Marcos Stubrin

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Marcos Stubrin

An industrial engineer turned GTM strategist. He brings an engineer’s rigor to revenue systems and a marketer’s understanding of demand.

Marcos Stubrin is an industrial engineer turned GTM strategist, and the co-founder of AutomateRevOps. He brings an engineer’s rigor to revenue systems and a marketer’s understanding of demand, and he challenges frameworks that have stopped working, the MQL first among them.

He founded a global GTM community, grown out of Buenos Aires and across Latin America. With David Moreira he turned the model into the DemandCompass software and into the book, which the two of them wrote as "we" because they built the systems together.

On this blog he writes about why the MQL stopped describing a buying committee, how awareness and readiness are different questions, and what a revenue team should do on Monday with the answer.

Co-author: David Moreira.

4 posts by Marcos Stubrin

  1. A compass rose of orange rings on a dark dotted sea, a lighthouse beam touching its edge. Artwork from The Demand Compass.

    GTM SystemsThe Demand Compass

    What is the Demand Compass?

    Two axes, four quadrants, one move each. The instrument that replaces the MQL with a reading of where every account actually stands.

  2. Dozens of small orange lights scattered across a dark dotted sea, a few brighter than the rest. Artwork from The Demand Compass.

    Demand GenerationThe Demand Compass

    How do you measure brand awareness at the account level?

    The axis almost everyone gave up on is measurable, out of data you already own, if you treat awareness as a behavioral footprint instead of a survey result.

  3. A path of orange dots crossing a dark sea toward a lighthouse, a wave rising beside it. Artwork from The Demand Compass.

    Pipeline StrategyThe Demand Compass

    How do you detect that an account is ready to buy?

    Readiness happens inside the account on its own schedule. You cannot create it, so the job is detection, interpretation and speed.

  4. A storm over a dark dotted sea, a broken signpost sinking, one small light on the horizon. Artwork from The Demand Compass.

    Pipeline StrategyThe Demand Compass

    Is the MQL really dead, and why?

    The MQL packed four different questions into one score. Here is what it confused, why sales stopped trusting it, and what a qualification model should have done instead.