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Stop Losing Leads: One Inbox for Contractors Juggling Calls, DMs & Forms

Stop Losing Leads: One Inbox for Contractors Juggling Calls, DMs & Forms

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Marisol runs Benavides Tile and Stone in Round Rock, just north of Austin — six people, eleven years in business. Leads are coming in from four disconnected inboxes and going cold before she can call back. Eric walks through how to fix it without boiling the ocean. In this episode: Why calling a homeowner back on day six makes you the "guy who finally remembered," not the heroThe four-inbox trap: voicemail, Instagram DMs, Thumbtack pings, and website form submissions that don't talk to each otherDiagnosing the real problem — it's not work ethic, it's the lack of a single pane of glassStep one: consolidate every channel (website form, Facebook, Google Business, missed calls) into one inboxThe missed-call auto-text that opens an easier door than voicemail — and the exact human sentence to sendStep two: give every lead a status (new, contacted, quoted) in a simple pipelineNudges that poke you when a lead sits too long so you stop relying on memoryWhy you should start with the ONE channel leaking the most leads instead of setting up everything on a Saturday and never opening it again Sources: No external links cited in this conversation — advice drawn from Eric's agency experience and Marisol's shop. Subscribe: workingsmarter.jgiebz.com Full transcript Eric: ...so wait, back up. You said a week. A WEEK before you noticed? Marisol Benavides: Yeah. Sometimes longer, honestly. Eric: Oof. Marisol Benavides: And it's not like I'm lazy, Eric. I'm up at five. I'm on job sites by seven. Eric: Right. Marisol Benavides: But by the time I'm back in the truck checking messages, there's a voicemail, two Instagram DMs, a Thumbtack ping, and somebody filled out the form on my website. Eric: Four different inboxes. Marisol Benavides: Four different inboxes. And they don't talk to each other. Eric: So tell folks what you actually do, before we dig in. Marisol Benavides: Sure. I own Benavides Tile and Stone. We're based in Round Rock, just north of Austin. Six people counting me. We do flooring, backsplashes, shower surrounds, a little bit of fireplace work when it's pretty. Eric: Eleven years, right? Marisol Benavides: Eleven years this spring. I left a bigger remodeling outfit because I wanted to actually, you know, LOOK at the tile before it went on the wall. Eric: Fair. Marisol Benavides: And the work side of it, that part I love. The paperwork side has always been the thing that eats me alive. Eric: And the lead follow-up specifically. Marisol Benavides: Lead follow-up specifically. Because I'll be honest, by the time a homeowner is reaching out to me, they've already texted three other contractors. Eric: Yep. Marisol Benavides: So if I call back on day six, I'm not the hero. I'm the guy who finally remembered. Eric: And that's margin. That's real money walking. Marisol Benavides: It's warm leads going cold. And then I feel bad, so I offer a discount, so now I'm doing the job for less AND I waited a week. Eric: Worst of both worlds. Marisol Benavides: Worst of both worlds. Eric: Okay so let me diagnose what I'm actually hearing. Because I don't think your problem is you. Marisol Benavides: Go on. Eric: I don't think it's work ethic, I don't think it's intention. You just described four different channels, no central view, and a person whose actual job is physical. Marisol Benavides: Right. Eric: You can't be on the tool and in a CRM at the same time. Nobody can. Marisol Benavides: Thank you. Eric: You're welcome. But seriously, the issue isn't that you're bad at follow-up. The issue is you don't have a single pane of glass. Marisol Benavides: A what? Eric: One place where every lead lands, no matter where it came from. Website form, DM, Thumbtack, missed call, voicemail. All of it, one list. Marisol Benavides: That... would change my life. Eric: And it exists. We've been using an all-in-one ops platform at my agency for I think three years now. We run everything through it. Marisol Benavides: What's it called? Eric: I'm gonna just keep calling it the platform we use, if that's okay. I'm not here to sell anybody anything. Marisol Benavides: Fair enough. Eric: But I'll walk you through what we actually did. Because we had a version of your problem. Marisol Benavides: You did? Eric: Smaller scale. Our stuff was coming in through a website chat, a Facebook page, and like, people emailing me directly because they had my card. Marisol Benavides: The card people. Eric: The card people are the worst, I love them, but they're the worst. Marisol Benavides: So what did you do first? Eric: First thing, and this is almost boring, we just hooked up every channel to the one inbox inside the platform. Marisol Benavides: Every channel. Eric: Every channel. The website form became a form that fed into it. The Facebook messages piped in. The Google Business messages piped in. Missed calls on our business line triggered a text back automatically. Marisol Benavides: Wait. Say that part again. Eric: A missed call triggers an ...
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