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The AI Edge
Sales Strategies for Unleashing the Power of AI to Save Time, Sell More, and Crush the Competition (Jeb Blount)
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Salespeople who embrace AI will have a decisive advantage over those who don’t, say experienced sales authors Jeb Blount and Anthony Iannarino. Selling still requires interpersonal skills and a human touch that robots can’t emulate, but AI empowers sellers in many ways. It can reduce guesswork and drudgery by performing low-impact administrative tasks and customer research, or even by developing a planned sequence for contacting prospects. Blount and Iannarino assert that salespeople will be left behind if they don't learn to harness AI – and then, they tell you how.
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About the Authors
Jeb Blount, who runs the sales training company Sales Gravy, is the author of many sales books, including Fanatical Prospecting and Selling in a Crisis. Anthony Iannarino, who wrote The Lost Art of Closing and The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need, publishes daily at thesalesblog.com.
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- AI is an essential tool for modern salespeople, giving an advantage to those who embrace it over those who don't.
- Selling still requires human skills, like emotional intelligence, empathy, and interpersonal skills to build trust and relationships.
-AI reduces drudgery by automating low-impact tasks (like admin, data entry, routine emails) so sellers can focus on high-impact activities (prospecting, pitching, closing, retention).
- Success requires combining human intelligence (innate, emotional) with technological intelligence (ability to adopt and use new tech like AI).
-Verify AI output because it can be inaccurate, biased, or fabricated; the output's quality depends on the data quality and the sophistication of your prompts.
-Focus on quality prompts—clear, concise, and productive—to get sound responses on the first try.
-Avoid robotic-sounding communication (like AI-generated voice messages or videos) as prospects will recognize and reject them as spam.
-Use AI to develop effective prospecting sequences (a preplanned series of contact messages across channels like calls, email, social media).
- AI helps prioritize leads by scoring prospects using intent data to predict the likelihood of purchase.
-AI isn't effective for writing personalized, persuasive messages (it focuses on logic, not emotion), but it can swiftly gather research for you to write them.
-Use AI for "slow prospecting" by creating captivating visual content and posting consistently on social media to build your personal brand and authority.
-AI can help define an Ideal Customer Profile and develop open-ended questions for effective discovery (exploratory conversations).
-No AI tool substitutes for discovery, which is the art of asking sincere, exploratory questions and listening to the prospect.
-AI enhances proposals by making them dynamic, multimedia storytelling experiences and helps research rivals and address objections.
-AI will increasingly act as a coach, helping prepare for closings, predict deal derailment, and even screen contract details for unacceptable terms.
- CRM systems will become more powerful with AI integration, handling tasks like creating qualified prospect lists and optimizing outreach timing.