AI SDRs: Realistic Expectations & Real-World Results #shorts

Amelia warns against putting AI SDRs on critical sales tasks right away. Early performance disappoints and there's a ramp-up period. Even hyper-personalized AI emails don't guarantee replies or meetings, just like human SDRs.
like don't start with something mission critical. Like you're gonna be disappointed if you can't get it to work really quickly. A lot of these have ramp time, which I think is on the next slide. So don't start with something that's too mission critical 'cause then you might set yourself up for failure.
Amelia, who would, who do you think can implement something like this? That's a good question. I have that later. Oh, you do? All right, keep going. Yeah.
All right, these are a few more examples. The other thing I'll say too, and the reason why I put these examples, hopefully you guys can see. So the first one, this one's an example from Artisan. I think this person came here, but literally the top is, to Jason's point, is like, it's an okay, like, is it the greatest email on planet Earth? It's pretty good. Would I have written this? Maybe. I'll give myself a 50/50. This one's inviting them to come to SaaStry Annual, and literally this says on the bottom, Hey, I'm a fan. I'm going to see if I can come attend. Did your AI SDR write this? Because it got my attention versus trash, which just real Amelia answered. So I was like, it's a mystery for you. It's on the next sample. Hold on, let me try and go ahead. Okay. Then there's another example where like, just because it's an AI SDR and you're going to have all these hyper-personalized emails, don't expect that every response will be positive. Like, Most of the time I get like a response like the last one. Sometimes I get a response that's like this, that's like very nice, but I'm not going to be there. And I'm like, cool, I'm going to follow up with this guy later. Like, not everything is going to be an instant yes. Like, I think that's another fallacy of like the AI SDRs is like, if you're trying to get it to book meetings, sell something, it may not do that on the first action. Almost like that was true before the AI SDR with regular SDRs. So all those things, you know, to be true are still true, even with the am.
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