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Apparently it isn't a wipe on wipe off product. I checked their website under "business oppertunity". It is hand applied, but they have a list of required equipment : Equipment Requirements - Infrared Heaters - Air Compressor - Variable Speed Polisher - Temperature Reader - Lighting looks like...

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Percentage wise it makes no difference. But Have your mom listed as CEo , or president/owner. Women owned businesses get great incentives from most governments.

Nice job. My father was a flight engineer/top turret gunner on B-24's in the CBI (China,Burma, India) during WW2. You did the plane and the men who flew them proud.

Yes as a general rule.

I'm lucky enough to have a small one car garage that I work out of in the winter. I concentrate on one step vehicle maintenance and interiors. The frequency and duration of snow falls determines how bust I am. As winter approaches I stress with my clients what the various highway snow and ice...

During the winter I work out of my home garage, since most of my clients are within 10 miles of my house. This gives me access to hot and cold running water. The rest of the year I'm mobile.

Get some aluminum conduit and a 2x4s. Spray the conduit with some paint to stop it from oxidizing. Cut the 2x4 to what ever length you want and mount on the dry wall over some studs. Drill a wholein each of the 2x4s and slide the conduit through it. Instant rack for less then $10.

I used dental floss to remove the stickers. The sticky residue can be cleaned off with Goo Begone.

Remember to keep track of your detailing, prompt your customers about coming back by doing follow ups such as its been x weeks since your last detail. Winter months can slow business down, but you can keep customers coming in by offering services to get salt and deicing products off the car and...

Get yourself a tablet PC for pictures,, you can also place all your customer info into mobile apps for reference. You can use photo bucket to store pictures . Most tablets these days have easy t use 8 Megapixel cameras framing is easy and with a 10 inch screen the customer can view a slide show...

How long it is going to last will depend on how the customer maintains the car between detailings. Do they keep it in a garage, or is it always outside, do they run it through a car wash between detailings, or wash it themselves and if so what do they wash it with. I use PB products and have...

How about the little pills you could put in your gas tank to stop burning oil and improve gas mileage by 10-15%

Let the paint fully cure and out gas before you do anything besides wash and apply a QD product. The 90 days they now quote is there for a reason. I wouldn't recommend having it repainted again. The shop did a good job, just a bad detail after they were done.