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Wednesday Wisdom: It’s Here - Introducing the 2024 Global B2B Buyer Experience Report
Hi all, The 6sense Research team is incredibly happy to announce the release of our 2024 Global B2B Buyer Experience Report. In its second year, this research has grown both in scale and scope, with more respondents and the inclusion of buyers across the globe. What began last year with insights from nearly 1,000 B2B…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The 2024 Account-Based Marketing Benchmark (New!)
Hi all, We are thrilled to announce the release of another benchmark report. A few weeks ago, we launched our B2B Buyer Identification Benchmark, followed by the B2B Marketing Attribution and Contribution Benchmark last week. The first report answers: How are revenue teams approaching the market? How do they identify…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The 2024 B2B Marketing Attribution and Contribution Benchmark (New!)
Hi all, We're really excited to announce that we've just released 6sense Research's 2024 B2B Marketing Attribution and Contribution Benchmark Report. It's our second year doing this research and there are both some important differences and similarities to last year. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. And,…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The Lead-Based Approach Has Failed Us: It's Time to Move On
Hi all, We have an incredibly rich resource to share with you today. The Lead-Based Approach Has Failed Us: It's Time to Move On, written by @Kerry Cunningham, is a guide created to provide you with the insights to advocate for change within your organization. For too long, many have operated in a disconnect between what…
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Wednesday Wisdom: New Resource - A Guide to Statistics for B2B Revenue Teams
Hey all, One of our goals at 6sense Research is to make our research accessible to everyone. We want our audience – you – to engage with our research, understand and have full visibility into our findings. One of our initiatives to support this goal has been underway for the last several months, and we could not be more…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Some Buying Cycles Are Longer Than Others (and much longer than they need to be)
As this image attests, bigger deals have longer buying cycles. The thing is, we mostly want bigger deals, so as we try to make deals bigger we also extend decision timing. But, as it turns out, deal size is NOT the biggest driver of cycle length. Want to know what is? It is fascinating and will surprise you. It's also…
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Metric Monday: Why we care about BDR's feelings.
We've talked before about our BDR Support Index. It's a measure made up from 4 items in our BDR survey. The questions measure: 1. Do I know what's expected of me? 2. Do I believe I can do what's expected of me? 3. Does leadership think my role matters to the business? 4. Do I think my role will help me get where I want to…
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Counting down to this year’s Buyer Experience Research - what do winning vendors have in common?
What do winning vendors almost always have? Prior experience with the buyer. And it goes deeper than brand familiarity. Our third annual Global Buyer Experience Study, based on the experiences of 4,000+ B2B buyers, lays bare just how much past relationships shape vendor selection. The full report comes out next week on…
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Wednesday Wisdom: MQLs - Like Printing Money
Love this piece from @Kerry! In MQLs: Like Printing Money Kerry discusses how one of B2B’s earliest breakthroughs — the form-fill — slowly lost its meaning. What started as a genuine signal of buying intent became something we learned to manufacture at scale, but can hardly be considered a true buying signal anymore. Why…
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Counting down to this year’s Buyer Experience research - most wins trace back to Day 1
Yes, we're counting down! We’re just two and a bit weeks away from sharing our third year of Buyer Experience research — and this year’s findings add even more dimension to what happens before sellers get involved. In fact, most B2B wins trace back to Day 1 🙊 (let’s be real — even before Day 1). Much of the shortlist is…
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The Countdown Is On: 2025 B2B Buyer Experience Report
It's our favorite time of year over here at the Science of B2B — our 3rd year of Buyer Experience research (from 4,000+ B2B buyers) is available in just a little over three weeks! New questions asked and answered in this year's research with tons of interesting findings — especially around AI! And it turned out to be…
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Metric Monday: B2B Email Response Rates - Rise and Reply ☀️
Hi everyone, Happy (Metric) Monday ☕️ Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at B2B email reply rates from ~ 625,000 emails sent in the first half of 2025. These messages span recipients across North America, APAC, and EMEA, with all times adjusted to each recipient’s local region. Replies follow the clock —…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Introducing...Lies My Marketing Experience Told Me (video series)
Hi everyone, @Kerry hasn’t just been turning out the 🔥 written content — he’s also been busy on the mic 🎤. Our Head of Research has a new video series: Lies My Marketing Experience Told Me. Each episode features B2B go-to-market leaders sharing “truths” they once believed—but don’t anymore—and the perspectives that changed…
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Metric Monday: More on B2B Email Reply Rates - Is Friday the Sweet Spot?
