When a homeowner needs a reroof, a repipe, or a kitchen gut, they call three companies and hire the one that picks up. Not the best one. The fastest one.
You can't answer from a lift. Your office manager goes home at five. So the calls roll to voicemail — and voicemail is where jobs go to die.
Leads contacted within five minutes are dramatically more likely to convert than leads contacted after thirty.
Lead-response research, Harvard Business Review / InsideSales
Hiring more office staff used to be the fix. Now the fix is a system that answers instantly, follows up relentlessly, and never calls in sick. Run your numbers — the leak is bigger than you think.
FIG. 01 — Leak calculatorField-verify your own numbers
Leaking per year
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quoted work lost to silence
Recoverable
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at 80% answered & followed up