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

Customer Experience Matrix

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. Implementation services go beyond training to actually setting up initial marketing programs.

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Another Estimate of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue

Customer Experience Matrix

The survey for my up-coming report has employee counts, client counts and minimum prices for quite a few: OfficeAutoPilot, True Influence, Pardot, LoopFuse, Net Results, Manticore, Silverpop, Genius, LeadFormix,TreeHouse Interactive, SalesFUSION, and Marketbright. This leaves all the other B2B marketing automation vendors.

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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. I suspect that’s true but still wonder whether those buyers will know how to use a system effectively once they get it. See this post for more on that.) Or maybe it’s just a matter of timing.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

From a prioritization standpoint, that's effectively useless. We consistently found that if you ask people to rate features as "must have" "desirable" and "not needed", 95% of requirements are rated as “must have”. categories with many factors are overweighted. I excluded HubSpot because it is a fundamentally different product.)

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How to Excel With the Most Underused Marketing Automation Features

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From the results of its Marketing Automation Survey last year, Loopfuse released some interesting data about the adoption of advanced marketing automation features. So if it's so effective and easy to maintain, then why are only 49% of marketers utilizing this wonderful tool? The Challenges.