MQL Factory is DEAD..
Behind that is, one of the most hidden problems in GTM, fragmented incentives producing fragmented behaviours.
And over time, those fragmented behaviors slowly fracture the commercial system itself.
This is why so many organizations today feel operationally exhausted despite having
more software
more data
more dashboards
more specialists
more automation
and more reporting
than ever before.
Because the underlying architecture is disconnected.
Take one of the clearest examples:
Marketing hits MQL targets.
Sales hits activity targets.
CS hits retention targets.
RevOps hits reporting targets.
Finance hits forecast targets.
And yet somehow…
the business still struggles to create commercially efficient growth.
Why?
Because every department is optimizing locally while the customer experiences the organization systemically.
That is the fracture.
And the consequences become enormous.
Marketing teams, for example, are often forced into impossible situations.
If sales and marketing tightly align around a real addressable market…
…eventually the low hanging fruit compresses.
Which means marketing cannot infinitely produce cheap form fills from the exact same audience forever.
But because compensation structures are still tied to MQL production volume…
…marketing teams often get pushed into adjacent or lower-fit markets simply to maintain target velocity.
Not because it improves commercial viability.
But because the measurement system demands it.
Ironically, everyone inside the organization can still appear “successful” individually while the commercial system itself becomes less coherent.
Revenue problems are rarely isolated departmental performance problems.
They are usually system coherence problems.
And one of the deepest examples of this is how modern GTM misunderstands market validation itself.
Today, many organizations treat “market validation” as
a sample size
a split test
a founder assumption
a survey response
a pilot campaign
or a handful of hypothetical interviews
But true market validation was never supposed to be static.
It was supposed to be continuous.
Living.
Evergreen.
Longitudinal.
Systemized.
Because once you begin systematically cataloguing
who buyers currently use
what they like
what they dislike
operational frustrations
switching conditions
contract timing
organizational maturity
roadmap gaps
buying triggers
expansion potential
serviceability risks
and relationship pathways
…you stop operating on assumptions.
And start operating on live commercial intelligence.
That intelligence then becomes usable across the entire organization
marketing
sales
customer success
product
finance
operations
leadership
All synchronized around the same evolving market reality.
This is why Closed Circuit Selling™ is ultimately a first-principles solution.
Because CCS™ does not begin with:
funnels,
campaigns,
sequences,
MQLs,
or stage progression.
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