Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The past week has seen two acquisition announcements in the B2B marketing automation space: LoopFuse by SalesFUSION and LeadRocket/Genius by CallidusCloud , which owns LeadFormix. Can they succeed where Genius and LoopFuse did not? Both of the acquired vendors had bright prospects at one time but fell by the wayside.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 19, 2015

Or perhaps people felt that the real barriers to adoption were lack of time and skills, so even a free product would not unlock a large new segment of customers. The failure of freemium (though not open source) offerings from LoopFuse and Genius are strong evidence that being free is not enough. See this post for more on that.)

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