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Google Charges for Missed Calls: Sell the $397/Mo AI Receptionist — Transcript

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  1. 0:00As of October 1st, 2026, a business can
  2. 0:02miss your call, lose your business, and
  3. 0:04Google can still charge them for it.
  4. 0:06Which means missing the phone is a whole
  5. 0:08lot more expensive than it used to be
  6. 0:10for local businesses advertising with
  7. 0:12Google. But this also creates a very
  8. 0:14profitable opportunity for you if you're
  9. 0:16trying to land your first client or your
  10. 0:18next one. Because with a simple 20-se
  11. 0:20secondond test that you can do from your
  12. 0:21phone, you can find the businesses that
  13. 0:24Google charges for their missed calls,
  14. 0:26then help them install a system that
  15. 0:28answers those calls, collects the
  16. 0:29customer's details, and even books that
  17. 0:31customer directly onto their calendar.
  18. 0:33So, you're not just stopping them from
  19. 0:35paying for calls that go nowhere. You're
  20. 0:37actually making them money. And you can
  21. 0:39charge them $397 a month for this
  22. 0:42service. Now, the system you're going to
  23. 0:44use to do that is called an AI
  24. 0:45receptionist. And I'll show you exactly
  25. 0:47how it works in just a minute. But
  26. 0:48before I show you how the AI
  27. 0:50receptionist works, you need to
  28. 0:51understand why this Google updates
  29. 0:54creates such a simple opportunity. You
  30. 0:55see, Google's made missed calls far more
  31. 0:58expensive for these businesses, which
  32. 0:59means they now have a very obvious
  33. 1:01problem because now not picking up the
  34. 1:04phone actually hurts their bottom line.
  35. 1:05And if your first thought is there's no
  36. 1:07way that Google actually charges
  37. 1:09businesses for calls they don't answer,
  38. 1:11trust me, I thought the same thing. But
  39. 1:13Google sent this to businesses running
  40. 1:15its local services ads. Those are the
  41. 1:17ads you see under the word sponsored at
  42. 1:19the very top of the results when you
  43. 1:21search for a plumber or an electrician
  44. 1:23or an appliance repair guy. These ads
  45. 1:26are the ones with the get quote, book,
  46. 1:28and get phone number buttons. These
  47. 1:30businesses don't pay Google for clicks.
  48. 1:32They pay Google per lead, which means
  49. 1:35they're paying per call, per message, or
  50. 1:37per booking. And as of October 1st,
  51. 1:402026, a missed call counts as a lead,
  52. 1:42too. So, if the caller stays on the line
  53. 1:45for more than 20 seconds during the
  54. 1:47business's posted hours, Google charges
  55. 1:49them whether anybody picked up or not.
  56. 1:51Now, I want to be straight with you
  57. 1:52about one thing right up front because
  58. 1:54this is going to matter for how you sell
  59. 1:56this. Answering the phone doesn't make
  60. 1:58the charge go away. An answered call was
  61. 2:00always a paid lead. What changed though
  62. 2:03is that the missed call now costs the
  63. 2:05exact same as the answered one. So, the
  64. 2:08business is paying either way. The only
  65. 2:10question is whether they get the job for
  66. 2:12it or whether they're just wasting money
  67. 2:14paying Google for unanswered calls. And
  68. 2:16I saw exactly how fast a missed call
  69. 2:19turns into a lost job just this past
  70. 2:21summer. See, our air conditioner died in
  71. 2:23the middle of a heat wave. I've got four
  72. 2:25kids. The house was brutally hot and we
  73. 2:27needed it fixed pretty much right away
  74. 2:29or nobody was going to be getting any
  75. 2:30sleep. So, I did what pretty much
  76. 2:32everybody does here. I went on Google. I
  77. 2:35typed in air conditioner repair and I
  78. 2:37started calling the companies at the top
  79. 2:39of the results. First one I called, no
  80. 2:41answer. Second one, no answer either.
  81. 2:43The third one picked up though and they
  82. 2:45had somebody at my house that afternoon.
