Lead Hero

21/07/2026

07/07/2026

Every so often you meet someone in AI who's actually doing the work, not just posting about it.

Myers is one of them.

She teaches businesses how to use AI properly.
No fake "AI-powered" decks. Real systems that hold up.

I've got to know her personally, and she's the real deal.

So when she asked me to help with her event, it was an easy yes.

It's called AI Business Live.

Two days. 14th and 15th September.
The Hilton at Wembley, London.

Here's what makes it different.

You don't sit and watch people talk.
You leave having actually put AI into your business.

→ More systems for more sales
→ More leads coming in
→ Fewer things done by hand
→ A room full of people worth knowing

Most businesses don't have an AI problem.
They have a "where do I even start" problem.

Two days like this sorts that faster than two months of reading threads.

Thank you Carly for building this.
Proud to be part of it.

Comment LIVE and I'll send you the link to discounted early-bird tickets.

12/06/2026

This week I spoke to a business owner losing £1.87 million a year.

She runs a blinds and shutters company.

She spends £20k to £30k a month on Google Ads.

Those ads bring in 350 leads.

By her own admission, 150 of those leads go nowhere.

Her close rate is 61%. Average sale value £1,700.

Run the maths on the leads she drops.

150 leads. 61% close rate. £1,700 a sale.

£155,550 a month. Gone.

£1.87 million a year. Lost.

Why?

No follow up. No attribution. No nurture.

She has a messy GHL account her web guy set up for free.

The account was never built properly. They use it to store contacts, not to sell.

She told me she's stressed, burning out, and not making enough profit.

Her mental health is taking the hit.

I asked how long this had been going on. Well over eighteen months.

I see this every week.

Businesses leaking hundreds of grand, sometimes millions, because an IT guy or an agency handed them a free GoHighLevel account and walked away.

No setup. No automation. No tracking. No AI.

She didn't want to change anything.

The web guy was a mate. She didn't want to hurt his feelings.

Be careful of free.

You're in business to grow. Buy cheap, buy twice.

At Lead Hero we set you up properly.

We build a sales strategy around your business, automate it, and add AI to your sales process.

That gives you back your time, takes the stress off, and pulls 2 to 4 times more profit out of the lead flow you already pay for.

Our clients tell us we return more than 10X what they invest.

I'm proud of that.

Most owners still don't see the value in marketing automation.

The ambitious ones do. We work with some of the biggest players in their markets.

If you want that edge in your business, DM me.

03/06/2026

"It was a bit hectic."

That's how this client described leads landing from everywhere at once. Website, Facebook, Google, word of mouth. All in different places, all easy to miss.

Now it all comes into one place, and every single lead gets a reply 24/7.

We installed an AI system plus Voice AI, so prospects can actually speak to someone the moment they reach out. No one on the team has to sit on the phone. It runs on its own, around the clock, and it handles multiple conversations at the same time, which a small office simply can't do.

Their words on the cost: roughly a quarter of what they'd pay a person to do this. And as they grow, that gap only gets wider. 10x, 20x cheaper than putting a body in that seat.

No missed leads. No extra hire. No one tied to the phone.

This is what a proper Revenue Engine looks like once it's live.

If inquiries are coming at you from every direction and slipping through the cracks, this is the fix. Book a call and we'll show you how it'd work for your business: leadhero.ai

26/05/2026

Save this if you run sales calls.

The 3 texts that lift show-up rates by 30%.

Automated reminders aren't enough. And don't make automation pretend to be human. Everyone can tell.

Layer a real person on top, at three windows:

→ 24 hours before
→ Morning of
→ 1 hour before

The 24-hour one matters most. Show you've already done work for them.
B2B: "Looked over your site, talked to my team, found three things we can help with straight away."

Weight loss: "Set aside a shirt for you. What size when you come in?"

Five minutes of prep. People feel worse cancelling on someone who clearly made an effort.

Bonus: use voice notes or video, not a plain text bubble. People still half-suspect a typed message is a bot.

Same number of calls. A third more sales.

Which one are you missing?

23/05/2026

Most trades businesses don’t lose customers because they’re bad at the job.

They lose them because they got too busy to stay in touch.

