Advertising Sales Agents

1. 01Explain to customers how specific types of advertising will help promote their products or services in the most effective way possible.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
2. 02Prepare and deliver sales presentations to new and existing customers to sell new advertising programs and to protect and increase existing advertising.People already use AI for this at work
3. 03Obtain and study information about clients' products, needs, problems, advertising history, and business practices to offer effective sales presentations and appropriate product assistance.People already use AI for this at work
4. 04Provide clients with estimates of the costs of advertising products or services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
5. 05Maintain assigned account bases while developing new accounts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
6. 06Recommend appropriate sizes and formats for advertising, depending on medium used.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
7. 07Locate and contact potential clients to offer advertising services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
8. 08Draw up contracts for advertising work, and collect payments due.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
9. 09Deliver advertising or illustration proofs to customers for approval.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
10. 10Process all correspondence and paperwork related to accounts.AI could speed this up a lot

Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.

AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.

Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps sales use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.

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