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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

Customer Experience Matrix

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Infusionsoft today announced it has acquired social lead generation vendor GroSocial. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results.

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Will Marketing Automation Be Free?

LeadSloth

Only about a month ago, Loopfuse also started offering a free version of their Marketing Automation system. Let’s first look at the features of the free versions: Loopfuse. And of course, that’s what Loopfuse and Genius.com hope for. There may be too much cost in the vendor’s business model (e.g.

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

Customer Experience Matrix

Alexa is a crude measure for many reasons -- although I do think the rankings correlate roughly with a vendor's volume of business and marketing actvitiy, I wouldn't go much further. Silverpop's figures may also be inflated by its consumer email production business. David) There are no huge surprises.

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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

Customer Experience Matrix

On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Small businesses constantly cite cost as a major roadblock to adoption. The failure of freemium (though not open source) offerings from LoopFuse and Genius are strong evidence that being free is not enough. But first let me cover one more business issue, which is that there are two ways to get Mautic.

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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

Customer Experience Matrix

For example, LoopFuse found that nearly twice as many used email and web landing pages as lead scoring. As you might expect, this approach is most common among at the small business end of the marketing automation spectrum: Genoo , MakesBridge , and OfficeAutoPilot are good examples. full service.