The inevitable problem with measuring B2B marketing by leads
THE SO WHAT
If your dashboards stop at MQLs, you're optimizing for a proxy, not revenue. Operators should be pushing this week to tie campaign spend to opportunity and closed-won data—even if the attribution is fuzzy—before another quarter of budget gets locked into lead-gen theater.
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