Chris Bogue Communications

Writer and video consultant living in Chicago. I make short, personalized video content that drives revenue for business owners. I also train sales, marketing, and customer success teams to add video prospecting to their existing processes.

Owner

Death by Powerpoint

An interactive improv-based live show where competitors must do battle by presenting a Powerpoint presentation they have never seen before.

Host

Sendspark

Simplifying the short video creation process for B2B sellers.

Strategic Advisor

Chris Sells His Soul

Chris Sells His Soul is a show about monetizing creativity. Join Chris Bogue and guests for thoughtful conversations about how to benefit from your talents.

RevPartners

Launched the Rev Partners content creator cohort. I coached 12 creators and helped them develop original content series to promote their personal brands and create new pipeline and audience growth. Somehow made Robert Jones 10 times funnier.

Creative Advisor

Packback

Owning the sales process from prospect, to cold call, to demo, to deal construction, to close, to renewal. Collaborating with the nation's top universities for educational consultation for remote learning.

Experienced Strategy Consultant at Packback

Belly

Focused on relationship management, account growth, feature adoption, upsells, and referrals. Specialized in high-risk accounts whose cases were escalated based on likelihood to cancel.

Customer Development Manager

XPO Logistics, Inc.

Account Manager

Groupon

Inside Sales, prospecting and consulting with over 100 different businesses helping them acquire tens of thousands of new customers, negotiating contracts, using Twitter, Yelp, and other social media to identify new and creative businesses to be featured on the website

Account Representative

Paige Personnel Services

Setting up fundraisers, building relationships with new clients, and coordinating with independent sales representatives in all 50 states

Inside Sales

Writer and video coach specializing in sales and sketch comedy. I help people sound natural and play to the top of their intelligence on camera.

I coach an improv-based approach to content creation and sales. It's all about being direct, supportive, and fun!

Chris Bogue

Suck at something this weekend

Most people are scared of doing things they are not good at. That's why I always think about Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to do one thing every day that scares you


🎷🎅🏻 This weekend I will be practicing Christmas tunes so I don't suck at the family Christmas party this year

I'm still bad. But every day I get a little better.


There's so much pressure in this world to be perfect. I support people loving what they do even if they suck at it and never plan to make money off of it.

Dare to suck. Have a great weekend, everybody

Coaching sales and building processes that break patterns and drive revenue 🎬

Holy crap Gemini. I am officially impressed.

I uploaded a 30 minute audio file of me practicing saxophone


You all know I'm not easy to impress when it comes to AI, but I was shocked by the feedback

✅ It ranked the songs by how well I played
🎼 Identified specific moments where tuning was an issue
🎷 Even analyzed my tone and gave me notes on what to do with my jaw to get a more velvety sound


If you create audio or video content, try uploading a file straight to Gemini and asking it for feedback

PS I'm also taking requests for Christmas sax jams so drop em if you got em

Text: Google Gemini suddenly became a good saxophone teacher

Image: Chris Bogue playing a saxophone looking up at the text

My hot take? AI hasn't changed sales very much 🤷‍♂️

Sure there's been lots of layoffs and hype for automation, but how has it actually changed the buying and selling experience?


Buyers
❌ Still don't trust salespeople
❌ Still can't get a straight answer without taking a meeting

Sellers
❌ Still have to do research because AI is unreliable
❌ Still have to work their asses off to build and maintain relationships because buyers hate being on the receiving end of automation


Sales is frustrating. Always has been. Always will be.

IMO learning the boring fundamentals and working your ass off is and will always be a safer bet than learning AI

Social Media Consultant

Experian Employer Services

Senior Business Development Representative

Lady Polaris

Providing business development services, copywriting, email cadences, consulting, social media content creation, and advisory to startups and small businesses.

Business Owner

Insquad

Built out entire outbound sales motion for SMB and MM from scratch

Opened up a brand new ICP and market 

Wrote all LinkedIn messages, objection replies, and more 

Worked closely with marketing to align outbound and inbound

Brought in 10x my salary in pipeline

Brought attention to domain reputation and email deliverability and worked with IT to get us out of spam. 

Increased open rates from 30% - 40% to 60-80%. 

Set up a brand new Outreach account with sequences, templates, snippets, and more. 

Coached SDRs on cold calls, emails, etc. 

Built out sales playbook and competitor battle cards (my Notion is 🔥)

…and a lot more.

SDR Team Lead

SurveyMonkey 

Midmarket BDR for the entire SurveyMonkey product suite. 

Dec: 120% - First Month on Quota 
Jan: 250% 
Feb: 114% 
Promoted to Sr. BDR
March 142% 
Q1 - 165% qualified opps, 204% closed/won
Q2 - 108% 
Promoted to Principal BDR

Principal Business Development Representative

Tripadvisor

Full-Cycle Business Development (Hotels, Business Intelligence Software) 
Hit all new hire/ramp up KPIs at 100%
Top performer in ramp up MBO (Closed/Won Trials)
20 - 50 outbound prospecting activities daily - 100-150% of target

Business Development Executive

Allstate

150% - 250% of quota each month ✅
Generated 1.5 million in Marketplace premiums ⚕️
Successful Mentor to New Agents 👩🏫

Licensed Health Insurance Broker

Heidi Briones

Candidate for Congress

Wells Fargo

Consistently provided five star customer experience to credit card customers ⭐

Phone Banker

Tesla

Saved over $50,000/shift by reworking Model 3 battery modules🔋
Helped EV become more accessible and affordable ⚡

Quality Assurance Associate

Habitual Conversation Starter / Educator / Former Candidate for Congress / Writer / Queen of Controversial Topics

When I tell someone about my life experiences… well, they have questions. They sometimes even invite me on their podcasts to share my stories. 🎙 

Someone said about me, "To describe Heidi as merely engaging or insightful would be akin to calling the sun a warm lightbulb. She is, in truth, a supernova of jubilance, a quasar of congeniality, and the very embodiment of earthly authenticity, all coalesced into a being of such extraordinary charm that the fabric of reality itself seems to bend in admiration around her."

Okay, it was ChatGPT, but whatever. 

Let’s connect and support each other! For business, personal, and media inquiries reach me at heidibriones@gmail.com

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