Painting
Interior, exterior, and cabinet painting leads answered in under a minute, with the estimate visit booked and the photo request already sent.
Three estimate requests a day, all of them getting 3 bids. Be the first bid.
What your leads actually say
Three messages painters 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.
“Need the exterior of a 2-story stucco house painted before we list it in about 6 weeks. HOA approved color. Can you come give an estimate?”
“Want our kitchen cabinets painted white, about 32 doors and drawers. Do you spray them off site? Ballpark?”
“Interior repaint, 3 bedrooms and a hallway, walls only, we already bought the paint. Available next week?”
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 painters. 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 Lauren, this is ACME Painting. Six weeks is plenty for a 2-story stucco exterior, and an HOA-approved color saves a step. Estimates take about 30 minutes on site. We can come Thursday between 10 AM and noon or Saturday 9 to 11 AM. Reply 1 or 2. If you text a photo of the front, we will bring a color sample.
Built from
- Customer's words: exterior, 2-story stucco, listing in 6 weeks, HOA
- Service: Exterior Painting
- 12:10 PM, open
- Chandler
- Your fact: 30 minute estimates
- 2 windows
Illustrative reply. The appointment windows come from Dispatch, the scheduling add-on.
The services you can auto-book
3 of 8 book from the first reply
Single rooms, accent walls, and touch-ups book at a flat rate from the first reply. Whole-house, exterior, cabinet, and commercial work book an estimate visit, and the reply asks for a photo so the estimator arrives prepared.
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.
- Interior PaintingEstimate first
- Exterior PaintingEstimate first
- Cabinet RefinishingEstimate first
- Single Room RepaintBooks instantly
- Accent WallBooks instantly
- Drywall Repair and Touch-UpBooks instantly
- Deck and Fence StainingEstimate first
- Commercial PaintingEstimate first
Where these leads come from
The sources that matter most for painters
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 the before-and-after photos live and where the response badge gets compared across 3 painters.
Thumbtack
The biggest painting request volume for most markets, sent to 5 pros with a deadline.
Angi
Whole-house and exterior requests parsed from the email and answered in seconds.
Nextdoor
One good exterior on a visible corner turns into 4 messages from the same street.
Website forms
The estimate form with the room count filled in and a photo attached.
Seasonality and timing
When painters get buried, and why the clock matters more then
Exterior painting runs from spring through fall wherever it rains and snows, and through the winter wherever it is 110 in July. Interior work fills the gaps and spikes before the holidays and before listings hit the market. Almost every painting lead is collecting 3 bids, which means the painter who books the estimate first gets to set the expectation the other two are measured against.
Throttle, the Yelp ad tuning, moves budget between exterior and interior keywords with the calendar and blocks the ones that bring out-of-area requests and paint-supply shoppers. After-hours replies win the evening browsers: someone pricing a cabinet refinish at 9 PM gets a reply that answers the spray question from your facts, asks for a photo, and offers a weekend estimate, which is more than the other 2 painters will have done by morning.
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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Home Remodeling
A kitchen remodel lead is worth $40,000. It still deserves a reply in a minute.
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Twelve small jobs a day, each one a message you did not have time to answer.
Read moreCleaning
Move-out cleans, deep cleans, and recurring clients, all booked from the first reply.
Read moreBoomerang, ghost-lead follow-up
Timed sequences that bring cold leads back.
Read moreSwitchboard, unified inbox
Yelp, website, Google, Meta, and text in one thread per customer.
Read moreAnswer the next painting lead in under a minute.
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