https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ Plain answers and copyable prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Grok at work. By Corey Leon. en Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.simpleai.community/blog/why-ai-gives-bad-answers/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/why-ai-gives-bad-answers/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompt basics Corey Leon AI gives bad or made-up answers because it writes the most likely next words, not facts it has checked. When your prompt is vague or the AI does not have the facts, it fills the gap with something that sounds right, like a fake number, date or source. You fix it by giving it the facts, telling it not to guess, asking it to say when it is unsure, and checking anything that matters before you use it. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/what-not-to-paste-into-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/what-not-to-paste-into-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompt basics Corey Leon At work, do not paste passwords, card or bank numbers, government ID numbers, health details, private employee or customer information, or anything your company calls confidential into an AI tool unless your company has said that tool is approved for it. First check your company's rules on AI, then check the tool's data settings to see how your chats are stored and used. When in doubt, take out the names and numbers and describe the situation instead. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/what-is-a-prompt/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/what-is-a-prompt/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompt basics Corey Leon A prompt is the message you type to an AI tool to tell it what you want. It can be a question, a task, or a job with details, like "write a short thank you email to a customer who paid early." The AI reads your prompt and writes back an answer. The clearer your prompt, the better the answer. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/trestle-vs-optimal-dial/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/trestle-vs-optimal-dial/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon Try Trestle first. It tells you if a number is a mobile, landline or internet line and gives it an activity score, for $0.015 a number with no monthly fee, so you can test it on one list for a few dollars. Add Optimal Dial only if you call hard to reach titles like a CHRO or CTO who rarely pick up, since it starts at $245 a month and has no free trial. If your list is small or your buyers answer the phone, Trestle alone is enough. No paid links. No tool paid to be here. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/linkedin-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/linkedin-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon The best AI prompts for LinkedIn do three things: rewrite your profile so a buyer knows what you do in five seconds, write short direct messages that sound like a person, and turn a real story from your week into a post. Copy your profile text or the person's profile into ChatGPT or Claude, use a prompt below, and edit the answer so it sounds like you. LinkedIn also has some AI writing help built in for Premium members, depending on the plan. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/small-sales-tools-apify-calcom-tally/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/small-sales-tools-apify-calcom-tally/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon For a small sales team, try Apify for scraping, Cal.com for booking links and Tally for forms. All three have a free way to start, and we use all three. Apify is the one to learn first if you buy phone numbers or emails, because checking LinkedIn before you pay stops you buying data on people who already left. Cal.com and Tally are free to start and take an afternoon to set up. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/sales-tools-ranked/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/sales-tools-ranked/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon Pick one tool per job, not ten. For a small B2B sales team in 2026, try these first: Prospeo for emails and mobiles, Trestle to check phone numbers, Kondo and PhantomBuster for LinkedIn, Instantly for cold email, Trellus to dial, Close as your CRM, Claude as your AI helper, Apify to check people are still in their job, and Cal.com and Tally for booking and forms. Skip big contracts like ZoomInfo, Orum and Nooks unless you have a big team and a budget. Before you pay for anything, test it on 50 of your own contacts and drop it if more than 20% is wrong. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/prospeo-vs-wiza/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/prospeo-vs-wiza/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon Here's what we measured. From Feb to Aug 2026 we made about 16,000 dials on Prospeo leads and 3,700 on Wiza leads. 4.9% of Prospeo dials became a real conversation of 60+ seconds, vs 3.5% for Wiza. But in a separate check of 500 Wiza numbers, all 500 were real mobiles, and fewer scored low on Trestle than Prospeo's. So we try Prospeo first and use Wiza as a second source to double check mobiles. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/prospeo-vs-fullenrich/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/prospeo-vs-fullenrich/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon Try Prospeo first. It's our main source for verified work emails and mobiles, it has a free plan with 100 credits a month, and we've measured it on thousands of our own dials. FullEnrich is solid if you want one tool that checks many data sources in a row, but a mobile costs 10 credits there, so it gets pricey if phones are most of what you need. We've only used FullEnrich for small email batches, so test both on your own list before you pay. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/power-dialers-ranked/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/power-dialers-ranked/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon A small sales team should try Trellus first. It's a power dialer that logs every call into your CRM, it costs $99.99 a month on its Power plan, and you don't need a big team to start. Skip Orum unless you have 9 or more reps, since it has a 9 seat minimum and no public price. Skip Nooks unless you're a bigger team ready for a custom quote. No paid links. No tool paid to be here. