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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Advertising Sales Reps

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Sell or solicit advertising space, time, or media in publications, signage, TV, radio, or Internet establishments or public spaces.

Advertising Sales Agents · O*NET 41-3011.00 · Job Zone 4 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

20 of 23tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

46 matched to the tools advertising sales agents use. Showing 24.

  • Canva

    MCP server

    Canva is a user-friendly online design platform that empowers individuals and businesses to create professional-quality graphics, presentations, posters, and other visual content with ease.

    Canva

  • Google Ads

    MCP server

    Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords) is an online advertising platform developed by Google, where advertisers pay to display brief advertisements, service offerings, product listings, video content, and generate mobile application installs within the Google ad network to web user

    Google Ads

  • Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Canva MCP or direct API to generate new designs, update templates, fetch assets, and automate publishing workflows through natural language.

    Make (make.com)

  • Microsoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.

    Microsoft Outlook

  • Salesforce

    MCP server

    Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship manager (CRM) application.

    Salesforce

  • WordPress is a website and blog creation and publishing platform with tools for aesthetic designing, visitor tracking, content storage and upload, and more

    Make (make.com)

  • Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Facebook MCP or direct API to post updates, fetch messages, manage comments, and gather page analytics through natural language.

    Make (make.com)

  • Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Google Ads MCP or direct API to monitor campaign performance, update ad groups, generate reports, and launch new ads through natural language.

  • Microsoft Excel

    MCP server

    Microsoft's Excel is a spreadsheet application used by millions of users across the world. It is part of the Office ecosystem and is considered the industry standard for spreadsheets. Only files on OneDrive for Business (available with Office 365 and Sharepoint server) are su

    Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft Word

    MCP server
  • Powerpoint

    MCP server
  • Make (make.com)

  • Wordpress

    MCP server
  • Adobe Creative Cloud is a graphic design and video editing suite that enables businesses to publish print layouts, edit images, manage PDF documents, and collaborate with team members using various mobile and desktop applications.

  • Adobe Photoshop

    MCP server
  • Canva

    Connector

    Search, create, autofill, and export Canva designs from a prompt

    Canva

  • Canva Dev

    MCP server
  • Email Server

    MCP server

The tools this job actually uses

23 documented for this occupation. Showing 23, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Adobe Creative Cloud softwarehot
  • Adobe Illustratorhot
  • Adobe InDesignhot
  • Adobe Photoshophot
  • Canvahot
  • Facebookhot
  • Google Analyticshot
  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Salesforce softwarehot
  • WordPresshot
  • Contact management software
  • Email software
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Google Ads
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • QuarkXPress
  • Web browser software

What this job involves

20 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 20.

  1. Prepare and deliver sales presentations to new and existing customers to sell new advertising programs and to protect and increase existing advertising.
  2. Maintain assigned account bases while developing new accounts.
  3. Provide clients with estimates of the costs of advertising products or services.
  4. Locate and contact potential clients to offer advertising services.
  5. Explain to customers how specific types of advertising will help promote their products or services in the most effective way possible.
  6. Obtain and study information about clients' products, needs, problems, advertising history, and business practices to offer effective sales presentations and appropriate product assistance.
  7. Prepare promotional plans, sales literature, media kits, and sales contracts, using computer.
  8. Process all correspondence and paperwork related to accounts.
  9. Draw up contracts for advertising work, and collect payments due.
  10. Deliver advertising or illustration proofs to customers for approval.
  11. Inform customers of available options for advertisement artwork, and provide samples.
  12. Recommend appropriate sizes and formats for advertising, depending on medium used.
  13. Write copy as part of layout.
  14. Determine advertising medium to be used, and prepare sample advertisements within the selected medium for presentation to customers.
  15. Gather all relevant material for bid processes, and coordinate bidding and contract approval.
  16. Consult with company officials, sales departments, and advertising agencies to develop promotional plans.
  17. Identify new advertising markets, and propose products to serve them.
  18. Arrange for commercial taping sessions, and accompany clients to sessions.
  19. Attend sales meetings, industry trade shows, and training seminars to gather information, promote products, expand network of contacts, and increase knowledge.
  20. Write sales outlines for use by staff.