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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: 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…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Boost Financial Performance with ABM (An Article)
In our report Doing One Thing and Measuring Another, we found that organizations that adopt an account-centric approach tend to perform better financially. In this paper, The Impact of ABM and Measurement on Companies' Financial Performance, we examine additional factors specific to how and what an organization measures…
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Metric Monday: The Gaps in ABM Strategy Assessment
While a significant portion of marketers we surveyed embrace ABM strategies, the deficiency in monitoring account-centric metrics hinders their ability to know what’s working. For example, fewer than 50% of organizations with ABM practices, do not measure whether they get opportunities, pipeline or revenue from those…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Anonymous Website Visitors (An Article)
Last year, we surveyed B2B organizations about their strategies for identifying potential buyers. Now, we’re gearing up for another round of data collection to see what, if anything, has changed. Last year’s findings were striking: 97% of website traffic is anonymous, and 74% of B2B organizations do not de-anonymize their…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The Power Of Intrinsic Motivation on BDR Success (An Article)
I learned a lot about intrinsic motivation during my graduate studies, so it was fascinating to see its impact in our own research. Intrinsic motivation, or our internal drive that comes from our personal interests and values, rather than external reward, is a powerful thing. When we find this in our work, there are many…
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Metric Monday: Countdown to the 2025 State of the BDR Report - Supported BDRs Earn More Quota
Hi all, Happy BDR Appreciation Week! 🎉 This week is all about celebrating BDRs and equipping you with insider tips to boost your skills. Here’s what’s in store: 💙 Hands-on guides to elevate your prospect outreach, social selling, multi-threading, and more. 💙 AI-powered strategies to make your workflow easier and help you…
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Metric Monday: What Does Marketing Report to the Board and Senior Leadership? Benchmark Data
Hi all, As a part of this year's Marketing Attribution and Contribution Research, we asked 700+ B2B marketers what they report to their Board and senior leadership. Forty-two percent of our sample said that they report at least one metric to the Board, but most report two to three (2.4). This year’s data show that…
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Metric Monday: How much influence do sellers have on the purchase requirements of B2B buyers?
Hey all, Its been a couple weeks since we've had a Metric Monday due to the holidays. But we're back and today's metric is 🔥 As sellers, how much influence do we have on the purchase requirements of B2B buyers? Discussed in our 2023 Buyer Experience Report, a striking 78% of buyers revealed they've completely or largely…
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Metric Monday: How far along in the buyers journey are B2B buyers when they finally engage sellers?
As you might have read in this post, we recently wrapped up a survey asking 900+ B2B buyers about their experience. What did we find? B2B buyers are 70% of their way through their buying process by the time they engage sellers directly. In a typical deal cycle, that’s eight months in. This means buyers have started their…
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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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Wednesday Wisdom: 2025 ABX Talent Report (New!)
Hi all, In partnership with Sloane Staffing, we produced a new report exploring the current state of ABX talent strategy. It takes a close look at how ABX teams are structured, what roles are in demand (and at what experience level), which skills are prioritized, where organizations are running into hiring and retention…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Science of B2B Statistics Glossary - Correlations
Hi all, Not our typical #WednesdayWisdom reading recommendation, but I wanted to highlight a resource from the research team: our Statistics Glossary. We created it to help you better understand our research and grasp common statistics we encounter in both professional and personal contexts. It’s designed for everyone,…
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Wednesday Wisdom: 2024 BDR Report Highlights & A Look Ahead to 2025 – Join the Story!
Hi all, We're starting to analyze responses from this year’s BDR survey as we prepare for our upcoming State of the BDR Report—one of our favorite projects of the year. I wanted to share last year’s report, which I still reference regularly. There's a lot of good in there (if I do say so myself) - in it, we discuss: How…