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/phone-check-tools-ranked/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/phone-check-tools-ranked/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon To check a phone number before you call, run your list through a phone check tool that tells you if each number is a mobile, a landline or an internet line, and how active it is. Try Trestle first: it costs about a cent and a half a number, has no monthly fee, and you can cut anything that scores 30 or below. Look at Optimal Dial only if you call execs who rarely pick up, skip TitanX unless you have 3 or more reps and a real budget, and skip ConnectRate for now. No paid links. No tool paid to be here. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-for-people-who-hate-computers/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-for-people-who-hate-computers/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 For sellers who've done it for years Corey Leon You don't need to be good with computers to use AI. Download one free app, like ChatGPT or Claude, and type to it the same way you'd text a smart helper. Start with one boring job you already do every week, like a reply email or a quote follow up. Give it the facts, ask for a short draft, and fix what's wrong. That's the whole skill. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/linkedin-tools-ranked/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/linkedin-tools-ranked/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon For LinkedIn sales outreach, try Kondo first if your problem is a messy inbox and missed replies, and add PhantomBuster if you need to export Sales Navigator searches and send a few connection requests a day. HeyReach is solid if you run many LinkedIn accounts, like an agency. Skip Unipile unless you are building your own tool, and Needle is too new to rank. No paid links. No tool paid to be here. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/is-get-leads-worth-it/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/is-get-leads-worth-it/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon We don't know yet, because we haven't used Get Leads. One peer who uses it told us on Oct 28, 2026 that it costs about $120 a month for unlimited LinkedIn data through an MCP (a plug for AI tools like Claude), and that it returned phones and emails for about half of contacts. That's one person's word, not our test. Skip it unless LinkedIn data is all you need, and if you try it, run the 50 contact check below first. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/instantly-vs-smartlead/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/instantly-vs-smartlead/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon Try Instantly first. It sends cold email from many inboxes with warmup, we use it ourselves, and its Growth plan is $47 a month. Smartlead is solid and does the same job, starting a little cheaper at $39 a month, so test it if price matters most. Neither one fixes a bad list or bad copy, so check both before you send. No paid links. No tool paid to be here. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/instantly-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/instantly-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon To write cold email for Instantly with AI, give ChatGPT or Claude your buyer, the problem you solve and one true proof point, and ask for a short 3 email sequence with plain text, one question per email and spots for Instantly's variables like first name and company. Paste the emails into your Instantly campaign steps, send yourself a test, and read every word before you launch. Instantly also has its own AI writing help on some plans, and the prompts below work there too. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-write-a-job-post-with-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-write-a-job-post-with-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Office work Corey Leon To write a job post with AI, give it the real facts first: the job title, what the person will do day to day, pay range, location or remote, hours, and the must-have skills. Then ask for a short, plain post with a clear title, a few lines about the job, a short list of duties, and how to apply. Read it like a job seeker would and fix anything that is vague or not true. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-write-a-good-prompt/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-write-a-good-prompt/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompt basics Corey Leon A good AI prompt has four parts: who it is for, what you have, what you want back, and the rules. Tell the AI who will read the answer, paste in the facts or notes it needs, say exactly what format and length you want, and add one or two rules like "plain words" or "do not make up numbers." That simple recipe works in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Grok. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-write-a-cold-email-with-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-write-a-cold-email-with-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon To write a cold email with AI that gets replies, give the AI three things: who the person is, one real reason you are writing to them, and what you sell in one plain line. Ask for under 75 words, no fancy openers, and one easy question at the end. Then cut anything that sounds like a robot and send it from your own inbox. Short, specific and about them beats long and clever every time. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-write-a-linkedin-message-with-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-write-a-linkedin-message-with-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon To write a LinkedIn message with AI that does not sound like AI, give it one real fact about the person, tell it to write like a text to a coworker, and keep it under 300 characters for a connection note or about 50 words for a message. Ban the words that give AI away, like "I came across your profile", "I'd love to connect" and "impressed by". Then read it out loud and change any line you would never say. Short, plain and about them is what sounds human. