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7.3%
7.3% -- email reply rate for top performers (2026)
Top performers achieve a cold email reply rate of 7.3% or higher.
- Benchmark based on Outreach customer averages and practitioner-compiled data from r/b2b_sales
- Source states rate as 7.3%+
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7.3%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
90
Independence
30
Methodology
30
Freshness
92
Sources (2)
prospeo.io
Primary
Tier C
https://prospeo.io/s/how-to-build-follow-up-email-sequences ↗
Source Article
How to Build Follow-Up Email Sequences (2026)
How to Build Follow-Up Email Sequences That Actually Get Replies
Your SDR team sent 3,000 emails last month. Open rates looked decent - 28%, maybe 30%. Reply rate? Under 2%. Meetings booked? Eleven. And here's the uncomfortable truth across the industry: even teams hitting 5-10% reply rates only con…
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forbes.com
https://www.forbes.com/
2026-08-18
Original Research
prospeo.io
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Segmentation
IndustryB2B
Company SizeMid-market
RoleAll marketers
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top performers: 7.3% email reply rate. Source: prospeo.io (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/reply-rate-top-performers
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