01
They Call Somebody Else Immediately
A person with a burst pipe or a seized back does not leave a voicemail. They press back and call the next result, usually within a minute or two.
Missed Call Text Back The Cheapest Fix In This Entire Business Is A Text Message Sent Automatically.
When you cannot answer, the caller gets a text within seconds saying you will call back and asking what they need. It is one automation, it costs very little, and for most trades and clinics it pays for itself faster than anything else we sell.
Runs On LinkBuffer CloudLive In About A WeekNo Lock-In Contracts
15
Alberta Businesses On Retainer
5.0★
From 10 Client Reviews
123k+
Contacts On LinkBuffer Cloud
5.4×
Average Lead Growth
Why This Works
What Happens To An Unanswered Call Today
Three things, none of them good, and all of them fixable with one message.
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The Voicemail Never Gets Checked
Even when somebody does leave one, it often sits until the end of the day. By then the job is gone.
03
Nobody Knows It Happened
A missed call leaves no record anyone acts on, so the business never finds out how much it is losing.
Free, No Obligation
Find Out What Your Missed Calls Are Worth
Two business days. Straight to your inbox.
We will look at your actual call data and tell you how many are going unanswered and what that is plausibly costing.
- How many calls you miss in a typical week
- What proportion arrive outside opening hours
- What the text would say, written for your business
- Whether this alone is enough, or whether you need more
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How It Works
One Automation, Four Moving Parts
Detects The Missed Call
Any call that rings out, goes to voicemail or arrives when you are closed.
Texts Within Seconds
A message in your voice, not a template, saying you have seen it and asking what they need.
Starts A Conversation
Their reply lands in one inbox alongside everything else, so it becomes a lead rather than a missed call.
Logs It So You Can See It
Every missed call and recovery is recorded, which is usually the first time an owner sees the real number.
The Honest Numbers
What This Market Actually Looks Like
40
Canadian Searches A Month For Missed Call Text Back
$31.47
What A Click Costs In This Category
7×
Response-Speed Effect Found By Harvard Business Review
15
Alberta Businesses On Retainer
The seven times figure comes from a Harvard Business Review audit of 2,241 companies, and it describes a salesperson phoning back within an hour — not an automated text. We cite it because it is the best evidence on response speed that exists, not because a text message does the same job as a human call.
How It Runs
Live In About A Week
Connect The Number
We set it up against your existing business line. You do not change your number.
Days 1 to 2Write The Message
Short, specific to your trade, and honest about when a person will actually call back.
Day 2Test It Properly
You call your own line from a mobile until the message reads the way you want it to.
Day 3Watch The Numbers
After a fortnight you can see how many calls you were missing and how many came back.
Week 2 onwardsCommon Questions
Your Questions, Answered
Will customers find an automatic text annoying?
Not if it is honest and useful. A message saying you are on a job and will call back at a stated time reads as organised. One pretending to be you typing reads as a trick.
Is this enough on its own?
For a lot of small trades, genuinely yes, and we would rather sell you this than a platform you do not need. If your volume is higher, it is the first piece of something larger.
What about consent and anti-spam rules?
Replying to somebody who just called you is a response to their own enquiry, which is a different situation from marketing to a list. We still include an opt-out and we set it up with Canadian anti-spam legislation in mind.
Do we have to sign a long contract?
No. Month to month. If it is not recovering calls after a couple of months, stop paying for it.
Where this sits
If You Need More Than One Message
This is the smallest useful piece. These are the next ones up, in order of size.
AI Receptionist
Instead of promising a call back, it answers, qualifies and books the appointment itself.
LinkBuffer Cloud
The platform this runs on. CRM, conversations, booking, reviews and follow-up in one login.
AI Automation
Everything after the first reply — quote chasing, recall, reporting and routing.
Getting Found By AI
The other half of the problem. Being named when somebody asks an assistant for a recommendation.
Put a number on it
What Slow Answers Are Costing You
Pick your industry. Click costs and conversion rates are sourced figures; the response-time penalty comes from the Harvard Business Review study cited above. This estimates the size of the opportunity, not revenue we are promising.
Plan your numbers
What Are Your Slow Replies Actually Costing?
Pick your industry, set your budget, and put in your own numbers. This runs on published Canadian ad costs and industry conversion benchmarks — the sources are listed underneath.
What you put into paid search in a month. Leave it where it is if you are only planning.
Your number, not ours. First job, first course of treatment, or lifetime value — whichever you actually manage against.
Of the people who enquire, how many buy. Set this to your own number.
Be honest about evenings and weekends. The 37% default is the share of 2,241 companies that managed it in the Harvard Business Review audit.
How it runs today
Clicks—
Enquiries—
Answered fast—
Gone cold—
Customers—
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Every enquiry answered
Clicks—
Enquiries—
Answered fast—
Gone cold0
Customers—
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The gap, per month
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How this is calculated. Clicks = budget ÷ cost per click. Cost per click is the midpoint of Google’s own low and high top-of-page bid estimates for that industry in Canada. Enquiries = clicks × the median Google Ads search conversion rate for that category in the
WordStream 2026 benchmark study (13,474 campaigns, April 2025 – March 2026). Enquiries you do not answer quickly are modelled as one seventh as likely to convert, from the
Harvard Business Review audit of 2,241 companies, which found firms replying within an hour were roughly seven times likelier to qualify a lead.
Where to be sceptical. That seven-times figure describes a salesperson picking up the phone. An automated first reply is not the same thing, so treat the right-hand column as the size of the opportunity, not a promise. Benchmarks are medians across many advertisers; your own account will differ. Nothing here is a quote.
Come And See Us
Two Alberta Offices. No Offshore Work.
Edmonton
Head Office
Unit 101 – 10460 176 Street NWEdmonton, AB T5S 2E4
(587) 849-0706
info@linkbufferstudios.com
Mon–Sat · 9am–9pm
Calgary
Serving Calgary & Area
6600 36 St NE #120Calgary, AB T3J 4C8
(587) 849-0706
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