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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. David Hurley, the open source industry veteran behind Mautic, argues that marketing automation has just now become widely enough understood for many marketers to purchase it without a lengthy sales cycle.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Just kidding.or

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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. Marqui is a special case because they fell on financial hard times and the assets were recently purchased.) 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.

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Act-On Buys Marketbright Assets

Customer Experience Matrix

Act-On Software announced last week that they had purchased the assets of Marketbright , a pioneering marketing automation vendor that has struggled in recent years. The interesting question is why Act-On made the purchase. For what it’s worth, Genius and LoopFuse seem satisfied with their freemium results.

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How to Tailor Lead Nurturing Content to Suit Individual Personas

Hubspot

If this is the case, then why are only 49% of marketers taking advantage of lead nurturing tools , as evident by Loopfuse's Marketing Automation Study ? Most sales cycles can universally be boiled down to 3 distinct stages in the sales cycle: awareness , evaluation , and purchase. And so on and so forth. Make sense?

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

In fact, 88% said Web sites were important in helping them decide what to buy. Users can query this widget to find out more about these visitors and decide if they want to purchase full business contact information. The data has to flow back and forth and not dirty up the pipeline with raw leads.

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SMB Marketing Automation: Getting Started with Content Strategy

NuSpark Consulting

Many of these firms are excited to have a tool such as Act-On, Hubspot, Loopfuse, Mindmatrix, Net-Results, Infusionsoft, and countless other platforms. Likewise if you don’t have marketing automation, then you’re not sending quality content to prospects when they move through the buying cycle, and thus you’re missing sales opportunities.

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