Master Any Sales Skill 10x Faster: Your AI Sales Coach is Here

Author

Kingsley Hall
May 30, 2023

Read time: 5 minutes

In the dynamic world of sales, improving your skills is vital to stay ahead. However, it's often difficult to find the time or the resources to practice and enhance these skills, especially when it involves others' time too. Objection handling, discovery, and active listening are critical skills, yet they're the hardest to develop due to their dependency on someone else's availability.

It's not just about finding the right person to practice with but also syncing your schedules, all the while maintaining your routine work. This problem could be a major setback in developing your sales skills to their fullest potential, affecting your overall productivity, ability to close deals and future job opportunities.

In this newsletter I am going to introduce a conversational AI assistant that will finally allow you to train these skillsets in an effective, convenient, time-efficient way and she’s free...Introducing Ask Annie.

Powered by advanced ChatGPT AI technology, ask Annie is a readily available 'practice buddy' that never runs out of patience, always ready to role-play different scenarios, and here to sharpen your skills in handling various Sales conversations and objections. Used right she can be a game-changing tool to help you radically develop your skills in selling. Here’s how to leverage her:

Step 1: Install Ask Annie

  • For now this is IOS availability only

  • Allow microphone permissions, the author notes that no audio data is recorded

Step 2: Ask her the following Prompt

  • Tailoring the persona, solution and challenges dependent on your role:

"I'm looking to improve my sales skills particularly in the areas of handling objections and discovery. Lets do a roleplay where I'll be a sales representative from a software company and you are the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a potential client. Our company specializes in cybersecurity solutions. The purpose of this call is to understand your current cybersecurity challenges, the solutions you have in place, and how our product might be a fit for your needs. Please react as the CIO might with questions, concerns, and objections so I can practice responding to them effectively. I would also appreciate if you could provide me with feedback and suggestions for improvement after I say conclude conversation. Thank you."

Step 3: Adjust and Iterate

Not liking her form? Simply share your feedback with her (don’t worry AI doesn’t take offense)

  • Shorten her responses

  • Change her Persona

  • Change her attitude

Step 4: Schedule a routine

  • Like any learning and development plan, a routine is essential to fast track your mastery in a skill, decide on a target and a time to do it and build this into your workflow. e.g. “30 Minutes every morning before I start my work day.”

Boom, there you have it a training partner to radically improve some of the hardest to learn sales skills, all whilst receiving live feedback.

Granted whilst conversation AI like Ask Annie, still has room for perfection, it presents a viable solution for time-efficient sales skill development. This tool provides valuable practice in key areas such as objection handling and discovery. Despite its limitations, Ask Annie marks a significant step forward, making sales training more convenient and less dependent on others. For now enjoy this tool as a customisable practice environment for honing critical sales skills such as objection handling, discovery, and active listening to radically improve your ability to close more deals and land that dream job role.

Thanks for tuning into the third edition of this newsletter. I am always trying to improve to make each release as valuable as possible. If you have any feedback, positive or negative feel free to email me at [email protected]m