FirstQuadrant vs. Gong vs. Salesloft

Gong is the perfect, all-in-one tool for Sales reps to be able to succeed. It's my one-stop-shop for updating deals, getting intelligence into the accounts I'm servicing, and for coaching/training myself and others. I could even see its use case extending to CSMs. Maybe a bit less appropriate for non-sales-oriented teams.

I find it to be the best resource for scheduling calls with clients. Specifically when the call includes multiple people using Salesloft, it's so simple and easy to use to send open times to client and then to be able to send active links to the client where with one click the calendar invite shows up on my calendar? it's the best most efficient tool I have in my toolbelt at the moment. When it comes to logging, it's also simple but I wish I could add a contact to SL from the Microsoft integration.

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• Provides executive summaries for meeting notes and email follow ups.
• AI Briefs allow anyone to seek information on a particular customer in a matter of seconds.
• Scores calls such as EBRs or new business sales calls that can be used by management for coaching.
• Provides accurate forecasting and visibility to sales leaders.
• Theme spotter can be used to gather feedback and provide data to management for opportunities we continuously here from our clients.
• Accurately depict key points from conversations and allows for different brief themes to quickly get the information needed for teammates throughout the organization.

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• Salesloft enables us to outreach at scale.
• Salesloft helps us identify our warmest, most buyer ready prospects to streamline our outreach.
• Salesloft helps us to identify quickly areas to course correct and provides the necessary data to do that.
• Salesloft also surfaces data around outreach so we can ensure we are targeting our team with sensible KPIs that connect to our business goals.

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• Sometimes Gong doesn't understand the context of the sentence and mistranslates the transcripts, leading to confusion and requiring manual review.
• The generated reports aren't as detailed, especially the Gong Engage reports. Extra steps are required to search for useful information, which is only available in the CSV files, which contain the complete information needed for proper analysis.
• I would like a feature where I can automatically tag groups of calls, making it easier to search for information in transcripts without having to go call by call or do that work myself.

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• Would be nice to have custom reporting available. Coming from Salesforce, the included canned reports are useful but I like to roll my sleeves up and build exactly what I want.
• Conversations will record meetings booked via MSTeams but requires the BDR/SDR to hit record. Other solutions (e.g. Chorus.ai) join as a participant and don't require a user hitting the "record" button. We have to change our flow to make this work and it is a bit clunky.

Gong is one of the best if not the best tools we have in or tech stack in terms of ROI and ease of use. The ai features that have been released over the past year have continued to add value and are not just shiny new features that don't get used. It is also an easy to use platform for our sales and customer success reps, takes very little time to become proficient in. The deal boards also provide great visibility into opps for management and leadership

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SalesLoft is absolutely VITAL to our daily operations. We could not function without it or a program like it. Speaking as a Sales Person who has had to operate without a product like this, the difference is night and day. The ability to stay organized, automate tasks, easily log activities and notes, review calls, and coach team members is an absolute gamechanger.

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It does great for all the things I've mentioned. I didn't give it a 10/10 because I still think there is room to improve as far as improving the quality of the insights that are more actionable. I.e. this happened so you should think about doing this thing as a next step.

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Drift was extremely easy for both our demand gen team and SDR to jump right into. It was feature rich and purpose-built for marketers—it was remarkably easy to connect our marketing automation, CRM, and more to the platform and get everything to work together. Now the ability to create digital experiences and conversation landing pages is democratized—empowering our team to do better work and provide better prospect/customer experience.

The availability is pretty good, we do sometimes have errors or delays in syncing activities but nothing that has been too detrimental to our workflow. Most recently we had an issue with Lofting through Outlook due to a change in security token that took a few weeks to resolve but it is fixed now.

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Yes timely and easy to use. The only delays we have are when we run our big month sales blitz and activities take some time to sync to the reporting as well as SalesForce

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I give them a 10 because, I have been using Gong for over a year now and have never had issues or concerns go un resolved in a day or two. Their communication is impeccable and their tech support is very hands on and prompt

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The support team was very responsive but at the end of the day they took a long time to fix our issue. The issue did get fixed, though, so that is what matters. Very nice people who are there to help in any way they can.

We had some virtual training with our CSM which was very well constructed. It took some time to get into the full swing of things but with a few weeks of hands on experience I was feeling confidant. The SL team was always available to answer questions or jump an a call to walk us through stuff. I also used the Customer Help Center for a few self guided learnings on how to use specific features related to reporting and team management.

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This is nothing something I'm able to answer

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must invest time and effort in define the best way to integration with Salesforce in order to get data visualization

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It stacks up in a different way. All of these companies try to do some feature that Gong does. Like Call recording, call analysis, AI discovery, Forecasting and Sales Activity tracking. Gong beats most, Otter.ai is a growing competitor though.

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Salesloft blows outreach out of the water in all aspects. One of the biggest issues I had was their unwillingness to listen to customer feedback. I had requested several small changes to be made when I had previously used the platform that unfortunately fell onto deff ears. I am much happier using Salesloft and the positive results I've experienced are a direct result of that.

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I was not involved with the process

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The scalability was pretty good, we started with 4 or 5 users on one team and scaled into 30+ members across 3 teams

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I was not involved with the process

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• I don't have specific metrics since this feature isn't used in my job personally, but I do know that our sales and CS teams use Gong with SFDC opportunities to help with forecasting closed won opportunities based on intent captured within the call.

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• I have been with a company that was using Salesloft, but moved to a competitor. I can't say it was exactly the competitors fault, as a lot of other internal changes were happening, (hence leaving the system that was working well), but we had the worst sales year in company history that year. Reps who consistently performed at or above quota were suddenly struggling to keep their pipelines in order, and the middle of the pack reps were going on PiPs and being let go.
• Is it the dialer, or the leadership? You decide.
• But the leadership also changed the dialer - so maybe it's both?

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