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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system.

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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

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Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. This is a combination of features, usability, technology, and price.

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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. Starting price is $30 per month after a 30 day free trial. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. It will continue to operate independently.

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

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Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

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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. Small businesses constantly cite cost as a major roadblock to adoption. But first let me cover one more business issue, which is that there are two ways to get Mautic.

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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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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

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One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. The systems have very low starting prices tailored to low volumes.