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class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6143a66 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6143a66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"reader-author-info__container\"><div class=\"mt4\"><div class=\"react-pdf__Page css-171\" data-page-number=\"1\"><div class=\"react-pdf__Page__textContent textLayer\" data-main-rotation=\"0\"><div class=\"reader-author-info__container\"><div class=\"mt4\"><p>June 9, 2026<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #0b4068; font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Marketing doesn&#8217;t send us good leads.&#8221; &#8220;Sales doesn&#8217;t work the leads we send them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><p>Sound familiar? It doesn&#8217;t happen everywhere \u2014 but when the relationship between Sales and Marketing breaks down, the impact is huge.<\/p><p>I heard this a few weeks ago in a meeting with a client. Two teams, two different stories, and a company losing money while both sides were right\u2026 and both were wrong.<\/p><p>This is not a new problem. It&#8217;s old, it repeats itself, and it&#8217;s expensive. And the solution is right in front of everyone \u2014 but nobody wants to see it.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #0b4068; font-weight: bold;\">What actually happens<\/span><\/p><p>Marketing often becomes an internal agency. Reactive. Just responding to whatever Sales asks for. No real strategy.<\/p><p>And Sales does its own thing. Posts what it wants, talks about its favorite products, and when the quarter goes bad \u2014 blames Marketing.<\/p><blockquote id=\"ember316\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__blockquote\">Both teams work hard. But they work in parallel, not together. And that has a concrete cost: lost opportunities, longer sales cycles, and customers that go to the competition.<\/blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0b4068; font-weight: bold;\">My experiment at Intel<\/span><\/p><p>When I was running channel sales and marketing at Intel, I reached a breaking point. Marketing was not helping the team sell more.<\/p><p>I made a decision that not everyone liked: <strong>I added sales commissions to the marketing team.<\/strong><\/p><p>If Marketing helps close deals, they share the reward. They feel the result \u2014 just like Sales.<\/p><p id=\"ember321\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Did it work? Very well. Within 30 days, Marketing was joining sales calls without anyone asking them to. They stopped caring about clicks and started caring about revenue.<\/p><p id=\"ember322\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Do I say this is always the right move? No. But in some cases, it&#8217;s exactly what is needed to break the dynamic.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #0b4068; font-weight: bold;\">The real problem: nobody owns the funnel<br \/><\/span><\/p><p id=\"ember324\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">The most common mistake is that each team manages their part of the funnel \u2014 and considers everything else someone else&#8217;s problem.<\/p><p id=\"ember325\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Marketing generates leads \u2192 hands them over \u2192 stops caring. Sales receives them \u2192 works them (or not) \u2192 blames Marketing when they don&#8217;t close.<\/p><p id=\"ember326\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">And nobody talks about the customers who didn&#8217;t buy.<\/p><p>|<strong>Getting a customer into the funnel is the most expensive thing your company does.<\/strong> Campaigns, events, team time. Everything has a real cost. When that customer doesn&#8217;t buy today \u2014 because the timing was off or the price wasn&#8217;t right \u2014 most companies let them go. That&#8217;s a serious mistake. That customer needs to stay in your CRM, be nurtured with relevant content, and kept close. So when they are ready, your company is the first one they think of.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #0b4068; font-weight: bold;\">The loop almost nobody closes<br \/><\/span><\/p><p id=\"ember329\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">When a salesperson talks to a customer, do they use the messages that Marketing created? And if they realize the message isn&#8217;t working \u2014 do they send that feedback back to Marketing?<\/p><p id=\"ember330\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">That loop is gold. Every sales conversation is market research in real time. If that information never goes back to Marketing, it&#8217;s lost. And Marketing keeps producing content that doesn&#8217;t connect, while Sales keeps complaining that the materials don&#8217;t work.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #0b4068; font-weight: bold;\">The moment everything changes <\/span><\/p><p id=\"ember332\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">A while ago I was with a client. Both teams in the same room \u2014 Sales and Marketing. Each one convinced the problem was the other.<\/p><p id=\"ember333\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">I showed them the shared funnel. What it looks like when both teams own the same process, from start to finish.<\/p><p id=\"ember334\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">The faces in the room changed.<\/p><p id=\"ember335\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Not a &#8220;wow, what a great solution.&#8221; It was relief. The relief of understanding that the problem wasn&#8217;t the people \u2014 it was the structure. That there were no villains in the story.<\/p><p id=\"ember336\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">And then something interesting happened: without anyone asking, they started talking about what meetings they should have together.<\/p><p id=\"ember337\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">That&#8217;s what happens when the problem is correctly diagnosed. The solution shows up on its own.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #0b4068; font-weight: bold;\">What comes first \u2014 Sales or Marketing?<\/span><\/p><p>Neither. Both come together, with a shared plan and shared accountability for the result.<\/p><blockquote id=\"ember340\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__blockquote\">If your teams are still blaming each other, the problem is not the people. It&#8217;s how your company is structured.<\/blockquote><p id=\"ember341\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">The question is not who is right. 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