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Consultation management system

This consultation management system is designed for service businesses that do one-on-one consultations prior to clients booking their services. It provides clients with appointment messages and reminders, smoothing the process of booking a consultation. 

Your leads will be able to:

  • Book their own consultation appointments
  • Cancel or reschedule as needed
  • Receive booking confirmations and reminder messages
  • Set up follow-up consultations as needed
Client management and business operations
Consultation management system

This consultation management system is designed for service businesses that do one-on-one consultations prior to clients booking their services. It provides clients with appointment messages and reminders, smoothing the process of booking a consultation. 

Your leads will be able to:

  • Book their own consultation appointments
  • Cancel or reschedule as needed
  • Receive booking confirmations and reminder messages
  • Set up follow-up consultations as needed
How it works

When a visitor clicks on the call-to-action “Book my free call” button from anywhere on your marketing website, they’ll be taken to a page to book a consultation. Once they pick a time and fill out the form, they’ll see a thank you page, and they’ll receive confirmation messages via email and SMS. They’ll also receive a reminder two days before the consultation with the meeting details.

There’s automation tied to whether the lead cancels, doesn’t show, or shows up to the consultation. If they cancel or don’t show up to the consultation, they’ll get an email asking them to reschedule. 

If they don’t reschedule within a certain amount of time, they’ll get one more email reminder to reschedule. After two tries, if they don’t rebook, they’re assumed to be lost and their “lead” field will be changed to “lost.” 

Each time a consultation appointment is booked, you (or whoever on your team is assigned this role) will receive a task assignment to complete the task – the consultation itself. Once you mark a consultation “complete,” you’ll be prompted to select the task outcome that best describes what happened: “Didn’t Answer/Left Voicemail,” “Not Interested,” “Committed” or “Set Follow-Up.”

The system automates what happens after the consultation, based on the outcome you selected. If a lead is interested in booking your service (you selected “Set Follow-Up”), you’ll be prompted with a form to pick the follow-up date and set the priority level of the appointment.

How to use and customize your system

Step 1: Click here to go to your consultation management and follow-up system.

Step 2: Click Consultation in the EVENT TEMPLATES section to add details about your consultation.

  • Change the Title to something that describes your specific type of demo.
  • Add your physical location or meeting link to the Location field.
  • Add any details about this consultation to the Details field. This is an event template, so do not include anything that relates to a specific demo. This description should apply generally to the service you provide.
  • Change the Owner field to the user in your account who owns this event.
  • Optional: Adjust the timing of any event notifications in the NOTIFICATIONS section.

Step 3: (optional) Edit the copy on the thank you page by clicking on Consultation: Confirmation in the LANDING PAGES section.

  • Edit the copy as needed; click SAVE and PUBLISH.

Step 4: Create a booking page for your consultations by following the instructions here.

  • Copy your booking page URL.

Step 5: Change the link of the booking page in this system. Click Consultation Management & Follow-up: Booking to edit the page.

  • In the CUSTOM HTML EDITOR, update the iFrame source in the code.
    • Hover over the booking page widget (the calendar itself) and click <> Edit Code.
    • Scroll down to where you see: <iframe src=”https://mesalane.appts.site/Consultation”></iframe>.
    • Replace the example URL – the part inside the quotations – with the URL you copied from your preferred booking page.
  • Click SAVE and PUBLISH.

Step 6: Change the booking page's thank you page redirect link. Click Consultation Management & Follow-up: Booking to edit the page.

  •  Go to the Settings tab, select Custom Code, and the HEADER tab.
  • In the Custom HTML editor, update the iFrame source in the code.
    • Scroll down to where you see: var redirectURL = 'https://mesalane.mytemporarydomain.com/consultation/thanks'
    • Replace that entire URL – the part inside the quotations – with the URL in your account for the page titled "Consultation management system: Confirmation" here. (You have to copy your URL because it will be unique to your page.)
  • Click SAVE and PUBLISH.

You’re ready to manage your consultations!

Once a lead has booked a consultation:

Step 1: After their consultation time slot has passed, visit your Tasks collection here to record the task outcomes. (You’ll also receive an email letting you know you’ve been assigned a task.)

  • In the TASK OUTCOMES section, select “Didn’t Answer/Left Voicemail,” “Not Interested,” “Committed” or “Set Follow-up.”

Step 2: If you select “Set Follow-up,” fill out the form that appears.

  • Select the date for the follow-up, and set the priority level.

 

Tips
  • If you want your leads to receive SMS messages, make sure to set up your SMS number before launching this system. The system will still work without SMS, though. If you choose to use it without an SMS number, your leads will still receive confirmation and reminder emails.
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