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Watch a $3,000 system get built. Free.

Agencies charge about $3,000 to build a missed-call text-back system: it answers every call your business misses, by text, in seconds. Watch one get built from scratch, live, in plain English. Follow along, test it from your own phone, and take the recipe home.

$3,000 is a typical agency price for a done-for-you build like this one.

Tuesday, August 18 · 2:00 PM Central · 50 minutes · online & recorded

Get your join link by text 15 minutes before we start.

Built for owner-operated teams of fewer than 50 people. Can't make it live? Register anyway and the full recording comes to you.

01Decide if it's worth your hour

First, the math. Yours, not ours.

A missed-call system only matters if your business misses calls that carry money. So the session starts there, with two facts and one line of arithmetic.

62%

of calls to small businesses go unanswered, in one study of test calls

Source: 411 Locals

21×

more likely to qualify: leads contacted within 5 minutes versus leads that wait 30

Source: Lead Response Management study

The arithmetic is one line: your average sale, times the calls you miss in a week. A plumbing company and an art studio get very different answers, and that is the point. If your number is small, you'll know this build is not for you, and the hour cost you nothing. If it isn't, you'll watch the fix get built in front of you.

02The agenda

What happens in the 50 minutes

  1. 0:00

    The evaluation. Does this system make sense for your business? We run the math with your numbers, on screen, and you decide whether to build along or just watch.

  2. 0:08

    Tool sign-up. We create the two accounts the system runs on, together. A short sign-up guide arrives by email before the session so you can show up with them ready.

  3. 0:15

    The live build. A missed-call text-back system, built from a blank screen, every step narrated in plain language.

  4. 0:38

    The test. We call the number, let the call miss, and watch the text-back land in seconds.

  5. 0:42

    Q&A. Bring the awkward questions. They are the useful ones.

  6. 0:48

    One offer, stated once. A free digital systems audit for anyone who wants help finding what to automate next. That's the whole pitch, and it's the only one.

03Who this is for

Built for owners, not developers.

Build It Live is for owner-operated organizations of fewer than 50 people: the shops, offices, and studios where whoever answers the phone is also doing the work. No technical background is needed. Every step gets narrated in plain language, and when a technical term shows up, a plain-English explanation follows in the same breath. If you can follow a recipe, you can follow the build.

04Can't make it live?

Register anyway. The recording comes to you.

Every registrant gets the full recording after the session, whether or not they attend. That is deliberate: the build is meant to be paused, replayed, and copied at your own speed. The recording goes to registrants only and is not posted publicly, so save your spot even if the time doesn't work.

05Straight answers

Questions owners actually ask

Yes. The session is free, the recording is free for registrants, and the recipe is yours to keep. The business behind it runs on the free digital systems audit, and that gets one mention at the end of the hour, stated as plainly as it is here.

Save your spot

Save your spot for August 18.

Fifty minutes, one working system, and a single mention of the free digital systems audit at the end. Registration takes two fields and about fifteen seconds, and the full recording comes to you whether or not you make it live.