How to classify HubSpot Sales Sales Emails with generative AI
As a sales representative, it can be overwhelming to manually classify each sales email by priority, lead status, and content. Misclassifying an email can lead to losing a potential customer or unnecessarily chasing a lead that has already been closed. In this post, we’ll show you how to use generative AI to automatically classify your HubSpot sales emails.
What is Text Classification?
Text classification is a natural language processing (NLP) technique that involves using machine learning algorithms to automatically assign predefined categories or labels to a piece of text. The algorithms learn from a training set of labeled text data and use statistical models to identify patterns and features in the text that can be used to classify new, unseen text data.
Text classification is used in a wide range of applications, from spam detection in emails to sentiment analysis in social media posts and reviews. It has become an essential tool for many industries that rely on large amounts of text data, helping to automate tasks and extract valuable insights from the data.
Example Use Cases
Use cases for classifying HubSpot sales emails include:
- Automatically classify emails by lead status
- Automatically classify emails by priority
- Automatically classify emails by content
- Identify and classify spam emails
- Automatically prioritize urgent emails
- Identify and classify successful sales pitches
Teams that might find these use cases helpful include: sales, customer support, customer success, and marketing.
Finding your input data and categories
You first need to identify the data that you want to work with. Here, we are looking at HubSpot sales emails. You can extract this data using HubSpot API, export it in CSV format, query a list of emails from your data warehouse or BI tool, or copy and paste with an example email.
For more information on the HubSpot API see here: https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/overview
Next, you need to find or create your list of categories for classifying the emails. This might include lead status, priority levels, or content type.
Common examples of sales email categories include:
- New lead
- Hot lead
- Cold lead
- Follow-up
- Proposal
- Closing
- Customer feedback
- General inquiry
Once you have your data and categories, you can use generative AI to automatically classify your HubSpot sales emails. This will help you to reduce the time it takes to process sales emails and ensure that you are prioritizing leads with the highest potential.