In mobile detailing, the second booking is the business.
A first detail is expensive to win: a late-night DM, a back-and-forth about pet hair, a quote that depends on photos. We help you show up on Google for those requests, reply to every one fast, and ask happy clients to book again. Live in 3 business days, run for you every month.
Five places detailing jobs get lost.
Detailing work arrives through messages more than calls, and it gets decided on photos and trust. Most lost bookings happen in the gaps between those messages.
“How much for a full detail?” at 10pm
Instagram and Facebook messages come in after dark, while you are cleaning pads and restocking the van. By morning the person has a booking with whoever answered first.
A price that depends on “what shape is it in”
Sand, dog hair, a spilled latte under the seat. You cannot quote without photos, so you ask for them, and that is where a lot of conversations stall.
The car that isn't there when you arrive
You drove twenty minutes to a driveway and the car is at the office. Without a confirmation and a reminder the evening before, you find out on arrival.
Coating clients with no maintenance plan
A ceramic coating needs regular maintenance washes to keep looking the way it did on day one. That is a recurring client handed to you, and it is easy to send them nothing after the invoice.
Rainouts that never get rebooked
A wet Saturday wipes out six appointments. Getting them back on the calendar depends on you texting each one, and the ones you forget book somebody else.
Five steps, in this order.
For detailing, capture and repeat carry the most weight. Answer the message while the person is still holding their phone, then make sure they hear from you before the car needs it again.
Capture
Instagram, Facebook, web form and text messages in one inbox, with an instant reply that asks for the vehicle and three photos, so the 10pm message gets an answer at 10pm.
Convert
Package pricing by vehicle size, sent as a quote they can accept, with a deposit option at booking and a reminder the evening before.
Retain
A review request when the job is marked done, while the paint still looks like your after photos.
Repeat
A maintenance offer timed to each client: regular washes for coating clients, a seasonal interior reset for everyone else, sent without you having to remember.
Scale
Then we bring in more: pages for the towns you drive to and the packages you actually sell. On Dominate we add Google Ads and Local Services Ads, with every lead tracked to a booked detail so you know what pays back.
Fair questions.
All my work comes from Instagram.
Then the inbox matters more than anything else here. Instagram brings the attention and the reply decides the booking. With DMs, texts and calls in one place, nothing depends on you checking four apps between cars.
Clients push back on deposits.
Some will. The ones who refuse a small deposit tend to be the ones who are not home when you arrive. You set the amount, and you can skip it for regulars.
I'm mobile. Can I even show up on Google Maps?
Yes. A service-area Business Profile hides your home address and shows the area you drive to instead. It is set up the same way as any trade that works at the customer's place.
Will you promise me more bookings?
Not bookings. Nobody honest can promise those. SEO results aren't guaranteed. Dominate has the 20-Lead Guarantee: 20 leads in your first 60 days of ads, or $497 a month comes off the Dominate fee until you reach 20, with at least $20/day in ad spend. What we're responsible for is the system doing its job: replies going out, reminders firing, clients being asked back.
Everything we do for detailers.
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Free tool
Know your price before you quote.
Our free detailing calculator prices any car by size, condition and package, then shows what you actually keep after labor, products, drive time and card fees.
- ✓Real profit on every quote, not just a price
- ✓A walk-away price when a customer haggles
- ✓A clean good, better, best quote you can text in seconds
On Dominate, we set up your own branded version. Every quote you send lands in your CRM with its dollar value, and the follow-up goes out on its own.
What it costs
Simple plans. Real results.
Every plan starts with a one-time setup: Website $497, Local SEO $497, Dominate $1,997. Your site, Google profile and lead system go live 3 business days after we have your info, photos and access. Dominate adds ads and lead tracking, live in about 2 weeks. Just need a website? It's $250 a month.
Local SEO
Show up on Google in every town you serve.
per month
- 2 new town or service pages a month
- Weekly Google Business Profile posts
- Missed-call text-back and review requests
Dominate
Ads, lead tracking and the full growth engine.
per month · 20-Lead Guarantee
- Everything in Local SEO, plus instant replies, quote follow-up and win-back texts
- Google Ads and Local Services Ads, with every lead tracked to a booked job
- Monthly LTV:CAC report, weekly check-ins and a growth meeting
Setup: Website $497, Local SEO $497, Dominate $1,997. Local SEO: 3-month minimum. Website and Dominate: 6-month minimum; on Dominate, ad spend is paid directly to Google. Optional AI phone agent minutes are billed at cost. SEO results aren't guaranteed; the 20-Lead Guarantee applies to Dominate only.
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