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Painting Business Owners: How to use automation and email to rapidly respond to leads.

Name: Painting Business Owners: How to use automation and email to rapidly respond to leads.
Uploaded: 2024-05-01T12:45:02+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Daniel Honan
Description: In this instructional segment, the speaker addresses painting business owners who receive paid leads from services such as Painter's Choice, CraftJack…

1 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this instructional segment, the speaker addresses painting business owners who receive paid leads from services such as Painter's Choice, CraftJack, and Thumbtack. He explains how to set up a Gmail filter that automatically labels incoming lead emails, and then uses Zapier to trigger automated actions—enabling a rapid, consistent response to each new lead. The advice focuses on creating a simple, repeatable workflow that turns manual email handling into an automated process, helping businesses reply faster and improve lead conversion.

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What are some strategies they can use to kind of get that rapid response? Yeah. So to go through one, let's just take the folks that use paid leads. So you're maybe using Painter's Choice, CraftJack, Thumbtack, basically any of those paid leads that they send you an email when you have a lead come in. What you can do is to get to respond to those automatically is set up a filter in your Gmail so that every time that lead comes in, that email is labeled a Gmail label, let's say you're using Gmail, most folks are. So it's labeled like, hey, this is a lead. And then you can use something called Zapier.