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Forget “business-to-business”—your sales and marketing need to be “human-to-human.”  On March 10th from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM CST, you’re invited to Fast Forward, Vidyard’s virtual event where you’ll learn from experts (including Gong’s very own @Sheena Badani) about:  How to show you care through your sales and marketing outreach (and why that's so important)  Ways to make buyers realize you're a human, not just another faceless company Expert tips for spreading the word, building trust, and locking down sales with video  

Happy last day of February! 👋 While you’re closing those final deals and celebrating your wins from this month, I’m here to fill you in on what (and who) is new here in the Gong Community. What’s new with you Let’s give a warm welcome to a few of our newest Community members! @Diva McGrath@Omri Levy@Neil Fiedler@Bradley Hollingsworth@HET@Andrew O'Driscoll@Mark Haas

We’re hosting our first-ever virtual Gong Community meetup! 🎉 Next Wednesday, February 23rd at 2:00 PM, join @Vinit Patel to meet, chat, and learn from fellow Gong users in EMEA about topics like: How to make Gong part of your workflow How much time you should be spending in Gong How to most effectively leverage Deal Reviews + Any other topics that are top of mind for you! I hope you’ll join us for some casual networking, deep disc

The most impactful book I've ever read across my Sales career is "Influence" by Robert Cialdini. He breaks down the psychology of why people say "yes," and how to apply these learnings to become a skilled and ethical persuader. We invited Robert to this special live event so you can apply his principles of persuasion across multiple selling scenarios to help you move deals forward, close more revenue, and shorten your sales cycle. Join me and Robert on March 9th at 10 AM PST — it's completely free and will change how you sell forever. Register for your free spot! 

Are you a Salesforce user?  If you haven’t already connected the Gong App for Salesforce, you’re missing out!  The Gong App for Salesforce helps you turn your sales conversations and indicators of customer health into valuable reports so you can get visibility into your deal processes and risks.  The best part? It’s all done within Salesforce automation engines.

Wish you knew how to have more meaningful conversations with prospects so you could close more deals, faster?  It’s your lucky day, my friend.  Our partners at the Sales Impact Academy (SIA) are making their course, “Sales Conversations that Win” available to Gong Community members (including you!) for free.  In this live, expert-led course, AEs and BDMs will learn how to:  Improve conversations with prospects to drive momentum during the sales cycle Better understand prospects’ pain points and value drivers

You know how good winning feels. But how does it sound?? This video on the Gong LinkedIn page has me feeling super hyped and wondering what winning sounds like to you.  To me, it sounds like Alex Toussaint saying "Feel good, look good, do better!" as I finish a super hard Peloton ride.  I also loved this comment from Caleb Norris on that LinkedIn post:"It's that random interrupting "YES" when

Did you end 2021 with the numbers you’d envisioned? If not, I’ve got some tips to share. In sales, there are always peaks and valleys. Sometimes it feels like an energizing walk on a sunny day, and at others, it feels like an uphill trudge. When things are going well, it seems like the good times will never end, but sales slumps happen to the best of us. Your sales slump, your spirits slump, and it’s an all-around bummer of a situation. The magnificent sevenIf you’ve been there before, or are there now, there are seven questions you can ask yourself to help turn things around. Each answer contains information that’s vital to getting (or remaining) on track and avoiding sales slumps in the future: 

 tl;drTop three moves of an inspiring SDR manager: Support, motivate, empower, trust, and challenge your people. Care about their mental, physical, and emotional well-being. Reframe your past hurdles in a productive and positive light and help others do the same.  I knew one month into my first Sales Development Representative (SDR) role at Glassdoor in 2015 that I loved being part of lead

Are you Sure You Want to Become a Sales Leader? While becoming a sales leader at your company might be the logical next step in your career, the move up isn't without its fair share of complications. It is important that you understand what your new responsibilities will be, and what parts of your current role you will lose if you’re promoted. Here are a few things worth thinking about: Sales managers are unable to control over 75% of the metrics they're held accountable for. Having to rely on others for success can be challenging. On average, only 60% of sales reps meet their quotas. 

Do you have a best practice that directly affected your GTM strategy through the lens of: Revenue / More won Deals Onboarding / Decrease in time to value Coaching / Adoption implemented at scale Market strategy / Increased market awareness of company Drop us a few sentences below to share your best practice! One entry per person, winner will be select

Let’s skip all the consultants, books, expert talks, thought leadership pieces, etc., and give you the one piece of knowledge you need to have the biggest impact on your coaching.  Right here, right now: Focus your coaching efforts on the middle of your team. Who’s the middle? Picture a bell curve. On it are your low performers, average performers, and high performers. The middle performers in your pack influence about 60% of your team’s deal’s. High- and low-performers each influence anot

Being a CIO is more challenging than ever. The shift to the public cloud, the burgeoning SaaS landscape, and a new focus on frictionless customer and employee experiences means a host of new and demanding hurdles for those in our position.   Previously, the CIO role focused on functional and transformational efforts. From a functional perspective, CIO organizations spent a large portion of their time fighting fires, improving systems performance, and managing costs. Operationally, they focused on driving systems evolution, creating alignment, and redesigning business processes. The increasing role of technology as a differentiator means an additional set of responsibilities for the modern CIO. We must now be strategic in identifying revenue opportunities, driving busines

Hello Gong Community! 1st time poster here…  I joined Gong back in June after a 7 year run as a researcher.  At my last organization I spent a majority of my time working with sales leaders to measure their sellers’ productivity. As part of this exercise, we would give reps the opportunity to provide qualitative feedback, specifically asking them where they would like to spend less time. The objective was always to reduce low-value tasks in hopes to spend more time engaging with customers.  The below blog outlines 5 of the most common activities that were identified and ways that Gong can alleviate these pain points. This perspective is based on the feedback of more than 30,000 B2B reps.   Top areas for saving timeData entry and internal reporting Internal meetings Internal communications/email Customer sup