Bring essential lead context together
Agree which enquiries should enter the workflow and what information the team needs to record before calling back, arranging a visit, or declining the job.
Lead ownership & follow-up · Trades
Give every trade enquiry and quote a visible next step.
Trade leads can arrive by phone, form, text, referral, or social message while the team is travelling or on site. A practical CRM creates one view of each opportunity, its owner, and the next action without replacing the judgement needed to qualify and quote.
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Built around
- Builders and renovation teams
- Plumbers and drainlayers
- Electricians and heat-pump specialists
- Roofers and exterior specialists
- Landscape construction and outdoor-install teams
- Other mobile home-service businesses
CRM & follow-up in Trades
Start with the industry-specific decisions.
A CRM is useful when it makes the next human action clearer. We connect enquiry capture, ownership, stages, reminders, and relevant follow-up around the way the business actually sells and serves.
Use stages that reflect real trade work
Build the pipeline around steps such as new enquiry, contacted, site visit, quote sent, follow-up, and outcome rather than forcing the team into a generic sales model.
Protect quote follow-up
Give each open quote an owner and a sensible next-action date so progress does not depend on somebody remembering it between jobs.
What the work covers
A connected crm & follow-up system.
Fits established trade businesses where several people handle enquiries, quotes sit across different inboxes, or follow-up depends heavily on memory.
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One visible enquiry flow
Bring the useful context from calls, forms, messages, referrals, and campaigns into a workflow the responsible people can see.
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Clear ownership and stages
Define who owns each next step and use a small set of meaningful stages that reflect the real decision journey.
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Follow-up with judgement
Support acknowledgements, reminders, and relevant next steps while keeping people responsible for fit, exceptions, and important conversations.
Useful progress
What we would look for after launch.
We map the current enquiry flow, introduce only the stages and fields the team will maintain, then review where opportunities still stall.
- New enquiries have a visible owner and next action
- Follow-up is completed more consistently
- The team can see where suitable opportunities are waiting or stuck
Practical boundaryThe goal is not to turn every relationship into a sales sequence. The workflow should support useful human follow-up and remain proportionate to the team.
The wider customer journey
This service still has to support what happens next.
Get found for the right work
Make services and service areas clear, strengthen local visibility, and show the proof a homeowner or project lead needs to shortlist you.
Capture enough context
Route enquiries into a practical workflow with the details needed to call back, qualify the job, or arrange a site visit.
Keep the quote moving
Use acknowledgements, reminders, ownership, and review requests to support the human conversations that turn trust into booked work.
Package fit
The service defines the work. The package defines ownership.
Essentials provides a largely self-managed foundation. Growth adds a monthly strategy and implementation rhythm. Dominance is a selective partnership for proven businesses with the capacity to use continuous execution well.
Do we need to replace our current CRM?
Not automatically. We first identify whether the problem is the tool, the setup, missing ownership, inconsistent use, or a gap between systems.
Can phone and form enquiries use the same workflow?
Yes, when that helps the team. The capture method can differ while ownership, stages, notes, and next actions remain visible in one operating rhythm.
Will a CRM replace our job-management software?
Not automatically. The CRM may manage the journey from enquiry to acceptance while an existing job system continues to manage delivery; the important part is defining a clean hand-off between them.
CRM & follow-up for Trades
Start with the bottleneck, not a service order.
Bring the current customer journey, operating constraints, and desired outcome. We’ll identify whether this service is the right first move and the lightest sensible scope.
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