This is an email from Alex talking about speed to lead and why its important. I want you to really think about how long it takes you to contact a lead that raises their hand to do lessons with you. How long does it take you to respond? The average business takes 42 hours to call a new lead. That’s not the bad ones. That’s the average. Half are worse. Think about it from the lead’s side: they wanted something badly enough to give a stranger their phone number… and two days later, someone calls. Wars have been won and lost in that timeframe. Meanwhile — if you contact a lead within 60 seconds, sales go up 391%. Not 39. Three hundred ninety-one. A 4x, from picking up the phone faster. And 70% of customers buy from the company that contacts them first. My favorite example: a roofer came out to one of our workshops closing 55% of his leads. Fifty-five percent. On two to three leads a day. His secret weapon was his aunt. He hired her to do exactly one job: call every lead the moment it came in. No other responsibilities. Nothing. He knew that if she called within seconds instead of hours, his close rate doubled or tripled. So his tiny lead flow outproduced companies with ten times his leads. Reason why: buyers have high motivation for short periods of time. Your lead opted in at a spike of pain. Every minute you wait, the spike fades — until you’re selling to someone who barely remembers why they were interested. So this week, measure your speed to lead. If it’s hours, make it minutes. If it’s minutes, make it seconds. You’ll know you’re fast enough when leads start saying “wow, that was fast.” Happy hunting,