so many detailers or car washers

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Hey u guys, I just wanted to talk about Las Vegas and how may people are out to do car washes or detailing here. I like to drive my city and look for deals on products or just shop around. While I drive around I always notice people waiting in parking lots washing cars or looking to wash cars. I always stop and ask or look at what they got going on. I like their dedication but they are saturating the streets with hack car wash detail work. But for $20 in n out what do people want? I think to myself that it looks tacky and who Is stopping. But I see tons of cars there all the time. lol still I would rather wait 3days and do one monster real deal detail for $1000 than work hard for peanuts. So as I drove home today I noticed at least 20 other car wash guys sitting in back parking lots. I thought to myself, these guys sit out here in the weather all day waiting, hoping something comes in. Then when I came home I wanted to look on Craigslist to see how many people are advertising on there. OMG,..really, there is hundreds of detailing adds on there. Wow, how confusing for a person to pick. So, for me the best way to advertise is a killer website that keeps you on top of the search engines. These cost money but its the realistic way good customers will call u. This is just my little rant for the day as I opened my eyes to how many hacks are out there. Now, I would love to open my own shop but my business model doesn't make sense to me or I probably don't know how to make a good model. I seem so hard to pay rent or just a major waste of money but I would love to have a shop to detail in. A shop that is on a major street. This way I can foam it up heavily in public and create some show for traffic. But I cant wrap my mind around paying for a shop. Can u guys tell me about ur shops and what to look for when looking for one. How to look, area to look in, price or any pointers u can give about getting ur own shop. I have a fulltime job that ends at noon time. I can work the rest of the day at the shop and my days off until I get enough business to sustain my shop and get out of my day job. I have this crazy passion to work on cars. My whole life, horsepower and paint. I cant have enough of them. Thanks for listening.
 
One thing I learn in economics is never do price competition, the best approach is location competition. You can read up on some strategies to set up a location.
 
aztec1987 said:
One thing I learn in economics is never do price competition, the best approach is location competition. You can read up on some strategies to set up a location.
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There is no comparison of prices. Im $500-$1300 a car. Or $60 an hr for small stuff. People pay me this and I figure its because I can sell them on my knowledge or passion or enthusiasm. Also, I tell them so much info about their car and my process or my products. Plus I speak english which is a second language in the USA anymore. And they bring thier cars to me and leave them for days. Its amazing I get these deals but if u can represent yourself properly u can get paid.
 
stilltipping3 said:
There is no comparison of prices. Im $500-$1300 a car. Or $60 an hr for small stuff. People pay me this and I figure its because I can sell them on my knowledge or passion or enthusiasm. Also, I tell them so much info about their car and my process or my products. Plus I speak english which is a second language in the USA anymore. And they bring thier cars to me and leave them for days. Its amazing I get these deals but if u can represent yourself properly u can get paid.
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True! I get some many of my friends telling me why I have so many products but yet they don't know about the different each product can do.
 
When I was getting my business license up here in Reno I searched through the registered fictitious names in Nevada. I saw sooooooo many that had closed shop. This scared me because I was like "maybe that's why there are only a couple guys up here detailing. There's no market for it" but then I realized Las Vegas was part of that directory and account s for a big portion of it. Lol

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brondondolon said:
When I was getting my business license up here in Reno I searched through the registered fictitious names in Nevada. I saw sooooooo many that had closed shop. This scared me because I was like "maybe that's why there are only a couple guys up here detailing. There's no market for it" but then I realized Las Vegas was part of that directory and account s for a big portion of it. Lol

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There are a ton of detailers who closed up. Or never opened really. I called a few just to see what they are about and 80% don't answer.
 
Luckily for my area we aren't too saturated with detailers. There are a few shops and I'm only aware of one other guy that is mobile so once I start up in July things look to be good. Have quite a bit of people who want business cards once I get them delivered to me so they can hand them out to guys that want their vehicles detailed.

Can't imagine how it would be in a big city like LV competing against other detailers.
 
Niko Molina said:
Luckily for my area we aren't too saturated with detailers. There are a few shops and I'm only aware of one other guy that is mobile so once I start up in July things look to be good. Have quite a bit of people who want business cards once I get them delivered to me so they can hand them out to guys that want their vehicles detailed.

Can't imagine how it would be in a big city like LV competing against other detailers.
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Nice!
 
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