AI for Sales & Marketing: talent, time, skill, job

GoWhich app

Tap Copy, paste into your AI app, and put your own words where you see a [bracket] or a ___. One send per exercise. Screenshot the answer.

• Exercises 1 to 4: any AI app you already use. ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude.
• The build needs a preview. Use Gemini with Canvas: in Gemini, tap Tools, then Canvas, before you paste. Or use Claude, which asks for an email and a phone OTP.
• "Limit reached", or slow? Do not resend. Join the pair next to you.

AaPlain words

Each word is explained once here, then used all day.

Something a stranger can open

What the working world calls proof of work. A link or a screenshot. Anyone can look at it.

The customer seat

A first job where you deal with the person who pays.

The process seat

A first job where you keep the work moving: operations, support, back office. Both seats are real jobs. Neither word is an insult.

Lead generation

Finding people who may buy.

Inside sales

Selling by phone and chat from an office desk.

Relationship officer

The bank's person for a set of customers.

Key accounts

A company's biggest customers.

Pre-sales

Explaining the product before someone buys.

Customer success

Helping the customer after they buy.

The hook

The first line that makes someone stop scrolling.

The number

A count the team watches after sending: how many opened, ordered, enquired.

A landing page

One page, one offer, one button. After this, just "the page".

A reason to say no

What sales courses call an objection.

The preview

The box beside or below the chat where the page you asked for appears and can be tapped.

The one-page note

A short note that tells a stranger what you made or did, for whom, the numbers, and what you would change.

One send

One message to the AI per exercise.

1Your talent, from evidence

On paper first, 1 minute. Write three true lines. Real facts only. Fake facts give a fake talent.

I am an MBA student, [year, elective or "not chosen yet"]. Three true facts about me: ___. Using only these facts, name my strongest talent in two words, quote the evidence, and write one sentence for "tell me about yourself". No praise. If the evidence is weak, say so.

• First years write "first year, not chosen yet" in the bracket.
• Your facts can be typed in Hindi, Urdu or Telugu. The AI reads them.
• Keep the sentence. Exercise 3 marks it.

Got "weak evidence"? That is an honest answer, not a failure. Send this one more line:

Give me one task this week that would create evidence.

MA real notification, torn apart

Take one real notification from an app on your phone. Paste it into your AI app, or type it out. Then send these two prompts, one after the other.

What job is this notification doing, who is it for, and what number does the team most likely watch?

Write three versions for MBA students in Hyderabad. How would the team test which one wins?

Three lessons

• AI drafts. You check. The number judges.
• Say "guess". AI has not seen the team's dashboard. When it names the number, it is guessing.
• An invented discount costs the company money. If AI writes "40% off" and nobody offered 40% off, the company pays for it. Check every offer before it goes out.

Optional video (1:56)

2Your weeks and months

Two prompts. Pick the one for your year. Put your talent from Exercise 1 in the blank.

I am an MBA first-year student in Hyderabad, [elective or "not chosen yet"], 21 months from graduating. My talent: "___". Make my plan: one goal per semester, one thing per semester a recruiter could open, and a Week 1 action under 2 hours. Table, under 150 words.

I am an MBA second-year student in Hyderabad, [elective]. Placement season is open. My talent: "___". Plan my next four weeks: one small thing each week that a recruiter could open, and a Week 1 action under 2 hours with a day on it. Table, under 120 words.

What "the thing" might be for your elective

• Finance: a one-page study of how a bank gets customers.
• HR: a one-page hiring plan for a small firm.
• Systems: a page that solves one customer problem.

SAI plays the customer

Good salespeople do not pitch. They ask, then answer. Put your own real customer in the first blank: the person who buys from your family's shop, your Instagram store or your internship. One no, one reply, one score. Screenshot the score.

You are [my real customer: who they are, where]. I am selling you [my product], [price]. Say no three times like a real customer would: the price, "I already have one", and trust. After each of my replies, score it 1–10 in one line. Mark strictly. Do not help me. Start with your first no.

Second years: sell what you sold in your internship, and take two nos.

You run a shop in Hyderabad and bank elsewhere. I am a relationship officer offering you [a current account or a business loan]. Say no three times like a real owner: charges, "I already have a bank", trust. Never quote a rate, charge or return. If I quote one, ask me where it is published. Score each reply 1–10 in one line. Mark strictly. Do not help me.

HR: copy the first prompt, then put this line in place of its first two sentences.

You are a software engineer with two job offers. I am a recruiter offering you a third.

The score is AI's guess too. A real customer is the real marker.

