GOHIGHLEVEL ANSWERS & PROMPTS: PLAYBOOK T19 · DATABASE REACTIVATION
AUTHOR: DANIEL HALLMAN
KEYWORD: REACTIVATE
What Usually Happens
Blasting 3,000 old leads at 9:00 AM with a marketing link and sales pitch triggers instant carrier spam blocks and overwhelms your staff.
How We Fix It in HighLevel
Build a clean SmartList filter, enroll contacts in workflow Drip Mode at 35–50 contacts per hour between 10 AM and 3 PM local time, and ask a casual 1-sentence question ('Hey [First Name], are you still looking to get your [service] taken care of this season?') with zero URLs.
3-Step Implementation Checklist
- Create a SmartList in Contacts filtered by: Last Activity > 90 days ago, Phone is not empty, DND is disabled, and Opportunity Status is not Won.
- Enroll the SmartList into your Database Reactivation workflow using Drip Mode (50 contacts per hour, Monday–Friday 10 AM to 3 PM).
- Send a plain-text 9-word check-in with zero links, enable 'Stop on Response', and use a Customer Replied workflow branch to move interested replies into your active pipeline.
MODE: AGENT PROMPT
PASTE THIS PROMPT INTO CLAUDE CODE, CURSOR, CHATGPT, OR YOUR GHL ASSISTANT
SAFE READ-FIRST WORKFLOW
Create a safe SmartList Database Reactivation campaign in our GoHighLevel sub-account: 1. Build a SmartList filtering for contacts with Last Activity > 90 days, valid mobile phone, DND = off, and no active open opportunity. 2. Configure a Database Reactivation workflow with Drip Mode capped at 40 contacts/hour between 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM local time. 3. Draft a link-free 9-word conversational SMS check-in and verify that Opt-Out Guard (STOP / remove me) and Stop on Response are active.
RUN WITH OUR GHL-TOOLS MCP SERVER OR RUST CLI (DANIELHALLMAN.COM/MCP)
SUPPORTS --DRY-RUN PREVIEW
# 1. MCP Tool Call (ghl-crm-mcp)
{
"tool": "workflows_create_from_recipe",
"arguments": {
"location_id": "<YOUR_LOCATION_ID>",
"recipe": "smartlist_database_reactivation_drip",
"drip_per_hour": 40,
"allow_links": false,
"dry_run": true
}
}
# 2. Or run via ghl-crm Rust CLI
ghl-crm workflows apply-recipe --location-id <YOUR_LOCATION_ID> --recipe dbr-drip-40hr --dry-run
Similar GoHighLevel Questions & Fixes
PLAYBOOK T03 · Unified Inbox & Chat
How do you stop GoHighLevel chat bots from replying after a customer texts STOP?
Trigger HighLevel DND immediately on opt-out keywords (STOP, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE) and place an `ai-conv-paused` tag check before every Conversation AI workflow step.
PLAYBOOK T05 · Deliverability & DNSHow do you get GoHighLevel A2P 10DLC campaign registration approved on the first try?
Verify that your intake form has an unchecked SMS consent checkbox displaying your exact legal business name, a live Privacy Policy link with no redirects, and matching EIN documentation before submitting.
PLAYBOOK T12 · Deliverability & DNSHow do you keep cold email separate from your main business domain in GoHighLevel?
Keep your primary root domain strictly for opted-in clients, billing, and calendar invites, and run cold outreach from 2–3 secondary domains capped at 30 plain-text emails per inbox per day.
PLAYBOOK T15 · Reputation & ReviewsHow do you get more 5-star Google reviews in GoHighLevel without annoying unhappy customers?
Send a friendly personal check-in text 2 hours after a job is marked complete ('Did everything look good with the work today?') and send the direct Google review link only after they reply positively.
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