  83. 2:47Now, what's important to know here is
  84. 2:49that those first two companies didn't
  85. 2:51lose that job because they were bad at
  86. 2:52fixing air conditioners. They lost it
  87. 2:55because somebody else picked up the
  88. 2:56phone and they didn't. And if they were
  89. 2:58advertising with Google under these
  90. 3:00rules, they'd have paid for my call on
  91. 3:02top of losing the work. So, Google gets
  92. 3:05paid, their competitor gets the
  93. 3:06customer, and they get a bill, which is
  94. 3:09a pretty impressive way to lose two
  95. 3:11times on a single phone call. Now, over
  96. 3:12the past 10 plus years, I've built three
  97. 3:14sevenfigure agencies, worked with over
  98. 3:161500 small businesses, and run thousands
  99. 3:18of campaigns. And today, I do it all as
  100. 3:20a oneperson agency with zero employees.
  101. 3:23So, I'm not kidding when I say that
  102. 3:24fixing this is [clears throat] one of
  103. 3:26the biggest opportunities that I see
  104. 3:27right now. And by the end of this video,
  105. 3:30you'll see it, too. And I'm going to
  106. 3:31give you three things to help you do
  107. 3:33this. First, the 20 second test that
  108. 3:35shows you which businesses are missing
  109. 3:37calls. Next, the exact messages you can
  110. 3:39send that turn that test into a paying
  111. 3:42client. And I'll give you those messages
  112. 3:44word for word. And third, the simple
  113. 3:46system you install that solves the
  114. 3:48problem and gives them a reason to keep
  115. 3:50paying you $397
  116. 3:52every month. Now, here's where I want to
  117. 3:53pause for a second because maybe you're
  118. 3:55not running an agency and you don't plan
  119. 3:57on starting one. Maybe you're just
  120. 3:58looking for a real way to build income
  121. 4:00online and you've watched a hundred
  122. 4:02videos that never actually panned out.
  123. 4:04So, if that's you, you're exactly who
  124. 4:06this is for because all you need is one
  125. 4:08problem to solve and one simple system
  126. 4:10that solves it. No tech skills, no
  127. 4:12audience required. And that's what I'm
  128. 4:14going to show you. So, here's the whole
  129. 4:15plan in three steps. Step one, find.
  130. 4:18Here you find a business running
  131. 4:19Google's local services ads and you give
  132. 4:21them a call with a timer running. And
  133. 4:23before that sounds scary, you're not
  134. 4:25cold calling. You're not selling anybody
  135. 4:27anything. You're literally just seeing
  136. 4:29how long the phone rings. And if
  137. 4:31somebody does pick up, you can just say,
  138. 4:33"Sorry, wrong number and hang up." But
  139. 4:35I'll walk you through exactly how to do
  140. 4:36all that in just a minute. Step two,
  141. 4:38send. Here you send them a short email
  142. 4:40showing them what happened, why it
  143. 4:42matters, and what that missed call could
  144. 4:44be costing them. Again, there's no sales
  145. 4:46call. There's no pitch over the phone.
  146. 4:48Everything happens in writing here. And
  147. 4:49finally, step three, install, where you
  148. 4:52install an AI receptionist for them.
  149. 4:54Sounds fancy, but all it really is is a
  150. 4:56piece of software that answers their
  151. 4:58phone, books the job, and takes the
  152. 5:00caller's details. So, the call never
  153. 5:02gets missed again. And you don't have to
  154. 5:03build that from scratch. I'll just give
  155. 5:05you mine, but more on that later, too.
  156. 5:07Now, before we dive into the specifics,
  157. 5:09we first have to overcome what is
  158. 5:10probably the number one obstacle that
  159. 5:12most people face here, which is, what
  160. 5:14type of business should I go after? Now,
  161. 5:16I've got a list of 30 boring but
  162. 5:18incredibly profitable niches I'll put
  163. 5:20down in the description below this video
  164. 5:21for you to take a look at. But if you
  165. 5:24don't know where to start, let me just
  166. 5:25make the decision for you. Today, we're
  167. 5:27going after appliance repair businesses.
