Would you like 20 appointments a month? No. Parked.
A meaningful share of the messages contractors get, on Yelp and everywhere else, are not customers. They are marketing agencies, lead resellers, and bots. LeadBolt scores every inquiry and parks the pitches before anyone reads them.
Growth Partners
Yelp · no phone · no service selected
- Marketing solicitation language
- Offers appointments instead of requesting them
- No service, no address, no phone
Parked. No reply sent. Response rate unaffected. Sarah was not woken up.
An illustrative parked lead with its score and the reasons behind it.
How it works
A score for every message, a reason for every score
Each new lead is scored from 0 to 100 on signals that are obvious in hindsight and tedious in practice: solicitation language, offers of appointments instead of requests for them, missing service and address, disposable contact details, sender history across the LeadBolt network, and geography outside your service area.
Above the threshold, the lead is parked with the reasons listed. No reply is sent, no notification fires, and the message never counts against your Yelp response rate. Below it, Strike First answers the lead instantly like any other.
Everything parked stays visible in a Spam view inside Switchboard, the unified inbox. One tap restores a false positive and sends the first response. Restores are rare, and every one of them makes the scoring a little better for you and for everyone else.
What you get
What changes when it is running
Catches the pitch
'We run Google ranking for contractors, reply YES.' Scored 96, parked, forgotten. That message was written for 10,000 businesses and got 10,000 parks.
Flags out-of-area
Requests from 90 minutes outside your service area get flagged as unqualified rather than answered with a promise you cannot keep.
Protects your response rate
Yelp counts unanswered messages against you, including junk. Parked spam is never 'unanswered' because it was never a lead.
Nobody gets woken up
No push, no text, no email for parked messages. Your on-call person hears about houses with no cooling, not link-building offers.
One-tap restore
Wrong call? Restore it and Live Wire, the auto-responder, sends the first reply immediately, with the delay skipped to make up the time.
Goes well with
Other parts of the machine
Read messages from customers. Only customers.
Basic spam screening is in Starter. Advanced detection with network signals and geography is in Growth and Pro.