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SMS · follow-up

The campaign ends. The list doesn't.

Most texting products grade themselves the day of the send. Ours keeps working the list — because a 'maybe in the fall' in July is an appointment in October if anybody remembers. UpDash remembers.

Chapter one

From first text to appointment, one thread.

Three days, six messages, one appraisal booked — a conversation that would die in most stores' notification pile, finished because it lives on a lead record.

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Demo Motors Chevrolet

Text Message · Jul 8 – Jul 11

Hi Marcus! This is Dan Whitfield reaching out from Demo Motors Chevrolet. Quick question: Are you still driving your 2019 Chevrolet Silverado? Reply STOP to opt-out
Yeah still have it. Why?
We're short on clean used Silverados and yours books strong right now. Want me to run a real number on it? No obligation.
What kind of number are we talking
If it's as clean as our service records say — more than you'd expect. I can have it appraised in 15 min. Thursday or Friday work?
Friday after 4 could work
You're on the books for Friday 4:30 with me. Bring both keys — see you then, Marcus. 👍
Text Message · SMS

Outbound in gray is the store; green is Marcus. Three days, six messages, one appraisal appointment — and the whole thread lives on his lead record in UpDash.

Product UI · illustrative data

Chapter two

The funnel that runs after the send.

Day 0 through months later: how one blast becomes conversations, appointments, and a list that stays warm.

Day 0

The blast lands

2,214 replies

7,143 personalized texts go out inside polite hours. Replies start inside two minutes.

Weeks 1–2

Conversations get worked

1,395 conversations · 85 appointments

Every reply is a thread on a lead record — your BDC and Carly AI answer, qualify, and book.

Week 6

The quiet ones get one more tap

+389 late replies

Non-repliers get a single follow-up pass — same thread, same opt-out respect.

Months later

The list keeps working

attribution intact, forever

A reply in October lands on the same lead record as the July campaign that started it. Nothing resets, nothing gets lost.

Chapter three

Where your team works the replies.

The conversation workspace: unread threads, campaign labels, Carly AI holding the line until a human takes over — and the STOP thread that closes itself out, compliantly.

app.updash.com/sms/conversations

Conversations

4 Search
TW

Tanya WhitfieldHot

(555) 014-7702 · Trade-Up Blast #4823

Reply to Tanya
STOP honored automatically — opt-outs are logged, suppressed from every future send, and counted on the blast report.
Product UI · illustrative data

Why this matters

Follow-up is where the second gross hides.

The reply rate sells the blast. The follow-up sells the cars — the October appointment from the July text, the service-lane customer who becomes a buyer. That long tail only exists if every thread lives somewhere permanent. Ours do.

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