2026 study

What B2B companies do with leads that did not buy

We are studying reactivation processes at B2B companies in Europe and North America.
We have prepared eleven questions, and answering them should take four minutes at most.

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What you get

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The report is the exchange. You answer, we send you what the sample says.

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Your segment, benchmarked

Your answers against companies of the same size.

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01 · DONE

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02 · COLLECTING

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A few more weeks, until we have enough companies in every segment.

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The survey

What we are asking.

Your answers go into the dataset we are building on lead nurturing across B2B.

Section I · Staying in touch
When someone does not buy, do you stay in touch with them?
Do you or your team follow past prospects on LinkedIn and react to what they post?
Do you send anything at Christmas or year end to people who did not buy?
Section II · Your CRM
How many leads and contacts sit in your CRM in total?
How often do you go back to someone who did not buy?
What do you send them?Select all that apply.
Who is responsible for staying in touch with people who did not buy?
Section III · Signals
Which of these do you watch for at companies that did not buy?Select all that apply.
When you spot one of them, what happens?
Section IV · What comes back
When you go back to old contacts, how many of them reply?
What gets in the way of doing this properly?
About you
Company size
Main market
Business model
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Your answers stay anonymous in the report.
Clay Cup 2025 final standings, Vanderbuild in second place
Mateusz Sekta
CEO, Vanderbuild

Vice Champion of the Clay Cup 2025, the global competition for GTM engineering teams.

This study is run by Vanderbuild. We build outbound campaigns and reactivation systems for B2B companies, and the same picture keeps showing up: a database full of contacts nobody goes back to.