  168. 5:29The people who fix your fridge, your
  169. 5:31dishwasher, your dryer. So, let me show
  170. 5:33you a real one. I'm going to use
  171. 5:34Spokane, Washington for this, but you
  172. 5:36can run the exact same search in your
  173. 5:38own city or any city you like really as
  174. 5:41this is a completely location
  175. 5:42independent business. So, you can work
  176. 5:44with any business anywhere in the world
  177. 5:46that uses Google. So, if I search
  178. 5:48appliance repair Spokane, the very first
  179. 5:50thing at the top is this block labeled
  180. 5:52sponsored. That's Google's local
  181. 5:54services ads. So, every business in this
  182. 5:56block is paying Google per lead.
  183. 5:58Obviously, this is just two of them,
  184. 5:59though. These are typically the top
  185. 6:01listings, which aren't going to be ideal
  186. 6:03clients for us in most cases as they
  187. 6:05typically already got their stuff
  188. 6:06together. So, I'm going to click the
  189. 6:08show more button here. And now I've got
  190. 6:10a full list, and I think there's
  191. 6:12something like 11 or so of them here.
  192. 6:14Now, skip the ones at the very top here
  193. 6:16with the hundreds of reviews as these
  194. 6:18are typically the big companies with
  195. 6:20somebody sitting at a desk all day. So,
  196. 6:23they pick up the phone. What you want is
  197. 6:25a little further down. These are the
  198. 6:27ones with a few dozen or maybe a hundred
  199. 6:29reviews, normal working hours, and
  200. 6:32ideally a business that closes at like 5
  201. 6:34or 6 p.m. because that's a real person
  202. 6:36running a real service and who isn't
  203. 6:38operating a call center behind the
  204. 6:39scenes. For example, here we've got
  205. 6:41Nate's appliance repair. uh Avery
  206. 6:44appliance services, Apollo appliance
  207. 6:46repair, that kind of thing. Now, this
  208. 6:48next part's important because you do not
  209. 6:51want your test call to cost the business
  210. 6:53money. We are trying to help them after
  211. 6:54all. So, when you find a business in the
  212. 6:56sponsored section, don't call the number
  213. 6:59that shows up when you click get phone
  214. 7:01number. Instead, once you found a
  215. 7:03business you want to test, Google the
  216. 7:05business by name. Go directly to their
  217. 7:07website and call the regular phone
  218. 7:08number listed there. But let me show you
  219. 7:10what that looks like real quick. If I
  220. 7:12click into Mr. Appliance Repair of
  221. 7:14Spokane Valley, for example, and hit get
  222. 7:17phone number, Google gives me this phone
  223. 7:19number here. That is the forwarding
  224. 7:21number connected to their local services
  225. 7:23ad. And we can prove it by going to the
  226. 7:24business's actual website. See here that
  227. 7:27the phone number listed on their website
  228. 7:29is completely different. That's because
  229. 7:31Google uses the number in the ad to
  230. 7:33track the calls coming through it and
  231. 7:35obviously to charge them for it. So, if
  232. 7:37you call that number and stay on the
  233. 7:39line for more than 20 seconds, your test
  234. 7:41could become a billable lead for that
  235. 7:43business, and we definitely don't want
  236. 7:45to do that. So, by doing it this way and
  237. 7:46calling the number on their website,
  238. 7:48you're testing how quickly they answer
  239. 7:50the phone without generating a paid lead
  240. 7:52through their Google app. So, call that
  241. 7:55then start a timer and see what happens.
  242. 7:56If the phone keeps ringing past 20
  243. 7:58seconds, write down how long it rang.
