Profit Fix #2: Technicians burnt out taking after-hour calls?

Somewhere in Texas, between Austin and Georgetown, there’s a grocery store with an oven that’s not heating properly.

The manager, Monica, made a service call to ABC Food Equipment Service (made up name) …

Except that it was at 10:32 pm, and there was no one answering her phone calls.

(There goes another missed $1,300 work order.)

So, she had to look elsewhere and ended up calling their competitor 24/7 Food Equipment Service.

What’s different about them?

Well, they take service calls LIVE and around the clock—24/7—without asking their staff to keep their lines open after hours.

And by doing so, they scoop up ALL the after-hour work orders that others don’t bother to take.

This translates to getting more work orders while keeping their techs and staff sane.

But it gets better.

Picking up service calls 24/7 makes their clients happier and more loyal clients. These clients spread the word in conventions... and dispute fewer invoices ;-)

The result?

Profit Leak No.2—Unattended After-Hours Service Requests—is plugged shut.

And with it, hundreds of thousands of dollars show up in their bank, every month.

Now, some Field Service companies try to plug this leak with an answering machine … 

But then their clients feel less valued, calls pile up and there’s a mini-chaos every morning processing all the overdue requests.

Others ask their techs to keep their lines open and take calls after hours while they’re home.

But all technicians secretly (or openly) hate this?

Being interrupted during their “Netflix and chill” time burns these good techs out. 

It creates tension with their spouse and kids.

Soon, there’s a revolving door of techs coming and going out of the business.

After all, they are in high demand and can go out and get a job almost anywhere else. 

So then the question is, how does one turn this profit leak into a competitive advantage?

I’ll let you hear it from one of our client partners, and industry pioneer, Rodger Smelcer.

As you can see, around-the-clock processing of service requests is possible thanks to a specialized offshore team, working two shifts to cover all four time zones in the U.S.

And you don’t need to hire anyone—for a job they don’t want to anyway—add them to payroll, onboard them, etc.

You can have an offshore team already trained and ready to roll in a matter of weeks.

Once you embrace this global vision, you too can scale faster AND serve your clients better. Like it happened for Rodger and United Service Technologies:

This kind of strategic thinking can turn normal Field Service companies into industry leaders.

And it is one of the paradigm shifts that we’re excited to be bringing to the industry and setting a new gold standard.

Because it’s not just the offshore headcount at a lower pay rate that makes the difference.

It’s how we can help you integrate this offshore team strategically in your operation so that it becomes your competitive advantage as well.

After processing around ONE MILLION work orders over the last three years—we have enough DATA to be able to quickly assess where Field Service businesses have profit leaks.

And today, I’d like to offer you a free run through our “Profit Score Quiz.”

The last time I ran this quiz with a Field Service executive, we uncovered 6-figures in profit leaks. Per month!

And, we’re not guessing here. Again, it’s based on over a million data points.

So, we could be asking for a decent fee just to let executives take this “quiz.”

But, I want you to take it for free. Because I’m feeling jolly for the holidays :-)

Just comment below or send me a message if you’re open to it, and we’ll make it happen :-)

Scott