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The Rise and Fall of the MQL — Live Workshop Recording with Jon Miller

July 1, 2026·47 min·5-min readroundtablebusiness
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The MQL (marketing qualified lead) as a core B2B marketing metric is broken because it fails to reflect the reality of nonlinear, account-based buying behavior. Originally designed as a contract between marketing and sales to ensure only sales-ready leads were passed, the MQL has been gam

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Jon Miller

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