Hello Mike,
I am getting ready to place an order for the sweet deal today.
I have a similar question to your answer to the gentleman's question regarding your two books.
The art of detailing vs Show car shine...
I would like to purchase the combo book set with Mr. Doyle's book, and am having a difficult time choosing between The art of detailing or the Show car shine book.
With your answer above being it's a revised version of your first book, will I be missing information from your first book if I order the Show car shine book?
Thank you!
Stephan
Hi Stephan,
The Art of Detailing is the first edition. It has tons of information.
The Complete Guide to a Show Car Shine is the second edition. It has everything that the first edition has PLUS more tools, products and techniques.
If you only get one book, then get the second edition. We stock the first edition for a number of reasons and one of the reason is simply because some people want the first edition and the second edition.
I've been posting how-to information on car detailing to the Internet since 1994. That's 20 years now and almost 21 years in just a few months. I don't know anyone else that can make that claim.
Here's a Toyota website that posted an article I wrote in 1994 to their website. Notice in the header, it shows not only the date, but where I worked at the time and that was Hewlett-Packard. I was on the "Internet" the masses even new what it was... and I was posting how-to articles on how to polish paint.
This article is kind of embarrassing because I typed this up in a software program that didn't have a Spell Checking feature and while I know how to spell I whipped this out and posted it to the Usenet Newsgroup rec.autos.misc, (most of you won't even know what this is), and someone at the MR2.com website snagged it from there and it's been on their website ever since. That's 20 years now....
How to polish paint by hand by Mike Phillips
So from my work, (showing guys how to make their cars look good using a keyboard), I've made friends with tens of thousands of people over the decades helping them to learn the art of polishing paint in specific and the craft of detailing cars in general and some of these people like my work and want both copies.
It can seem redundant to some but hey... one simple rule to marketing is give people what they want. One of my managers once taught me,
"Don't spend other people's money"
What he means by that is people know what they want so let them buy it. Don't try to make their decisions for them....
Just to note... I sent out both editions to a Product Manager for a
HUGE corporation yesterday that is doing research into the detailing market. He's going to have his staff read both versions.
