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Sales & Business Development

If you're currently a: Sales rep, account executive, SDR, business development rep, account manager, insurance agent, real estate agent

Prospecting, cold outreach, CRM hygiene. AI does that work now, and it does it tirelessly. Closing the deal is a different game. Trust, timing, and reading the room still come from a human across the table.

Timeline
2-4 months
Salary Range
$65-160K

Your first step

Use ChatGPT or Claude to write personalized sales emails and brief yourself before every call. The ramp on outreach is huge. Your job becomes the conversations that actually close.