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

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Infusionsoft today announced it has acquired social lead generation vendor GroSocial. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. This makes the strategy more appropriate for small marketing automation vendors who can't afford huge technology investments.

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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. Mautic certainly has an appeal for service vendors, since it removes the cost of payments to a HubSpot or Infusionsoft.

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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

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But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. Figures for other vendors are not publicly available but I've seen hints that several have slowed as well. If true, these figures would actually be bad news for marketing automation vendors.