For landscapers and gardeners
You can’t hear the phone over the mower.
It is not that you chose not to answer. Behind two-stroke and ear muffs, you never knew it rang.
- Price
- $50 a month, no contract.
- Your number
- Stays exactly as it is.
- Setup
- Two minutes. We do it.
- Reply time
- Seconds, not this evening.
01 The moment
Why landscapers and gardeners miss calls
Not because you are careless with the phone. Because of where your hands are.
Muffs on, blower going, halfway down a nature strip. The phone is in the ute with the windows up. You find three missed calls at smoko and have no idea which one was a quote and which was your mum.
02 What they get
The text that goes out
Within seconds of the call dropping, in your words, with your name on it.
Your business
It’s Jules from Greenline Landscapes — machinery going, didn’t hear the phone. Text me your suburb and what you’re after and I’ll get back to you this arvo. Photos of the yard help.
The caller, a minute later
Backyard is a mess, want turf and maybe a retaining wall. Bulleen. Can send photos.
That reply is the job written down. You ring back knowing what it is, where it is and whether it is worth stopping for.
03 What changes
What it changes for landscapers and gardeners
- 01
A missed call you never heard still gets answered
The text fires on the network the moment the call drops. It does not need you to notice the phone, which is the entire problem in this trade.
- 02
Photos of the yard before you drive out
A quote drive is an hour of your day. Two photos and a suburb tell you whether it is a job worth quoting, whether you need machinery, and whether you can get gear down the side of the house.
- 03
Maintenance rounds and one-off jobs separate themselves
A fortnightly mow and a full backyard rebuild are different businesses. The first reply tells you which one is calling, so the recurring work does not sit behind the tyre-kickers.
04 Questions
What landscapers and gardeners ask
The questions that come up on the phone, answered the way we'd answer them there.
A lot of my callers are older and don’t text.
Some won’t, and they’ll ring back or wait for your callback like they always have — nothing is lost there. The ones who do text are the ones you were losing entirely, because they were never going to sit and wait.
I only want regular maintenance work, not one-off cleanups.
Say that in the message. “Taking regular maintenance rounds in the eastern suburbs, not doing one-off cleanups at the moment” filters most of it before it reaches you.
My work is seasonal. Can I pause it?
There is no contract, so you can stop and start whenever you like. Most people leave it running — the quiet months are when the quoting calls come in and those are the ones you cannot afford to drop.
Does it work if I’m the only one and I’m in the field all day?
That is the case it was built for. Solo operators miss the most calls, because there is nobody else to pick up, and they lose the most from each one.
See what you’re missing before you pay anything.
The audit counts the calls to your business that went unanswered last month, from your own records. It costs nothing and nothing changes on your line.
05 Read next
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