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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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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system.

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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

Customer Experience Matrix

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Will Marketing Automation Be Free?

LeadSloth

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. There may be too much cost in the vendor’s business model (e.g.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Small businesses constantly cite cost as a major roadblock to adoption. This made commercial products more financially attractive to potential developers and probably scared off others who couldn’t compete for attention on an open-source shoestring. What about the product itself? So the opportunity seems obvious.

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Are We Making Marketing Automation Harder Than Necessary?

Customer Experience Matrix

And, while Act-On, Net-Results and Marketbright all argue that their systems are substantially easier to use than products like Pardot, Marketo and LoopFuse, those vendors surely disagree. I’m not sure that whoever speaks for “conventional wisdom” would agree that marketing automation solutions must be expensive and complex.