Job 002 · Lead response

Your web leads go cold in 5 minutes. This replies in 10 seconds.

BY ERIC · [MONTH YEAR] · BUILT WITH N8N, SELF-HOSTED

Here's the brutal thing about leads: the customer who filled out your form at 8:40 p.m. is filling out two of your competitors' forms at 8:42. Whoever answers first usually gets the job. Research on lead response has shown for years that replying within the first few minutes is dramatically more effective than replying after half an hour — and most businesses take hours, because they're out doing the actual work.

[YOUR STORY — the test setup you built this against, what the "before" looked like.]

What the automation does

The instant a lead comes in — website form, Facebook, wherever — three things happen at once: the customer gets a text and an email ("Got your request — we'll call you within the hour"), the lead lands in the spreadsheet or CRM with every detail filled in, and the owner's phone pings with the name, number, and what they need. Ten seconds, every time, including 2 a.m. on a Saturday.

[SCREEN RECORDING: submitting a test form → the reply text arriving → the phone notification. Side by side if you can.]

How it's wired

[SCREENSHOT: n8n canvas — Webhook → Format lead → Send SMS + Send email + Add row + Notify owner, in parallel]

[WALK THROUGH THE NODES. Mention the Spanish auto-reply branch here — detecting or offering "¿Prefiere español?" is a genuine differentiator worth its own paragraph.]

What a slow reply actually costs

If your average job is worth $300 and slow replies lose you even two leads a month, that's $7,200 a year walking to a competitor who simply answered first. The automation answers first, every single time.

Want every lead answered instantly?

This is the "Answer every lead in 10 seconds" package — flat $750, connected to your real forms and tested with you live.

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