Missed-call text-back for a home inspection business
This trade has the shortest decision window in home services. A contract gets signed, the option period starts, the agent sends three names, and the buyer picks one that afternoon. Whoever answers first and offers a date usually wins. There is no second look.
The arithmetic is brutal because you cannot answer. You are in an attic, on a roof, or in a crawlspace with no signal, three to four hours at a stretch, during exactly the hours agents and buyers call. A firm running 40 inspections a month at a $450 average fee, missing 30% of calls and closing 60% of what it answers, is losing about $3,240 a month. Run your own numbers in the calculator.
Missed-call text-back is the twenty minute fix. Any missed call triggers a text from your business number inside 20 seconds that names you, says you are in an inspection, asks for the property address and closing date, and carries a booking link. It asks a question instead of promising a callback, which is why it gets replies.
Two weeks in, count the replies. That is the whole report.