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It’s no wonder artificial intelligence (AI) offers competitive advantages to organizations especially in today’s rapidly changing landscape. Personalizing micro-moment experiences, fast and vast data processing, and reducing human error are the top reasons why it is steadily growing in popularity.

Research published in the International Journal of Intelligent Networks found that embracing AI in sales and marketing not only offered a competitive edge, but it helped to identify competitor strategies and market trends.  This enabled company vice presidents to make data-driven decisions and respond more quickly to market changes. (1)

Here are some strategies to help your organization streamline marketing and sales efforts, enhance customer engagement, and stay competitive using AI.

1. Implement Chatbots

  • Add chatbots to your website, apps, and social media platforms to engage visitors and capture leads.
  • Use AI-powered chatbots to provide customer support and resolve queries promptly.
  • Allow users to register or sign-in for events through an app or chatbot with a conversational interface.
  • Analyze chatbot interactions to improve responses and user experiences.

2. Personalize Customer Interactions

  • Use AI to customize email, marketing messages, and other content based on visitor and individual preferences.
  • Utilize AI to personalize account-based marketing (ABM) strategies for targeted outreach.
  • Provide interactive formats like quizzes, polls, or surveys to engage meeting attendees, event participants, or customers, and gather insights about their preferences.
  • Leverage AI to analyze customer feedback and behavior, identifying pain points and opportunities.

3. Generate Leads with AI

  • Leverage AI tools for lead identification, quantification/qualification (scoring), and nurturing.
  • Guide visitors and defined prospects through the sales funnel by providing information, addressing pain points, or offering incentives (e.g., limited-time offers, bundle deals, rebates, upgrade offers, extended warranties, etc.).
  • Implement AI to streamline sales processes, including lead routing and pipeline management.

4. Predict the Leads Most Likely to Convert

  • Employ AI for lead scoring and to identify the leads most likely to convert into customers.
  • Use AI-driven predictions to identify potential high-value leads and prioritize outreach.

5. Forecast Sales More Accurately

  • Use AI algorithms to forecast sales trends and optimize resource allocation.

6. Automate Email Campaigns

  • Implement AI-powered email marketing campaigns for personalized and timely communication.

7. Create AI-Dynamic Pricing Models

  • Utilize AI algorithms to dynamically adjust pricing based on market demand and competitive factors.

8. Automate Social Media Wisely

  • Use AI-driven scheduling to automate social media posts.
  • Set up AI-driven alerts for online monitoring looking for brand mentions, sentiment, and keywords to engage with targeted audiences and segments.

9. Enhance Your Content with AI

  • Use AI to recommend relevant content to prospects based on their browsing behavior or user intent.
  • Optimize content for voice search queries to capture voice-enabled device users.
  • Experiment with generative AI to create innovative content and narratives. (PRO TIP: Be sure to use this as inspiration only!)

10. Get Actionable Data Insights

  • Employ AI-driven analytics to gain insights from customer data and to enhance decision-making.

11. Improve Sales Productivity

  • Equip sales teams with AI-driven non-human assistants to handle administrative tasks such as importing leads, qualifying them, sending out email nurturing campaigns, or booking appointments, or other menial tasks as may be required.

12. Gain Insights into Competitors

  • Utilize AI tools to analyze competitor strategies, including performance and their customer expectations. (1)
  • Consider ethical uses of AI web scraping technology to gather information about a competitor’s website, products, pricing, promotion, and other details about a competitor’s online activities.
  • Further analyze competitor information in conjunction with machine learning to predict potential new product launches or changes in strategies.

There are many advantages to adding artificial intelligence into your people-powered sales and marketing organization.  Its adoption won’t replace the human touchpoints necessary for relationship bonding and trust building.  However, AI adoption can lead to greater customer satisfaction, faster response times, improved efficiency and productivity, and higher revenues.  More importantly, AI can help your salespeople focus on the activities that are most important to your business vision, mission, and goals.

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1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666603022000136

Eloisa Mendez
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