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Wednesday Wisdom: The Lead-Based Approach Has Failed Us (Now with Additional Resources)
Hi all, A few weeks ago, we shared the guide, The Lead-Based Approach Has Failed Us: It's Time to Move On written by our Head of Research, Kerry Cunningham. We've recently made some additions to the report, including videos from Kerry sharing additional context and examples. There's five new videos to check out, with even…
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Participate in This Year's 2024 Buyer Experience Research
Hi all, If you follow our Research Road you are most likely familiar with our 2023 Buyer Experience Report which found that buyers choose a winner before talking to sellers, among many other headlines! As mentioned in an earlier post, we are doing the research again this year. And, we would love for you to participate! Not…
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Metric Monday: How Many Teams Are Using Waterfall Models and Which Types? 2024 Insights
Waterfall models are structured frameworks that track a company’s relationship status with prospects. These models provide organizations with a systematic approach to track and manage the progression of selling opportunities toward close. Waterfall models vary in the definition of stages and in where they initially begin…
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Metric Monday: Ten Insights from the 2024 Account-Based Marketing Benchmark
Hi all, Last week we announced the publication of our 2024 Account-Based Marketing Benchmark. This benchmark combines data from two of our recent studies to provide an overview of how 1,332 B2B marketers are approaching a number of critical activities — from identifying and targeting potential buyers to measuring and…
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Metric Monday: Ten Insights from our 2024 Marketing Attribution and Contribution Benchmark
Hi everyone, Last week, we announced the publication of our 2024 B2B Marketing Attribution and Contribution Benchmark. We surveyed over 700 B2B marketers to ask them how their organizations asses their contribution to revenue production. Here are ten takeaways from the report: Account-Based Marketing is still on the rise,…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Out of Sight, (Almost) Out of Time - The 6sense Buyer Experience Report
The B2B Buyer is a group of around 9 to 10 individuals working together to purchase a solution for their organization. These groups spend the majority (70%) of their nearly year-long purchase journey researching providers and the intended solution before making direct contact with sellers. The group is a united front, all…
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Metric Monday: Ten Insights from our 2024 B2B Buyer Identification Benchmark
Hi everyone, Earlier this year, we surveyed over 500 B2B professionals to understand how their organizations identify potential buyers. As announced in this post, we analyzed their responses and compiled a report with key insights. Here are 10 takeaways: Group-Based B2B Purchasing: Typical B2B purchases are made by groups…
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Metric Monday: How Many Contact Attempts Do BDRs Make?
We surfaced a ton of insights from our BDR survey earlier this year - one of them being the number of touches (email, phone, social, etc) per lead individual BDRs make before giving up and moving on. BDRs reported that they are making approximately 17 attempts per contact, with a relatively even spread among social…
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Wednesday Wisdom: How much of your TAM is in-market? (An Article)
Hi all, We have an oldie but goodie today. Last year, we surveyed nearly 400 B2B marketers and sellers to ask them about the percentage of their Total Addressable Market (TAM) that's actively in-market for their solution in any given quarter. Sellers with higher solution prices had fewer in-market buyers. We also looked at…
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Metric Monday: Blended Go-to-Market Strategies Are Associated with More Buying Signal Usage
Hi all, A few weeks ago, we announced the publication of our 2024 B2B Buying Identification Benchmark all about how 500+ revenue teams identify potential buyers. We've discussed in other posts how overall buying signal utilization (3rd party intent data, email and ad clicks, etc) is low across B2B. The data show that most…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The Significance of Variability Testing in B2B Marketing (An Article)
Happy Wednesday (Wisdom)! We have a new read for you today! The Significance of Variability Testing in B2B Marketing is all about our pursuit to understand what drives inconsistencies in outcomes - what we refer to as variability in the sciences. Variability is all around us in everyday life and in business. Businesses…
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Metric Monday: Digital and Human Interactions Per Buyer Per Vendor by Level and Role in the Purchase
Happy (Metric) Monday! A couple weeks back, we discussed the number of interactions buyers are having throughout their purchase journeys. We saw that all buyers, from individual contributors to the c-suite, engage in double-digit interactions with each vendor on their short-list (buying is hard!). This week, let's add an…
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Metric Monday: Overutilization of Form-Fills, Underutilization of De-Anonymized Web Traffic
Happy (Metric) Monday, all. If you've been following along in recent weeks, you'll know that we recently wrapped up a study investigating how teams identify buyers. The report spans a wide range of topics, from go-to-market strategies and budgets to common challenges, tools, data sources, and much more. But what's the…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Variability Testing in B2B - Why We Do What We Do (A Blog)
Businesses invest significant resources in their marketing and selling efforts, but there are often a wide range of outcomes. For example, organizations frequently want to know: Why do some marketing campaigns yield stellar results while others fall flat, even when using tactics that are known to produce good results? Why…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The Three Principles of Modern B2B Marketing (Just Published)
A crucial transformation is needed in the way B2B organizations target and engage potential buyers. This need stems from a fundamental disconnect between how buyers buy, and the strategies employed by B2B companies to attract buyers. Central to this transformation are three core principles that define modern revenue…
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Metric Monday: Number of Touches Buyers Have with Vendors on Their Short-Lists
Last fall, we asked nearly 1,000 B2B buyers how many interactions (reading content, watching videos, talking with vendor personnel, etc.) they had across their buying process with the winning vendor. We found that a typical 10-member B2B buying team had 160 digital and human-mediated (16 each, on average) over the course…
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Wednesday Wisdom: How Is Your Org Doing?
Across all of our surveys, we ask respondents how well (or not) they believe their company has performed financially over the past 12 twelve months. In early fall of last year, we compiled all of these answers and wrote a blog about what people were saying. The overall trend was really interesting next to the discussions…
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Metric Monday: Our Second Year Tracking Form-Fill Rates
When we asked marketers last year, their average form-fill rate was 3.5%. When we asked them again this year in our B2B Buyer Identification Benchmark study, the answer was much the same, 3.7%. Our findings align closely with what others have seen as well- Unbounce reports 3%, Search Engine Land reports 3% to 5%, and…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The Evaluation Gap for Account-Based Marketers (An Article)
Hi all, Last year, 6sense Research surveyed nearly 400 B2B marketers about how they measure their performance and the effectiveness of their marketing strategies. We ran the survey again this year and are currently writing up our analysis. It will be interesting to continue to collect this data year over year to see what,…
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Metric Monday: The Challenges Marketers Face in Harnessing Buying Signals
In 6sense Research's new B2B Buyer Identification Benchmark, we dive into everything 500+ B2B marketers had to tell us about the way their organizations' identify buyers. B2B buying teams generate thousands of digital interactions while searching online for business solutions. These interactions are cataloged and matched…