Where your competition is in Montana
The largest concentrations of garage door companies in our Montana data are in Kalispell, Billings, Great Falls, Missoula, Butte, Helena, Belgrade and Bozeman. 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 Kalispell.
The map pack in Montana
In Montana, 27.1% 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 Billings searches are not in that group. They are near 288 reviews and they ask every customer.
The website gap in Montana
Website presence in Montana: 83.3% of garage door companies link one, 16.7% do not. The national figure is 18.5% without. Google and the AI answer engines both use the site to confirm what you do and where, so a missing site costs more than the leads it would have produced on its own.
Hours and after-hours calls
10.4% of Montana 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 Montana compares
Of the 49 states in our data, Montana ranks 38th for the number of garage door companies, 32nd for median review count, and 27th for the share with no website. The review bar sits in the middle of the pack.
| State | Listed | Median reviews | No site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 48 | 28.5 | 16.7% |
| Colorado | 363 | 35 | 30% |
| Idaho | 87 | 35 | 17.2% |
| Nevada | 91 | 101 | 1.1% |
| Utah | 164 | 77.5 | 12.2% |
| Wyoming | 30 | 15 | 10% |
What to do first in Montana
- Set a review velocity. One review per job day, asked at the door, moves a 28.5-review shop past the Montana 75th percentile (69) 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 Montana 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 28.5 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.