“Work smarter, not harder” was always my moto while growing our Chicago area concrete raising business. Employing intelligent systems within your business is an easy way for you to do the same!
Dealing With Voicemails After a Long Day Is Insanity!
Another long day on your feet, directing employees, troubleshooting problems, and keeping customers happy. You want to cool your jets, but you know you can’t! There’s that blinking light on your phone. Voicemails. Eight of them! You know the drill: Listen to lengthy messages full of detail you don’t need and little of what you do need, trying to decipher garbled messages, figuring out who’s a real lead, and cringing at the realization that someone important needed help hours ago.
Sound familiar? Answering voicemails throughout your day and even worse – at the end of your day isn’t just dreadful—it’s no way to run a business. It steals time from your family, your rest, and your ability to focus on growing your company. And the worst part is that you’re putting yourself through this hassle only to discover that voicemail is costing you more than just your sanity.
Voicemail is costing you more than your sanity.
Sure, voicemail feels like a lifeline – it’s how things were always done – right? In today’s reality, it’s nothing more than leaky bucket for your business. To start, your reputation suffers because your not there when your needed. They call, no one answers, 50% of which don’t even leave a message if they get voicemail. Think of it—half of all your potential opportunities, right there, gone in a puff of smoke, just because the call wasn’t picked up. The others who do leave messages? They’re waiting, sometimes for hours, for someone to call them back. The delay erodes trust. It makes your business look unresponsive, even if you’re working around the clock.
Most customers “don’t just sit and wait.” You just gave them a reason to call the “other guy.” For every missed call that doesn’t leave a message, there’s lost revenue. Leads slip away to competitors who were quicker to answer. Whether it’s a small repair job or a big-ticket project, you can’t afford to let customers walk away simply because voicemail let them down. And it’s a problem that only gets worse as your business grows: more calls, more missed messages, and more opportunities swirling down the drain. All the while, your sanity continues to fade.
Flush the Voicemail Before It Flushes You!
Ever hear the saying, “It feels so good when you stop banging your head against the wall”? It’s true – just face the facts: Voicemail isn’t working for you—it’s working against you. It just isnt an effective solution to you problem!
What’s the fix? It’s simple: flush the voicemail and replace it with a custom built voice bot tailored to your specific business. Voice bots are smarter, faster, and more professional for handling inbound calls. Instead of routing customers to voicemail, immediately answer with a voice bot. And it does so much more than just take a message. Here’s how it works:
Qualify Leads Automatically: The voice bot verifies the callers valid address, qualifies the project to be within your company’s service area and then confirms the caller is specifically looking for a service you actually provide. It saves you from wasting any of your precious time on irrelevant inquiries.
Gather Detailed Information: After lead qualification, the bot collects all the information—name, phone number, email, and a detailed description of their project.
Seamless Integration: All this information can all be seamlessly pushed into your CRM and automatically emailed to staff so not a single lead or detail ever falls through the cracks.
Handle Complex Queries: When the query is more complicated, your bot can still allow a smooth flow of processing. The bot will take their name, phone number, and message and email the staff member directly for convenience and faster follow-ups.
The result? No more playing phone tag. No more losing leads to competitors due to missed calls. And no more spending your evenings wading through a pile of voicemails.
Save Time, Enhance Reputation, Protect Profits
With voice bots, it’s not just about saving time; it’s about elevating your reputation and protecting your profits. Customers love the instant response and frictionless experience. You’ll love the peace of mind that comes from knowing no opportunity slips away.
Picture this: You’re on a job site when a customer calls. Your voice bot picks up, verifies the project is a fit for your company, collects all the necessary details, or flags the query for your attention if it’s complex. By the time you check your phone, the call has been handled. No stress. No missed opportunity.
Why let voicemail flush your sanity, your reputation, and your profits down the drain when you can take control and ride the future on the wings of a voice bot? You deserve a solution that works as hard as you do!
