Booked Nearby gets your business found first, chosen first, and booked solid.
See exactly where you're losing jobs on Google and in AI search. Free 5-minute video, recorded for your business, yours to keep either way.
Only 3 spots available per week.
Finding a gate company stopped working like it used to.
It's 6pm and someone's car is stuck behind a gate that won't open. They're not scrolling to page two. They're ringing the first business that looks capable, and if that isn't you, you'll never know the call happened.
Two years ago they'd have typed "gate repairs near me" and rung whoever Google showed them. Now there are two contests: nearly half of consumers ask AI tools like ChatGPT to shortlist first, up from almost nobody a year ago, then land on Google to actually hire, the map pack, the reviews, the phone number. Lose either one and someone else gets the call.
Most agencies are sitting on the fence about this, waiting to see whether AI search "takes off" while their clients quietly vanish from half the answers. We ran the actual test instead: asking the AI tools who they recommend, and tracking whether it's you.
The jobs you never hear about are the expensive ones.
A quiet month you notice. The motor job three suburbs over that went to someone else on a Tuesday afternoon, you never hear about.
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The phone runs hot one month and quiet the next, and nobody can tell you why.
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You drive forty minutes to a job in a suburb where nobody's heard of you, past houses that'll ring a competitor when their own gate packs it in.
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You buy leads your competitors bought too, then lose on price to an outfit whose work isn't a patch on yours.
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Your best installs live in your phone's camera roll, and the reviews you've earned sit where hardly anyone looks.
Good work and easy to find are two different things. Right now you've only got one of them.
By the time they call, they've already chosen you.
You know the usual call. "How much for a new motor?" Three quotes lined up, yours is one of them, and the cheapest wins.
The businesses at the top of your trade get a different call. "You did the gates at my neighbour's place. I read the reviews. Even asked ChatGPT who's best around here, and your name came up. When can you come out?"
Two completely different customers, and you only get the second one if they found you before they started ringing around. That's what visibility buys: Google trusts you, the AI tools repeat what Google trusts, and your reviews sit wherever the customer checks. It compounds, which is why the gap widens every month nobody is building yours, and why starting now means that advantage is yours to defend in two years, not theirs.
Tuesday 6:47 pm
You did the gates at my neighbour's place. I read the reviews. Even asked ChatGPT who's best around here, and your name came up. When can you come out?
Tuesday 7:02 pm
Can do Thursday 7am. I'll send a quote tonight.
We've done this for a gate business. Here's what happened.
An automatic gate specialist came to us with an ageing website quietly costing them calls. Over the next twelve months:
+166%
Found. Organic sessions up 166%, and AI referrals up twentyfold as that channel arrived.
435 to 878
Chosen. Annual enquiries more than doubled. Same trucks, same services, twice the people reaching out.
2,284
Booked. Phone calls tracked in a year, visible and countable for the first time.
The Booked Nearby Method
Four stages, in the order your customer moves through them. Every one measured in numbers that matter: enquiries, calls, booked jobs.
1
Get Found
Where the shortlist forms. Local SEO suburb by suburb, a Google Business Profile run properly, and the AI search visibility most agencies haven't started on. So you turn up in the answers, wherever your customer is asking.
2
Get Chosen
Why they pick you over the other two quotes. Reviews that settle it before price comes up, your real work where the hesitant customer looks for it, and positioning that carries a premium. Competing on price is a mug's game; this is how you stop playing it.
3
Get Booked
Where enquiries turn into jobs instead of going quiet. A site built to turn the visit into a call, every lead pushed to your phone the moment it lands, missed calls texted back, and quotes chased on a schedule rather than whenever you remember.
4
Stay Booked
Where the margin is. Service reminders and upgrades to customers who already trust you, referrals asked for while the job is fresh, and a plan that keeps moving as Google and the AI tools change underneath everyone.
The 120-day guarantee
If you're not getting more calls by day 120, we keep working for free until you are. We can promise that because the Method is built on a tracked, documented result, and because we only take on businesses we believe we can move. You don't pay us to spin our wheels.
Think you're ready?
Book a strategy call and we'll go through your market, what your competitors are doing, and where the gaps are. You'll leave with the roadmap we'd build for your business, whether you hand it to us or not.
Book a strategy callEverything that gets you found, chosen and booked. Nothing that doesn't.
Local SEO
If someone two suburbs over searches for a repair, does your business come up? For a lot of businesses, the honest answer is no, even though they'd happily drive there. We build your business a real presence in every suburb you service, not just the one you're based in, so those searches find you instead of a competitor.
You'll see exactly which suburbs you're winning in, and which ones you're not.
AI search visibility
More people are asking ChatGPT or Google's AI who to call, instead of searching and clicking through results. If those tools don't have clear, accurate information about your business, they'll recommend someone else, even if your work is better. We make sure they know about you, and recommend you by name.
Every month we ask the same questions a customer would, and show you whether your name comes up.
Website design and conversion
A website that looks fine can still lose you the job. If the phone number is hard to find, or the quote form takes five minutes to fill in standing at a broken gate, people give up and ring the next name on the list. We build sites that make it easy to say yes: an obvious way to call, real photos of your work, and pages that load fast.
We watch what people actually do on the site, then fix whatever's costing you calls.
Google Business Profile management
Your Google profile is the box with your reviews, photos and hours. It's usually the first thing a customer sees, often before they visit your website at all. Most businesses set it up once and never touch it again. We keep yours current: the right categories, fresh photos, every review answered.
