Marketing generates interest. Sales loses the card.

The alignment meeting that goes nowhere

Every B2B marketing head has had this meeting. Marketing presents leads. Sales says the leads are bad. Marketing says sales did not work them. Sales says marketing did not qualify them. Both are partly right and entirely talking past each other, because the lead handoff b2b never happens in writing. It happens through a stack of cards that marketing paid to generate and sales failed to scan. The marketing sales gap manufacturing problem is structural at the moment of handoff, not strategic at the workshop level.

• Marketing-funded scan — exhibition cards captured at source. Exhibition capture →
• Source-tagged lead handed to sales with provenance. Attribution →
• Follow-up SLA enforced by automated reminders. Lead capture →
• Closed-loop reporting — sales sees the source, marketing sees the outcome. Marketing ROI →

Why scanned cards change the conversation

When every card from a trade show carries a "source: show name 2026" tag automatically, the exhibition marketing sales integration question stops being political and becomes mechanical. Marketing can prove the number of qualified-by-conversation cards delivered. Sales can prove the cards they followed up. Both sides see the closed-loop conversion rate in the same dashboard. VynDeal handles the loop. See why sales does not trust marketing leads for the next layer of the gap.

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