Sales AI Tools & Tips

There are many generative AI models you can use now for free. Here's a cheat sheet

My entire outbound strategy, broken down: Channels I use: → LinkedIn - use this for prospecting info, outreach, and to be a familiar face. → Twitter - great for personalization golden nuggets & company info. → Cold email - my primary outbound channel → Cold calls - amazing for meeting quantity → Network - ask for intros all the time even if they may not know them. Then send a gift card after for the intro (don't mention gift card before) → Current customers - I ask for referrals since people hop around to similar companies. (I use the same message each time) → In-Person Drop By's - cookies, handwritten notes, donuts, you name it. Resources: → ChatGPT4o/Deep Research - I use this religiously to feed me articles, podcasts, blogs, and anything else my prospects are featured in. I also use it for summaries. → Google - I google "their name + twitter" for personal info and "their name + job title" for anything else ChatGPT isn't catching. → Career Pages - I check to see if they're hiring for any relevant role. I run the career page through ChatGPT 4 and tell it to give me an idea of why they're hiring for the role. → 10k Report / Investor Day Report - I use this to see what the company is focusing on as well as what challenges they ran into the year before. → Listen Notes -> a search engine for podcasts. search your prospect to see if they've been featured in a podcast How I stand out: → Research: Knowing their business automatically makes you stand out. → Photobooth - I take selfies with a whiteboard and their logo drawn on it. → Canva - I create graphics to add in follow up emails. Many times this has their company logo and mine on it. → Cookie Drop Offs - I drop fresh cookies off at their office with a handwritten note. → Prospecting videos - I create 30-40 second prospecting videos using Sendspark. I follow a specific structure: Personalization line, hook line, how I can help line, CTA → Next-day follow ups: I love following up the next day after my initial email What I do daily: → LinkedIn - I post on LinkedIn every day and comment on every post made from my prospects. This is the first thing I do to start my work day. → Personalized/Well Researched Emails: 10 a day minimum. Doesn't sound like a ton but it's very tailored to their business. → Research - Every week I focus on a few accounts and every day I research to see if there's anything new that could be helpful. → Learning - I spend time reading articles and listening to podcasts in my industry. Most reps don't spend enough time doing this. Underrated IMO. How I structure my day: → I don't follow a specific structure. Every day looks different. One day I'll be on hours of customer calls and the other I'll be driving 2 hours to drop off cookies. --------------- ps, im coming out with the only way for sellers to compete & learn each other globally. early access here: https://lnkd.in/dYBkQP-E | 34 comments on LinkedIn

“I need a sales team.” No, you don’t. At least not yet. Sales isn’t a mechanism for creating demand. It’s a mechanism for responding to it. Hiring reps before you have traction is like hiring lifeguards before you’ve filled the pool...there’s nothing for them to do. Early-stage sales is a pull signal. It tells you the market is moving toward you — and you’re falling behind. Until you’re overwhelmed by inbound, the job belongs to you, the founder. → Find the demand → Validate the need → Build only what gets pulled  💥 Sales is a bottleneck to solve, not a shortcut to growth. This insight — and a dozen others that hit a little too close to home — came from a killer deck by Rob Snyder Rob at Harvard Innovation Labs. If you’re building anything (especially early-stage), go read it. | 25 comments on LinkedIn

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I want to create a public list of the best content & marketing tools. But I need your help… Reply with your stack of tools and I’ll give you early access to the list 👇 P.S. here’s my stack: 1) storyarb - content marketing 2) Distro - content ideation, repurposing, editing 3) beehiiv - email newsletter platform 4) GrowthPair - marketing task delegation 5) OpusClip - video content repurposing 6) Shield - linkedin analytics 7) Riverside.fm - podcast recording 8) Lindy - marketing/content automations 9) CapCut - video editing | 72 comments on LinkedIn

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I've tried 100+ tools to run my businesses & spent 10 years to find my favorites. Here's my current stack: Software: - Formation: doola - CRM: HubSpot - Note-taking: Granola - Content creation: Distro - Research: ChatGPT - Banking: Mercury - HR: Gusto - Automation: Lindy - Design: Figma Services: - Marketing support: GrowthPair - Content marketing: storyarb - Offshore VA/finance/ops: Oceans - Bookkeeping: Better Bookkeeping - Trademark Law: Josh Gerben - Startup Law: Bobby Weinberger - CEO coach: Dave Kashen | 17 comments on LinkedIn

You don't need 67 AI Sales tools. Just a few good ones. How to use them: Sales Decks → Gamma Create a deck in seconds with one prompt. Forget PowerPoint. Personalize offers at scale. Copywriting → GPT-o3 (OpenAI) Rewrite emails and DMs instantly. Clear, sharp, personalized copy, on demand. Videos → OpusClip Turn long videos into viral shorts. Perfect for social selling. AI SDR → Topo (YC W24) Let an AI agent run outbound for you. Scalable, efficient, nonstop prospecting. Negotiation → Substrata Decode hidden signals and power plays. Win more deals by reading between the lines. Sales Coaching → Trellus (YC W22) Live feedback during calls. Like having a sales trainer in your ear. Revenue Intelligence → Attention Your entire pipeline, automatically analyzed. No more manual notes or lost insights. LinkedIn Posts → EasyGen Top reps post consistently. This tool helps you do it faster and better. The tools are ready. Now it’s on you to use them. | 135 comments on LinkedIn

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Just wrapped up a call answering one of the most frequently asked questions (also filling up my DMs!): How does Clay work? Here’s a structured breakdown: The 3 main types of leads in Clay → Inbound leads – from marketing initiatives → Warm or high-intent leads – engaged prospects → Cold outreach lists – targeted outreach ___________________________ 1. Inbound leads: Pretty straightforward—you run marketing campaigns, generate leads, and webhook them into Clay. ↳ These leads then stream into a Clay table automatically. 2. Warm or high-intent leads: These include people engaging with your LinkedIn posts, visiting your website, joining your Slack community, or even mentioning your company in a Reddit thread. ↳ Clay can capture, score, enrich, normalize, and qualify these leads automatically. 3. Cold outreach lists: You can also build highly ICP-specific cold outreach lists directly within Clay. ↳ Whether you're mapping out your TAM or targeting a niche segment, Clay helps you structure and enrich your data for effective outreach. How clay fits into your tech stack? → Think of Clay as a data intermediary—a central hub where data flows in, undergoes transformation/enrichment, and then moves out to tools like HubSpot, Outreach, or Salesforce. Common question: does Clay replace Salesforce, HubSpot, or ZoomInfo? → Not exactly. It can replace ZoomInfo’s enrichment capabilities, but if you already have a ZoomInfo contract, you can use both. ↳ Example: Pull leads from ZoomInfo → enrich them in Clay → push them to HubSpot. Clay is complementary, not necessarily a full replacement. (Shoutout to Patrick Spychalski, the OG for this structured explanation - HUGE FAN 🙌 ) | 14 comments on LinkedIn

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