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150 AI prompts for Sales Professionals

Every one of the 150 prompt titles in the book, in the book's own eight groups. Twelve are printed in full and marked; use those today. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in.

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Setup & Voice Prompts 1–15

  1. #1Your permanent profile

    Paste into custom instructions: “I’m a [ROLE] selling [PRODUCT CATEGORY — generic description] to [ICP]. Typical deal size [RANGE], cycle [LENGTH]. Prospect-facing writing: plain, brief, specific, no hype, no exclamation points, no ‘hope this finds you well.’ Never invent product capabilities, pricing, ROI figures, customer names, case studies, or statistics — if I didn’t give you a fact, leave a [BLANK] and ask. Only claims and numbers I supply.”

  2. #2The tone calibrator
  3. #3The plain-English filter
  4. #4Shorter, always
  5. #5Three versions
  6. #6The de-jargonizer
  7. #7Teach it your voice
  8. #8The reverse brief
  9. #9Fix my dictation
  10. #10Email to DM
  11. #11The second opinion
  12. #12Explain like a sales manager
  13. #13The checklist maker
  14. #14The non-native-reader pass
  15. #15What did I forget

Prospecting Prompts 16–40

  1. #16The research digest

    “I sell [CATEGORY] to [ICP]. Here’s what I gathered on a target account: [PASTE CLIPPINGS — site copy, earnings notes, job postings, trigger event, the prospect’s actual posts]. Digest into: (1) what this company is visibly trying to do this year, (2) 2–3 pains implied by the evidence, each tagged with its supporting clipping, (3) the single strongest hook to what I sell, (4) what I should NOT assume. Use only what I pasted — no outside knowledge, no guessing.”

  2. #17The job-posting decoder
  3. #18The three-sentence opener
  4. #19The trigger-event opener
  5. #20The subject-line workbench
  6. #21The earnings-call opener
  7. #22The real-post opener
  8. #23The cold-call opener
  9. #24The pattern interrupt
  10. #25The honest sequence
  11. #26The 20-second voicemail
  12. #27The breakup email
  13. #28The interested reply

    “They replied ‘[INTERESTED / tell me more / what’s the pricing?].’ Write my response: answers the actual question honestly (pricing from my official materials or ‘depends on X and Y, here’s the range logic’), advances to a specific meeting ask with two times, no victory lap, under 80 words.”

  14. #29The ‘not interested’ reply
  15. #30The ‘circle back later’ reply
  16. #31The wrong-person redirect
  17. #32The inbound fast response
  18. #33The forward-ready referral intro
  19. #34The mutual-connection ask
  20. #35The list triage
  21. #36The persona pain map
  22. #37The event invite that isn’t spam
  23. #38The closed-lost revival
  24. #39The champion-changed-jobs play
  25. #40The prospecting-block planner

Discovery & Meetings Prompts 41–65

  1. #41The pre-call brief

    “I have a [CALL TYPE] in 15 minutes with [ROLE] at the account above. One-page brief: (1) their situation in three bullets, (2) my goal in one sentence, (3) the 5 discovery questions most likely to surface pain, ordered, with a probe under each, (4) the likeliest objection and my honest response, (5) the next step to propose if it goes well. Only from this chat; mark uncertainty with [?].”

  2. #42The agenda email
  3. #43The question-bank builder
  4. #44Question bank: the executive
  5. #45Question bank: the evaluator
  6. #46Question bank: procurement & finance
  7. #47The multi-threading map
  8. #48The same-hour recap
  9. #49The recap for the absent exec
  10. #50The correction note
  11. #51The call self-review
  12. #52The no-show revival
  13. #53The reschedule that keeps momentum

    “They asked to push our meeting [N] weeks. Write the yes: gracious, keeps one small thing moving in the gap ([SEND THE ONE-PAGER / INTRO TO SE / SHORT QUESTION]), confirms the new time. Momentum is the point; guilt is banned.”

  14. #54The demo tailor
  15. #55The demo follow-up
  16. #56The deferred answer
  17. #57The momentum bridge
  18. #58The champion one-pager
  19. #59The exec-sponsor request
  20. #60The multi-reader recap
  21. #61The tense-call reply
  22. #62The pilot scope
  23. #63The pricing-call prep
  24. #64The ‘send me info’ counter
  25. #65The internal pre-brief

The Deal Prompts 66–85

  1. #66The proposal narrative

    “Draft the executive-summary narrative from only this chat plus: [THEIR STATED PROBLEM IN THEIR WORDS / THEIR METRIC / WHAT THEY SAID IT COSTS / OUR SOLUTION / VERIFIED PROOF POINTS]. Structure: WHERE YOU ARE (their words), WHAT IT’S COSTING (only their numbers, attributed), WHAT WE PROPOSE (plain English), WHAT CHANGES (their metric), NEXT STEPS. Pricing as $____. No ROI figures, customer names, or statistics I didn’t supply. One page.”

