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Mara Schoeppner January 23, 2025 at 09:03 PM

Anyone here decide on not renewing their G2 contract? It’s not a lead generator, we have gotten a lot of reviews this past year and the insights are great… but the platform is expensive and with a smaller budget I’d rather use these fund elsewhere to amplify customer stories/videos etc. What are the pros/cons of just having free profiles on G2?

Mary Green (Owner CMAweekly) January 23, 2025 at 09:45 PM

This comes up every year, generally I've seen people in the <#C04KPMMKQSF|> channel discuss it. Are you in there?

Mara Schoeppner January 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM

no I can’t see the channel.. can you please add to me!

Deja Darrington January 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM

Can you please add me as well?

Evan Huck January 24, 2025 at 04:55 PM

it's a good question. there's a lot of value props for G2, but the one that is unique that you can't replicate anywhere else is the Intent Data (ie knowing when accounts are looking at your page or your competitors pages). So if you're in a mature/competitive space - this is pretty critical. G2 Clicks for lead gen has been really valueable for us as well. There's also some cool integrations w/other platforms (e.g. UserEvidence) that you can only do as a paid G2 customer.

Now - if you're not a paid G2 customer, there's still a lot you can do with G2, and it's obviously still important to invest in (even if just effort and not $) as it's a critical piece of buyer discovery and evaluation.
• You can still have a great page w/lots of reviews (plenty of ways to drive reviews to G2 w/o having G2 do the recruitment, tho it is nice)
• You can still leverage some of your G2 review content and badges (just can't publish your spot in grids etc and can't do more sophisticated content w/o the Content subscription)

Emily Coleman January 30, 2025 at 05:48 PM

@Mary Green (Owner CMAweekly) can you add me to this channel, too?