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Motion 02 — Accelerate

Support the deals that are already on the table.

Accelerate is the motion for open opportunities. The deal is rarely decided by your champion alone — it is decided by consensus inside a group that sales never fully meets. We surround that group with proof, differentiation and objection handling while sales works the process.

Purpose

What this solution is for

Use Accelerate when pipeline exists but stalls: deals slip quarters, decisions widen to new stakeholders, or competitors reframe the evaluation late.

  • Active opportunities with a defined close horizon
  • Complex buying groups where consensus decides the outcome
  • Competitive evaluations where differentiation must be visible, not argued
  • Deals where one contact carries the whole internal case

The challenge

What usually goes wrong.

Marketing usually stops where the opportunity starts. From then on, the entire case is carried by a single champion in internal meetings you are not in.

Only the champion sees your material; the sceptics never do

Procurement, security, finance and executives enter late and unprepared

Objections are handled once, verbally, and never reinforced

Momentum is lost between meetings, not in them

Our approach

How GTM House runs this motion.

One managed operation, from commercial objective to account-level action.

  1. 01

    Account selection

    The account list is the open pipeline. We work from CRM stage, deal value and close date, and prioritise the opportunities where influence changes the outcome.

  2. 02

    Buying-group understanding

    We extend coverage from the known contacts to the functions that will be asked to approve: executive sponsor, finance, security, operations.

  3. 03

    Messaging and content

    Trust, proof and differentiation. Comparison content, risk and objection handling, implementation clarity and executive-level value framing.

  4. 04

    Activation

    Tightly scoped activation against a small number of accounts, timed to the sales process rather than to a campaign calendar.

  5. 05

    Account-level analysis

    We report engagement per account and per function so sales can see who is warming, who is silent and where the risk sits.

  6. 06

    Recommended next actions

    Concrete recommendations per deal: who to bring in, what to send, what objection to address next.

What we activate

Accounts, buying groups, content, channels.

Target accounts

Open opportunities by stage, value and close date

Buying groups

Champion, economic buyer, technical and risk functions

Content

Proof, differentiation, objection handling, business case material

Channels

Account-targeted display and social, tailored destinations, sales assets

What success looks like

Measured on accounts, not on leads.

Success in Accelerate is progression: deals move, and they move with more of the group on board.

More functions engaged per open opportunity

Fewer deals stalling between stages

Objections handled before they surface in the final meeting

Higher win rate in accounts covered by the motion

The other motions

Win new. Win now. Grow more. Keep more.

Motion 01

Acquire

Win new target accounts that fit, but do not know you yet.

Motion 03

Expand

Uncover and activate growth inside existing customer accounts.

Motion 04

Defend

Reduce churn risk and keep value visible to the people who sign.