Marketing automation that turns leads into CUSTOMERS, even while you sleep.
Most leads never say no. They just never hear back in time. We build marketing automation that replies in seconds on WhatsApp, email, SMS and your website, saves every lead in your CRM, feeds your ads, tells your team who is ready to buy, and keeps following up until they do. For businesses in Nigeria, the UK, the USA and anywhere in the world.
Your free marketing automation audit: we map how a lead travels from your ads and website to a sale, find where it goes cold, and send your three biggest fixes in writing, usually within two working days.
Ten short scenes. Hold the phone to pause.
5:02 PM in Houston, 11:02 PM in Lagos. Ada saw your Instagram ad and asks what a living room design costs. Your team is asleep.
Scenes 1 to 8 and 10 continue the Ada story below as an example. Scene 9 is a real client result from Study With FM. See all results.
- The question: at 5:02 PM in Houston, 11:02 PM in Lagos, Ada asks an interior design studio on WhatsApp how much a full living room design costs.
- The reply: nine seconds later an automatic reply sends three packages from $1,800 to $6,500 and offers a free call.
- The booking: she books a call for Thursday at 10:00 AM her time, 4:00 PM in Lagos.
- The CRM: she is saved with her question, city, lead score and the Instagram ad that brought her.
- The workflow: one automation replies, books, saves, alerts the team and sends reminders.
- The morning alert: at 9:00 AM the team sees the booking and her question.
- The reminder: an hour before the call she gets an email and a WhatsApp reminder.
- The sale: after the call she pays a $1,600 deposit for the Signature package.
- The numbers: a real client, Study With FM, got 776 leads from one Meta ads campaign in under three weeks, all followed up by automated email.
- The loop: sales go back to the ads, quiet leads get gentle follow-ups and a weekly report shows reply time, bookings and sales by source.
One page. Four ways in. Pick yours.
A Shopify store losing carts, a B2B team drowning in leads and a clinic tired of no-shows all need different marketing automation. Jump to the part written for you.
My leads go cold before we reply
See the six places leads leak away, and how automation plugs each one.
Find My LeaksHubSpot, Zoho or ActiveCampaign?
The top marketing automation platforms compared honestly, with prices.
Compare PlatformsWhat are slow replies costing me?
Put your leads into the free calculator and see the money left on the table.
Run The NumbersI’m ready to hire
What our marketing automation services include, how pricing works and how we report.
See The ServiceWhy most leads go cold, and it is rarely the lead’s fault
You paid for the click. The lead asked the question. Then the business went quiet at the exact moment the buyer was ready.
A true study, and a test you can run tonight
In 2011, three researchers ran a simple test. They sent an enquiry through the websites of 2,241 US companies, then timed how long each one took to reply.
The results were embarrassing. Only 37% replied within an hour. The average reply took 42 hours. And 23% never replied at all. Every one of those enquiries could have been a paying customer.
Then the researchers looked at 1.25 million real sales leads to see what the delay cost. Companies that replied within an hour were nearly seven times more likely to have a real conversation with the buyer than companies that waited even one hour longer. Harvard Business Review published the findings.
Walk through Computer Village in Ikeja and you can watch the same lesson, live. The trader who calls “Customer! What do you need?” first usually makes the sale. Not the cheapest. Not the biggest. The first.
Online, nobody calls out. Your enquiry sits in an inbox, a DM or a form while you sleep, serve another customer or sit in traffic. When it is 11pm in Lagos, it is still evening in London and late afternoon in Houston. Your next customer is wide awake.
So try this tonight. At 11pm, fill in your own website form. Send your own business line a WhatsApp message. Then time the reply. If the answer is “tomorrow morning”, you have found your first leak, and so has every competitor who answers faster.
That is not a staff problem. Nobody can watch WhatsApp, Instagram, email and a website form all night. Marketing automation is the trader who calls out first, every time. It answers in seconds, books the call, and hands over to a person the moment a real conversation starts.
Good evening. How much for a full living room design?
11:02pmGood morning! So sorry for the late reply. Our packages are…
9:14amThanks, I already booked someone last night.
9:20amGood evening. How much for a full living room design?
11:02pmGood evening, Ada! Thanks for asking. Here are our three packages and some recent rooms. Would a free 15-minute call help?
11:02pm · automaticYes please. Tomorrow morning?
11:05pmBooked: Thursday at 10:00am. We will remind you an hour before.
11:05pm · automaticAn illustration of the chat, not a client’s real conversation. The study figures above are real and linked.
The six places leads go cold
These are the leaks we find most often when we audit how a business follows up. Each one has a fix.
A slow first reply
Firms that replied within an hour were nearly seven times more likely to qualify the lead. The average reply took 42 hours.
Fix: an instant reply on every channelLeads with no home
Leads live in DMs, inboxes, spreadsheets and someone’s notebook. Nobody can follow up on a lead they cannot find.
Fix: one CRM, every lead saved by itselfOne message, then silence
Most buyers need more than one touch, and most teams send one. The lead was interested. They just got busy.
