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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. Both of the acquired vendors had bright prospects at one time but fell by the wayside. Can they succeed where Genius and LoopFuse did not?

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

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Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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

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So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site. But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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Another Estimate of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue

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Looking through my files and asking a few questions, here are vendors for whom I have reasonably reliable information: This gives an average of $171,000 per employee. Indeed, the figure for the three slowest-growing companies (Unica, Aprimo and Alterian) comes to $194,000. This leaves all the other B2B marketing automation vendors.

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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

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The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. For example, LoopFuse found that nearly twice as many used email and web landing pages as lead scoring. Marketing automation vendors are painfully aware of these issues. ease of use.

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Are We Making Marketing Automation Harder Than Necessary?

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There are vendors on both sides of the argument. 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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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

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But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. The most notable is Eloqua, which as a public company has to report its results. Figures for other vendors are not publicly available but I've seen hints that several have slowed as well.