AE @ Gong | Closed Won 🦙 | 5x President's Club

Creating raving fans @ Gong. Founder of Closed Won. Dad to Monty 🐾 

Brian LaManna

Gong's AI Builder went GA last week. And it's absolutely insane.

I was lucky enough to have 5 customers Beta this in Q3.

They're saving 10, 20, 30+ hours per week.

Here's what makes it different.

It turns what your top performers are ALREADY doing in the field into repeatable content the rest of your org can use.

Battle cards. Scripts. Case studies. Objection handling guides. Engagement flows.

All built directly from your Gong data and revenue graph.

AI is only powerful as the dataset that underpins it.

What will you build?

AE @ Gong | Closed Won 🦙 | 7x President’s Club

My best prospecting month was in May. Generated 7 new meetings and about $500K in new pipeline.

All as a full-time AE running demos, pilots, and even dealing with 20 customers.

𝐀 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝:

-Didn’t take a single day off. Built it into my daily habits.

-Prospected 3-5 accounts per day and about 3-4 people at each account.

-Never did an insane day of prospecting. Never broke a day of even 60+ activities. “Do a little every day, so you never have to do a lot.”

-Mixed up multi-channel. LI, video, calling, gifting, warm intros. Different prospects respond better to each. Try them all.

-Did unscalable prospecting methods. Sent custom gifts to people’s homes. Bought a prospect’s book they authored. Prospect how other sellers would never dare.

-Systematized everything. Used my sequences for 2 personas. High, medium, or low personalization. Used my OPPS email framework to kick off every 1st touch. Repurposed it over and over via multi-channel.


Comes back to my favorite motto for prospecting.

“Do a little every day, so you never have to do a lot.”

Revenue lags hard work, so keep at it to finish EOY.


P.S. Loads of resources on pipeline creation here: https://lnkd.in/gVY8Xpxc

Not sure who needs to hear this with Q4 and EOY….

But if your prospect tells you “No, I’m the decision maker on this.”

They most certainly are NOT the decision maker. 

Very junior thing to say lol

It certainly feels like we are living through the attention economy.

Every buyer is flooded with sales pitches, ads, and endless outreach. 

You no longer win because you show up … you win because you stand out.

And nothing stands out more than showing the actual product in a way that feels both engaging and personal.

That’s why Storylane has worked so well for me in 2025.

Instead of a generic deck or a static walkthrough, you can deliver interactive demos.

Buyers don’t just see a feature list, they experience how the product solves their pain.

And here’s the kicker: once they’ve gone through a demo, they’re more invested. 

At Gong, we know the most effective sales motions are the ones that get buyers leaning in early. 

Attention is scarce. Storylane helps you earn it and keep it.

Brand partnership • AE @ Gong | Closed Won 🦙 | 7x President’s Club

Nate Nasralla

Co-Founder

Fluint

Stop losing deals when you're not in the room.

Start selling with committed buying champions to land more enterprise deals.

Our platform is built on the fact B2B deals are won and lost during a buyer's internal meetings — not sales meetings. When champions pitch your product, and teams debate your value, without you.

But most deal champions wing their message, or create their own pitch materials, because they won’t send templated product decks filled with marketing speak to their boss.

To help, Fluint converts your buyer's own words from sales calls into a personalized business case your prospects are proud to champion with you.

Co-Founder & CEO

Sales Assembly

Executive in Residence

Pavilion

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Chief Growth Officer

Network for Good

Developed our company’s first-ever enterprise sales division, which grew from $0 to represent 30% of core-product ARR in its first few years.

• Engineered the (successful) launch of the company’s enterprise-level sales operation by developing an end-to-end buyer journey including marketing automation, product offering, pricing strategy, go-to-market strategy, and rep recruitment/retention;

• Created and implemented the company’s first-ever outbound sales strategy to grow core-product ACV, scaling to represent 30% of ARR;

• Personally sold $1.5M while also managing the sales team and cross-functional responsibilities;

• Built, delivered, and managed the sales-effectiveness program for a 25-person sales team, while spearheading a six-month, company-wide integration project to ensure all business areas understand and address the unique needs of a new enterprise customer type.

