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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. It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. LoopFuse knows that, of course.

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Multi-Step Campaign Interfaces: A Quick Vendor Survey

Customer Experience Matrix

Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. I say this with the fervor of a reformed sinner, since for many years I looked at flow charts as the mark of an advanced marketing automation system.

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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

Customer Experience Matrix

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. 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. That means even the absolute increase was down: $11.2

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider.

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Act-On Buys Marketbright Assets

Customer Experience Matrix

Act-On Software announced last week that they had purchased the assets of Marketbright , a pioneering marketing automation vendor that has struggled in recent years. He made clear that the actual Marketbright software will not be merged into Act-On because they are built with different technologies.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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SMB Marketing Automation: Getting Started with Content Strategy

NuSpark Consulting

This same concept can be applied to marketing automation for small and mid-size business. I’ve been hired my firms past and current with the challenge to generate quality leads and manage marketing automation drip campaigns. Leads don’t happen overnight, especially if your marketing budget is moderate.

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