Fix: drip campaigns that follow up for daysNo-shows and forgotten bookings
A booked call nobody reminds is a booked call that does not happen, and the slot you held for it is gone.
Fix: reminders by email, SMS and WhatsAppCustomers never asked back
No thank you, no review request, no reason to buy again. Your easiest next sale is someone who already paid you.
Fix: post-purchase, review and win-back flowsNobody knows what paid
Leads come in from ads, Google and WhatsApp, but the sale is never traced back. So budgets go to the loudest channel, not the best one.
Fix: every sale tracked to its sourceMarketing automation is not a robot. It is follow-up that never forgets, if you build all six parts.
You may recognise one of these, or all six. That does not mean you need a bigger platform or thirty workflows. Most businesses start with three automations that fix the most expensive leak first, and the free tools further down show you which one that is.
Marketing automation pricing: four ways to work with us
Clear marketing automation prices, in writing, before you pay anything. Our fee is separate from your platform and message fees, which you pay directly. Pick your currency, then pick how much of the work you want done for you.
Launch Right
Set up right, live in two weeks.
For businesses replying to leads by hand, or with tools that never got connected: shops, clinics, schools, coaches and consultants.
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- A 45-minute strategy call: what you sell, how leads reach you, and what a customer is worth
- Your customer journey mapped, from first click to sale, with every place leads go cold
- Your CRM or automation platform set up, or cleaned, in your business name
- Every lead source connected: website forms, Meta lead ads, Click-to-WhatsApp ads and email
- Leads tagged by source and interest as they arrive, so nobody gets the wrong message
- An instant reply flow on WhatsApp and email, written in your voice
- A 3-message follow-up sequence for leads who do not reply or book
- A hot-lead alert to your phone or WhatsApp, with the lead’s full history
- Opt-in and unsubscribe handled on every channel, with consent recorded
- Every path tested before launch, on phone and desktop
- A 14-day results report: reply time, leads contacted and bookings
- A recorded walkthrough and a handover call, so your team knows how it works
- A free 30-minute check-in on day 30, to read the first month’s numbers together
Grow Every Week
A new automation every month.
For businesses that want follow-up to keep getting better, with a team building, testing and fixing every month.
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- Everything in Launch Right, included in your first month
- One new automation built every month: cart, booking reminders, post-purchase, reviews or win-back
- CRM pipeline stages and simple lead scoring, so your team sees who is ready
- Booking and call reminders by email, SMS and WhatsApp
- A weekly health check on every flow: broken triggers, failed sends and delivery
- One flow tested and improved every month: timing, message or offer
- Segments refreshed monthly, so the right people get the right follow-up
- WhatsApp message costs watched, so automation does not quietly raise your Meta bill
- Monthly numbers in plain language: reply time, leads, bookings and sales by flow
- A 30-minute review call every month, with next month’s build agreed
- A WhatsApp line to your account manager, with replies in office hours within the hour
Run It For Me
The whole lifecycle, done for you.
For stores, B2B teams and service businesses that want every touch handled: email, SMS, WhatsApp, CRM, sales automation and reporting.
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- Everything in Grow Every Week
- A full lifecycle suite: capture, instant reply, nurture, reminders, post-purchase, reviews and win-back
- Email, SMS and WhatsApp working as one, with opt-outs synced across every channel
- Store and CRM integration with Shopify, WooCommerce, HubSpot, Zoho or ActiveCampaign
- Sales automation: deal stages, tasks, reminders and alerts that move every lead forward
- AI marketing automation: leads sorted by intent and replies drafted for your team to approve
- Advertising automation: sales and leads sent back to Meta and Google, and audiences kept fresh
- A landing page for every launch or lead magnet, built by our conversion team
- A live dashboard: reply time, bookings and revenue from every flow, updated daily
- A monthly growth meeting with the founder, with the next month planned
- Priority support with a 2-hour reply target in office hours, 7 days a week
Own Your Market
A dedicated team, across every brand and market.
For corporations, groups and multi-brand businesses that need automation run like an in-house department: several teams, several markets and a board to report to.
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- Everything in Run It For Me
- Several brands, countries or teams run under one plan, with a report for each
- A dedicated team of three: a strategist, an automation developer and a copywriter, with the founder on a weekly call
- B2B marketing automation: lead scoring, account-based nurture and sales hand-off rules
- Enterprise platform audits for HubSpot Enterprise, Salesforce, Marketo or Eloqua, with a clear plan
- Advanced segmentation and personalised journeys driven by purchase, browsing and CRM data
- Data and consent rules mapped by country, so every flow is lawful where your customers live
- Holdout tests, so you know what automation added, not just what the platform claimed
- A quarterly strategy day: next quarter’s journeys, offers and markets, planned with your leadership
- A service agreement with a 1-hour response in office hours, 7 days a week, and a named backup
- A monthly board-style report: speed to lead, pipeline, revenue and customer value by brand
Every plan is scoped and staffed to reach the outcome on its card, and we commit to every item listed. Nobody can promise an exact open or click rate, because every list and every inbox behaves differently, which is why every plan tests and shows you the numbers as they are. What changes between plans is how many emails, flows, channels and people you get.
