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Agencies and freelancers: Lead follow-up and sales process

50 items covering the agency's own inquiries and a client's ad inquiries: capture, discovery, proposals, CRM fields, hand-off, losses, and early warnings.

50 items6 groups18 minOctober 15, 2026

  • lead follow-up
  • crm
  • proposals
  • agency

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Lead follow-up in an agency runs in two directions: the agency's own prospects, and the inquiries that come from a client's ads. This list covers both, because a client who replies late to leads damages the agency's results, too.

The agency's own inquiries: capture and first reply

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  • Account review, proposal, and contact forms land in the CRM with separate source tags, and WhatsApp and Instagram DMs are logged in the same list.
  • After-hours inquiries have a morning call queue and an auto-reply that tells the person when they'll hear back.
  • Every new inquiry is assigned to one person, and the unowned-inquiries report in the CRM comes back empty.

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  1. Discovery, proposal, and follow-up9 items
  2. CRM fields and record hygiene8 items
  3. Winning, onboarding hand-off, and losses8 items
  4. Monitoring a client's lead flow9 items
  5. Client relationship and early warnings8 items

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    First DM based on an observation

    Hi {FIRST_NAME}, I was looking at {BUSINESS}'s {OBSERVATION_SPOT} and noticed something: {OBSERVATION}. Fixing that with {SUGGESTION} is usually quick. Are you working on this right now? I'm {REP} from {AGENCY}.

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    Caption templates

    5 checks before ads

    Check five things before you run an ad: 1. Are the ad account and Page in your name? 2. Have events like forms, calls, and WhatsApp taps been tested? 3. Who answers incoming messages, and how fast? 4. Does the bio link open on a phone? 5. Who approves the monthly budget? If all five are in place, the first week of ads starts on solid ground. If you don't know one of them, tell us in the comments and we'll look together. Save it and send it to your team. {AGENCY}

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    • Out-of-scope work is spelled out in the proposal.
    • The contract states that ad spend is separate from the service fee and paid from the client's own account.

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    Reels and short-video openers

    I opened the ad account. The first place I look isn't spend. It's Events Manager.

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