Nate Tilley breaks down why most businesses fail at follow-up. Seventy-three percent don't follow up with leads at all, and only 7% respond within five minutes. Automating a text within one minute can move leads straight into a sales conversation.
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If 73% of businesses aren't following up with leads at all, that's a huge opportunity for you to just be the best with your speed to lead with, making sure no leads slip through the cracks. So check this out. Study from drift. Only 7% of companies respond to leads within five minutes, while 55% of companies respond in five or more days. If you want to be the top 7% of companies in the United States and probably in the world, all you need to do is follow up, respond to your leads within five minutes. You can automate this. So what we do is for every lead that comes in, every new lead, we send a personalized text message within one minute. And so the thing is, is you want to drive these leads off of the platform that they were on, whether it's Facebook, Instagram, Google, your website, wherever they submit this lead request. And you want to drive them into a conversation with your sales team where you can actually drive them from that into an appointment. And an appointment turns into a show appointment turns into a deal. And.
