isn’t productivity. It feels like paralysis.
Real Teams. Real Relief. Real ROI.
We've migrated enterprise-level companies from Salesforce to HubSpot, and here's what happened:
Average cost reduction
in Year 1
Faster workflow changes
(days → hours)
Increase in CRM adoption rates
Data migration success rate
Excellent HubSpot Partner – Highly Recommend
Inbound AV helped us with our HubSpot implementation and CRM migration from ActiveCampaign, and supported us in setting up nurture sequences, automations, and dashboards for tracking and reporting. Peter and his team were consistently forthcoming with ideas, industry best practices, and wise counsel, which made a real difference for us. We could always count on their honesty and support, and it was clear that they prioritized our business and brought relevant experience to every conversation. Inbound AV has been a true partner, and I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for HubSpot expertise.
HubSpot Onboarding, Email Marketing, Programmable Automation, CRM Implementation, and CRM Migration
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Recruiting ServicesOutstanding support, performance, and delivery by a team of professionals
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AccountingFantastic support and thought leadership for any onboarding, implementation or enablement project
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We've been working with the team at Inbound AV for the year to help with our marketing, CRM and sales strategies. After working with different agencies we were recommended to Peter and his team. They provided clear solutions to our marketing needs and we've been working with them ever sense.Rudy Ordaz
REALTIME TechnologiesIncredible Experience with Inbound AV
My company engaged Inbound AV to help us with HubSpot implementation and training. From the very beginning, the team was very responsive, organized and knowledgeable. Above all, the delivered on what they promised, ahead of schedule, despite being encountered by a host of challenges with 3rd party system integrations.
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Frequently Asked Questions
There’s no catch as it’s more about efficiency, not shortcuts. Salesforce typically requires a full-time admin or developer just to manage customizations and maintenance. HubSpot is built to be self-sufficient. Most admin tasks like data updates, workflow edits, reporting etc. can be handled directly by your RevOps or marketing team, without writing a single line of code. When you factor in lower license costs, no required developers, and fewer maintenance hours, total admin overhead drops by up to 90%.
You won't. We've been doing Salesforce migrations for 7+ years with a 100% data integrity rate. We migrate to a test environment first, validate everything with your team, then go live only when you approve. Plus, you keep your Salesforce data as a backup during the transition period.
Probably better than Salesforce does. We’ve migrated complex orgs with deep custom logic, layered automation, and multiple integrations into cleaner, more maintainable HubSpot setups. HubSpot’s native tools cover 97–99% of what most businesses need, and for the rest, we build reliable custom integrations.
That said, for about 1–3% of enterprise businesses, HubSpot may not provide all third-party integrations that the business may need, and we’re upfront about that from the start. Our process always includes a technical review to confirm compatibility before you commit to migration.

