Gong vs. Seismic

Appropriate when: There's some kind of repetition and success formula that you're trying to find out. You have a big team, and you're trying to find something that works. Then gong will be helpful. In my experience, B2B SaaS will almost always benefit from it. Less well suited when: You're making big deals over a small number of very specific clients. I worked for a little bit in government and oil&gas deals, and everything in each deal varies wildly - can't see gong being that big of a help here.

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Seismic excels at being a one-stop shop for all content that is relevant to salespeople and the deal cycles they work through. It does a great job not only making content and training readily available but also at distributing the right content at the right time/for the right scenario. Based on my experience with the tool, this was a go-to for many reps (myself included) because it saved us so much time. Rather than sifting through documents and collateral, we could easily find what we needed in a matter of moments.

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• Call recording: you can see a transcript and also set-up trackers for keywords like competitor names being mentioned.
• Active conversations in accounts: I get email reports on all active conversations that have happened with Gong so I can see across the Global team what meetings the team are having and make sure we are coordinated on large strategic accounts.
• Call sharing/collaboration: the native integration with Slack means I can tag and talk to my team about calls via slack messages, and then the conversation will still appear in Gong and vice versa. This helps my team receive feedback where they are working and removes the need to check Gong to see if there is feedback there. This helps reduce tech fatigue.

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• Seismic allows for one location to store all relevant content so that associates are not having to spend as much time searching for what they need.
• Seismic provides the ability to fully customize content such that one template can serve many needs with the simple ability to answer questions that drive the customization in the content. This customization can range from simple to quite complex depending on your level of expertise with the tool.
• Seismic provides a lot of flexibility when it comes to organizing your content and how to make the experience of accessing that content unique to the needs of each user in the system.

Incentivized

• Notes in app - there needs to be an option to download your notes or a better formatted copy/paste for this function.
• Transcript - make this downloadable so it can be copied/pasted/reformatted for CSM's who have to input notes into other systems.

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• Adding more integration points and use cases with Salesforce would be good to have
• Navigating to a specific resource gets cumbersome sometimes especially with lots of content
• Bulk user operations and taking actions on behalf of other users would be good to have as well

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I gave this rating because Gong is the best Conversation Intelligence software in the Marketing. It is efficient, user-friendly and easy to integrate

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I think it's very easy to use and navigate. Occasionally, I find something things harder to find or I am unsure of their meaning. The Gong support team though are excellent and will quickly help with answers or jump on a call to review where you are at. Generally, an easy to use tool.

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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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Seismic's support team has been exceptional at providing support when an issue has come up, or when we have had questions regarding the platform. They have responded quickly, and I feel as if they truly try to find a solution to the quickest of their abilities. My team and I truly feel supported when it comes to reaching out to Seismic.

I wasn't part of the team that implemented. I tapped "eight" above, because an alert appeared in the screen saying that this question was required.

Incentivized

The Gong video library is much easier to navigate. I like that everything is saved in one place that I can navigate instead of separate video files that I have to download. I also think it's really cool that our whole company can access and watch each other's meetings and videos. I sometimes watch videos of customer calls with the sales team when an account is being passed to me to get a better idea of what they've already discussed with our teams, and I'll watch calls where coworkers have discussed similar topics to what I'm working on to train myself on different subject areas. I enjoy how Gong promotes greater transparency within the company and greater collaboration between teams as a result.

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Savo, Google Drive, Shared folders Savo - was best in class a long time ago (and has since been bought by Seismic) - but required a lot of administrative work to setup and maintain. I had three people working on it full time to create pages and managing content. Shared folders and google drive are good to share content, but terrible at searching and tagging (not fully indexed and no tagging)

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I was not involved with the process

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I was not involved with the process

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• It helps me save time and push deals forward.
• It helps me track my deals and align more with pipeline and actual forecasting.
• It positively impacts the training and knowledge sharing with new hires and tenured reps.
• It helps to have a history of performance to better acknowledge praise and accomplishment within reps.

• We can quickly generate product-specific proposals.
• We've experienced repeated frustrations while trying to edit/update the LiveDoc.
• Errors in LiveDoc coding have occasionally produced errors in the generated proposals where certain fields (Customer Name, for example) should have been automatically completed but were not.

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