3Get marked, not answered

Most people ask AI to answer. The best ask it to mark. Pick one employer in the bracket and delete the rest. The blank is your sentence from Exercise 1. One send.

You hire MBA freshers in Hyderabad for [a bank's sales team, a software firm's inside-sales team, a marketing agency or a recruitment firm]. Here is my answer to "tell me about yourself": ___. Score it 1–10. Mark strictly. Name the one biggest weakness and one fix. Do not rewrite it for me.

Read the score. Then rewrite the sentence yourself, on paper. Two minutes. That is why the prompt says "do not rewrite it for me".

Second years: run this once a week, as the company you apply to next.

BA page a stranger can open

One phone builds. The partner's phone opens the link and hunts for what is wrong. Pick a business: a family shop, a home baker, a tuition centre, a mobile repair shop, a friend's Instagram store. No business in mind? Use a made-up home baker.

Build a one-page website that looks good on a phone for [the business] in Hyderabad. Items and prices: [three items, my prices]. Add one line on timings, and a big "Enquire on WhatsApp" button that opens WhatsApp with this message typed: "I saw your page". No phone number in the link. Invent nothing.

You supply the items and the prices. No phone number today. Never put a personal number on a public page.

Share it

The hunt

Your partner opens the page and hunts. There is no list.

Fix it

On my page, [what is wrong]. Fix only that. Tell me in one line what you changed. Then list two more things I should test before sharing it with the owner.

4Start your proof

Three lanes. Pick one. One send, one screenshot.

For first years, and anyone without a page. First years write "first year, not chosen yet" in the first bracket.

I am an MBA student, [year, elective]. Help me start a one-page study of how [brand] gets and keeps customers. Give me one problem to study from its app reviews or ads, three questions to answer, a title, and two questions a recruiter would ask. No numbers from you; tell me where to find them.

• Brands: Zepto, Meesho, Nykaa, Lenskart, PhonePe.
• Finance: Zerodha, Bajaj Finserv, a bank's app.
• HR: Keka, Darwinbox.
• Local: Paradise, Karachi Bakery, Ratnadeep.

Two free sources. You find the numbers. That is the study.

Today I built a one-page site for [the business] with a WhatsApp enquiry button. Write the one-page note a recruiter reads in 60 seconds: who it is for, what it does, what was wrong with it and how I fixed it, what I would add next. Under 120 words.

An internship, a fest sponsorship, a family shop, an Instagram store. An internship of 550 calls, 11 site visits and one sale is a sales job with a number. Write the number.

Something I already did: [what, for whom, how long]. My numbers: [calls or posts, replies, sales, money in, money spent]. Write the one-page note a recruiter reads: what I did, the numbers, what worked, what I would change. Add no number I did not give you. Then ask me two questions a sales manager would ask.

28By next Monday

28 Sep, 6 PM: one link or screenshot to your placement cell, the way they tell you.

• First years: optional, and welcome.
• Second years: the same link is the first line of your next off-campus application. A working target is five a week.

Your next four weeks

• Week 1. The one-page note.
• Week 2. One AI-customer round as the company you are applying to, with the score.
• Week 3. A brand study.
• Week 4. A page for a second business.

₹The honest market

• Many entry roles in sales, marketing and support pay ₹2–4 L a year, fixed. Process seat or customer seat, the start is similar.
• Many customer-seat roles add incentives on top: what you earn on your number.
• Listings for key account and area sales roles show about ₹6–13 L, all experience levels together. Some reach it in a few years. Many do not.
• What moves you up in either seat is the habit: one small thing a week that a stranger can open.

Roughly, Hyderabad, 2026, fixed pay. Sources: Indeed and AmbitionBox for the first two lines; job-site listing ranges for the third. This is the market, not any one college, and not a promise.

KA real-world layer on top of your degree

KIMS Education is an initiative of Dr. B. Bhaskar Rao, Chairman and Managing Director of KIMS Hospitals. It started this year. It is a real-world layer on top of your degree. It does not compete with your MBA: your college gives the knowledge and the degree, and this adds real work on top.

The three E's: Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship. Education is your degree, made job-ready. Employment is the skills employers ask for on day one. Entrepreneurship is for those who will build their own, and for everyone with a family business.

Four courses. Online classes, offline real work.

Details, fees and dates come from the KIMS Education team.

?The AI readiness test

How AI-ready are you for a sales and marketing job? Ten questions, two minutes. Your score, your band, one next step. The test asks for no name, number or email, and nothing you tap is saved.

The test link is pinned at the top of the group.