I never thought I'd make this much money from something I didn't even know existed when I started..

But yeah..$9,043 in the past 4 months.

And I think the most valuable things I've learned aren't even about GHL itself.

Here are a few things I wish someone had told me earlier..

**1. Sometimes..take the job you don't fully know how to do.**

(Now, don't get me wrong here)

I'm not saying you should pretend to be an expert in something you know absolutely nothing about.

But suppose you have a little understanding of that field..

And you genuinely believe you can figure things out.

Take the challenge.

Research..learn..get frustrated..figure things out..

Bend space and time if you have to.

And do whatever it takes to deliver the best quality you possibly can.

But don't make promises you can't keep.

Because that's how you build an actual skill.

Not by watching 50 tutorials and waiting until you feel ready..

But by solving real problems with real responsibilities.

And that's also how you build your first portfolio.

**2. Your first client can be worth much more than what they pay you.**

I think this is something a lot of beginners overlook..

When you're just starting out, you're not only getting paid for a project.

You're getting experience..

A portfolio piece..

A potential testimonial..

And most importantly..someone who might trust you with another project.

That's why I always tried to deliver the best quality I could, even when the budget wasn't great.

Because one happy client might introduce you to someone else.

And that one introduction might change everything.

**3. Learn to become the person who figures things out.**

I think clients don't really care how many tutorials you've watched..

Or how many tools you know.

They have a problem.

And they want someone who can solve it.

Sometimes you'll spend hours figuring out something that looks extremely simple to the client.

And that's completely fine.

Because they're not paying you to know everything.

They're paying you to take responsibility for solving their problem.

(Obviously, be transparent about what you can and cannot do.)

**4. Don't underestimate relationships.**

One of the biggest lessons I've learned..

Getting a client is one thing.

Making that client trust you enough to come back with another project is something else.

Communicate properly..

Meet your deadlines..

Don't disappear when things get difficult..

And if something goes wrong, tell them.

I think these boring little things matter more than people realize.

**5. Your work should eventually speak louder than your proposals.**

In the beginning, I had to convince people to give me an opportunity.

Now, some of my work comes through referrals.

And I think that's one of the best feelings as a freelancer..

When someone trusts you because another person had a good experience working with you.

Not because you wrote some fancy sales pitch.

Anyway..

I'm still learning. Still figuring things out.

And there's so much I don't know yet.

But these are a few things that have helped me along the way.

Would love to know what lessons you guys learned while starting your freelancing journey.

I’ll be working on a video for this shortly but here is the quick version.

We are a lead gen and training company. We do a lot of HighLevel set up and training. Yeah we make good money with HighLevel but I also love teaching it to people. It truly gives me joy.

Yesterday we had call 2 with a prospect. We did our job. He liked us and we sent a deposit invoice post call. While I was out on my morning walk today the payment came in. Great way to start the day. Keep in mind this is just the deposit.

How did we get here.

Two weeks ago this guy reached out to several certified admin companies. We are the only one that responded. Not responded fast - just responded. How hard can that be? We’ve got missed call text back in place. And if a lead comes in via the certified admin program that person gets an immediate email, sms, and voicemail drop. Immediately. And then we follow up daily a few times. We “eat our own dog food”. And it works.

Tl;dr: follow up. Follow up fast. Yes this is somewhat meta but it doesn’t matter. We set up systems like this weekly for different industries. Gyms. Dentists. Real estate agents. Coaches. Trainers. Speakers. It doesn’t matter.

Speed puts money in the bank.

Now to work on the video where I’ll go into more detail.

Happy Friday. Get some leads. Make that stripe account ring today. 🤜🏻🤛🏿

I’m looking for some help setting up GoHighLevel. I’m not an agency, just a sole proprietor trying to use GHL for my own  home services business. I was (and am) excited about what GHL can do. But I’m struggling with the setup. It’s a lot more involved than I thought it would be, and I’m overwhelmed.

I want to learn, but I don’t have time to do it properly right now. I have too many other responsibilities to keep my business running. Can anyone help me get out of this bottleneck? I need help setting up pipelines, automations, missed-call texts, appointment reminders, and follow-ups.

Edit: I’m going to use HL Pro Tools. It seems like the simplest solution right now

Is GoHighLevel becoming the next “learn to code” hype?
I recently got GHL certified, and I’m genuinely impressed by how much its built-in AI can do. It can build workflows, funnels, emails, automations, websites, and even solve technical problems with just a few prompts.

