Car Detailing Business Matters

Do you like automobiles? Imagine, if you had a car detailing (car valetting) service, you would get a chance to be around automobiles all the time. And not merely any old cars either. Individuals with scruffy old cars tend not to spend money on having them cleaned, so what you would typically be dealing with would be the latest models, top of the range and classic or even vintage automobiles. Does that sound more attractive now?

Cleaning cars for a living is not a especially strenuous career, but you do have to have an eye for detail. You will get to know the various models and how and where to clean them, but you will probably have to learn those details as you develop.

Or you could go and work for someone else for six months in order to acquire some experience and save some cash to invest into your own business when you are set to open one.

Experience and some savings will definitely go a long way in helping to convince a bank manager to lend you some start up capital, if yo are a bit short of cash. It is worth giving this aspect some deep consideration before you rush out and purchase a rechargeable autovac.

So, let us take for granted that you have some money saved and that you have worked for a professional car detailing company for a time and that you have written down the names of the best apparatus and that you have learned how to use it.

The next step is to decide whether you are going to clean the cars where the owner of the car wants you to do it – ie at his home or outside his office or are you going to make him bring the car to you or will you collect and return it?

If you have a lot to clean cars on, all well and good; if you are going to collect and return the vehicles, you will probably require help; and if you valet the car off-site, then you will need a van kitted out with everything you need to do a decent job.

If you have to borrow money, why not ask friends and family for a loan or a partnership before going to the bank? Someone may give you a loan, if you give their kid a job. That could work out fairly well.

If you need to go to a bank, seek advice on how to put your proposal in a fashion that will show the bank manager that you have studied every aspect of the auto detailing trade and that you mean business.

The final step is finding customers. This need not be such a hurdle. You can offer to detail the cars of your friends and family cheaply if they make some sort of effort to promote your business to their friends and colleagues. You can also put a small advert in the local paper with a coupon code giving 10-20% off if used before so-and-so date.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on lots of topics, but is now involved with car engine cleaning. If you want some suggestions on detailing cars come over to our website now at Detailing Car Interiors.