A slow first reply kills a paid lead — and closes the free window
Someone taps a Facebook or Instagram ad expecting a fast reply, lands in WhatsApp, and hits silence for six hours. They assume the brand is dead and never come back. Worse, Meta's free-conversation window on ads-driven chats stays open only while you reply promptly — a slow response wastes the ad spend and the window in one go. The lead was already lost in the first thirty seconds, long before anyone in the team saw it.


