Contact current or potential customers to promote products or services.

Contact current or potential customers to promote products or services. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 10 occupations and seen in 14 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Promote products, services, or programs. in Selling or Influencing Others .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 14 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 9 (64%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.014% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Contact businesses or private individuals by telephone to solicit sales for goods or services, or to request donations for charitable causes. · Telemarketers · importance 4.8 · exposure with tools
• Locate and contact potential clients to offer advertising services. · Advertising Sales Agents · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Contact previous clients for prospecting of referral business. · Real Estate Sales Agents · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Telephone or write letters to respond to correspondence from customers or to follow up initial sales contacts. · Telemarketers · importance 4.3 · direct LLM exposure
• Contact property owners and advertise services to solicit property sales listings. · Real Estate Sales Agents · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Arrange buying parties and solicit sponsorship of such parties to sell merchandise. · Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Visit establishments to evaluate needs or to promote product or service sales. · Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Visit prospective buyers at commercial, industrial, or other establishments to show samples or catalogs, and to inform them about product pricing, availability, and advantages. · Sales Engineers · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Contact new or existing customers to discuss how specific products or services can meet their needs. · Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Visit retailers and sales representatives to promote products and gather information. · First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Contact regular and prospective customers to demonstrate products, explain product features, and solicit orders. · Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Contact prospective customers to present information and explain available services. · Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Arrange for demonstrations or trial installations of equipment. · Sales Engineers · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure
• Contact prospective or existing customers to discuss how services can meet their needs. · Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Telemarketers
• Advertising Sales Agents
• Real Estate Sales Agents
• Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
• Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers
• Sales Engineers
• First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
• Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
• Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
• Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Contact current or potential customers to promote products or services.},
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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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