Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The past week has seen two acquisition announcements in the B2B marketing automation space: LoopFuse by SalesFUSION and LeadRocket/Genius by CallidusCloud , which owns LeadFormix. Interestingly, both pursued a “freemium” strategy of offering their system for free to users with small databases.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

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 knows that, of course. But LoopFuse may have been more focused than anyone else.

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Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2013

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. Implementation services go beyond training to actually setting up initial marketing programs. It will continue to operate independently.

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Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 19, 2015

The only real question about free, open source marketing automation from Mautic is what took so long. 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. So the opportunity seems obvious.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 10, 2010

Today Genius.com announced a free version of their Marketing Automation system. Only about a month ago, Loopfuse also started offering a free version of their Marketing Automation system. What does this mean for companies interested in adopting Marketing Automation? How Much Is Free? Genius.com.

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Marketing Automation Services Loopfuse Marketing Automation LeadGenesys 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 11, 2011

Summary: Here's a closer look at revenue per employee and marketing automation revenue in general. Some of the comments on last week’s post on the size of the B2B marketing automation industry led me to dig a bit more deeply into the question of revenue per employee. So maybe let’s credit them with $10 million.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation ActiveConversion 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. What really got me thinking about this was prepping for a Webinar I’ll be giving next Wednesday on the future of marketing automation ( register here ). Why is this worrisome?

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