Five-step playbook for selling AI automation to businesses: find pain, demo results
nikola_mr64990 · x · 2026-10-12
nikolamr64990's playbook (opening steps) for selling AI automation services to small businesses:
- Study manual processes: pick a niche and analyze repetitive work — emails, leads, appointments, support, reports. You're not inventing needs, you're finding eliminable busywork.
- Feed the process to ChatGPT: describe how the company operates step by step; have it flag repetitive tasks, bottlenecks, and time losses, then design 3-5 automations.
Later steps: build a simple Form → AI → CRM → Email → Follow-up system, record before/after demos to sell results not technology, and keep the same offer across many similar clients.
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