05 AFTER SHOW This Marketing Funnel is Broken (and MQLs Are Dead) with Ashley Faus

The funnel is dead, MQLs are out, and your networking events aren’t as human-centered as you think. In this After Show, Megan and Ashley go off the record and into the real stuff: AI myths, event design fails, personalization at scale, and why you should probably stop serving bagels at every conference.

What You’ll Learn in This After Show:

• Why AI isn’t replacing marketers—but marketers who ignore AI might get left behind
• How to scale personalization using content depth and intent frameworks
• The difference between busy work and uniquely human marketing tasks
• Why most networking events fail introverts (and what to do instead)
• The marketing buzzword Ashley wants permanently canceled

About the Guest:Ashley Faus is the author of Human-Centered Marketing and Head of Lifecycle Marketing Portfolio at Atlassian. She specializes in content strategy, demand gen, and lifecycle marketing—and is a passionate advocate for designing marketing experiences that actually work for real humans.

Ashley also shares a hilarious booth mishap involving superhero cutouts and the carpet padding lesson no event marketer should forget.

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Connect with Ashley Faus

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/author/ashley-faus

Connect with Megan Martin 

https://msquareddynamics.com/