| What you get | Launch Right | Grow Every Week | Run It For Me | Own Your Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our fee | ₦450,000 one-off$750 one-off£600 one-off€675 one-off | ₦400,000 a month$900 a month£720 a month€810 a month | ₦800,000 a month$1,950 a month£1,560 a month€1,755 a month | ₦1,800,000 a month$4,500 a month£3,600 a month€4,050 a month |
| Platform and message fees | Paid by you, to the platform | Paid by you, to the platform | Paid by you, to the platform | Paid by you, to the platform |
| Database we manage | Any size at setup | Up to 25,000 contacts | Up to 100,000 contacts | Any size, several databases |
| Brands and markets | One | One | One brand, any country | Several brands, countries or teams |
| Channels | Email and WhatsApp | Email, WhatsApp and SMS | Email, SMS, WhatsApp and ads | Every channel, every market |
| Automations | Instant reply and follow-up | Plus 1 new automation a month | The full lifecycle suite | Full lifecycle across brands |
| CRM and sales | CRM set up, hot-lead alerts | Pipeline stages, simple scoring | Sales automation, store or CRM integration | Lead scoring, B2B hand-off rules |
| AI | Not included | Not included | Lead sorting and drafted replies | AI across journeys, with review |
| Testing | Every path before launch | One flow a month | Timing, message and offer tests | Holdout tests |
| Reporting | 14-day report | Monthly numbers and call | Live dashboard and monthly founder meeting | Live dashboard, board report, quarterly strategy day |
| Support | Handover call and a day-30 check-in | WhatsApp line, office hours | Priority, 2-hour target, 7 days | 1-hour target, 7 days, named backup |
| Who you talk to | Your automation lead | Your account manager | Account manager and the founder | A dedicated team of three and the founder |
Marketing automation has three costs: your platform, message fees for SMS and WhatsApp, and our fee. The first two are paid by you, directly. We never mark them up.
Many businesses can start on a free or low-cost plan: HubSpot’s free tools, Zoho’s free CRM for up to 3 users, or ActiveCampaign from $19 a month. WhatsApp messages are charged per message under Meta’s pricing, with free windows we build around. We help you choose the plan that fits, and nothing more.How we count what is in each plan
A price only means something when you know what counts. This is ours, in writing.
Our fee and your platform
Separate payments. Your CRM or automation platform, like HubSpot, Zoho or ActiveCampaign, is paid by you, to the platform, in your own account. SMS and WhatsApp message fees are paid to the provider. Our fee is for the work. We never mark up either bill.
An automation
A workflow that starts by itself when someone does something: fills a form, books, buys, leaves a cart or goes quiet. One automation can send several messages across several channels, and it keeps working after we build it.
A contact
A person in your CRM or platform who gave you their details. We never add bought or scraped contacts, and we remove people who bounce or ask to leave.
Message fees
WhatsApp marketing and utility messages, and SMS, cost a small amount per message, set by Meta or your SMS provider and paid by you. We design flows to keep those costs low, for example by using free reply windows.
What we report
Reply time, leads contacted, bookings, show-ups and sales by flow first. Opens and clicks are shown, but never used on their own to judge success.
A month
Thirty days from your first automation going live, not the calendar month. No long contract: monthly plans stop with 14 days notice. Your CRM, workflows and data stay yours.
Pay in naira, dollars, pounds or euros by card or bank transfer. No long contract: monthly plans stop with 14 days notice. Not sure which plan fits? Use the free slow follow-up calculator further down, or message us and we will tell you honestly, even if the answer is the smaller one. Need automation as part of a bigger plan, with SEO, ads and content? See our growth plans and pricing.
What marketing automation is, and why it works
Marketing automation is software that sends the right message when someone does something: fills a form, clicks an ad, leaves a cart, books a call or goes quiet. Email automation, SMS, WhatsApp, your CRM and your ads work as one system, so every lead gets an answer and a next step.

Every form, ad, chat and DM saved in one CRM, tagged by where it came from.
An instant, personal answer on WhatsApp, email or SMS, day or night.
Drip campaigns that keep useful messages coming until they are ready.
Hot leads flagged, sales alerted, bookings reminded, carts recovered.
Thank yous, reviews and win-backs that turn buyers into regulars.
Not just email. Everything that touches a lead.
Marketing automation works wherever a customer talks to you, clicks your ads or pays you. These are the nine places we automate, connected into one system.
Website
Forms, chat, booking pages and lead magnets that save every visitor’s details and answer them instantly, built with our web development team.
Instant replies, catalogues, booking links, reminders and order updates on the official WhatsApp Business Platform, with our WhatsApp marketing team.
Welcome series, drip campaigns, cart reminders, review requests and win-backs, written by our email marketing team.
SMS and calls
Booking reminders, delivery updates, and a missed-call text-back with your booking link, so a missed call is not a missed customer. See SMS marketing.
CRM
Every lead saved once, duplicates merged, tagged by source, given an owner and scored, so your sales team always knows who to call next. Compare CRMs.
