Grand Opening Today!

[Jeremy5431]

Nice shop do you have any pics of the detailing bays?

[jwgreen6]

What prompted you to convert from mobile to a shop? Seems like the overhead would cut into the profits considerably. Thanks.

[SonOfOC]

Sweet! Plenty of parking and good door height!

[MshawnBauer]

Congrats! Can't wait to see where the magic happens!! (The bay's!)

[FinishingTouchA]

What prompted you to convert from mobile to a shop? Seems like the overhead would cut into the profits considerably. Thanks.

So many reasons...
The biggest being exposure, Trying to market to this tiny community has always been a little issue of mine. Yeah Adwords and word of mouth are a good start, but having a storefront on the corner of the second busiest 4 way stop in town changes the whole game of advertising.
The next reason is now that I have an indoor shop with plenty of space, I can schedule people any day of the year without worrying about the weather interfering. Many of my customers do not have garages and therefore decided to cancel their appointments when the weather wasn't prime. (Here in Oregon it rains 2/3 of the year)
The third reason is more of a personal thing than one that has a huge influence on the business itself. But I always found the time spent packing up my supplies, driving to the customer, unpacking, setting up, packing everything back up, and unpacking again a huge waste of time. And also I hated working on paint in the sun and trying to wash a car in a muddy driveway.
With the shop I was also able to get a large extractor, a pressure washer, a big shop vac, an air compressor, a tornador, and lots of other supplies. Having everything with me at every detail job allows me to upsell extra services and work quickly with everything organized. Also I find my quality to be a lot better. And on top of all that I feel that my business image is a lot more professional.
Like I said in the beginning though, the most important thing to me is the built in marketing that the location provides. That alone more than covers my cost of rent.

Everyone makes such a huge deal about overhead, it's just a cost of doing business. Most mobile guys are mobile because they want to be self employed and keep the money they make. I want to make it clear that I did not start my detailing business so that I could work for myself. My goal is to make money without doing the labor, it's called "owning a business" for those of you who are self employed. (yes, right now I'm an employee of the business) I pay myself bi-weekly paychecks and count myself as a liability of the business. I don't see the money that comes from each job as money in my pocket, rather divide it into expenses of running the business and profit to be reinvested. My goal is to hire employees to do the labor while I work on marketing and other business tasks. Most of you won't ever hire someone because "it'll cut into your profits." What you're not seeing is that while your profit per job isn't as large, you are increasing your total profit. I know that if I were to try and put in 10 hour detail days for 10 years my body would be 25 years older. I'd prefer to take the "easy" route. (bedtime, will continue later)

[Calendyr]

Congrats. Wish you the best of luck.

[Pureshine]

Congrats bro!!!!

[alteredzx]

Fantastic looking shop sir! Best of luck to you!

[thebamboo23]

That's so rad

[DetailKitty]

Congrats! Best of luck!