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

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Starting price is $30 per month after a 30 day free trial. The investment can be read as validation of Infusionsoft’s strategy of offering unified marketing automation, CRM, and ecommerce exclusively for very small businesses. This comes two weeks after Infusionsoft raised $54 million in new funding.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

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The core features of B2B marketing automation have been well understood for nearly ten years and prices have been dropping steadily for about the same time. The failure of freemium (though not open source) offerings from LoopFuse and Genius are strong evidence that being free is not enough. See this post for more on that.)

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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

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For example, LoopFuse reported 42% of respondents had marketing automation in place, a Forrester study reported 45% use among B2B enterprise marketers, and the Lenskold Group found 70% marketing automation usage.* We’ve recently been seeing surveys that suggest something close to 50% adoption of marketing automation.