Most of our DMs arrive between ten at night and two in the morning and we answer them at nine the next day. By then half of them have gone quiet. What do people do about the overnight gap?
We post three or four times a week and the DMs all land in one inbox. At the end of the month I can say we got leads but not from what. How do people attribute a DM lead back to the post?
Our last giveaway took an evening to sort out and then someone in the comments said we picked a friend. I want the draw to be something I can defend. How do people set this up?
We are a salon and every appointment starts as an Instagram DM asking "do you have anything Saturday". Answering takes all day. Can the DM offer real times and actually book them?
Ask for it with a collect step that validates the answer, save it to the contact, then subscribe them to email so you have a channel with no messaging window. Do this in almost every Instagram and WhatsApp flow. It is the single most valuable thing a chat conversation can produc…
We lose people between the DM and the website. They ask about a product, we send a link, and that is the last we hear. Is there a way to actually take the payment inside the conversation?
We have no ad budget this quarter but decent organic reach. Most of that reach does nothing because people watch and scroll. What actually turns organic Instagram reach into DM leads?
Use the find row step. It searches a sheet for a value from the conversation and brings the matching row back into the flow, so later steps can use those fields in messages and conditions. This is the cheapest lookup you can build, and it is enough for a surprising number of rea…
Add a send payment link step where the conversation reaches the point of buying, then trigger the follow up on the payment result rather than on the send. The two triggers you need after it are payment succeeded and payment failed. Both fire on the contact, so a separate automat…
We sell skincare and people do not know which set to buy. A short quiz in the DM that ends with a recommendation would save us a lot of typing. How is that put together, and does it need AI?
We want a different first reply for someone who has never messaged us before, and the normal flow for everyone else. Is there a first time DM trigger, or do you do it with tags?
Most of our customers prefer WhatsApp and the Instagram window keeps closing on us. Is there a clean way to move someone from an Instagram DM to WhatsApp without asking them to search for our number?
By default an automation runs on every connected account of that channel type, so with two Instagram accounts connected it already answers both. If you want it scoped to one, choose the account on the trigger. This is the setting to know about if you run more than one brand, bec…
About half the people who get our link never answer the next message. I want to send one nudge a day later. Is that allowed, and how do you build it without messaging the people who did reply?
We sell two very different packages and the DM link goes to a page with both, which confuses people. I want to ask one question first and send the right link. How do you branch a DM flow on the answer?
Use the wait for a good time step. It holds the flow until it is inside your allowed hours, in the contact's own time zone when that is known, and passes straight through when the window is already open. This is different from a fixed wait step, and the difference matters. A fix…
Black Friday is coming and we want to post "comment SAVE for the code". I can build the reply, but I do not know how to stop the same person getting the code five times, or how to see how many codes actually went out.
We ran a launch where people comment a word to get the link. Now the same automation is replying to comments on unrelated posts because people use that word normally. How do you scope a comment automation to one post?
I am a coach and every enquiry turns into eight messages before we find a time. I would like the DM to end with a slot booked. Is that one flow or do I need a separate scheduling tool?
Use an A/B split step right after the trigger, write a different opening on each branch, then record a conversion on the outcome you care about so the two branches are comparable. The split itself is the easy part. The mistakes are all in what comes after. Split once, early. A s…