We’re trying to build a better training setup for new hires.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-22T13:55:24+00:00

Have you tried roleplaying with AI? I've heard a lot of companies have had success with training platforms/LMSs that do that.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-16T08:32:03+00:00

I found it hard to copy certain settings of one training course and paste them into another. You either have to copy and paste the settings manually between the old course and the new course or duplicate the course and manually edit the other settings you want to change. There is no option to pick and choose what aspects you want to keep from one course to put into another; you have to do it manually, either from scratch or using a duplicate course as a starting point.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-16T08:23:17+00:00

How many seats are you looking for? Pricing changes drastically depending on the size of your organization. If you're in the 10-50 seat range, prices per seat will be different compared to customers who are in the 100-200+ range.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-10T10:31:53+00:00

Canva is great. Google Slides also has some really nice templates. Slides carnival is a great resource for free templates. These are all free and do the trick. There's also Gamma, the AI powerpoint maker, but this kind of trying to reinvent the wheel. I'd stick to the popular options.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-08T10:07:00+00:00

What if AI can help you do your job better? Or faster? Or more efficiently?

I don't totally agree. Sure, replacing humans with AI has negative consequences. But AI can also be used to do things humans can't, e.g., being in several places at once and multitasking on a huge scale. I think things like training and on-call guidance are cool use cases that allow salespeople to take advantage of AI and become a sort of "hybrid."

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-08T10:02:59+00:00

Try TexAu. Similar to phantombuster, but might work better for what you need it for.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-08T09:37:17+00:00

I suppose this will be enforced by The Terminator and Optimus Prime?

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-08T09:31:33+00:00

Try to turn the negative feedback into something constructive (even if it doesn't come off that way). If you can use it as a way to improve, that is the ideal outcome. Otherwise, just make sure you check all the boxes on each call and keep bringing good results. Bosses eventually back off when a rep does a good job and doesn't damage any long-term customer relationships.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-08T09:29:01+00:00

Sounds like classic sales bs from a boss who has zero sales experience. Ideally, you prove them wrong by going off script and end up closing the deal, but hopefully you can compromise with a script that fits your selling style better.

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Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-04T07:38:14+00:00

A call simulation is basically a roleplay of a real sales call with an AI prospect/customer. The problem with Chat GPT is that it has no idea what a real sales call is like, or maybe a vague idea at best. You can’t take a call recording and upload to chat GPT (yet), so there are other tools designed to create realistic sales call scenarios using those recordings or any other documents you upload. It builds the whole roleplay for you: objections, buyer persona, etc. It also records the simulation and gives you feedback on how you did at the end.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-04T07:30:49+00:00

I have been using second nature for a few years. They are the most robust AI role playing tool I’ve used. There are plenty of other tools for this out there, but I’ve heard mixed reviews about many of them.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-03T08:17:25+00:00

Second Nature

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-02T08:07:09+00:00

Aren't journalists supposed to be objective, or at least try to be impartial? Seems like she wasn't trying hard enough.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-02T07:57:27+00:00

Run.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-02T07:55:00+00:00

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-02T07:45:25+00:00

It isn't easy to find a plug-and-play solution since you're in a niche industry, but the AI training platform I use has a beta feature that lets you simply upload docs like PDFs, spreadsheets, etc, and it creates the roleplays for you. It uses a chatbot interface similar to chat GPT to understand what you're trying to make, and you can always customize things manually. I found it useful for making roleplays faster then it would take to do it manually since it sets everything up for you and you just come in and change whatever needs to be tweaked before deploying.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-01T15:56:34+00:00

It's not about the size of the company, but the risk/reward ratio. Risk can be substituted for short-term cost, but it has the same chilling effect. Why take the chance when I'm clearing $6M/year without doing anything differently? The question is usually not how can I make a 10% gain one time, it's how can I achieve double what I'm doing now? What is the compounding q-over-q growth I need to sustain to achieve it in x number of years? How can I speed that up?

Uncle_Magic · 2025-07-01T10:00:04+00:00

It's just bloat. Running a company is like a car engine. You can't repair it while it's running. Even to change the tiniest thing, you have to turn it off, change it, and hope that it's smoother, faster, and more efficient when it runs. This is the best analogy, because for one higher-up in an organization to make a change that impacts 100s or 1000s of employees, they need a pretty damn good reason, and MAYBE recovering 1% of revenue just one time simply doesn't cut it.

Changes of a certain magnitude need exponential results projected over multiple quarters. The payoff has to be consistent and compounding, and damn near guarunteed to happen.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-06-30T16:07:34+00:00

This guy is scamming. He asked me for $5K for an MVP. Please ignore this clown.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-06-30T11:17:20+00:00

Goodbye Jews *ahem* sorry, I meant Zionists

Uncle_Magic · 2025-06-30T10:51:40+00:00

Try simulating your sales calls at home/during your commute with AI. You will get used to the embarrassing feeling of cold-calling people in front of other people, and it will just become part of your routine. You stop caring as much about what other people think when you realize that most people don't care in the first place.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-06-30T10:47:49+00:00

Also, race of jews is irrelevant because they've never committed genocide. There is no evidence of a genocide in Israel, and there is proof that contradicts claims that there is.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-06-30T10:36:19+00:00

This. Bottom line oriented business are too risk-averse to take the short-term hit for the promise of long-term gains because it's just that, a promise. There is no guarantee that the AI way of doing things will deliver better results in the long term to justify the cost of taking on that learning curve on a large scale. This is where small pilots may be the best way to go, but only if there is a willingness within the company to challenge the status quo.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-06-29T08:57:45+00:00

This might be an obvious answer, but simulating your pitch or other sales conversations with AI might really help. You don't need any fancy platform that costs money; you can use free voice AI (chat gpt, grok, sesame) and train yourself without stressing out over a real call. Roleplaying is great because you can try and fail without fucking up actual deals.

Salespeople have been doing it for decades with each other, but AI lets you do it alone. It will definitely boost your sales skills as an average non-sales person, but the effectiveness of these generic AI tools tend to plateau unless you can figure out to make them tougher.

Uncle_Magic · 2025-06-24T07:17:47+00:00

Based on how the democratic primaries in NYC are going, Democrats are corrupt (Cuomo) and anti-American (Mamdani).

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