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Sales and leads · 4 min read
How much does a missed call cost a small business?
A missed call costs you the value of the job it would have become, multiplied by the chance you would have won it. Take your average job, the calls you miss in a week and your usual win rate, and multiply them. The total is nearly always bigger than owners expect, and it is fixable.
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