Title says it all. My company was asking if anyone uses Gong or finds value in it and the sweeping answer was no. We’re churning end of June. So so happy.
Convinced my company to get rid of Gong… today was a good day
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Pachacuti
Politicker
+8
They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
Fantastic! Hope Gong goes out of business.
SaaSam
Politicker
+9
Account Executive
Companies should do this more often with all of the tools that they pay for. Ask if anyone is getting value from it and if the answer is a resounding no, stop paying for the thing.
AgastyaAdams
Politicker
+6
Sales Development Manager
Bootstrapped companies have a very good hold over their tech stack. They'd not purchase 1 additional license until at least 10 people are asking for it.
SaaSam
Politicker
+9
Account Executive
Yup, you're a lot more frugal when you're spending your own money. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that nearly 0 of these lay offs are happening at bootstrapped companies because they're usually pretty smart about spending and that includes hiring.
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CuriousFox
WR Officer
+13
Senior Account Executive
Congratulations my friend. What a feat. 🍸
Rallier
Politicker
+10
SDR Manager
I know people love to hate on Gong because they are annoying on LinkedIn, but I actually really like the platform
Justatitle
Politicker
+11
Mid Market AE
Our issue is that gong would tell us every single deal is at risk and it’s a duplicative software to a lot of what salesloft does for us
LA
LAStartupGuy
Member
VP of Sales
Salesloft does a lot of what Gong does, gives great analytics too.
Sunbunny31
Politicker
+5
Sr Sales Executive
We got rid of our video platform for AEs because we all downvoted it. Saved us some $$!
doingthehustle
Good Citizen
+4
Most Recently Account Director
🤜🏽🤛🏽 Nicely done. Coming from the hardware world, Gong is not a thing and when I learned about it recently I couldn't believe it. 😨
CuriousFox
WR Officer
+13
Senior Account Executive
Yup. We are trusted to do our jobs.
doingthehustle
Good Citizen
+4
Most Recently Account Director
As you should be. 🙌🏾
jefe
Politicker
+8
Head of Sales
That's worth a bang of the literal gong.
Well done!
Well done!
Justatitle
Politicker
+11
Mid Market AE
Honestly if I had a gong to bang I would
jefe
Politicker
+8
Head of Sales
Amazon :)
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AB
ABX
Opinionated
+3
Account Executive
Why didn't you find value in using Gong? I've only used Chorus for call recording and it was abysmal.
Justatitle
Politicker
+11
Mid Market AE
Ok, Gong while it can be a “good” tool makes a lot of assumptions about deal forecasts and assumes roles and what influence they have on deals for example every single deal in my teams pipeline is deemed at risk by Gong so that’s not helpful. Also we have salesloft which records our calls as well so it is redundant. Gong is also very expensive for a recording software that doesn’t really give great revenue intelligence in my industry(trucking). So yeah it blows. Grass is always greener and Gong is cringe on LinkedIn which makes this that much sweeter
ChumpChange
Opinionated
+2
Channel Manager
Thanks for writing this in. I'm in SAAS logistics and it's hard to forecast deals.
PhlipOut
Politicker
+8
Account Executive
Why abismal?
we use Chorus. I think it's useful to record, transcribe, share, tag etc and get some high level analytics.
deal intelligence and all that crap are useless regardless of the tool
we use Chorus. I think it's useful to record, transcribe, share, tag etc and get some high level analytics.
deal intelligence and all that crap are useless regardless of the tool
Justatitle
Politicker
+11
Mid Market AE
Yes to what’s useful but that can be done in salesloft for us
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14Smith15
Executive
+2
Account Executive
Congrats! We just started with Gong a couple months ago and I hate it.
Justatitle
Politicker
+11
Mid Market AE
We all do, it’s a micromanagers dream
cashmachine
Valued Contributor
+4
AE (Account Executive)
my previous company used Gong, i couldn’t fucking STAND that shit. it’s used for micromanagement.
thankfully, new & current company does not, & has not even been mentioned. much healthier environment.
thankfully, new & current company does not, & has not even been mentioned. much healthier environment.
GDO
Politicker
+7
BDM
Well done! Fuck em
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