What services do you offer?

Full-stack customer acquisition for service businesses: Meta + Google ads, custom quiz funnels and landing pages, automated follow-up, weekly creative refreshes, and strategic coaching on offer and pricing — all aimed at getting you more booked jobs.

How do you get me more customers?

A 2-layer Meta ads engine — cold conversion ads test 4 angles per ideal customer, and retargeting crushes the 4 objections (cost, social proof, time, trust). Booked customers are auto-excluded so we never pay to talk to them twice.

Do you customize the strategy?

Always. Every campaign is built around your offer, service area, average order value, and the niche you specialize in. No templates, no recycled creative.

How much does it cost?

Choose Monthly Retainer, Profit-Share (3.5x guaranteed), or Performance (8% of AOV per booked job).

How fast will I see results?

Your system is live in under 7 days from kickoff. New customers typically start coming in within the first 48 hours of going live, and we optimize weekly from there.

What if I can't handle the volume?

We'll throttle spend, tighten qualification in the funnel, or push new customers toward your highest-margin service. The goal is booked jobs you can actually fulfill — not noise.

Who is Montana Marketing?

Montana Marketing is a marketing agency founded in Montana and operating from Phoenix, Arizona. It runs Meta and Google Ads for auto detailing, window tinting, ceramic coating and paint protection film shops, and for other service businesses doing $5,000 a month or more. It was founded by Deegan Nelson and builds the full customer acquisition system: ads, funnel, follow-up automation and coaching on offer and pricing.

Where is Montana Marketing based?

Montana Marketing was founded and is registered in Montana, and the team now operates out of Phoenix, Arizona. We work with service businesses across the United States, so where we sit matters less than where your customers are — we currently run accounts in California, Montana, North Dakota, Arizona, Virginia, Tennessee, Oregon and Georgia.

Is Montana Marketing legit?

Yes. We work with a small roster of service businesses on month-to-month terms with no long contracts, and our main pricing model only pays us a share once the client clears a 3.5x return on profit. If we don't hit it, you don't pay the share.

What kinds of businesses does Montana Marketing work with?

Mostly car-care businesses — mobile and shop-based auto detailers, window tint installers, ceramic coating and paint protection film shops. We also work with other local service businesses including window cleaning and mobile wellness, generally at $5,000 a month or more in revenue.

What makes Montana Marketing different from other marketing agencies?

Three things. We only work with service businesses, so the ad angles and funnels are already proven in the niche. We build the system that handles the leads, not just the ads, because volume kills shops that can't follow up. And our recommended pricing model ties our fee to your profit rather than to a flat retainer.

How do I get started with Montana Marketing?

Book a call through the site. We look at your current numbers, your offer and your service area, and tell you what we'd run and what it would cost before you commit to anything.

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Why Detailing Leads Go Cold in Five Minutes

October 22, 2026

A detailing lead goes cold in minutes because the person who filled in your form is filling in two or three other forms in the same sitting, and they book with whoever answers first. Replying inside five minutes converts dramatically better than replying the next morning - not because the customer is impatient, but because by the morning they have already booked someone else.

What the lead is actually doing after they hit submit

They are not waiting by the phone. They searched, they clicked two or three ads, and they submitted to whichever shops had a form in front of them. In their head this is one task: get my car sorted. The first shop to answer gets to shape the whole conversation - the price, the package, the date. Everyone after that is competing with an answer the customer already has.

That is why "I'll call them at the end of the day" loses jobs that were never in doubt. The job did not go to a better detailer. It went to a faster one.

Why a text beats a call for the first touch

A missed call is a dead end. A text sits in their pocket until they are free, and it is the format they already use. The first message does not need to sell anything - it needs to prove a human is on the other end and ask one question that moves things forward.

What works: name, shop, one specific reference to what they asked for, and a question that is easy to answer. What does not work: a generic "thanks for your enquiry, we will be in touch", which reads as automated and earns no reply.

How to answer in five minutes when you are under a car

You cannot, and that is the point - this is not a discipline problem, it is a staffing problem that automation solves. The lead arrives, an automatic text goes out in under a minute with your name on it, and you reply properly when you are out of the bay. The automation is not there to close anyone. It is there to hold the conversation open until you can get to it.

Two things matter in how you set that up. It has to sound like you, because the next message in the thread will be you. And it has to ask something, because a message that asks nothing gets no reply, and a thread with no reply is not warm when you come back to it an hour later.

What this is worth

Work it through with your own numbers. If you get thirty leads a month and close 40 percent of them, that is twelve jobs. If fixing your response time moves the close rate to 55 percent, that is sixteen jobs from the same spend and the same ads. At a $300 average ticket, those four extra jobs are $1,200 a month you were already paying for and not collecting.

That is also why raising your ad budget before you fix your response time usually disappoints. More budget buys more leads, and more leads sitting unanswered for six hours produces more of exactly what you already have.

The order to fix things in

Response time first, because it is the cheapest and it changes the value of every lead after it. Then the first message, because that determines the reply rate. Then the follow-up cadence for the people who do not reply the first time. Only then the budget.