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HubSpot migration from ION: Revolutionizing real estate sales operations

  • Real estate sector
  • Company size: Medium-sized company (200+ employees)
  • Services: Salesforce to HubSpot migration and integration
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Summary

ION overcame complex CRM limitations and marketing inefficiencies with a strategic migration to HubSpot. Now equipped with unified marketing and sales operations, ION can accelerate its growth in Belgium's competitive real estate market while maintaining seamless back-office continuity.

Unified marketing and sales operations
Streamlining business processes
Improved data quality and efficiency
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The challenge

What held ADXpert back?

ADXpert, a leading career counseling company, was stuck.

Although the company provided world-class employee satisfaction and reintegration services, its marketing efforts were falling short.

The team had the necessary expertise, but lacked the right tools and framework to share it with the world.

  • Sampling and innovation
  • Growth and development
  • Cultivate and enjoy

The challenge

When industrial leadership creates digital friction

ION, one of Belgium's leading real estate developers, is renowned for the innovation and quality of its living and working spaces. With over 200 team members, ION undertakes a variety of projects across Belgium, from development to B2C sales. But internally, its sales teams were facing daily operational hurdles that were slowing down their responsiveness to the market.

Managing complex CRM data

ION's sales team had to contend with the limitations of Salesforce's data quality, which made it difficult to retain accurate prospect information and track deal progress effectively. Manual data entry and inconsistent formatting created gaps in customer knowledge.

Marketing automation bottlenecks

Pardot's complexity prevented the marketing team from executing timely campaigns and nurturing leads effectively. The platform's limitations hampered their ability to create sophisticated buying paths for different property types and market segments.

Disconnected department operations

The lack of harmonization between sales and marketing resulted in missed opportunities and redundant efforts. Sales reps couldn't access marketing engagement data, while marketing had limited visibility into sales results and feedback.

More than just a system migration

ION needed more than a simple replacement of one CRM with another, it needed a complete business transformation that would enable it to

  • integrate seamlessly with existing Salesforce back-office operations
  • Enable real-time collaboration between marketing and sales teams
  • Streamline complex event management for property launches
  • Maintain data integrity during high-stakes migration processes
high-level solution

How we do it

Strategic migration with seamless integration

We developed a comprehensive migration strategy that preserved ION's operational continuity while transforming its business capabilities. Our approach focused on maintaining established back-office processes while revolutionizing front-end operations.

1. Process discovery and mapping

We carried out a detailed analysis of ION's existing Salesforce architecture and Pardot workflows. Elixir helped us by first and foremost describing the process and relationships between objects, ensuring that we understood every data connection and business rule before starting the migration.

2. Data migration and configuration in stages

We tackled each stage with experts: data mapping, migration of forms and workflows, marketing set-up, sales set-up and personalized event management. This methodical approach ensured accurate data transfer while building robust HubSpot configurations tailored to real estate sales cycles.

3. Strategic system integration

We established a sophisticated integration between HubSpot and Salesforce, allowing the back office to remain in the familiar Salesforce environment while enabling sales teams to benefit from HubSpot's intuitive interface and advanced marketing capabilities.

4. Team empowerment and training

We organized comprehensive integration sessions that gave ION's marketing and sales teams the skills they needed to maximize HubSpot's potential. Our training focused on real estate-specific use cases and collaborative workflows between departments.

Maintaining operational stability during digital transformation

ION faced a major challenge: how to modernize its business operations without disrupting the established systems that kept the company running smoothly.

Their transformation required

  • complex financial tracking of multiple projects
  • detailed project management workflows
  • Strict documentation of regulatory compliance
  • Zero tolerance for system downtime during property launches

The solution had to be a hybrid approach that preserved what worked while transforming what needed improvement.

Front-end transformation: Marketing and sales teams were given access to HubSpot's intuitive platform, enabling seamless collaboration and modern lead management capabilities.

Back-end continuity: Finance, administration and project management teams continued to use their usual Salesforce environment, without workflow disruption.

Seamless connection Real-time data synchronization ensures that customer information, transaction progress and project updates flow instantly between the two systems.

Real estate-specific benefits This approach recognizes the unique complexity of real estate transactions, where multiple stakeholders require different types of information at different stages. ION teams can now focus on what they do best: creating exceptional properties and customer experiences, while technology takes care of the behind-the-scenes coordination.

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Main results

ION's digital transformation streamlines day-to-day processes, minimizing complexities and optimizing resource utilization. Marketing and sales teams now operate on a unified platform that facilitates seamless collaboration, while maintaining the operational stability of their existing back-office systems.

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The impact

What success looks like

When our marketing and sales teams felt the need for a more intuitive CRM system to cover our lead generation process, we knew Hubspot would fit the bill. However, finding the right implementation partner wasn't easy, given the tight timeframe and complex Salesforce configuration. Elixir helped us by first defining the process and the relationships between objects, then tackling each track with experts: data mapping, migration of forms and workflows, marketing implementation, sales implementation and personalized event management. Deadlines were met, and overall we're satisfied with the responsiveness and speed with which Elixir's experts accomplished their mission.
Vermandere, P.
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