How to use the Booked Job Scorecard
Start small
Log every inbound opportunity for the last 30 days — one row each. Don't try to rebuild your entire CRM. Open the CSV in Google Sheets or Excel and fill a row per opportunity.
What a “qualified opportunity” means
A qualified opportunity is an inbound opportunity that represents a legitimate potential customer or job, after removing spam, vendors, duplicates, wrong numbers, and legitimately out-of-scope inquiries. Don't change this definition just to make the booking rate look better — the point is an honest picture.
The columns
- Date: When the opportunity came in.
- Opportunity ID: A simple unique reference (OPP-0001).
- Customer / Lead Reference: Name or short identifier.
- Lead Source: Google, Meta, referral, repeat, etc.
- Source Detail / Campaign: The specific campaign or detail, if known.
- Inbound Channel: Phone, form, chat, text, or other.
- New or Existing Customer: Helps separate acquisition from repeat work.
- Qualified Opportunity? (Yes/No): A real potential job — see the definition below.
- Disqualification Reason: Spam, vendor, wrong number, duplicate, out of area, service not offered, not financially qualified (where legitimately applicable), other.
- Call Answered? / Missed Call? (Yes/No/N/A): For phone opportunities.
- Response Time Minutes: How long until the lead heard back.
- Booked? + Booking Date: Whether and when the next step was scheduled.
- Appointment Completed?: Whether the appointment actually happened.
- Estimate Issued? + Estimate Amount: For jobs that involve an estimate.
- Sold? + Sold Revenue: Fill only when the job is completed and paid.
- Lost / Not Sold Reason: Price, timing, went with another company, etc.
- Follow-Up Needed? + Next Follow-Up Date: So nothing slips.
- Notes: Anything useful for context.
The numbers it produces
- Qualified opportunities: Inbound opportunities that represent a legitimate potential customer or job, after removing spam, vendors, duplicates, wrong numbers, and legitimately out-of-scope inquiries.
- Missed-call rate: Qualified inbound calls missed ÷ qualified inbound calls.
- Booking rate: Qualified opportunities booked ÷ qualified opportunities.
- Completion rate: Completed appointments ÷ booked appointments.
- Estimate rate: Estimates issued ÷ completed appointments where estimates are part of the sales process.
- Close rate: Sold jobs ÷ completed sales opportunities (estimates).
- Average ticket: Sold revenue ÷ sold jobs.
- Cost per lead: Relevant marketing spend ÷ qualified leads attributed to that marketing.
- Cost per booked job: Relevant marketing spend ÷ booked jobs attributed to that marketing.
- Customer acquisition cost: Relevant acquisition spend ÷ new customers acquired.
- Revenue per lead: Verified revenue ÷ qualified leads.
The Excel version does this math for you: fill the Scorecard tab and the Summary tab calculates every number automatically (just enter your marketing spend). Prefer not to use a spreadsheet at all? Paste your totals into the free calculator.
One honest note
Attribution is only as good as the data you record, so treat these as a practical picture, not exact figures. They're a diagnostic — not a guarantee or an estimate of jobs or dollars lost.
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