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Genius and LoopFuse Are Acquired; Leadsius Picks Up the Freemium Banner

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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

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The “human support” group believes this level of automation isn’t practical or desirable, and instead focuses on building service organizations to train marketers and, when necessary, do the work for them. 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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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

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On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Are We Making Marketing Automation Harder Than Necessary?

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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. Users have to do the hard work of matching the system to their particular needs and style.

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Multi-Step Campaign Interfaces: A Quick Vendor Survey

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My own opinion is quite firm: flow charts don't work. The area where this comes up more often than any other is the design of multi-step campaign flows. There are two basic approaches to this: use a flow chart, or present a list of steps. They look good in demonstrations and can lay out simple processes quite nicely.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

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The failure of freemium (though not open source) offerings from LoopFuse and Genius are strong evidence that being free is not enough. I do have some quibbles – most annoyingly, objects like emails and contact records open in a “view” rather than “edit” mode, so an extra mouse click is almost always needed to get real work done.

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

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. - Facebook forms: use forms within Facebook pages and apps to gather customer permissions - social sign-in: use social media sign-in services to replace marketing automation forms - personalized Facebook ads : display different ad versions on a Facebook page based on the user’s profile, including both Facebook and non-Facebook data Marketo - sharing: (..)