We rebuilt our sales funnel nine times in seven weeks.

What finally cut our cost per qualified booked call by 31% was a change in our CRM.

We kept increasing ad spend.

The leads came in, but booked appointments barely moved.

Our return dropped from 5:1 to 2:1, and I was convinced something in the funnel was broken.

So we changed the scripts, tested new angles, and adjusted our positioning.

Nine versions later, we still had the same problem.

Then we looked at what happened after a lead qualified.

People were talking to CharlieAI, showing interest, and getting an invitation to book.

Some never scheduled. We’d already paid to reach them, but our CRM didn’t give our sales team a clear way to see who had stopped one step short.

So we set up a CRM workflow to flag those leads and give our closers a list of people to follow up with.

On the first Monday we rolled it out, our cost per qualified booked call dropped 52%, and one closer booked 13 appointments in three hours from leads we already had.

Across the implementation, our cost per qualified booked call dropped 31%. We also used the same process to follow up with previously qualified leads who had never scheduled.

In this episode of Founder Fires, I walk through what we changed and how you can build a similar lead recovery workflow in your own CRM.

What I Cover:

• Why increasing ad spend didn’t translate into more booked calls

• How we track qualified leads who receive an invitation to book

• What our CRM checks 15 minutes later and when it assigns follow-up to a closer

• How one closer booked 13 appointments from the recovery list

• How we used the same workflow to re-engage older leads

Before you spend more on ads, pull up your CRM.

How many qualified leads got an invitation to book?

How many actually scheduled?

What happened to the ones who didn’t?

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