Ads
Meta and Google lead forms straight into your CRM, and sales sent back through Meta’s Conversions API and Google’s enhanced conversions, so your Meta ads and Google ads find more buyers.
Social DMs
Instagram and Facebook DMs and comments turned into leads, with an instant reply and a handover to your team, alongside our social media marketing.
Payments
Bank transfer confirmations, invoices, receipts and failed-payment reminders, connected to Paystack, Flutterwave or Stripe through webhooks.
Reports
A weekly summary on your WhatsApp: leads, reply time, bookings and sales by source, through our analytics and tracking service.
Three facts that decide whether your automation pays
From the research and the platforms themselves, with the sources linked.
Harvard Business Review. In a study of 1.25 million leads, firms that tried to reach a lead within an hour were nearly seven times as likely to qualify it, and over 60 times as likely as firms that waited a day. Speed is the whole game. Source.
Meta. From 1 October 2026, each business number gets 1,000 free service messages a month, and utility messages inside the 24-hour window are charged. Replies to people from a Click-to-WhatsApp ad stay free for up to 7 days. We design flows around it. Source.
“Automation will make my business sound like a robot.”
Bad automation does. Good automation sends the message a thoughtful person would send, at the moment no person can. It answers fast, uses the customer’s name and question, and hands over to a human the moment a real conversation starts. Customers do not hate automation. They hate waiting.Marketing automation for your business, not a template
A store, a B2B team, a clinic and a school lose leads in different places. Pick yours and see the flow we build first.
Ecommerce marketing automation that sells on autopilot
Shopify marketing automation, Klaviyo automation or WooCommerce with AutomateWoo: the flows that turn browsers into buyers, and buyers into regulars.
- 1 hourBrowse reminderThey looked at a product and left
- 4 hoursCart reminderEmail first, then SMS if it is still waiting
- InstantlyOrder and delivery updatesFewer “where is my order?” messages
- 7 daysReview requestAfter it arrives, not before
- 60 daysWin-back with a reasonNew arrivals or a refill, not just a discount
Abandoned carts, one-time buyers and quiet lists.
First automation we switch onCart reminders, because those shoppers already picked what they want.
Where we build itB2B marketing automation that tells sales who is ready
For B2B teams on HubSpot, Zoho or Salesforce: lead scoring, nurture and sales automation, so your reps call the right people first.
- Day 0Guide downloadedSaved in the CRM, scored +10
- 3 weeksNurture seriesFive useful emails, not five sales pitches
- Any timePricing page visited twiceScore jumps, they are warming up
- InstantlySales alert and CRM taskThe right rep calls while it matters
- 24h and 1hDemo remindersFewer empty calendar slots
Leads sales never calls, and reps chasing cold contacts.
First automation we switch onLead scoring and sales alerts, so reps call the warmest leads first.
Where we build itBooking automation that fills the diary
For clinics, salons, consultants and agencies: instant replies, bookings, reminders and reviews, so fewer people slip away and fewer chairs sit empty.
- 0 secEnquiry on WhatsApp or the websiteSaved and tagged by treatment or service
- 9 secPrices and a booking linkThe answer they came for, straight away
- 24h and 2hBooking remindersBy SMS and WhatsApp, with directions
- Same dayReview requestWhile the visit is fresh
- When due“Time for your next visit”Rebookings without chasing
Slow replies, no-shows and empty weeks in the diary.
First automation we switch onThe instant reply with prices and a booking link, day and night.
Where we build itEnrolment automation that fills every class
Webinar and open-day reminders, application chasers and onboarding, so interest turns into enrolments before the deadline.
- Day 0Free class sign-upSaved with the course they want
- 1 day, 1 hourReminders, then “we are live”More people actually turn up
- 2 hours afterReplay and the offerFor everyone, including no-shows
- 3 daysDeadline sequenceProof, answers and a clear close
- Day oneOnboardingNew students start, not stall
Empty webinars, missed deadlines and students who never start.
First automation we switch onClass reminders, so more people who sign up actually turn up.
Where we build itHubSpot, Zoho, ActiveCampaign or Klaviyo? The honest comparison
The best marketing automation platform is the one your team will actually use. We set up, fix and move businesses between all of these, so we have no reason to push one. Prices were checked in October 2026, in US dollars, monthly billing unless stated.
