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🚀 Highly-requested updates to our browser extension are HERE! Try out all our exciting new scheduling features without ever leaving the tab you’re on. ⬇ 1️⃣ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 If you like to book your next follow-up meeting live on a call, this one's for you! Schedule your next follow-up right from our extension, so your meeting stays connected to all your pre-set automations, like text and email reminders. 2️⃣ 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 See a contact’s details and scheduling history, or even book your next meeting with them, straight from our new contacts tab. 3️⃣ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 From our extension, you can send a teammate’s scheduling link, or even book a meeting directly on their behalf. For example, if you’re an SDR, you can now easily hand-off a prospect to your AE in real time. 4️⃣ 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 You can now double book a high-priority meeting over internal work/focus blocks and schedule outside your available hours via our extension. There are so many gems within this product update! Go download our free extension today, check ‘em all out, and let us know which update is your favorite! 🤩 Available on Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Outlook add-in. P.S. These updates are customer approved by our friends at Docusign, MessageDesk, and CI Assante Wealth Management. ✅

Happy #WorldEmojiDay! Can you guess these three Calendly features based only on emojis? 🚗 ✉️❗️ 📊 📅 👍 ⏰ 💼 ✍️

Want your sales reps to nail every meeting? Teach them these 2 game-changing tips. 1. Faster is Better We’ve all heard that responding quickly to inbound leads dramatically increases our win rates. According to the Harvard Business Review, 78% of prospects purchase from the first respondent. Every high-performing sales team I work with uses scheduling automation for inbound leads, with most relying on something like Calendly’s Round Robin feature. Speed to lead is of paramount importance for inbound, but what about outbound? Using scheduling automation in outbound is the secret to running faster sales cycles because you capitalize on the emotional buying peak. 👉 The Emotional Buying Peak The emotional buying peak is why scheduling automation isn’t just for inbound leads. The "emotional buying peak" in sales refers to the moment when a buyer's emotions are most intensely aligned with making a purchase. It’s when the buyer feels the strongest urge or desire to buy, driven by emotions such as excitement, relief, or anticipation of benefits. This is the optimal time to close the sale. If you make it easy to meet with you faster, you run shorter sales cycles. Shorter sales cycles result in your buyer spending a larger percentage of the sales cycle in the emotional buying peak allowing you to close more deals.  To run faster, better meetings your reps need to use scheduling automation.   First, book the initial meeting quickly to leverage first responder favoritism.  Next, book follow-up meetings during the current meeting using a feature like Calendly’s browser extension. 2. No Agenda No Attenda You’ve set the meeting, now how do you get the prospect to show up? Using automated meeting reminders is table stakes. I customize my reminders based on the type of meeting that was booked. My reminders go out 2 days before & 3 hours before every meeting in my calendar. Reminding a prospect of the time and date of a meeting isn’t enough. You need to remind them why they agreed to meet in the first place and why they should show up now. The easiest way to accomplish this is to set a client-facing agenda. I leverage Calendly’s ability to create custom fields that prospects complete during the booking process to help set great agendas. WARNING: Don’t over-complicate this process. Adding too many questions adds friction which discourages folks from completing the meeting request. I suggest 1-2 added custom fields so make them count. I ask: What is the # 1 problem you need to solve in the next 6 months that we should talk about during our call? #BetterMeetings #CalendlyCollab

Want to dive deep into our API, build powerful integrations, or explore other technical possibilities? Come on over to our Developer Community! 👋 It's the ultimate destination for all things technical. You can ask us for troubleshooting help or questions like: ➡ How do I use Calendly's API to fetch invitee.create events for a given time period? ➡ Can I hide event details on an embed? ➡ How do I disable the cookie banner in my embed? Our community also has: 👉 Detailed documentation to help you make the most of our API 👉 Integration insights on how to build and enhance your workflows 👉 Tech chats with fellow developers and Calendly pros Let us know if you’ve already stopped by our Developer community — or if you’re heading over for the first time! #API #integrations #developers

All of the above? Or any other cringeworthy meeting moments we missed? Let’s hear it! ⤵ #BetterMeetings

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It's time to flip the script on meetings. Because whether you love meetings or hate them, there's no denying they drive our teams and businesses forward when done right. ✅ Build a culture of collaborative and productive meetings with our CRO Jessica Gilmartin's five actionable tips. Link below to dive deeper! P.S. Let us know how you're upgrading your team's meeting culture in the comments. We're all ears. ⬇ #BetterMeetings

A great reason to be a marketer at Calendly… We don’t just try to sell you on the highest priced plan. Patrick Moore and I recently gave an honest look at the value for recruiting teams on each Calendly plan (even our free plan). Take a listen, see what you think, and find the one that’s right for you! 👇👇👇

#BetterMeetings or bust! Try out our pre, during, and post-meeting tips to break through meeting fatigue and make your team gatherings collaborative and productive this summer. 💪 1. Share an agenda, always Building an agenda makes you question: “Is this meeting really necessary?" In the comments, steal our very own agenda template and use it as inspiration. 2. Set the meeting tone ASAP Play some tunes at the top of the meeting to get the good vibes flowing immediately! Music often sparks fun conversations in the chat and can act as an easy ice breaker. What's your go-to meeting song? 👀 3. Align on next steps If no one takes action on the plans you made during the meeting, what was the point? Before everyone leaves, share a decision recap and align on next steps so everyone's on the same page. More practical meeting tips below ⬇