Case study · Industrial & warehouse real estate · Three sub-accounts
A market report that tells the broker who to call
A Southern California brokerage that sells and leases warehouse and industrial buildings uses GoHighLevel to publish a monthly market report, watch which owners read which numbers, score them on every open and click, and hand the broker a short daily call list. Two smaller brands, a Prop 19 property-tax service and a consulting practice, sit beside it on the same agency.
The system
Publish data, watch who reads it, call them
An industrial broker wins when an owner who has been reading the market for years finally decides to sell or lease, and calls them first. The account is built around that: useful monthly data, sent carefully to each submarket, with every open, click and report view turned into a signal the broker can act on the same day.
Comes in
GoHighLevel
Goes out
System 1 · Content
A monthly market report as the reason to talk
Owners delete "just checking in" emails. They open real numbers about their own submarket: how much space is for sale or lease, and at what size.
- A Market View Data Dashboard (9 pages) and a 37-page market-report site publish monthly available-space data by submarket, for sale and for lease.
- A market-report survey writes the figures into dozens of fields, such as total square feet available for sale in each county. The account has 281 custom fields in 16 folders.
- Every monthly email has an institutional version and a broker-network version, and each campaign gets a resend to unopened two days later.
- Separate sign-up and "home" forms exist for each submarket, so every lead arrives already labelled.
System 2 · Distribution
Each submarket gets its own send, at a safe pace
One blast to the whole list would hurt the sending domain and land every reply in the same hour.
- Every month gets its own workflow folder, January to July 2026. Inside, one workflow per audience is bulk-enrolled: institutional investors across Southern California, two city segments, North Orange County, and past clients.
- Each one starts with Drip mode: batches of 100 contacts every 10 minutes, then sends the email.
- The same pattern sends a ringless voicemail to North Orange County owners, which reached 820 people in July.
System 3 · Intent
Every report view becomes a tag
An open tells you someone saw the email. It doesn't tell you whether they own a 40,000 sq ft building in North County and are thinking about selling.
- The dashboard pages carry hidden tracking forms for each submarket × building-size band × sale or lease view.
- Each combination has its own small workflow, for example 30K–50K Sale Report Viewer Tracking (NOC): form submitted → add tag
mvr_30-50k_noc_sale. - Folders exist for All SoCal, Inland Empire, Inland Empire broker network, Mid-Counties OC, North OC, Orange County, South OC and the home-page forms.
| North OC | 10–20K sq ft | 20–30K | 30–50K | 50–100K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sale report viewed | mvr_10-20k_noc_sale | mvr_20-30k_noc_sale | mvr_30-50k_noc_sale | mvr_50-100k_noc_sale |
| Lease report viewed | mvr_10-20k_noc_lease | mvr_20-30k_noc_lease | mvr_30-50k_noc_lease | mvr_50-100k_noc_lease |
System 4 · Scoring
From 20,000 opens to a short call list
With thousands of owners on the list, the broker had no way to see who had been reading every edition, so calls went out in alphabetical order.
- Two always-on workflows add +1 point per email open and +3 points per click.
- When the score changes, or an email event arrives with a score above 3, the call-list workflow waits, re-checks the score in an If/Else, and creates a manual call task.
- A Go To step loops back after a wait, so a contact stays on the list for as long as the score stays high.
- The Daily Call List pipeline tracks each call: today's list, not connected or voicemail, connected and interested, no interest, call back, invalid number.
System 5 · AI outreach
A "Buildingversary" note for every owner, written by GPT
Past buyers are the best source of future listings, but nobody remembers the day each one bought their building, let alone writes them a personal note about it.
- A GPT-4o action writes a 90–120 word email from the owner's first name, property address, purchase date and years owned: a congratulation, one or two fun facts from the purchase year, and a short market insight in the broker's style.
- The prompt sets GPT up as a copywriter for 10,000–100,000 sq ft warehouse and industrial property in three Southern California counties. A custom memory key with chat history tells it never to repeat earlier content.
- The draft is stored in a contact field, then split by channel: email, plus a GPT-written SMS only for contacts tagged
mobile. - Owners who prefer mail are assigned to the broker with a task: print & send Buildingversary letter.
System 6 · Campaigns
An annual forum and seasonal stories
The brokerage's yearly industry forum needs thousands of invitations, then a second push to people who clicked but didn't register.
- The invitation outreach reached 3,467 contacts, link clicks were tracked (714), and a follow-up ran for 97. Those pre-event workflows are switched off now.
- Still live: a retargeting update (157) that emails first, waits one minute, then texts only contacts tagged
mobile, plus registration (26) and a live-stream option. - A story-led Black Friday outreach reached 2,676 owners with the same drip-then-send pattern.
mobile get the text.System 7 · Cross-account
A second brand that feeds the main CRM
California's Prop 19 can reset an inherited property's tax basis. One of the brand's emails describes a family whose bill went from $18,000 to $105,000 a year. Those families are future sellers, but the leads came in through a separate brand.
- The Prop 19 sub-account runs an Owners' Brief funnel, a 2-page summary funnel and 8 forms, including a 2-step Prop 19 form.
- Form submission (17): internal email and SMS alerts, a one-minute wait, then the 2-page summary email to the owner.
- Order sync: the 2-step form adds a
prop19tag and copies the contact into the main brokerage sub-account. There, a tag trigger creates an opportunity in the Prop 19 pipeline. Nobody re-enters the lead.
Structure
Where the volume is
Most of the 73.5K enrollments come from scoring and list sends: thousands of owners reading the report each month. The deal pipelines are small and valuable, with a few buildings worth several million dollars each. That is normal for industrial brokerage: a long, wide top of funnel and a narrow, high-value bottom.
No sub-account uses a custom object. Property details sit in a Property Info field group on the contact. A Properties object linked to contacts is the natural next step, so that one owner can hold several buildings and the anniversary and report-tracking workflows can run per building.
Busiest live workflows
Total enrollments, main account, October 2026
Open opportunities
Main account, 9 pipelines, 382 open
Also: valuation (BOV) requests 0 · report PDF downloads 0 · Prop 19 0
| Asset | Main brokerage | Prop 19 brand | Consulting brand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workflows | 152 published of 335 | 2 published | 6, all draft (not live yet) |
| Pipelines | 9: call list, dashboard engagement, landlords, buyers, tenants, sellers, BOV, report PDF, Prop 19 | 2: marketing, Prop 19 property analysis | 1: 9-stage marketing pipeline |
| Sites | 10 websites incl. a data dashboard and a 37-page report site | 3 funnels, 1 website | 2 funnels, 1 website |
| Forms | 21 forms, 1 survey | 8 | 3 |
| 19 templates, 15 campaigns | Summary email in a workflow | None | |
| Calendars | 6 | None | None |
| AI | 1 Conversation AI bot (GPT-4.1, Auto-Pilot), GPT-4o actions in workflows | None | None |
| Custom objects | None (Properties suggested) | None | None |
How it's built
Tools and design choices
Give owners a reason to open
Monthly data about their own submarket earns attention that a sales email doesn't.
Let reading behavior pick the calls
Opens, clicks and report views score and tag each owner. The broker calls the top of the list.
Pace every send
Drip batches and a one-minute throttle protect the domain and spread replies through the day.
Personal at scale, with a human fallback
GPT writes each anniversary note, and owners who prefer mail still get a printed letter.