Using Text Messaging to Turn More Leads into Happy Customers
The Home Service Expert Podcast
Tommy Mello
4.8 • 705 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Weiche is the co-founder and CEO of Leadferno, a text messaging platform that aims to help close more leads faster. He is an entrepreneur, founding and leading multiple companies and digital marketing agencies over the past 20 years. Prior to Leadferno, he was the CEO of GatherUp where he led the company to experience 5X growth in a span of four years and appeared in the INC 5000 list for 2019. He continues to share his expertise as a co-host for a podcast on running a SaaS company called TheSaaSVenture.com, as well as through international speaking engagements on the topics of digital marketing, customer experience, conversion, and messaging.
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| 0:00.0 | So when you put all the power in their hand to start the conversation in the channel they want to, |
| 0:04.9 | to schedule something, which what works on their schedule instead of, oh, these are the two times |
| 0:09.5 | we can do for you. And it's super frustrating. It's like, we have so many tools now. And it's just |
| 0:14.6 | putting them together the right way so that you can put all that power in the consumer's hands. So they feel like, man, these guys couldn't be easier to work with. |
| 0:22.6 | They're on top of what they're doing. |
| 0:24.6 | And then if you take it further and you use text messaging to communicate when you're going |
| 0:28.6 | to be there and following up and making sure everything's okay and all of that, then you're |
| 0:33.6 | just stealing the deal for a great review and for them to be referring their neighbors and friends. |
| 0:38.5 | Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, |
| 0:46.0 | like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership to find out what's really behind their success in business. |
| 0:53.2 | Now, your host, The Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello. |
| 1:00.2 | Welcome back to the Home Service expert. |
| 1:02.3 | Today I have Aaron Weiky with me. |
| 1:04.5 | He's an expert at digital marketing, customer experience, and sales and conversion rates. |
| 1:12.0 | He's based out of Minneapolis. |
| 1:20.2 | Aaron launched Lead Furno in 2021, a text messaging platform for businesses to close more leads faster. Aaron is an entrepreneur founding and leading multiple companies and digital marketing |
| 1:25.6 | agencies over the past 20 years. |
| 1:33.5 | Prior to lead forno, he was a CEO of Gather Up, growing to serve over 25,000 businesses. |
| 1:37.6 | He helped found the Minnesota Search Association. |
| 1:42.4 | He's a partner in the local university and speaks internationally on digital marketing, |
| 1:44.7 | customer experience, conversion, and messaging. Aaron, pleasure to have you on the show today thanks for having me tommy so i get a big kick |
| 1:51.0 | out of this stuff i'm a big fan of lead funnels text messaging is my favorite actually |
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