The Van Nice & Co blog

Field-tested guidance on account research, pre-call prep, and prospecting, written by the team that does it for a living.

How busy AEs run repeatable account research before every meeting — and when it pays to outsource it.

account research

The discovery call questions top AEs ask — organized by deal stage — plus how pre-call research makes every answer land.

discovery call questions

A practical guide to defining your ICP and building a clean, 50-account prospect list that actually converts.

how to build a prospect list

Can ChatGPT replace pre-call research? Where AI helps, where it hallucinates, and why human review matters for sales briefings.

chatgpt for sales research

Apollo automates outreach at scale; Van Nice & Co delivers human-reviewed account research. A side-by-side comparison for B2B sellers.

apollo alternative

ZoomInfo gives you a contact database. Van Nice & Co writes the researched briefing. Here is when each one wins.

zoominfo alternative

The complete pre-call prep checklist: company, stakeholders, signals, and talking points to cover before any B2B sales call.

sales call prep checklist

A step-by-step framework for researching any company before a sales call — the sources, signals, and prep that win discovery calls.

how to research a company before a sales call