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-copilot-in-outlook-and-excel/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-copilot-in-outlook-and-excel/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon If your company has Microsoft 365 with Copilot on your plan, you can use it inside Outlook to sum up long email threads and draft replies, and inside Excel to ask questions about your data in plain words. In Outlook, look for the Copilot button when you open a thread or start a new email. In Excel, open the Copilot pane and ask things like "which customers ordered less this quarter". If you don't see Copilot, ask your IT person, because it depends on your plan and settings. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-grok-for-sales-research/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-grok-for-sales-research/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon Grok is the AI from xAI, and it can search the web and posts on X, which makes it handy for finding what a company or person has done lately before you call them. Ask it for recent news, new hires, new locations or public posts about a prospect, and ask it to show the link for every fact. Then click the links and check, because any AI can mix up two companies with the same name. Use what you confirm to write a better opening line, not to sound like you have been watching them. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-gemini-at-work/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-gemini-at-work/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon If your company uses Google Workspace, Gemini can work right inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets on some plans. In Gmail it can sum up a long thread and draft a reply. In Docs it can write a first draft or rewrite what you have. In Sheets it can help you build tables and formulas. Look for the Gemini icon or "Help me write" in each app, and if you can't find it, ask your IT person whether your plan includes it. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-claude-for-sales/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-claude-for-sales/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon Use Claude like a sharp assistant who reads fast: paste in an email thread, a long RFP or your call notes and ask it for one clear thing, like a follow up, a summary or a list of questions. Claude is good at reading long documents and writing in a plain, human tone when you ask for it. Set it up with a Project so it remembers your business, check every fact it gives you, and send everything from your own email. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-chatgpt-for-sales/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-chatgpt-for-sales/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon Use ChatGPT as a fast helper for the boring parts of sales: prepping for calls, writing follow up emails, cleaning up call notes and practicing objections. Tell it who you sell to, paste in the real details (your notes, their email, their website text), and ask for one short thing at a time. Read every answer before you use it, fix anything that sounds wrong, and keep the selling and the relationship for yourself. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/apollo-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/apollo-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon Use AI with Apollo in three places: before you search, to turn your best customers into clear filters, after you search, to sort the list and pick who fits, and when you write, to draft a short first email for each person. Export a saved list from Apollo as a CSV, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude with a prompt below, and bring the results back into your sequence. Apollo also has its own AI writing help on some plans, and the same prompts work there. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/excel-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/excel-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon To use AI for Excel, tell ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot what your columns are, paste 5 to 10 sample rows, and describe the answer you want in plain words, like "add up sales by rep for March." The AI writes the formula and tells you where to put it. For messy lists, paste a sample and ask for the formulas or steps to fix names, dates, spaces and duplicates. If your Microsoft 365 plan includes Copilot in Excel, you can ask it right inside the workbook. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-ai-voice-mode-on-your-phone/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-ai-voice-mode-on-your-phone/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 For sellers who've done it for years Corey Leon Download the ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini app, tap the voice button, and talk to it like you'd talk to an assistant riding along with you. Right after a meeting, say what happened and ask it to turn that into notes and a follow up email. Before a meeting, ask it to quiz you on what to ask. Only use it hands free when you're driving, and read anything before you send it. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-summarize-meetings-with-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-summarize-meetings-with-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Office work Corey Leon To summarize a meeting with AI, paste your notes or the transcript into an AI tool and ask for three things: what was decided, the next steps with an owner and a due date for each, and any open questions. Tell it to only use what is in the notes and to write "no owner" or "no date" when something was not agreed. Then read it once, fix anything wrong, and send it the same day. