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Insights on account research, sales intelligence, and B2B selling from the Salesmotion team.
9 Best Beauhurst Alternatives for 2026 (Real Pricing)
Compare the 9 best Beauhurst alternatives for 2026 by use case: sales, investing, and research. Includes rare real pricing data and honest limits.
Claude for Sales: How Reps Prioritize Accounts via MCP
A hands-on Claude for sales tutorial: connect an MCP server and get your top 5 accounts each week, ranked by live buying signals with sources.
Google Alerts for Sales: Why It Breaks Past 20 Accounts
Google Alerts for sales works for a handful of accounts. Tests show ~40% missed news and 90% noise at scale. Here is where it breaks and what to use.
Per-Seat Pricing vs Account-Based: Sales Tools in 2026
Per-seat pricing punishes adoption: rationed seats, shared logins, 30% shelfware. Why sales intelligence is moving to account-based pricing in 2026.
Master IT Consulting Sales Prospecting for 2026
Master IT consulting sales prospecting with our 2026 signal-based guide. Target firms, identify triggers, & craft outreach to win more meetings.
Consultative Selling: The Trusted-Advisor Playbook
Consultative selling explained: discovery discipline, asking vs pitching, insight-led conversations, building credibility, and when it beats transactional.
Gap Selling: How to Diagnose Problems and Close
Gap selling explained: diagnose current state vs future state, quantify the gap, find the root cause, and turn gap size into buyer urgency.
The JOLT Effect: Overcoming Buyer Indecision
The JOLT effect explained: why buyer indecision kills most deals and how to Judge, Offer, Limit, and Take risk off the table to close.
NEAT Selling: The Modern Successor to BANT
NEAT selling explained: Need, Economic impact, Access to authority, Timeline. How to run NEAT discovery, score deals, and where it beats BANT.
Selling to IT Services Companies: A Revenue-Focused Playbook
Master selling to IT services companies with a tactical playbook. Understand lean margins, find revenue triggers, and close giants like Infosys and Wipro.
SNAP Selling: How to Win Over Frazzled Buyers
SNAP selling explained: keep it Simple, be iNvaluable, Align, raise Priorities. The 3 buyer decisions and how to apply Jill Konrath's framework in 2026.
Solution Selling: The Pain-First Method, Modernized
Solution selling explained: diagnose latent vs active pain, build the pain chain, run the nine-box vision model, and find the economic buyer and champion.