| COMPARE | HubSpot | ActiveCampaign | Zoho | Klaviyo | Mailchimp | GetResponse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | B2B teams that want marketing and a CRM in one place | Small businesses that want deep automation without enterprise prices | Businesses already on Zoho CRM or Zoho One | Online stores, especially on Shopify | Small businesses that want simple automated emails | Creators and businesses that sell through webinars |
| Free option | Free CRM and marketing tools | 14-day trial, no free plan | Free CRM for up to 3 users | 250 profiles, 500 emails a month | 250 contacts, 500 emails a month | Free plan, automation on paid plans |
| Paid plans | Starter from $20 a seat. Professional from $890 a month, plus a $3,000 onboarding fee | Starter from $19 a month at 1,000 contacts | CRM Standard from $14 a user | Priced by active profiles, with SMS added | Essentials from $13 a month | Starter from $19 a month at 1,000 contacts |
| Strength | CRM, email, forms, HubSpot personas and reporting together | A powerful automation builder with CRM and email marketing | Zoho marketing automation tied to the whole Zoho suite | Store data in every flow, plus Klaviyo SMS | An easy builder and Mailchimp automated emails | Webinars, landing pages and automation in one |
| We choose it when | Your sales team needs one source of truth | You want HubSpot-level automation for less | Your business already runs on Zoho | You sell products online | You want simple and your team will run it | You sell through webinars and funnels |
Enterprise and specialist platforms. Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Marketo Engage, Oracle Eloqua, Braze, SAS and ClickDimensions for Microsoft Dynamics are built for large teams with big data and big budgets. Mautic is open source and free to host yourself. Omnisend, Drip and SendPulse suit ecommerce and value-focused teams, and AutomateWoo adds automation to WooCommerce. Already on Marketo, Salesforce or Eloqua? We will audit your set-up and flows honestly, and tell you when you need a certified platform specialist instead of us. Your platform subscription is paid to the platform, separate from our fee.
Marketing automation services: how Greenlearners Technologies makes follow-up automatic
Greenlearners Technologies is a marketing automation agency that cares about two numbers: how fast every lead hears back, and how many become customers. These six marketing automation services work together across email, SMS, WhatsApp, your CRM and your ads. You do not have to buy all six. The free audit shows what you actually need.

Strategy and journey mapping
Every path from first click to repeat customer drawn out before anything is built: lead stages, HubSpot personas or buyer profiles, and the message each person needs next.
A map, not guessworkCRM setup and sales automation
A CRM with automation, set up or cleaned in your name: pipelines, lead scoring, tasks and reminders. Sales automation does the chasing, so your team does the closing, through a sales funnel that makes sense.
One home for every leadEmail and SMS automation
Automated email campaigns and drip email marketing: welcome series, nurture sequences, cart reminders, review requests and win-backs, with SMS automation for messages that cannot wait. Written with our email marketing team.
Follow-up that never forgetsWhatsApp and chat automation
Instant replies, booking links and reminders on the WhatsApp Business Platform, with a real person one tap away. Designed around Meta’s message pricing with our WhatsApp marketing team.
Answers in secondsAI marketing automation
AI in marketing automation, used with care: sorting leads by intent, drafting replies your team approves, and content automation for repeat work. AI speeds the work up. People stay in charge.
Faster, still humanIntegrations, ads and reporting
Your website, store, booking tool and ads connected, with advertising automation that sends sales back to Meta and Google, and a report on reply time, bookings and revenue per flow through our analytics and tracking service.
Know what paysAutomation should feel human. Here is where your people take over.
The best marketing automation knows when to stop. Every flow we build has a clear handover, so customers get speed from the system and care from a person.
The customer sees “Ada will reply in a few minutes”, and Ada gets the whole conversation, not a mystery.
Words like refund, wrong or late pause every marketing message to that person and alert a manager.
High-value leads skip the sequence and reach a human within minutes, with their whole history.
Opt-outs sync across email, SMS and WhatsApp, so nobody is chased on another channel.
We map your forms, ads, inbox, CRM and follow-up, and show you where leads go cold.
The journey drawn, your CRM set up or cleaned, and every lead source connected.
Capture and instant replies switched on, tested on every path before a customer sees them.
Follow-up sequences, booking reminders and hot-lead alerts running on their own.
A new automation, fixes from the data and a report you can read in two minutes.
Eight checks every automation must pass
Automation that misfires is worse than none. Nothing reaches a customer until it passes all eight, and you get the checklist at handover.
What you see every month
These are the marketing automation numbers we track with you, so decisions come from sales, not from how busy the software looks.
Automation is only as good as its weakest trigger. That is why we test every path before launch and check every flow weekly, and we tell you plainly which numbers are measured and which are estimates.
Map your first automation. Then put a number on it.
Three free marketing automation tools, no sign up. The first builds a blueprint for the automation you need most. The second shows what slow follow-up could be costing you. The third scores your set-up. Nothing you type is sent to us unless you choose to send it.
Your first automation blueprint
Pick your business, where your leads come from and the problem that hurts most. You get the exact workflow we would build first: what starts it, every step, when it stops, where a person takes over and what to measure.
Instant reply and booking
- Starts when
- Someone fills in a form on your website
- Captures
- Name, phone or email, what they asked, the page they came from, and their consent to be contacted
- Steps
- 0 secInstant reply on email, and WhatsApp if they gave a number and agreed, with prices and a booking link
- 0 secSaved in your CRM, tagged by interest and source, and given an owner
- 15 minIf nobody on your team has replied yet in office hours, the owner gets a reminder
- 24 hoursNo appointment booked yet? A short follow-up on a second channel
- 3 daysA last friendly message, then the lead moves to your monthly newsletter
- Stops when
- They book, reply to a person, buy or opt out
- A person takes over
- Any question the reply cannot answer, or a high-value enquiry
- If something breaks
- A failed message, booking or CRM sync alerts the owner straight away, so no lead is ever lost
- Measure
- Time to first reply, and the share of leads booked within 24 hours
- Tools you need
- Your booking tool, a CRM like HubSpot or Zoho, and the WhatsApp Business Platform with Brevo or SendPulse
A starting blueprint, not a full audit. Your free audit checks it against your real tools, data and sales process.
