Thursday Thoughts on AI: Artificial Intelligence and Sales

Last week, the blog post was about using artificial intelligence (AI) in developing requests for proposals. Some companies have taken it further, using AI platforms to manage the entire buying process.

Similarly, there are effective ways to integrate AI with your sales process. And if you run an in-plant, you have to sell to your users and leadership – so many of these techniques will work for you.

Four ways to use AI to assist with sales:

1. Research. Before a sales call, or a meeting with management, you can use AI to build a profile of the prospect. Feed the AI engine the website address, a LinkedIn profile, and other notes. Create a prompt that asks for key pain points, likely objections, and tailored talking themes.
   
   
2. Competitive Intelligence. What’s the other team doing? Prompt the AI tool to summarize what your competitor may be proposing. In some cases, it may even find potential pricing.
   
   
3. Objection Handling. An AI agent can roleplay as a skeptical prospect. Have a back-and-forth dialogue to practice responses to tough objections.
   
   
4. Maximize Your CRM Platform. AI tools can now integrate with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Through natural language prompts, the AI agent can create reports, summarize activities and propose priorities.

Bonus info: My sales coach, Lisa Magnuson, has several great courses on LinkedIn Learning that take these ideas to the next level. Her courses include:

• B2B Sales: Pre-call Prep with AI Role Plays http://bit.ly/4oY3pzf
  
  
• Sales Strategy: Key Account Growth with AI https://bit.ly/40py1hD
  
  
• Using AI for Executive Sales Presentations https://bit.ly/3Vxorrx

Amazing Astronomical Fact: Why do stars twinkle, but planets don’t? If you spend any time looking at the night sky, you’ll notice that stars shimmer and twinkle, while planets just look like points of light.

As a star’s light passes through the Earth’s atmosphere, the different layers of air bend the light in different directions. Because planets have a greater relative width, their light is immune from the atmosphere’s impact.

The photo with this post shows Jupiter and the Galileo Moons.

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