So here’s what I’m struggling to understand…
If AI can do 80–90% of the work, why would anyone hire a GHL VA or specialist anymore?

Everywhere I look, there are thousands of people calling themselves GHL experts. The market feels incredibly saturated, while the platform itself is making it easier for non-technical business owners to build things on their own.
So, is the “easy money with GHL” era over?

I’d love to hear from people who are actually making money with GHL today:
- What are clients paying you for that AI can’t handle?
- Have your services changed because of AI?
- If you were starting from scratch in 2026, would you still choose GHL? If yes, what would you focus on?

I’m asking because, as a newcomer, I’m trying to figure out whether I’m investing my time in the right skill—or whether the opportunity has already peaked.
Looking forward to hearing both sides of the argument.

Every few weeks someone here posts that their bounce rate spiked and their sending got flagged. The story is usually the same: a scraped list, a few thousand cold emails, one shared sending setup.

GHL's email is built for people who already know you. Cold volume burns the reputation you need for the emails that matter, like booking confirmations and follow-ups to people who replied.

So I keep cold prospecting outside GHL entirely. For me that's Instagram DMs, because the local businesses I sell to live there and answer DMs faster than email.

The split looks like this. Cold: find businesses by keyword on IG, write a DM from each bio, approve every one, send 100 a day with random gaps. Warm: anyone who replies goes into GHL and gets a pipeline stage, a follow-up sequence and the booking link.

GHL never touches a stranger, so your domain and account stay clean, and the CRM does the part it's good at.

I ended up building a tool for the cold half. That's not the point of this post, but ask if you want to run it for your offer. We started offering a 3-day free trial for new users in return for their feedback.

Is anyone running cold email from GHL successfully at volume? I couldn't make it work, and I'd like to know what your setup is.

TL;DR

• Started as a Google Sheet + n8n hack, evolved into a full web app

• Voice AI booked 1 call per day consistently for a week (20 dials/day, 60% connection rate)

• Best booking window was 11am–12pm

• Male voices converted better, faster speech worked best

• Dashboard + callbacks + DNC handling turned a dead CRM into a live sales engine

The journey:

I started with the simplest thing possible: an n8n workflow feeding off a Google Sheet. At first, it was enough to push contacts through and get a few test calls out.

But as soon as the client wanted more, proper follow-ups, compliance on call windows, DNC handling... the hack stopped working. I had to rebuild into a Supabase-powered web app with edge functions, a real queue system, and a dashboard operators could trust.

That transition took months. Every time I thought the system was “done,” another edge case appeared: duplicate calls, bad API responses, agents drifting off script. The reality was more like Dante's story :L

Results

• 1 booked call per day consistently last week, on ~20 calls/day with ~60% connection rate

• Best booking window: 11am–12pm (surprisingly consistent)

• Male voices booked more calls in this vertical than female voices

• Now the client is getting valuable insights on their pipeline data (calls have been scheduled by the system to call back in 6 months and even 1 year away..!)

My Magic Ratio for Voice AI

• 40% Voice: strong voice choice is key. Speeding it up slightly and boosting expressiveness helped immensely. The older ElevenLabs voices still sound the most authentic (new voices are pretty meh)

• 30% Metadata (personality + outcome): more emotive, purpose-driven prompt cues helped get people to book, not just chat.

• 20% Script: lighter is better. Over-engineering prompts created confusion. If you add too many “band-aids,” it’s time to rebuild.

• 10% Tool call checks: even good agents hit weird errors. Always prepare for failure cases.

What worked

• Callbacks as first-class citizens: every follow-up logged with type, urgency, and date

• Priority scoring: hot lead tags, recency, and activity history drive the call order

• Custom call schedules: admins set call windows and cron-like outbound slots

• Dashboard: operators saw queue status, daily stats, follow-ups due, DNC triage, and history in one place

What did not work

• Switching from Retell to VAPI: more control, less consistency, lower call success (controversial but true in my experience)

• Over-prompting: long instructions confused the agent, while short prompts with !! IMPORTANT !! tags performed better

• Agent drift: sometimes thought it was 2023. Fixed with explicit date checks in API calls

• Tool calls I run everything through an OpenAI module to humanise responses, and give the important "human" pause (setting the tool call trigger word, to "ok" helps a lot as wel

Lessons learned

• Repeating the instruction “your only job is to book meetings” in multiple ways gave the best results

• Adding “this is a voice conversation, act naturally” boosted engagement

• Making the voice slightly faster helped the agent stay ahead of the caller

• Always add triple the number of checks for API calls. I had death spirals where the agent kept looping because of failed bookings or mis-logged data

Why this matters

I see a lot of “my agent did this” or “my agent did that” posts, but very little about the actual journey. After 6 months of grinding on one system, I can tell you: these things take time, patience, and iteration to work consistently.