The slow follow-up calculator
Put in your leads, how many you answer within the hour, how each group closes, and how much of that gap you think better follow-up could win back. See the opportunity, and what you keep after our fee. A planning estimate, not a promise.
The fastest win is usually the first reply. Nurture, reminders and win-backs then lift the close rate on top, which is why we build them in that order.
Your Marketing Automation Readiness Score
Nine honest yes or no questions. You get a score out of 100, your level and your three most urgent fixes. Gaps that lose leads or break the law are flagged as urgent. A free self-check, not a full audit: some answers can only be confirmed inside your tools.
Answer the questions to see your score
Tap Yes or No on each one. Be honest: nobody sees this but you.
Want to learn it yourself? Our AI marketing course covers AI marketing automation step by step, our email marketing course covers automated email marketing, and our digital marketing strategies hub shows where automation fits in the bigger picture.
Your CRM, your data: and automation that stays legal
Two things ruin marketing automation: an agency or platform that holds your data hostage, and flows that spam people until your number or domain gets blocked. Our marketing automation services are built so neither happens, in every country you sell to.
What gets automation blocked
A blocked WhatsApp number or a burnt domain can take weeks to recover. We would rather send fewer messages than lose your channels.
How we keep you safe
Rules change with the country and the channel, so we check before we build. That means the Nigeria Data Protection Act, the UK’s electronic marketing rules, and CAN-SPAM and the TCPA in the US.
We build everything in your business’s name: the CRM, the platform accounts, the WhatsApp number, every contact and every workflow. If we ever stop working together, you keep it all, including the automations and templates we built. Whoever you hire, insist on this.
Follow-up we have automated, straight from the dashboards
Results are easy to promise and harder to prove. These marketing automation results come from our clients’ own ad, email and campaign dashboards, and the full stories are in our digital marketing case studies. Most clients keep their revenue private, so we show what the screens show.
Study With FM, student recruitment, London and Nigeria. One Meta ads campaign brought 776 leads in under three weeks. We segmented and automated the follow-up, so no enquiry went cold.
Read the case studyArya Marketplace, B2B wholesale, Lagos. From the Meta Ads Manager, 9 to 13 July 2026, with a plan every morning and a report every evening to the CEO.
Read the case studyArya Marketplace. A daily content timetable for buyers and sellers, so the community kept buying, not just joining.
Read the case studyLearnWithPride, tech training, London. Leads went straight to the sales team every day, with email, YouTube and ads running alongside SEO.
Read the case studyLearnWithPride, Brevo, July to August 2025. Opens are inflated by privacy features, so we judge every flow by clicks, bookings and sales.
Email marketingGreenlearners Technologies, across 15+ countries, with 1,258+ ad, email and content campaigns launched.
About UsThe honest part: platforms credit themselves generously. A sale an automation touched is not always a sale it caused. So we track reply time, qualified leads, bookings, sales and revenue by source wherever your data allows, and we separate what happened after launch from what the automation itself caused. Our bigger plans run holdout tests to prove it.
What marketing automation cannot do, and who should not hire us
Good marketing automation is powerful. It is not magic. You deserve to hear the limits before you spend a single naira, pound or dollar.
Marketing automation cannot
Automation converts the leads you have. New ones come from SEO, Meta ads, Google ads and lead generation, which is why we connect them.
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Meet the people who build your marketing automation
Software runs the workflow. People decide what it says, when it fires and when a human takes over. Your strategist plans, your developer connects, your writer writes and your account manager reports, and you can message any of them. When a flow underperforms, the founder decides what changes next. That is the difference between a marketing automation agency and a software subscription. Meet the whole team.
01Chukwuemeka Maduka
Founder & Chief Growth StrategistMaps every customer journey and the offer behind it, and makes the call when a result disappoints. Read his story.
02Akeem Ola
Full-Stack DeveloperConnects your CRM, store, forms, WhatsApp and ads, and tests every trigger before a customer sees it.
03Anastasia Orafu
Content Marketing ManagerWrites every automated email, SMS and WhatsApp message in your voice, so automation never sounds like a robot.
04Ada Catherine
Customer Acquisition SpecialistYour day-to-day contact. Watches replies and hot-lead alerts, and keeps the monthly numbers moving.
For us at Greenlearners Technologies, marketing is getting the right product or service to the right person, at the right time, through the right channel, with the right message.
Marketing automation: your questions, answered
What is marketing automation?
