Can AI power your ENTIRE sales funnel? 🤔

Hey AI Puppies, 

Of the many industries where AI is flourishing, sales might just top the list 💼

Because despite the importance of human connection in the sales process, ask anyone in the industry – it also requires a lot of research, analysis, and filtering through a million dead ends just to find just one prospect 😵‍💫

Enter the automation prowess of AI 🤝 

Looking to streamline your sales efforts this summer? 

Whether you’re a sales pro or know nothing about the process, we’ve gathered some of the highest-rated AI tools for every part of the sales funnel ⚡

From finding leads to centralizing your outreach to analyzing the heck out of your target customers, here’s what AI-savvy small and medium-sized business owners are using to gain an edge over the competition!

For Outreach Management: Regie.AI

Suck at prospecting? Who could blame you – outbound sales are a beast 👿

That’s why Regie.AI is a go-to for household names like Spectrum, Asana, Crunchbase, and more. 

In short, the tool puts prospects on autopilot, identifying and engaging cold leads through emails, calls, and social touches, leveraging AI-generated messages and follow-ups to engage with people at every step of the pipeline. 

Most importantly, the centralized dashboard tracks everything, empowering humans to oversee the funnel’s data with AI-powered suggestions for improvement:

There’s a free version with 1 prospect look-up and 1 campaign per month, but for the full features, you’re looking at $29 per month for individual accounts, or $89 per user per month for enterprise accounts.

For Campaign Automation: PipeLime

A similar tool with a brighter interface is PipeLime, an AI-powered automation solution for sales funnels. After entering the details of your new campaign, PipeLime will handle:

🐾 Generating leads with detailed summaries

🐾 Writing personalized emails

🐾 Following up with leads

🐾 Scheduling meetings and demos

Here’s an example of a lead dashboard from PipeLime:

The Free version includes 1,000 email recipients and 1 Mailbox warm-up per month. After that, Starter includes 3 Mailbox warm-ups per month for $15, and Pro gets you unlimited email recipients and warm-ups per month for $56. 

For LinkedIn Leads: Clay

If you really only need to focus on LinkedIn leads, Clay will do the trick ✅ 

The popular platform does a lot more than LinkedIn prospecting, but since releasing AI features, it’s earned rave reviews for LinkedIn in particular!

With its AI-powered Sales Navigator, Clay supercharges personalized sales by pulling key data like people, companies, headcounts, phone numbers, emails, and job openings into one sleek table. 

The coolest part? Clay even uses GPT-4 to summarize people’s LinkedIn posts, pulling even richer data for your research 👏

Here’s what a Clay LinkedIn table looks like:

Pro-tip: if you don’t want to add a new portal to your plate, you can also use the Clay Chrome extension to pull all this info without having to log into Clay!

The free version of Clay includes up to 100 per person/company search per month. You can try Clay Pro for free for 14 days. After that, it costs $149/month.

For Writing & Centralizing Emails and LI Messages: Zaplify

Tired of switching between email and LinkedIn to track down all of your outreach efforts? 

One of the newest tools on this list, Zaplify:

🐾Collects and manages opportunities from email and LinkedIn so you can view and reply in one place 

🐾 Leverages the power of AI to generate responses written in your very own voice

🐾 Tracks down new prospects on your behalf across a 450M+ person database. 

Here’s what the main dashboard looks like:

And here’s what potential messaging could look like:

It’s only out in beta, so now is a great time to get in on the ground floor for free 👏

For B2B Cold Email Outreach: Ava from Artisan

You’ve heard AI described as a copilot before, and Ava from Artisan AI truly lives up to this promise 🤝 

Ava is an elite AI-powered sales agent that:

🐾 Researches the best leads worth pursuing from a database of over 265 million contacts with over 65 filters 

🐾 Writes advanced email sequences in your own voice, improving her impersonation of you overtime as she sends 1000s of emails every month

🐾 Books meetings on your calendar on your behalf

Plus, if you love Slack, she can also integrate there to keep you in the loop on her latest leads 💬

Here’s her avatar and a sample email:

Ava is pretty pricey at $225 a month, but if you’re flying solo as a sales team, she might be worth it!

For Website Chatbots: Chatsimple

Perhaps the only thing missing from your sales funnel is a strategy for capturing leads on your landing page 💻

If you need a better way to secure website visitors, Chatsimple, an AI-powered website sales agent, can rise to the occasion. 

It only takes a few minutes to set up a sleek chatbot that:

🐾 Detects and responds to 175+ languages

🐾 Books meetings and recommends products

🐾 Upsells or cross-sells your products based on needs

🐾 Summarizes insights on customer needs and issues

🐾 ​​Integrates with your favorite tools

Here’s a video showing off how quickly you can customize your bot:

1 agent with 40 AI responses/month is free, 2 agents with 1,500 AI responses/month is $49/month, 5 AI Agents with 6,000 AI responses/month is $99/month, and 10 AI Agents with 15,000 AI responses/month is $199/month

For Researching Prospects: Attention

Some sales folks don’t necessarily struggle to find leads, but struggle to make things personalized enough to seal the deal. 

Enter Attention, an AI that teaches you why you're winning and losing deals and helps you do something about it – replacing the need to study a dozen calls and emails to understand what your customers or prospects are thinking or how your team is performing 📊

Even though it leverages data, you can draw insights using plain old natural language prompts. For example:

And if you’re all about integrations, you can link it with video conferencing apps, CRMs, email providers, messaging tools, and whatever else you need 🔄

Pricing is hidden until sign-up, but according to reviews, it only costs $29/month!

For Analyzing Behavioral Data: Substrata

Want the same research insights as Attention, but actually want to see the data behind the recommendations? 

You’d probably prefer Substrata, a hassle-free way to access your prospects’ emotions, attitudes, sentiments, and perceptions to gain a clear understanding of their perspectives 🧠 

Here’s just a sample of the type of data you can glean on individual people:

As for your own performance as a salesperson, Substrata could should you:

If writing holds you back, the Communication Wizard feature drafts up suggested copy on your behalf ✍️

The Starter price is $29 per user per month, and the Professional tier is $49 per user per month. 

Your Next Assignment

If sales aren’t on your radar, you’re off the hook this week ✌️

If you’ve been looking for a sign to ramp up your strategy, choose a couple of tools from this list, test the free versions, and compare and contrast  ⚖️

We’d love to hear your feedback and favorites. Share your findings with a tag on any of our socials: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok 📲

📫If you have any other questions or topic suggestions, our inbox is always open at [email protected] 📫

That’s it for this week’s newsletter! Enjoy your weekend, and we’ll be back in two weeks with more  🐾 👋🐾

Talk soon,

The AI Puppy