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

Customer Experience Matrix

TechCrunch reported rumors that the company paid $25-$30 million for GroSocial alone, but that seems high to me.) The company has alternated between charging an implementation fee and not charging for it – and determined that a paid fee, and the more extensive hand-holding this permits, is more effective at building a long-term business.

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Another Estimate of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue

Customer Experience Matrix

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. That’s pretty darn close to my $200,000 standard.

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A Primer on Website Visitor ID and Smart Form Technology for Lead Generation

NuSpark Consulting

There’s a technology available that identifies company and prospect visitors to your websites, landing pages, and forms. Taking it to the next level, tools and platforms exist that cross-reference the IP visitor with company ID if known, and in the case of a web form, prospect ID. Here’s an example of Loopfuse Marketing Automation.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

It lets marketers or sales people specify companies and individuals to monitor, and then scans media including social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook), public forums (blogs, wikis, Diggs, Twitter), paid sources (D&B, Zoom, Jigsaw,) and Web pages for information about those entities.

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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

Customer Experience Matrix

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).

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LoopFuse Offers No-Frills Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: LoopFuse offers attractive but limited demand generation functions at an easy-to-swallow price. It’s been nearly a year since I took my first close look at the LoopFuse OneView demand generation system. Leads enter LoopFuse lead flows when they join the associated recipient list. The system stores one score per lead.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey - Background Results

Customer Experience Matrix

nbr responses vendor 8 Marketo 6 Eloqua 3 Genius.com 3 LoopFuse 3 Pardot 2 Market2Lead 2 Treehouse Interactive 1 eTrigue 1 Vtrenz (Silverpop) 7 No Response 36 Another intriguing bit of contextual information is the deployment date of the systems. There was actually another dated 6/01/2208, which I treated as 2008.