Carl put it better than I could. It’s like having another member of staff sat behind you, doing all the little tasks you know need doing but never have time for.

You build a great client base. The diary fills up. You’re on the tools all day. The follow-up quietly stops.

Then two years pass. The customer needs you again, can’t remember your name, searches online, and sometimes doesn’t even realise the company they just found is the one they used before.
That’s the leak. Not leads. Follow-up.

Real example from Carl’s team: an engineer turned up to a job with no access. The office manager pulled the full history, sent it back out, and they were in and working within five minutes.

That’s what an extra set of hands running quietly in the background actually does.

Want this installed in your business? → https://leadhero.ai

23/05/2026

This one thing could massively increase your revenue…

Responding faster to leads.

A study showed that contacting a lead within 5 minutes makes you dramatically more likely to reach them.

Yet most businesses still:

❌ Reply too late
❌ Miss calls
❌ Forget follow-up
❌ Let leads sit in the CRM

And then wonder why conversions are low.

Our Revenue Engine™ fixes that automatically.

AI responds instantly.
Follows up automatically.
Qualifies leads.
Books appointments.

So your team stops chasing…
And starts closing.

Get your personalised Revenue Engine™ Roadmap:
https://leadhero.ai

20/05/2026

The tech stack mess was killing productivity.

Too many tools.
Too many tabs.
Too much mental energy wasted trying to make them all work together.

That was the reality for this business owner before they switched to Lead Hero.

Now?

✅ One platform
✅ Seamless automations
✅ A pipeline that runs itself

“It’s like having another member of staff sitting behind you doing all those little tasks you never have time to do.”

Whether it’s sending emails, firing off texts, scheduling follow-ups, or tracking pipeline stages - it all just happens.

No more duct-taping tools together.
No more manual busywork.
Just leads in. Conversations out.
And a backend system that grows with you.

🧠 Simpler. Smarter. More profitable.

If your business is still using 5 tools to do 1 job… we need to talk.

DM me “HERO” and I’ll show you how we simplify your entire sales system.

21/04/2026

The episode just went live.

Lead Hero founder Francis Rodino sat down with Paul Avins on The Grown Up Business Podcast and, by his own admission, it’s one of the strongest conversations he’s had on air.

Paul brings 21 years of experience coaching founders. He’s built and sold businesses and runs one of the UK’s sharpest scaleup communities. He doesn’t ask surface-level questions. He pushes deeper and pulls out answers most people don’t articulate.

The conversation focused on the challenges founders often deal with but rarely say out loud:

→ Why £1m to £5m businesses keep hitting the same cash flow wall
→ Why most “lead problems” are actually follow-up problems buried in a messy CRM
→ Why 60% of the market doesn’t even realise they have the problem you solve and how that changes your marketing entirely

They also broke down:

→ The RED Method (Roadmap, Engine, Drive) and the nine accelerators behind it
→ The five stages of buyer awareness and why most founders target the wrong one
→ How one client scaled from £15m to £25m by becoming a sales-first business
→ Why speed to lead has become the real competitive advantage and how AI is changing the rules

At one point, Paul remarked that Francis had just laid out a million-pound formula in four steps.

That’s the kind of host he is. He sharpens the thinking and makes the message land clearer.

And if this conversation resonates, the next step is obvious.

Francis will be speaking next week at the Scale Up Summit, Paul’s flagship event, alongside some of the UK’s most experienced operators. For founders serious about breaking through their current ceiling, that’s the room to be in.

17/04/2026

Leads Machine, written by our founder Francis Rodino, has been shortlisted for the UK Business Book Awards 2026.

The book lays out the R.E.D. Method in full. Roadmap, Engine, Drive. Nine steps for founder-led service businesses who know their growth is being held back by something other than lead volume.

Most businesses don't have a lead problem. They have a control problem. Messy CRM, inconsistent follow-up, no pipeline visibility, and a sales process that lives in the founder's head.

Leads Machine is the playbook we've used to fix that inside service businesses doing £1m to £20m in revenue.

The shortlisting is a strong signal that the message is resonating with the founders and CEOs who need it.

Congratulations to Francis and thank you to every reader, client, and partner who helped get the book into the hands of the people it was written for.