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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

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Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. In actual dollars, the $250 million gain is much larger than the $175 million growth in 2012. Its year-on-year revenue was up 42% in first half of 2012 ($45 million vs. $31.7 million vs. 39.6

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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. That third theory – let’s call it the “ease of use” school – has been the dominant approach of the B2B marketing automation industry for the past few years.