Calendly + Gong: Sales and scheduling automation at your fingertips

As sales reps face increasing pressure to do more with less, it’s crucial to automate routine tasks like scheduling so you can spend more time selling. According to Slack’s State of Work 2023 report, 90% of executives, managers, and individual contributors agree automations and AI would meaningfully improve productivity.

Calendly and Gong are building tools to meet that need, and working together to give you the best of both scheduling automation and revenue intelligence. 

Now with just one click in your sales engagement tool, you can quickly grab a Calendly scheduling link or add meeting times directly into your prospect emails — filling pipeline and closing deals faster than ever.

How Gong is paving the way in sales engagement

Gong’s newest solution — Gong Engage  — uses AI to reimagine sales engagement. It’s a breakthrough powered by billions of customer interactions to help organizations create and accelerate pipeline. 

Gong Engage includes everything your sales team needs to drive quality engagement from first-touch to closed-won, all in one place:

1. Prioritize with to-dos, automated tasks and strategy suggestions, and recommended contacts so you stay engaged with the right people.

2. Connect with high quality outreach through AI-assisted email writing and customized email composer templates, call dialer with automatic call logs, and scheduling integrations.

3. Collaborate across your team with single-view account information, contact workflows, CRM updaters, and sales rep analytics.

We’re particularly excited about the Gong Engage integrations for contacts and scheduling, allowing you to use Engage directly with tools like Calendly, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, leadiQ, Apollo.io, and more, for smoother sales workflows.

How Calendly and Gong Engage work together

Whether you’re working inbound lead generation, managing open opportunities, or outbound prospecting, chances are, email tops your channel strategy. 

AI-enabled personalization, context from customer interactions, and Calendly for Gong Engage — a new integration that gives you one-click access to Calendly’s scheduling automation — make emailing from Engage even more powerful.  

Want a quick 1:1 video call? Insert a scheduling link into any Engage email as you’re writing it. Need more flexibility for a VIP prospect? Create a one-off meeting. Rounding up a group for a technical discovery meeting? Create a poll. You can do all this from the Calendly menu in your Gong Engage email composer.

Calendly for Gong Engage also lets you add curated times to your email. Embed available times as a tidy grid of buttons so your prospects can quickly scan and click to book a meeting, saving them a step and bringing you that much closer to a closed deal.

How Calendly for Gong Engage helps you fill pipeline faster

If you’re wondering what one-click access will really do for your workday, don’t take our word for it. A recent study from Harvard Business Review found that, on average, workers toggle between apps and websites nearly 1,200 times each day. With a switching cost of a little over two seconds, that’s four hours a week lost to context switching. (And five workweeks a year you could be doing something more important!)

Calendly for Gong Engage lets you spend less time toggling and more time on high-value selling activities. With both sales and scheduling automation at your fingertips, you’ll fill pipeline in record time.

Get started with Calendly for Gong Engage

Calendly for Gong Engage is available to all Calendly users who also use Gong Engage. To get started with the integration:

1. Download a Calendly browser extension if you haven’t already.

2. From your browser extension sidebar, go to the Integrations tab.

3. Find the Gong toggle button, and check “on.”

4. Sign in to Gong and open an email composer.

5. Click the Calendly button from the compose toolbar.

For more support, watch the demo on Gong’s integration page or visit our Help Center article.