An AI-enthusiast sales pro shares a prompt hack: tell ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity to ask 2-5 clarifying questions before answering. He says it forces the model to work harder and gives better results for sales tasks. Paid tiers make models more willing to dig deeper.
How about your sales tech tip of the week, friends? As you know, I am a huge fan of AI. I use it consistently all day long. 2 of my favorites, I do like Perplexity. I like ChatGPT, the paid version of that. And of course, I use Claude for a lot of my book writing, blogs, and really tough tasks. But one of the prompts that I like is I want AI to ask me clarifying questions when I ask it to do something for me so that it can give me back a really good answer. So if you're in the prompt box, what I want you to consider is this. In your favorite large language model, your favorite chatbot, say, before giving me a response, please ask me 5 clarifying questions, or 3, or whatever, to give me a better answer. When you do that, friends, it's gonna ask you clarifiers so that it can work harder For you. See, don't forget, and I'm sure the AI folks are gonna disagree with me, and that's fine. I'm right. When it is— AI is always looking to give you a fast response. It's looking, what can I do to give you something back really, really fast? Because if it's not fast, which we all know that Claude is super slow, if it's not fast like ChatGPT or Gemini, are people actually gonna wait around for it? And the answer is no. So AI is always looking for a shortcut. It's always looking for the fastest way to get you out of its queue, to get data center time freed up for the next person that is coming along. So because of that, it doesn't ask you many clarifying questions. And I'm just here to tell you, you need to tell it to ask you clarifying questions. It doesn't have to be 5, it can be 3 or 2, but make it work harder for you. Now, keep in mind, it's always gonna work harder if you're paying for the service. So a lot of you, you're gonna find pretty quickly here if you haven't already that in order for you to use AI for free, you're gonna have to watch advertisements, right? So maybe you're down with that. I love advertising, but when I'm using AI, no, I don't wanna sit there and have to watch ads in the process. So keep in mind, friends, tell AI, ask it to ask you clarifying questions, friends, and I think it's going to make a big improvement in your sales game and what AI gives you back. All right, how about our retention idea of the week?
