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Your real average response time each week, with the important emails that waited too long called out by name.
Everyone believes they reply fast. The sent folder disagrees: the prospect who waited four days, the colleague still waiting since Tuesday. Speed is a reputation, and most people have no idea what theirs actually is.
For sales especially, response time is close rate. What goes unmeasured goes unimproved.
This routine runs every Friday. It calculates your average email response time for the week and flags the important threads where you were slowest.
You get the number and the outliers. Improvement starts with one uncomfortable Friday report.
Copy this prompt into a new Littlebird routine. Edit the days and times to fit your schedule.
Every Friday calculate my average email response time this week and flag any important emails that took too long
Gmail. It measures how quickly you and your contacts reply across threads.
You shape that in the prompt -- key clients, your boss, active deals. The tracker grades you against what matters to you.
It runs on Basic for free. Plus runs $17 per month billed annually or $20 monthly, and the 14-day trial is free.
Yes. Littlebird is SOC 2 certified and GDPR and CCPA compliant, and nothing is sold or used to train models.
Yes. Add it to the prompt -- 'flag anything over four hours' -- and the report holds you to it.
Not yet. Littlebird is Mac-only -- the waitlist is the place to hear about Windows.
Put Littlebird to work.