Locksmith
Lockouts, rekeys, and smart lock leads answered in under a minute with an ETA, a price range, and the scam-locksmith spam parked before it reaches you.
A lockout at 11 PM is decided in 60 seconds. Be the one who answered.
What your leads actually say
Three messages locksmiths get every week
Verbatim in spirit. Each one arrived while the person who should answer it was on a job, and each one was also sent to 2 or 3 competitors.
“Locked out of my apartment, keys are inside, it is 11 PM and I have work at 6. How fast can you get to downtown Phoenix and what will it cost?”
“Just closed on a house and want every exterior lock rekeyed. 4 doors plus the garage side door. Can you do it this week?”
“Want to replace our front door deadbolt with a smart lock. Do you install those and can we keep a physical key?”
How LeadBolt answers
Composed for the lead in front of it, in about 45 seconds
The reply on the right is the kind of message Live Wire, the auto-responder, sends to locksmiths. It is built from what the customer wrote, the service LeadBolt classified, the time of day and whether you are open, the city, and the facts you set: your prices, your policies, your license. Nothing is pasted from a script bank, and no two leads get the same message.
Strike First, the speed-to-lead engine, sends it in about 45 seconds, during hours and after. Lightning Rod, the spam detection, has already parked the lead resellers and the marketing pitches, so the crew only ever sees customers. If the customer goes quiet, Boomerang, the ghost-lead follow-up, nudges them until they answer or say stop, and the whole thread lives in Switchboard, the unified inbox, where a person can take over with one tap.
Hi Jamie, this is ACME Locksmith, licensed and local. We can have a tech to downtown Phoenix in about 25 minutes. A standard residential lockout is $85 to $125 after hours, and we do not drill unless there is no other way, which is rare. Reply YES and we will dispatch now, or reply with a better time if morning works.
Built from
- Customer's words: locked out, 11 PM, downtown Phoenix, work at 6
- Service: Lockout
- 11:04 PM, after hours
- Phoenix
- Your fact: $85 to $125 after hours, no-drill policy
- Dispatch now or morning
Illustrative reply. The appointment windows come from Dispatch, the scheduling add-on.
The services you can auto-book
6 of 9 book from the first reply
Lockouts, rekeys, replacements, smart locks, and keys book from the first reply with a stated range. Safes, master key systems, and access control depend on the hardware, so the reply books the site visit.
With Dispatch, the scheduling add-on, the first reply offers 2 or 3 real windows and the customer books by texting a number. Services that need a quote get the estimate visit booked the same way, which is still a booking on your calendar. Which services are bookable is set per service inside LeadBolt, so the list below is a starting point, not a rule.
- Residential LockoutBooks instantly
- Automotive LockoutBooks instantly
- RekeyBooks instantly
- Lock ReplacementBooks instantly
- Smart Lock InstallationBooks instantly
- Key DuplicationBooks instantly
- Safe OpeningEstimate first
- Commercial Master Key SystemEstimate first
- Access ControlEstimate first
Where these leads come from
The sources that matter most for locksmiths
Every one of them gets the same treatment: instant reply, spam screening, one inbox, and revenue attribution. Each is connected with you on a call, included with every plan.
Yelp
Where lockout customers verify that a locksmith is real, local, and licensed before they tap.
Google Local Services
The Google Guaranteed badge matters more in this trade than any other, and the leads go cold in minutes.
Google Ads
Lockout searches at every hour, attributed by campaign so you know which ones produced jobs.
Website forms
The rekey and smart lock requests that come from new homeowners during daylight.
Phone calls
Missed-call text back, because a lockout customer who hits voicemail dials the next number in 5 seconds.
Seasonality and timing
When locksmiths get buried, and why the clock matters more then
Locksmith demand is less seasonal than hourly. Lockouts peak late at night and early in the morning, rekeys spike with every real estate closing and every lease turnover, and smart lock installs climb before the holidays and after every break-in on the local news. What all of them share is urgency: a lockout customer picks whoever answers first with an ETA and a price range they believe.
Throttle, the Yelp ad tuning, keeps budget on the keywords that book and off the ones that attract the lead-reseller and fake-locksmith spam this trade is plagued with, which Lightning Rod, the spam detection, parks before anyone reads it. After hours is not an edge case for a locksmith. It is the business. The after-hours voice states the range, the ETA, and the no-drill policy in one reply, and it does so at 11 PM in under a minute.
Plans start at $149/mo and every plan answers every lead in under a minute. Throttle is included in Pro. See pricing for the full grid.
Keep reading
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Garage Doors
The car is stuck inside and work starts at 8. That lead is worth 60 seconds.
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Half the house is dark. The customer is not waiting for your callback.
Read moreLightning Rod, spam detection
Grounds solicitations, out-of-area requests, and bots before they reach the team.
Read moreStrike First, speed to lead
SMS, DM, or email replies within seconds, 24/7/365.
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