Hey all, Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been digging into data from ~625,000 emails sent in the first half of 2025. In the Americas, reply rates dip slightly on Thursdays but then uptick on Fridays — looks like inboxes open up just as the weekend’s about to begin! @Kerry
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Wednesday Wisdom: The Imaginary Buyer at the Heart of Our Ineffective Marketing
Love this one from @Kerry! 👉 The Imaginary Buyer at the Heart of Our Ineffective Marketing Buying is so much more complex than we often portray it — and when you put yourself in those buying shoes, so many things become blindly obvious. Do you fill out forms? I avoid them whenever I can. Would you commit your company to a…
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Metric Monday: How long should my subject line be? B2B Email Response Rates
Hey all—still digging into those ~625,000 emails from the first half of 2025 (see last week's post). Subject lines with fewer than 5 words got the highest response rates. Think about how you might be able to minimize :) less is more, they say! @Kerry
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Wednesday Wisdom: Becoming Connoisseurs of the B2B Signal Gradient (an article)
Kerry never fails to give a good analogy! In his latest article, our head of research @Kerry compares B2B marketing to single-celled organisms. Amoebas sense and respond to their environment — moving toward nutrients, away from toxins, and adjusting constantly. Most marketing teams, by contrast, have operated in “transmit…
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Metric Monday: Who Replies Most? Email Response Rates by Seniority
Hey all—we recently got our hands on data from ~625,000 emails sent in the first half of 2025. Lots of interesting findings we’re excited to share. If you want an answer, looks like managers are your best bet! @Kerry
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Wednesday Wisdom: Introducing the Statistically Speaking Video Series
Hey all, I’m excited to share the first episode of a new video series from the 6sense Research team: Statistically Speaking, co-hosted by myself and our Head of Research, @Kerry. Short, plain-English episodes about the benchmarks and headlines we all run into every day. We unpack common statistical misconceptions, look at…
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Metric Monday: Today’s Buyers Have High Expectations for AI — Q: With or Without the Extra Cost?
Saw this meme👇️ earlier on LinkedIn and our latest research points in much the same direction 🤪 - I'd add one more panel that says “And we want it for free.” When we surveyed marketing leaders earlier this year, about half had a dedicated budget for AI. Yet in our most recent Buyer Experience study (details coming soon 😉),…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Who doesn’t love a tidy story?
Who doesn't love a tidy story? In B2B, we love a tale about how a deal came together - the heroic sales call, the perfect piece of content, the one touchpoint that 'made it happen'. They’re comforting. They give us something to point to. We’ve all told them at one point or another. But more often than not, they are just…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Intent Data Part 2: Why Sales Hates It (and Why That Makes Sense)
A couple weeks ago, I shared an article written by our head of research @Kerry arguing why intent data should not be called intent at all, but rather signals (highly recommend it if you haven’t read it already!!). In this follow up, Intent Data Part 2: Why Sales Hates It (and Why That Makes Sense), Kerry digs into what’s…
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Wednesday Wisdom: What is that smell?
Before germ theory, it was thought disease came from “bad air.” The smell was a signal — but it wasn’t the cause. In B2B marketing, we’ve made a similar mistake with MQLs. They can correlate with real opportunities, but they are far from what creates them. Our Head of Research, Kerry, just published another brilliant piece…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Intent Data? Let's Call Them Signals.
Hey all, Our Head of Research, @Kerry, put together a great article on why we need to step away from the term "Intent Data". The words we use carry weight — and in B2B, “intent data” has often promised more than it delivers. Kerry makes the case for a smarter, more actionable way to think about buyer behavior, one that…
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Metric Monday: The Only Door Problem in B2B Buying
I love this one! The Only Door Problem: Why B2B Keeps Mistaking the Channel for the Cause by our head of research, @Kerry . Kerry digs into why so many companies still believe MQLs (or other late-stage signals) create demand — when in reality, they’re just catching buyers at the tail end of a long, self-directed process.…
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Metric Monday: LLMs Join the Buyer Journey — They Don’t Replace It
Hi all, Our head of research @Kerry wrote a great LinkedIn article taking on the chatter about LLMs overtaking search traffic and intent data — or so 'they' say. It’s absolutely packed with stats that tell a very different story (some of which are net-new 🎉 from our 2025 Buyer Experience Study coming in November). I’ve…
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Metric Monday: Buyers Say They’re Open to Switching—But Are They Really?
Hey all, In early readouts of data we’re collecting now, it appears buyers seem open to considering other vendors after group consensus has been established on a preferred winner. However, the data also tells us (and has for years) that, in actuality, most often (over 80%) they do not. It's fascinating, and it brings me…