You're in a tree.
Your money is on voicemail.
They didn't pick the cheaper guy — they picked the one they could still name. I answer while you're up there, and I keep working every bid until it's a yes or a no.
Call it and play the homeowner. She tells you she's an AI in her first sentence, and she'll book you an appointment before you hang up.
Call this number. She answers as a tree company and books the bid.
Be the homeowner. Call it and try to trip her up.
Call the number
Alyssa answers as a tree company. She tells you she's an AI in her first sentence.
You've got a tree problem — make it up
A limb over the garage. Something half dead. Storm damage. Whatever you say, she runs with it.
Watch her book the bid
She qualifies you, takes your details and gets the appointment set while you're still on the line. Then she steps out of character and talks about your business instead.
Four minutes for the demo — longer only if you want to talk about your own business. Before she lets you go she'll ask you to text BID while you're still on the line — so you hear her and read the follow-up inside the same two minutes.
Mark was forty feet up a maple when his phone rang
Mark runs Hoosier Stump Remover. Saw running, rope over a limb, both hands busy. The phone rings and there is nothing he can do about it.
It used to go to voicemail. Most of them never left one.
Now Alyssa picks up. She asks what's going on with the tree, takes the address, books the bid and texts him the details. He finds out when he's back on the ground.
153 calls he didn't have to climb down for.
Save the time
He stopped choosing between finishing the cut and answering the phone.
Make more money
Calls that used to die in voicemail turn into bids on the calendar.
Serve more customers
Answered on the first ring instead of hearing a beep and calling the next guy.
Give them an experience
Somebody picks up, knows the trade and books them in. At nine at night, on a Sunday.
Mark's is the only client result on this page, and it's here with his permission. Anything else you'd want to see, Dillon walks you through on the call — I'm not putting other companies' numbers on a page you have no way to check.
Go pull your bids from ninety days ago
Every estimate you wrote in that window. Sort them into three piles.
Won
You know those. They're on the schedule.
Lost
Somebody told you no. Fine. That's business.
Never came back
No no. No callback. No answer. They just stopped existing.
Most owners have never separated pile two from pile three. Pile two lost on price. Pile three lost on silence — and pile three is almost always bigger.
Three things, in this order
Every bid gets worked until it's a yes or a no
The moment an estimate goes out, a sequence starts. Text and email, spaced across weeks, written in your company's voice — not a template, not nine emails in four days.
The goal isn't to pressure anybody. It's to still exist when they decide.
Nothing that went quiet stays quiet
They get worked again on a longer cycle. A dead tree doesn't get less dead, and the guy who put it off in April is a different buyer in September when a limb comes down.
Every new inquiry gets answered fast
Phone, text, form, Facebook, your Google listing. Under a minute, day or night, and it books the estimate.
Third, because you're not short on leads. You're short on the ones you already bid.
That first response is an assistant, not a person, and it says so.
Don't take my word for it. Be a homeowner who went quiet.
You'll get the follow-up sequence — the same one a homeowner gets after your estimator leaves and the paper goes on the counter.
Read it the way they would. If it sounds like a machine nagging somebody, you'll know in thirty seconds.
The same number takes a call. The agent answers, tells you straight away that it's an AI, and before it lets you go it asks you to text BID while you're still on the line. The follow-up sequence a quiet bid gets fires in real time — so you hear the agent and read the sequence inside the same two minutes.
Call (219) 356-0930Message and data rates apply. Reply STOP to opt out. Demonstration line — you won't be added to a marketing list from it.
That was one bid. How big is your pile three?
Count it. Multiply it by what an average job is worth to you. Four numbers, all of them yours.
Four kinds of tree companies should close this page
Mostly storm and emergency work
A tree through a roof doesn't get comparison shopped. Nothing to recover.
Writing eight or ten estimates a month
The math doesn't work at that volume. Come back when you're writing thirty.
One-truck operation
You're the estimator, climber and groundman. Fix capacity first — this makes a bottleneck worse.
Subcontracted to utilities or municipalities
Bid-and-contract work. Different problem, and a follow-up sequence doesn't touch it.
What it costs and what it isn't
What owners ask me
Answered the way I'd answer them on the phone.
"My guy already follows up."
Once, probably. Maybe twice on the big ones. Ask him honestly what happens on day twelve when he's got four estimates to write and a crew short a man.
It isn't a discipline problem. Following up on a quiet bid is the only task in your business with no deadline attached, so it loses to everything that has one.
"Isn't this just going to annoy people?"
It would if it were nine emails in a week. It isn't. It's spaced across weeks, written like a person, and anybody who says stop is removed immediately.
A homeowner hearing from you twice in a month about a tree they asked you to look at is not spam.
"What if they already went with somebody else?"
Then you find out, which is worth something — right now those just go silent and you never learn anything.
And a surprising number of the ones who "went with somebody else" never actually did.
"Does this work for trimming and plant health care too?"
Yes, and pruning is where drift is worst — it's the easiest job in your book for a homeowner to postpone forever.
If you run recurring plant health care, that changes the math in your favor and it's worth raising on the call.
"What happens on the audit call?"
We sort ninety days of your bids into the three piles and put a number on the third one. You keep it whether you hire me or not.
The third pile grows every month nobody looks at it
Book a bid audit. Free, about thirty minutes, and you keep whatever we find.
Bring one number: how many estimates you wrote last month. If your system can't tell you, book anyway. That's the finding.