best ways to get new customers..

[DownSouthDetail]

I was just wondering what do you guys do to get new customers? What has worked best? What forms of advertisement?

[SPIROS ANTONIOU]

I was just wondering what do you guys do to get new customers? What has worked best? What forms of advertisement?

My opinion always ,just let your work to speak ,your results to the car, .i dont say that sites or any other form dont work ,but mouth to mouth for me works better.

(and dont be cheap , this is common trap , find your rates and try to explain to your customers why you charge these rates)

[VP Mark]

Nice website, Google adwords, pricing yourself right, explaining the differences in your services and others. Great phone skills helps a lot.

[Tanner Krabill]

I've made thousands from advertising on buy sell trade Facebook pages.
I've spent zero on marketing apart from business cards & magnets for my truck. When I first started I would just knock on doors & offer a free car wash in hopes they would use me again or tell friends about me.

But I agree, nothing beats word of mouth. Once you get business going & people start talking about what you do... Enjoy the ride.

[Tato]

Business cards are great to give someone a way to contact you, fast - just grab it from your pocket and lend it. But it'll not market you anyhow.

Like already said, best thing is word of mouth - people telling other people something NEW, different, detailed, respectful, etc is happening at your place.

However, you're better covered if you have something to show potential customers, like a site, portfolio, or even threads in a forum like this may work. You can say you've worked on a lot of exciting cars, but I'm sorry to tell you - it's worthless without pics.

Document your work and find a place to share it. Whenever I receive a call, I forward an e-mail to customer before he / she comes for evaluation.

(Sorry if it makes answer long, I'm trying to share ideas so you can adapt to your way of doing it)

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The e-mail is something like this:

Preto / Black

Mercedes 2012 C180 Preto - Detalhamento, Correção de pintura e Vitrificação.
2012 Mercedes-Benz C180 3-steps + Pinnacle Black Label Coatings

2014 BMW 320i Preto detalhamento e vitrificação
2014 BMW 320i Full Pinnacle Black Label Coating

Kia Sportage 2013 Preto vitrificação
2013 Kia Sportage in Black - Correction + Black Label Coatings

2014 GM Tracker Preto detalhamento e vitrificação
2014 GM Tracker - New Car Detail + Black Label Coating

Prata / Silver

Mercedes C280 detalhamento e vitrificação
Mercedes-Benz C280 Detailed and Coated with Pinnacle Black Label

Corolla 2012 detalhamento e vitrificação
2012 Corolla Full Detailed and Pinnacle Black Label Coating

Civic 2013 Prata detalhamento e vitrificação
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...ng-booster.htm

PT Cruiser Prata reparos, retoques, detalhamento e vitrificação
2010 PT Cruiser Fully Detailed and Black Label Coating

Branco / White

2013 Pajero TR4 Branco detalhamento e vitrificação
2013 Pajero TR4: Full detail + Pinnacle Black Label Coatings

2011 Citroen Aircross - Correção de Pintura, Detalhamento e Vitrificação
2011 Citroen Aircross, Full Detail, Correction and Coating with Pinnacle Black Label

Azul e outros / Blue and Others

2013 ford Ranger Azul vitrificação
2013 Ford Ranger in Blue: Full detail, 2-step Polish + PBL coatings

Audi A1 Dual-Tone Azul/Prata Detalhamento, Correção e Vitrificação.
2012 Audi A1 Dual Tone: Correction, Detailing and Black Label Coating

GM Zafira 2011 Full Detail + Vitrificação
2011 GM Zafira: Extreme Makeover + Pinnacle Black Label Coatings

Fox 2013 Descontaminação, Polimento e Vitrificação
2013 VW Fox - Heavy decontamination, detailed and Coated with Pinnacle Black Label

Gol 2013 Preto correção de pintura e vitrificação
2013 Volkswagen GOL 1.6l - Most Popular Car in Brazil Corrected and Coated

Corsa - remoção de resíduos de cola
Vandalized 2006 black Corsa (Popular Car) - Removing Super Glue

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They can look at cars by color, or any other they have curiosity.

Sharing my work here is beneficial to what I do. I'm better showing my work to whoever knows better or really enjoy the craft. You must be 'brave' to show the greatest a little of what you're achieving, thanks to them.

Another good thing is to always get suggestions and new ideas to improve the work you're doing.

Also, they can access AG store and knowing what I use (products and techniques always shared) understand why my quote is higher than the guy next corner.

It's said to avoid being cheap (TRUE!), but remember you must start somewhere. Getting good cars from known people are a good way to start building your portfolio.

Hope that helps,

Kind Regards.

[DeviousDetail]

Starting out, I constantly got people telling me that my rates were not justified. Some would laugh at me and then would go to another detailing and would eventually be contacting me to correct their work. I agree with letting your work speak for itself.

Showing off my work and having customers rave about the amount of detail that goes into the work gets me the most new customers.

Word of mouth does wonders.

[Pureshine]

Time!

[allenk4]

My opinion always ,just let your work to speak ,your results to the car, )

I believe you have to "Give your Work a Voice", by making it more widely seen

Facebook at a minimum

YELP maintain your page

Help your satisfied Customers spread the word by email or text them a good Before & After shot that they can easily share

[DownSouthDetail]

Thank you for all the helpful responses

[brondondolon]

Nice website, Google adwords, pricing yourself right, explaining the differences in your services and others. Great phone skills helps a lot.

This pretty much sums it up. Google adwords is good and also facebook ad boosting is pretty good as well.