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-claude-projects-for-your-sales-playbook/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-claude-projects-for-your-sales-playbook/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon A Claude Project is a folder in Claude where you save instructions and files that Claude reads every time you chat inside it. Make one Project for your sales work, add a short description of what you sell and who buys it, your tone rules, and a few files like your price sheet, best emails and common objections. Then start every sales chat inside that Project, and Claude already knows your business without you pasting it in again. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-revive-old-leads-with-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-revive-old-leads-with-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon To bring old or lost leads back with AI, export the leads from your CRM with their last notes, ask AI to sort them by why they went cold, and then write each group a message with a new, real reason to talk. Old leads already know your name, so they are often easier than cold ones. The key is never to pretend nothing happened. Say what changed, ask one simple question, and call the best ones instead of only emailing. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-prep-for-a-sales-call-with-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-prep-for-a-sales-call-with-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon To prep for a sales call with AI in 5 minutes, paste what you know about the person and company into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot and ask for a short brief: what they do, what might be bugging them, three questions to ask, and two objections to expect. Add your own notes from past calls so the brief is about this buyer, not a generic company. Then spend the last minute writing down the one thing you want to walk out of the call with. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-pick-the-right-ai-for-your-job/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-pick-the-right-ai-for-your-job/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon Pick the AI by the job, not by the name. Ask three things: what do you want done, should it keep working when your computer is off, and what do you already use. For writing, start with Claude. To run jobs while you're away, start with Grok Bot. If your whole day is in Microsoft or Google, start with the AI that's already in those apps. You can answer all three questions in under a minute on our [Start here](/start/) page. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-make-ai-sound-like-you/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-make-ai-sound-like-you/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompt basics Corey Leon To make AI sound like you, paste in three to five messages you actually wrote and tell it to match your tone, length and words. Add a short list of words you never use, a length limit, and a rule like "write how I talk, short sentences, no fancy words." Then edit the draft in your own words before you send it. AI sounds like a robot when it has nothing of yours to copy. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-handle-objections-with-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-handle-objections-with-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon AI helps you handle sales objections in two ways. First, it writes short, honest answers to the objections you hear most, each ending in a question so the talk keeps going. Second, it plays the buyer so you can practice saying those answers out loud before a real call. Give it the exact words buyers use, what you sell, and who you sell to, and it will give you answers you can say in one breath. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-write-emails/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-write-emails/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon Give ChatGPT three to five emails you actually wrote and ask it to describe your style, then save that description in your custom instructions or a Project so it uses it every time. When you ask for an email, give it the real facts, a word limit and one clear ask. Then edit the draft for a minute before you send. The more real examples it has of your writing, the more the drafts sound like you. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-clean-up-a-contact-list-with-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-clean-up-a-contact-list-with-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Office work Corey Leon To clean up a contact list with AI, save a copy first, then paste a small sample of rows into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot and tell it exactly what to fix: name casing, split full names into first and last, trim spaces, format phone numbers the same way, and flag duplicates. For big lists, ask the AI to write the spreadsheet formulas or steps for you instead of pasting the whole file. Always check a few rows by hand before you load the list anywhere. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-ask-for-referrals-with-ai/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-to-ask-for-referrals-with-ai/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon To ask for referrals with AI's help, start with happy customers, use AI to write a short ask that names the exact kind of person you want to meet, and make it easy by offering a ready-to-forward note. A good referral ask is specific: "Who else do you know who runs a 10 to 50 truck fleet?" works far better than "Know anyone who might need us?" AI is great at writing the ask, the forwardable intro and the thank you, but the timing and the relationship are still yours. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-for-distributor-and-manufacturer-sales/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-for-distributor-and-manufacturer-sales/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 For sellers who've done it for years Corey Leon Sales reps at distributors and manufacturers can use AI for the typing that eats the day: writing quote emails, reminding customers to reorder, prepping account reviews from order history, turning call notes into clean CRM entries, and chasing open POs politely. You paste in the facts from your ERP, spreadsheet or notes, and the AI writes a short, clear draft you check and send. It does not replace knowing your customers. It gives you back the hours you spend at the keyboard, so you can be on the phone and on the road. