I find myself still resorting to asking people to do too much and ai to do too little. need to run more requests through a different filter

ChatGPT just released Dots. Meta has Muse. GrokBot and Perplexity Computer have been out for awhile. Anthropic is no doubt on the verge of releasing something similar, as is Google. OpenClaw was huge and then it wasn't (that took about 60 days lol). Hermes is having a moment but is probably weeks away from obsolescence. This technology is rapidly iterating from early adopter status to widespread adoption, and I think it will happen a LOT faster than cellphones and the internet. We are facing a reality where it's not unrealistic to think that within a year, most tech savvy customers will have their personal AI agent deal with you. In two years, your grandma will have an agent. So the big question for us home service owners is, what are we doing to prepare for that eventuality? Here's what I'm doing... I'm thinking about what the workflow will look like from the client's side, and how I can make our business the most obvious one for their agent to interface with. I'm thinking about how the customer experience will change- how and where the human touch will still be relevant or necessary and what we will do to enhance those increasingly rare opportunities to get the most out of them. I'm thinking about how I can position my business now to be best prepared for a new way of doing business with people who now no longer need to pick up the phone, search the internet, book an appointment for themselves, or shop for themselves. It's coming, I have no doubt. Now's the time to be thinking and preparing for it...

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Quick one, I need your input before I change anything. Thursday's call has been open Q&A with me. Right now it's locked to VIPs. I've been thinking about turning it into structured sales training, where we role play and work through real calls together. But I don't want to swap out something that's working just because I like the idea. So vote below. If you'd pick a second meeting, drop the day and time that actually works for you. If you feel strongly either way, message me directly. I want to hear it. And honestly, thank you for being in here early. You're the ones helping shape what the Den becomes. What's the one sales problem you'd want us to hit first?

@Kris Cook has been talking a lot about sales playbooks and setting reps up for success. I figured I'd chime in. I see this as three disciplines: 1)education 2)process 3)repetitions Here's how I handle item #1- education. I prepared a comprehensive sales guide for our reps. This combines several elements into one sales reference that reps can repeatedly turn to when they need it. Inside, they can find... - technical info about our services (the "what we do and how") - value propositions for each service (common emotional needs that drive prospects to request each service and how we can meet those needs) - strategies for establishing rapport, building value and gaining trust - common objections and how to overcome them This is not just a training resource for new sales reps...it's their sales "bible" and source of truth for selling in a way that aligns with our USP and UVP. If you don't have something like this yet, it's a great project to work on. If you plan to delegate sales to someone else at some point, this is one of your highest leverage internal assets, imho.