  2. #67The business case
  3. #68The ROI math checker
  4. #69The proposal cover email
  5. #70The objection gym
  6. #71Objection: price
  7. #72Objection: the incumbent
  8. #73Objection: timing and freezes
  9. #74The competitor-claim rebuttal
  10. #75The negotiation memo
  11. #76The discount response

    “Procurement asked for [N]% off. Per my memo, write the response that: doesn’t concede in writing, asks what matters most to them beyond price, and offers the trade structure [TERM / TIMING / SCOPE / REFERENCE — my real options] where any movement gets something back. Professional, unhurried, no apology for our price.”

  12. #77The procurement-questionnaire assistant
  13. #78The mutual action plan
  14. #79The stuck-paperwork nudge
  15. #80The stalled-deal ladder
  16. #81The go-dark diagnosis
  17. #82Honest quarter-end urgency
  18. #83The win email
  19. #84The graceful loss letter
  20. #85The loss-feedback ask

Pipeline & the Record Prompts 86–105

  1. #86Ramble to record

    “Turn my post-call voice notes into CRM-ready fields: CONTACT & ROLE / STAGE (my read, one line why) / PAIN, IN THEIR WORDS / CURRENT STATE (only what was said) / NEXT STEP with owner and date / RISKS / CHAMPION READ / CLOSE-DATE read (their timing words, not my hope). Terse, no prose. If I didn’t mention a field, write UNKNOWN — do not fill it in. Ramble: [VOICE NOTES].”

  2. #87The weekly pipeline scrub
  3. #88The stage-change case
  4. #89The close-date reality check
  5. #90The deal-review prep
  6. #91The risk register
  7. #92The honest forecast
  8. #93The variance explainer
  9. #94The slip postmortem
  10. #95The skip-level one-pager
  11. #96The CS handoff
  12. #97The kickoff email
  13. #98Renewal-ready notes
  14. #99The win-loss note
  15. #100The quarterly pattern read
  16. #101The territory plan
  17. #102The account plan
  18. #103The hygiene sweep
  19. #104The end-of-day log
  20. #105The Monday pipeline brief

The Knowledge Work Prompts 106–120

  1. #106The battlecard builder

    “Build my battlecard against [COMPETITOR] from ONLY these pasted materials: [OUR OFFICIAL DOCS / THEIR PUBLIC PRICING AND DOCS / VERIFIED WIN-LOSS NOTES]. Sections: WHERE THEY’RE GENUINELY STRONG (truth, not comfort), WHERE WE WIN AND THE EVIDENCE, THE LANDMINE QUESTIONS they plant and my honest answers, QUESTIONS I ASK that expose the difference without trash-talk, WHAT I STILL NEED TO VERIFY. No disparagement, no claims beyond these sources, every fact tagged to its document.”

  2. #107Release notes to talk track
  3. #108The feature-to-outcome translator
  4. #109The pricing explainer
  5. #110The vertical crash course
  6. #111The acronym decoder
  7. #112The filings miner
  8. #113The news-to-brief converter
  9. #114The switcher’s question set
  10. #115The objection library
  11. #116The RFP assistant
  12. #117The analyst-report distiller
  13. #118The onboarding doc
  14. #119The ride-along debrief
  15. #120The knowledge-gap quiz

Brand & Referrals Prompts 121–145

  1. #121The post from your week

    “You know my voice from my samples. Something real from my week: [RAMBLE — no customer names, no deal details, nothing confidential]. Turn it into a LinkedIn post: my voice, under 150 words, one concrete specific, no engagement-bait opener, no ‘Agree?’, no numbered lessons. It should read like I typed it on my phone with something actually to say. Two versions.”

  2. #122The comment that adds
  3. #123The Friday batch
  4. #124The profile rewrite
  5. #125The buyer-first article
  6. #126The loss-lesson post
  7. #127The quarterly referral pass
  8. #128The no-agenda check-in
  9. #129The reference ask
  10. #130The case-study ask
  11. #131The recommendation swap
  12. #132The conference plan
  13. #133The QBR on yourself

    “Interview me one question at a time about my quarter: number vs. plan, what I changed that worked (evidence), what didn’t, pipeline coverage entering next quarter, the skill I’m building, what I need from my manager. Then produce the one-page QBR-style self-review: performance, analysis, plan, asks. Numbers first, no spin in either direction.”

  14. #134The promotion case
  15. #135The internal win story
  16. #136The same-night conference follow-up
  17. #137The stage pitch
  18. #138The community answer
  19. #139The territory letter
  20. #140The new-role announcement
  21. #141The dream-account long game
  22. #142The co-sell note
  23. #143The alumni play
  24. #144The brand audit
  25. #145The brand hour

Admin & Momentum Prompts 146–150

  1. #146The Monday morning brief

    “Organize my week from this mess: [PASTE — meetings, deadlines, promises, forecast dates]. Output: conflicts, the 3 revenue-critical items, follow-ups owed today, prep needed before each meeting (and which prompt to run), and what I’m forgetting based on what I told you last week [IF IN THIS CHAT].”

  2. #147The playbook writer
  3. #148The meeting-with-myself
  4. #149The delegation test
  5. #150The edition-one graduation