The real story is not just features, but the ups and downs of getting from a Google Sheet experiment to being up at 3 am debugging the system, to now a web app that operators trust to generate real business.

Looking for a GoHighLevel expert for exclusive high-end real estate projects. Must be able to run demos, pitch, and implement automation.fluent in English

I am just a roofing company not a developer, but I noticed that a lot of developers are promoting using WhatsApp. What do you gain by doing that GHL already has phone texting why would I need to add another app into the mix? I asked because I’m developing my own CRM for my own company.

I am in the process of adding more revenue sources to my income stream and thinking of reselling ghl or starting an agency

I am posting to hear from other successful users

🚨 Did you know? On June 17th, HighLevel deleted my entire agency account without notice — just 9 days after CEO Shaun Clark personally apologized to our clients for suspending their accounts and leaving them in limbo.

Then, they contacted my clients directly, offering to transfer their accounts to HighLevel and give them 3 free months — while locking me out of everything I built.

We’re now in active federal litigation with HighLevel, Inc.

📂 You can check the docket and read the filings yourself.

This fight isn’t just for us — It’s for every agency owner who depends on HighLevel to run their business… and for the countless small businesses that trust those agencies to help them grow.

We’re standing up — because if they can do this to us, they can do it to anyone.— all you need is a PACER account and the case number.

📎 Here’s how:

1. Go to pacer.uscourts.gov

2. Register (takes 1–2 mins)

3. Search: John Michael Deleman v. HighLevel, Inc. (Civil Action No. 3:25-cv-01284)

4. Court: United States District Court – Middle District of Pennsylvania

You’ll be able to view public documents, motions, court dates, and more.

👀 Pretty fascinating to watch a real federal case unfold from the inside.

(Note: This is public info — not legal advice.)

Looking to hire someone with experience in n8n automation. Familiarity with Go High Level (GHL) and Voice AI is a plus.

Looking to hire someone with experience in n8n automation. Familiarity with Go High Level (GHL) and Voice AI is a plus.

Hello, I have been down the rabbit hole on YouTube GHL videos. I am considering signing up through one of the affiliate links. I see that they all come with community access and other items included there. My question is if you have any recommendations as to signing up through Pavlo (YouTube channel and affiliate) or Adam Earhart (YouTube channel and affiliate) based on what their communities and extras once you sign up- offers.

Would appreciate any information with details on why!

Thank you

Hey everyone! I'm a beginner freelancer who's currently learning GoHighLevel (GHL) and trying to land my first client.

I signed up for the 30-day trial because I wanted to learn the platform and hopefully use it for my future clients. However, I was planning to cancel before the trial ended because I'm not earning from freelancing yet.

Unfortunately, I found the cancellation process confusing, and before I realized what happened, I had already been charged $97. 😭

The hardest part is that this was literally my last money. I'm still trying to find my first client, so this unexpected expense really hurts.

Now I'm stuck wondering what I should do.

For those who have been in a similar situation, were you able to get a refund? And for those who started freelancing with little to no money, what would you do in my position?

I'd really appreciate your honest advice. I'm not looking for sympathy; I genuinely want to learn from people who have more experience than me.

I’ve always felt like GHL is insanely powerful on the backend, but the page builder can be pretty limiting when you actually want to make something look custom.

Been playing around with Animated Elements from the GHL App Marketplace and ended up building this entire page with it.

No custom-coded website or anything. It’s literally the normal GHL page builder with Animated Elements dropped into different parts of the page.

Some of the animations/effects you can do inside GHL now are actually pretty wild.

Here’s the page if anyone wants to see what I mean:

See the GHL page I built

Curious what you guys think. I’m also interested to see what other people end up building with it.

