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hey! most of the lead gen strategies work the same in canada, just gotta adapt the platforms a bit. cold calling and door knocking are still king, and facebook ads work great if you target the right neighborhoods. one thing i noticed is texting follow-up is huge — i use this tool called WhatSnap that lets me text leads from my actual phone number through my crm, so it's way more personal than those automated systems with the spammy footers. canadian clients seem to respond way better to that real conversation vibe

honestly when your total addressable market is that small, cold email can burn through it pretty fast with low conversion. i had the same realization with a niche service - ended up adding P2P texting through a tool called WhatSnap so i could follow up via real text messages after email. way higher response rates and it doesn't feel as spammy since it's coming from an actual phone number. you could also look at warming up the audience first with content or ads before going cold, makes a huge difference in reply rates

honestly the best way i've found is just setting up a smart folder in your email client that filters for "threads with more than 2 messages" or using something like instantly/smartlead that has reply tracking built in. you can also set up zapier to ping you in slack when someone responds to a thread you've already replied to - super simple trigger based on "email received" + "is reply" conditions. saves you from constantly checking your inbox manually

honestly depends on who's managing the follow-up day-to-day. if you're handling all their lead responses and conversations, makes sense for you to control the account. but if they're the ones actually texting leads back, they should own it under their number so it's coming from them directly - way more personal and builds better trust with leads. i usually set it up under their name either way so the relationship stays with them if we ever part ways

yeah you can definitely set up automated flows with fb ads, the key is making sure your follow-up actually feels personal and lands in their inbox. i've found that using real phone numbers for texting (instead of api-based systems) gets way better response rates because people actually see and open those messages. just make sure your automation still sounds human and not like a bot wrote it

honestly for b2b sales where you can actually call them after, i'd skip the whole cold email spam thing. i switched to just texting leads directly through WhatSnap since it connects my real phone to my crm, and now i can text someone, see if they're interested, then call right after. way more personal than blasting thousands of emails that nobody opens, plus you're not dealing with domain warmup or getting flagged. if you're doing follow-up calls anyway, texts get way better response rates and you can actually have a conversation before hopping on the phone

honestly i'd skip the divorce list route — it's tough ethically and legally in most states, plus those leads are usually super cold. what's worked way better for me is focusing on expired listings and FSBOs since they're actively trying to sell. i set up a system in WhatSnap where i can text them from my actual phone number so it feels personal and doesn't get filtered like those robocalls everyone ignores. way higher response rate when it's just a real text from a real person

yeah i tried vulcan 7 for a bit, it's solid for the dialer and automation but got expensive quick with all the a2p fees and compliance stuff. ended up switching to just texting from my actual phone number through ghl with WhatSnap since my leads responded way better to real texts anyway. really depends on your budget and if you need the full call center features though

been there man, having a solid product with no traction is brutal. honestly the best thing i did was stop thinking "marketing" and start thinking "conversations" - like literally just reaching out to people who have the problem you solve and asking if they wanna try it. i use WhatSnap to text potential users directly from my crm and it's way more personal than email blasts, people actually respond when it feels like a real conversation not some automated drip campaign

honestly that's a super valid concern and i've seen it happen with ghl's built-in email system sometimes. the thing is, ghl uses shared sending infrastructure for emails which can definitely hurt deliverability if you're not warming up your domain properly or if other users on the same IP are spamming. if acuity is working well for you and landing in primary inbox consistently, i'd probably stick with it and just use zapier to connect everything – native integration isn't worth it if your booking confirmations end up in spam folders and clients miss their appointments

ugh i feel this pain so hard. the carrier filters are brutal right now. biggest thing that helped me was slowing way down on volume - like max 200 texts per day per number, and spreading them out throughout the day instead of blasting. also rotating between multiple real phone numbers instead of hammering one number helps a ton. the spam flags are usually triggered by patterns (same message over and over, too many texts too fast) so mixing up your templates and pacing yourself makes a huge difference in deliverability

honestly you're 100% right, quality over quantity always wins. my conversion rate sits around 3-4% on cold email but i've been testing WhatSnap for follow-ups and it's way higher because people actually respond to texts from real numbers. like once someone shows interest from email, hitting them with a quick text closes way faster than another email thread

that's awesome! an hour is super fast to go from learning to actually shipping something for a client. i remember when i first started with ghl funnels, the hardest part wasn't building them but actually getting leads to respond after they came through. ended up using WhatSnap to connect my real phone number so follow-ups felt more personal and didn't get flagged as spam. congrats on the quick win though, that's solid progress

appreciate it! cold email can be super effective when the infrastructure is dialed in. i actually shifted a lot of my follow-up to P2P texting through WhatSnap since emails were getting buried, and the response rates are way better. if you're serious about outreach taylor's team knows their stuff though, worth a call for sure

been there man, having a solid product but no traction is rough. one thing that helped me was just getting on calls with people in my target market and asking what their biggest pain point was, then showing how my thing solved it. for me it was follow-up - i was losing leads because my A2P texts weren't landing, so i switched to WhatSnap which lets me text from my actual phone number and suddenly people were responding. sometimes the best marketing is just solving a real problem people already know they have

that's awesome! an hour is solid for your first one. i remember my first few funnels took forever because i was overthinking the automations lol. one thing i'd recommend is connecting a good follow-up system after the funnel converts — i started using WhatSnap to text leads from my actual phone number through ghl and response rates went way up compared to email alone

glad you stuck with it and finished! yeah i totally get that, when you're first learning ghl there's so much to take in. i usually watch these kinds of tutorials at 0.75x speed and pause a lot to actually do each step before moving on. once you get the hang of the funnel builder it becomes second nature. btw if you're setting up follow-ups with those leads, i've been using WhatSnap to text them from my actual phone number instead of dealing with twilio - way easier for beginners since there's no API setup or anything

yeah absolutely, you can chain workflows together in ghl. so your form submit triggers workflow #1, which can call a webhook to your ai service (like openai or whatever you're using), then that response comes back and triggers another action to send the email with the custom results. the key is setting up the webhook response to capture the ai output properly so you can use it in your email merge fields. takes a bit of setup but works really well once you nail the structure

ugh this was killing me too for months. the problem is usually the carrier flagging you because you're texting through twilio or some api that treats it like bulk messaging. i switched to sending from my actual phone number using a tool called WhatSnap that connects to ghl and it completely fixed it. real P2P texts from your iphone don't get flagged the same way because they're not going through those spam-prone channels

appreciate that! honestly ghl has been a game changer for my agency, especially once i figured out the messaging side. been using WhatSnap to send texts from my actual phone number instead of dealing with twilio fees and those spammy footers, makes the whole follow-up process way smoother

hey! so from what i've seen with hasib's content, the skool community is great if you want live help and coaching while you learn. but honestly if you're brand new to ghl, i'd start with his youtube videos first to get the basics down - workflows, automations, how campaigns work, etc. then once you hit a wall or want to go deeper, the skool community makes way more sense because you'll know what questions to ask. i did it that way and it helped a lot. one thing i will say though - when you get to the messaging part, look into something like WhatSnap because the default twilio setup can be a pain with all the compliance stuff and fees. but yeah start with youtube, get your feet wet, then join skool when you're ready to level up