Where your competition is in Tennessee
The largest concentrations of garage door companies in our Tennessee data are in Nashville, Knoxville, Brentwood, Memphis, Franklin, Clarksville, Cleveland and Hendersonville. Competition for the map pack is heaviest there, and so is the reward: the same review count that dominates a small town is invisible in Nashville.
The map pack in Tennessee
In Tennessee, 38.9% of garage door companies have fewer than ten reviews. That is the good news if you have twenty: most of your local competitors are not trying. The bad news is that the three shops in the map pack for Knoxville searches are not in that group. They are near 340 reviews and they ask every customer.
The website gap in Tennessee
A website is the clearest marker of a garage door company that is going to compete for the map pack, and 17.1% of garage door companies in Tennessee do not have one linked. Across the country the median review count with a site is 36, without one 8. If your shop is in the 17.1%, start there.
Hours and after-hours calls
32.6% of Tennessee garage door companies list themselves as open 24 hours. If you take after-hours calls, say so in your profile hours, because Google shows "Closed" in red on a profile that says it is closed. If you do not, list real hours and let missed-call text-back cover the gap, so the caller gets a reply instead of dialing the next name.
How Tennessee compares
Of the 49 states in our data, Tennessee ranks 16th for the number of garage door companies, 41st for median review count, and 26th for the share with no website. The review bar is lower than in most of the country, so a few months of asking every customer moves you up fast.
| State | Listed | Median reviews | No site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 193 | 21 | 17.1% |
| Alabama | 98 | 20.5 | 10.2% |
| Delaware | 26 | 18 | 38.5% |
| Florida | 797 | 32 | 23.3% |
| Georgia | 295 | 48 | 21.4% |
| Kentucky | 91 | 29 | 16.5% |
| Maryland | 123 | 41 | 19.5% |
| Mississippi | 44 | 29.5 | 20.5% |
| North Carolina | 240 | 48 | 9.6% |
What to do first in Tennessee
- Set a review velocity. One review per job day, asked at the door, moves a 21-review shop past the Tennessee 75th percentile (109) within a year. The guides have the scripts.
- Finish the Google profile: primary category, every service you offer, real job photos, and hours that match reality. It is free and it is where Tennessee customers decide.
- Turn on missed-call text-back. Run the calculator with your own numbers to see what unanswered calls cost.
- Then, and only then, spend on ads. Pointed at a profile with 21 reviews and no website, ads pay for your competitor's education. Pointed at a finished profile, they work.
The full national picture, with percentiles, ratings and hours, is in the benchmark report. The method is on the about page.