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InstantFixLead generation case study — mobile car repair

One man quit his job to fix cars. Maeda, our whitelabel lead engine (ads, qualifying funnel, apps and a response team), handled everything else. Twelve months of verified data below.

Engine

Both — compounding

Business

Mobile car repairs

Market

Sydney metro

Data window

12 months, verified

The brief

The founder had just quit his job to run a mobile repair business. He wanted to fix cars and leave the ads, quotes and lead follow-up to someone else. So we built and operated the lead-to-cash system around him.

The starting point

One operator. No system.

01

Inconsistent lead flow

Some weeks full, some weeks empty. Revenue was impossible to plan.

02

Unknown lead quality

No way to tell a real, workable job from a tyre-kicker before sinking time into it.

03

Owner-dependent

One person quoting, scheduling, repairing and chasing payment. Growth capped at his hours.

04

No operating system

No funnel, no qualification, no follow-up. Every lead lived or died on inbox discipline.

The engine — built and operated by Kara

Click to closed sale.

Maeda is our lead platform, whitelabelled to his brand and run by our team. Every stage feeds the next, and outcomes flow back to Google and Meta so the ads learn what a real buyer looks like.

01 — Ads

Intent-led search

Google Ads on high-intent searches ("dent repair Sydney", "mobile scratch repair near me"), with spend scaled to what he could service.

02 — Capture

Trust-led landing page

Conversion-focused and review-heavy, with photo-upload quote requests. It converted at 23% and peaked at 25%.

03 — Qualify

Two qualifying pages

A feasibility check (location, workspace, power, weather) filters unworkable jobs; a nurture page anchors price and kills objections. Every answer writes a tag.

04 — Route

Technician mobile app

Lead and photos routed straight to his phone on a response clock, so he quotes in-app between jobs.

05 — Respond

Kara conversion team

Automated first contact plus our human team working every quote to a booking, so nothing goes cold.

06 — Learn

The loop closes

Booked outcomes flow back into Google and Meta monthly. Cost per lead fell 61% while volume scaled.

The numbers

Verified Google Ads data — Apr 2025 to Mar 2026

2,918

Qualified leads — 243/mo avg

A$8.24

Cost per lead — $450–$2K jobs

9.0%

CTR vs ~3–4% industry

23%

Landing page conversion

−61%

CPL: $16.38 → $6.38, while scaling

Capacity was the only constraint. When the engine produced more jobs than the business could service, we scaled spend down while the client hired, then scaled back up.

What it did for the business

From one van to a fleet.

01

Fully booked in 3 months

Consistent, qualified lead flow filled the calendar within one quarter: about 2 jobs a day at $450–$2,000 each.

02

+2 staff & vehicles by month 6

He grew from a one-person operation to a small mobile fleet, hiring against reliable demand.

03

$25K–$40K consistent monthly revenue

Revenue he can plan around, while he does the work he quit his job for.

Services in play

Lead Generation & Nurturing Paid Media & Performance Custom Software & Apps SEO & SEM CRO & Analytics

The same engine, pointed at your market.

Proven at $450–$2,000 per job. At higher deal values, the same lead economics get dramatically more profitable.

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