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MakesBridge Offers Powerful Features to Small Business Marketers

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Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. I’ve previously reviewed Genoo , which supplements the standard marketing automation features with Web hosting and built-in CRM but no shopping cart. MakesBridge is another contender.

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ICON16: How Infusionsoft Plans To Dominate Small Business Marketing (and Make Life Better For Small Businesses Everywhere)

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These changes were evolutionary at best, but company leaders made clear this was on purpose: their current strategy is to make small improvements to ease of use, not add major new or deeper features. One possible inference is that Infusionsoft would need a much lower-priced offering to reach that many customers.

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Infusionsoft: Impressive Marketing Power for a Very Low Price

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But most of us still assume there is a reasonable relationship between price and value. This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. If advanced lead scoring or Salesforce.com integration are show stoppers for you, then read no further.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

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Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com.

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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

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million in cash, a premium of 48% over their stock market price. x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. Salesforce.com synch is bi-directional and works with lead and contact records.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

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Options range from fairly simple, moderately priced systems targeted at midmarket companies to sophisticated suites for enterprise users. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: $200 to $2,400 per month, plus option add-ons; the $800 per month “Pro” option is most popular with midmarket companies. Pricing: free.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

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Pardot and other SMB systems don’t just offer a few simple features. The only common feature that’s missing in Pardot is rule-based branching within multi-step programs. But I didn’t check Pardot against my full list of possible features, so don’t get the impression that it does everything. Enterprise dichotomy isn’t enough.