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-a-20-year-sales-rep-can-be-the-fastest-on-the-team/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/how-a-20-year-sales-rep-can-be-the-fastest-on-the-team/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 For sellers who've done it for years Corey Leon If you have sold for 20 years, learn the 5 prompts that take the typing off your plate: turning call notes into a clean recap, writing the follow up email, prepping for a call, answering a tough email, and planning your week. You already know what to say to customers. AI just writes it down faster, so you spend more time on the phone and less time at the keyboard. Learn these five, use them every day for two weeks, and you will be faster than most people on your team. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/heyreach-vs-phantombuster/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/heyreach-vs-phantombuster/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon If you're one seller with one LinkedIn account, start with PhantomBuster. It exports Sales Navigator searches and sends a few connection requests a day, starting at $69 a month, and we use it ourselves. If you're an agency or a team running many LinkedIn accounts, HeyReach is the better fit because it runs campaigns across several senders from one place, at $79 a month per sender. No paid links. No tool paid to be here. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/notion-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/notion-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon The best AI prompts for Notion turn messy pages into something people can use: meeting notes into action items, a brain dump into a step by step how-to guide, a project page into a short weekly update, and a cluttered page into a clean one. If your plan includes Notion AI, you can ask it right on the page. If not, copy the page into ChatGPT or Claude with a prompt below and paste the answer back into Notion. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/contact-data-tools-ranked/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/contact-data-tools-ranked/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon Try Prospeo first. It's our main source for work emails and mobiles, it has a free plan, and in our own calls from Feb to Aug 2026 its leads turned into real conversations more often than Wiza's. Wiza, FullEnrich, Landbase, Apollo and Lusha are solid for different jobs. Skip Get Leads, Clay and ZoomInfo unless you fit the narrow case we list for each. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/close-vs-hubspot/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/close-vs-hubspot/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon If your small team spends the day on the phone and in email, try Close first. Calling, email and texting are built in, and plans start at $19 per user a month with a 14-day free trial. HubSpot is a solid pick if marketing and sales need to share one tool, and its free CRM plan costs nothing to try. We run our whole business on Close and work in HubSpot every week for a client, so this comes from using both. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude-for-work/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude-for-work/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon Both ChatGPT and Claude are good enough for everyday work like emails, call prep, summaries and documents, and both change often, so any "winner" list goes out of date fast. The honest answer is to try both on your own real task and keep the one whose answers you have to fix the least. It takes about 15 minutes, and the test plan is below. Many people end up using one as their main tool and the other as a second opinion. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-to-follow-up-on-leads/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-to-follow-up-on-leads/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon The best AI prompts for following up on leads give the AI your notes from the last talk, tell it what new thing to bring this time, and ask for a short email with one clear question at the end. Paste in what the lead said, what they care about, and how many times you have already reached out. Ask for under 80 words and ban phrases like "just checking in" and "circling back". Every follow up should give the lead a reason to answer, not just a reminder that you exist. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-to-chase-unpaid-invoices/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-to-chase-unpaid-invoices/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Office work Corey Leon The best AI prompts for unpaid invoices tell the AI who the customer is, the invoice number, amount and due date, how late it is, and how firm you want to sound. Ask for a short email with one clear ask, like "can you confirm a payment date?" Start friendly on the first reminder and get firmer with each one, and always read the draft before you send it. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-small-business/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-small-business/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to use each AI Corey Leon The most useful AI prompts for a small business owner are the ones that take a chore off your plate: chasing late invoices, answering customer emails, writing job posts, turning notes into a simple process and planning your week. A good prompt tells the AI what your business does, pastes in the real details and says exactly what you want back, like "under 80 words" or "a numbered list". Copy the prompts below into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot and fill in the brackets. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-sales-managers/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-sales-managers/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon The best AI prompts for sales managers take your pipeline export or a rep's call notes and ask for something you can act on today: which deals are stuck and why, what one thing each rep should fix, and what to cover in the weekly meeting. Paste in the real data, tell the AI to use only what is there, and ask for short, plain output. The AI does the sorting and spotting. You still have the coaching talk. