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Home services franchises wire speed-to-lead as the product HQ can actually lockCall volume is national. Booking is local. Drift is how you pay for ads twice.

Home services franchise HQ buys leads. Locations miss calls, steal jobs, and invent stages. This vertical wires missed-call text-back on the snapshot, overflow rules, source on every job, and stolen-lead visibility — because at 95°F the company that texts back wins. Routing politics is how you light national spend on fire.

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The short version

Intern through CEO

Home services franchise HQ buys leads. Locations miss calls, steal jobs, and invent stages. This vertical wires missed-call text-back on the snapshot, overflow rules, source on every job, and stolen-lead visibility — because at 95°F the company that texts back wins. Routing politics is how you light national spend on fire.

  1. 01

    The weekly HQ number is median minutes to first outbound by location, and missed-call recover rate. CPL without those is a vendor story.

  2. 02

    After-hours is designed. Morning callback lists are eulogies.

  3. 03

    Membership, demand, and install are different jobs. One pipeline of 'leads' hides which motion is dying.

  4. 04

    Locations will hide jobs in personal phones. Official number in Conversations is the snapshot piece.

  5. 05

    Storm/peak: do not invent a new CRM. Same objects, tighter SLA.

Who

Same system. Three jobs.

Read your row

Intern

What you actually do

Miss-on-purpose and routing test. You are not buying more numbers. You are locking the clock.

Operator

What you protect

Speed is the product. Overflow visible. Job types. Peak uses the same objects. Official phone in GHL.

CEO

What you refuse to fund

National demand into local voicemail is how you buy ads twice. Speed-to-lead by location is the franchise number.

Wire

How to connect it

Objects, then edges

National lead ingest, location routing, overflow, missed-call SMS, job type (membership vs demand vs install), source, estimate booked, stolen-lead event, HQ speed-to-lead.

  1. 01

    Inbound call/form/ads → GHL now; location assigned by rule

  2. 02

    Missed → SMS from the location number or HQ pool per spec; opportunity created anyway

  3. 03

    Overflow if SLA missed → visible, not a Slack fight

  4. 04

    Completed job → review ask; membership vs one-off as states

Steps

Do this in order

Why, then done when
  1. 01

    Lock ingest and routing

    Written rules, overflow, timestamps. Test a lead through assignment.

    Why: Politics is the leak.

    Done when: Test lead assigns without Slack.

  2. 02

    Missed-call on the snapshot

    Every location gets the same job: miss → SMS. Local hours in a field.

    Why: This is the product.

    Done when: Pilot miss-on-purpose works.

  3. 03

    Job-type stages

    Membership vs demand vs install. Lost reasons.

    Why: Blended boards hide the motion.

    Done when: HQ can count by type.

  4. 04

    Stolen-lead visibility

    If grabbed off-process, event logged.

    Why: Culture talks fail. Events change behavior.

    Done when: A logged exception exists as a type.

  5. 05

    Peak rule

    Same objects, SLA restated. No spreadsheet war room as the system.

    Why: Peak is when the snapshot is tested.

    Done when: Peak note references the same stages.

What an intern at HQ should wire first

Routing test. Miss-on-purpose at a pilot. Job-type counts. Speed dashboard definition. Personal WhatsApp off the public number.

What the franchisor should refuse

More national ads, more tracking numbers, or a new vendor CRM until speed-to-lead by location exists. Spend into slow locations is paying twice.

The usual failure

National CPL. Local pads. After-hours voicemail. Stolen jobs as stories. HQ dashboard of 'leads'. That is a media buy, not a franchise system.

The weekly number

Median minutes to first outbound by location, missed-call recover, write-in on national ingest. Definitions locked.

Why

Questions people actually ask

Pushback is normal

Locations say their market is different.

Hours and offers can be local. Missed-call SMS and stages cannot be optional.

We use a national call center.

Then the center must write GHL with location and source, or HQ is blind. Call center without write-in is a second pad.

Can we measure only booked jobs?

Then you will not see missed-call leak. Speed is the leading number.

This week

This week: routing write-up, missed-call on a pilot snapshot, job types, speed definition. No extra ad spend as a substitute.

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