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Manage Leads From Google Local Services Ads (LSAs) With Text
A recent change from Google now enables Local Services Ads (LSAs) to send leads...
- Marketing
- Sales
- SMS
3 Ways To Manage And Close SMS Leads – How You Want
Changing how we do things in business, or life, is tough. But, if the...
- Sales
- SMS
Case Study: SMS Boosts Pest Control Company’s Growth
In a world where the smallest creatures can wreak the most havoc, Bug Zapper...
- Case Study
- SMS
Text vs. Chat – Why We Think SMS Is Best
The ability for a business to communicate with their prospects and customers faster has...
- Business messaging
- SMS
Text Messaging Can Assist Your Lead Form Conversions
For decades now, websites have offered a contact form, estimate form, or some type...
- Conversion
- Sales
Tracking Speed to Lead – The Performance Report
Research proves the faster you respond to a lead, the more likely you are...
- Conversion
- Features
- Sales
Pre-qualify Sales Leads To Your CRM
Pre-qualifying sales leads allows your team and business to work smarter, not harder. It...
- Sales
- SMS
The Power of Questions and SMS in the Buying Process
The modern consumer’s buying journey is more complex than ever before. With almost endless...
- Business messaging
- Sales
- SMS
Use SMS To Make Job Applications Easy
Hiring is a big challenge for businesses of all types. The battle for qualified...
- SMS
Better Lead Management With Tags
Organization can be key to both efficiency and improved results. Leadferno has now added...
- Features
The Best Chat Widget Has 7 Big Differences
You’ve visited plenty of websites with those chat buttons in the lower right of...
- Conversion
Google’s Business Messages Rolling Out To Desktop
Google is testing an expansion of its Google’s Business Messages to desktop searches after...
- Business messaging
- Features
How to Follow Up and Convert Cold Sales Leads With SMS
In a perfect sales world, every lead stays connected and in communication with you...
- Sales
- SMS
Business Texting Number Options & Verification
Communicating with prospects and customers using text messaging is a powerful channel. The popularity...
- SMS
10 Reasons Your Agency Should Be A Text Messaging Partner
As a digital marketing agency, SEO consultant, or web design firm, you are ultimately...
- Agency
- Business messaging
- SMS
Improve Facebook Ad Performance With Click-to-Messenger
Facebook ads are a valuable marketing tool for many small businesses. By using targeting...
- Conversion
- Marketing
5 Ways To Improve Customer Service and Lead Response Times
Time is a powerful factor in making both prospects and customers happy. An answer...
- Customers
- Sales
Call Request Helps Connect Your Business With Leads
In our pursuit to make working with your business easier while landing you more...
- Conversion
- Features
Increase Leads With Conversational Marketing
Conversational marketing enables businesses to talk to potential customers in real-time conversations, rather than...
- Company
- Marketing
Tracking Text Leads With Google Analytics 4
Tracking and reporting on your website traffic is important. It’s why so many websites...
- Conversion
- Features
Introducing Search And Advanced Filters
Our latest addition to Leadferno provides more productivity and efficiency. The addition of keyword...
- Features
Digital Marketing Agencies Focus On ROI & Technology For 2023
The new year provides both reflection and a new vision for 2023. The annual...
- Agency
- Conversion
Why The Golden Rule Is Now – Be Easy To Work With
As business evolves faster than ever many elements of a business’s offering can be...
- Conversion
- SMS
5 Sales Questions To Qualify Leads Over Text Messaging
Great sales processes all have one thing in common, great questions. Finding the right...
- Sales
- SMS
Capture More Weekend & After-hours Leads With Text
In today’s 24/7 world, there’s no such thing as business hours. Technology and our...
- Conversion
- Sales
- SMS
Webinar: Rankings Are Great, Conversions Are Greater
Getting your website and Google Business Profile (GBP) to rank well is hard work....
- Webinar
Customers Want To Connect With A Human
Small businesses are constantly juggling efficiency, personal touch, and technology. Ultimately, your prospect or...
- Customers
- SMS
Social Proof & Offers For Conversion – Introducing Highlights
The number one objective of Leadferno is to create more conversations with prospects by...
- Conversion
- Features
Enabling Agency Partners to Improve Client Performance
To improve the experience for our agency partners, we’ve updated the Partner Dashboard to...
- Agency
- Features
5 Tips To Optimize Your Leadbox For Conversion
Good, better, best isn’t always a choice right from the start. It’s often a...
- Conversion
Feature Focus: Closing Leads And Conversations
In Leadferno, you can close a lead with three statuses: won, lost, or other. Updating the status of...
- Features
- Sales
SMS For Customer Service Is A Winner For Small Business
The value of text messaging extends beyond connecting with new prospects. While we place...
- Customers
- SMS
How to Send Automated Text Messages
Having communication go out automatically makes your day and workload a lot easier. It...
- Sales
- SMS
Business Texting Makes Your Team More Productive
It’s no secret that good time management is crucial to success in business. Regardless...
- Sales
- SMS
Notes Make Internal Communication Better
Communication is always better with more information. With that in mind, Leadferno’s Notes feature...
- Features
Dear Agency – We’re Your Conversion Tool Partner
Dear agency, digital marketer, SEO, local SEO, web designer, or marketing consultant, We see...
- Agency
- Conversion
Leadbox: The Web To Text Widget For More Leads
Your digital marketing success is driven by the consumer’s last action. Did your website...
