6 REAL Reasons Why You Need A Mobile-Optimized Website
We’ve all heard the saying, “If you build it, they will come.” But what about that other saying: “If you build it right, they&...
When was the last time you checked if your website contact form was actually sending emails to your inbox? Not yesterday. Not last week. I mean, really checked.
Because one of my clients, Carl, thought everything was working fine on his site—until he realized his leads were going straight to spam. These weren’t just tire-kickers either.
We’re talking $1,000 to $10,000 jobs landing in junk mail.
Imagine that for a second. People trying to give you money… and your email provider is tossing them out like trash.
Carl realized this because someone finally told him,
“Hey, I sent a message through your website, but you never got back.”
So we hopped on. I sent him a message through his own contact form.
Guess where it landed?
Junk mail.
And here’s the kicker—this wasn’t a one-off. Carl found multiple leads sitting there in the spam folder. One of them? A guy looking for a 20×20 garage floor job. That’s real cash left on the table.
Go into your junk folder (don’t be scared).
Find those contact form emails.
Move them back to your inbox and mark them “Not Junk” or “Not Spam”.
Do a test email again. Make sure it lands where it should.
I ran a test for Carl after we cleaned things up. His emails are now landing perfectly in the inbox. He’s good to go. But if he hadn’t caught this? He would’ve kept missing out on leads.
I know some of you are thinking, “Yeah, yeah, my site’s fine.”
But let me ask you:
When’s the last time you tested your contact form?
Do you know for sure those leads are hitting your inbox?
Are you 100% certain nothing’s slipping into spam?
If you’re not testing it, you’re guessing.
And in this game, guessing could cost you $10,000 or more.
Carl’s got an awesome site. He’s pulling in tons of forms. But even then—this email glitch almost cost him serious work. Don’t let that happen to you.
Set a recurring reminder. Run a test every month. Send yourself a form message and check where it lands.
Because if you’re out here grinding, building a business, you deserve to catch every single lead that comes your way.
