According to Carl Ritchie, an account executive and sales lead at Deel, Bardeen is an “amazing tool for web scraping and building automations without code.” Recently, he said, “I use it basically every day. It saves me so much time just being able to scrape the data that I need to scrape.”
Carl relies on Bardeen every day to discover potential customers, communicate with them, and streamline his workflow. With Bardeen, Carl has enhanced his sales performance and reduced time spent on repetitive tasks. This article will explain how you can achieve similar results using Bardeen.
Supercharging the sales cycle with AI automation
If you’re in a similar role as Carl, you can also leverage Bardeen’s automation capabilities. In this section, we’ll discuss how Bardeen helps the Deel sales team accelerate their sales cycle with AI automation.
Prospecting faster
As a salesman, the process of finding leads can be made easier with automation. Here are some automations that use Bardeen’s data scraping and enrichment capabilities to find great new leads.
When you want to save a LinkedIn profile’s details, it can be tedious to copy-paste individual data manually. With this automation, you can do it in a few clicks. Aside from Notion, you can copy data to Google Sheets, ClickUp, and Pipedrive. You can also copy LinkedIn company data and search results.
If you’ve got a list of emails and want more info about each one, use this automation. Once you set it up, it uses Clearbit’s data enrichment system to get details about each email, like company, position, and social media profiles. You can also do the same for Facebook profiles.
If you want to get in touch with a lead, you need their email address. With this automation, you can scan any webpage and get a list of email addresses. The cool part is it even picks up email addresses that aren’t visible to you.
Check this page for more marketing-related automations.
Finding market gaps to maximize sales
One of the most ingenious ways Carl uses Bardeen is to analyze online reviews of his competitors. This way, he can spot unhappy customers and introduce them to Deel. With these automations, you can do the same.
If you want to analyze multiple tweets, this automation simplifies the process. Thanks to sentiment analysis capability, you don’t need to go through each tweet and sort them as positive, neutral, or negative—AI can do that for you!
This automation can do sentiment analysis for YouTube comments. It can be helpful if you get hundreds of comments on your channel and don’t have time to go through them individually.
Capterra, Google, and G2 are also popular for user reviews. This automation will scrape and analyze data from all three platforms for you and create a Google Doc with all the necessary data.
Engaging leads to increase conversion
Once you’ve found leads you want to approach, you can also simplify the outreach process with Bardeen. Here are some automations to help you out.
Canned messages rarely evoke a response, but sending personalized messages to every lead can be time-consuming. Instead, you can use this automation. It scans a LinkedIn profile and uses AI to generate an outreach email peppered with relevant details.
If your lead has recently made a post on LinkedIn, referring to it in your outreach email can increase the chances of engagement. It shows them that you’re interested in their content. This automation can do that for you.
If you want to connect to a list of LinkedIn profiles, use this automation. It’ll also create a Google Sheets spreadsheet with basic info on each profile.
Check out this page for more automations to help with sales and prospecting.
Optimizing workflow to save time
As a salesman, you probably have a lot on your plate. You must stay in touch with clients, manage your team, and plan for the future. By implementing these time-saving AI automations, you can focus on what matters most to you.
YouTube contains everything for tech how-to, coding tutorials, and baking videos. If you don’t have time to watch a YouTube video to completion, you’ll love this automation. It’ll summarize the video, extract key takeaways, and save the info to a Google Sheets spreadsheet for later referral.
Have you got an image with text in your Dropbox account? This automation can extract text from any image using OpenAI’s OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capability. If the text is in a foreign language, it can also translate it for you using DeepL. You can also do the same for images saved in Google Drive.
Sometimes the information you’re looking for on a page is hidden under a mountain of fluff. Whenever you come across such a page, just run this automation. It’ll use OpenAI to summarize it for you and save it to Notion. You can also save the summary to WhatsApp, Google Docs, and ClickUp.
With all the new advancements in artificial intelligence, 2023 has come to be known as “The Year of AI.” If you want to leverage AI to automate your workflow, check this article for more OpenAI automations.
Start automating your workflow today
What we saw above were all prebuilt automations. These are the automations that we’ve already built for you, which you can implement immediately after you install Bardeen in your browser.
But, of course, prebuilt automations aren’t suitable every time. Only you know your automation needs best. This is why Carl often creates custom automations and shares them with his team.
For this, you don’t need to learn how to create automations from scratch. With the Magic Box, you can leverage AI to create automations with natural language. All you need to do is tell Bardeen what you want to automate. Then, it’ll generate the automation for you in just a few moments.
Remember, your automations can go beyond basic tasks like copying data or reminding you of a meeting. With the OpenAI integration, you also have sentiment analysis, summarization, and content generation at your fingertips.
You can start by writing a list of tasks you do every day that Bardeen can automate, and then you can use the Magic Box to create the automations. For further updates on Bardeen’s AI features, join the waiting list.
Endnotes
When it comes to prospecting and outreach, you always need to be in the right place at the right time. With Bardeen, you can let automations minimize your effort, freeing you up to focus on the things that matter.
As your next step, install Bardeen and try one of the above automations.
If you want to use more AI-powered tools like Bardeen to supercharge your productivity, check out our article about the best AI tools for lead process management.
