How To Create AI Assistants For Sales Tasks

Le-an Lai Lacaba
4 min readMay 31, 2024

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In today’s competitive business landscape, AI sales assistants are becoming indispensable tools for streamlining sales processes and improving efficiency.

These digital assistants can handle a variety of tasks, from consulting to client qualification and proposal writing, freeing up human agents to focus on more complex interactions.

As an AI Consultant myself, I’ll be sharing with you through this comprehensive guide on how to create effective AI assistants for sales using ChatGPT.

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Step 1: Setting Up Your AI Assistant

To begin, you’ll need a basic understanding of ChatGPT, and advanced language model developed by OpenAI.

Here’s how to get started:

1. Initiate a Clean Thread

Start with a clean thread in ChatGPT to ensure no previous data influences the responses.

2. W.O.A.H. Method

If you have been a reader of my AI articles, you must already be familiar with this method. However, if you just discovered this, let me walk you through it.

  • Who: Introduce yourself and your business.
  • Outcome: Specify the outcome you need from the assistant.
  • Are you ready?: Asking this to determine ChatGPT’s readiness for the task.
  • How: Provide detailed instructions on how you want it to be done.

Step 2: Creating Specific AI Assistants

1. Sales Consultant

  • Objective: Help in consulting tasks tailored for your business
  • Set-up: Introduce your role and request ChatGPT to act as a sales consultant
  • Interaction: Provide detailed information about your sales goals and ask for actionable steps.

Example Prompt:

I am an AI consultant for coaches and consultants for their operations and marketing and implementing AI in their business. I need you to specialize in being a sales consultant, focusing on helping consultants improve their sales strategies. Are you ready? I need your responses to be straight to the point and with action steps if applicable.

2. Client Checker

  • Objective: Qualify potential clients based on ideal client persona.
  • Set-up: Describe your ideal client persona and ask ChatGPT to create a qualification process.
  • Interaction: Input potential client data and ask ChatGPT to evaluate suitability.

Example Prompt:

I am an AI consultant for coaches and consultants for their operations and marketing and implementing AI in their business. I need you to specialize in being a client checker. Create an ideal client persona and help qualify potential clients based on this persona. Are you ready? I need your responses to be straight to the point and with action steps if applicable.

3. Lead Generation Email Writer

  • Objective: Craft effective outreach emails for lead generation.
  • Set-up: Specify the platform (e.g., LinkedIn) and the type of outreach emails needed.
  • Interaction: Provide details about your target audience and ask for email drafts.

Example Prompt:

I am an AI consultant for coaches and consultants for their operations and marketing and implementing AI in their business. I need you to specialize in writing LinkedIn outreach messages that get responses. Are you ready? I need your responses to be straight to the point and with action steps if applicable.

4. Responder for Lead Generation Emails

  • Objective: Respond to inquiries and follow-ups from lead generation efforts.
  • Set-up: Outline your services and common inquiries.
  • Interaction: Provide incoming emails and ask ChatGPT to draft appropriate responses.

Example Prompt:

Based on my services, can you help draft responses to potential client inquiries? I need your responses to be straight to the point and with action steps if applicable.

5. Proposal and Offer Writer

  • Objective: Generate proposals and offers tailored to client needs.
  • Set-up: Input details about your business, services, and desired proposal format.
  • Interaction: Ask ChatGPT to create comprehensive proposals based on client interactions.

Example Prompt:

I need you to create proposals for potential clients. Here is the information about my business and services. Can you draft a proposal format? I need your responses to be straight to the point and with action steps if applicable.

3. Customizing and Fine-Tuning

  • Continuous Improvement: Regularly provide feedback to ChatGPT to improve its responses
  • Specific Instructions: Offer detailed and specific inputs to refine the outputs.
  • Training Staff: Teach your team how to use ChatGPT effectively for consistent results.

4. Leveraging AI for Business Growth

  • Efficiency: Use AI assistants to handle repetitive task, allowing your team user to focus on more complex issues.
  • Scalability: AI can help manage increasing volumes of inquiries and tasks without additional human resources.
  • Personalization: Customize interactions based on the client data to improve engagement and conversion rates.

Implementing AI assistants in your sales process can significantly enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

By following the steps mentioned in this article, you can create tailored AI tools using ChatGPT that address various aspects of the sales cycle, from consulting and client qualification to lead generation and proposal writing.

Start small, continuously refine, and scale up as needed to see substantial improvements in your sales operations.

When you’re ready, go ahead and start and book our 15-minute call and we’ll discuss next steps!

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Le-an Lai Lacaba

Le-an Lai, Co-Founder of 2xYou, helps service-based entrepreneurs transition from owning a job to owning a business through remote executive assistant services.