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

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The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. The investment can be read as validation of Infusionsoft’s strategy of offering unified marketing automation, CRM, and ecommerce exclusively for very small businesses.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

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Small businesses constantly cite cost as a major roadblock to adoption. The failure of freemium (though not open source) offerings from LoopFuse and Genius are strong evidence that being free is not enough. The glaring omissions such as CRM, ecommerce, and social are provided through integrations.

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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.