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The data marketing playbook big companies don't share 📊

7 genius ways to turn boring metrics into viral content

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Tom Orbach
Sep 20, 2024
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Gong did something amazing with their data.

They analyzed millions of sales calls and discovered a game-changing insight: starting a cold call with “How have you been?” is far more effective than “How are you?”

Why? → Because it psychologically assumes a pre-existing relationship. 🧠

This simple tweak, pulled from their own data, helped thousands of companies nail their cold calls (and remember Gong positively for helping them). Gong didn't stop there—they launched Gong Labs, a hub of actionable insights derived from their data.

👉 This is the power of leveraging internal data for marketing.

Here’s how to do it:

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