Missed-call text-back for a remodeling or general contracting business
This is the cheapest fix on this list and the one most contractors skip. You are on a roof, in a crawlspace, or standing in a client's kitchen where answering the phone would be rude. A plumber who misses a call loses $400. You lose a slice of a $24,000 project. Put your own numbers into the calculator and the leak usually lands near $9,000 a month in signed work.
Missed-call text-back fires an automatic text within five seconds that asks a question rather than promising a callback. Ask which room and which town, then hold the callback window you named. Recovery rates of 25% to 40% on missed calls are normal.
The bigger leak is the proposal you sent in March to someone who signed with a competitor in July. Remodeling money moves slowly. Two weeks in, working means no call goes unanswered for more than five minutes and every dead proposal is sitting in a sequence instead of your memory.