  244. 8:00And if it goes to voicemail before 20
  245. 8:03seconds, don't ignore that business
  246. 8:04either. You see, most people don't leave
  247. 8:07voicemails anymore. They just hang up
  248. 8:08and move on. And even if they do leave a
  249. 8:11voicemail, Google can already count that
  250. 8:13as a valid lead. So, what you're really
  251. 8:15looking for is simple here. Is a real
  252. 8:17person answering the phone? If not,
  253. 8:19write down the day, the time, how long
  254. 8:21it rang, and whether it went to
  255. 8:23voicemail. So, let's say you call one of
  256. 8:24these shops Thursday at lunch, and it
  257. 8:26rings for 24 seconds, then goes to
  258. 8:28voicemail. Well, write down Thursday
  259. 8:30lunch, 24 seconds. That's pretty much
  260. 8:32everything you need for the message. And
  261. 8:34if somebody does pick up before 20
  262. 8:36seconds, no problem. Just say, "Sorry,
  263. 8:38wrong number." and hang up. Or if making
  264. 8:40calls really freaks you out, you can
  265. 8:42honestly just hang up without saying
  266. 8:43anything. But that's the worst case
  267. 8:45scenario here. Anyway, do this for 10
  268. 8:47businesses. It's about 20 seconds a call
  269. 8:49plus the time it takes to actually dial
  270. 8:50the phone. So, you can do it on a lunch
  271. 8:52break. So, that's step one. You found a
  272. 8:54business that's missing calls. But
  273. 8:56before you reach out to them with the
  274. 8:57solution, it helps to know roughly just
  275. 9:00how much money one of those missed calls
  276. 9:01could be costing them. So, for that, we
  277. 9:04need to know about how much they're
  278. 9:05paying Google for each lead. So, what
  279. 9:07does one of these leads actually cost?
  280. 9:09Well, one large study found that the
  281. 9:11average home services lead from Google
  282. 9:13local services ads costs about $53. And
  283. 9:16that number comes from Searchlight
  284. 9:18Digital that analyzed almost $7 million
  285. 9:20in local services ad spending across
  286. 9:22$888 home service contractors.
  287. 9:25Basically, a lot of people and a lot of
  288. 9:26money. Now, $53 per lead is an average.
  289. 9:29Some are obviously going to be higher
  290. 9:31and some are going to be lower. So, a
  291. 9:32business's real CPL or cost per lead
  292. 9:35depends on their industry and their
  293. 9:36city. Let's say our appliance repair guy
  294. 9:38in Spokane, though, pays a bit under
  295. 9:40that average. Let's say 35 bucks per
  296. 9:42lead. And let's say he misses seven
  297. 9:44calls a week that ring past 20 seconds.
  298. 9:46Well, that's roughly $245 a week in
  299. 9:49leads that he's paying for but never
  300. 9:51answering, which works out to around
  301. 9:53a,000 bucks a month. And that's just the
  302. 9:55Google bill. It doesn't count the jobs
  303. 9:57themselves that he's missing out on
  304. 9:58because a lot of those callers are going
  305. 10:00to do exactly what I did with my air
  306. 10:02conditioner. Whoever answers first gets
  307. 10:04the job. So, charging a business like
  308. 10:06this $397 a month to make sure that
  309. 10:08every one of those calls gets answered,
  310. 10:10it's a pretty easy yes. I mean, he's
  311. 10:12already paying for the lead. The AI
  312. 10:14receptionist just makes sure that the
  313. 10:16call gets answered, so he's actually got
  314. 10:18a shot at getting the job. Okay, next
  315. 10:20step, send. Here's where you reach out.
  316. 10:22Now, the nice thing here is that you can
  317. 10:23do the entire thing in writing. Like
  318. 10:25I've already said, there's no sales
  319. 10:26calls and there's no cold calls either.
  320. 10:28Email is probably the easiest place to
  321. 10:30start, but if you can't find an email
  322. 10:32for the business, you can also use a
  323. 10:34Facebook or an Instagram DM or just a
  324. 10:36contact form on their website. For the
  325. 10:38subject line, keep it simple. Just quick
  326. 10:40question, all lowercase. And if you can
  327. 10:42find the business owner's first name,
  328. 10:43that's even better. So then it would be
  329. 10:45something like, "Hey Mike, quick
  330. 10:46question." Then here's the exact message
  331. 10:48to send word for word. You might want to
  332. 10:50screenshot this one or write it down.
