Easy to create prospecting emails for just about anything.
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ChatGPT is fascinating and terrifying.
Will this replace SDRs?
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I've been very skeptical of AI for a long time but I've literally been playing around with ChatGPT for the last hour and my mind is blown.
Marketing copywriters are gone...SDRs have no excuse to not double-check emails.
Not even joking but this is truly groundbreaking.
Might be time to look into being an electrician.
Marketing copywriters are gone...SDRs have no excuse to not double-check emails.
Not even joking but this is truly groundbreaking.
Might be time to look into being an electrician.
I agree. I asked it to write a step by step plan for onboarding a new SE to my company and it spit out the plan my sales director put together almost verbatim. Crazy stuff.
Woah, didn't even think about this. Sales Enablement!
Just wondering, is your entire strategy based on mails? I work at an enterprise level, so it might be different, but this is just a very very small part of the process.
No AI can come close to human creativity. Many do a great job of tricking us into thinking they are creating but in reality they are more accurately recyclingโฆ it will be some time yet before SDRs are obsolete. Donโt get me wrong, as soon as businesses can automate the role, they will, but itโs not there yet.
I agree with this take.
Well said
SDR is the start for most AE's. Without the SDR role im curious to see how people will become AE's (right out of college? AM first?)
ISRs or SMB AEs, I'd imagine.
I am more hoping this replaces Marketing.
I don't think that this will replace SDRs but AI and things of this nature will drastically change the role in the near future
Very impressed by the tech but this wouldn't replace SDRs, maybe marketing tho! This sounds more like a marketing email than a sales email
It's fascinating yet scary.
Right! But all for that kind of scary tech if it'll make my life easier
I was skeptical until I tried it out this morning. Agreed with others that it probably won't replace SDRs, but it can write pretty decent copy!
Yeah I'm definitely going to look into this later this afternoon. I wanna see what it's all about.
I think SDRs are going away from US jobs regardless. More and more companies are paying well English-speaking people in lower COL countries that can do almost as good of a job for 25% of the price. I see more full cycle SMB reps replacing them to develop a "bullpen" for MM an ENT.
I read an intresting piece about how the role was created in a time of constant thirst for growth due to low interest rates and those days likeley aren't coming back.
Hope I'm wrong because the SDR position was good for me as a 23 year old.
I read an intresting piece about how the role was created in a time of constant thirst for growth due to low interest rates and those days likeley aren't coming back.
Hope I'm wrong because the SDR position was good for me as a 23 year old.
Agree, in my company most of ADRโs are located in Mexico
This tool won't replace BDRs, but it wouldn't surprise me if the role changes drastically due to AI in 10 years.
I have found SDR roles are mostly for the funnel where you can get cheaper and usually better junior/inside AEs than going to market by recruiting from within. Outside of that, the role can 80-90% be automated with the 10-20% really showing sales chops.
Not yet anyway, but most certainly in the not too distant future.
Lmao. These are the exact cold emails that marketing and enablement create. So they are def out of a job ๐ Ai is now clearly good enough to create trash cold emails. So trash sdrs and marketing/enablement should be shook right now
Heh heh heh heh.....
I keep going back and forth on this.
I lean to the side of what @CorporateStiffsaid...the human element can't be replaced.
Sure, it can be mimicked and imitated but you can't put ChatGPT on the phone and have high level conversations/negotiations on the fly.
ChatGPT won't help you cultivate a relationship or help with your active listening or help you give empathy and grace during stressful situations.
However, the ones who utilize the technology properly and morally will benefit immensely.
I lean to the side of what @CorporateStiffsaid...the human element can't be replaced.
Sure, it can be mimicked and imitated but you can't put ChatGPT on the phone and have high level conversations/negotiations on the fly.
ChatGPT won't help you cultivate a relationship or help with your active listening or help you give empathy and grace during stressful situations.
However, the ones who utilize the technology properly and morally will benefit immensely.
I need to mess around with this!
I might be biased when I say this, but Nothing is going to replace SDRs, at least in the near future.
I donโt agree 100% that it would replace the real person !
Major love/hate relationship with AI as a concept.
This is obviously Gen1 and it will get more sophisticated over time. I delete dozens of these per week and my spam filter takes out who knows how many.
If you want effective SDR-type outreach, nothing replaces a real person.
If you want effective SDR-type outreach, nothing replaces a real person.
have you seen it write code? You can tell it what kind of python code to write
Yeah, it's pretty accurate. It's quite ironic cause they have more data on code because of GitHub than writing a cold email. In my opinion SWE and programmers are gonna be booted soon.
Cold emailing has always been bullshit regardless. Most orgs just do automated sequences. The phones are 80% of the job, and itโs not like TCP laws would permit robo-dialers even if the technology existed.
AI is not even close to being a replacement.
I think this will replace the outsourced SDR agencies first before SDRs in general. (Theyโve been garbage in my experience anyways)
I think in the near term (3 years), the SDR role will still have a place in an organization, but with a major focus on developing them into an ISR or AE.
That being said Iโll use this to create raw emails for new sequences and then personalize them for now, but if anything itโll kill off automated (non personalized) sequences long term because theyโll have a lot of the same language (current SDR so Iโm curious what others think)
I think in the near term (3 years), the SDR role will still have a place in an organization, but with a major focus on developing them into an ISR or AE.
That being said Iโll use this to create raw emails for new sequences and then personalize them for now, but if anything itโll kill off automated (non personalized) sequences long term because theyโll have a lot of the same language (current SDR so Iโm curious what others think)
One day down the road, maybe. But I could also see both AI & SDR's working cohesively together more in the near future.
yeah but is this more or less groundbreaking than the PC was? Internet? I can't say I'm a millennial.
@detectivegibbles I Like your addition of, โproperly and morally.โ <br>Based on the way we act as a species, Iโm sure we will treat it with the respect it deservesโฆ.we can pretty much guarantee it wonโt be used morally, unless morally = for increasing profits. In which case then yes, it will be used โmorallyโ all the time! <br><br>Ethics and morality in AI is a hot field right now for anyone looking to use that philosophy degreeโฆ my company has a whole team dedicated to the ethical and moral use of AI and big data, which Iโve never heard of before- do other big companies have this?
They are also trying to replace SWE with there no code thing. So at least we will all go down soon
SDR read from a script and follow response trees. Why would anyone be shocked if they got replaced?
This thing is sick. Has anyone tried asking it to write actual code for different website elements? Or machine learning algorithms lol I have and it does provide an output at a basic level. The answer to this question though is that it can only replace spread and pray SDRs in spread and pray companies.
I haven't played around with it, so I'm not working with the complete picture. But, at this stage, no.
It'll likely be a key element and change GTM functions over time.
The best BDRs/SDRs are great at personalization and relevancy. Good ones will use this type of tech to be more efficient.
bad/mediocre ones (and marketing teams) will use it at scale and not appreciate the full benefits.
It'll likely be a key element and change GTM functions over time.
The best BDRs/SDRs are great at personalization and relevancy. Good ones will use this type of tech to be more efficient.
bad/mediocre ones (and marketing teams) will use it at scale and not appreciate the full benefits.
The whole point of becoming an Adr is To find a job that excites them and work with like-minded people
-Build meaningful relationships along the way
-Have an awesome life outside of work
And to some is to become a AM, automating the process removes the opportunities to experience any of this
-Build meaningful relationships along the way
-Have an awesome life outside of work
And to some is to become a AM, automating the process removes the opportunities to experience any of this
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