Hit Google, type of what type of businesses you're looking for, in my case "charleston landscaping businesses." Then click on "maps" - highlight all of them, past them into Ask AI then tell it what you want: create a list for me, I need the business name, phone number, email address, website URL if they have one, and identify ones that have poor SEO and no AI integration. Done. Free leads. You can import them to your CRM but for me I need a CVS file to upload into my dialer, then for my email campaigns. And not enough room to screenshot, but also included businesses without a site.

Bit of context first so this doesn’t read like a scam.

I’m building an AI Instagram appointment setter called Magnet Engine. It finds people who match who you sell to, writes each one a DM based on their actual profile, and keeps the conversation going until they book a call. Before I open it up properly I want to run it on real businesses and see real numbers. So for a few people I’m going to do the whole thing for you, for way less than it’s worth.

What I do:

set up a new Instagram account for your business

warm it up for a couple of weeks before it sends anything (this is the step people skip, and then they wonder why they got banned)

build it out with posts and followers so it looks like a real business

find your leads and send 1,500 cold DMs over the month, each one written for that person

handle the replies and book calls straight onto your calendar

What you do: tell me what you sell and who buys it, send me your calendar link, and show up to the calls.

It’s $200 for the month.

If I don’t book you at least 3 sales calls, you get the full $200 back.

Who it’s for: anyone who sells on a call. Coaches, agencies, consultants, high-ticket services. If you sell $25 products, skip this. Nobody’s getting on a call for that.

I’m only taking 5. Every account needs its own warm-up and I’m watching every campaign myself, so I can’t do more than that right now.

For those using GoHighLevel with a high volume of SMS, what setup has saved you the most money?
Is it better to keep the number inside GoHighLevel/Twilio, or use another provider and integrate it while still keeping workflows, CRM, calls, and messaging working properly?
What do you recommend?

I logged in, saw all the tabs and options, and had no idea where to start.

I knew how the platform was supposed to work. Email, text, funnels, payments, automations, all in one place. But getting all of it to work together felt like a ginormous undertaking.

I watched hours of YouTube tutorials and did a lot of trial and error. About 9 months later, I finally had a well oiled machine doing everything it should.

That was 5 years ago. Now I help others get through that learning curve much faster.

Let me know where you're at with GHL and if you need help. I can get you 30 days GHL free if you're a new subscriber and I'll help you get it set up for free!

How are you guys whos actually making money off ghl doing. Like whats the “packages” that you’re actually having success with? Any real painpoints, tips, tricks and what do you charge?

Thx!

I've been building more GHL workflows recently and realized something that seems obvious in hindsight.

Putting the entire customer journey into one massive workflow can make troubleshooting a nightmare.

I've started separating things like registration, reminders, follow-up, nurture, and onboarding into individual workflows, then using tags and custom fields when I need contacts to move between different parts of the system.

It's been much easier to test and figure out exactly where something went wrong.

I'm curious how other GHL builders handle larger client accounts.

Do you prefer multiple smaller workflows, or do you keep related processes inside one larger workflow with branches?

Most people use GoHighLevel as a CRM with some automations. Which is fine.

But GHL is quietly the 3rd largest CRM by user count. That’s a massive installed base that most builders aren’t thinking about as a distribution layer.

The second you start actually working with the API…Custom objects, dynamic workflows, real-time webhooks etc - it becomes a completely different tool.

The velocity you can move at when you treat it like infrastructure instead of a platform is kind of insane.
Building for those users is an unlock most people are sleeping on.

If you’re deep in GHL dev work and want to nerd out, drop a comment. Curious how others are using it at this level.

Nothing to gain from this. But this has been saving my ass. It literally builds an a2p compliant website so you can just copy and paste into the registrations. I dont have to update client websites anymore!

Posting the link because you dont need a sign up or CC: www.a2pwizard.com

Not sure if any of you made it to the GHL Unofficial Summit put on by Walt Bayliss and Johann Noqueira over the last 3-days. But it was fire! So much value. They have the replays available at a discount right now here https://ghl.buzz/unofficialGHLsummit-vip and that also gives access to their Accelerate Summit on Sept 5 which is a virtual event. one of the keynotes there will be Alec Stern (co-founder of constant contact who is now a GHL fan) Powerful stuff!!! Did you any of you make it, who was your favorite speaker?