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What we've learned answering for other people

Enquiry data, product decisions and the occasional strong opinion. No newsletter-bait, no listicles.

9 articles. More every month.

Phone

The missed call is the cheapest thing you will ever fix

We looked at three months of call data from twelve small businesses. Most of the lost revenue happened between 18:00 and 21:00.

Channels

Why one message often contains three questions

Customers do not write like forms. A refund, a price and an opening hour arrive in the same paragraph, and menus cannot handle it.

Automation

Flow charts break the week your prices change

Keyword trees are cheap to build and expensive to maintain. What replaces them, and what you lose in control.

Franchise

How to keep twelve locations answering the same way

One rulebook, local numbers, local diaries. What head office should own and what should stay with the site.

Channels

Instagram DMs are a sales queue nobody works

The reel does the work at midnight, the DMs pile up for three days, and the buyer books somewhere else.

Behind the product

What we mean when we say Joe never invents an answer

Sources, refusals and escalation. The three mechanisms that keep an agent from being confidently wrong.

Automation

Credits, seats and the honest cost of coverage

Per-seat pricing punishes you for answering more. Here is how the arithmetic changes when it is per message.

Phone

Warm transfers, and why customers never explain twice

The handover is where most automation fails. What a good one sounds like from both sides of the line.

Behind the product

Twenty minutes to live: what setup actually involves

We timed ourselves setting Joe up for a car rental firm, a padel club and a plumber. Here is where the time goes.

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