Stop Buying More Leads If You're Leaking 50% of the Ones You Already Have.

⚠️ Reality check: If your team is responding in anything slower than 60 seconds, your funnel has a shotgun wound.

Below is the exact checklist the top-growth solar shops use to stop the leak and transform the leads they already own into booked-install machines.

Quick 2-Minute Forensics: Are You Bleeding Leads?

Answer these 5 rapid-fire questions—circle “YES” or “NO”:

Scoring:

0-1 “Yes” → Nice work. Still, a hidden “Silent Leak” is likely costing you 15-20 % revenue (see chart in Section 2).

2-3 “Yes” → You’re hemorrhaging 30-50 % of every ad dollar.

4-5 “Yes” → You’re literally pouring six figures into a bucket with no bottom.

Proceed immediately to the Plug Kit (Section 3).

The Lead-Leak Ledger (What a Typical “$50K/Month Ad Budget” Solar Shop Loses)

Industry average = 2 hours 13 minutes (InsideSales 2024)

That extra $19 200 a month is money you already invested. If someone offered you a 38 % raise in 14 days, you’d take it—this is the raise.

The “Silent Leak” Pattern (And Why Bigger Ad Spend Only Makes the Hole Wider)

Most CEOs discover the leak after they double their ad budget—when zero new deals appear and their cost per acquisition keeps climbing.

Root cause:

1. Non-Uniform Response Rules: You have different reps (and contractors) working different lead vendors, each with their own SOP (or none).

2. Lead Graveyard Syndrome: CRM filled with “bad timing” prospects who never receive one more automated nudge.

3. The 5-9 Effect (again): An ignored inbound fills NINE MORE FORMS the next morning—every single leak is a referral gift to your neighbor installer.

The brutal math: Every 1 % faster response equals roughly 7 % higher close rates ([MIT & InsideSales 2022, n=2.8 M B2C leads]).

Double your speed → ~14 % more revenue, no extra ad spend.

The No-Leak “AI Plug Kit” (Install in 90 Seconds, Watch the Water Level Rise)

Tool Stack (we install these three components—no code, no Zapier rabbit holes):

1. AI Employee

Instantly answers every lead channel, asks 4 qualifying questions, drops a Calendly link—in 35-60 seconds.

2. Lead Reactivation Engine

Drips hyper-personalized urgency messages to every “dead” lead in your CRM, using the 2025 tax-credit cliff as the trigger.

3. Command Center Dashboard

Flags any lead taking > 1 minute to reply, reveals which ad source leaks revenue, and pays itself off in 7-9 days of use (avg).

“It’s like hiring the best SDR I ever had—except she works 10 000% faster, never misses a day, and costs less than one missed install.”

The 2-Question “Should I Plug?” Test

Ask yourself:

1. If a competitor got to my hottest leads in 50 seconds instead of my 50 minutes, would I lose deals?

If yes → plug the leak.

2. If I recovered just 15 % more of my current lead flow, what would that be worth this quarter?

Multiply × your avg ticket. That’s what you’re leaving on the table.

Zero-Risk Path to Zero-Leak

Spend one coffee break in a free 15-min demo.

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Your leads aren’t waiting. Neither should you.