Marketing automation is software that sends the right message when someone does something: fills a form, clicks an ad, leaves a cart, books a call or goes quiet. It connects email automation, SMS, WhatsApp, your CRM and your ads, so every lead gets an instant reply and a clear next step without someone typing it. You may also hear it called automation for marketing, marketing and automation, or automated digital marketing. Done well, it means no lead waits, no booking is forgotten and no customer is left without a reason to buy again.
How much do marketing automation services cost?
Three costs. Your platform charges a subscription, your SMS and WhatsApp provider charges per message, and our fee is separate and fixed: Launch Right is a one-off 450,000 naira, 750 dollars, 600 pounds or 675 euros; Grow Every Week is 400,000 naira, 900 dollars, 720 pounds or 810 euros a month; Run It For Me is 800,000 naira, 1,950 dollars, 1,560 pounds or 1,755 euros a month; Own Your Market is 1,800,000 naira, 4,500 dollars, 3,600 pounds or 4,050 euros a month. For platforms, HubSpot has free tools and Professional from 890 dollars a month plus a 3,000 dollar onboarding fee, ActiveCampaign starts from 19 dollars a month, and GetResponse pricing starts at 19 dollars a month for 1,000 contacts. For a bigger plan, see our growth plans and pricing.
What are the best marketing automation platforms?
The best marketing automation platform is the one that fits how you sell and that your team will use. HubSpot suits B2B teams that want a CRM and marketing in one place, ActiveCampaign gives deep automation for less, Zoho suits businesses on the Zoho suite, Klaviyo and Omnisend suit online stores, and Mailchimp and GetResponse suit smaller teams. Among the top marketing automation platforms for large companies are Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Marketo Engage, Oracle Eloqua and Braze. Mautic is a free, open-source option you host yourself. B2B marketing automation platforms, marketing automation SaaS tools and other marketing automation systems change fast, and most marketing automation solutions look the same in a demo, which is why our free audit starts with how you sell, not with a tool.
What is the best CRM for marketing automation?
For most small and growing businesses, the best CRM with marketing automation is HubSpot, ActiveCampaign or Zoho. HubSpot keeps marketing, sales and service in one place. ActiveCampaign CRM pairs a strong automation builder with ActiveCampaign email marketing at a lower price. Zoho marketing automation works best if you already run Zoho CRM. When you compare the best marketing CRM options, check which one your sales team will open every day, because that becomes your sales automation platform too. A CRM with email automation is what turns automated customer relationship management into sales: every lead saved, scored and followed up. We set up CRM and marketing automation platforms in your business name, so you own the data.
What is the difference between email automation and marketing automation?
Email automation sends emails by itself when something happens, like a welcome email or a cart reminder. Marketing automation is the wider system: email, SMS, WhatsApp, your CRM, your ads and your sales team working together. Automated email marketing is one part of it, usually the biggest, and email marketing and automation work best when they are planned together. Email automation platforms like Mailchimp, Klaviyo and Brevo give you an automated email system, while a marketing automation platform also scores leads, alerts sales and connects your other channels. See our email marketing services for the email side.
What are drip campaigns?
A drip campaign is a series of messages sent over days or weeks, starting when someone does something, like downloading a guide or joining a waitlist. Drip email campaigns and drip email marketing keep you in front of people who are interested but not ready yet. Mailchimp automated emails, Klaviyo flows and ActiveCampaign automations all run drip campaigns. The best ones give something useful in every message, so people look forward to the next one instead of unsubscribing.
Do you do HubSpot marketing automation?
Yes. We set up and run HubSpot marketing automation for B2B teams and service businesses: forms, lead stages, HubSpot personas, lead scoring, HubSpot email automation, workflows and sales alerts. HubSpot automation, and marketing automation with HubSpot in general, works best when the CRM is clean and the stages are agreed with sales first, so that is where we start. We are an independent agency, not a HubSpot partner, and we recommend HubSpot only when it fits your budget and your team.
Do you work with Salesforce, Marketo or Eloqua?
Salesforce marketing automation, Adobe Marketo Engage, Oracle Eloqua, Braze, SAS and ClickDimensions are enterprise platforms built for large teams. If you already use one, we can audit your journeys, data and Salesforce email automation honestly, plan what to fix, and build on it where we have the right access and experience. If you need a certified Marketo agency or Salesforce partner for deep platform engineering, we will tell you plainly rather than learn on your budget.
Do you do Shopify and ecommerce marketing automation?
Yes. Ecommerce marketing automation, or ecommerce automation, is about flows first: browse and cart reminders, order updates, post-purchase emails, review requests and win-backs. We build Shopify marketing automation and Shopify email automation in Klaviyo or Omnisend email marketing, and WooCommerce automation with AutomateWoo. Klaviyo marketing automation is usually our first choice for stores because it uses your store data in every flow. If you are looking for a Shopify automation agency, our ecommerce marketing team runs the full picture.
Can you automate WhatsApp and SMS?
Yes. SMS automation and SMS marketing automation handle reminders, delivery updates and short offers, and WhatsApp automation handles instant replies, bookings and follow-ups on the WhatsApp Business Platform. Since 1 October 2026, Meta gives each business number 1,000 free service messages a month and charges for utility messages inside the 24-hour window, so we design flows to use free reply windows wherever possible. Every channel needs clear opt-in, and opt-outs are synced across all of them.
