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Techanisms / Solutions / Leads go cold Follow-up
Leads go cold

Follow-up that happens without you remembering

Nobody decides to stop following up. The week gets busy, the third message never goes out, and an enquiry you paid good money for quietly becomes somebody else's customer.

Sales pipeline — how it actually goes
Sales pipeline 11 open · 6 gone quiet
New enquiry
Northbound FreightNo reply — 6 days
Cape InteriorsNo reply — 4 days
Rand LegalReplied once
Demo booked
Vaal Plant HireThursday, maybe
Won
Summit ElectricalSigned
Six of eleven went quiet. Nobody said no — they just stopped being asked.
Fig. 01 — Without
Illustration. Names and values are examples; the shape is not.
Income Mavericks — sales pipeline
Sales pipeline 11 open · 0 waiting on you
New enquiry
Northbound Freight2nd message sent · Mon
Rand LegalReplied 14 min after form
Demo booked
Cape InteriorsThu 10:00 — booked itself
Vaal Plant HireFri 14:00 — confirmed
Won
Summit ElectricalSigned
Bayline LogisticsSigned
Same eleven enquiries. Every one answered in minutes, two booked themselves, nothing waiting on a Thursday.
Fig. 01 — With
Illustration. Same names, same month, the follow-up done by the system.
What it is costing you

The bill nobody writes down

A lead going cold never looks like a loss. It looks like a quiet week. So the cost turns up somewhere else — in the ad spend that bought the enquiry, in the month that came in under, in the conviction that you need more leads when you already had enough of them.

And it is never the first message that is missing. It is the third. The follow-up that closes is the one nobody has time to send — so the work that brings the money in is the first thing a busy week drops.

And you will never know which ones. There is no report for the deal that never happened — so next month you buy more enquiries and pour them into the same gap.

01

You pay for every lead twice

Once to get the enquiry, and again to replace the one that went quiet. The second bill arrives as next month's ad budget, and it never stops arriving.

02

Your competitor is not better. They are just faster

Someone enquiring is enquiring three times. Whoever answers first gets the conversation, and the other two spend it arguing with a decision already half made.

03

You cannot tell whether your marketing works

A campaign that brought good enquiries and one that brought rubbish look identical when the follow-up is inconsistent. So the next spending decision is a guess, and so is the one after it.

Sound familiar

You can say which enquiries came in last week. You cannot say which ones are still waiting on you. If the answer to "who have we not heard back from" is a scroll through somebody's phone, this is the page.

Not your problem

If every enquiry is answered within the hour and nothing sits unattended, the leak is further down the line. Try quotes take too long instead.

The fix

Income Mavericks does the chasing

Not a reminder to follow up. The follow-up itself — written once, in your words, and sent whether or not anyone is at a desk.

Income Mavericks — what changes
No answer yetSEQUENCE RUNNING
Northbound FreightMessage 3 of 3 · replied
Cape InteriorsMessage 2 of 3 · Monday
Demo booked+1 · BY ITSELF
Vaal Plant HireFri 14:00 — confirmed
Fig. 02 — What changes
When an enquiry goes quiet, Income Mavericks keeps asking on your behalf — until they answer or say no. The card moves because they answered. Illustration; names are examples.
01

Every enquiry is answered in minutes

Whatever the source — form, missed call, message, referral — the first reply goes out immediately, and it says something useful.

02

Silence starts a sequence, not a note to self

No answer becomes a second message, then a third, across the channel they used. It stops the moment they reply.

03

One place that shows who is owed a reply

Not an inbox. A list of open conversations in the order they went quiet, so nothing depends on remembering.

In practice

One enquiry, start to finish

A Saturday afternoon enquiry, with nobody at a desk. The timings are the shape of a real sequence; names are illustrative.

Enquiry → booked call · idle2.4s
Enquiry receivedWebsite form · Saturday 14:26
Reply sent2 minutes later, with the two questions we always ask
No answer by MondaySecond message, same channel
Still nothing on ThursdayThird and last message
Replied and bookedSequence stopped itself
Two ways to get it

Have it built, or run it yourself

We build it

Your follow-up, written and wired for you

We take your enquiry sources, your words and the way you actually sell, and put the sequence in place. You approve the messages; we own everything behind them. Quoted before it starts.

You run it

The platform it runs on, from $49 a month

Income Mavericks is where the conversations, the sequences and the list of who is owed a reply live. If you would rather set it up yourself, that is the same system without us in it.

Questions

About automated follow-up

Will it sound like a robot wrote it?

Only if you write it that way. The messages are yours, approved before anything sends, and the whole point is that they read like the note you would have sent on a good day.

What stops it pestering someone?

A reply ends the sequence immediately, and so does a booking. There is a fixed number of messages and a decided gap between them — chasing forever is a worse problem than not chasing at all.

We already use a CRM. Does this replace it?

Yes. We build on Income Mavericks and only on Income Mavericks — it is the one platform we know well enough to be accountable for. Your contacts and history come across, and what you are paying your current CRM stops.

How long before it is running?

The first reply and one follow-up can be live quickly; the full sequence takes as long as it takes to agree the words. We scope it on the call rather than quote a number here.

Other things that leak

Most businesses have two of these at once, and fixing one usually exposes the next.

One next action

Bring last month's enquiries to the call

An hour. We go through where they stopped and what would have kept them going.

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