Most trades business owners have dead estimates sitting in their system right now, leads who asked for a quote and then went quiet. This episode tells the story of one HVAC owner who used a single ChatGPT prompt to re-engage 11 of those cold leads in 20 minutes, and walked away with 3 booked jobs and $1,800 in recovered revenue.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN

1. Why dead estimates are usually still warm leads, not lost ones
2. How to use a single ChatGPT prompt to write human-sounding re-engagement messages in minutes
3. The specific language choices that make follow-up messages easy to reply to
4. A process you can run tonight with your existing estimate list

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This Episode's Prompt

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Tools Used

ChatGPT — https://chat.openai.com

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