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Tripling Website Leads: How Leadferno Drove a 201% Conversion Lift for Fox Pest Control

When it comes to website performance, traffic is only half the story. Conversion is...

  • Case Study
  • Conversion

Case Study: Garage Door Company Converts 19.7% of Website Text Leads

When opportunity knocks… it’s probably a garage door that won’t open. For Mid-Atlantic Door...

  • Case Study

SMS Keywords: Boost Engagement With Automated Text Messaging for Business

SMS Keywords are a powerful tool in Leadferno that help you automate conversations, drive...

  • Features

Google Business Profile Adds Text Messaging and WhatsApp

Text messaging is the #1 communication channel for U.S. consumers and now Google Business...

  • Business Messaging
  • SMS

Instantly summarize text conversations with Summary AI

In customer communication, efficiency is the name of the game. Leadferno is taking a...

  • Features

Lead Form Examples – Flexible & Powerful Lead Capture For Conversion

High-converting lead generation forms, or “lead gen forms,” are essential tools for collecting needed...

  • Conversion

Boost Conversions and Efficiency: How Centralized Website Lead Management Improves Your Sales Process

Small business websites are plagued with issues in both lead capture and then the...

  • Conversion
  • Sales

RESEARCH: Website Contact Forms and Lead Management – Uncovering Costly Mistakes

Small business websites serve as a critical interface between companies and potential customers. The...

  • Survey & Research

Goodbye Email Forms: The Better Way To Capture, Reply, & Close Website Leads

Contact and lead forms on your website have been the go-to lead capture for...

  • Features

Case Study: Law Firm Increases Website Leads By 46.3%

Leveraging the immediacy and ease of text messaging, a criminal defense law firm has...

  • Case Study

The Hidden Costs of Live Chat: Why Small Businesses Can Encounter More Problems Than Solutions

In the age of expectations for quick and even instant communication, small businesses often...

  • Customers
  • SMS

Case Study: Realtor Finds The Key To 240% Increase In Leads

In real estate, where the ability to swiftly connect and resonate with prospects can...

  • Case Study

5 Tips To Increase Website Conversion

Driving traffic to your website get’s a lot of attention in both effort and...

  • Conversion
  • Sales
  • SMS

Case Study: Moving Company Gets More Leads & Faster Response Times With SMS

In the bustling business of box-laden trucks and never-ending bubble wrap, Einstein Moving Company...

  • Case Study

Revolutionizing Conversion: Our Year in Review of Business Texting & Lead Solutions

Hard to believe that 2023 is coming to a close. For us, it wraps...

  • Company
  • Features

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

The Google Business Messages feature is no longer available in Leadferno as Google discontinued...

  • Business Messaging
  • Features

Texting Is A Connection, Live Chat Is Just A Session

When Leadferno launched one of our very first blog posts highlighted our position on...

  • 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 & Research

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 & Research

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 & Research

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 & Research

Introducing Leadferno

Leadferno is still a few months from releasing our version 1.0, but we’re ready...

  • Company