80%
of deals require 5+ follow-up touches to close
Contractors
View full service details80% of sales require 5 follow-ups. Most contractors send one quote and wait.
You spend an hour on-site, another hour writing the estimate, and then the prospect goes quiet. Most contractor quotes die not because the customer chose someone else — they die because nobody followed up.
A contractor sending 10 quotes per week with a 35% close rate and 60% stale rate is leaving an estimated $3,000–$6,000 in recoverable revenue on the table every month.
44%
of salespeople give up after one follow-up
30%
of stale quotes are winnable with structured follow-up
You need this if any of these sound familiar
Estimates go out and you don't hear back for days or at all
You follow up once by phone and then move on if they don't respond
You're not sure which quotes are still active and which have gone cold
You win jobs where you followed up most but lose track of the others
Seasonal demand means quote volume spikes faster than you can manually track
How it works
Quote is sent — follow-up sequence begins automatically
The moment a quote goes out, Quote Win-Back starts a timed sequence. Day 2: a friendly check-in text. Day 5: a value-reminder. Day 10: a final outreach with a soft call-to-action.
Prospect responds or requests a callback
Most recovered quotes convert from the first or second follow-up. When the prospect replies, the sequence pauses and your team gets notified with the full context.
Won jobs are logged, cold ones archived
Closed quotes are marked won and removed from the sequence. Quotes that don't respond after the full sequence are flagged for a manual review or a win-back offer.
What you can expect
Contractors using Quote Win-Back typically recover 15–30% of previously cold quotes within the first 30 days. For a team sending 40 quotes per month, that's 6–12 additional jobs per month from work already in the pipeline.
Common questions
Why do contractor quotes go cold?
Most contractor quotes go cold because the customer gets busy, gets multiple quotes, and defaults to whoever follows up first. It's rarely about price. Research shows 80% of deals require 5 or more follow-up contacts — but most contractors follow up once and wait.
How do I automate follow-up on contractor estimates?
A quote follow-up automation sends a pre-built sequence of texts or emails at set intervals after a quote is sent — typically at 2 days, 5 days, and 10 days. Each message is conversational, not pushy. The sequence pauses automatically when the prospect responds.
How many cold quotes can I expect to recover?
Most contractor teams recover 15–30% of previously cold quotes with a structured follow-up sequence. The actual number depends on your trade, typical project size, and how quickly leads go cold in your market.