Managing Director, Enterprise Division

Sr. Sales Director

DonorPath

Co-founded DonorPath, growing the company from its first pilot customers to the successful acquisition by Network for Good, overseeing sales operations, marketing strategy, customer renewal, and the implementation of its company-wide growth dashboard. 

• Directed the acquisition of over 300 B2B customers, moving the company beyond its “pilot” phase;

• Built the segmentation and Marcom strategy to match the right messages to our customers, consultants, and partners, balancing the needs of all;

• Pioneered 2 sales channels new to the nonprofit sector, increasing our growth rate to 70% year-over-year and becoming the first nonprofit software to sell through foundation partners;

• Developed a cross-functional, company-wide dashboard to measure marketing conversion, pipeline efficiency, revenue growth, customer retention, and year-over-year growth.

Charles River Associates

• Directed six separate comparable company analyses used in an economic valuation for the largest bankruptcy proceeding in Canadian history.

• Created the profitability model used to value a patent infringement for one of the world’s largest video game manufacturers.
 
• Authored sections to the opinion reports of the top intellectual property and transfer pricing experts that were relied upon in two notable legal proceedings.

• Developed the ability to quickly distill ambiguous and often large quantities of data into key, actionable insights.

Consultant, Tech & IP Valuation

Tiesta Tea Company

• Initiated relationships with two grocery store chains each with yearly revenue in excess of $3 billion;

• Worked alongside two of the top three largest national grocery distribution companies in addition to structuring customized supplier contracts to fulfill large account needs;

• Developed over twenty account strategies to engage and retain the company’s profitable clients;

• Launched the company’s food safety and recall program to comply with federal regulations.

Director, Business Development

LeaderTreks

- Coordinated funding and logistical details with global non-profit organizations for student trips
- Trained three separate work teams in brick and mortar construction and was responsible for the team’s safety and construction progress of a two story orphanage facility 
- Managed the schedule of a group of fifteen people and facilitated daily performance reviews

Team Leader

I'll teach you to sell with buyers, not to them I Founder @ Fluint.io

Selling with buyers (not to them), by creating deal champions is my jam.

More long-form writing at fluint.io/blog.

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The backstory, if you're curious: 

B2B sales has been my whole career, and I love it. 

Sometimes, I’m founding the products I sell. Other times, building teams to sell. 

I used to think sales reps close deals. Over time, I realized they don’t — buyers do.

That’s because buying decisions are made during the internal conversations happening about you, without you.

It's why I founded Fluint. To help B2B sales teams sell with their buyers, not to them. To stop losing deals when they're not in the room. 

I send out long-form content and templates/frameworks on this approach, Buyer Enablement, 2X per month. Signup for that email here: 

fluint.io/newsletter 💌

Stop losing deals when you're not in the room.

Start selling with committed buying champions to land more enterprise deals.

Our platform is built on the fact B2B deals are won and lost during a buyer's internal meetings — not sales meetings. When champions pitch your product, and teams debate your value, without you.

But most deal champions wing their message, or create their own pitch materials, because they won’t send templates product decks filled with marketing speak to their boss.

To help, Fluint converts your buyer's own words from sales calls into a personalized business case your prospects are proud to champion with you. 

Join our private beta 👉🏼 nate@fluint.io

If you want to hire reps who can “close,” head's up.

Closing isn’t a skill. It’s an outcome.

It's the byproduct of a rep who:

1/ Finds and frames a high-cost, high-priority problem
2/ Gets exec-level buy-in on the vision for what's possible
3/ Creates consensus on the right way to go make it happen
4/ Builds the case to invest in it, w/ a compelling narrative
5/ Keeps (genuine) urgency and follow-through to go-live
6/ Gracefully navigates blockers along the way

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = “Closing.”

It’s an outcome with a lotta inputs.

It’s not a standalone skill.

Co-Founder @ Fluint | Simplifying complex sales I Author of Selling With I "Dad" to Olli, the AI agent for B2B teams

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