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

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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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Another Estimate of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue

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Given that these are fast-growing companies and the employee counts were based on figures for September or later, the average headcount through the course of the year was lower, meaning the revenue per full-time-equivalent employee would be higher – probably not so far from my $200,000 figure. That yields $56 million.

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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

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For example, LoopFuse found that nearly twice as many used email and web landing pages as lead scoring. HubSpot is following this approach most aggressively although others are also applying it in places. Although I’ve associated specific vendors with each strategy, the reality is that most companies apply a mix of several.

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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

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This is a combination of company size, client base, and financial resources. In the interest of simplicity, my three charts will address marketers at small, medium and big companies. In practice, we all know that some small companies are very sophisticated marketers and some big companies are not.

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Are We Making Marketing Automation Harder Than Necessary?

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The company’s press release puts the key claim succinctly: “ The Act-On Integrated Marketing Platform disrupts the conventional wisdom that companies need marketing automation solutions that are expensive, complex, and require significant services engagements to get them up and running.”

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

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Social media monitoring: watching social media for mentions of the company or other topics and responding when appropriate. The features fell into four broad categories: • Basic posting and sharing: the most common features and the simplest level of social media marketing.

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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

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The most notable is Eloqua, which as a public company has to report its results. For example, LoopFuse reported 42% of respondents had marketing automation in place, a Forrester study reported 45% use among B2B enterprise marketers, and the Lenskold Group found 70% marketing automation usage.* million vs. 39.6 million).