AI software company for customer acquisition and engagement, helping businesses get more customers. And keep them.
Canada, Saskatoon, SK
Joined November 2008
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He used to close 1 in 20 sales calls. Now he closes 4 in 10.
Michele Torti is 21. He never says “AI” on a sales call, and he calls local businesses after hours on purpose.
His 6-step AI agency playbook, on the Conquer Local Podcast 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=QrOPnmgy…
*Gen Zeya has entered the chat.*
If you subscribe to our YouTube channel, you've already met the newest face on our set. Please welcome Zeya Maquinay-Nicolas to the Vendasta team as our new on-camera host!
You can expect more videos that you want to watch. Drop by the channel and tell us what you think. You like the new set?
Welcome to the team, Zeya! 🙌
Watch the lastest video here: youtube.com/watch?v=DgjHW7ww…
Zeya walks through what we learned from studying 7,000 of them, including the vocabulary swap that took interest from 4% to 81%. 🤯 If you sell AI to local businesses, try it. Link to episode and sales deck in comments.
And you've noticed. Her first two videos with us have already passed 20,000 views.
Her latest opens with a hard number: 96% of local businesses say no when you pitch them AI. That's basically everyone.
She's new to our set but not to video. Zeya grew her TikTok account to more than 150,000 followers. That means she's already been through the trial and error most creators quit halfway through. She knows how to hold an audience past the first three seconds.
Every location. Every call. Every lead.
For multi-location franchise brands, the gap between a lead coming in and someone following up is where revenue quietly disappears.
Let AI handle that.
youtube.com/watch?v=vHAWp58v…
We asked which job you'd hand to an AI employee first.
Follow-up and scheduling won.
The good news is that you don’t have to pick, you can put an AI employee behind every one of these tasks! Why not start with follow-up and scheduling?
vendasta.com/ai-employees/re…
That space between signing up and getting value is the activation gap, and it is where clients quietly go cold. Every agency, franchisor and software company selling to local business has watched one sign up, open an empty app, close it, and not renew.
Their first email is finished work, with a link to inspect each item, and the partner presents it under their own brand. Swipe through for what is done before the first login.
Read the full release: vendasta.com/newsroom/vendas…
it researches the business, builds and publishes a starter website, trains an AI Receptionist on their own products and services, and audits how they show up across more than 40 review sites and directories.
Nothing breaks. Nobody complains. The money is already spent. 65% of local business owners say they want to be guided through onboarding. 16% want to set it up themselves. The standard answer to that is a setup checklist.
So we moved the work to the front.
→ The 30-second test any owner can run right now to find where their business is leaking
→ Why "I need a dashboard" is almost never the real problem
→ How one recording becomes four assets that all quietly point back to the same place
→ The reason a $5M business can still be worthless as a sellable asset
The line that stuck with us: an agent doesn't close the gap in your business. It moves into it, then does the wrong thing perfectly, on schedule, at volume. Full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7IrtEg…