The Cost of Silence
How Much Do Missed Calls Really Cost Your Business?
Every missed inbound call represents potential revenue that walks away permanently. For local service businesses — HVAC contractors, plumbers, electricians, roofers, locksmiths, and med spas — each unanswered call could be a high-value job going straight to a competitor. The problem is silent: you never hear the phone ring twice, so the loss stays invisible.
The impact compounds fast. Take your monthly call volume, multiply by your missed call rate, apply your close rate, and multiply by your average job value. That's your monthly revenue at risk. Industry data consistently shows service businesses miss between 20% and 35% of inbound calls. For a contractor receiving 200 calls per month at a $500 average job value with a 40% close rate, a 25% missed call rate is massive.
This missed call revenue calculator quantifies that impact using your actual numbers — no assumptions, no inflated projections, just transparent math based entirely on the data you provide.
$10,000/month — or $120,000 per year — in lost revenue.