r/gohighlevel

Running Meta ads for a Chattanooga-area marketing agency I built on GHL. The offer: a free "Lead Leak Audit" — we show a home service business owner (pet care, contractors, etc.) how many calls/leads they're losing to missed calls and slow follow-up, then pitch a $297/mo missed-call text-back + AI chatbot + CRM package if they like what they see.

Here's the actual path I'm putting a cold lead through, step by step:

1. Ad copy promises something instant: "we'll show you exactly how many leads you're losing, free."
2. Click sends them to a landing page — stats, the offer explained, no pitch language.
3. The only CTA on that page is a GHL calendar embed: pick a 20-minute slot and hand over your phone number.
4. Once they book, we text them a short VSL — a video meant to prime them for the call so it feels worth their time.
5. On the call itself we show their real numbers live (phone response time, review gap vs. competitors, AI visibility) — no pitch until they've seen it and want more.

Numbers so far: ~450 landing page views, 2.5-3.8% CTR (feels solid), and exactly zero bookings. Pixel/CAPI tracking confirmed working, calendar widget loads fine on desktop. So it's not a tracking or targeting issue as far as I can tell — people just aren't booking once they land.

Laid out like that, step 3 is the part that bugs me: the ad promises something instant, but the very first thing I ask for is a 20-minute calendar commitment and their phone number — before they've gotten anything. The VSL that's supposed to build trust doesn't even show up until after they've already said yes to the call. So the one payoff moment in the whole funnel comes after the highest-commitment ask, not before it.

Thinking about swapping that first CTA for a quick quiz/calculator — a few taps, gives them an instant "you're losing about $X/month" number — and only then asking them to book. Basically moving a version of that payoff earlier, before the big ask.

Anyone run something similar — an audit/diagnostic offer that converts on cold traffic? What actually got people to book, and did a quiz/lower-commitment step before the calendar make a real difference for you? Also open to "your offer just isn't compelling enough" if that's the real answer.

Need accountability ppl. We can get first few clients together 💪

Just simply wanted to hop on here and save everyone the headache that I've been experiencing for the past three months. I decided to switch to tax grid because of its price comparison, and I definitely paid for that price comparison..

Nothing but headaches DO NOT USE TEXTGRID biggest

Agency running everything in GHL. Funnels, workflows, pipelines, and building out each new client account is eating my week.

I keep going back and forth. People who already know the platform want considerably more and there aren't many of them. A sharp generalist costs less but then I'm on training calls for a month.

Anyone done both? Curious how long training actually took and whether the trained person got as good as the experienced hire eventually.

Hello, imagine there is a client with 3 staffs, each staff has their own email x@company.com but there is also a main company email info@company.com
Is it possible for each user to be able to switch the email in the conversation tab ? So for example staff 1 can have access to his own email but also can check/answer mail from the main company email ?
Thank you

Got picked up last month by a guy who runs an HVAC company. Monthly contract, mostly inbox, scheduling, chasing the people who hadn't paid. Normal stuff.

Couple of weeks in he mentioned his website and then changed the subject, which is usually a sign. So I had a look. Fourteen pages, every one of them with its own copy of the header, so changing the phone number meant editing fourteen files. Nobody ever had. It'd been wrong on there for two years and he had no idea.

Rest of it was the same story. Grey text on grey at about ten pixels, looks fine on a monitor, invisible on a phone in a van in daylight. Photos stretched to double their size and cropped so hard you lost a third of every one. And the book now button disappeared completely at certain window widths. Gone, not smaller.

Rebuilt the whole thing instead of writing him a proposal about it. Easier to argue with a document than a working site.

The bit I'm actually happy with is small. His whole trade runs on one number, the temperature drop across the coil, it's the first thing a tech measures when he walks in. So the homepage leads with that instead of another stock photo of a van.

Website was never really the problem though. It's the forty five minutes after someone rings and nobody rings back. That's what I'm building next. Missed call texts them back on its own, quote with no reply nudges on day three and day seven then shuts up, job finishes and the review request goes out while they still remember your name.

https://reddit.com/link/1vrjtwd/video/ushaivd1l3kh1/player

Happy to get into any of it. And if you run something local and that sounded a bit close to home, ask here or message me, I do custom CRM builds and AI integrations for this exact kind of setup.

i'm setting up an agency account with GoHigh Level for a number of sub-accounts -- primarily focused around Reviews Automation

* If i get A2P verification on a funnel page - does the sub account's website need to have strict opt out language?

* If someone goes to the a website and then calls and doesn't fill out the form - can I text them?

* If a business does not have a website - can we text "Closed Won" businesses?

* Can I send SMS older clients as part of a reviews reengagement? If no, is it best to just email them? 

I’m trying to rank order everyone’s real use of GHL’s tools, I’m pretty sure the easiest way to do this at scale is with a tier list.