  333. 10:52Hi, Mike. I gave your shop a call on
  334. 10:53Thursday around lunch. It rang about 24
  335. 10:56seconds and went to voicemail. Don't
  336. 10:58worry, I dialed the number on your
  337. 10:59website, not your Google ad, so you
  338. 11:01weren't charged for it. But as of
  339. 11:03October 1st, 2026, Google bills local
  340. 11:06services ads for missed calls over 20
  341. 11:08seconds during your business hours,
  342. 11:10whether you get the job or not. I put
  343. 11:12together a short video showing an easy
  344. 11:14way to make sure every call gets
  345. 11:16answered without hiring anybody. Would
  346. 11:18it be all right if I sent it over? Now,
  347. 11:20obviously swap in whatever actually
  348. 11:21happened, the real day, the real seconds
  349. 11:24that the phone rang for, that kind of
  350. 11:25thing. And obviously, obviously, only
  351. 11:28use the name Mike if their name is
  352. 11:29actually Mike. Everything else stays the
  353. 11:31same. Tell them what you noticed. Tell
  354. 11:32them why it matters. And include that
  355. 11:34free, no pressure offer to show them.
  356. 11:36That's it. No pitch, no pressure, no
  357. 11:38selling of any kind here. Then, when
  358. 11:40they say, "Sure, send it over." And some
  359. 11:42will, you send a quick two-minute screen
  360. 11:44recording video using a free software
  361. 11:46like Loom with just three things in it.
  362. 11:48First, you just tell them what happened
  363. 11:50straight from your notes, which in this
  364. 11:52case would be, "I called Thursday at
  365. 11:54lunch. It rang 24 seconds and it went to
  366. 11:55voicemail." Second, you walk him through
  367. 11:57the Google announcement showing the 20
  368. 11:59second rule. And I'll just put that up
  369. 12:01on the screen now so you can just
  370. 12:02screenshot it. And third, you show the
  371. 12:04AI receptionist actually answering a
  372. 12:06call. And it's that last part here where
  373. 12:08things really click because now they can
  374. 12:10actually see the problem getting solved
  375. 12:12in real time. And when he asks, "How
  376. 12:14much does it cost?" Here's exactly what
  377. 12:15you send back. Again, just like before,
  378. 12:17feel free to write this down or
  379. 12:18screenshot this one, too. Because this
  380. 12:20is the message that turns him into a
  381. 12:22client. So, here's what you say. It's
  382. 12:24$3.97 a month. That covers the setup,
  383. 12:26the AI, answering every call during
  384. 12:28hours and after hours, and booking the
  385. 12:29jobs onto your calendar. You don't need
  386. 12:31to send me anything. I'll pull your
  387. 12:33hours and services straight from your
  388. 12:34website. If you want to go ahead, here's
  389. 12:36the payment link, and I can have it up
  390. 12:38and running in the next 72 hours. Once
  391. 12:40they say yes and pay through the link,
  392. 12:42you're on to step three, install. And
  393. 12:44this is where you actually set up the AI
  394. 12:46receptionist for their business. And I
  395. 12:48do all of this inside a piece of
  396. 12:49software called Highle, which is the
  397. 12:51same software I use to run my entire
  398. 12:53oneperson agency. So, let me show you
  399. 12:55what the setup actually looks like. Now,
  400. 12:57like I mentioned briefly before, the AI
  401. 12:59receptionist is really just a fancy name
  402. 13:01for a piece of software that
  403. 13:02automatically answers the phone with a
  404. 13:04natural sounding voice, has a real
  405. 13:06conversation with the customer, answers
  406. 13:08common questions, takes down their name
  407. 13:10and number and what they need help with,
  408. 13:12and it then books the appointment into
  409. 13:14the calendar. So, here's what the setup
  410. 13:16page looks like. You give it a name,
  411. 13:18pick a voice, and set the business's
  412. 13:20hours. Then instead of typing in all of
  413. 13:22their services manually, like what they
  414. 13:24fix and what they charge, you can just
  415. 13:26paste in the address of their website
  416. 13:28and it reads all of that off of the
  417. 13:30website itself. Then you give it a phone
  418. 13:32number. Finally, you connect it to their
  419. 13:34calendar or you can create a new
  420. 13:35calendar so it can book appointments
  421. 13:37automatically. Call it yourself once to
  422. 13:38make sure it does what you told it to.
  423. 13:40And well, that's the whole setup. And
  424. 13:41you don't even have to build this AI
  425. 13:43receptionist from scratch. I'll just
  426. 13:44give you mine. And then you can copy and
  427. 13:46paste it into your client's account, put
  428. 13:48in their website details, connect the
  429. 13:50calendar, and you're done. And I'll show
  430. 13:51you how to get that in just a minute.
