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What are missed calls costing you?
Two of your own numbers. The arithmetic in full, so you can argue with it. And a cap that keeps the answer inside your reality, because a calculator that ignores your revenue is a sales trick.
Count evenings and weekends. Zero is a real answer.
Use a normal service call, not your biggest job. Keep it low.
How many missed calls would have become a job
One in four is my default and it's deliberately low. If you know your own rate, use it.
If the sum runs past a quarter of this, I hold the displayed figure there and show you both. It's a check on the inputs, not a law of economics.
$27,000
$2,250 a month · about 5 jobs a month
An estimate under the assumptions on the left. Revenue, not profit: it doesn't subtract what the jobs cost to do, and it assumes you had room to take them.
- 5 missed × 4 weeks = 20 calls a month
- ÷ 4, one in 4 treated as a job you'd have won = 5 jobs
- × $450 = $2,250 a month
- × 12 = $27,000 a year, before any cap
Thirty minutes, no obligation. The phone is one leak of three; the call checks the other two as well.
And that's only the first job. The customer who rang at nine on a Saturday and got someone else isn't one job, they're that firm's customer now, and their neighbor's recommendation with them. The phone is one leak of three: the Report prices all of them.
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Honest by construction.
Is this calculator rigged to scare me?
It's built to do the opposite. The win-rate assumption is deliberately pessimistic: only one missed call in four counted as a job you'd have won, the arithmetic is printed next to the result so you can argue with every step, and if you enter your revenue, the output is capped at a quarter of it. A scary number you don't believe is useless to both of us.
Why does it only count missed calls?
Because that's the leak you can measure standing in the van. It is not the whole picture. Dead quotes and unpaid admin hours usually leak as much or more, but they need a proper look inside the business to price honestly. That's what the Profit Leak Report does.
Do I have to give you my email to see the result?
No. The result is on the screen, ungated, and stays there. The email field exists for one thing: if you want me to look at your numbers and tell you what I'd do about them, I'll reply personally, once, not a drip campaign.