I put one online under “GoHighLevel Tier List” that’s been giving some decent feedback I can also use to help guide which tools I deploy to my clients and make trainings on.

Any feedback and/or recommendations on the tier list itself are more than welcome. I think it’ll help beginners in the GHL space get a good idea of what works and what doesn’t.

Hi everyone,

I recently started building an AI automation agency, and I’m looking for someone who knows GoHighLevel really well and would be willing to help me get properly set up and teach me the platform.

The business will focus on helping local businesses automate their customer-facing operations, including:

• AI phone receptionists / Voice AI
• WhatsApp automation
• Appointment booking and reminders
• Lead follow-up
• CRM and pipelines
• Missed-call recovery
• Review automation
• Websites and landing pages connected to the system

I already have my GoHighLevel account, and I’m actively building the agency, so I’m not looking for someone to just do everything for me. I want someone who can walk me through the correct setup, explain best practices, help me avoid beginner mistakes, and teach me how to build systems that I can eventually replicate for clients.

My first market will be in Mexico, so the client-facing side of the business will primarily be in Spanish. Experience setting up Voice AI, WhatsApp, workflows, or client accounts in Spanish would be a big plus, although it’s not strictly required.

Ideally, I’m looking for someone with real experience running or building GHL automation systems for businesses—not just someone who has watched tutorials.

I’m happy to pay for your time if you offer consulting, coaching, or 1-on-1 setup sessions.

If this sounds like you, please DM me with a little about your experience, what you specialize in within GHL, and your rate.

Thanks!

I have 5 team members and would like to have a button linked to the business WhatsApp number of the 5 different team members. And it will be based on round robin. Is this possible?

Whats the best way to do it? With automation qualifying lead manually or using ai to have it have a convo?

Been noticing more agencies building custom apps for clients using Cursor, Lovable, v0, Bolt, etc. instead of forcing everything into GHL.

Quick question if you're doing this:

Where does the vibe-coded app fall apart?

The UI is easy now - you can ship a beautiful client portal in a weekend. But then what breaks?

Payments? Multi-user permissions? Scheduling logic? Job tracking? Pricing rules?

What's the backend piece you keep trying to hack together in the AI-coded app that you wish was just an API call away?

Man I paid for an agency setup and it just seems like the person who did they job is a rookie. Obviously a good setup would cost over $100 and that's a lot of money and I get it but not all of us come from well developed countries where we can just pay over $200 and this money I paid was money I saved up for a long while now. Has anyone Paid someone and got god service Or good results

Hey all, looking for a gut check.

I've put a lot of hours into learning GHL and I have the basics down. Now I'm ready to actually go get clients. I picked restaurants as my niche because I've spent about 10 years working front of house, so it's the world I know best.

Here's where I'm stuck. I keep talking myself out of reputation management and lead gen because I assume owners already have that covered through Toast, OpenTable, and whatever else they're already paying for. Is that a real objection, or am I inventing it? And if reputation management isn't the play, what actually sells to independent restaurants?

Second question is approach. I'm a pretty social person, so my instinct is to walk in and talk to owners rather than run cold email or DMs. I also just moved to a new city, so my warm network here is thin. For anyone who's sold to local businesses — is door knocking still the move, or am I romanticizing it?

Appreciate any advice.

Quick Note I'm in San Antonio, Tx

Bonus if you work in multiple platforms besides GHL.

I have a variety of projects I need support on, and I'm looking to add a team member to help.

One I'm working on right now is a new site redesign for a client where I've already got the copy going and an initial design but need more support to finish the site.

Feel free to comment or DM me.

I've spent the last few months learning GHL and have now finished the basics. I've practiced workflows, automations, pipelines, calendars, forms/surveys, etc.

The problem I'm running into is that everything I've built so far has been in a practice environment. I feel like I'm at the point where I need to start solving actual problems rather than just following tutorials.

For those of you who learned GHL from scratch, what did you do to get your first real hands-on experience?

Did you build your own demo systems, volunteer for someone, join an agency, or approach businesses directly?

I'd really appreciate hearing how you got from "I know the platform" to "I can actually do this for a real business."

Hello. I will soon be offering my clients (contractors such as HVAC, Roofing, etc.) missed call text back features. But I am running into a problem.

I have the missed call part figured out: My client will set up their business phone to forward busy/missed calls to the ghl number, which will trigger an automation that sets up the contact into a pipeline and sends a missed call sms.

However, what if the contractor (my client) picks up the phone? I still want a contact to be created in ghl automatically, but I obviously don't want the missed call automation to fire. So should I instead have my clients set up their business number to forward all calls to the ghl number? Wouldn't this cause issues with them getting the call in the first place/they would not have a chance to answer?

Please help! Any advice or solutions are highly appriciated!