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Lead sources

Lead source normalization: clean up messy CRM values

A one-time cleanup and a structural fix: export the distinct values, map them to a clean taxonomy, convert the field to a picklist, and automate the capture.

1 August 2026 · 5 min read
Lead tracking

How to Build a Marketing Attribution Dashboard (Without a Data Team)

A plain-English guide to building a marketing attribution dashboard for a small business: the metrics that matter, attribution models explained, and three ways to build one.

18 July 2026 · 7 min read
Lead tracking

B2B Marketing Attribution: The Complete Guide

How B2B marketing attribution actually works: long sales cycles, small lead volumes, the models that fit, and a setup a B2B owner can run without analysts.

18 July 2026 · 8 min read
Lead tracking

What Is Marketing Attribution? The Plain-English Guide

Marketing attribution explained without the jargon: what it is, how it works, the main attribution models, and how a small business gets started.

18 July 2026 · 8 min read
Lead tracking

Cross-Channel Marketing Attribution: How to Track Every Touchpoint

How cross-channel marketing attribution works, why every platform claims the same conversion, and how a small business gets one honest view across channels.

18 July 2026 · 8 min read
Lead tracking

Lead Source Framer Plugin Launched

The Lead Source plugin is now in the Framer Marketplace. Here is what it does, and when to use it instead of pasting the script.

9 July 2026 · 2 min read
Lead sources

How to sell managed services (and why the fastest reply usually wins)

Selling managed services comes down to four moves: build the referral and relationship engine the industry already runs on, capture web enquiries with a form that qualifies them, respond faster than the market, and measure which channels produce signed contracts so the effort follows the evidence. Most selling advice covers the first move and stops. The other three decide how much of the first one you get paid for.

6 July 2026 · 4 min read
Speed to lead

Lead follow-up best practices that get replies.

Most lost leads are not lost to a better pitch. They are lost to silence after one unanswered message. Reply fast, follow up on a planned cadence across more than one channel, and stop at a clear point. Here is the cadence that works.

30 June 2026 · 5 min read
Lead tracking

Lead Source Official WordPress Plugin Launched

Lead Source is now in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Here is what we built, why, and which setup fits your site.

30 June 2026 · 3 min read
Lead tracking

Why your cookie consent tool is blocking your contact forms

When a visitor declines cookies and your contact form vanishes, your consent tool is auto-blocking it. Why it happens, the five-minute patch, and the permanent first-party fix.

24 June 2026 · 6 min read
Lead sources

How to track leads from social media and know which platform produced them

Your social leads keep landing in Direct. Here is how to tell a LinkedIn lead from an Instagram lead from a link someone pasted into Slack, why social is the hardest channel to attribute, and the layered method that fixes it.

24 June 2026 · 11 min read
Speed to lead

The Truth About Speed to Lead Statistics: We Traced Every Famous Number to Its Source

Speed to lead is the time between a lead arriving and your first response. Here is what it is, why a slow reply wastes the money you spend on marketing, how fast you actually need to be, and what the research does and does not prove.

19 June 2026 · 10 min read

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