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Insights on account research, sales intelligence, and B2B selling from the Salesmotion team.
ChatGPT for Sales: Prompts and Limits (2027)
How sales teams use ChatGPT for research, call prep and email, with prompts, a dated comparison with sales intelligence tools, and the four places it stops.
Sales Tools for Small Businesses: 7 Picks for 2027
The 7 sales tools a small business needs in 2027: a free CRM, contact data, account research, outreach and call notes, each with its published price.
Win-Loss Analysis: Interview Questions and a Coding Template
Run win-loss analysis that changes how you sell: who to interview, a 30-minute buyer question set, a fixed coding frame and how to read no-decision losses.
Territory Review Template: Audit Your Account Coverage
A quarterly territory review template for AEs: which accounts you worked, where pipeline came from, which have a live signal and where to focus next.
Sales Discovery Questions That Start From Research
Sales discovery questions for B2B and enterprise calls, grouped by stage of the conversation, and how to open with a researched hypothesis. Free sheet.
Mutual Action Plan Template: Close Plans From Signature
A mutual action plan template for enterprise sales: work back from signature, map the paper process early, run legal and security in parallel.
Deal Review Template: The Questions Your Manager Will Ask
A one-page deal review template for enterprise reps: why now, the buying group, a close plan dated from signature and six inspection questions.
Biotech Companies by Modality: 2,298 Sponsors Counted
2,298 clinical-stage biotech sponsors counted by modality and phase: 540 small molecule, 434 antibody, 172 cell and 164 gene therapy, with company lists.
B2B Buying Signals Benchmark: How Often Triggers Happen
First-party data on 8,518 companies: 18.7% had a trigger event in Q3 2026. Signal rates by type, company size and industry, days between signals and a CSV.
GTM Planning for 2027: Step-by-Step Guide and Template
Build your 2027 GTM plan from October to kickoff: year review, account tiers, territories, pipeline math and a one-page template to copy.
Salesmotion vs Claude for Account Research: What We Measured
We had Claude research 8 accounts from the open web and compared it with Salesmotion. Claude was accurate. It was also slow, costly and incomplete.
Signal Provenance: Why Source-Backed Beats Guesses
Signal provenance gives every account claim a visible source, date, and quote so reps can defend what they put in front of buyers.
Sales Tools for Individual Reps: Buy Your Own?
When a rep should buy their own sales tools: the break-even math, what to check with your employer first, and how to turn it into a team case.
Sales Intelligence Security Review: A Buyer's Playbook
How to get a sales intelligence or AI sales tool through security, legal and procurement review: what they ask, what to prepare, and how long it takes.
How to Run a Sales Intelligence Pilot Before You Buy
A scoped playbook to run a sales intelligence pilot: accounts, metrics, timeline, and what good looks like by week two, before you commit.
PDUFA Dates, NDA and BLA Filings as Sales Triggers
Use a PDUFA date as a sales trigger: the Phase 3 to launch milestone chain, FDA review clocks, which vendors buy when, and where each event appears first.
Account Discovery vs Monitoring: Which Do You Need?
Account discovery vs monitoring: a no-spin guide to which sales motion fits your team, when each wins, and how to qualify before you buy.
How to Sell to Banks: Signals, Stakeholders and Timing
How to sell to banks: how vendor risk and the buying committee work, the public data that shows which banks to target, a signal table and an example.
Cross-Account Search: Find Which Accounts Are Moving
Cross-account search lets reps query their whole account list in one pass to find which accounts are moving on a topic, signal, or initiative.
Contact Database vs Account Intelligence: Need Both?
A contact database tells you who and how to reach them. Account intelligence tells you why now. How to decide if you need both, plus a 20-account test.
Compelling Events in Sales: How to Find the 'Why Now'
A compelling event in sales is a dated business event with a cost of inaction. 14 examples, where each shows up publicly, and how to rank a territory.
ChatGPT for Account Research: Claude and Copilot Compared
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity for account research: what each does well, where sales teams say they stop, and the hybrid that works.
Find Bioequivalence Study Sponsors Before They Pick a CRO
Where bioequivalence study sponsors show up before a registry does: Orange Book expiry dates, Paragraph IV data, FDA guidances, and a molecule-first list.
AI Readiness Signals: Which Accounts Will Buy AI Services
AI readiness signals tell you which accounts will buy AI services. A five-stage maturity model from public evidence, a signal table, and a worked example.
Sterilization Decision Signals in Drug Development
Sterilization suppliers sell into a decision made once per programme. Where it sits on the development timeline and the signals that show it is near.
Sales Intelligence Trial for CRO Reps: One Seat, One Month
Run a 30-day sales intelligence trial inside a large CRO on one seat: which 100 accounts to load, what to log weekly, and a one-page report.
Industry vs Academic Sponsors: How to Filter Your List
81% of UK-only recruiting trials are led by sponsors ClinicalTrials.gov classes as Other. How sponsor class works and how to filter academics out.
How to Find Clinical Trial Sponsors Before They Pick a CRO
Find clinical trial sponsors before the RFP: five registry events and three non-registry precursors that show a CRO decision coming, plus a weekly routine.
CRO Territory Planning by State: A BD Team Guide
How CRO BD teams plan US territories by state: build the sponsor universe, group states into clusters, balance by active trials, and rebalance quarterly.
Clinical Pipeline Analysis by Indication and Phase for CROs
How CRO commercial teams build a clinical pipeline analysis by indication and phase: the five fields to collect, four charts and a quarterly refresh.
Build or Buy a Claude Agent for CRO Sponsor Research?
Build vs buy for a CRO sponsor research agent: what a weekend Claude agent on ClinicalTrials.gov does well, where it breaks, and who has to maintain it.
What a Bioanalytical CRO Should Track, and What to Ignore
Bioanalytical CRO business development runs on five signals: PK and bioequivalence starts, first-in-human, biosimilars, financings and S-1s.
Why Your AI SDR Pilot Failed
Why AI SDR pilots fail: four failure modes (irrelevant triggers, AI-sounding copy, volume goals, bad data), how to spot yours and what to change next time.
Signal Relevance Beats Signal Volume
Signal volume is table stakes; signal relevance decides whether reps keep using a tool. Five demo questions to test a signal platform on relevance.
Signal Coverage in Non-English Markets: Where It Breaks
Buying-signal coverage follows what companies publish. Where it is strong, mixed and thin by market and company size, and how to test it on your accounts.
The Sales MCP Stack: Which Server Answers Which Question
Sales MCP servers do four jobs: find people, build lists, track what changed, map who you know. Which to connect first and why more servers hurt.