Sales·37·Added 2026-09-20

Sales enablement

The creation of highly polished, expensive marketing brochures and decks that the sales team will promptly ignore in favour of using a poorly aligned, Comic Sans PowerPoint slide they designed themselves in 2018.

What they actually mean

"Here are some large PDF files that will never be opened by a customer."

Heard in the wild

"I’ve uploaded some fantastic new sales enablement assets to the shared folder."

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ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)

A mythical, highly cooperative target client who possesses an infinite budget, an urgent business need, and absolutely no procurement department to ruin the deal.

"This lead doesn't quite fit our ICP, but they seem keen."

Translation

They have zero budget and are just using us for free consulting.

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To quarterback

To nominally lead a high-stakes business deal from a safe distance, delegating all actual labor to juniors while reserving the right to accept the praise.

"I’ll quarterback the pitch, but I’ll need you to draft the slides, do the modeling, and present the actual proposal."

Translation

"I will say hello at the start of the meeting and take the credit at the end."

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Multi-threading

The desperate act of badgering multiple contacts at a target client organisation in the hope that at least one of them will accidentally reply.

"I'm multi-threading the account to make sure we have alignment across both IT and procurement."

Translation

"I am spamming five of them now instead of one."

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