People trust what they see, and Google keeps recommending you because of it.
Reputation management
Reviews settle the decision before you ever quote. We set up a simple system so happy customers actually leave one, sent right after the job's done, while they're still glad they called you.
And if a bad review turns up, we help you answer it properly. How you respond matters more than the review itself.
Lead capture and follow-up
The fastest business usually wins the job, not the best one. If a call goes to voicemail, or a quote sits in your inbox over the weekend, that customer has probably already rung someone else. We set up simple systems so missed calls get a text back straight away.
The enquiries you already get are the cheapest jobs you'll ever win. This is about not losing them.
AI and automation
Running the business eats the hours you'd rather spend on the tools, or at home. We help you use the same AI tools changing how customers find you to take some of that load off: quoting from a photo, answering enquiries after hours, chasing the admin that piles up.
We run our own business this way. If it gives you back a night a week, it's already paid for itself.
We only do your trade, and we've already got results in it.
Proven where you work
Our documented result is an automatic gate business: enquiries doubled in a year, AI referrals up 20x. Not a dentist playbook with the logo swapped.
No learning on your invoice
We already know a motor swap from a remote job, which searches bring the good work, and which brands people ask for by name. Week one is work, not research.
Your area, locked
One business per area, in writing. Everything we learn about winning this trade works for you, never for the business down the road.
A guarantee generalists won't sign
More calls in 120 days or we work free. We can only put that in writing because we've done it before, in this trade.
See exactly where you're losing jobs.
A 5-minute video, recorded about your business, not a template. You'll see:
Free visibility audit
- Where the calls are going instead of you. The searches and AI answers you're missing, and who's winning them.
- What it's costing you. A straight count of the enquiries at stake in your patch.
- What we'd fix first. The three moves that matter most. Some you could do yourself this week, and we'll tell you which.
Watch it, use it, fix the easy things yourself if you like. It's yours either way.
Only 3 spots available per week. Two minutes to request.
Why us instead of a generic agency
| Comparison | Generic agency | Booked Nearby |
|---|---|---|
| Would work with your competitor if given the chance? | Of course | Never. One business per area. |
| Knows gates, garage doors and fencing? | They also do dentists | It's all we do |
| AI search visibility? | "Wait and see" | Built into the Method, with receipts |
| Reports you get | Traffic graphs | Calls, enquiries, booked jobs |
| Locked in? | 6 to 12 months | Month to month |
| Guarantee? | Read the fine print | 120 days, until it works |
A father and son team. You'll know exactly who's doing the work.
Booked Nearby is two of us, with a clear split of labour.
Damien gets you found: over a decade of SEO for local service businesses, the technical site work most agencies outsource, and the AI search visibility most haven't started on. The case study above is his work.
Kim gets you chosen: thirty-plus years of sales and copywriting, from door-to-door at nineteen to direct mail that lifted an industry association's response rate tenfold. Most of it spent helping businesses win the job at a premium price.
One business per area. When you call, you get one of us, and we already know your industry.
Questions we get asked
How much does it cost?
Every area and every business is different, so we don't do a one-size price list. The audit is free. If you want to go further, we'll map the right next step for your situation, and you'll see exactly what it costs in writing before you commit to anything.
I've been burned by an agency before.
Most of the businesses we talk to have been. What's different here: we only do gates, garage doors and fencing, our results are tracked and published, and we back the work with a guarantee no generalist will touch. More calls in 120 days or we keep working free.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. Month to month, cancel with 14 days' notice. And you own everything: your website, your content, your accounts, during and after. We keep your business by earning it, not by holding your site hostage.
I already buy leads from HiPages or ServiceSeeking.
Keep them if they're paying their way. The difference: those leads reach your competitors at the same time they reach you, so the job usually goes to whoever quotes cheapest. The calls this builds ring you first, already knowing your name and your reviews, and there's no per-lead bill attached.
I get my work from word of mouth.
So do the best businesses in every trade. We make it work harder: your happy customers become visible five-star reviews, and reviews are what Google and the AI tools weigh when deciding who to recommend. Your referrals keep coming; the strangers start too.
I'm flat out already.
Even better. More enquiries doesn't have to mean more jobs. It means you pick the good ones and price them properly. Busy is when you build visibility, because the quiet month always comes.
Isn't this AI search stuff just hype?
Nobody should sell you AI on faith. More people now ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google's AI who to call instead of scrolling results, and we measure what that's worth: one client's AI referrals went from under 10 a year to over 200. When it's your business, you'll see the numbers in your own reporting, not take our word for it.
How long until I see something?
Profile improvements and follow-up systems start working within weeks. Search builds over months and compounds. We track calls and enquiries from day one, so you're watching real movement rather than waiting on promises, and the guarantee puts a hard edge on it at day 120.
My business is different. I mostly do installs, not repairs (or the other way round).
That's exactly why the strategy gets built around your business rather than a template. If big installs are the goal, we chase install searches and showcase your projects. If service work keeps the trucks moving, we go after the urgent searches in your patch.
What areas do you cover?
Australia-wide, one business per area. Once your area is locked, we turn your competitors away, in writing. Ask about yours when you book the audit.
Want to see where you're losing jobs?
A free 5-minute video shows you exactly where, on Google and in AI search. Only 3 spots available per week.
- Two minutes. Tell us your business, suburb and website.
- A few days. We research your market by hand and record your video. No template does this.
- Yours to keep. Watch it, fix the easy things yourself, or talk to us about the rest.
Or email us direct: kim@bookednearby.com · Australia-wide