Like I said earlier, I can't help you with calendar leads or FB leads because I've never done those.I agree. I'd rather speak with a lead now not later this week or next week. I believe they will have cooled down by then. Maybe some of the other agents that use calendly all week long will share their "no show" numbers. And if the interest level is as high as if they had spoken with the lead when the lead responded to the ad.
But I am doing the Calendly thing for medicare and it's working just fine.
I put a Calendly link on my website and my emails. It's integrated with my CRM. And once they hit my crm, my crm automatically sends out an SOA for them to sign as well as a pretty detailed form for drs, meds and such.
Once they send all that back I know they're serious and not just tire kickers.
And again, this is medicare. An entirely different world than FE.
But the short answer is yes the calendar thingy works.
The hard part is for you guys is figuring out how to get it to work for FE.