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Infusionsoft Gains $54 Million for Small Business Marketing Automation, Spends a Bunch on GroSocial

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The investment can be read as validation of Infusionsoft’s strategy of offering unified marketing automation, CRM, and ecommerce exclusively for very small businesses. Only study I can find is from Loopfuse in 2011, which found just under 30% of marketing automation users do lead scoring. But I’m pretty sure there are others.

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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

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In actual dollars, the $250 million gain is much larger than the $175 million growth in 2012. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. Its year-on-year revenue was up 42% in first half of 2012 ($45 million vs. $31.7