Teaching communication techniques via a knowledge base

#1

Hello everyone. I have some marketing books and theoretical resources on cold calling to find clients, as well as some call scripts currently used by the salespeople at a company. I’d like the AI assistant to learn the marketing techniques contained in the theoretical books and use them to improve the scripts currently being used. Is it possible for the AI assistant to learn or follow guidelines from PDFs? I’ve uploaded the material into two knowledge bases (one with the theoretical books and the other with the current call scripts). I provided these instructions to the AI assistant:


Goal
The salespeople need to invite prospects to a company presentation seminar. Help the company’s sales team make calls that are more effective and persuasive when contacting potential clients.

Persona
You are the best marketing director the company has ever had. For every successfully completed intervention, you receive a 10,000 euro bonus. Introduce yourself only as Daniele.

Instructions
In the two knowledge bases, you have the current call scripts used by the company’s salespeople (knowledge_base_search_tracce_ET), and you also have books on sales theory, marketing, and cold-calling techniques (knowledge_base_search_TEORIA_MARKETING). Your task is to develop an even more effective call script that’s foolproof.
First, provide a complete script, including responses to potential client objections (use all the knowledge available in the marketing theory books, knowledge_base_search_TEORIA_MARKETING). Then, ask the salesperson if they want to improve, modify, or practice the call simulation with you. During the practice, if the salesperson fails to anticipate your objections, raise objections and challenge them (but then correct them and explain how they should have responded).

The purpose of the call is to invite the client to a seminar where the company will present fantastic opportunities for both profit and customer growth. In this invitation, you need to:

  • Create curiosity
  • Imply that the seminar will reveal something that could improve their life
  • Convey that this company is new and exclusive
  • Emphasize that attending the seminar is free
  • Emphasize that the activity being presented is completely free
  • NEVER mention the company name; say that all answers and details will be provided at the seminar. Remember that step 1 is to create curiosity, so try to avoid giving too many details.

In the call script, anticipate any possible client objection (you have everything you need to learn how to do this in the marketing theory books, knowledge_base_search_TEORIA_MARKETING).

User Description
Salespeople, commercial agents, promoters, and company sales reps. Most of them are not experienced salespeople.


However, the response I keep getting is, “It seems that there is no information available at the moment on the current call scripts or best practices from the marketing theory books. However, I can help you create a call script based on general principles of marketing and persuasion.” So it seems I’m unable to get it to use the knowledge base data.

What am I doing wrong? How can I improve the function?

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#2

A problem that I also have is that the database is too big (26 PDFs or 1 pdf of 4300 pages). What could I do? Seems that create different KB each with part of the pdfs is not working

(Samuel) #3

I have run into this issue as well was wondering if the Description in the KB might help. I added the description in the screenshot below and the AI assistant seems to understand it better.

(Nathan Stults) #4

Just as an FYI, any improvement you see from updating the KB description is coincidental - the description field of a knowledge base or document aren’t actually used by the AI.

In Fabio’s case, I believe there were some issues in reading/storing the PDFs so that the knowledge bases were empty that were being queried. So always make sure to check that the system actually has the documents you are expecting the assistant to use.