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A Really Useful B2B Marketing Benchmark Report from Optify

The Point

You see a lot of so-called “benchmark reports” in B2B marketing circles, and most of them are, well: complete rubbish. The reason many of these reports are worthless, in my view, is that they’re based on non-randomized surveys, and thus the results are influenced heavily by who chooses to respond. This is what statisticians refer to as “self-selection bias” – essentially, that people who choose to respond to surveys may be different from those who do not respond.