How is AI used in marketing automation?
AI marketing automation, sometimes searched as marketing automation artificial intelligence, helps in three places: sorting leads by intent so hot ones reach sales first, drafting replies and messages your team reviews before they go out, and content automation for repeat tasks like product descriptions or subject line tests. AI in marketing automation should speed people up, not replace their judgement. We never let AI email automation or sales automation AI send messages a person has not approved the rules for, and every flow keeps a clear route to a human.
Can marketing automation generate leads?
Automation does not create demand by itself, but it turns more of your traffic into leads and more leads into customers. Automated lead generation and automatic lead generation mean forms, lead magnets, chat and ads feeding your CRM by themselves, with an instant reply every time. Advertising automation then sends your sales back to Meta and Google, so the ads find more people like your buyers. For the ads and offers that bring new leads in, see our lead generation service.
Is marketing automation good for small businesses?
Yes, often more than for big ones. Marketing automation for small businesses means a small team can reply to every lead in seconds, remind every booking and follow up with every customer, without hiring more people. Start with three automations: an instant reply, a follow-up sequence and a booking or cart reminder. Our small business marketing plans keep it realistic, and Launch Right gets those three live in two weeks.
Do you do cold email automation?
Not at scale, and never to bought lists. Whether cold email is lawful depends on the country, whether you are writing to a person or a company, and how you identify yourself and handle opt-outs, so we check before we agree to send. Where it is lawful, we keep cold email automation personal, low volume and separate from your marketing list and main domain, which lowers the risk to your email reputation without removing it.
Do you automate social media marketing?
Social media marketing automation is useful for scheduling posts, saving comments and DMs as leads, and sending an instant reply when someone asks a question on Instagram or Facebook. We connect those leads to your CRM and follow-up, so a DM gets the same speed as a website form. Real conversations and community work stay with people, through our social media marketing team.
How long does marketing automation take to set up?
Launch Right is live within two weeks: your journey mapped, your CRM set up, every lead source connected, an instant reply and a follow-up sequence running and tested. Bigger systems with stores, CRMs, several channels and sales automation take four to eight weeks, built in stages so the first automations start paying while the rest are built.
What do I get in the free marketing automation audit?
A written map of how leads reach you and where they go cold, sent on WhatsApp or by email, usually within two working days. We look at your forms, ads, inbox, CRM, reply times and follow-up, and show you your three biggest leaks and what to automate first. You can build it yourself, or ask us to quote for the work. There is no obligation.
Who owns my CRM, data and workflows?
You do, from day one. We set up your CRM, platform accounts, WhatsApp number and every workflow in your business name, with you as the owner and our team as users you can remove. Platform and message fees are paid from your own card. If we ever stop working together, you keep your data, templates and automations.
Do you guarantee results from marketing automation?
No, and no honest marketing automation agency can. Offers, teams and markets all behave differently. What we do promise is the work, written into the scope: every lead captured, every path tested, flows checked weekly, opt-in respected, and a plain report of reply time, bookings and sales by flow. If something is not working, we tell you and change it.
Do you work with businesses outside Nigeria?
Yes. Among marketing automation companies, we are built for businesses that sell across borders. We run marketing automation for businesses in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the Netherlands, as well as across Nigeria and Africa, and our diaspora marketing team works with Africans abroad selling back home. We work remotely: discovery and reviews on video calls, access shared through your own accounts, support in your time zone and billing in naira, dollars, pounds or euros. Time zones are exactly why automation matters: your leads get an answer at 3am, wherever they are.
Where marketing automation fits in the rest of the system
The newsletters, campaigns and automated emails that keep your list buying.
Read moreFor customers who read WhatsApp before anything else, the same follow-up, in the chat.
Read moreShort, timely texts for reminders, flash sales and customers who never check email.
Read moreThe ads and offers that fill your CRM with people worth following up.
Read moreThe pages and steps that turn a click into a booked call or an order.
Read moreThe full growth system marketing automation sits inside, and how every piece connects.
Read moreYour next customer is already asking. Let’s make sure they hear back first.
Before you buy more leads, find out how many you are losing to slow follow-up. Send us your business name, your website and the tools you use. Our marketing automation team will map how a lead travels to a sale, show you where it goes cold and what to automate first. You can build it yourself, or ask us to. Lagos, London, Toronto or Los Angeles, the audit is the same, and it is free.
Website enquiries wait until morning. Form emails land in one inbox with no reply after 6pm.
Fix: instant reply and CRM captureBooked calls get no reminder. No-shows are rebooked by hand, when someone remembers.
Fix: reminders 24 hours and 1 hour beforeAd leads are not tagged by campaign. Nobody knows which ad brings buyers, only clicks.
Fix: source tracking into the CRMWhat you get, free: a written map of how leads reach you and where they go cold, with your three biggest fixes, usually within two working days. No obligation, and no honest agency can promise an exact conversion rate before testing.