  431. 13:52But first, here's what the customer
  432. 13:54hears when they call. There's no hold
  433. 13:55music, no voicemail, no 20 seconds of
  434. 13:57nothing, it answers, it asks what's
  435. 14:00wrong, it gets the address, it books the
  436. 14:02time, and the whole thing that was going
  437. 14:03to be a missed call and a bill from
  438. 14:05Google is now a job booked on their
  439. 14:07calendar. And of course, if you don't
  440. 14:08like the AI voice that I picked, you can
  441. 14:10change it. There's a ton of different
  442. 14:11options available, but between you and
  443. 14:13me, I might just leave it as is, as this
  444. 14:15one seems to convert really well. As
  445. 14:16great as all of this is, though, here's
  446. 14:18the part that makes this such an easy
  447. 14:20yes for the business owner. You're not
  448. 14:22taking anybody's job. If he wants to
  449. 14:24keep answering the phone himself, the AI
  450. 14:26can just pick up first and then pass the
  451. 14:27call straight to him. Same goes for his
  452. 14:29team if he has one. The only thing that
  453. 14:31matters here is that it picks up every
  454. 14:33time, so the call never gets missed. And
  455. 14:35you can take care of almost everything
  456. 14:37from your end. The only thing he has to
  457. 14:39do is forward his existing phone number
  458. 14:41to the new highle number that you set up
  459. 14:43for the AI receptionist. That's usually
  460. 14:45just a quick call forwarding setting
  461. 14:46through his phone carrier. Just one code
  462. 14:48to turn it on, something like star 72,
  463. 14:51and then one code to turn it off if he
  464. 14:53ever wants to turn it off, something
  465. 14:54like star 73. But a quick Google search
  466. 14:56here is going to tell you the most
  467. 14:58up-to-date codes for pretty much all the
  468. 14:59major carriers, whether Verizon or AT&T
  469. 15:02or T-Mobile or whatever. His existing
  470. 15:04phone number doesn't change, so he
  471. 15:06doesn't need to update his website or
  472. 15:07his Google listing or his business cards
  473. 15:09or anything else. And his customers can
  474. 15:12keep calling the exact same number they
  475. 15:14always have. The call just gets rooted
  476. 15:16into High Level where the AI
  477. 15:17receptionist answers it. And once it's
  478. 15:19running, there's very little for you to
  479. 15:21do each month. Just check the call log,
  480. 15:23skim a few transcripts, and fix anything
  481. 15:25the AI got wrong. That's it. Now, real
  482. 15:28quick here. If you want the exact AI
  483. 15:30receptionist I just showed you, here's
  484. 15:31the fastest way to get it. I've got a
  485. 15:33link in the description below this video
  486. 15:34where you can grab an extended 30-day
  487. 15:36free trial of HighLevel. And when you
  488. 15:38start through my link, you'll also
  489. 15:39unlock my complete agency OS, which has
  490. 15:42over $15,000 in pre-built funnels and
  491. 15:44follow-up automations and client
  492. 15:46outreach scripts and sales scripts and a
  493. 15:4830-day highle quick start, all installed
  494. 15:50into your account with just one click.
  495. 15:52There's private community access as well
  496. 15:54and a whole lot more and the links in
  497. 15:56the description below. Now, the nice
  498. 15:57thing is that the numbers here are
  499. 15:58pretty simple. Everything I've shown you
  500. 16:00runs inside High Leo, and the plan I'd
  501. 16:02recommend is the 297 a month unlimited
  502. 16:04plan, which gives you unlimited client
  503. 16:06accounts. That means your very first
  504. 16:07client covers your entire software cost.
