10 Guiding Principles of Sales Enablement, Inspired by 'Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?'

10 Guiding Principles of Sales Enablement, Inspired by 'Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?'

Demand Generation — Wed., Feb. 28, 2024

Last year, I puzzled over the ways sales enablement can roller-coaster between being helpful and falling flat on its face. Yet we still end up with inbox overload no one wants. Is it inevitable?

That sent me down a rabbit hole of existential pondering when... a parallel question came to mind: Nicolas Cage, Good or Bad? Made famous in the TV series Community, that film-class question posed the ultimate challenge to movie-lover Abed.

Sales enablement can feel worse than untangling a giant knot of lights from a Christmas tree. But, lucky for you, I decided to do this metaphorical untangling in the open, in a series for MarketingProfs. That string of articles is now unwound, and its 10 lessons now shine brightly as guiding principles of sales enablement.

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