- Conversion
- Features
- SMS
How To Get More Reviews That Include Photos
Customer reviews are one of the most powerful online marketing tactics out there for...
- Conversion
- Reviews
The Ultimate Goal: Be A Contact On Your Customer’s Phone
For most, our smartphones are key in our daily lives. Communication, photos, payments, calendars,...
- Customers
- Features
5 Ways To Improve Customer Communication
Communication between your business and your customer defines a great or a not-so-great outcome....
- Customers
- Reviews
Help Recession-Proof Your Business With Text
Great businesses are always prepared. When the economy is stressed by inflation and reduced...
- Customers
- SMS
Google’s Business Messages: From Search To Lead
People and businesses are increasingly connecting through a powerful, personal medium: messaging. Messaging channels...
- Business messaging
- Features
Texting Is A Connection, Live Chat Is Just A Session
When Leadferno launched in 2021, one of our very first blog posts highlighted our...
- Conversion
- Sales
- SMS
SURVEY: Texting Is The Preferred Way To Communicate
Texting is taking a bigger place in everyday communications both personally and professionally. The...
- SMS
- Survey
Page Speed Matters & Leadbox Gets It Right
Fast is better than slow In the infant years of Google, they wrote ten...
- Conversion
- Features
Enable Texting From Your Business Landline
The mobile phone has taken over telecommunications in our lives from the landline. Landlines...
- Business messaging
- Marketing
- SMS
Make Every Web Page a (Better) Contact Page
The contact page is a longtime website staple. The page where the businesses dreams...
- Conversion
Easily Request Reviews By Text
Online reviews and reputation are incredibly important to small businesses. They build trust with...
- SMS
The Lead Capture Report For Text Leads & Conversions
Tracking and measuring your contact channels and conversions in digital marketing is a must....
- Conversion
- Features
Text Messaging For Realtors
Real estate is a communication and relationship driven industry. On top of that, real...
- Business messaging
- SMS
The Source Of Your Web-To-Text Leads
The more information you have the better. Our latest feature addition is small but...
- Features
- SMS
Easing Supply Chain Pain With SMS Customer Updates
The past few years have been packed with endless challenges and changes for every...
- Business messaging
- Customers
- SMS
Text Messaging For Lawyers
Text messaging is a staple of communication for us all. If you are an...
- Business messaging
- Sales
- SMS
Time to Text – An Intro To Business Texting Webinar
Leadferno’s first ever webinar was a great success! We packed a ton of great...
- Business messaging
- SMS
- Webinar
Scheduled Messages For Business Texting
Scheduled messages are now available so you can write your text message and send...
- Business messaging
- SMS
Text Messaging For Insurance Agents
Text messaging offers many valuable benefits for your insurance agency when added to your...
- Business messaging
- Sales
- SMS
Business Texting App From Leadferno Released
Texting with your prospects and customers just got even better with the release of...
- Company
- SMS
Book More Appointments And Calls From Your Website
For many businesses, their sales process includes a call, meeting or even an in...
- Marketing
- Sales
Tips For Business Text Messaging Signatures (With Examples)
Business text messaging is a great way to connect faster and easier with your...
- Business messaging
- SMS
Integrate and Automate Leadferno Using Zapier
Connecting the leads, contacts and text messaging conversations you are having with prospects and...
- Features
How to Use Email Marketing With SMS to Increase Local Business Web Traffic
Since the very first email was sent back in 1971, digital communication has been...
- Marketing
- SMS
SURVEY: How Do Consumers Want To Contact A Business?
If you are focused on making communication with your business easy, you need to...
- SMS
- Survey
Powering Curbside Pickup With Text Messaging
Since the start of the pandemic businesses have explored and implemented new processes to...
- Customers
- SMS
Text Messaging For Moving Companies
Text messaging can make a huge impact for your moving company across multiple facets....
- Business messaging
- SMS
Get More Reviews With Texting
Every type of business these days is looking to get more reviews on the...
- Customers
- Reviews
- SMS
Top 10 Reasons To Text With Customers
Texting for business has been around for some time now, but it still hasn’t...
- Customers
- SMS
Transfer Text Conversations To Any Team Member
Connecting your prospects or customers with the right person on your team to help...
- Features
- SMS
Does Your Website Answer Every Customer Question? No, But You Can With Texting
If only the lead funnel was as simple as one question, one answer and...
- Conversion
- Sales
- SMS
Text Auto Replies For Instant Customer Touchpoints
You’ve been there before yourself as a consumer. You fill out a website contact...
- Features
- SMS
SURVEY: Response Times For Text Messages vs. Live Chat
Businesses are expanding their communication channels and looking to add real time to communicate...
- Customers
- SMS
- Survey
Differentiate Yourself From Your Competition By Texting
The end goal of your marketing efforts is to be seen, draw attention and...
- Business messaging
- Customers
- SMS
Text Faster With Your Customers Using Shortcuts
Do you want to text faster with your customers or message them the link...
- Features
- SMS
The Best Call To Action (CTA) Button
Call to action (CTA) buttons are used in your website to guide users towards...
- Conversion
- SMS
The Secret To More Leads Becoming Sales
It’s a scenario we know well as consumers. You have a basic service need...
- Sales
- SMS
SURVEY: Why Do Consumers Want To Text A Business?
Texting as a business communication channel continues to grow. A past survey found that...
- Business messaging
- SMS
- Survey
Introducing Leadferno
Leadferno is still a few months from releasing our version 1.0, but we’re ready...
- Company