  505. 16:10And every client after that is nearly
  506. 16:12pure profit. Texts, calls, and AI usage
  507. 16:14add small costs as you grow. So, you
  508. 16:16build those into your price. And you
  509. 16:18don't have to build any of this from
  510. 16:19scratch. I've already built the entire
  511. 16:21AI receptionist for you, and it's inside
  512. 16:23my agency OS. You just copy it into your
  513. 16:25client's account, customize it for their
  514. 16:27business, connect their phone and
  515. 16:29calendar, and you're done. Quick tip for
  516. 16:30when you're signing up for your free
  517. 16:31trial, and this is just me looking out
  518. 16:33for you, you're going to see a few
  519. 16:34different plan options, and I just go
  520. 16:36with the 297 unlimited plan, as that's
  521. 16:38the one that gives you unlimited client
  522. 16:40accounts, which is everything you need
  523. 16:42to run everything that I've been showing
  524. 16:43you today. You really don't need the 497
  525. 16:45plan. The 297 plan is more than enough,
  526. 16:47and I'd hate to see you paying for stuff
  527. 16:49you're not going to use. And just so
  528. 16:50it's clear, you get full access to my
  529. 16:52agency OS and all of the bonuses no
  530. 16:54matter which plan you pick. So there's
  531. 16:56no wrong answer here. Plus, it's a free
  532. 16:58trial anyway, and you can always upgrade
  533. 16:59or downgrade later. So don't overthink
  534. 17:01this one. Now, before you go do this,
  535. 17:03I've got three warnings that I need to
  536. 17:04share with you. Warning number one, only
  537. 17:06say what actually happened when you call
  538. 17:08them. If it rang 12 seconds, say 12. If
  539. 17:11voicemail picked up, say voicemail. If a
  540. 17:14real person answered and you hung up,
  541. 17:15well, that business doesn't get a
  542. 17:17message at all. Congratulations, they
  543. 17:18passed. The reason this message works so
  544. 17:20well is because every word of it is true
  545. 17:22and the owner can feel that. The second
  546. 17:24that you round 12 seconds up to 24
  547. 17:27because it sounds better. You're not a
  548. 17:28guy that noticed something anymore,
  549. 17:30you're spam and he's going to know
  550. 17:31because probably has his own call log.
  551. 17:33Warning number two, never tell him this
  552. 17:35makes the Google charges go away. An
  553. 17:37answered call was already a paid lead.
  554. 17:40What the AI receptionist does is make
  555. 17:42sure that when he pays for a call,
  556. 17:44somebody actually answers it. though
  557. 17:46he's got a shot at a job instead of
  558. 17:47paying for a voicemail that nobody left.
  559. 17:49And warning number three, and this one's
  560. 17:51the biggest, don't tell him the AI
  561. 17:53receptionist is live until you've
  562. 17:55watched it work. Call the AI yourself
  563. 17:57and have a real conversation with it.
  564. 17:59Ask it weird questions. Try to stump it.
  565. 18:01Be a mildly difficult customer. Then
  566. 18:03look at the calendar and make sure the
  567. 18:05appointment actually landed. Then have
  568. 18:07him forward his number and call his
  569. 18:08number, not the highle one, and hear the
  570. 18:11AI pick up. Then a month after you turn
  571. 18:12it on, take a screenshot of his call log
  572. 18:15that shows every call answered and the
  573. 18:16appointments it booked. Obviously,
  574. 18:18you're going to want to blur out the
  575. 18:19sensitive information like customer
  576. 18:21names and phone numbers. But this
  577. 18:23screenshot then becomes the proof that
  578. 18:25you show the next business and the next
  579. 18:26one after that. So, here's exactly what
  580. 18:28I'd do right now. Grab the extended
  581. 18:3030-day free trial of High Level through
  582. 18:32the link in the description below. So,
  583. 18:34the AI receptionist is already sitting
  584. 18:35in your account when you go make your 10
  585. 18:38calls. Then go make those 10 calls. But
  586. 18:40here's the thing. Everything I showed
  587. 18:42you today is just one piece of how a
  588. 18:43oneperson agency actually works. If you
  589. 18:46want the full picture, how to pick your
  590. 18:47niche, how to price your services, and
  591. 18:49how to put every system together, I put
  592. 18:51together a complete free master class
  593. 18:53that I've got linked up right here
  594. 18:54that's going to walk you through the
  595. 18:55entire thing step by step. So, feel free
  596. 18:58to tap or click that now. I'll see you
  597. 19:00in there in just a second.

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