Revenue architecture for internet service providers.

Second Mile connects HubSpot, serviceability, address data, buy flows, websites, and operational systems around the full subscriber lifecycle.

Connected to the broadband industry.

A Calix Select Partner, with ties to the associations that serve fiber and rural broadband providers.

  • HubSpot Media & Telecom Industry Specialist

  • Calix Select Partner

  • Fiber Broadband Association

  • NTCA The Rural Broadband Association

Each system keeps a clear job.

The same person can be a prospect at one address and a subscriber at another. We connect address, customer, and order data while keeping ownership clear across the website, HubSpot, and operational platforms.

  1. Acquire

    Customer experience

    Website, availability, offers, buy flow, forms, and customer communication.

    • Serviceable address to relevant offer
    • Qualified order and appointment handoff
  2. Coordinate

    Revenue coordination

    HubSpot lifecycle, campaigns, pipeline, service handoffs, reporting, and adoption.

    • Person, household, address, and marketing permissions in a shared record
    • Activity and lifecycle signals for marketing, sales, and service
  3. Fulfill and improve

    Operational truth

    Serviceability, network, billing, provisioning, order, and subscriber status.

    • Source-system ownership of availability, territory, and build status
    • Billing, service, and retention signals returned to reporting and automation

Relevant proof

Telecom context is already inside the work.

“I appreciate all that you’ve done for the Dobson Fiber team. Yesterday was a record ecommerce sales day here thanks to our workflows, HubSpot, and your work.”
Jeremy D.Dobson Fiber
Proof storyDobson FiberHubSpot, buy flow, operational integrations, and subscriber lifecycle work.Read the work
35%
Ecommerce conversion rate · Dobson Fiber
89%
Higher one-day order record · Dobson Fiber

How the work starts

Start where the subscriber journey breaks.

The CRM does not replace the OSS or BSS. Agree which system owns availability, billing, and subscriber status, and how exceptions will reach someone who can act.
  1. Map

    Name the unreliable handoff

    Map the source data, operating owner, and customer impact. Identify which system owns each fact before deciding what needs to move.
  2. Build

    Test real addresses and orders

    Build a first phase that can be tested against real addresses and orders, including the handoffs between the website, CRM, and operational systems.
  3. Adopt

    Put the workflow in the team's hands

    Train the people responsible for the new workflow. Make ownership and exceptions clear so the team knows who can act when a handoff needs attention.

Choose the next useful step

Find your next move.

We will help identify the operating question, the systems involved, and the smallest first phase that can make the architecture more dependable.

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Common questions

What makes HubSpot different for an ISP?

The customer is an address before it is a person. Serviceability, household, order status, and subscriber status all decide what marketing, sales, and service should do next, and a standard contact record holds none of it. We add a passings object for address-level data, ISP lifecycle stages, and the connections to billing and serviceability that keep them true.

Does HubSpot replace our billing system or OSS/BSS?

No. Billing, provisioning, and network systems keep owning availability, build status, and subscriber status. HubSpot receives those facts, uses them for marketing, sales, and service, and sends its own signals back. Deciding which system owns each fact is the first thing settled in discovery.

We already bought HubSpot and the team barely uses it. Where do we start?

With an audit of the portal you have. Most stalled ISP portals were set up around contacts and never matched how the company sells, so the team went back to spreadsheets. The audit shows what to keep, what to rebuild around the address, and what training each role needs, and it becomes the roadmap for the rest.

Can you connect our billing, serviceability, and provisioning platforms?

Usually, yes. We have connected HubSpot to NISC, Calix, Sonar, CrowdFiber, and VETRO, among others. Where a platform has no usable API we say so early and design around it, and where the data disagrees between systems we agree the rules for which one wins before anything is built.

Can we start with one service area?

Yes, and many engagements do. One market's pre-build campaign, one buy flow, or one lead-routing workflow is a good first phase because it can be tested against real addresses and orders. The scope stays where you put it. When clients expand later, it is because the map showed them something worth doing next.

How do you tie marketing spend to take rate?

Every campaign touch is recorded against the address as well as the contact, and serviceability and order status come from the source systems. That makes it possible to report take rate by campaign, channel, and area, and to show what a direct mail drop or a door-to-door push produced in the neighborhoods it reached.

Who monitors the integrations after launch?

That is agreed in handover. If you have in-house technical staff, we document the monitoring and hand it to them. If you do not, we strongly recommend a small maintenance and support engagement, because billing and serviceability platforms change on their own schedules and someone has to be watching.