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Genius and LoopFuse Are Acquired; Leadsius Picks Up the Freemium Banner

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Will Marketing Automation Be Free?

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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. Tags: marketing automation genius.com loopfuse. How Much Is Free? Genius.com.

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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. So buying a couple of hours or days of service each month really does save time and money. It also gives access to more expertise than a small marketing department could ever build internally.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

The failure of freemium (though not open source) offerings from LoopFuse and Genius are strong evidence that being free is not enough. Starting this week, users can also buy a Pro version of AllydeMautic for $12 per month. See this post for more on that.) Or maybe it’s just a matter of timing.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. My own consideration set also includes Marketbright , Market2Lead , MarketingGenius , LeadLife , LoopFuse , LeadGenesys , , eTrigue and SalesFusion360 , although I haven't looked at all of those in detail.

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

We do, after all, want people to buy this thing. Yet there are so many more vendors I could add. How to choose? The general rule is pretty obvious: pick the vendors that people are most interested in. Of course, you want some wiggle room to add intriguing new products that they may not know about.

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Act-On Buys Marketbright Assets

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This contrasts with the high-tech, business-to-business marketers who still buy most marketing automation systems. In fact, the risk is so low that Act-On has actually reduced its free trial period from 30 days to 14 days and eschewed the freemium offers used by competitors Genius and LoopFuse.

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