Never Miss a Call

In this edition:

1. Never Worry About a Missed Call

2. Monitor and Extract from Any Website

3. Leverage LinkedIn

4. AI Use and Prompts

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1. Never Worry About a Missed Call

One challenge small businesses have is handling phone calls. The options are hiring a full-time receptionist to answer calls, but even they miss calls sometimes (the dreaded bathroom and lunch breaks). Another option is to let it go to voicemail, but many potential customers will just hang up.

Twine is a solution. If you don’t answer the phone, Twine will message the caller asking them how they can help. It can send a payment link, send them a calendly link to book a call/appointment, request a review and much more. It integrates with any booking software so give it a try.

2. Monitor and Extract from Any Website

Want to monitor the price of your competitors? Or look for updates on any website? Now, in two minutes, you can set up an agent to monitor any website, extract specific data, and insert it into a spreadsheet. And it’ll notify you when there are updates.

Can be used for lead generation, real estate data collection, sentiment analysis, job post monitoring, social media monitoring and so much more.

Browse AI is free to try.

3. Leverage LinkedIn

If you’re a business owner, a solid LinkedIn presence can help you generate new clients. If you’re an employee, it can help you find your next employer. The problem is that it’s time-consuming and tedious to consistently create good content and build that network.

Taplio to the rescue. Taplio can generate posts for you (to choose from) and then schedule those posts for publication. At the time of this writing, prices starts at $39/mo but it’s free to try.

4. AI Prompts 

This is a new section I’ve added. We’re all aware of ChatGPT, Claude, Bard and others. As a former engineer, I thought I would be pretty good at crafting clear and specific instructions. And I have been…. kinda. But after seeing some of the creative uses of AI and prompts by others, I’ve concluded could do a lot (I mean a lot!) better. And I figured some of my readers could too. So here’s a first one…

Need to get better at something that requires communication? This could be sales, negotiating, or socially conversing. You can quickly role-play with AI to get better (fast).

Here’s a prompt you can try for listing real estate.

I am a real estate agent and you are a home seller. I am seeking to list your home for sale. While you want to sell, you are cautious. I will state reasons why you should list with me. You respond with well-explained objections. Negotiate rationally. The house needs some repairs, is in a good neighborhood, is in a good school district, is vacant, and has a pool.

In the News…

1. Google to Require PROMINENT disclosures for AI-Generated Election Ads. 

2.  Paige Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Build the World’s Largest Image-Based AI Model to Fight Cancer. The model is being trained on a huge volume of data, digesting billions of images to identify both common and rare cancers 

AI Meme of the week…

credit: https://www.digitalmomblog.com/chatgpt-memes/

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