Perth, WA
Missed-call text-back for Perth businesses
A job in Joondalup and a job in Rockingham are ninety minutes apart. Knowing which one is calling changes your whole day.
- Price
- $50 a month, no contract.
- Your number
- Any Australian number.
- Setup
- Two minutes on the phone.
- Coverage
- Anywhere in Australia.
01 Working in Perth
What makes a missed call expensive here
The product is the same everywhere. What differs is how much a dropped call costs you.
The time zone adds a second problem. Eastern-states suppliers, insurers and head offices ring at what is mid-morning for them and early for you, and those calls land before anyone is at a desk. A text that goes out automatically covers the two or three hours of every day when the rest of the country is working and Perth is not.
It runs on any Australian number, so it works the same whether you’re covering the northern suburbs, the western suburbs, south of the river or the far end of your patch.
02 Where it’s used
Common in Perth
The trades where the phone rings hardest at the exact moment nobody can reach it.
- Air conditioning and HVAC Air conditioning has the sharpest peaks of any trade. When it hits 40 degrees the phone rings all day, and every one you can’t get to rings someone else.
- Plumbers Plumbing is the trade where the caller is least willing to wait. Something is leaking, and they are working down the list until someone picks up.
- Landscapers and gardeners It is not that you chose not to answer. Behind two-stroke and ear muffs, you never knew it rang.
- Mobile mechanics Your callers are usually stuck. Stuck people ring the next number within about a minute.
Areas covered
the northern suburbs · the western suburbs · south of the river · the eastern suburbs · the hills · Fremantle and the port area · Rockingham and Baldivis · the south-west corridor
03 Questions
Questions from Perth businesses
If yours isn't here, the audit call is the place to ask it.
Can the text ask for the suburb first?
It should. In Perth the suburb is the qualifying question, and putting it first in your message means you can rule a job in or out from the passenger seat without ringing anyone.
What about calls from the eastern states before I’m up?
They get the text at the time they ring, and the enquiry is waiting for you when you start. That is two or three hours a day you currently return nothing in.
Do I need a 08 number?
No. It runs on the number you already use, whatever it is.
Count what you missed last month.
The audit uses your own call records to show what came in and what went unanswered. It costs nothing, it changes nothing on your line, and it works the same anywhere in Western Australia.
04 Read next
Elsewhere
- SA Adelaide Adelaide is small enough that the person you missed knows three people who were going to call you next.
- QLD Gold Coast When half your callers are managing a property they don’t live in, the enquiry needs to be written down.
- Explainer How it works What missed-call text-back does, and what it deliberately does not.