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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: 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 Different Purchase Types Impact the Buyer Journey (A Report)
Hi all, Last week we highlighted report #6 in the list below from our Buyer Experience Research series. What Research Says When B2B Buyers Reach Out to Sellers Why Some Buying Journeys Are Longer Than Others What Buyers Told Us About How They Make Decisions Before Contacting Vendors How the Contracting Process Influences…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The Great Gate Debate - To Gate or Not to Gate
Happy Wednesday Wisdom 🧠 Last week, we released a new report based on our B2B Buyer Experience Research that details the activities buyers get up to during their purchase journey. An important finding from that report is that barely over 30% of active buying team members ever fill out forms - even on vendors' websites they…
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Wednesday Wisdom: CMO Compensation $$ (A Report)
Hi all, Last year, 6sense Research surveyed nearly 400 CMOs and other senior-level B2B marketing leaders about their pay and compensation packages. We expanded the same study this year to include all levels in marketing and we can't wait to share that report with you all very soon! In the meantime, the CMO report is super…
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Metric Monday: Form-fill rates across industries, regions, and company sizes...
A few weeks ago, we shared that only 3% of website visitors complete onsite forms, leaving 97% of valuable web traffic unidentified. Today, let’s double-click into this metric. Are form-fill rates different across industries? Does it vary by geography? What about company sizes? Our study of nearly 200 B2B professionals…
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Metric Monday: Is More Training the Solution for Leveling Up BDR Performance?
Happy (Metric) Monday, RevCity! Let’s chat about one of our faves in the biz: BDRs/SDRs 🙌! Both this year and last, 6sense Research surveyed BDRs about their jobs and how supported they feel in their roles. Both times, we found that support played a huge role in BDRs’ performance. In fact, the impact of BDRs' perceived job…
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Metric Monday: Measurement Matters (And Pays)
Hey all! We blinked and it’s Metric Monday again! But no complaints here because it's one of our favorite days of the week at 6sense Research. Metric Monday is the day we bring you a stat we've discovered through our primary research. And today's topic is all about measurement ⏳ and money 💸! In almost all of our surveys,…
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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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Metric Monday: How many BDRs use AI tools, and how do they feel about it?
In our latest BDR survey research, we included a few questions about AI to understand if, and how, BDRs are currently using AI tools in their jobs. Nearly 40% of respondents reported using a least one AI-based tool, with Call Transcription and Email Writing tools being the most popular. We also examined attitudes toward…
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Folklore Debt: The Stories That Build B2B Companies — and the Ones That Hold Them Back
Hi all, Yesterday we teased the release of our new framework Folklore Debt. We're really excited to be sharing it with you today. Like technical debt, folklore debt accumulates when the stories that once drove success outlive the conditions that made them true — quietly shaping decisions long after they should have been…
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New Framework coming tomorrow — Folklore Debt
Every B2B company has a story about how it first won. The scrappy outbound team that outsold everyone. The inbound engine that flooded the pipeline. The founder who cold-called their way to $10M. Those stories are real — and they were earned. The problem is what happens to them over time. They stop being context and start…
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Job support is the most reliable predictor of BDR performance — for the 5th year.
Hi all! Happy Day 4 of BDR Appreciation Week! Coming from an org psych background, this is absolutely one of my favorite kinds of findings to see in data. BDRs who feel clearly supported in their role average 100% quota attainment. Those who don't: 77%. "Supported" in our data means having the tools, training, and…
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9 in 10 BDRs Multithread -- Here's What the Top Teams Do Differently
Happy Day 3 of BDR Appreciation Week! Back with more from this year's BDR research: 91% of BDRs say they multi-thread into accounts — and that number has been statistically similar for the past few years. So multithreading itself might not be what separates teams anymore, but what happens within it does. Reaching two…
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Celebrating BDRs + New Research
Each year, BDR Appreciation Week is our chance to celebrate the hard work, resilience, and pipeline-driving contributions of BDRs and SDRs — and to check in on how the role is evolving. We survey BDRs annually to understand what they're experiencing day to day, and this year we asked more questions than ever. We're excited…
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Wednesday Wisdom: 4 Dimensions of Prior Experience Buyers Bring to Evaluations
Our buyer experience research has shed a lot of light on how much prior experience buyers bring with them into new evaluations — vendor relationships, past evaluations that ended in success, those that didn't result in a purchase, implementations, failed solutions, solutions that earned promotions, and much else. In our…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Top of Funnel or, Ton of Hope
Hi all, More from Kerry on “funnel” thinking — how often do we hear, read, and use terms like TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU ourselves? They roll off the tongue… a little too well 😄 But how many of us can actually define them? And how often would those definitions be the same? It’s part of the problem. These terms are used to mean…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Never Say Never
Hi everyone, I'd love to share another deep-dive report we wrote based on our most recent Buyer Experience research. On Monday I posted about buyers extensive experience evaluating solutions/vendors. What this report explores is just how durable that experience is. Buying groups carry it forward into shortlists, early…
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Metric Monday: 2025 Buyer Experience Metric Dashboard
Hi all, We’ve been getting a lot of requests for buyer-experience data broken out by solution type, purchase cost, and more — and I’m excited to share we have something for you 🙂. We’ve built a dashboard that lets you explore a selection of core metrics from this year’s main Buyer Experience Study. You can filter by…
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The B2B Buyer Experience Report 2025: Links Inside!
Hey all, I’m thrilled to share that this year’s Buyer Experience Report is now live — free, ungated, and available to read online. This year’s research was a collaboration between us here at the Science of B2B and our partners at 2X, MarketOne, LeadFabric, and Green Hat. We’re grateful to our sponsors for broadening the…