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Calculators

What are missed calls costing you?

Pick your trade, then slide the numbers to match your business. The defaults are deliberately conservative examples.

Phone calls, web forms and lead services together.
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Default is the low end of published studies: CallRail's 14% [1]. Invoca measured 27% [2].
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Example, kept low: some missed calls are spam or tire-kickers.
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Example. Use your own close rate.
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Estimated job value at risk

0jobs lost a month
$0lost a year
$0a year back at the rate below
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Missed-Lead Audit · $1,500–
Lead Center Install · from $3,500–
On-Site Build Week · from $15,000–

An estimate from the numbers above, not a measurement of your business. The Leak Check and the audit measure the real thing.

Why speed wins

Answer first. Win more jobs.

14–48%

of home-service calls are missed, depending on how the study counts "missed."

CallRail [1] · Invoca [2][3]
72%

of US consumers say they're likely to choose the business that responds first.

Moneypenny, 2026 [4]
37%

of 2,241 US companies answered a test web lead within an hour. 23% never answered.

Harvard Business Review, 2011 [5]
42 hrs

was the average reply time among the companies that did answer.

Harvard Business Review, 2011 [5]

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Sources

  1. CallRail small-business benchmark, Jan 2025 (via MarTech Cube)
  2. Invoca, how much missed calls cost home-services businesses, 2024
  3. Invoca, Home Services Lead Conversion Benchmarks, 2026 (48% of callers never spoke to a person)
  4. Moneypenny, customer caller experience research, 2026
  5. Oldroyd, McElheran & Elkington, "The Short Life of Online Sales Leads," Harvard Business Review, 2011
  6. Job values: Fixr roof · This Old House AC · This Old House plumbing · This Old House solar · This Old House electrician · Fixr bathroom · This Old House garage door · Fixr pest control