Email and SMS follow-up sequences that run themselves

A workflow triggers on the lead, spaces the touches, and sends the email and SMS for you.

Illustration: Carry the follow-up forward. Send the prepared email: Your follow-up template; Wait, then send the text: Timing set in your workflow; Leave the next task: A teammate handles the next call.

The problem

Sound familiar?

“Reps forget to follow up after an initial call — the second and third touch never happen.”

“We have the sequence written down; nobody works the list on a Friday afternoon.”

What it does

The sequence runs on rules, not memory.

A workflow watches for the lead event and runs the sequence: a first email, a wait, an SMS nudge, a task for the rep when there is still no reply. Every touch is the same rules engine, not someone’s memory.

Starts on the lead

Triggers when a lead is created or updated.

Email, then an SMS nudge

Send steps with waits between them space the sequence.

The wording lives in templates

Email templates keep the wording out of the workflow graph.

The last mile is a person

A task or stage update tells the rep who is warm.

Setup

How it works in Canopy

4 steps, from setup to the work getting done.

  1. Step 1: Start the workflow on the lead

    In Workflows, choose the event trigger — a lead created or updated — as the start of the sequence.

  2. Step 2: Lay out the touches

    Send-email and send-SMS steps with wait steps between them space the sequence the way you would run it by hand.

  3. Step 3: Write the emails once

    Email templates under Email → Templates keep the wording out of the workflow graph.

  4. Step 4: Leave the last mile to a person

    A task or stage update ends the sequence, so the rep knows exactly who is warm.

Sample

Sample conversation, illustrative

A form fill starts the sequence — an opening email, the SMS nudge, and a task when the reply comes in.

Text threadIllustrative
Customer
Hi — I filled in your form for a commercial quote.
Workflow — day 0
Email: “Your quote for eight commercial units is attached — questions welcome.”
Workflow — day 2
SMS: “Hi Dan, Dana here — the quote expires Friday. Want ten minutes to go over it?”
Customer
Can we do tomorrow at 10?
Workflow — day 3
Task for Dana: “Dan replied — call at 10:00, lead moved to Booked.”
Which plan

The plans that carry this.

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Recommended
$89 /user/mo
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Automate
$99 /user/mo
billed monthly
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Sales Follow-Up Sequences by Email and SMS