LSNAutoDetailing
01-15-2018, 12:58 PM
Greetings all,
Last April 2017 we moved from New Hampshire to Arizona. While here we've made great friends with Wills & Dani at Windows and Wheels, got to go to SEMA in Las Vegas. We've also got to work on some pretty cool cars: Starting with an Audi R8 V10, a Porsche 911 Turbo, Mercedes C350, and a very cool sled Dodge Magnum SRT/8. We've also got a Lincoln Navigator in the lurch.
After spending a year in AZ, we've decided to stay (at least for a while). We're taking this move in increments, first a one year, then adding two more. We purchased a house and will be closing in February.
While in NH we did some, but limited advertising and relied mostly on word of mouth and referrals. When we got to AZ we decided not to advertise at all.
My day gob as a solutions engineer has greatly increased in ops-tempo and travel. In addition, with our great weather here, we realize we like to get the dogs in the car and take off for a hike somewhere here in AZ or go for a road cycling adventure. Because of this, we are vastly scaling back on detailing, our model will shift to just referrals and word of mouth only. We built a great business model, became great business people and spent a lot of time focused on the business side of things like, customer support, sales, and building a small group of customers that love what we do.
Oddly through this process what we realized is we ended up loving the back-end side of things, (i.e. generating sales, customer support, maintaining relationships) more than the actual detailing itself. In some cases, maintaining those relationships have transformed into lifelong friendships. Somehow, the thoughts of being in a garage which is 102 degrees for 8 - 12 hours, becoming dehydrated, cramps in the hands, feet and sweating faster than we can take in water has left us contemplating our future of detailing. If someone wants to give me an air-conditioned garage, I'll be glad to partake! :)
Our participation in this forum has slipped a bit, as my attention has to be more focused on the products I actually get paid to support, especially with a lot of new product roll outs and new features. I am swimming in technical white-papers and product release notes, not to mention a 32% travel schedule this year.
Having said all that, we're thinning our product supply out. Mainly the vast amounts of our favorite Polishes and Compounds. I will always be a Pinnacle Polish/Compound guy, but having gallons of each at this point is going to have them go to waste. So please go over to the samples page and check out my latest post.
Thanks for everyone's encouragement and support. We LOVE doing show-n-shines and will try to do them as we get vehicles. Of course, I'll always answer PM's. and meetup with any of the local AZ folks.
Paul G.
Last April 2017 we moved from New Hampshire to Arizona. While here we've made great friends with Wills & Dani at Windows and Wheels, got to go to SEMA in Las Vegas. We've also got to work on some pretty cool cars: Starting with an Audi R8 V10, a Porsche 911 Turbo, Mercedes C350, and a very cool sled Dodge Magnum SRT/8. We've also got a Lincoln Navigator in the lurch.
After spending a year in AZ, we've decided to stay (at least for a while). We're taking this move in increments, first a one year, then adding two more. We purchased a house and will be closing in February.
While in NH we did some, but limited advertising and relied mostly on word of mouth and referrals. When we got to AZ we decided not to advertise at all.
My day gob as a solutions engineer has greatly increased in ops-tempo and travel. In addition, with our great weather here, we realize we like to get the dogs in the car and take off for a hike somewhere here in AZ or go for a road cycling adventure. Because of this, we are vastly scaling back on detailing, our model will shift to just referrals and word of mouth only. We built a great business model, became great business people and spent a lot of time focused on the business side of things like, customer support, sales, and building a small group of customers that love what we do.
Oddly through this process what we realized is we ended up loving the back-end side of things, (i.e. generating sales, customer support, maintaining relationships) more than the actual detailing itself. In some cases, maintaining those relationships have transformed into lifelong friendships. Somehow, the thoughts of being in a garage which is 102 degrees for 8 - 12 hours, becoming dehydrated, cramps in the hands, feet and sweating faster than we can take in water has left us contemplating our future of detailing. If someone wants to give me an air-conditioned garage, I'll be glad to partake! :)
Our participation in this forum has slipped a bit, as my attention has to be more focused on the products I actually get paid to support, especially with a lot of new product roll outs and new features. I am swimming in technical white-papers and product release notes, not to mention a 32% travel schedule this year.
Having said all that, we're thinning our product supply out. Mainly the vast amounts of our favorite Polishes and Compounds. I will always be a Pinnacle Polish/Compound guy, but having gallons of each at this point is going to have them go to waste. So please go over to the samples page and check out my latest post.
Thanks for everyone's encouragement and support. We LOVE doing show-n-shines and will try to do them as we get vehicles. Of course, I'll always answer PM's. and meetup with any of the local AZ folks.
Paul G.