Liberating you and your business with AI: sales and marketing

Sales and marketing are essential for finding new customers but eat into your business time. We explore how the latest AI agents can automate many of your sales and marketing tasks.

Sales and marketing are fundamental elements of finding new customers. But sales and marketing activity can also be a major draw on your time and resources.

So, wouldn’t it be great if you could automate some of the basic sales, marketing, and social media activity? The reality is that AI is more than capable of taking on these tasks.

Let’s look at five areas of your sales and promotional activity where AI tools and AI agents can take on some of the fundamental workload.

1. Sales

AI sales agents can automate some of the most time-consuming parts of the sales process, including lead qualification, follow-up emails, and scheduling. Agents score leads based on their likelihood to convert, helping you focus on the most promising prospects. They can also analyse sales calls to provide insights on what works, and what doesn't.

AI product example: HubSpot Sales Software is AI-powered sales software that offers guided selling, sales engagement, deal management, reporting and analytics, CPQ (configure, price, quote), and coaching for your human sales team.

2. Business development

To boost your business development, AI agents can help you find new opportunities and increase your access to prospect data. They can scrape public data sources, like LinkedIn, to build comprehensive lead profiles, identify key contacts, and even track job changes to turn existing relationships into new business opportunities.

AI product example: Apollo.io is an AI-driven sales platform that provides you with sales intelligence, pipeline builders, a call assistant, and enrichment of your prospect data.

3. Marketing

A true AI marketing agent automates and optimises your whole campaign, not just the campaign content. Agents use your customer data to personalise customer journeys, predict the best time to send emails, and even recommend the next best actions for improving the campaign's performance. You get better marketing results with less time-intensive manual effort.

AI product example: Active Intelligence is an AI-powered marketing tool that brings together data points and purpose-built AI agents to deliver fully-realised marketing strategies.

4. Social media

AI agents for social media can automate your content creation, scheduling, and performance analysis – all within the one tool. Agents can generate post ideas, write captions, and suggest the best times to post for maximum engagement. They can also provide insights into what your audience is saying about your brand, competitors, and wider industry trends.

AI product example: OwlyGPT is a social media AI assistant from Hootsuite. Owly pulls from real-time social conversations to generate fresh insights, effective strategies, and social content that resonates with your customer audiences.

5. Data analytics

AI-powered data analytics tools help you quickly make sense of your sales and marketing data, without needing to be an analytics expert. AI agents can track hundreds of metrics, identify patterns in your customers’ behaviour, and give you tangible insights into which sales and marketing actions will drive the best results.

AI product example: Zoho Analytics is an AI-driven business intelligence and data analytics platform that’s designed to help businesses make sense of their data, without requiring a deep technical background. Zi, their AI Assistant, gives instant answers in the form of charts, reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

These strategies provide less time spent on low-level sales and marketing tasks and more time to focus on your wider business strategy, talking to customers, and working to develop your offerings.

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