TalentLMS vs. HubSpot Academy

TalentLMS is excellent for quick microlearning since it offers a comprehensive library of courses on various topics. For own classes, their editor is straightforward to use and efficient + it provides a good mix of interactive elements, like the option to use screenshots with interactive annotations. It is not the best solution if you want highly granular data on how your users are doing (on the "new UI"). However, from what I've been told, they are looking into that. Their out-of-the-box courses are not intended to be stand-alone learning material, so don't expect that.

Incentivized

[HubSpot Academy is] just a great tool for everyone who wants to grow at their Marketing, Sales, or customer success career. Their courses are very detailed in information, their teachers are the best in the industry, and it's just easy to take some time and learn. I have enjoyed it a lot.

Incentivized

• Assign a predefined route to a certain place
• User interface is very good and clean
• Very effective user experience
• Issues or problems are handled rapidly by their customer support team

Incentivized

• Marketing and sales tips that can be implemented right away
• Virtual learning environment that offers flexibility
• Certified training respected in the sales vertical
• Free to those who use HubSpot CRM
• Clear, concise courses
• Expanded library of sales and marketing courses

Incentivized

• We have courses that are required for each employee based on their job title, and then, many courses we consider to be elective for that job title. We have not found a method to distinguish between those in order to view an employee's performance on required courses only.
• Reports are only available by user ID or user name. We have some facilities or managers who need the user ID (based on payroll entry) and some that need names (employees they interact with each day).

Incentivized

• [I feel] they could expand the lessons to more real-world examples and ideas to take the learning further
• [I believe] the ability to go back on a question in the exam would be nice
• New courses that go more in depth on a certain topic, with homework and ideas to try

Incentivized

We have not had any problems with TalentLMS. It has worked well for all of our employees.

Incentivized

The support team is fantastic, whether through live chat, ticket logging, or discussions with our customer relationship manager. Their knowledge of the product is great, and they are always more than willing to walk you through a process and provide links to self-study as an Admin. The knowledge base is also fantastic and detailed.

Incentivized

We had no problems at all with the implementation. That being said, we did not have too much to properly implement content-wise since we had no prior LMS. After we activated, we mostly started creating or porting content manually. The overall account setup is straightforward and out of the box, making the implementation very quick. SSO works flawlessly as well.

Incentivized

Both are good, but the pricing and general value proposition of Talent LMS are better than Trainual in my opinion. Trainual is a bit more modern and cleaner looking from a user interface perspective, but it comes at a higher cost. Both platforms provide very similar features in the way of general functionality and user experience, but Talent LMS wins because of its better pricing model.

Incentivized

HubSpot CRM is a better fit for us than Ontraport. Ontraport was OK when we just started implementing email marketing. Now that we want to tie together sales and marketing and also our ticketing, HubSpot has simplified the workflow for us. It's very convenient to log into just one portal to do everything.

Incentivized

• Dramatically more cost-effective than alternatives, with greater feature sets. Made our eCommerce training deployment a breeze. Hard to attribute an ROI to just the LMS specifically but it would be a high multiple in a period of just a few months.

Incentivized

• Removed the training burden from managers to allow them to use the time elsewhere (2-8 hours)
• Provided more standard and robust training to new hires, allowing for more consistent customer experience

Incentivized