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# From Manual Grind to AI Sales Pro: A Customer Journey

Meet Manuel - a sales pro who went from spending entire days manually running LinkedIn campaigns to AI-powered prospecting.

YouTube Video 07:39 May 25, 2026

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So that make a lot of sense that you're trying to rely on system that can free up a lot of time. Th this is this is really this I mean I realized that you can be skilled you can have all the expertise at one moment you will be limited um if you're not building systems uh and building systems if you're not a technical guy or if you're not or even if you're not kind of a process guy which I am absolutely not it's almost impossible to build uh so When you find when you understand this and you know what kind of tool will help you I mean then it's I mean the tools will create some system for you already done you just need to add little stuff around that tool that will will allow you to save time and grow your business.

But before you started using salesmind what was the biggest challenge you faced when doing lead generation for your clients? So for me it was never really a problem of setting up the right campaign. Um for me uh it was super important to at one moment to arrive to save time uh on running those campaigns.

Um I've been for a long long time doing that manually message after message for each of my clients. So sometimes it was taking 10 hours a day or 11 hours a day but it was producing really good results. Uh and couple of years ago I mean not couple of approximately one year one year and a half no uh ago I I say it's not possible to continue like this.

I mean I'm spending too much hours. Um my creative uh mind can have some limits also.

do you have any doubt before trying it and what what what made you decide to go for it anyway

I I would say I I've been bluffed by the communication of the AI uh and and if I if I go back to this communication I've didn't really a bad ass during that conversation because the starting was not perfect.

that you're using salesman what change and what kind of result are you getting for your clients

so um it's going to be a little bit counterproductive what I'm going to say so I don't see a really increase of the result that I had already before that say it saved me tons of hours. So I have the same result and I have some campaign working much better. Um but I have same result or much better.

I don't have bad worse result. This is already a good point. um but similar and much better but spending much less time on it.

of the result from from your your your your client.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I can share.

Yeah. Let let me just have a look. Um so it's um it is in in um I'm just explain to you.

So basically it's a someone in Dubai uh working in a wealth management uh wealth management it's uh it's a very complicated because you are contacting people and say hey do you want to be rich or do you want to to so creating creating um creating a a campaign uh for wealth management it's super complicated uh because you never know uh how the people will react act. So, so in this case, um I would say uh sales mine uh it it's a killer. It's a killer because I will never get uh result like this.

Let let me just have a look. If we go here like accepted invitation and it is not it it is not uh um a blind invitation. So it's comes with a a message create by sales mine.

Uh so it's not like uh sending connection requests but the the the results are amazing. I mean 690 uh connect um invitation sent over the last month 436 uh acceptance.

Wow. That that's great result. So that's 63% acceptance rate with a message an initial message.

That's I mean I never seen that. I mean even for me I never seen that. uh the good part of sales mind uh I would say is that you can create very long campaign and every time like you can even create a campaign that I was thinking recently say you know there is a lot of people they it's not a good moment or they are busy or they are on something else but if you schedule like every month a little touch you know it can bring one time someone say oh yeah I have the time let's go on a call uh it's not because someone doesn't reply that he's not interested.

there is tons and reason but I guarantee if you don't use a tool like this um or like sales mind um you will never follow up like this every month a little touch and an accurate touch without you thinking like okay what is new in this profile or what you know letting the AI looking at what is happening in this profile or he connect with someone or uh he posts something and then every single month having having a little touch or just visit the profile because that's also a possibility. visit the profile.

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Th this is this is really this I mean I realized that you can be skilled you can have all the expertise at one moment you will be limited um if you're not building systems uh and building systems if you're not a technical guy or if you're not or even if you're not kind of a process guy which I am absolutely not it's almost impossible to build uh so When you find when you understand this and you know what kind of tool will help you I mean then it's I mean the tools will create some system for you already done you just need to add little stuff around that tool that will will allow you to save time and grow your business. >> But before you started using salesmind what was the biggest challenge you faced when doing lead generation for your clients? So for me it was never really a problem of setting up the right campaign. Um for me uh it was super important to at one moment to arrive to save time uh on running those campaigns. Um I've been for a long long time doing that manually message after message for each of my clients. So sometimes it was taking 10 hours a day or 11 hours a day but it was producing really good results. Uh and couple of years ago I mean not couple of approximately one year one year and a half no uh ago I I say it's not possible to continue like this. I mean I'm spending too much hours. Um my creative uh mind can have some limits also. uh and yeah there is this AI stuff you know and maybe I can I can use it uh or implements my methodology uh in in some AI >> do you have any doubt before trying it and what what what made you decide to go for it anyway >> I I would say I I've been bluffed by the communication of the AI uh and and if I if I go back to this communication I've didn't really a bad ass during that conversation because the starting was not perfect. uh the starting was kind of a I mean for a lead generator like me with the background I was like that doesn't sounds right you know but it was invi inviting all the time to a conversation an open conversation and even if I've been really bad at the beginning the way handle the way the way it handled the the bat I mean my my very kind of harsh reply answer was perfect you know was perfect at one level that I say no it's not possible it's a AI >> that you're using salesman what change and what kind of result are you getting for your clients >> so um it's going to be a little bit counterproductive what I'm going to say so I don't see a really increase of the result that I had already before that say it saved me tons of hours. So I have the same result and I have some campaign working much better. Um but I have same result or much better. I don't have bad worse result. This is already a good point. um but similar and much better but spending much less time on it. So for me it's a winner situation >> of the result from from your your your your client. Can you can you share here some of the results that you're seeing in terms >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can share. >> Yeah. Let let me just have a look. Um so it's um it is in in um I'm just explain to you. So basically it's a someone in Dubai uh working in a wealth management uh wealth management it's uh it's a very complicated because you are contacting people and say hey do you want to be rich or do you want to to so creating creating um creating a a campaign uh for wealth management it's super complicated uh because you never know uh how the people will react act. So, so in this case, um I would say uh sales mine uh it it's a killer. It's a killer because I will never get uh result like this. Let let me just have a look. If we go here like accepted invitation and it is not it it is not uh um a blind invitation. So it's comes with a a message create by sales mine. Uh so it's not like uh sending connection requests but the the the results are amazing. I mean 690 uh connect um invitation sent over the last month 436 uh acceptance. >> Wow. That that's great result. So that's 63% acceptance rate with a message an initial message. That's I mean I never seen that. I mean even for me I never seen that. uh the good part of sales mind uh I would say is that you can create very long campaign and every time like you can even create a campaign that I was thinking recently say you know there is a lot of people they it's not a good moment or they are busy or they are on something else but if you schedule like every month a little touch you know it can bring one time someone say oh yeah I have the time let's go on a call uh it's not because someone doesn't reply that he's not interested. there is tons and reason but I guarantee if you don't use a tool like this um or like sales mind um you will never follow up like this every month a little touch and an accurate touch without you thinking like okay what is new in this profile or what you know letting the AI looking at what is happening in this profile or he connect with someone or uh he posts something and then every single month having having a little touch or just visit the profile because that's also a possibility. visit the profile. 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