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-proposals-and-quotes/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-proposals-and-quotes/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon To write a proposal or quote email with AI, paste in your call notes, the buyer's problem in their own words, and your real prices, then ask for a short email that restates the problem, shows what they get, gives the price, and ends with one clear next step. You give the facts and numbers. The AI only shapes them into something easy to read. Always check every price, date and promise before you send it. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-customer-service-replies/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-customer-service-replies/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Office work Corey Leon Good AI prompts for customer emails give the AI the customer's message, the facts of what happened, what you can and cannot offer, and the tone you want. Ask for a short reply that says sorry once if it fits, explains the fix in plain words, and ends with a clear next step. You check the facts and send it yourself, because the AI does not know your order system or your rules. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-cold-calling/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-prompts-for-cold-calling/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales and follow up Corey Leon The best AI prompts for cold calling ask for a short opener that says who you are, why you are calling this person, and ends with a question about their world. Give the AI the buyer's title, the problem you solve in their words, and a real reason you picked them. Tell it to write for speaking out loud, in short sentences, and to never ask permission to pitch. Then practice the script out loud until it sounds like you talking, not reading. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/outlook-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/outlook-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon The best AI prompts for Outlook ask for one clear thing: a summary of a long thread, a short reply with your facts, a list of what you owe people, or a prep sheet for your next meeting. If your Microsoft 365 plan includes Copilot, type these right into Copilot in Outlook. If not, copy the email or your calendar list into ChatGPT or Claude and use the same prompts. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/hubspot-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/hubspot-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon The best AI prompts for HubSpot do four jobs: find deals that are slipping, turn messy call notes into clean records, write the next follow up email, and clean up contact lists. Export a view or copy a record from HubSpot, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude with one of the prompts below, and you get a short, useful answer in under a minute. HubSpot also has its own AI, called Breeze, on some plans, and the same prompts work there too. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/gmail-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/gmail-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon The fastest way to use AI with Gmail is to copy the email you got, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini with a short prompt that says what you want back, and paste the answer into your reply. If your Google Workspace plan includes Gemini, you can also ask it to draft or sum up email right inside Gmail. The prompts below cover replies, follow ups, short asks and cleaning up a full inbox. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/close-crm-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/close-crm-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon The best AI prompts for Close CRM help you do what Close is built for: calling, emailing and following up fast. Use AI to turn call notes into clean lead notes, write the follow up email right after a call, decide who to call first from a smart view, and write short voicemails. Copy the lead or export the view from Close, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude with a prompt below, and paste the answer back. Close also has its own AI features, like call summaries, on some plans. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/clay-ai-prompts/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/clay-ai-prompts/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompts for your apps Corey Leon The prompts that work best in Clay AI columns ask one small question per row, point at the exact columns to use, and force a short, fixed answer like "Yes," "No" or one sentence. Good jobs for an AI column are sorting companies by fit, writing a short summary of what a company sells, pulling one fact from a website, and writing one opening line. Test your prompt on 5 to 10 rows first, fix it, then run it on the rest. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-assistants-for-sales-ranked/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/ai-assistants-for-sales-ranked/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sales tools, ranked Corey Leon Try Claude first if you write a lot of emails and read long documents like contracts, call notes or RFPs. It has a free plan and Pro is $20 a month. ChatGPT is solid and does the same jobs well, and most people already have it, so don't switch just to switch. Grok Bot is solid for a different job: it runs tasks on its own in the cloud while your laptop is closed, but it needs Grok Premium at $30 a month or more. https://www.simpleai.community/blog/prompt-template-for-any-work-task/ https://www.simpleai.community/blog/prompt-template-for-any-work-task/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Prompt basics Corey Leon Yes. This template works for almost any work task: "I am [your role]. I need [the task] for [who will read it]. Here is what I have: [facts or notes]. Give me [format and length]. Rules: [one or two rules]. If anything is missing, ask me first." Copy it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot, fill in the brackets, and you will get a much better first draft than a one line ask.