PhonePick

For roofers

A roofing answering service for the week after the storm

The storm passes and for a week the phone does not stop. You are on a roof, in the wind, with a nail gun. Whoever answers those calls gets the season's work.

Live in about ten minutes. From $29 a month. No contract, no setup fee, cancel any time.

The number that matters

Roofing has the highest cost per lead of the trades at around $79. Missing the calls you already paid to generate is the most expensive thing on this list.

You can check that against your own week. Below is the same sum with your figures in it.

What it's costing you

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Nothing is sent anywhere — the sum happens in your browser. It assumes PhonePick reaches every missed caller, and that they convert like the ones you already speak to. Whether that holds is your call, not ours.

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a month, on those numbers

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Even if it only saves one in five
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What it does

Three things, on every call

It handles the surge

Every caller is answered at once, so nobody sits in a queue after a storm.

It books the inspection

Address, what they can see from the ground, and a slot in your calendar.

It says what you cannot promise

It will not guess at insurance, a price, or whether it is covered. It books a look.

Before you ask

Roofers ask these three

Can it cope with the week after a storm?

Every caller is answered at once, so nobody waits in a queue. That week is the whole season for most roofers.

Will it talk about insurance?

No. It will not guess whether something is covered, what an adjuster will say, or what it costs. It books an inspection.

Does it take the address properly?

It reads it back to confirm, and it lands in your calendar with the appointment rather than in a note you have to decipher.

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Other people who cannot get to the phone

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The next one rings whether you're ready or not

Ten minutes to set up. You keep your number, and you can undo the whole thing with one dialled code.