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The Rise and Fall of the MQL — Live Workshop Recording with Jon Miller 📅 RSVP For Our Next Live Workshop on July 15: How To Run ABM and Outperform 10X Larger Programs
The MQL is marketing's worst open secret. Everyone in the room knows the number is gamed. The leads are low-intent, the scoring is guesswork, and the pi
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📅 RSVP For Our Next Live Workshop on July 15: How To Run ABM and Outperform 10X Larger Programs
The MQL is marketing's worst open secret. Everyone in the room knows the number is gamed. The leads are low-intent, the scoring is guesswork, and the pipeline isn't growing. Yet marketing keeps getting graded on the one metric nobody actually trusts.
In this workshop, Carolyn and Amber sit down with Jon Miller to take apart the metric the entire B2B playbook still runs on and walk through anonymized customer data showing exactly what it costs. Hand raisers in this account converted 83X better than MQLs and qualified faster. The MQLs that didn't convert got worked for two months before anyone disqualified them. That's the drain nobody puts on a slide.
What this workshop covers:
Why the MQL became gospel and the moment a sound idea turned into a volume game sales learned to ignoreThe gumball machine fallacy: why "more budget in, more pipeline out" assumes a linear process that buying stopped being years agoNonlinear buying, the dark funnel, and why one overwritten lead record erases the history you actually needReal customer data: MQLs accounted for under 6% of pipeline while hand raisers drove 39% of closed-won revenueJon's three-tier lead model and why waiting for hand raisers alone forfeits first-mover advantage and your future pipelineThe KPI cheat sheet: pipeline velocity, brand-question surveys, post-sale revenue metrics, and the numbers a board actually speaksWhat the shift means for your MarTech stack as AI moves orchestration from rules to reasoning
The leaders who get out from under the MQL don't kill it overnight. They layer in metrics their CFO and head of sales already recognize and stop defending volume that was never converting.
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🔗 LINKS + RESOURCES
📹 How to Survive B2B Marketing in 2026
📹 How to Build a Killer GTM Strategy for B2B SaaS
📹 Ultimate Guide to Marketing Measurement
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Erscheinungsdatum: 1.7.2026, 14:17:38
