AGENCY OPERATIONS 4 minute read
Make client lead reports useful on Monday morning.
An agency report should help the client decide what to do next. Keep lead delivery, recorded follow-up, and business outcomes visible as separate parts of the same process.
Christopher SilveyPractical workflow guidance · November 1, 2026
Agree on what counts as a lead
Define how you handle tests, spam, repeat submissions, and existing customers. Retain the source and stable submission ID so disputes can be investigated. A raw form count is not automatically a count of qualified sales opportunities.
Report delivery and follow-up separately
Show inquiries received, leads with owners, first recorded contact, and overdue leads. Make the report’s date range and business timezone explicit. Distinguish “received during this period” from “contacted during this period” so the totals can be understood.
Give every overdue inquiry a next action
A summary is more useful when the client can open the waiting leads and see an owner and deadline. Agency staff should be able to flag a handoff problem without needing to impersonate a client employee or change the client’s records.
Keep outcomes grounded in recorded data
An appointment is not a sale, and a sale is not necessarily collected revenue. Show booked, won, and lost outcomes only when the client supplies them. Avoid presenting every overdue inquiry as lost revenue; that would require evidence the report does not have.
Keep each client’s workspace private
Client users should see only the businesses they are authorized to access. An agency overview can aggregate performance for agency staff, while client-facing reports stay scoped to the correct business. Access controls must be enforced on the server when the application is built.
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