To fix lead leakage in a garage door company, you close the gap between the calls your marketing generates and the calls a human actually answers. That's it. The leak is rarely your ads, your LSA, or your website — it's the phone ringing while you're on a ladder, under a door, or asleep.
This is the fix-it companion to Your Marketing Works but Nobody Answers: Fixing the Lead Leak, which walks through the whole problem. This article is the short plan: four steps, one weekend of setup, and a weekly habit that keeps the leak closed.
Most owners assume the leak is in the marketing. Spend goes up, booked jobs stay flat, so the ads must be broken. Usually they aren't. The calls are coming in — they're just hitting voicemail.
The leak shows up in predictable spots:
If any of that sounds familiar, read through the signs your marketing works but your phones don't and check them against your last month. Then look at how much ad spend dies on unanswered calls for the dollar math. This article assumes you've done that and you're ready to patch it.
Here's the plan. None of it requires new marketing. It catches what you're already paying for.
Step 1 — Count the missed calls for 30 days.
Pull your call log from your carrier or phone system. Count calls that went to voicemail or rang out during business hours, and note the after-hours volume. Most owners who do this are surprised by two things: how many calls ring out during the workday, and how many come in after 6 PM.
Step 2 — Do your own math.
Use your numbers, not industry averages. Say you miss 12 calls a week, you book 40% of the callers you actually talk to, and your average ticket is $350. That's roughly 4 to 5 lost jobs a week — call it $1,400 to $1,750 a week in work that already found you and left. Over a year, that's real money. Your figures will differ, but the formula doesn't: missed calls × close rate × average ticket.
Step 3 — Cover every hour the phone can ring.
You have three realistic options:
Pick the one that covers all 168 hours of the week, not just the convenient ones. A leak that's patched Monday through Friday, 8 to 5, is still a leak.
Step 4 — Review the log every Monday.
Fifteen minutes, same time each week. How many calls came in, how many were answered, how many booked. If "answered" isn't at or near 100%, find out why and fix that specific gap. This habit is what keeps the leak closed after the initial patch.
Say a two-truck shop runs LSA and some search ads. Their marketing generates about 60 calls a month. Before the fix, they answered maybe 40 of them live. After putting an AI receptionist on the line and chasing form fills within minutes, all 60 get an answer.
At a 40% book rate and a $350 average ticket, those extra 20 answered calls are worth about 8 booked jobs — $2,800 a month — from marketing they were already paying for. No new ads. No new spend. Just a closed gap.
Fixing lead leakage in a garage door business is cheaper than replacing the marketing that's leaking. Before you rewrite a single ad or raise a single budget, make sure every call that marketing produces gets answered and every lead gets captured. The full framework is in the pillar on fixing the lead leak — start there if you want the complete picture, then come back and run the four steps above.
The shops that win your market aren't always the ones spending the most. They're the ones answering every call their spend produces.
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