Laptops tend to be pretty much the least reliable when it comes to being properly calibrated/adjusted both in brightness and color. Sometimes repeated calibration will finally produce a "best" result, but it is a toss of the dice.
Try doing it again once or twice. Make sure that your screen is not affected by artificial light (unless it is verifiably "neutral/daylight" light (you buy special stuff to get this).
The "acid tests" for calibration could be considered two-prong -- how does an image processed withing your system stand up when viewed on a good well-calibrated monitor, and then the real deal is getting a print done by a known reliable printer with no corrections done and comparing the print in good light (again either daylight or special neutral light) and seeing how they match. They won't be quite identical, especially due to the difference between the monitor's projected light and a print's reflected light but if everything "took" then they should be good enough, both in color and in overall tones.
Once you are satisfied, what is not any kind of standard is how your images will display on any one else's monitor -- uncalibrated monitors may be all over the place, as you've seen. An effective "argument" to present to someone could be just to bring a print along and say "this is how it's supposed to look". They may take the cue and tweak theirs a bit if they are "just a layman" when it comes to photography!
