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Metric Monday: Bain & Google Found 90% of B2B Buyers Stick to Their Day One Shortlist
Hi all, Who here is familiar with the Bain and Google stat that shows 80% to 90% of B2B buyers already have a shortlist of vendors in mind before they even begin their research? Plus, 90% of those buyers end up choosing a vendor from that original list. The 6sense Research team is wrapping up a study that fully supports…
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Wednesday Wisdom: APAC Buying Journeys - New Report Release (6sense Research & Green Hat)
Hi all, 6sense Research had the pleasure of working with Green Hat on a study of the B2B buying process in APAC. Their report is now available, and it’s a must-read! Here are some highlights from what 700+ B2B buyers in APAC had to say: Buyers in APAC work in teams of 12 to 13 internal stakeholders. The average buying…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Gaining Clarity on B2B Buying Groups - What We've Learned Since This Article
Happy Wednesday Wisdom! Two years ago, the 6sense Research team published one of its first reports on B2B buying groups, Gaining Clarity (Sort of) on B2B Buying Groups. Since then, we’ve surveyed over 4,000 B2B practitioners about the size of the buying groups they work with, either as marketers/sellers or as buyers. What…
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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: 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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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: 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: 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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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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Metric Monday: What Percentage of Annual Revenue Do B2B Teams Allocate for Marketing?
In our B2B Buyer Identification Benchmark, we explored how organizations budget for marketing. Across our sample of marketers from a wide array of industries, company sizes and funding sources, marketers reported that their organizations budgeted 13.4% of their companies’ annual revenues for marketing. All industries…
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Wednesday Wisdom: How Large B2B Purchases Are Different From Smaller Ones (A Report)
For a few months now, we've been having tons of conversations and publishing new topic-specific reports based on our B2B Buyer Experience Research. In past Wednesday Wisdom posts, we've highlighted the following topic-specific reports from the research: What Research Says When B2B Buyers Reach Out to Sellers Why Some…
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Metric Monday: Do Marketers Recognize and Prioritize Multiple Lead Signals from the Same Account?
Happy (Metric) Monday, If you saw our post last week, you'll know 6sense Research recently released a new benchmark report all about how marketing teams are identifying buyers and prioritizing their efforts. For today's Metric, we're highlighting one of the most encouraging findings from the report. In B2B transactions,…
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Wednesday Wisdom: NEW Report Release 🎉 - 2024 B2B Buyer Identification Benchmark
It's a very happy Wednesday Wisdom today because 6sense Research has just released a new benchmark report! This report is all about how teams are identifying buyers and prioritizing their efforts. The benchmark is based on the practices of over 500 B2B professionals and covers: Form-fill rates What's the average? What does…
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Metric Monday: BDRs Aren't Just Asking for Meetings Anymore
Traditionally, BDRs have centered their efforts around asking prospects for meetings. However, our Buyer Experience Research showed that buyers are highly unlikely to agree to meetings until they have selected a vendor. Instead of pressuring buying team members into premature demos or discovery calls, BDRs and sales…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The Contracting Phase of the B2B Buying Process (A Report)
Hey all, We blinked and it's Wednesday Wisdom again! 🧠✨ Today, we have another report in our B2B Buyer Experience Research series, all about how the contracting process influences buyer satisfaction. Our research showed that B2B buyers often view the contracting phase as an important determinant for future purchases from…
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Wednesday Wisdom: New Report Release in B2B Marketer Compensation Series
A few weeks back, we published our Compensation Report for B2B Marketers with salary insights based on the pay of over 650 B2B marketers. Among our findings were observations on gender pay equality, the impact of the tech industry on remote workers' pay, and how factors such as education, tenure, marketing discipline, and…
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Metric Monday: Are BDRs Multi-threading?
In B2B, the best practice for identifying sales-ready buying processes is to attempt to contact multiple individuals inside a prospect account before concluding that there is no opportunity present. This practice is commonly called multi-threading. This year, 83% of the BDRs we surveyed reported that they multithread. 🎉…
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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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Metric Monday: Timing in B2B Buying – Winning vs. Losing Vendor Contact Points
If you've come across any part of 6sense Research's B2B Buying Journey Research, you've likely encountered the stats: B2B buyers are 70% through their buying process by the time they engage sellers directly, and, when they do engage, they do it at a time of their choosing, reaching out first to the vendor that…
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Just In:Does your experience match the gloomy news we have been hearing about the economy?
Across several 6sense surveys over the past year, we have been asking marketers and sellers how their companies are doing financially. We’ve been surprised to find that what you all are telling us doesn’t seem to match what we hear in the news everyday. And, we’ve uncovered a number of factors that seem to influence how…