# Run Ads and Answer the Phones When Leads Actually Arrive

When leads arrive maps your leads by day of week and hour, names the best and quietest windows, and compares paid and organic timing. It answers “when should we run ads, answer the phones and send email?” and turns the pattern into schedules.

Published Oct 19, 2026. Updated Oct 20, 2026.

## What days and hours do most of my leads come in?

It depends on what you're scheduling. To map leads by day of week and hour, and turn that pattern into ad, staffing and email schedules, When leads arrive is the report to run. Type /timing to get it. To decide who to call first, the Lead quality scorer fits better. To see which pages bring those leads, use Landing page performance. To check which forms they fill in, pick Form performance.

What it is: When leads arrive is a day-by-hour map from the free UTM Grabber Reports skill for local businesses, clinics and sales teams that shows the best times to run ads and answer the phones.

- Page: https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/reports/lead-timing/
- Report: When leads arrive (Leads, forms and tracking)
- Shortcut: `/timing`
- New in UTM Grabber Reports skill v2.0
- Sample data from Northwind Dental, a fictional dental practice. Sample headline: “Wednesday mornings bring the most leads: 76 between 8am and 11am.”

## What this report answers

- Which day and time bring the most leads?
- What share of leads arrive while the office is closed?
- Do paid and organic leads arrive at different times?
- How many leads come in on a phone?

Built for: Local businesses, clinics and sales teams deciding staffing and ad schedules.

## What's in the report

1. A headline like “Wednesday mornings bring the most leads,” with the after-hours and phone shares.
2. Numbers for leads, the busiest day, the peak hour, after-hours share and phone share.
3. Callouts for the best window, the quietest daytime window, the busiest day and after hours, plus a 7-day by 24-hour heatmap.
4. Paid vs organic by time of day, and a device split when most leads carry a user agent.
5. Next steps: bid up in the paid peak, staff the phones, an instant reply after hours, an email send time.

## Why You Can Trust What It Tells You

- **Clear office hours and windows.** Office hours mean Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and busy windows are 3 hours in a row on one day.
- **Times shown in your zone.** Times are read as recorded, in your site's time zone or UTC, and the report says which.
- **Advice tied to your numbers.** The report suggests an instant after-hours reply at 20%+ after hours, and a phone check of your form at 60%+ on phones.

## Ask your AI

- `/timing`
- “When do our leads come in?”
- “What's the best time to run our ads?”
- “How many leads arrive after hours?”

## What it uses

- 30 to 90 days of your UTM Grabber leads with a full Date Created timestamp.
- UTM fields and click IDs from the free plugin, for paid vs organic.
- The user agent from UTM Grabber Premium (or your form's User Agent field), for the device split.

On Free and Starter your AI reads only your last 30 days, the short end of the range. Starter+ and Premium can read 90 days or more.

### Which plan do you need?

What your AI can read from UTM Grabber:

- Free plugin: Your last 30 days, with a fair-use allowance (this report)
- Starter: Your last 30 days, with first touch and more click IDs
- Starter+ or Premium: Your full history, unmetered

Compare Plans: https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/plans/

The report designs need an AI app that supports skills: Claude, Codex or Cursor. ChatGPT gives the same plain-English answers from your leads, without the report designs.

## Sample in 4 looks

- Studio (Client-facing reports): [Web page](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/html/lead-timing-studio.html), [PDF](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/pdf/lead-timing-studio.pdf), [PowerPoint](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/pptx/lead-timing-studio.pptx), [full screen](https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/reports/#report=lead-timing&look=studio)
- Boardroom (Presenting to leadership): [Web page](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/html/lead-timing-boardroom.html), [PDF](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/pdf/lead-timing-boardroom.pdf), [PowerPoint](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/pptx/lead-timing-boardroom.pptx), [full screen](https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/reports/#report=lead-timing&look=boardroom)
- Ledger (Weekly ops reviews and analysts): [Web page](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/html/lead-timing-ledger.html), [PDF](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/pdf/lead-timing-ledger.pdf), [PowerPoint](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/pptx/lead-timing-ledger.pptx), [full screen](https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/reports/#report=lead-timing&look=ledger)
- Classic (Printed reports and long reads): [Web page](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/html/lead-timing-classic.html), [PDF](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/pdf/lead-timing-classic.pdf), [PowerPoint](https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/samples/pptx/lead-timing-classic.pptx), [full screen](https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/reports/#report=lead-timing&look=classic)

## Questions

### Which time zone does it use?

The one your leads were recorded in: your site's time zone, or UTC when the timestamps end in Z. The report says which, so 8am means what you think it means.

### Does it change my ad schedule?

No. It recommends the windows to bid up and trim, using days and clock times like “Wednesday 8am to 11am”. You set the schedule in Google Ads or Meta Ads.

### Does it need device data?

No. The device section appears only when most leads carry a user agent, which UTM Grabber Premium records. Everything else works from the timestamp.

## Related reports

- [Lead quality scorer](https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/reports/lead-scorer/): Who to call first and why, so your team works the best leads first.
- [Form performance](https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/reports/form-performance/): Every form on your site, including the quiet ones, and the one to fix first.
- [Landing page performance](https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/reports/landing-page/): The pages that win and the pages that leak, with the traffic behind each.

## Capture the Whole Journey, Starting Today

The free plugin remembers each lead's last click. Every UTM Grabber Premium plan, from Starter up, also records where they first found you, more ad click IDs and what kind of visit it was, from the day you upgrade.

- Last-click UTM tags: free plugin yes, UTM Grabber Premium yes
- Google Ads click ID (gclid): free plugin yes, UTM Grabber Premium yes
- First touch: free plugin no, UTM Grabber Premium yes
- Meta and Microsoft Ads click IDs (fbclid, msclkid): free plugin no, UTM Grabber Premium yes
- Traffic labels: free plugin no, UTM Grabber Premium yes
- AI assistant visits: free plugin no, UTM Grabber Premium yes
- WooCommerce orders: free plugin UTM tags saved, UTM Grabber Premium Full source on every order
- Cookie length: free plugin 30 days, UTM Grabber Premium You choose

Premium starts recording the day you upgrade. It can't fill in visits the free plugin never recorded, so every week on free is a week of first touches and click IDs you won't get back.

See UTM Grabber Premium Plans: https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/plans/

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## Get it on your own leads

1. Connect UTM Grabber to your AI with the AI Connector (MCP). Step-by-step guide: https://utmgrabber.com/mcp/connect/ (no plugin yet? Get the free plugin: https://utmgrabber.com/?signup=1&return_url=%2Fget-started)
2. Install the free Reports skill: https://utmgrabber.com/skills/utm-grabber-reports/
3. Type `/timing`, or ask in your own words.

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