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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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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. Land grab is common, where vendors lower prices to get customers on board.

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Silverpop's figures may also be inflated by its consumer email production business. ActiveConversion is not new but also has a low price point. Pardot and (perhaps) Genius.com look particularly strong.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Starting price is $30 per month after a 30 day free trial. According to CEO Clate Mask, most of the money will be used for acquisitions, product development, and accelerated customer acquisition. Only study I can find is from Loopfuse in 2011, which found just under 30% of marketing automation users do lead scoring.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Recognizing that buyers will use the chart to select products no matter what I tell them, I settled on dimensions that are directly related to the purchase process: - product fit , which assesses how well a product matches buyer needs. This is a combination of features, usability, technology, and price.