They are going to work with whoever picks up and solves their problem first. If it is not you, you lost the customer. Jessica picks up.
We are much more than an answering service. Yes, we answer the phones. Here is the part a message-taker cannot do.
A green pool, an algae bloom, a pump making a noise it did not make last week. She understands what the caller is describing and can answer pool questions instead of reading a script and promising someone will call back.
Your hours, your service area, how you work, what you do and do not take on. The caller gets a real answer about your company, not a stranger in a call center who has never heard of you.
This is the important part. Jessica looks at your actual calendar and puts the job on it, around your real availability. Not a sticky note. Not a voicemail you return at nine that night. The appointment is already on the books before you dry your hands.
The loss of missing the call far outweighs the investment of Jessica.
That is pay alone. It does not include payroll tax, benefits or workers' comp, so the real number an employer writes off is higher. And she goes home at five.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, median annual pay for receptionists, 2024.$499 a month, flat. No setup fee. No per-minute billing. The same price in July as in January, however hard the phone rings.
Derived: $499 per month x 12 months. Published rate, no setup fee.Sixteen cents on the dollar against one receptionist, and she is the one still answering at 6am on a Sunday.
Derived: $5,988 divided by $37,230, rounded. Conservative, since the BLS figure is pay only.There are 257,983 residential pools inside Phoenix city limits, on 27.6% of all 933,745 properties in the city. The demand is not your problem. The problem is that every one of those owners has a phone, a pool that turns green fast in July, and a list of other pool companies one tap away. You are almost never the only number they try.
Vexcel Data, aerial imagery and AI feature extraction, July 2025. City limits only.
She answers our own phone. Try to trip her up, ask her a pool question, make her book you something. Then decide.
Talk to Jessica Right Now$499/month · no setup fee · every dollar back if she's not right in her first 30 days. Or call (480) 448-0206 and Jessica will pick up, or email hello@saltriver.ai.
