The Bulletproof Marketer · 2026-02-20 · 47 min
If you have ever watched a sales team and a marketing team blame each other while the CEO wonders why no one is closing, this episode is for you. Christopher Tompkins has seen this dynamic play out hundreds of times across companies of every size, and in this episode he breaks down exactly why it keeps happening and what actually fixes it. Christopher starts with the fundamentals. He walks through the MQL to SQL to conversion pipeline and explains why most teams struggle not because the leads are bad, but because no one has agreed on what qualifies a lead in the first place. When marketing and sales are working from different definitions, the handoff falls apart before it even begins. He then introduces what he calls the one fixable moment: a single shared metric that both departments are equally accountable for delivering. Most companies run separate marketing meetings and separate sales meetings, and the numbers presented in each rarely speak the same language. Christopher explains how to change that, using events and webinars as a practical example of how one activity can generate data that both teams can act on together. The episode also tackles the materials trap.
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